Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I Fine Millinery and - M nansI Thurs I You are cordis The newest, t s made selections t prices will deligh B Come in?Loo fl While most prices fl most merchants j 110 pieces Jacquard 12 l-2c at 9 l-2c. Among our staples in the season are! Nos. 1077 a 15c.; 93 at 19c. No. 10 Persian at 10c. 2-3c.; 800 at 25c. Our No. 51 Mercerized beauty and worth fully 50< No. 50 Long Cloth at 10< No. 15 Nainsook at 10c.; No. 14 Round Thread Be No. 114 Sheer Linen Law Liwn at 38c ; No. 100 Irish F Fronting linen 35o; No. 160 I in finish, even in texture. ^ No. 63 Irish Round Thre soft finish 50c. 72 inch soft finish pure !i 00 inch soft finish pure li The above bseides many duplicated at the prices we qi Fruit of the loom bleachi only first day. I This sale will continue th ened our New York buying coi Words are not at our com If we fail to de time in the merca: ; / EETXTE2T OF THE FLAG. ( 1 A Brief History ot the Saluda Flag, Which Was Returned by Mrs. < Lacy, Several Weeks Ago?The ] Correspondence: / / I / < Through the kindness of Col. M.' D. Harman, we are able to present to our readers this week a brief history < it fv.o fnmmm nld war fiacr. which ? -disappeared when Sherman's armypassed through this country, and was ; returned by Mrs. Lacey, of Wyan- i dotte, Mich., several weeks ago. We also give the correspondence between f Mrs. Lacey and Col. Harman which, ] within itself, makes very interesting reading. The Saluda Guards, Company O., 1st Regt. S. C. V., under command of Ool. Maxey Gregg, Gen. M. L. Bonham's Brigade, was organized in April, 1861, under the call of Gov. Pickens, for six months State troops before the storming of Fort Sumter. This company was made up of the Minute Men of this place and the . Saluda Guards at Saluda Factory with the following officers: Capt. W. , Moultrie Gibbes; Geo. W. Meetze, 1st , Lieut.; Ed Hook, 2nd Lieut.; Leml. Hook, 2nd brevet lieut.; Dr. F. Sim , Lewie, orderly sergent. This company did service first at Richmond and later at Manassas, Bull Run, Centerville, Fairfax, Germantown and took part in the Vienna light, on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, said to have been one of the ( first great battles of the war. 1 At the expiration of the enlistment, the Saluda Guards was disbanded at Richmond, the members returning nome ana later jomea owier uumpa- f nies. The flag, the subject of this article, was presented to the Saluda ^Guards by the ladies of Lexington on the 11th of January, 1851. Of those ^surviving 1 , and now in mind are, Mrs. Mary Jane 1 Norris, now of Edgefield, and Mr9. ^ M. F. Harman, of Batesburg. There ] were many others prominent in the J work, some of whom are now dead. I Wyandotte, Wayne Co. Michigan, 141 Biddle Ave., Sept. 26, '08. '* Postmaster at Lexington, S. C.: Dear Sir:?There has been given to me a remnant of an old Battle Flag, ] presented by the "Ladies' of Lexington to the Saluda Guards, Jan. 11th, Pattern Hats, White 8s >dny anc illy invited to cornpar he best, the latest, the he equal of any in the t you. k over this vast stock. 3 are regular, and not < >ay at wholesale to th< Madras Waisting worth fully White Lawn carried throughout ,t 10c.; 944 at 12 l-2c.; 916 at 2005 at 12 l-2c.: 1102 at 16 I 47 inch Batiste at 35c. is a * 3.; 61 at 12 l-2c. 204 at 15c.; 283 at 20c. itcher'd Linen at 25c. mat 48c; No. 112 Sheer LiDen 'routing Linen, 25c ; No. 120 Irhh rish fronting Li a en 55c. Beautiful jad Art Linen, full bleached and nen sheeting 883inen sheeting SI.00 others, are values that cannot be iote. ng, for this sale, 8 l-2c limited rough this month. Come or you'll be anections, by entirely eliminating dru mand to describe the beauty, the vali iHionstrate our full ap] utile business. 1861. 7 if there is any member of that Company living and lie would care for it, or an3T organization there that would wish to preserve it, and will communicate with me, I shall be pleased to send it to them. [ dp not feel that by any right does it belong to me. Of course nearly half a century has not added to its beauty. It had been burned before it came North, but has always been carefully cared for since, but time has discolored it, but the original flag is there, with the letters and markings bright and clear, so there is no question of its genuineness. If you will kindly hand this to any -uch person, if any are living, I shall be pleased to hear from them. v. Yours respectfully, (Mrs.) Elizabeth Lacey. Lexington, S. 0., Sept. 29, 1908. Mrs. Elizabeth Lacey, Wyandotte, Mich. Dear Mrs. Lacey : Our postmaster, Mr. S. J. Leaphart, handed