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I. r WHEN A NEWSP PUBLISHED C . , * Daily Citizen, of Vicksbi That City Was Surroi Army During War J f For over 300 miles the Mississippi ' river forms the boundary between the Mississippi state ana ArKansas, f" and Louisiana. Midway between Xew Orleans and Memphis, which is situated just over the northern boun- j dary of the State, stands the town of i Vicksburg, the scene of one of the 1 bitterest struggles in the war between the North and the South, when, in j ; the early sumer of 1863, it was gal-1 lantly defended against the attacks : l of the Union army under the com- j i mand of General Ulysses Simpson j Grant. A little town of some 5,000 inhabi- j tants at that time, its strategic im-'i portance was soon realized by the j Confederates, and early in 1861 the, place was strongly fortified. Situated j < on high bluffs above the big brown river, from that side the place was j t- imor?rpprnahle. pi ttV/WVUii J The issues dependent on the capture of Vicksburg were far-reaching,! for by its position it controlled the j navigation of the river, and held thej key to the door of the cotton supply j y of the world, the locking up of which had such disastrous results, as we I in Britain knew only too well. By the autumn of 1862 Grant, whose headquarters were at Corinth, j to the northwest of Vicksburg, had i gained possession of the whole of the! Mississippi to this point. Shortly be-; ^ fore that the mouth of the river had been opened by the capture of New' Orleans, and the beginnig of the new year saw the Confederate flag float-; * ing in "splendid isolation" over Vicksburg. Early in the spring of IS63, Grant, j with his brilliant colleague and friend General Sherman, assisted by Admiral Porter in comand of a small: river fleet, made his first assault on Vicksburg from the opposite or west- j ern bank of the river, and was re-.J pulsed with heavy loss. Moving south, Grant and his army crossed the river to the Vicksburg side, and marching east, struck a fatal blow-at Johnston's army, stationed at Jackson; then turning, he slowly but surely beat back the Confederate forces lying between him and the river; and by the 18th of May, General Pemberton and an army of 27,000 men were shut up in Vicksburg. The siege lasted until the 4th of July, when the 'finest Confederate army of the West' surrendered, and the Mississippi was opened from end to end. ! A series of pen-portraits of men who made history during this war are vividly sketched by Mr. Winston Churchill in his brilliant novel. The ! > Crisis, and the most vivid of them all is that of General Grant when in command of the Union army before Vicksburg. Here it was that his strategic abilities were so well demonstrated; and from this point it may be said that he came to his own, and won that recognition from headwhinh tha daodIc. with a u uai ivi o nu?vM ~ _ > clearer insight, had accorded to him long before. The bombardment of Vicksburg was hot and incessant. Harassed though he was by disease among his men, Grant gave the enemy little rest. Often, though, did his friends recognize friends in the opposite camps; and sometimes, Mr. Churchill tells us, little parcels of food were exchanged by the besiegers for tobacco, which would be wrapped in a newspaper printed on the white side of wall paper. These newspapers were called | - 'wall-paper editions,' and copies of them are to be seen in some of the museums and libraries in America. J A copy of the last 'wall-paper edition' of the Vicksburg Daily Citizen is in '? the possesison of the writer, and is a very fascinating document. A single i sheet, measuring some two feet in length, and of the width of ordinary waii-nanpr the white side or back of it contains four columns of closely ; printed matter. Though a little yel-1 low now with age, it is in good preservation otherwise, and