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r r r TERM13LY FATAL .MISTAKE An Omaha 3Ian Mistakes His Wire for a Htirglar. Anil Fire n Shot U lileh IEcmiII In Her Iiiktnut Deatli. Ihe Venlirl of llin Coroner's trj. Special to the Lincoln .lournnl: The ouud of imhot, followed attorn minute or two by the nonUini: cry of iiinn, pro cotlins; from tlio residence of Joint W. Latter, at UGly Dousla.4 street, ut an early hour thin inorniivj, aroused tin' residents ol that locality niul brought tiiein to the house. Messrs. John A. McShmir and lion. Gallagher, who live in the block, were the first to enter mid found Mr. Lauer wrins ing hia hftnds over the body of Jii wife iv ho lay in her ni(.'ht rolie across the thresh of their bedroom, dead, while his sister, Mies Lauer, who was livina with them and occupied an tipper room, had come ut the alarm anil stood overcome with horror and surprise. In as coherent tv manner as possible, to one so inoatly agitated, Mr. Lauer told all that he knew about the tragedy. lie said he had been awakened by a Found in the bark parlor, and instantly tint tip in bed, mid drew his revolver Trout beneath his pillow, lie glanced toward the back parlor, from uhirh the sound seemed to come, mid saw a shadow on the door by the light of the lire in the parlor stove, lie then saw a figure advancing into the room and ho instantly fired. The figure nt once disnppcnicd. lie thought he had heard a voice, and supposing that there were two burglars in the house, he watched for the other oiuS and while watching put out. his left hand to arouse his wife. To bis horror ho found that her placo in the bed was vacant, and while he was wonder ing over it, it Hashed upon his mind that it might have been his w ife at whom he had Mint. Ho uprang out of bed and on the threshold, which had been concealed from his view by the high footboard, he found nor shot through the head. Life wan ex tinct. When tho coroner's inquest began, Lauer cvns the first person to testify. He shed no tears but occasionally would move as if in rent mental anguish. He stood at the head of the body of his dead wife and talked freely, but the expression that rested du his faco was more of an unconcerned air than that of a heart-broken husband. Jlis testimony was as follows: I am superintendent at the nail works; have been there three and a half years; this is my wiTo pointing to the corpse; I re turned home about !l o'clock lust night; about 'J o'clock 1 woke up suddenly; i heard some one speak in the other room, nnl as soon ns I saw the head of a person approach the foot of the bed I tired, and Hien looked for some one to fall; 1 nimedi ntely placed my hand over to where my wife should have been and found her gone; I immediately jumped from bed and discov ered I had killed her; 1 think I wan laying down when I shot; I don't think 1 heard her full; the.ro was no light in the room; then' was a bnse-burner, that's all. After examining a number of other wit nesses the jury returned the following ver dict: We, tho jury, find that the deceased, Mrs. Sallio Lauer, eame to her death from a pistol shot fired by the husband, John W. Lauer; and while the evidence adduced does not indicate any malicious intent onthe paitofsald Lauer, we recommend that ho bo bound over to await a fuller investiga tion by the district court. (ii:o. L. Dk.nnu, foreman, V. 1". Ham.o.v, ('. S. (iool)ltlCII, 1'IIIMI' Aniikks, (!i:o. Mi:i)i.ot'K, Kiiank J. ritKu:Y. Mrs. Lnnor was a young lady of singular beauty, with regular features, fair complex ion, light brown hair and a perfect figure mill t hose qualities united to a character of rxeecding purity and sweetness made her very popular in the social and church cir cles in which she moved. F0KK1GN lyTKLLKJKNCK. The Servian division mnrching on Wid din.gn.vo battle to tho Uulgarians near Widdin, and indicted on them a crushing defeat. The loss was havy on both sides. The Servians captured 10,000 prisoners. I'arncll has consented to test the Irish district in Liverpool for a seat in parlia ment at the comiiigelectioiis. The national league has engaged rooms Tor tho Irish leader to conduct the campaign. I'arncll and Thomas I'ower O'Connor, member of parliament for Cialway, will canvass Liver pool shortly. The Journal de St. Petersburg, in an edi torial, says: Servia has no reason to con tinue tho campaign now that I'rinco AIox nnderhnH announced that ho will evacuate ICiifltern Koumrlia. If King Milan persists in going to Sofia it will cost him inoro than ho forcHeiM. The powers, as the speech of ICmperor William at tho opening of the rcichstag indicated, have a right to secure lien pout Tor the treaties relating to tho Dalknii stales. Servia linn decided to annex