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Show j HAS BEEN UNDER ARREST j , FOR TWO SCORE YEARS WORCESTER, Mass., July 20. General Gen-eral Josinh PIcKett. 85 years of nge. and a veteran of the civil war, Is said to be dying here, technically a military prisoner, pris-oner, lie has been under arrest, it j said, ever since tho battle of Cold Harbor, Har-bor, and has declared that he will die i iniiiii r-ittU(.L wiih 'UIUIHJI OI the Twenty-fifth .Massachusetts during the lighting at Cold Harbor, and In a fit of anger, in the heat of th light, repllod roughly to Genornl Stanriard, his superior. supe-rior. The latter placed him under arrest ar-rest and took his Kword Later Pickett was commended by Stannord for .gallantry .gal-lantry In tho Cold Harbor battle while heading a charge, but the record of nr-V?ifli nr-V?ifli xVaH "Over changed and General Hlckott has bm-ii officially under arrest over forty yearn. |