the pattern of the wall-paper on the other side, done in white and gold, is still quite fresh in appearance. Judging from the design and quality of the paper, it had not originally been a cheap wall-paper. Though the paper bears the ominous date 2d July, 1863?the begin> ning of the end?no trace of what a forlorn hope it must then have been is to be found in the reading matter. On the contrary, one gathers that all is going well with the Sotuliern armies. News of a belated date was still dribbling in, a laudatory account of General Lee's successful campaign in Virginia being prominently , set forth, and a short leader thereon. Jocular references are made to the strained resources of the commissariat department, and to the un APER WAS )N WALL PAPER 1 1 jrg, Held Its Own When ' mded By Gen. Grant's J Between the States. ( i * I timely end which had overtaken sev- 1 eral tabbies in the town. I From the following paragraph it ( is evident that the rumors of Grant j having boasted of his intention to dine in Vicksburg on 4th July had , reached the Vicksburgians: r " 'On dit that the great Ulysses? t the Yankee generalissimo surnamed ] Grant?has expressed his intention ( of dining in Vicksburg on Saturday ^ j.: xi,? next ana ceieuiauug uc tm vi oui. j by a grand dinner, and so forth. ( When asked if he would invite Gen- ? eral Johnston to join he said, 'No, j for fear there will be a row at the t table.' Ulysses must get into the city c before he dines in it. The way to cook a rabbit is 'first to catch the j rabbit, etc.' " The allusion to General Johnston (the same whom Grant put out of 1 action at Jackson) has reference to ( the fact that though Johnston had 1 hoped to come to the rescue of Vicks- i burg, General Pemberton had no wish 1 to share the possible honor of defeat- 1 ing Grant; and the lattr, knowing s this, had solved the matter in his c own way. ? The newspaper, as I have said, Is i dated July 2. This was a Thursday. < The last paragraph of all containing 1 about a dozen lines, conveys to us more by what it leaves unsaid than t by what it actually does say, a vivid 1 picture of the march of events. It i runs*as follows: ' i "July 4, 1863. < "Note?Two days bring about 1 great changes. The banner of the i Union floats over Vicksburg. General i Grant has 'caught the rabbit;' he has ^ dined in Vicksburg, and he did bring ( his dinner with him. The Citizen ( lives to see it. For the last time it appears on wall paper. No more will ( it imagine the luxury of mule meat 1 and fricasseed kitten?urge Southern ^ warriors to such diet nevermore. '< This is the last wall-paper edition, 1 and is,'excepting this note, from the 1 types as we found them. It will be s valuable hereafter as a curiosity." i It was the fortune of war. The 1 Daily Citizen had been caught red- ( handed; but to no one of the van- i quished would the conquerors more readily accord the honors of war than j to this Vicksburg editor who had , shown such ingenuity and determin- 1 ation to run his paper amid such cir- ] cumstances and against such odds as ] we fancy few editors would contem- j plate with enquanimity. j With the fall of Vicksburg and the ( opening of the Mississippi came the ( turning point of the war, for it cut *-1 n*r in + o n H (rfll'P t Vl P i Lilt; VjUUlCUCiai.,1 iix i..? v^, uuu 0~ . ? ? north an advantage which it never afterwards lost.?Chambers Journal. ?^ Muuldin Misled in Gilreath Case. Greenville, Nov. 13.?Oscar K. | Mauldin, who represented the prosecution in the case against Gilreath. Gosnell, et al., to-day sent a card to the local afternoon paper, in which ; he said: i "I was misled in the matter and T i desire to state now that 1 do not believe there is the slightest evidence against Messrs. Gilreath. Gosnell and Phillips, and 1 believe they are as innocent of the offence of which they were arrested as 1 am." j This statement came as sort of a climax and places further stigma Af X? t nr uyuu lut; ciunuu t/i utvwv?. ^ ( SHOOTS HUSBAND TO DEATH. i . . 