tho Ihilgaria urea, of tho International railway route, which n ill unable tervia to complete her line of railway; also tho Widdin district, ho that who (am construct a railway to the lower Danube by Chuprin, Zaituhau and Widdin to meet tho projected Itouinnniiui railway from Krajova to Kalafat. Trav Biers ropcrt that the Uulgarians are hope lessly depresHsed and expect tho isorviur. to enter Sofia forthwith. Thore ar,e only two battalions of Bulgarian infantry at -V'Jdi Parnoll presided at a conference of sixty nationalist candidates for parliament, hold at Dublin. It was decided to adopt uni form electoral tactics. With a view of nvoiding liability under tho stringent cor rupt practices act, nationalists will employ D few lawyers to adviso llioni. but will rely chiolly on volunteer counsel. They will tilso issue placards explaining the rhief pro Vibious of the corrupt practice act so that rauco shall not bo given for petitions to set nside elections on the ground .if intimida tions. Parncll announced tho receipt of mi iKKiiiiuuni sum oi i;,uuu lor tlio par Uumentary fund. NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES. TliPHtato department officials positively deny that tho president has made any re tpiest for papers in regard to the condition of our naturalized citizens in Austria ami Gormany, or that then is any truth what ever in tlio Washington special to a Now York paper. The ehiol ol the secret service division, a his minimi report, recommend legislation prohibiting the making of dies or moulds for making fuo niniiUn for business pur poses of United StsU's coins, and another for legislation to oxtenil the powors of the MTvic ho as to include authority to act in ull cases of frauds against the government. Tho pnwiileut hns appointed Ihirtlett Tripp, of Vunliton, Dak., to bo chief justice of the supremo court of the territory of Dakota; Win. A. lleuch, of New York, to be uollertorof internal revenue for theTwenty Urst ulstrlct of Sew York; Klijah Gates, of rit. Joe, Mo., to be ninrshal ol the United Htatev fur the western district ol Missouri; fleo. N. r.at"r, of I'ar.b.i'dt, Minn., to attorney of the 1'nited states for the ills triet of Minnesota. Aiynt Arinstron nt the Trow a jmi -y. in .Molilalia, has telegraphed the mter'or de part meat that the Indians on ttie Tongue river are proierly supplied with rations and in no danger of starvation. It is said nt the department that a number of In dinus left he l'ine Kidge njency some time ago despite the protests of their agent and went into the Toligue river country. The agent at Tongue l.iver agency, under in strtictions from the department, refused to issue rations to them, and it is presumed their condition has given rise to the report of suffering nmong the longne river In dinns. If the truant Indians are in distress they must nt urn to l'ine Kidge agency where their rations are issued. Advices have been received at the interior department totheeffect that the cattlemen in the western territories are generally ob serviu; the proclamation issued by l'resi dent Cleveland hist August, directing tho removals of fences enclosing the public laudti. In Wyoming, however, theownerol u cattlo ranch has not only refused to re ntovo the fences already construct 'd, hut has begun to extend them, and in this case the attorney general has been ivqucted to bring suit to compel observance of the law The point has been raised us to whether cattlemen may feneo m their land when tracts belong to them, but siiriouiid areas of public lands, and this point has been de cided in the negative, the department hold ing Hint iuvchs to public hinds must not be restricted. THE LIVE STOCK INTEREST, Convention or tho National Cattle anil Horse Growers' Association. Six Hundred Delegates from All .See tioiiN of tlio Country Attend. .1 Ureal (ItitltcrliHj of Ueidfi. The second annual convention of the N'ationnl Cattle and Horse Growers' asso nation was called to order in tho large music hall of the exposition building in St. Louis by Col. I!. I). Hunter. Large dele gations were present from all the cattle growing states and territories. There were on the floor about 000 delegates, the rep resentation from the eastern states being but nominal. Mayor D. K. Francis deliv ered the address of welcome, in which ho spoke of the wonderful growth of tho cattlo interest as instanced by the export for the fiscal year ending Juno 1, IhM, of cattlo valued at lH,m0,UUU, and of beef pro ducts valued at Kl',s,()il0,0l)(). and con eluded by tending to tho association the fieedom of thceily. (leu. J. J I. lirisbi.i, ol the United States army, first vice president of the association, responded fittingly to the welcome, den. I units, of .New tori;, lesponded to the welcome in behalf of the eastern wing of the association. Col. Hun ter, president of the association, deliveied his annual nddte.