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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 112 (search)
rewster lost all his papers, and all his clothes but what he had on. He was lucky more than once that day in saving those and in being able to carry them off himself. It seemed as though he and Adjutant Dean were bullet-proof. Captain Kenyon and Lieutenant Perriont, both on the Colonel's staff, exposed themselves almost recklessly, and escaped without a scratch. You have got to see a street-fight to comprehend it. I can't describe it. Company A did itself credit, as it always tries to do. Orton. Ingersoll. Rebel account. Demopolis, Ala., March 11, 1864 To Adjutant-General Cooper: General Lee telegraphs that Ross and Richardson attacked Yazoo City on the fifth instant, capturing many stores and destroying much cotton about being shipped. The enemy retired to the city and held it until reinforced. They were driven out of the city, which was recaptured, while stores were being destroyed. We have quite a number of prisoners. Our loss was about fifty killed and wounded
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
ts are made into strips of uniform size with parallel sides. The cogollo is then boiled to toughen the fiber, and hung up in the sun to dry and whiten, when the leaflets run up into cordlike strands, which are then ready for use. The longest straw which can be procured from the bombonaje is twenty-seven and a half inches. It takes sixteen cogollos for an ordinary hat and twenty-four for the finest; and a single hat is plaited in from four days to as many months, according to texture. — Professor Orton of Vassar. Pan′cake. （Leather.) A factitious leather made of scraps agglutinated by cement or glue, and pressed into a flat cake for insoles, etc. Pan-de′an pipes. The emblems of Pan, the rural divinity of the Greeks, were a shepherd's crook and a pipe of seven reeds. Pandean pipes. The reeds are bound together in a parallel series, the months on a level and the lengths so proportioned as to give the notes of the gamut. The instrument yet survives in England
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), Some thynges of ye olden tyme. (search)
668 the second minister of the church, the matchless Mitchel died. He had succeeded to the church and the parsonage and had married the widow of his predecessor. He died in an extreme hot season and there is the record of the payment to goodman Orton of Charlestown for making a carpaluing to wrap Mr. Mitchell and for doing something to his coffing that way 4s. This wrapping was of cloth covered with tar. When the grave was opened a few years ago some remains of the shroud were found, and a quantity of tansy which had been used as a disinfectant. Thus the work of goodman Orton again saw the light. One of the delicate matters in those days was the arranging of people and their names in the proper order. Not until 1773 were the names in the Harvard Catalogue placed in alphabetical order. The rank of the family to which the student belonged determined his place in the list. The first class starts in this way:-- Benjamin Woodbridge, A. M. Oxford 1648; S. T. D. Oxford.
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 15: ecclesiastical History. (search)
d, from a principle of godliness, used himself to bodily exercise; nevertheless he found it would not wholly free him from an ill habit of body. Of extreme lean, he grew extreme fat; and at last, in an extreme hot season, a fever arrested him. Magnalia, Book IV., ch. IV., † 16. This was a case loudly calling for cerecloth and tansy; and the proof is preserved that such cloth was actually used. In the old Financial Record of the Church is found this memorandum of disbursement: To goodman Orton of Charlestown for making a terpaluing Tarpauling, cloth smeared with tar. to wrap Mr. Michell, and for doing something to his coffing that way 4s. And what would be more natural than to adopt the custom, which certainly prevailed in the country in the early part of even the present century, of placing tansy in and around the coffin, to counteract the effect of unpleasant odors? The contents of the grave described by Palfrey were precisely what we might expect to find in the grave of Mi
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.20 (search)
reward by the parents availed to pass anything save a scanty supply of clothing and other necessaries. Arriving in the South, the brave young mother refused the proffer of a beautiful home in Wilmington, the occupancy of the grand old mansion at Orton, on the Cape Fear river, but insisted upon taking up her abode with her children and their colored nurse in the upper room of a pilot's house, where they lived until the soldiers of the garrison built her a cottage one mile north of Fort Fisher mmer night, all contributed to the reality of this romantic life. When Porter's fleet appeared off Fort Fisher, December, 1864, it was storm bound for several days, and the little family with their household goods were sent across the river to Orton, before Butler's powder-ship blew up. After the Christmas victory over Porter and Butler, the little heroine insisted upon coming back to her cottage, although her husband had procured a home of refuge in Cumberland county. General Whiting protes
The Daily Dispatch: November 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], Broad Rock Races--Second day. (search)
, and, moving as if on the wings of the wind, took the front position before reaching the quarter-pole, and ran home a winner in 1:48½ We append a summary: Second Day, November 12.--Post-stake for 3-year olds, $1,000 entrance, play or pay — the proprietor to add $1,000: D.McDaniel's b. f. Lady Blessington, 3 years old, by imported Eclipse, out of Philo.11 D.Ward's b. f., 3 years old, by Deucalion, out of Nina22 C. Green's ch. g., 3 years old, by Arlington, out of Lucy Haxall.33 Time: 1:50--1:43½ The third race, a post-stake, three mile heats, free for all ages, $2,500 entrance, the proprietor so add $2,000, will take place next Friday, when Orton, Oakland and Conductor are again to break lances. Orion will probably be the favorite, as he won the two-mile stake last week; but both Oakland and Conductor have their friends, and will be liberally backed if the weather proves favorable. That an exciting contest will take place, we have very little doub