1 Coast Line Conductor \ ictiin of Tragedy in Tampa. , ] Tampa, Fla., Nov. 13.?Donald C. Livingston, a conductor on the Tampa-Sarasota branch of the Atlantic Coast Line, was shot and killed at j3:30 o'clock this afternoon by his wife. 1 .Mrs. Livingston stated that her ; husband came home under the influ- ( enc-e of liquor and abused her all day. She says she sought safetly in her room, where he forced the door and commenced beating her. She i seized a pistol, she stated, which was 1 in his hip pocket and shot him. She i fired four times, all of the bullets 1 taking effect in his breast. She was 1 placed under arrest pending a preliminary hearing. , '< i Dead from I'uppy's Bite. Cleveland, 0., Xov. 14.?Bitten on 1 the arm three weeks ago by a puppy, .Mrs. Florence Dietz, a bride of three months, is dead here of hydrophobia.' ' The bite was not thought to be of 1 much consequence until tire puppy : was bitten by another dog and both J canines died with symptoms of ra- i bies. Five days ago Mrs. Deitz be- i ! came seriously ill and death followj ed. The puppy that bit Mrs. Deitz ! was a wedding present from her husj band. < ENGINEER SENSELESS IN CAB. i Fireman's Presence of Mind on Train E Going 60 miles on Hour. E New Brunswick, N. J., Nov. 16.? & \ fast train on the Pennsylvania rail- [| oad was a "runaway" for a few mo- E nents yesterday when on the way || :rom New York to Philadelphia the B jngineer lay scalded and senseless n his cab from escaping steam. The presence of mind and pluck of the ireman, Joseph Garrett, averted a >robable wreck of the train, running 50 miles an hour and crowded with )assengers. Beyond this city one of the drivng shafts snapped and part of the od was hurled through a boiler secion. There was a rush of steam, and Engineer Frank Barbor was envel)ped and overcome before he could g )ut his hand to the throttle. Gar- 1 *ett, with the train speeding madly 1 )n, climbed over to the engineer's B ;ide of the cab, and although nearly H jnnaea, managed to get to tne tnrotle. He stopped the train. Barber's :ondition is serious. Fractured Neck, Cured in a Month. New York, Nov. 15.?Harry B. Brown walked yesterday from the ;ity hospital, Newark, N. J., to his tome at No. 27 Halsey street. Four veeks ago he was taken from his lome to the hospital in an ambuance with his neck broken at the second vertebra. Last night he dedared he felt as if no mishap had jver befallen him, and the surgeons vho discharged him said there was jvery reason to expect that he would ceep on feeling so. On October 19 Brown, who is six:een years old, was playing ball in iVashington place, near his home. He ,vas running to a base, on the curb, vhen an automobile, driven by Fred _ 1_ TTT T~\ ? T_ i.. _ t* O O illCK W. iturjenson, Ul .NU. ZO iNUIUl Eighth street, East Orange, came by md was knocked down. A front vheel passed over his neck and he vas picked up unconscious. He was jarried to his home to be removed to ;he hospital half an hour later. At the hospital a radiograph showid what seemed to be a dislocation of ;he sixth vertebra. A set of braces vas vised to pull down at the waist md up at the shoulders, so that the ifth and seventh vertebrae might be *ept from pressing on the injured >ixth, and in that way keep the spinil cord from being chafed. These Draces remained in place for some lays, Brown lying in coma almost minterruptedly. A second examination was made :oward the end of the boy's first veek of confinement and the clearer new afforded by the action of the Draces showed that the sixth vertebra tad not been injured after all. This -adiagraph revealed, nowever, mai :he second vertebra had been crushed, and the treatment of the case was changed accordingly. Attention was directedly solely to