-s, in which he recom mended consideration of tlio diseases ol cattle, improvement of breeds, transporta tion ami discriiiiiuationagaiust shippers ol live stock, the formation of an interna tional government commission to consider the question of restriction upon American beef in Kuiop-, necessity of substituting some mechaiiiuil appliance to designate eattleand thus do away with hide-destroy ing brands, the format ion of an especial i- sociation of horse groweis' nd tho necessi ty of practical national leg'slatiott, through "which alone the ex'sting local troubles can be settled, and, finally, the consolidation of tho several national associations de voted to tho cattlo inteiiMtsof thecountry. I'rof. K. H. Mooie, of Colorado, lead an elaborate paper upon the "Cattle Industry of the Unitid States." Strong ground wan taken in favor or national ipiaiantiuelaws, the point being warmly applauded. Touch ing upon the subject of the illeg il fencing oi public lauds, the speaker snd this is as Munch condemned by range men as it would bo by ( oiiuecticut farmers. We only want what the law giveH us, the ii;ht to occupy these lands until the scttleis roine, mid now that we can come from our ranch -s to the convention in palace cars, it is plain to seo that the days of rangers are numbered As the Indian gave way to the pioneer, so must the cowboy go la fore the settler until l lie eight nullum acres ol land now roamed by cattle shall teem with villages and modid farms for the cultix ation of refined cattle, cared not for by cowboys with re volvers, but, by cowboys with brains. Tlie executive committee reports l.oTii! active, interested, boualide ropreseusatives with ir,000,()l)0 cuttle, 10,01)0,000 horses and $2, 000,000 capital. The report says the association is recognized as the most powerful, wealthy and inlliiontial organiza tion of the kind in the world. The estab lishment of n national bureau of miimal industry in connection with the agricultu ral department is warmly recommended. A united and immediate appeal for tho na tional government is advocated for tlio enactment of such laws as will enable cat tle men to prevent, tho introduction of (lis ease and to quickly and effectively eradi cute it should it develop. The report sag gests an enlargement of the poweis of the board of animal industry, even to the point of empowering its agents to buy mid destroy nlllieted cattle and not confine its efforts simply to ipmi antinc. THE MARKETS. OMAHA. W'iiimt No. 2 IlAIII.KV Xo. g Itvt: No, 2 Coiin No. miied DATS No. Huniai 1'n no v eronmery.... UliTTillt Clioico ihury llt'TTiui liobt country lions I'roah - Ciiicki:ns Dret-ECl po' lb..,. TurUoyn Urosiid per ,b Dueka Dressed per lb Ufeso Unwell per 11) Ixmons Clioico IIANANAS UllOlCO Ohanous Mesimi Ilr.ANS Nnvys Onions ier hlil l'OTATons Per lii"hoi OliUUN Al'PM'.s Per bbl fci:KDS Timothy Sl'.KIis blue Ornss Hav Unlet, ncr ton Hav In bulk Hons Mixed pnukluir Hkkevks butchers' MnoU. . . NEW VOttlC Wheat No. 2 rod Wiikat CiiyrmiiM) rod Coiin No, - Oai MlxeJ western - 1'OUK Laud fJlllC.VUO. 1't.oim Choice Wlntor l''l.oi:u Sprlutr extra Wiikat l'er UiibIiuI Coiin Per luiHhel Oats bushel l'OHK " lMito Hons 1'iicltiuir it ml bhlpinii. Catti.i-. Mockers biiKM1 Medium lo ifooil...... 8T. LOUIS. Wfir.AT No. 2 red CoiiK-.t'ur huiiliol Oats Per tiunliui .. (. ait..k atoukorattiid fcolur-i fcllKKl' Wfstuni Kansas; cuy. WfiKAT l'er nuhol , Coiin Per tainliol Oats Per bubttel CATTt.K-v xuorii huttr Cutmiiun to yooJ 72 a T2 nt it 'A 411 ii 47 gl) 20 ii 2. -. W 2t! 12 ID 12 n 15 .0 ii 21 7 S 10 nt 13 111 at 11 11 ut 12 (1 23 k 0 5 J 2 71 aw Hill 4 51 1 2.-I 1 5) 4 ml a 4 7i :ir a w 2 7.1 4 3 2.) 2 .') I Qt 2 I I 175 it 3 01 a 'i i a i; o II 01 6t 7 01 3 Ui 58 3 1 1 2 73 fl 3 OJ U7 & IC'i b'J ti 1 i fif! 3V 3. ) A "i 10 SI & ll W u 4'5 u a 4 7 3 & 5 03 37J tt 4 01 8.IMD Clt W,,'0i 411 -' P 8 70 W 75 0 II) it 0 12' i 3 7il 3 2 51 it 4 W 2 OJ it 3 10 m et, 25'',& 2 41 W 2 01 it 7n!r :u u 22 tie 411 20i U 75 323 71 3J 5 2 3 6W i TV SOI 140 a ii GENERAL NEWS AND NOTES. Patrick .lohnson (colored) of Adrian. Mich., is charged with murdering his two new born children. Tlio Iruit growers in session nt Cairo, 111., bound themselves to have nothing to do with tree drummers. Tho Pennsylvania minors and mine own ers havo settled their dilliculties. Over 5,000 men were affected by it. Tho sentence of John Slovor, a Cherokee Indian condemned to (lea th, has been com muted to eight years imprisonment. Tho will of tho Into Thomas W. Pierce, the Massachusetts millionaire and nephew of Ptesident Pierce, will bo