CHARACTERISTIC AMEcDoTE.
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The following characteristic anecdote
OF Gen. Harrison has been handed to us
by citizen of Louisiana. 1t is taken
from the New Orleans True American
of June lSt.


"i have recently seen in the Madisoni-
an an anecdote told by clergyman of
" illiamsport in Maryland, illustrative of
the nobleSt feelings that can animate the
heart of a man and soldier. 1t is brief.
In St Glars defeat, in 1894, two officers
mortally wounded, succeeded in reachino
Fort Jefferson-2S miles from the field Of
battle-where they both died on the same
day aid were buried together. One of
these officers was Col. James Gibson. of
Pennsylvania, father ofthe present Chief
Justice OF that state, and of Gen. George
Gibson, the present commissary general
of subsistence in the United States Army.
who were lads at the time, but who, when
they grew up, proposed to themselves to
erect some monument to the memory of
their father. But on enquiry to ascertain
the spot, they found it already OCCUPIED
by large double slab, on which was a



and death of their father and his brother
soldiers, and purporting to have been pla-
ced ere s'to commemorate their virtue
and their valor, by one who knew them
WE'LL" Prosecuting their enquiries to
learn who had thus anticipated them in
their filial labor, they ascertained, some
years afterwards, that it was Gen. Harri- |
son, who, amidst all the cares, anxieties,
labors and expenses that were accumula-
ted throughout all those periods on him,
never forgot the bravery of the men
whose example he emulated, and which
he hastened to commemorate, at the ear
liest opportunity, out of his own limited
means. but with characteristic modesty
omitted to inscribe his own name on the
stone. For the truth of this little anec-
dote, which is evidence. to my mind, ofso
much that is good and great, and noble in
Gen. Harrlson's character as man, re-
Ter you to both Judge and General Glib