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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.
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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.
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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.