contested. Thero were only thirty deaths in the naval force nlloat during the last year, less than the average for the last fifteen yours la Piko county, Indiana, a lady teacher named Kelly whipped a child till it died. She was put in jail at Petersburg, the county seat. Tho Ohio supremo court has rendered a decision holding tho penitentiary parolo law passed by the last legislature to be constitutional. llev. O. II. Thayer, formerly a Presbyter ian minister of Clinton, 111., hat been found guilty of falsehood and dishonesty and dis missed from the ministry. Major Alexander Sharp, paymaster, has been relieved from duty in the department of Dakota and ordered to report for duty in the department of Missouri. I'hnmctt Cunningham, colored, aged 12G. was found fatally stabbed near his home in Cincinnati, llo died soon after. The murder is a complete mystery. During tlio trial of a case in tho county court nt Toronto, the fact wan elcited that S.'iO.OUO had been (spout in lighting the Scott temperance act ill Ontario. A telegram from Capo Itoy fitates that tho bark "lied Cross," from Quebec for Glasgow, was wrecked near Hay t. George Newfoundland. The crew are safe. laid well Grinncll, ol Mansfield, Pa., is under arrest on the charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States by Belling coupons issued from the patent ollice. Millionaire Morosini denies that ho has promised to forgive his daughter for ninrry ing Ilulskamp, his coachman, and says that she need never hope for reconciliation. The pope hns reorganized Spain's sov ereignty over tho Caroliai islands, and advises Germany to accept the commercial concession contained in tho Spanish nolo of Septeinbor 10. Tlio negro, Noah Cherry, who attempted a fiendish nss'iult on a little girl, Alice Powell, and then murdered hor, in Princess Anno county. Va., was hanged to a tree, llo confessed tho crime. As John 15. llrown.a prominent citizen of Kast St. Loui.i, was approaching homo in tho outskirts he wnsshotiu the baric of tho head by unknown persons, lie dropped ,dead. The affair is a mystery. At St. Paul, Minn., unknown persons wrecked tho fixtures in the Ninth Presby terian church, from which the llev. Dr. Mc Lean lias been debarred on charges ofcrim nal intimacy with a young woman. Superintendent Poll, of tho foreign mail ollice, has requested Surgeon-Genera! Ham ilton, of the mariuo hospital service, to have all mail matter coming from Canada fumigated nt tho exchange pointu on the Canadian frontier. Professor Asa Gray, of Harvard, the world renowned botanist, passed his 7."th birthday last week. His professional fiiends presented him with a very valuable silver vase filled with llowers, named by him or for him in embossed work. The postal authorities arrested three men named Lavin, Dowdall and Clayton in Wyandotte. Kits. They are suspected ol several postollico robberies in Ivunsas mid Nebraska. When arrested the men were belling stamps at wholesale discount. T. L Itrown, of Pes Moines, la., tho lar gest creditor of the old city of Memphis, lias compromised his claim of $:!."(),000 to tho satisfaction of President I). P. Haddeii and his colleagues of tho funding hoard. This virtually winds up all outstanding claims of the old city of Memphis, which originally amounted to about six and one half million dollars. The postollico inspectors mado fiUO ar rests during tho lust year and obtained 'J0H convictions. Two hundred and thirty two persons await trial. Pour hundred and iilty-niuo postolliccs were robbed. Missing funds to the amount ot $lo,0.'! was recovered and Sl.'l.OOO was restored to the owners. Delinquent postmasters woro compelled to disgrgo 5i."Sl:!.r2. The National Grango or tho Patrons of Husbandry chose tho usual complement of officers in their Kost on con veil I ion. Among the resolutions pawned were those fiuoriir: biennial state elections recognizing the equality of tho sexes, urging farmers to unite for election purposes ami favoring the elevation of the ollice of comniissior.or of agriculture to a cabiaot position. A party of four young people coming from .Milforil to llatavia, Ohio, in a wagon wore thrown over nn abutment near Stoii" Lock, into ten feet of water. Miss M, be gain, nged IS, Milton I!egmu aged III, and Joseph Ilukcley, aged U(5. were drowned. Charles Page, son of II. II. Page, of the Ohio & Mississippi railroad, mid Miss Klhi Yager were wived. Tho bridge burned two or threo years ago and no provision was niado to keep horses from running int') the stream. A tcrriblo tragedy was canned in IMge field county, South Carolina. A white man named Hubert Jones, occupied some laud lented from his relntivPH, Charles and lid ward Pressly. They notified him that as ho could no