Newspapers: Indiana Register (Jul-Aug 1864), Indiana Co., PA Contributed for use in the US GenWeb Archives by Sonya M. Barclay mchg@grove.iup.edu (SMB). US GENWEB NOTICE: Printing this file by non-commercial libraries and individuals is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying this file to another site, requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other site. We encourage links to state and county table of contents. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Indiana (Weekly) Register, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Extracts July-August, 1864 6 July 1864 COL. GEORGE H. COVODE. We learn, with regret, that COL. GEORGE H. COVODE, son of HON. JOHN COVODE, commanding the 4th Pa. Cavalry, was mortally wounded during the recent Cavalry fight with the rebel forces, while marching from White House to the James River. We have since learned he is dead. FIRE. We learn that the residence of MR. FENLON, ner [sic] Blairsville, was destroyed by fire on the 4th inst. The family were absent from house at the time. We have not learned the probably origin of the fire. MARRIED. BOUGHER [SIC]-McDORMITT. On July 4, 1864, by Rev. J.P. Hentz, MR. ALEX. BOUCHER, and MISS ISABELLA McDORMITT, both of Indiana county. DIED. M'MICHAEL. In West Greenville, Pa., on Sabbath, June 19, 1864, of inflammation of the stomach and upper intestines, CHARLES M'MICHAEL ESQ., aged about 33 years. The deceased was well known to some of our citizens. He was a son-in-law of MRS. HOUSTON of this place.... 13 July 1864 APPOINTED. MARLIN LOWRY, of this place, has been appointed Commissary Sargeant 78th PV. The 78th is with General Sherman in the movement on Atlanta, Ga. INJURED. MR. WILLIAM M'QUOWN, of Montgomery township, a volunteer in Co. E, 67th PV was severely injured about the head, on last Thursday evening at Blairsville Intersection, (Pa) railroad by jumping off the train while in motion. He was desirous of getting off the train at the point mentioned, but did not know the name of the station, until they were again in motion, after having stopped, when he jumped off, with the above results. TRIBUTE TO THE DEAD. Battlefield near Petersburg, June 23, 1864. At a meeting of the undersigned members of Battery B, PV Heavy ARtillery, the following preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted. Whereas It has pleased Divine Providence to remove from our midst our esteemed friend and fellow soldier, DANIEL CHRESSMAN [SIC], who was killed on the night of the 17th inst., at the head of his column, while nobly battling for his country's cause.... THE DEATH OF COL. COVODE. We have already announced the death of COL. GEORGE H. COVODE, 4th Pa Cavalry. The following letter, written by CAPT. D.P. SMITH, who now commands the company, which MR. COVODE took to the field three years ago, to HON JOHN COVODE, give some particulars of the wounding of the Colonel, which will be read with interest. Camp, 4th Pa. Cavalry, on James River, June 25th, 1864. HON JOHN COVODE: --My heart is filled with sorrow as I write you sad tidings. On yesterday, the 24th inst., our 2d Cavalry Division marched to a point near St. Mary's church, which lies between the Chickamahoning and James Rivers. Having arrived early in the morning, we formed in line of battle and lay quiet until 3 p.m., when the enemy having ascertained that we had but one division, and they having a corps, made a terrible attack on us. We resisted nobly, but were forced to fall back, and in so doing, our Colonel, your son GEORGE H. COVODE, was wounded in the left arm, breaking it in two places, one above the elbow, and one between the elbow and the wrist. One ball struck him on the left side, passing through and coming out on the right side of his stomach. Every possible effort was made to get him off the field, but we being too hard pressed were compelled to leave him. He suffered intensely, and the day being extremely warm it made him very weak and feint [sic]. It is the opinion of those who saw him that his wound was mortal, and this was his own opinion. I did not see him. My squandron was mounted as a support to the battery and all the remainder were dismounted. I can learn nothing that he said, except to hurry him off the field, that his sufferings were horrible. --This evening the report is that he is dead, and buried at Charles City Court House. Accept my condolence in this your irretrievable loss. He fell nobly fighting for his country. He was brave, noble, generous, and had endeared himself to all who knew him. The regiment lost 85 in the last two fights; Co. D lost 15 of them (list not complete). Most respectfully yours, D.P. SMITH, Capt., 4th Pa. Cav. MR. COVODE feels deeply the loss of his two sons. We extend to the family our condolence in their great bereavement. We learn that Mr. C. has recovered his son's body, and has brought it home for interment. MARRIED. CARLE-BARKEY. On the 29th June, by J.E. Riddle, esq., MR. JACOB F. CARLE and MISS BARBARA BARKEY, all of Montgomery township. 