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STORIES OF Atlanta It takes an occasion like a reunion to revive and set agoing again hun dreds of the exciting incidents that entered into the makeup of Confeder ate life in camp and field. And these were freely handed around during the last reunion in Atlanta. ' One oH fellow who followed Wheel er, told a story that illustrated the deep concern Wheeler felt for his men, and the readiness with which he upheld the humanitarian side of war: "I did not belong to the same regi ment with the lieutenant/' said he, "but I recall an occasion, once, in Kentucky, when Wheeler's men were in a rather ticklish place. There had been hard riding, hard fighting and little rest. The command had halted for a few hours'rest. A detachment of the Second Georgia occupied an i outmost on vidette duty. Orders were j issued that no fires be had to attract the enemy's attention. After taking their position, a sudden fall of the mercury rendered the weather, already cold, unbearable. "A lieutenant commanding the com pany from which the detachment was taken, became uneasy about his men, and, in the darkness of the midnight j hour, rode forward in search of them. "Se found the troopers sitting in their saddles in an open field almost frozen. The sight was too much for the Georgian. He rode up to an old barn near the post and soon afterward a pile of fodder inside was blazing, -and quickly the barn was in flames. " 'Bide up, boys, and get warm. The Yanks, seeing that it is a house on fire, will think it's the work of their own men," said the lieutenant, and the boys did not suffer any more till they were relieved. "Investigation was had, of course, and the lieutenant, without explana tion, acknowled responsibility, and demanded to be taken before General Wheeler. uTo Wheeler he explained all. How the weather turned, suddenly, much colder. His boys, he knew, 'would not disobey orders; in the emergency, he had done just as he believed General Wheeler would have done. " 'You did exactly what I would have done, lieutenant; take care of your men and I will take care o? you,' said the gallant little Joe, and that ended it." j "That was Lieutenant Jim Bul- j loch, of Company D. Second Georgia," said a member of that old company of Walton County boys. "Jim Bulloch commanded us a long time, and never put more on the boys than he was ; willing to take." .rr *3r -Sc The name of John H. Morgan will live on and on, as the fame of tlie dashing rider is still undiminished. "Talk about tender-hearted men," said an oid Tennesseean. "I wasn't with Morgan, but I heard a heap about him. I remember an incident that might be worth telling. "Morgan had made one of his sud den dashes into the enemy's lines and captured a company of home guards that garrisoned a small Tennessee town. . "Morgan had little patience with Southern men who were arrayed on the Union 'side, but he had a great big heart within him. While the prisoners were being lined up, Morgan noticed a little girl-not'over six years old-running here and there, calling Tapa,' ''Papa,' and the tears were flowing down her mottled cheeks, while, with her little ragged skirts she wiped her eyes, swollen with weeping. "As she passed the great raider, he stooped aird picked her up and en deavored to pacify her. He stroked her tangled and matted curls and asked her what was the matter. " 'Oh, the rebels ? The rebels! they have got my papa,' said the heart broken child. " 'Where, where is he?' asked the general. "'Gone yonder,' said the child; pointing in the direction of the pris oners, then being marched away. '"Halt! Halt!' rang out the clear voice of Morgan ind he strode toward ihe group of prisoners with thc child in his arms. "'Whose child is this?' bc asked, and a plain old fellow stepped 1'orward and said: " 'Minc, general.' " 'Why isn't she at home with her mother?' "'Her mother"s dead, general, she has uo one but me.' This the (dd fellow said with choking emotion. "There was a pause. Thc brave Morgan thought of his own little girl, whose mother was dead, and his voice was husky as he said to the man: " 'Here. Take this child home and take care of her: and <|iiit fighting against your own country." " Thc old mari who told the story had an impediment to his speech by this time, and his voice was shaky as he drew his sleeve roughly across his eyes and said: "I tell you, boys, Morgan had lots of enemies, and lots of friends in Tennessee, but after that, it wouldn't do to say anything against him around that old homeguard." ; THE WAR. Journal. Every one knows that one of the peculiarities of Stonewall Jackson was his indifference to dress, and it was on this aocount that many amusing inci dents occurred, often getting people into embarrassing situations. But the general never allowed them to suffer by such. Here is a story that was much en joyed by those who heard an old vet tell it.! Jackson was making one of those lightning changes of base in the valley of Virginia, and with a few members of his staff was riding rapidly from