longer pay rent, ho must vacate. Jones went to tho field where Kd ward Pressly, aged 80, mid his sons Charles mid JM ward wero ploughing, mid shot Charles dead. ICdward started in pitisuit, nud Jones stubbed hint mortally, with a knife. Jones then reloaded his gun. mid killed the father, old Mr. Pressly, who is the grandfather of Jones' wife. Jones then went to the court house mid surrendered, lemarkiug that he had killed thrco of the best men in tho county. ' Utile a Preservative From Iluil. All hteel artichs can bo perfectly pro served from rust by putting a lump of freshly burnt lime in the drawer or case in tyliieh they nro kept. If thing are to be moved (as a gun in its case, for instance), put tho lime in a muslin bug. This is espe cially valuable for specimens of iron when fractured; for in a moderately dry phiro the limo will not want any renewing for many years, as it is capable of absorbing a large quantity of moisture. Articles in use Blinuld b placed in a box nearly filled with thoroughly pul veiiztsl slacked lime, lleforo using them rub well with a wooden cloth. Tho wife of Minister Phrlps in ono of the most highly esteemed mill udinireil ludlea in Knglish noriety. Hcrhubanil is eipiully an popular. GEN". ITAZEN'S BOOK. Xnrrntlvs of .Mllltury Servlrn Ills own V. perlences l'ollowod by Vatiiulilo Military Sii5i;tli)ii i;iulpiuent uiul Moveiuout of Armies. Gen. W. 11. Hnzcn hns boon tho sub ject of so much controversy that a book from his pen on tho nininovents of his career m.ght bo expected to ex hibit some warmth of feeling niul ex pression. Hut ono would search long for a inoro cvon-tempered book than the largo ono that has just appeared with tho title "A Narrattvoof Military Service." General Hti7.cn undertakes in this volumo to describe tho war operations in which ho was an actor, and to suinmiirizo his views as an of ficer of long experience in regard to tlio best equipment and movement of our armies when next called to tlio field. This object is fully accomplish ed, and with unusual ability. Tho tone of tho narrativo is pleasant and moderate throughout, and, histori cally, it is an important contribution. After graduating inlSo.") at West Point, to which ho was appointed from Northern Ohio, General llti7.cn served against tlio Indians in tho west and was promoted for uallantry in Texas skirmishes in 1S."0. Early in 1S01 lie was still suil'ering from n wound received in Indian warfare. When tlio war began ho wtis assistant instructor of infantry tactics at West Point. In September, 1801, ho was commissioned Colonel of tho Forty first Ohio, otuanized at Cleveland, witli J. A. Garfield as Lieutenant Col onel. Ilefoio llazen took command Garfield was made Colonel of t lie Forty-second Ohio. Colonel Hnzcn was with the Forty-first Ohio lone enough to make his mark upon its discipline. Jt was in most of tho glint battles of the West, find ho says it was never surprised or assailed at a disadvant ai;o, nor failed to repay fully any pun ishment received. It was easily man euvered, and its steady volley firing was heard above tho din ot battle. General Hazendays ijreat stress upon the advantages of lire by volleys in stead of tho 'ordinary desultory lire of infantry. Early in 1S02 General llazen was placed'in command of a brigade, and Iio was in tho first division of lluell's army that reached Shiloh. His ene mies havo said that ho showed coward ice in that battle. The charge is not in keeping with General I Iazen's con spicuous part in many battles, and might be dismissed as absurd, but he is at pains to record his movements at Shiloh circumstantially. His bri gade mado an impetuous charge upon tliu Confederate right center, pushing ahead so fur that it captured a bat tery. The enemy sent a heavy force to retake tho battery, and Huzcii'h bri gade, tlio formation of which had been much confused by its churgo over a mile of ground, was driven back through tho dense forest and under growth. General llazen on his way back was accompanied by Captain Kinorson Opdycke, of tlio Forty-first Ohio, afterwards ono of tho heroes ot tlio battle of Franklin. Tlio brigade did not get together again until tlio afternoon, and it was so scattered that its commander did not find its main body for several hours. Tlio loss of tho brigade was Ii00 men killed and wounded, one-lif tli of tho entire loss in Jluell's army fit Shiloh. Tho real charge to be brought against Hit zen's brigade at Shiloh is a too discon nected rush upon tho Confederates, causing an undue loss of life, and tho breaking up of the hrhjado lino into fragments that drifted apart when forced to retreat by tho enemy's rein forcements. Theso wild rushes havo proved so fatal to organized action in battle