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vices, let us again go with floral offerings and Sherman ami a Corner Grocery. General Sherman was not always mi For what do de scriptures say? 'Who are dese in white 'Dey what comes up through great Down here de black skin an' de great tribulations; up dar de white robe an' de joy for eb-ermore. Now, my brudders an' sisters, what do de scriptures say again? Dey say 'what though dey be black as ink (or something to dat effec'), dey shall be whiter dan An' it 'pears to me It'll be so powerful happy up dar dat I'd mantle the turf which covers their mold; let our hands once again gather fragrant garlands i til which to decorate their consecrated dust; let us airain lay our annual perfumed bene- iction upon their tombs. Command of C.J. McDIVITT, official Department Com.

W. T. DAVIDSON, Ass't Adjutant General. A Confederate ami Chickens in a Dutch Oven. On the retreat of the confederate army from Gettysburg, and while camped near Hagerstown, Maryland a member of Company Cutts' artillery, who was nicknamed Ransy Sniffles, went into that city and called at the house of a Pennsyl vania dutchwoman for something to eat.

She pretended she did not understand him, only saying "Nein." Ransy replied, saying: your nine, one will do me now," and walked into the back yard. Peering into a large brick Dutch oven, he found that the old woman had run all of her chickens into it to prevent the soldiers from stealing them. He went into the oven, and was catching the chickens when the old lady slipped to the oven door and closed it on him. He tried hard to get out, begged, threatened, and tried to bribe the old woman, but she had captured live rebel and intended to hold her prize. Ransy was furious, but the Dutch woman was as smiling as a May morning.

After an hour or two another con federate dropped into the back-yard, heard the racket about the dutch oven, and released Ransy; and the two carried off the chickens while the old lady was relating her achievement in the front of her house. Americus, (Ga.) Rcpubli can. Relief Corps Notes. A Woman's Relief Corps wil shortly be formed at Glen Elder, Mitchell county. Mrs.

Mary Jewett Telford, presi dent of the Woman's Relief Corps department of Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico, was a nurse in the army of tire Cumberland. The Relief Corps at Winfield, ex pended, since the first of January $116. The corps had given aid to eighty-five persons comprising fif teen families. Mrs. Julia A.

Chase, department secretary, writes that Mother Pick erdyke is in Washington, D. at the home of Col. Wm. H. Chase, brother of comrade R.

C. Chase, of Hiawatha. She has been quite sick. Her bill for $25 a month pension has passed, and waits only the president's signature. irritable over newspaper criticism.

When starting on his march to the ea papers sympathetic with the confederate cause printed attacks on lirn based on various pretexts. One allegation annoyed the feminine members of the Sherman family considerably. Women are always more ready to resent a charge of low an tecedents than men. In this instance the charge made was that General Sherman had once kept a corner grocery. A relative wrote to him that she thought he ought to take some notice of the charge.

The General replied with the ut most good nature that he duln think it worth while. As for himself, and he believed le would be sustained by the rest of mankind, he thought a corner was a mighty good place to keep a grocery. The Colored Sexton. The sexton of a Paptist church in a large western city was a good colored brother, who rarely took part in the social religious meetings of the society; but when he did, all present held their breath, for it was well known that some one was to be "hit on the head," and great amuse ment was in store for the others On this particular occasion the sub ject 01 the prayer-meeting was "Christian Humility." Mr. Pascom, one of the wealthiest church mem bers, while leaning on his gold-headed cane and toying with his elegant watch chain, concluded his remarks, with great affectation of humility, by saying: "If I ever should be so fa vored as to reach heaven at all, it seems to me that a place in the most remote section, the most ob scure corner, of that blissful region will be infinitely more than I de serve.

And when the call comes to me to 'go up it seems to me I shall feel like putting my hand up on my mouth and my mouth in the dust, and crying out, 'Unclean! tin When he was seated, the colored brother rose in the rear of the room and slowly advancing, faced the audience, and thus addressed them: "Prudders and sisters, when I hears the angel Gabri'l blow de trumpet a-calling me home, 'pears to me I'll be so powerful glad I'll just call out, 'Hoi' on dar, Gabri'l; I hears de trumpet, an' I's comin' mighty An' it 'pears to me I'll be so bustin' full ob joy I'll jest go shoutin', skippin' leapin' right up to de front ob de throne as fast as I kin git dar. An' dar I'll stan' wid de white robes on, a wavin' de palm branches, an' a-shoutin' 'Glory! glory! glory to de lamb dat was Objects of Hie Woman's Ilelicf Corps. Sec. I. To specially aid and assist the Grand Army of the Republic, and perpetuate the memory of their heroic dead.