20 July 1864 LIST OF DRAFTED MEN IN INDIANA COUNTY. Following is a list of the Drafted men in Indiana county, drawn Wednesday, July 13, 1864, to fill deficiencies of quotas of the several districts named. North Mahoning--W.H.B. SPRANKLE, JOHN VARTMAN, FREDERICK WALKER, JOHN PORTER. Young--PORTER O'NEIL, GILMAR LOWMAN Pine--JOHN J. DUNCAN, JOHN SHIELDS, JOHN A. STONE, ANDREW LEANARD, JACOB MILLER, WILLIAM CALDWELL, THOMAS E. BRACKEN, WILLIAM F. LYDICK, HUGH HOLMER, JOHN E. BLAKELY, WILLIAM J. DAVIS, WILLIAM GRIFFITH, DAVID KELLAR, PETER ROSS, JAMES BENNETT, JOHN W. DICK. Montgomery--JEREMIAH GOSS, WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM, JOHN MAUMAU [SIC], JOHN A. RUFFER, JACOB ARTHURS, MARTIN RODKA, IRA SABIENS, WILLIAM LYDICK. Taylorsville--HAMILTON K. BARR, WILLIAM B. GIBSON Washington--ALEX RAY, ROBERT McQULKIN [SIC], JOHN R. LAWSON, WILLIAM V. SHAFFER, ZACHARIAH SCOTT, JACOB POTTS, JAMES DUNCAN, THOMAS WIGGINS, JOSEPH REPINE, JOHN WISSINGER, DAVID WEAMER, WILLIAM ROW, JOHN BOTHELL (OF JAMES), JOHN KELLY JR., GEO. R. HOOVER, DAN'L DICK. Cherrytree-- JOSEPH SECKONGOST [SIC], WILLIAM LANYDORE. Centre--SAMUEL D. LAECY, JOHN SWEEZY, JOSEPH BARCLAY, THOMAS SIMPSON. Canoe--MICHAEL BORTY, JAMES ORGACE, WILLIAM B.MITCHELL, JOHN K. BRADY. West Mahoning--JACOB HOLLOWELL, CHRISTIAN GOOD. Greene--JOHN SPICKER [SIC], ROBERT M. MORRIS, PHILIP PITTMAN, THOMAS McDOWELL, DANIEL RUFFNER, SILAS D. CLAWSON. West Wheatfield--WILLIAM H. GAMBLE (OF J.), DANIEL UTZLER, JAS. KELLY, ADAM SIDES (OF J), JEREMIAH WAKEFIELD, MARTIN S. BRACKEN. Rayne--JOSIAH COOSER, ABRAHAM MOORE. DROUTH. The drouth [sic] continues in this county. Since the 9th of June we have not had any rain to saturate the ground--only two or three slight showers have fallen since the date above mentioned. The grass is literally burning up, and pasturage is almost entirely destroyed. The grain crops, which are now being harvested, promise rather better, however, than was anticipated a month ago. MARRIED. SHARA-LYDICK. On Thursday, July 14th, by Rev. M.W. Dallas, MR. LEWIS SHARA and MISS SARAH A. LYDICK, all of Indiana county, Pa. 27 July 1864 REQUISITES IN A WIFE. A knowledge of domestic duties is beyond all price to a woman. Every one of the sex ought to know how to sew, knit, mend, cook, and superintend the household. In every situation of life, high or low, this sort of knowledge is a great advantage. --There is no necessity that the gaining of such information should interfere with intellectual acquirement or even elegant accomplishment. A well-regulated mind can find time to attend to all. When a girl is nine or ten years old, she should be accustomed to take some regular share in household duties, and to feel responsible for the manner in which her part is performed--such as her own mending, washing the cups and putting them in place, cleaning silver, or dusting and arranging the parlor. This should not be done occasionally, and neglected whenever she finds it convenient--she should consider it her department. When older than twelve, giels should begin to take turns in superintending the household, and making puddings, pies, cakes, etc. To learn effectually, they should actually do these things themselves, and not stand by to see others do them. Many a husband, has been ruined for want of these domestic qualities in a wife--and many a husband has been saved from ruin by his wife being able to manage well the household concerns. RAIN. Thank God for the copious rain on last Monday. The drouth, which commenced on June 9th, was quite severe--stunting the grain, parching the grass even to the very roots, and relaxing and oppressing animal nature. But the excellent shower of Monday has exercised an invigorating influence upon things torrestrial [sic]. The fields look refreshed, and man and beast move about with firmer and more elastic step. Again: We thank God for his continued mercies. LOSSES AT FORT STEVENS, WASHINGTON. --The following casualties occurred in Co