that tho now tactic? contcni plato a constant regimental reserve on which retiring troops can join their colors instantly, and so again becomo aflectives without tho loss of a mo ment, General Huzen's conduct at Shiloh showed inoro headlong courago than strategic caution, and tho same can bo said of most of the brigado and regimental commanders of that early etago of thostruggle. Long after tlio war General Opdycko wrote of Shiloh: "I saw Hazon on horseback riding along tho line, encouraging his men by words and exiunplo during tho whole of tho fight and charge, and while re tiring wo wero togethor in constant endeavor to rally tho remnants of his command. General Hazen's most brilliant work during tho rebellion is popularly be lioved to bo tho storming of Fort Mc Allister, but he thinks otherwise, and gives good reasons for his opinion. "Tho best service rendered by my com mand during tho war," ho says, "was ot tho battle of Stono Itivor." After tho Confederates began to drive back tho Union right wing Jtosecrans with drew troops from tholeft until Hazen's brigado held tho extremo left of tho Union army. It was tlio only Union brigado that kept its position through out tho day, and it achieved this by desporato lighting. Of course, if Rose crans left had given way, as well as his right, tlio center would havo been betweon two fires, and a rout must havo ensued. Hazen's brigado sus tained tho first heavy nsaaultunaido l. Lntor some omall reinforcements wero eent to it, and at nightfall tho brigado still maintained its vital position, though three brigades of tho enomy had been sent against it. A monu ment is erected on that part of tho field, inscribed, "Hazen's brigado. To tho memory of its soldiors who foil nt Stono River, December 111, 1802. Their faces toward heaven, their feot to tho foe." General Hazon sees nt Chickamauga several bad mistakes in tho maneuver ing of thoarinybyRosecransandBomc of hissubordinatcs. Uragg had fallen back from Chnttunooga for stragetic purposes only. Our army for four duys, General llazen assorts, was in a position so false that its disunited corps wero at tho mercy of Uragg; and Uragg'H mistakes, therefore, wore, oven greater than those of Jtosecrans. Though rations woro ncarco whilo Urngg held Lookout Mountain, tho suflering among the men was not severe. During that timotho election for Govornor of Ohio took place. The town of Hiram had two voters in tho army, both Urigadier Generals, Gar field'ond llu7cn. They deposited their votes in a cignr-box. with a slip cut, in the top. This was the first time Gen eral Hnzcn over voted. His next vote was for Garfield for Presi dent. With Rosecrans, when ho was relieved from command, went McCook and several other Generals. General llazen writes: "After Shiloh, where his division toucht splendidly, McCook seemed pursued'by a strange fatality. Ho assumed a kind of boast ful over-confidence that in war alwavs presages failure, because it takes tlio place of tho careful preparation that insures success. MuCook pt ssessed a peculiar open frankness of manner and bonhomie that mado him many friends and ho had many admirable traits of character." To llazen was given tho command of tho twenty ono hundred men who executed the daring and ingenious seizure of the hills at Urown's Ferry, near Chattanooga, which, with tho advance of Hooker's corps, wrested from llnigg his embar rassing hold on the United lineof sup plier. No coil)) of tho war was moro brilliant or successful. At the battle of Mission Ridgo Ha zen's brigade, according to his own account , was the first t o reach tho crest, to capture Confederate cannon, and turn them amiinst their late posses sors. General Sheridan claimed tho honor and tho guns for his division; and General llazen devotes much space to a calm, methodical discussion of this controversy. It is certainly unlikely that Hazeii's brigado woulil ever have got the guns if Sheridan's division had been the first to reach them. The guns wero voluntarily brought to Hazen's headquarters by their captors, and ho retained them in spito of Sheridan's imperious de mand. Sheridan made a sarcastic allusion to the matter in ono of his leports, but ho was laboring under a misapprehension as General llazen demonstrates by the ollicial rep arts of both armies." "Tho splendid suc cess of Mission Ridge," llazen says, "was due to tho men rather than to tho Generals." . In tho Atlanta campaign General Hazon commanded a division of tho Army of tho Tennessee, under General Logan. "Thero can bo no impro priety," ho writes, "in comparing tho Army of tho Cumberland with that of the Tennessee, as far as thedifi'erencea seem to mo most noticeable. As to tlio native character of tho men and their