Remarkable Coincidence.

Evening Star, Issue 7405, 28 December 1887, Page 3

Remarkable Coincidence.

During the late war, in the battle whioh was fought near Kenesaw Mountain, the first Ohio Cavalry made a charge upon some Confederate troops, which brought on a hand-to-hand conflict between the two commands. In the shock of battle two soldiers, a little separated from their comrades, locked sabres and engaged in deadly conflict. Neither getting the better of the other, and feeling no personal hostility, they stared one another in the face, and mutually agreed to stop the fight. The parties named were Calvin Dugan, Co. H First Ohio Cavalry, and Henry Davis, Co. E Forrest's Battery. The latter was a Welshman, and detailed as scout for General Forrest. Davis, in broken English, addressed his enemy: " You let me alone, I let yon alone.' Dugan replied, with an army by-word, " Just as I had expected." They both passed on, and the battle ended, but the soldiers did not forget the ctVc'umstance. The war ended, and Dugan emigrated to Carroll County, Missouri. Davis worked with General Forrest on his farm for some time, and then commenced roaming through the West, and during a portion of the year 1881 was in the employ of General Joe Shelby. One day last week, in passing through the County, he stopped at De Witt to spend the night, and went into a saloon to take a " drop." Dugan also happened to be in the same house, and recognised him immediately. Going up to Davis he slapped him on the shoulder and asked him if he remembered crossing sabres with an enemy at Kenesaw Mountain. Davis replied that he did, and proceeded forthwith to give a detailed account of the time, place, and circumstances. The old enemies took a friendly drink and passed the night together, the greater portion of which was spent in talking of the ups and downs of soldier life, and their adventures in the terrible conflict. Truth is stranger than fiction,

The silver wedding of Mr and Mrs Alexander Callender, of Scroggs Hill, East Taieri, was commemorated on the 26th inst., when there was a large circle of relatives and friends present, prominent among whom were Mr Calender's parents, who arrived with our earliest settlers in the Philip Laing, and whose golden wedding was observed some short time back. The consumption of sugar in the last fifty years has gone up from about fifteen pounds to seventy pounds per head. Indignant guest at hotel: " Look here, I've been waiting hero for the last halfhour." Waiter: "That's nothing. I've been waiting here for the last two years, and I'm not grumbling." "Riches take unto themselves wings and fly away," said the teacher ; " what kind of riches is meant ?" And the smart boy at the foot of the class said ho " reckoned they must be ost-riches."