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7 A STOttYDF THE REBELLION, n- In the early, spring of 1863, when i the federal and con federate armies were V' confronting each other on the hills of The Colurabus(Ohio) Journal says: The government has provided a beautiful home for her disabled soldiers at Dayton, which is seemly to the eye in all its appointments and surroundings and where one would naturally expect to find a resting place' for declining years. But since the recent election the stbry goes that a barrel of whisky was given to the inmates of the home for the purpose of influencing their votes, with a full knowledge on the part of the donors that many of those inmates were slaves to drink and would seir their votes for liquor. One of the men who fell under the temptation was found on the streets of Jayton in a dying condition, and two 'others have died since the election from the effects of the liquor thus obtained: The following is from the. Philadelphia Times whoso editor sports the title of Colonel and is proverbially hostile to the interests of old soldiers; VA system which permitted the grant-, ing of 38,063 new pensions in the fiscal year of 1882 83, nearly eighteen years after the close of the war, must be seriously at fault somewhere. During all the days of looser coustruction of them, it scarcely seem probable that these cases were not presented and considered.

Yet the period for making applications has been extended from time to time until hundreds of the victims of disease, or their heirs have shrewdly concluded that they might as well trace their difficulties to the war and be paid for whatever may have been the real situation. As there are almost uncounted thousands of additional applications for pensions it is impossible for the imagination to conceive where the business may finally end." The Mexican veterans of Iowa met at Ames on Tuesday, Nov. 20 to make arrangements for attending the National reunion at Washington on the 7 th, 8th, aud 9th of December. The veterans of the Seventh Illinois Infanry propose to hold a reunion at Springfield on the twenty-second anniversary of the capture of Fort Oaorgia has a Confedcrate'pension list amounting to. 26,000 per annum.

Oh! said the tramp; as a tear glistened like a gum-drop upon hif sun-stained face, I served during tho entire After stowing away tho comfortable breakfast that was given him he finished the sentence: I was a waiter in a Canadian resturant." A German writing in one of the Br-i ltn papers of his campaigns, gives tho following interesting item: "In this bat-, tie wo lost the bravo Captain Schule. A cannon ball took off his head. His last words were: "Bury me on the spot where 1 A Trafalgar veteran named William-Porton has just died in Wolverhampton Knland, at the ago of 101 years He -served on the war-ship Victory during the Trafalgar engagement and was' among those who assisted Nelson when he received his mortal wound. Captain, we are entirely out of ammunition" said the orderly sergeant of a company to an tInsh captain in one of the regiments of tho battle of the Wilderness. "Intirely out?" said the captain.

"Yes, entirely out." "Then saze firing, said the captain Secretary Teller has written another letter to the Attorney. General with reference to the prosecution of pension frauds, in which he says; In all cases where attorneys are found violating the pension laws or in extorting money from applicants without rendering an equivalent, the department has not only refused to allow such agents or attorneys to appear before the Pension Office in the prosecution of pension claims, but they are debarred from appearing before any other bureau of the department. In many such cases tho punishment inflicted by the department is much greater than that inflicted by the courts, for it frequently amounts to the destruction of their business and financial ruin. Stafford an Spottsylvania, two bandit chanced, one evening, at the flame hoar tj begin to discourse sweet music on either bank of the river A large crowd ofsoldiers of both armies gathered to listen to themusio, the friendly pickets not interfering, and soon the band began to auswer each other First the band on the northern, bank would play the "StarSpanglod Banner, Hail Columbia," or soine other national air, and at its conclusion the "boys in blue" would cheer most lustily. And when the band on the'southern bank would respond with "Dixie' or 'Bonnie Blue Flag," or some other southern melody, the "boys in gray would attest their approbation with the old confederate yell, But presently one of the bands struck up, in sweet, plaintive notes which were wafted across, the Rappahannock were caught up at once by the other band, and swelled into a grand anthem which touched every heart, "Home, sweet Home." At the conclusion of this piece, up went a simultaneous shout from both sides of the river cheer after cheer, and those hills which bad so recently resounded with hostile guns, echoed and re-echoed the glad acclaim.

A chord had been truck responsive to which the hearts of enemies enemies then -could beatln unison: and on both sides the river. Something on the soldier's cheek i Washed off the stain of powder. A. A. Gen.

Devendorf issued a dispensation to the Post at Columbus, Ks iiiit.Lr:i nil iiiii ui iiri m. ma ill i i His name is Henry Alderman, he is 83 years old, hale and hearty and is the oldest soldier in the State and possibly -ia tho United States..