excellence in battle, there was no dilTercnce; they wero alike, and both simply admirable. The gtneral officers of the Army of tho Tennessee wero much younger in years and in com mission, and were all acting under the spur of new zeal and in perfect har mony find good will; whilo in the Army of the Cumberland the olliccrs had been denied tho rapid advancement to which their services in battle seemed to entitle them. Such recognition is indispensable in actual war. Tho re sult was that jealousies, dislikes and dissensions wero developing in tho Army of tho Cumberland, whilo they were nearly unknown in tho Army of tho Tennessee. As to discipline, in struction and administration, tho Army of the Cumberland was so far tho superior as scarcely to admit of comparison. From somo causo thero had been in the Army of tho Tennessee a singular omission in theso particulars. Yet in battle no troops tottght better. It may then bo asked, Why make disciplino so important? I would add, that all who wero thero fought well; but a thorough adminis tration and discipline enables a government to put sixty per cent, of the troops who are on tho rolls and under pay in the front rnnks with muskets m thuirhands tho primo ob ject of every enlistment and it would havo enabled us to do so, whilo in fact from lack of it, wc were able to put only about thirty per cent, of tho troops in lino of battle, ilesidos, it would havo boon a saving of half tho cost of tho war. Disciplino is indis pensablo to economy of lifo and money." General Hazon describes tho assault and capturo of Fort McAllister, and this account is tho best and most nc curato yet written. 1 lo also witnessed the burning of Columbia, tho capital of South Carolina. Ho attributes it, not to tho Generalsof the Union army, but to tho hatred of the State frit by many of tho men in ranks, I To has no doubt, from personal observation, that it was set on lire deliberately in moro than a hundred places. "No ono ordered it and no ono could stop it. Tho olliccrs of high rank would havo Biived tho city if possible; but tho army was deeply im bued with tho feeling that as South Carolina had begun tiio war, sho must stiller a stern retribution. Tho idea that South Carolina was in a special and peculiar senso the originator of rebehon is a very common but in my opinion a superficial and mistaken no tion. It matters littlo where tho first overt act was committed. Tho egg was laid by the importation of slav ery. Tho aco doomed slavery.and war was inovitiable." Tho South Caro linians impressed him as a highly cul tured people.. Their farming and roads wero tho best ho saw in the South, and it was tlio only part of the tho South vhoro ho found good maps. Speaking of tho final grand review at Washington, tho General says tiro men of the Western armies marched better than thosn of tho Kast, tho long tramps of tho former having been a kind of drill. In passing the reviewing stand the soldiers of the Army of the Potomac cheered and swung hats, thereby losing tho cudenco and their military bearing. In the Army of the Tcnnesseo "tho endonco was perfect, while tho robustness of tho men and thoir even, swinging gait wero vorj striking." General Hnzeu givesachaptortothe lessons of tho war. Tho importance of defensive works for infantry was understood long beforo tho civil wnr tnided. At Chickamauga, tho work of logs begun after daylight on tho sec ond day su liked to defeat Polk's corps with comparatively littlo loss on the I Union side. "Security of person gives' tho soldiers composure and delibcrn-' tion. Ho aims carefully, and fires at ! his mark; whilo without cover ho is I excited, seldom aims at all, and often ! fires high in tho air." Tho increased . range of rifles adds to tho importanco of the protection. In ollicering troop3 tho Government must have a con stant regard lor capacity. Merito--rious conduct in battle should over ride seniority m rank or any other consideration. General Hazen's con victions on this subject aro thus ex pressed: "To bo a good officer, one must first bo a good man; and tho same qualities that fit ono for other vocations, such as intclligence.etilture, mathematical training, and an ac- ' quaintanco with alTvtirs mnko tho good officer. Tho old militia or parado officers, soldiers of tho Mexi can war and show brigadiers so much , sought for at first, were, as a rule, ! utter failures, while tho young men of I mark in all departments of civil lifo , nearly always succeeded as olliccrs. Men accustomed to tho exactness of tho counting-room, and used to deal ing with men in largo concerns, like railroads, rolling mills and manufact ories, could bo counted on with most certainty. In short, thogood, etlicient man mado a