Sice. 2. To assist such Union veterans as need our help and protection, and to extend needful aid to the widows and orphans of those who have fallen; to find them homes and employment, and assure them of sympathy and friends; to cherish and emulate the deeds of our army nurses, and of all loyal women who rendered loving service to their country in her hour of peril. Sec. 3.

To inculcate lessons of patriotism and love of country among our children and in the communities in which we live; to maintain true allegiance to the United States of America; to discountenance whatever tends to weaken loyalty; and to encourage the spread of universal liberty and equal rights to all men. EI.K HBILITY TO MEMBERSHIP. Women of good moral character and correct deportment, who have not given aid and comfort to the enemies of the Union, who would perpetuate the principles to which this organization stands pledged, and who have attained the age of 16 years, shall be eli gible to membership in the Woman's Relief Corps. Memorial Day. Headquarters ok the Dep't oy Grand Army of the Republic, Abilene, April 27, 1886.

General Order No. 3. Comrades: I. The thirtieth day of May Memorial 1 )ay the lay set apart by the Grand Army of the Republic as a high mass of patriotism, a eucharist of memorial love, when we pay our annual homage to our dead comrades who are bivouacked on cemetery soil, and banquet their dust, is approach inc. Our rules and regulations provide that "when such day oc curs on Sunday the succeeding day shall be observed, except where by legal enactment the preceding day is made a legal liday, when such day shall be observed." II.

Whereas the 30th day of May this year falls on Sunday; therefore, in accordance with the authority above quoted, Monday, the 31st day of May, is hereby ordered to be obse.ved as Memorial Day in the department of Kan sas. III. l'osts throughout our department are urged to observe the day in an appropriate manner. We suggest th religious memo rial services be held by the churches on Sun day, May 301I1, anil that wherever practicable the various churches of a community unite in a union service; also, that in towns or cities in which more than one post is located, th various posts unite in holding such memorial service. Comrades, never since light bannered our earth, or beauteous flowers enshrined it, or patriot graves ridged its soil, has there been more appropriate rite, than is the "Ritual of lilossoms," which the Grand Army of the Republic has inaugurated wherewith to honor the craves of dead patriots.

Hence, with every returning kiss of spring time, let beau teous and fragrant flowers be strewn by our hands on the green tents, beneath sleep our gallant and heroic dead. In testi niony of our remembrance of them, and our continued appreciation of their patriotic ser like to shake han's wid all my brud ders an' sisters, widout distinction ob age, color, or previous condition ob servitude good many on 'em I haint shook no han' wid here but 'pears to me I'll be so occoopied a-wavin', an' a-praisin', an' a-shout- nailelujarn nallelujan! close up on de right side ob de lamb, dat I won't hab no time to go peekin' roun' de dark corners ob heaven to find Prudder Pascom." Lynn Pur- dette, in Editor's Drawer, Harper's Magazine for February. Pass it Round. An exchange says: "Here is another trick that needs watching. One sharper agrees to buy a farmer's land and he pays him $25 to bind the bargain.

Another comes along and offers him $500 more and gets the promise of it, if the farmer can buy off No. 1, who soon comes around and insists upon the fulfillment of the contract, but will give up for $200. This the farmer pays and the second purchaser never returns." Farmers who read their county papers need not be taken in by such schemes, but may be $25 or $50 ahead by accepting the advance payment and insist upon sharper No. 1, sticking to his bargain. Hanover Democrat.

A gang of swindlers claiming to represent a New York organ company, have been working very successfully in the adjoining counties. In order to introduce the organ to a farmer in each township in the county, they only ask that the freight be paid from New York City to the nearest place where the farmer resides. The unsuspecting farmer jumps at the bait and pays over the four dollars, the amount required for freight, and in the course of two weeks receives the organ, a beautiful twenty-five cent mouth organ. The contract that the victim holds, upon being carefully read, calls for an organ and he gets it. Arapahoe, Pioneer.

Frank West, of Arlington, Dakota, says that he was the single man at Altoona Pass who received Sherman's famous message, "Hold the fort, tor I am coming," and to prove it has just permitted his Grand Army post to name a boy of his Altoona Pass West. Ex..