one wing of his army to the other. He was following course more than roads, and, if a cut across plantations saved time and distance, then he would take the "nigh cut." , He was riding rapidly along a road until he came to a large plantation, when he halted, ordered the fence thrown down and dashed down the corn rows, the little cavalcade leaving a wake of devastation through the 50 acre field of promising corn. Just as they were emerging from the other side Jackson and his men were met by an old Virginia farmer whose face was flushed, and he was wildly gesticulating with his hat as he poured out torrents of abuse upon the intruders for ruining his field of "brag" corn. Finally, for lack of breath, which he had been using too freely, consid ering his immense 250-pound frame, he paused, and the general said: "I regret, sir, the necessity that impelled me to ride across your field, but war a ema nd s that we make sacri fices. I am General Jackson, and must get to the other wing of my army at any cost." There was a mingled look of chagrin and admiration, of embarrassment and delight upon the old farmer's features. For, besides being, in the old fellow's reputation, the greatest of generals, living or dead, was Jackson not a Presbyterian? Of his own faith and order? "Oh! general, I didn't know you. Bide back, general-ride all over my field. God bless you-general, take all I've got, and welcome." And amid the quiet laughter of his escort and the profuse eulogium the old fel low began, old Stonewall rode away. REMIXISCENSES OP WHEELER. At Shelbyville, Tennessee, in 1SG3, Wheeler's cavalry got the worst of the fight. It was a general mix-up, and the clash of sabres and clash of revol vers made it "mighty interesting" for a time. Some of the boys rode out with skinned heads and some did't ride out at all. Some were killed and some were captured. . Our big scout, jolly Cass Sims, was killed, but not till a heavy sabre and almost a giant's arm had made mourn ing for thc mother of more than one cf his bluecoated assailants: and Joe Criswell, who boasted that he rode the fastest nag in the regiment, was cor raled along with others, and was forced to take a trip North for his health. Here it was that General Wheeler made the famous leap off a bluff into the river, which some of our illustra ted papers have recently had a picture of. The leap, of course, constituted the daring feat, but the difficult one, as I remember it, was forcing his horse to clamber up the almost per pendicular bank on the further side. Here it was that 'General Martin, our division commander, killed a Fed eral soldier with a revolver and thereby saved himself from being killed or captured; and near here our Colonel Webb, of thc Fifty-first Alabama, was mortally wounded. Company K, of the Fifty first Ala bama, was composed of a hard lot. They were impatient at any restraint or discipline, and their own officers could do little or nothing with them. Their captain resigned in disgust and went to the Virginia army. When a detail was called for from Company K they seat it or didn't, as happened to suit them, but when a fight was on K turned out in full force. They started out with b4 men. aud at thc final round-up only four answered to their names. Colonel Morgan (afterwards general, and now United States Sena tor) gave them up as a bad job, but when Colonel Webb succeeded to the command ol' the regiment, he endeav ored to bring some order out of the chaos in Company K. They ol' course resented this, and the result was that there was never an officer more cordially hated and more Utterly cursed than was Colonel Webb by the majority of this company. But now comes the strange part, of my story. When Colonel Webb fell mortally wounded at Elk iu'ver, who of all thc regiment should be first to reach his side as lie fell from his horse but a member of Company K. Tin man stayed by his colonel, was cap tured with him. and nursed him till he died. The name of this man who showell himself both brave and ten der, was John Money Henderson, but he went by the name of .John Money, as soldiers had a way of shortening up names to suit themselves. I was with him in Kock Island prison, lie had been a sailor and made a beautiful model of a full-rigged ship, with every mast, sail, spar, rope, chain and an chor duplicated in miniature. A Miss Buford had been very kind to the prisoners in Rock Island, and those of the boys who had money chipped in and bought Money's boat and sent it as a present to this kind lady. Money left the prison before I did, and I have not seen or heard of him for 34 yeais. Imagine my surprise and pleasure when a few days ago I received the following letter: TAMPA, FLA., Jan. 19, 1899. Mr. W. C. Dodson-Dear Sir and Comrade: I read your sketch in the Atlanta Journal of the raid made by General Wheeler's cavalry in the rear of Rosecran's army in the winter of 1862 and '63, at Murfreesboro, Tenn., and have been inclined to think that you must be SergeantDodson, of Com pany K, Fifty-first Alabama cavalry, John T. Morgan's old