valuable and successful officer. When officers aro at lnot ob tained, a just bestowal of rowards and punishments is a vital element of success." In equipment, General llazen would havo the soldier freed from every ounce of unnecessary weight. When in Louis ville, in 1802, a now regiment, tho Tenth Illinois, over a thousand strong,, joined his brigado. It had "every-' thing" in tho way of equipment, in cluding tho old-fashioned knapsack.' In less than three weeks six hundred of its men broke down on tho marches, and few of them wero over able to ro t urn. Tho general would discard en tirely tho knapsack, cartridge box and bayonet. Tho cartridges should bo carried in a looped belt, which dis tributes tho weight evenly iirrund the body. Tho overcoat or blanket and waterproof ponchos ought to bo all i, ho covering that is carried, in ad dition to tho ordinary dress. Tho bayonet proved so useless in tho lato war that in tho last year Gen. llazen did not replace those that woro lost in his command. Haversacks should bo niadoof the best cotton duck, which can bo often washed, and yet will shed rain. Tlio present tin canteen, with J flannel covering, is satisfactory. Each soldier should carry a light cup and girddle. Tents aro not a neeoisity not even the shelter tents, a poncho being sullieient. If a blnnVi -s car ried, tho overcoat is superfluous Tho intrenching spado should bo light and strongly made, to bo slung to tlio belt with the canteen opposite tho haver sack by a spring hook at the lmndlo to bo linihed on ono edge as a cutting tool and on the other for driving. It should havo no relation to the gun. In battle a great amount of anununi tiou can bo saved and tho execution increased by each Colonel having absolute control of tho fire of his regi ment. Firing by volleys General I Inzen found to bo remarkably efi'ectivoon tho enemy advancing at the charge. De tails of fighting men for non-combatant duties should be stopped. Tho pioneer corps should bo specially re cruited, find not bo n drain upon tho best enlisted fighting material. Gen eral llazen says our armies had too much light artillery, since disutilities seldom occur from its use. Ho did not use artillery at Fort McAllister, as ho did not wish to advertise his in tentions by tho usual canonade. Tho great range of tho latest small arms places light artillery at a still greater disadvantage. "A so)id shot at short rango can only cut through its breadth, and a musket ball doos tho sumo. No careful commander will oxposo his masses to either." General llazen like tho lato English General Gordon, fa vors long firing with tho rifle. A drop ping lire of this kind causo a small but constant loss to tho enemy. Whilo in trout of Atlanta General Hazen's pick ets kept up a slow but regular lire at About twelve hundred yards range, with pieces elevated to carry into tho 'Confederate camp. About livo thou sand bullets a day.wero thus fired for about thrco weeks. After tho war General Hazon learned that each regi ment of tho enemy in his front lost from thrco to livo men a day by riflo wound. About one shot in livo hundred took elTect. Field hospitals alone 'phmild bo used. Gen. llazen is total ly opposed to tho issue of a whisky ra tion. Three-fourths of tho trouble in tho service nrosofrom tho usoof liquor. Ho would discard its use, both in and out of tho army, except as a medicine. "Who does not remember somo pecu liarly happy period during tho war," ho asks, "when ho wasstationed whora no whisky could boobtained?" Gener ,al Hazcn would not exclude from an army regularly accredited newspaper war correspondehts, but would attach them tjo tho soveral headquarters un der proper regulations. Finally, the U. S. army needs a genornl stall, such as Germany's hendod by Yon Moltko and Illutnenthal, to servo tho whole army by turns aa inspostors, to pro jpnro plans and control tho military urchives. Tl.o manly tono, strong good sense and historical and military value of General Hazen's book will bo conceded by overv reader, It is freely illustrat ed with portraits ond special maps. "A Narrativo of Military Sorvico." Ily General W. U. Hazcn, 4B0 pp. $U. Tieknor ot Co., Boston. Cincinnati, Robt. Clark & Co. Malarial fever has becomo so preva lent in Greeco that the government lias not only removed tho import duty 'from quinino, but has monopolized the jsalo of that drug, charging apricoequal 'only to tho cost at tho placo of sale. ;Tho result is that almost every Greek is using quinino. Thero is a chinquopln tree in Amer cus, Ga., from which over 10,000 nuts havo been gathered this season, and it is estimated that botwcenU.OOO tand 4,000 remain on tho tm The cliinquopin resembles an ncorn in ap pearanco and a chestnut .in taaU.