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Show pantry, lavatory and water ciosets adjacent. ad-jacent. I The appropriation for the home was lio.uoO. The house has been so arranged that there shall hy groups, or families, thus affording greater harmony and a better feeling among the inmates, and to enhance a spirit of concord, each inmate has been provided with a locker lock-er or closet besides his own bed. The buildings are roomy and comfortable. com-fortable. The administration building build-ing is a wooden structure, '2i stories iu height, Gix&l feet on the sills, and contains the otllces of the Home, the Surgeon's room, the dispensary and the residence of the commandant, Capt. 1$. 1". Hall, a Rhode Island veteran. vet-eran. lien. Hovry'a Ulx Heart Gen. Alvin 1'. llovey, (Jovernor of Indiana, has shown recently that he has a big heart in his brace body, by refusing to order the arrest of Mrs. Laura Jones, of Rockport, Ind., on a requisition from the (Jovernor of Kentucky. Ken-tucky. Mrs. Jones is the daughter of John Bonhommie, of Owensboro, Ky., who objected to her union with young Jones. The latter paid frequent visits to Owensboro, but each time he found the Bonhommie mansion barred against him, and ho soon learned through mutual friends that Miss Laura was suffering a great deal of bad treatment ou account ac-count of her love for him. He managed man-aged to communicate with her, and an elopement was planned. Miss Laura was taken from an upstairs room while the father was sleeping below, and the lovers escaped to Indiana, In-diana, where they were married. In the papers accompanying the requisition requisi-tion the father accuses his daughter of having committed perjury in swearing that sho was of marriageable age, when, in fact, she was but sixteen years old. Only the father's allidavit accompanied the requisition, and (Jov. Hovey at once detormined not to honor it. In closing his reply, he says: "This ease seems very strango to me, where a father seeks to have his daughter arrested and mado a felon because of a natural desire to marry the man she loves. It is not an admirable ad-mirable spirit shown on tho part of the father, to say the least " Swallowed Nothing. Col. Michael C. Murphy, of New York, has had a remarkable experi- t Ex-Prisoners or War. The following letter was written to Senator Hawley, some time ago: j IIok. Joseph R. Hawi.it, Washington, I). C. My Dear Sf.xatok: You will recall me as a member. 3'Jth and 40th Congresses, Con-gresses, from this State, and as having hav-ing actively aided you in your State in your first fight and victory for (Jovernor. (Jov-ernor. In the Senate debates some time since, and also recently at a Fourth of July celebration, I have seen you quoted as .hostile to the bill reported in the House to pension prisoners of war. A strong admirer and friend of your?, I havo greatly regretted this. I was fourteen months in Libby I'rison, from March, 1X03, to May, 1SG1. I have a personal experience, but my own was surpassed in misery in many respects by thousands. Could the senators and members only believe (they cannot realize) the stories of mental nnd physical agony told of those prison-pens of torture and death; picture only one-half the actual sufferings suf-ferings we endured, 1 am sure every one of you would reflect upon yourselves your-selves every night before you retire, bo long as you fail to pass this bill. I am quite sure you cannot And a survivor of rebel prisons, who was in their hands after June, lSi3, who will rot tell you he would have gladly charged the enomy in the field every day of the year, and taken his chances for life, in preference to remaining a day, as tho situation was, in rebel prisons. Grant and tho war department mny havo been right in refusing to exchange ex-change prisoners, on the theory that by so doing we gave to the other side an army of strong men in exchange for our starved soldiers; and that to allow us to starve and suffer and die, saved thousands of soldiers who wore in our armies in the held; and rendered ren-dered new recruits not needed. That is, we were thus weakening the en-emy. en-emy. So we wore. War is always cruel. This was the cruelty of cruelties. It was a most extraordinary position of most heroic sufferings, which our government" compelled us to undergo, and it entitles en-titles us to extraordinary consideration, considera-tion, and special honors. Aye, if you wish to put it so, "rewards." It is the basest of slanders to pay that any soldiers in our armies after June, 1803, when the cartel was bus-... bus-... ponded (yes, and before), was voluntarily volun-tarily a prisoner. The history of our war and its battles show that the men who went farhtest to the front, fought fiercest In the fight, remained longest on the field, and wore last to retreat, are the men who were captured. cap-tured. I cannot think, my dear General you have looked at this matter in its proper light. I knew you were a brave soldier, and I think you are a t J Christian man. I believe you have l I unmeaningly done the prisoners of lS war an injustice, and I appeal to you to correct it. That 65,000,000 with more wetfth and luxury than Solomon in all his glory ever thought of, and all this, and this magnificent country and its marvelous