A War Correspondent.
America cares (exclaims World) for its dead who have done it honor. It was but the other day that the ashes of the author of " Home, Sweet Home'' were brought "home" from their long exile iti Tunis ; and now the Legislature of the State of Ohio has made provision i'or bringing back from the Constantinople graveyard to the village where his " folks " lie buried, the remains of the bright and brilliant McGahan. When the "weeping representatives of half-a-dozen nationalities " turned away from the grave to which had been consigned the body of one whom to know was to love, the spot fell inio neglect, until Lady Strangford, McG-ahan's last friend, put a stone over it, with a simple by touchingly appropriate inscription. McGahan and Sheridan were natives of the same village m Perry County, Ohio. As an adult, McGahan was a mau of exceptional culture and accomplishments; but what is not generally known is that, until the ago of eighteen, he was a farm hid, working for the behoof of his widowed mother, and walking four miles every Saturday to the town, where a Catholic priest was his gratuitous tutor.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 154, 28 May 1884, Page 2
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193A War Correspondent. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 154, 28 May 1884, Page 2
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