C K IKCAUrUlM AT ILtEKSBURGM.
E!.l.i:.Nl!t'i:'.ll Km in Un Ut ability t"
waliwU: a Urr "f i''" ',,
UH-nhnt r -rally. 0 th' thirtieth of Af HI
nl lb f.rt of May th fand Arm; of the
J'.jMr f i l dprtmetit J Vahir yton h'll it
aMjual njuM in that ctj. TVre were pres
et ali n. HumJI A. A Iff. 'mn,ander n n''
iY lU i fJrf In U l rili-l M!'t, and Mrs John A.
in, S I f that (ml diittn s-.M.tr, to whom
U ehWfly lb If-ttituli -n of that UautiM rtitotn
of iUmii g a ntw fikJ day for lri'.ring 1 loyal
dal it I lift tbor grate with lbwer
TW.Mday m pirn up thinly l business. The
annual tolif. was K'l l A J. Smith, assistant adju
tant frtu), rtrt'd that during the year the numUr
,f !! In lb aMn.n.l had itrrra from frtr
thf It f.ftr n. oti o lb new jti bring in Ju
iitj, Alaska, hu S ! attahrd to l! Washington
Ifjrlt!M.t TlM"Ul ti'tjiUritii it I'mvi. The rr-
ft of tbpaMmmt ffnmand'f, S (i. VfTxt, showeil
the of br L I' In the satisfactory condition.
Tl. rjM of Mrs l.ury Al l, .rrilrtt of the Wo
man's ltf Corp, shoi Mil trrij(fth of J.T2
In that ,ni!;fjr otjranitalion. Uing (tin fir tl
jr of J37 !n tb t if ning a mMing was held in the
Luh was allftrx by (irfnl Alger and
Hhsfs
In ),p f fti n f the ftwitg day thefr mil
para lrl!fi'ifh the tfli of KllrnsWgh, participated
in l '.M tsimns. (winding timers! Alger, On either
hind r th !,) I nk all of ihr rilr, ulifrt-.
tal ji f.iJ.i a; r l.fajwi of mtoMririi ruin.
Al ijf.ft in tlif aftrftt...n, I'ujallujt
m c( v. a " tii c.( ),i firii tufhmyiurul, arvl
f M :ih 't.(r ff h n f'f lh rtnuifif yrar:
IJ ?t!,f .t Cti.fj.ati rf, M. M Sattlr;
f l.r,ij.n.i,.r, , J K'i,ilh. WalU W!U ;
Jm.tr i-T. !t.il)ih.ff, UM hUrtijs Vafr.uitr ;
ti.' l . k tuu.U.tt, , lUtvi. V, Tao n.a, hin,
J K M Jif, !l!f I. IiUfatrlotKi t.tif.al imi
ifi.ti n. Will Yii,rra f a flatm, V l hutiriii ,g,
rijU' I'al'i TUtiamj tnft.tutit.Jifl.iMwsth
U!l in hih m Ufprl; a'.tfti-Ul
m ifj.rtn,t)t cx.fiifi.tMfr, M. M llohtir.
Ud'tV iKir ouMr an I a rt Iff.t .f Srnlv Hf
i talli Ne II!: j .K.ff, r on or r t l
t (Ut l-ttijhl f Kr. Jthn lV4li.fi, hd tii. rtvl
fMt Kr Util UVn in IC. t t,tti .,
faft.i f.t! KllJrvJ l7 WiHiatn ll4.ir, a).i ttJ.j.
f tu f-w i 41!! f ft!t I l.i N lUn t .Kin. in
We JfkluiW l at lh , u r liUfifj r,.J
SW,i.f,- MtitU.la Jul;, lv.4f .urw.t ? I v.j.
In r II, V4tfr,th N Mu.Xtj.
MIOUK.
Tb rt pm nt wai on jirovoit duty a year in Wv:.
ton eitj and h enrcd ai icrgcant of the guard at if.
f. rt nt i-'intn. inc luding the executive mansion, old Ci
ital riNn, Central guard houe, Sixth itrwt wharf v4
the ing bridge. In the faring of 1SC4 the regiani
wrnt to Uuiciana, returning to the James river
front of Richmond in July. In Augu?tthe FonrttA
N. H. jinl the army of the Shenandoah under Sh
Man, and wan attached to the First brigade,
division, Nin-te-nth army corpi. The coiMMMio&
uftccT Ixing ahwnt, HolmoB, then first lergrast,
rommandtl hia company during Sheridan'i carnja:p
nd at it ji clife wai commiBHionc! first lieuUnantiriJ
prex-ntl with a aword by his colonel. He tu Ufjrt
Kifhmmd till Ih-cemlx-r, 180 1, when the divioion tu
orh rcl to Savannah, Oa., and although the your-.pt
ittcvr in tb' command, IIolmeB was placel in charjr
of the refuges of the district of Savannah, and unJrr
thr order of (icneral Sherman Bent about 30,000 1
ffriK-n to the ioknda off the coaft of South Carolina vj
(leorpia, where the celebrated Sea Island cotton ii
raivl. iVclining a cornmisBion in the regular a rcr,
he was mucU n d out with his regiment in July, W
and entrrel Oartmouth college in the fall. He moTd
to S atth- from Chicago in 18S.X Commander Holai
j.in-l the (Jrand Army in 1SC7, and was a xt c.
mand r in h70. He haa been a leading member of
Sti-ve na I'ost, filling the office of commander for n-vml
t rm. He vai alno the organizer of the I'nion Vrf
rran rlub, of whieh he haa U-en president fur mini
aui-Mive terms. Ist year he was an aide-df-cac p
on the itaflfof the commander-in-chief.
Such wrasiuns as this draw attention to the won
derful rmijrrative jnjwer Ellensburg has displajpl b
rwovering from the terrible calamity that lMl tJ
city nine month ago. On the 4th of July Ut tie
entire business jiortion of the city was laid in a!,
arid to hy the stra ta arc lined with solid brick Uk
far firiling in numlier, cost, size and suUtanUl
rhararter the structunn destroyed. The inherent vi'ol
ity displayl in building up a new city upon the
of the (,. ()t). j(1 itftort a eriol is pr 'f of it t'
stintial (hararUr as a city of jxTinanent osition aiJ
crtiin growth. Surrounding Klh-nsburgh and t-Mj
tributary to it in n empire rich in varied resourm d
timUr. gold, silver, iron, coal, lime atone, and Tit
artM (.f graiing and agricultural lands. It a di
i-n head quarters of the great Northern Pacific railr.l
arl ita ritiieti are cunstructing a railroad of thrift"
to thf (Vduti.bia rivrr, where it will connect iib b'-
"n that mijhty stream, thus placing the city in 7
-ntwti '.ti with the great Okanogan minin d:stn
N' b than tTo other great railroad lines t!.i
tratrtM. Waihlngton from east to west have tleJ
rv-Vt laid out by the way of Elleniburgh.