A, (CAPT CREPS') 61st PV at Fort Stevens, Washington, in the attack upon that position by the rebels, during the recent raid: Killed--J. ELLIS, R. FAIRBANKS, ---- BROWN. Wounded--HARRY WORK, shoulder; ALEX. MOORE, leg off; 1ST SRGT W. BUCHANAN, left arm off. The 61st were acting as skirmishers at the time the above casualties occurred. MARRIED. COLEMAN-DUNWOODY. At Blairsville, on the 19th inst., by Rev. S.Y. Kennedy, MR. THOS. M. COLEMAN, of Indiana, and MISS LIZZIE DUNWOODY, of Greenville, this county. "Two water-drops that meet and mingle, No power on earth can e'er make single, And wedlocks bond twixt man and wife, If twined in heaven, endures for life." 3 August 1864 DIDN'T WAIT TO BE 'GRAFTED' INTO THE ARMY. One of our workmen, MR. M.L.B. KLINE, has "gone and went" for a sailor--having enlisted in the naval service. In 1862 MR. K. went into the service in a nine months' regiment, and was wounded at Antietam. He was also in the Chancellorville fight under Hooker. Now, however, he is determined to try the gunboat arrangement, and play the "jolly tar" of Columbia. Success to him. DIED AN OLD PATRIOT. Died after a short illness, of heart disease, at his residence in Clarksburg, Indiana county, Pa., on Thursday, July 28, 1864, at noon, SCOTT MARSHALL, in the 77th year of his age. It is but due to the deceased to say he was a soldier in the War of 1812, and as an evidence of his love for the perpetuity of his Government, in response to the call of the Governor of Pennsylvania in 1862, he buckled on his knapsack and again marched to the rescue, risking his life for the good of his country, and for the generations following. MR. M's whole life has been characterized by a uniform course of genuine friendship in the social circle. --Com. DROWNED. MR. DAVID FRY, of Saltsburg, was found dead in Stewart's Mill Dam, on Loyalhanna creek, near the mouth of that stream, about 8 o'clock on Monday morning, 1st inst. His body was discovered floating near the middle of the stream, and but a few rods from the breasts of the dam. He left home on Thursday night, of last week, during a temporary fit of insanity--he having been partially deranged for some days--followed by another man, whom he, however, soon eluded in the darkness, and was not afterwards seen until the discovery of the deceased body. MR. FRY was also subject to Epilepsy, and it is, perhaps, more than probable that during the recurrence of those spasms, while pursuing his wanderings, he got into the water, and was drowned. Search was made for the deceased man during the time from his leaving home until the recovery of his body. MR. FRY was about 35 years old, and was a member of the Presbyterian church. he leaves a wife and two little daughters alone in this world. 10 August 1864 MARRIED. FOSTER-COCHRAN. On Tuesday evening, August 9, 1864, by Rev. M.W. Dallas, MR. HENRY S. FOSTER, and MISS LIZZIE COCHRAN, both of Indiana, Pa. Accompanying the above notice was a slice of the wedding cake, for which kind remembrance the happy couple will please accept the thanks of the "printer." May heaven award them a life serene, a love unending, and a joy unalloyed, and may each return of their bridal anniversary find them happy in each other's affections, and true to these vows that have made them for time "one and inseperable." DIED. At his residence in Indiana, on Saturday, August 6, 1864, ADAM CREPS, aged about 60 years. EXCHANGED. The Union prisoners lately confined at Charleston, South Carolina, are reported exchanged. COL. RICHARD WHITE is among the number. This will be gratifying news to the friends of the colonel. ABOUT AGAIN. We are gratified to see our old friend CAPT J.S. NESBITT, who was so seriously wounded at the battle of Cold Harbor, Va., about again. He is quite weak yet, but seems to be on a fair way for complete recovery from the effects of head injuries. AT HOME. MR. JOSEPH HOUSTON, Co. F, 55th PV, who was wounded in front of Petersburg, some time ago, returned home, to Indiana, on last Saturday. His right arm is badly shattered at the elbow. We are pleased to learn, however, that, although he is maimed for life, there is a strong probability that he will not altogether lost the use of his arm. We wish him good luck. ANOTHER VICTIM. Daily the story is repeated that "Another Soldier's Gone" --gone to that "undiscovered land from whose bourne no traveller returns." Today we are called upon to chronicle the death of another victim of "this cruel war." GEORGE REED, of Co. K. 105th PV, was