splendors, with its glorious freedom shculd stop to count the cost of pensions; all figured up, even to two thousand millions of dollars, parceled par-celed and doled out until we are all gone and we survivors are old men now Is to write down this great people peo-ple as inexcusably mean and wholly wanting in gratitude to those who took their lives in their hands and mado this mighty people what they are. I am sure you will pardon my writing writ-ing to you, and my hope is to cause you to use your power and influence to help as many soldiers who survive as possible to carry a certificate of pension, not as a beggar or pauper, but a paper bearing the seal of his country tnat he is ono of those who caved the Republic. ence with starvation, lie uvea seven months without swallowing a morsel of food or a single drop of drink, and during that time ho endured one surgical sur-gical operation of great severity and equal delicacy and danger, and any cumber of ones of smaller consequence. conse-quence. He suffered so much from dyspepsia that in 1889 the physicians concluded that he had an ulcer in his stomach. To treat of involved an enforced rest it the important organ of digestion that lasted fifty-nine days. In the meantime, by the use of mechanical me-chanical appliances that involved the swallowing of a good deal of rubbor tubing, the stomach was washed out daily with a solution of nitrate of silver. sil-ver. He got better, but soon after had a stricture of the asophngus. He could swallow nothing, and food was administered by enaima. When his wasted strength made it necessary that liis life might be saved, his stomach was opened, a rubber tube inserted and ho was fed through this. Finally the stricture was curer" Grand Army Note. The tomb of Gen. WinSeld S. Han-sock Han-sock was decorated on Memorial Day by a delegation from the Hancock Legion of Philadelphia. Gen. Fitzhugh Leo is expected to deliver the address at the anniversary festival of the Confederate Soldiers' Home of the Maryland Line at Pikes-ville, Pikes-ville, Md., June 4. The engineer charts which wore prepared by Gen. Robert K. Loe when ho was a member of the United Suites Engineer Corps, over fifty years ago, are still in use at St, Louis. Mo., for river improvements. Storer Post, G. A. R., of Torts-mouth, Torts-mouth, N. 11. will present portraits of Admiral Farragut and Gen, Thomas J. Whipple to the Farragut and Whipple schools of that city respectively. respect-ively. The artist will be Mr. U. U. Tenny. One of the sophomores who lef Princeton college during the civil war Samuel McKeb, Captain, Fourteenth Kentucky cavalry, cav-alry, 216 Fifth street, Louisville, Ky. A New Home. The Rhode Island Soldiers' Home at Bristol was dedicated on May 21 with appropriate ceremonies by the ' Department of Rhode Island, G. A. R. The town of Bristol donated the Greene farm, worth $10,000, to the State for soldiers' relief purposes, and upon this very desirable site, commanding com-manding a fine view of Fall River and ML Hope Bay on the east; Karagan-sett Karagan-sett Bay, the ocean, and the island of Rhode Island on the-south, and the bay, the west shore and Providence to the west and north, was erected this home for the country's saviors. The home opened with nearly 100 inmates, 81 per cent of whom receive no pensions. pen-sions. The domestic building is also of 1 wood, 93x50 feet, with kitchen, store rooms, amusement hall9, library and officers' dining room on the first floor, and nine sleeping-rooms, a bath and several fctorerooms on tho second floor. There are four pavilions, 25x81 foot, each with a wing on each sido 18x37 feet six inches. The central part of each pavilion consists of a dormitory containing twenty-two beds. One of the wings has the wardmaster or sergeant's room and eight beds, tho liter is for the dining-room, with a to enter the army is to enter tne class of '94 of that institution to finish his course. He is now 53 years old, and obviously convinced that the little difficulty is completely wound up. The late Col. L. M. Dayton, who was an officer on Gen. Sherman's staff, left an estate valued at over $300,000. Among his bequests, outside of the family circle, are these: To the home of the F'riendless and the Children's Home in Cincinnati, each $5,000; to the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, Ten-nessee, $5,000; and to the Ohio Com-mandery Com-mandery of the Loyal Legion, his portraits of Gens. Sherman, Grant and Sheridan. Senator William F. Vilas, of Madison Madi-son AVis., recently received news that his namesake, William F. Vilas Hill, had killed himself at Memphis, Tenn. This young man was spoken of in some reports as a nephew of Senator Vilas's but he was not a relative rela-tive of the ex-Secretary of the Interior. Senator Vilas was stricken with yellow yel-low fever at Memphis while a soldier in the war of the rebellion. Ira Hill, a prominent citizen of Memphis, took the young soldier to his home. Mr. Hill and family nursed him back to health, and. ns the Senator still claims saved his life. A strong attachment at-tachment sprang up between the two families, and in 1861, when a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Hill, they named him after Mr. Vilas. Mr. Hill, the father, died some years ago. T - , " " ' ' 1 V |