Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1875 — How a Chicago Girl Got Her Lover Ont of the Army. [ARTICLE]

How a Chicago Girl Got Her Lover Ont of the Army.

Last April a fine-looking dry-goods clerk, employed in Mandel J&ros.’, in an hour of despondency enlisted in the army. He was engaged to be married to a very handsome lady of eighteen, and when she heard of it her distress can only be imagined, for a common soldier she could not wed. His father, who, bv the a way, is a Methodist minister (and some people think they have great influence with Government officials), did everything in his power to have him released, but w’ithout effect pie youag lady then took the matter in hand. She saw Gen. Logan and Congressman Farwell, and with their signatures to a petition for a discharge forwarded it to W ashington. In due time the answer came stating that the prayer could not be granted. The gentlemen informed her that when thev went to M ashington in December they would make another effort. Learning that Gen. Belknap, Secretary of War, was in the city, she got a letter of introduction to him. She determined to call on Gen. B. at the Grand Pacific yesterday afternoon. He granted her an audience, heard her story, satisfied himself that the voting man would make her a good husband and wrote out a discharge. When she asked the General how could she repay him. he gallantly replied: “ With a kiss,” which she gave him. Last evening’s mail carried the important paper to the Indian Territory. The father, who is better off in ■ this world’s goods than most people who follow his calling, has promised to set his son up in business, and is verv proud of his prospective daughter-in-law. —Chicago Journal. —The paddle-wheels of a large steamer on the St. John River, in Florida, stopped suddenly, a few nighty ago, and then came crash after crash in the woodwork. A panic followed, everybody rolling out of bunk and rushing for the deck, and it was soon ascertained that a big alligator had got entangled in the revolving wheel, where he was not enjoying life.