regiment, of which I was a member at that time. I went by the name of John Money, my name being properly John Money Henderson. Company K was recruit ed in Lynchburg, Va., where I joined, having left the infantry service. If I am right in my guess I should like very much to have you correspond with me. Hoping to hear from you soon, I am Your comrade, 1 JOHN M. HENDERSON. ? (I was not Sergeant Dodson of Com- ? pany K, but Private Dodson, of Com- ^ pany D.) < Hearing from Money brings to mind * the events narrated above, some of 1 which I had almost forgotteu. I have, 1 though, often thought of Money and * his beautiful ihip; of Colonel Webb 1 and the strange circumstance that one * of Company K should show such de- * votion to him in his extremity; of * Miss Buford and her great kindness 1 to us. I wish I knew something of her subsequent history, but cannot c now even recall where Bhe lived. If 1 in life she probably yet preserves Money's ship, and will no doubt be glad to learn that the maker is still on this side of the "great divide." If her soul has passed to its reward 'inasmuch as when we were sick and in prison she ministered unto us," I | j trust it was remembered to her in righteousness. (private) W. C. DODSON. | Fifty Years Ago. 1j Many of those who attended the first meeting of the Science association fifty years ago, says W. J. McGee in the September Atlantic, made their journey, or part of it, by stage coach or in the saddle; they met many a boy riding to the neighborhood mill with a bag of corn as grist and saddle, and the itenerant doctor or minister on horseback, with his wife on a pillion behind : they passed by farmers swing ing the back-breaking cradle or wield ing the tedious hoe, while lustry hor ses grew fat io idleness: they caught glimpses of housewives spinning and dyeing and weaving with infinite pains thc fabrics required to clothe their families, they followed trails so rough that the transportation of produce to market multiplied its cost, and carry ing back family supplies was a b?r det); everywhere they saw hard human toil enlivened only by the cheer of political freedom, and they did not even dream of devices whereby nature should made to furnish the means for her own conjugation.. The mails were carried t slowly by coaches and post boys; the telegraph was little more than a toy; and the telephone, the trolley car and thc typewriter had not begun to shorten time and lengthen life; and steel was regularly imported from Sheffield, and iron from Norway. The slow and uncertain commerce of interior navigation was the pride of publicists, and Chicago boasted a population of 25,000; a shallow wave of settlement was flowing over the broad interior to break against thc bluff's of thc Missouri, though the pioneers still feared to pitch tents on the broad prairie lands, and chose rather the rugged and rocky wood lands skirting the waterways as sites for homesteads: the fertile subhumid plains, with ten million buffalo on their nutritious grasses, were still designated as "the great American desert:"' the Rocky Mountain region beyond was a mysterious land, yield ing thc wildest and wicrdest of travel ers' tales; California was an ultima thule more remote in thought and in terest than is Hawaii or even the Philippines of to-day-Ph Hariri ?tina Ttima. Vor frost bites, bums, indolent sores, eczema, skin diseases, and es pecially I'iles, HeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve stands first and best. 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It seems that Sam had done something to greatly offend the warden, and the punishment decided DU was an old-fashioned lashing. Some weeks after the affair came off, the Rev. Sam, whom I had known from boyhood, was telling me about it. " 'I didn't mind de whippin' so much, Mars Jack, ef it hadn't been Per de way Old Jake acted. You see, ?e warden he said to me, 'Sam, I'se jwine to whip you, and I 'low de whip pin' will do you a whole heap uv good, ['m gwine to let Old Jake pray fer pou, and de blows will continue to fall )n your black hide while Jake's pra'r s goin' on. When he comes to a final stop den de punishment will likewise md.' " 'Land sakes, Mars Jack, I knowed t was all up with me den, fer that ig mrant old nigger never did know yhen it was time to get up off'n his enees. De fae' dat a po' human bein' ?ras iu distress wasn't gwine to make i bit of difference with him. Well, ?ir, it was jes' like I spected it'd be. Dey brought me out, and Old Jake, de )ld villun, started in, and as fast as ie prayed de warden came down on no wid a whip dat cut like a knife. I lever did want to hear a pra'r come ;o an end so bad in my life, but it veren't any use. Every time I thought ie was mos' through, Old Jake took a resh hold, and down come de licks larder'n ever. Shortly it seemed to nc like he prayed a month, and, Mars Tack, I want9 to tell you right now lat I am sot against long pra'rs fer de est of my life." - Washington Post. Too Hasty. Society is laughing itself sick over tn amusing incident which occurred it a certain fashionable residence not Many days ago. A well-known young awyer was the victim. It seems that during the course of he evening he took advantage of an opportunity and imprinted a kiss on he fair cheek of his hostess, much to 1er surprise and indignation. I "Sir, how dare you!" she exclaim :d, or words to that effect. "If you iver presume to do a thing like that ?gain I'll tell my father !" But the young lawyer either thought hat was a bluff or else liked it so pell that he was willing to take the :onse<{uences. Anyhow, he repeated he offence. He was not very much iurprised to sec her jumpup and leave he room with a fine air of offended lignity. "That's all a bluff,'* thought he. 