hastening the healing of the bone, since it seemed sure that the spinal cord had not been affected." The response to the new treatment was immediate, and Brown began rapidly to ?ain strength. Two weeks ago it became evident that he would recover if no further mishap chanced, and a week ago it became only a question Df days before the boy would be able to leave his bed. ; Brown's recovery is considered remarkable, despite the fortunate circumstance that the spinal cord escaped laceration. This is accounted for by the fact that he was not struck violently, but that the wheel of the automobile passed slowly over his neck. Otherwise the spinal cord could hardly have escaped injury, rhe margin by which this was avoided was the tiny fraction of an inch by which the fractured vertebra stopDed short of the cord. Robertson was not. held at the time 3f the accident. His responsibility has now, of course, been entirely dissipated. Gaze of Crowd Was on Her Ankle. St. Louis, Nov. 12.?With a solid ?old bracelet snugly clasping her ankle, Miss Adeline Gritman attracted the attention of hundreds as she walked to the drug store here to-day. The breeze was just of sufficient strength to place the skirts and lingerie in position to display ankle and bracelet and the combination proved irresistable. .Miss Gritman seemed unconscious of the attention she had attracted. "Yes," she assented later when asked about it. "it did create some what of a sensation, but I cannot see why. Now in Xew York nobody thought anything of it and I wore a bracelet that way lots of times. "One evening in Xew York about i -"veil months ago 1 attended a little dinner party and wore my bracelet on my right ankle. It made a hit and a gentleman at the party told the ^irls?there were twenty-three of us present?that if we would wear them exclusively on the right ankle he would have twenty-three handsome" bracelets made to our order. We accepted." , ipwi?llll?l ! I?IIWIIW II Willi 111 Ml IIHIIII III?11 iihimib Ill?Hi hi IIIII III III! ii lllji OTHERS SELL AT AIND BELOW COST | WE SELL CHEAPER WITH A PROFIT 1 Democratic Success Can Only Compare With Our Sale Just Ended 1 We Have Confidence in Our Customers and They Have the Same in Us. I - - - ?? ??**??? Oi We don't flatter ourselves when we state that we sold merchandise without the least effort I We still have a good size stock on hand and the Christmas holidays are creeping in on us As we are in need of all spare room, together with earnest solicitations from numbers of our patrons whom it was not convenient to attend regular sale on account of delays ----- mm * in gathering and marketing their crops, and then again, last but not least, enthused over the astonishing victory of the Democratic party and that they shall ever prevail, we have decided to continue the sale for thirty days more. The same policy and rules of our previous advertisements will be strictly adhered to during these thirty extended sales days. The strongest plank in the Democratic party is to reduce the tariff, | ours is to reduce the present high price of men's and boys' clothing | I $15.00 Men's Suits for $9.98' I All Purchasers $10.00 Men's Suits for $6.98 ^ Purchasers I of $100.00 in of $100.00 in Eg 1 day or 1 year * 1 day or 1 year g Win be given a g l\| Am|?T f||I\ An will be given a 6 wr PEARLSTIN BROS itT\ * I ri??erSetl OLAR, SOUTH CAROLINA IVmm' 11 '"I'M ^||??ui*ifaB8 ?U?F A County Fair at Denmark Novem- BLISTER'S SALE, ber 28, 29, and 30, 1912. w m By virtues of the decree of the Inhn The County Fair Association will Court T?.fC?"m?n Pleas in the case of If III 11 , ,, , Mrs- Ida Brown, et al, plaintiffs, tJUllll hold an?ther county fair at Denmark against Monte Nix et al, defendants, and asks that all the farmers of the I, H. C. Folk, Master for Bamberg ' county to turn out, bringing with County, will sell to the hignest DiaI nmPQ . them the various products of the |?rJ?r fsb at^the court house door, VUIIICO farm and home. We are making a SK on December the special appeal to the demonstrators d' ,be'tween the legal hours fjl JJ1 and co-operators of the U. S. Farm- ^ the said day the ^ollowmg I A I Alim ers Demonstration work to make a ACii t1? ? !' t0~wlt: III 1 llWu splendid showing at the fair with . that certain tract or parcel of ^ Villi products directlv from their demon- } d situate m the Count} of Bamstration plats. >te ?ib?!?th,Car0llna', t\ ?!