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LOCAL DEPARTMENT. Connersville, Thursday, July 31, 1862. COUNTY UNION CONVENTION. The Union voters of the several townships of Fayette county, are requested to meet at the places of holding elections in their townships, on Sazenpay, Tak 1orz payor Avoust, 1862, and appoint delegates to attend a County Union Con vention, to be held at Canneraville on Saturday, August 23, 1862, for the purpose of nominating candidates for the various offices to be filled at the ensuing October election. MANY UNION MEN. It should be borne in mind that Satur day, the 16th of August, being the third Saturday in the month, in also the day fixed upon for appointing delegates, by ballot, or otherwise, to attend the Con gressional District Convention,which ia to be held at Cambridge City on the 4th day of September next. Let there be a full at tendance of the unconditional Union men at these township meetings. Fayette Boys Captured. A letter from Lieut. O. M. Powers, of Fayette Cavalry, communicates the un welcome intelligence that Lieut. Thomas W. Moffitt, Sergeants Lewis C. Wilson and Nolan, and privates Gwinn, Bailey and Swift, were captured by fifty rebel cavalry, on the 21st inst., 25 miles from Fredericks burg, Va.,on the Richmond road. This will be sad news to the friends of the par ties. It is cause of sincere regret to us, becauas we hoped a better fate awaited the boys. We hoped that the country would have the benefit of their services in the field, and that they would not have to un dergo all the hardships of prisoners in the hands of the enemy. We hoped, too, that Lieut. Moffitt and Sergt. Wilson, who have kept our readers advised of the movements of their company—the one writing over the signature of “Occasional,” the other over that of “‘Volunteer’’—would be able to continue their favors. Lieut. Powers’s letter, which gives all the particulars of the capture we have received, will be found in another column. Since writing the above we see it stated, to the Indianapolis Journal, that Gwinn was so badly wounded that the rebels left him, supposing he would die. Fill up the Company. Fayette county has never failed in re sponding to the calls of the Government for men to defend it. We have five or six hundred in the ranks of the army, but the exigencies of the times demand one more company from our midst. Shall not be forthcoming? It most assuredly can be raised. Have we not hundreds of men just as brave and patriotic as those who have already gone into the service? The fact must be shown by the speedy forma tion of the company which Messrs. Kerr and Holton have started out to organize. We understand they are meeting with flat tering success in raising recruits. The sooner it is fall, the better. Let not Fay ette be the last county to furnish her quota of the 6tth Regiment. Fill up the com pany! Found Dead in an Alley. On the morning of the 25th inst., the dead body of a German, named John H. Weber, was found in Telegraph alley, near Monroe street, in this place, opposite the house occupied by John Ryan, and rish fasa. It appears that Weber, who was comparatively a stranger here, was board ing with Ryan. He slept in the second story of Ryan’s house. During the night of the 24th, it is supposed he got out of bed; and, going to a door in the room he occupied, which opens upon the alley, fell out to the ground, a distance of ten or twelve feet, and was killed. This was the conclusion of the jury summoned in the case by ‘John B. Tate, Esq., acting as cor- Weber was a native of Hanover, Ger many. He declared his intentions to be comer a citizén of the United States before the clerk of Freyklin county, Lod., on the Sbday of October, 1869. “A carpet bag, containing the clothing of ‘the deceased, is in‘the care of James Elli ott, County Auditor, which his relatives or friends can get by calling on Mr. Elliott. Tas Atlantic Moxtaty.—The August number of the Atlantic fully equals any of its predecessors. It is claimed by some Critics that this magazine is superior to any similar English publication, and they are very nearly right. . At any rate it is not blemished with ,seeks stupid ignorance as are come English periodicals. Con. B. D. Bras, of Tallisnapolie, mate another appointment be el onmte Everton. “
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Connersville Weekly Times
Connersville, Indiana, US
Thu, Jul 31, 1862
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