Show A DISTINGUISHED SOLDIER Gen Dabney Herndon Maury died a week ago in Peoria III More than o bare announcement ought tp be made of his death He went to West Point from Virginia and graduated In that wonderful class of IS 16 among which were George B McClcllan Jesse L Reno Stonewall Jackson George Stone man Samuel D SturgIs George E Plckctt Charles E Blunt Samuel B Maxey and many others Maury served with distinction In the Mexican war lie went off with other Confederates Into the Confederate arrn At army onetime one-time ho temporarily checked Grants advance In northern Mississippi and with Gen Stephen D Lee repulsed Sherman at Chickasaw bluff Ills great day however was at Corinth In that battle he lost 2000 men and by an exhibition ex-hibition of magnificent almost reckless courage held his men up to that fight until further fighting was absolutely useless He won the rank there of Ma jorGeneral from the Confederate Government Gov-ernment and was put in command of the Army of the Gulf After the war I closed he was given office under the Federal Government but has devoted de-voted most of his time to literature I Speaking of that class of 1S4G the Chicago Tribune says it was only by a scratch that Plckctt graduated and quotes one of his classmates as saying If a certain professor had not been lenient at the final examination who would have led thi charge at Gettysburg Gettys-burg That reminds us of the old I story of the good Catholic priest who I i ran a school which Murat of France attended for a while with the Idea of I becoming a priest After several days of experimenting with him tho old I I priest Jlrcd him out telling t him at the same time that he was fit for nothing I on earth except a soldier Later in life r the old priests remark was fully indicated I in-dicated |