wounded in one of the "Wilderness" battles, last May, receiving only a slight wound in the leg. Disease, however, set in, and gradually he grew worse, his body becoming each day more and more emaciated, until a few days since death relieved him of his sufferings. He was about 20 years of age, and had been in service upwards of two years. Peace to his ashes. PICKED UP IN THE WOOL TRADE. On last Thursday morning, CONSTABLE THOMPSON, of this place, arrested two lads, named CLAWSON AND JACOBY, upon a charge of larceny of a package of wool. On Wednesday evening, the two lads went to the store of MESSRS GEORGE WEAMER AND BROTHER, and offered to sell MR. SHIELDS, a clerk, a package of Wool, weighing 7 pounds. Various circumstances led MR. SHIELDS to suspect that all was not right, and he told the boys to call on Thursday morning for their pay. In the mean time, the fact of the theft become known to the proper parties, the package left at MESSRS WEAMER'S [SIC] was identified, warrants issued, and the boys arrested and committed to jail. YOUNG JACOBY was admitted to bail on Friday. 17 August 1864 ANOTHER SOLDIER DEAD. WILLIAM S. LEWIS, Co E, 67th PV, is reported to have died; of fever, at Hampton Hospital, Va., a few days ago--aged about 26 years. He was a good soldier, and had been a good citizen, and we deeply regret his decease. AT HOME. COL. RICHARD WHITE, 55th PV, who was captured at Palmer's creek, Va., May 16th returned home, to this place, on last Saturday, having been exchanged. Recently he was held in confinement, at Charleston, where, with others, he was placed under fire of our guns, as a means of diverting the seige of that place, and saving it from destruction. He is, we regret to say, in feeble health. LT. MILTON ADAIR, who was wounded in the leg, in one of the Wilderness fights, in Va., last May, is also at home. We are pleased to notice that he is improving. ARRESTED. GEORGE SHIELDS, of Marchand, this county, a deserter from the 105th Regt PV, and who has for a long time eluded all efforts at his arrest, was apprehended on last Saturday, and put under charge of Provost Marshall COULTER, at Greensburg, on Monday. On Sunday, another deserter, -----WHIMPLE, from the 1st Michigan regiment, was also arrested, and on Monday sent to CAPTAIN COULTER. These two men were confederates. They deserted, and came to this county, together; and together they are taken hence--confederates still. They are now in the hands of the government, and must submit to the proper punishment of their folly and crime. 24 August 1864 LIST OF EXEMPTIONS. [very long] 31 August 1864 A NEW SPIRE, ETC. The Presbyterian congregation at this place have just had a new spire and vane put upon the steeple of their church. A lightning rod has also been put up. Besides these improvements, a good new fence has recently been erected, around the church property of both the Presbyterian and United Presbyterian churches. DIED BY POISONING. On Wednesday, August 25th, three little children of JOSEPH R. AND CHARLOTTE BROWN, of Montgomery township, were putting away some toys in their mother's bureau, the mother being absent from the room at the time, when they got hold of a vial containing some strychnine, which had been in the drawer for some two years, and entirely forgotten. The eldest child, JAMES R., took the bottle and drank part of the contents. Upon the return of the mother a few minutes after, she perceived the situation of affairs with the child; she questioned the lad, but he would not answer. She then ran for milk and eggs, and administered some to him, as an antidote, but too late: He have a loud laugh, and a scream--and in half an hour he was a corpse. He was aged 4 years 7 months and 11 days. This is another sad warning to persons against leaving poison, or other dangerous articles, within the reach of children. MARRIED. McLEESTER-RAGER. On August 24th, at Ninevah, by J.C. High, MR. HUGH R. McLEESTER, of Cambria county, and MISS AMANDA J. RAGER, of Indiana county. MOCK-HOWE. On the 18th inst., by the Rev. Thomas Stephens, at the residence of the bride's father, MR. W.H.H. MOCK, and MISS LIZZIE HOWE, all of Indiana county, Pa. CONRAD-STONEBREAKER. At the residence of the bride, on August 15th, by the Rev. John Forthman, MR. JOHN H. CONRAD and MISS BARBARA STONEBREAKER, both of Rayne township, Indiana county. WHITE-KINSLEY. On Thursday, August 25, by James E. Riddle, Esq., MR. PAUL WHITE, of Montgomery township, and MISS MARGARET KINSLEY, of East Mahoning township.