/[ Our object is to stimulate the t?ming two hundied acres (-Ojj) I Inrp V AKP to a greater effort to grow ?r. ess: aad bouaded ?*th* \/llvC IfiwI C larger crops and thereby bring about laads ?/ IsaacDjches, East a greater prosperity and comfort to b* ilJe t n sf. Dightower Place, all concerned. ' ^?uth by lands ,ot H- Faust, and I/^UM Well, wife, I'm going j Our white friends of the county " b> lands of Flem Weeks. ' - Purchaser to nav tor naDers. JV/nn to see Rentz & Felder have always assisted us each year ? --- __ to-<lay. I'm through cane in securing money to meet our ex- .. k p grinding, cotton picking, penses, especially for premium pur- . . yptft t?& L0! erg County, gathering corn, and the pigs poses. We ask them to be as good p7^ are in the field and soon be to us this year as they have been in fiamtins Attorneys. ready for the knife. You past years. . ?? know when Joe went to see We shall have a brass band and his irirl last week he put on other attractions, also a splendid my new suit because I for- game of ball eacn aiternoon. nTiriirnMH got to get him one last trip. E. DOUGLAS JENKINS, Pres. %T "^2# So now 1 will have to get R. W. WROTON, Sec. / I ^ two new suits again to-day, i "'^^1 WIFE Jtestfush'suitrani I If weak> you need Cardui, 8 / one for yourself, for you are | |g the woman's tonic. Ccirdlli getting too proua to siay mm iS maae irom genue neros, ms tWnk yoa? mu?t "go'toThe B acts in a natural manner, M "" ?=pmTes ?ith Joe. 8 g and has no bad results, as 1 so LIGHT YOi: CAN LIPT IT taxt txt .1 ? r H some ?* Strong drugs 11 yet so strong you cannot break it. JOHN nia'tcyou "up in sometimesUSed. Asamed- if Thafshoweveir cue of ourcarriages looks. See! I haven't got H irine-a tonic-for weak 9 ,s made- Just look at our buggies if any "Smile4' hat or new shirt H * g|g you want to see carriages Jmilt in the or tie, and you know I'm go- gj tired, WOITl-OUt WOmen, g| best possible way of the best possible , ing to get a pair of those BB Cardui has been a popular |H materials, and sold at the lowest posT:tn Rut ton Dousrlas Shoes gg r BB r> , , * . r * c/1 ?-1-?? t?ah IaaL" of if it runs the dogs all off the SUCCCSS IOF Over OU ytctrs. SJDie [ll'KT< ll^uiciiiuci J vu iv/viv ??. place. The boys and the real carriages here, not a picture girls look so nice, and you? | g 57 jb !f^| | B I book. WIFF Ch? COme* Joh"' j Tsito I ? 1 1 1 1 I G- FRANK BAMBERG, ^ Hush so much fool- | ufiU Ji Jpg^ a || J Bl g B< 1 " C getting, get some heavy un- I denvear, outings, homespun, ?fl. , ? . . * 7 \ some of tlie heavy kind I Th? V^OmSH S TOniC J I ^ nt z ^ ^ ()(^r'S ^ ^ ^ it's getting cold. (io to I 11 ter: "I was so weak, ll Kf/.ltz. ^ Fei(lei',s _;md t?ej if when I first began to take 11 / "LOMBAKD you need. >ou Se m w wt jig Cardui, that it tired me to 3 llfiprOVCd S8W MlliS* _ft 10 walk just a little. Now, I M VARIABLE FRICTION FEED. and Reliable. la j I J . Fit course y,o to juS can do all the general yg Best material and workmanship^ ligjit) Wt housework, for a family of m runn5ng> req uireslitt'e power; simple J II nM T J ' . , J Bl easy to -andle. Are made m se\era4 m ^ * ry wTuUl for your H| Sizes and are good, substantial monev-j RENTZ &. FELDER Ifr0UbIes- imay " 1 wrv remwfv vou need Irmes. Boilers and all Saw Mill supplies. ? ? BAMBERG, S. C. I (Lombard Iron Works & Supply Ca., J [ ? / AUCUSTA- St