'She will go up stairs and get a hand :erchicf and then come down and ?cold me." Tlc was still in his frame if mind when he heard the parlor door jehind him open. "There she is," hought he. And then he said aloud: 'Well, did you tell him?" A moment later his blood froze in lorror as a deep voice replied: "Ves. dr.-, my daughter told mc-" liut then' was no need to say more. Vt the sound of the unfamiliar voice he young lawyer had looked around. iVhen he saw the father with a long Qodern rifle in his hands he waited no onger. With one bound he had reached thc lindow, and he went through it. sash .nd all, leaving his hat behind him. What he did not know was that the 'oung lady's anger had melted by the inie she had reached her father's oom, but she decided to play a joke m him. "Father/' said she, "Mr.- is lown stairs. lie is a great hunter and s a perfect crank on the subject of ines. I have been trying to explain ; 'our new Winchester repeater to him, mt I can't make him understand. iVon't you take it down and show it to lim?"-Lfiiiscitle Timex. i I was reading an advertisement of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and )iarrh<ea Kcincdy in thc Worcester Miterprisc recently, which leads me o write this. I can truthfully say I lever used any remedy equal to it for :olic and diarrhea. ? havemever had ,o use more than one or two doses to ? iure the worst ease with myself or < diildron-W. A. S'i'itoui?, I'opoinoke i Jity, Md. 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An exceedingly pretty and graceful young woman and a little girl of per haps five years of age boarded a Tre mont street electric car. says the Bos ton Herald, and the car being nearly empty, walked up to the forward end and took a seat where the young miss could watch the motorman twist and untwist the brake and turn on and off the electric current. She watched him with the deepest interest for a long time, and when the car started without the aid of horses or any visi ble signs of power, she become deeply perplexed. "Mamma," she said, "what makes this car go?" "This is an electric car, dearie. Electricity makes it go." "Mamma," said the little miss after a long silence, "we learn morn 'n' more every day, don't we?" "Yes, dearie," mamma answered, with afar away look in her eyes. "Did you pass that bad quarter on the con ductor?" dearie queried after that in dividual had just gone by, collecting the fares. Every person in the car heard her and tried not to smile. "Papa said if the conductor wouldn't take it you could pass it in the con tribution box next Sunday. Could you do that, mamma?" Mamma sig naled the conductor just then. As they were getting off dearie was tell ing mamma that those three red-haired women were awfully homely, and when the car started off again the red-haired women blushed even redder than their hair, and a straage, undefinable con straint pervaded the car until the last red-haired woman had got off, which was somewhere near the end of the route. A Fortunate Escape. It was a dainty fair-haired maid of 3 or 6 summers, who sat beside a little friend relating the advent of a new baby in the family. "She was horned while your mamma ?vas'way down south, wasn't she?" asked the friend. "Yes,'' replied the proud older sister. 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AT H meeting <.!' the Hoard ol' County 'ot hm isis i o ti u rs ii el d this day, ic was re solved by .?aili Ona rd to appoint Sub orn missioners ii; the various Townships n Anderson County, to whom the people rao apply to, and millie report ol'any bridges or any ,job ol work that requires inmediate attention. Any person doing a job of work in Anderson County be lb re he p rosen ts his j dui tn, must have hi-? claim ve ri li ed by itioSuLi-CimniiisfioimrN of the Township in which said work is done. Also, the Roan! decided to receive L'otiiniutw.tion road tax until I.'itli April, lifter which limo they positively will not receive any money, and parties will nave Lo work tim roads when warned or pay the peualii; and for convenience of the people parties ran pay money to the Subr eum missioners in the Township, orto Lho County Treasurer until 15th April. Broadaway -.1. N. Yandi ver. Helton-J. .1. Yttughn. Brushy dook-- H. F. Cely. Centreville-h. .1 Morriss. Kork -lt. A. Sullivan. 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