me your letter this morning in reference to the flag of the Saluda Guards of this county, and as one of the surviving members of said company, I write to thank you for the information therein contained, and to day to you that nothing could please me more than to have said flag returned to me. I assure you that should it be placed in my keeping it shall be carefully eared for and again unfolded to the few surviving members of our dear Did company, their friends and relatives of our dead comrades. A few of the ladies that presented the flag are still living and I can assure you that it will certainly be a source of great joy to them to once more behold the dear old flag?the work of their own hands. Please accept my sincere thanks for your kindness and efforts to restore the flag to the surviving members of the Saluda Guards, and ex- j press the flag to me at my expense to j UCAllJgLUli, O. Ky. Will al90 be pleased to hear further from you as to how the flag came into your keeping or care. Will write you igain after the reception of the flag. Yours most respectfully, M. D. Harman, Late a member of Co. O., Saluda Guards, First South Carolina Volunteer Regiment of Infantry. ?? sods, luslin Undsrwsai i d e and inspect this ma i cream of the market larger cities and the , feel the goods, test 3ut for this sale, yon 3 drummer. Special sale 10 dozen $ This is the famoaa Broadway K taed for eleven years. It is is en imported glove and o! Gloves, making it cost at retail, in er will discontinue handling it and hand to old customers at sacrifice en and we will have no more. Our assortment of long aod sbor LACES AWC 111 this department we are show look will convince you that we can represents all the newest designs ire 45 inch flouncing. Special sales of over 500 pieces ] table at oc. Special lots on 10c table worth < Wew Waist Silk ? Tailor Made and Directoire Style.. Mi 10 Pieces 25c Matting for this sale.. Standard Calicoes, 4c. 40 inch ! price. 4c. 1 case 7c Ginghams, for this sal; 1 case of Maplewove Solid and F Oar 10c line of Ginghams cannot sorry. Our new Spring Stocks in ev mrnere, and buying and selling for u na on/1 /\f mir rno rr.lf 1/ ica auu KsKJ ?JU ^/iicvuu^oo \J L IS US I. i?^uui\ ^reciation of your pas Wyandotte, Oct. 5th, 190S. 141 Biddle Ave. Dear Mr. Barman:?Yours of Sep 29th reached me on Friday anc I ha^ taken the first opportunity to answe By this same mail, (registered), send you the flag, on talking with o' express agent, he thought it would 1 the safer way, as no money yah could be placed on it, and I think \ can trace it if it should go astray 1 mail. I will wait to hear from y< and, allowing three or four days al|tl most it ought to reach you. We w ! then get a tracer out, if longer dela j ed. j I feel certain that you will careft lv cherish, what to von is a sacn j relic, and am glad that you ci ! again have pleasure of handling i | but poor old flag, like the sender it I in "the Sear and Yellow." Tell tl | ladie9 I shall be there in spirit to r j joice with them at it's reception, ai ; many years of rejoicing m^y be spar< I to them. i In regard to the "Flag" and its pc session I fear I can give you but ve: indefinite information, but perhaps 1 piecing facts together you may 1 able to reach the facts of the matte I wa9 but ten years of ageatthe tie it came into the family. We had t\ orphan children, a boy and girl, old than my sisters and I, that my pa ents brought up. The boy went in the army and was in the 9fch Michig; ! Cavalry at the time he secured it; t name was James Scott, and from child was a proaned to wander. Now I recollect correctly, the flag had be< secreted for safety, and I am qui certain it was in a swamp, but whe I dot know. This I hope some of yo surviving veterans can tell. It was not burned when found, b Uamm/n.i.aJ f i.\n rMimAOfiJ 1 I UU1XVWOU LKJk uui-ui anuu & the officers of the regiment and tl tent was burned and my adopt< brother saved it from destruction wi the loss of his hair and eyebrow Then he sent it home to his sister, ar has been in her possession until aboi a year ago, when I coaxed her to tru it tome, and I would return it, or rat er send it to Washiuglon to be retunu with other battle flags, and then coi eluded I could send it back myself ai j the more I thought of it the more appealed to me as the proper thing. 1 I was never very proud of the w? it came to us, war, may be war, but 1 me, brought up by a strict old Scotc mother, stealing was stealing, and r, Ladles' Waist Embroil rvelous and ^indisputably is here. With an eye sin peer of any in this secti c the quality, ask questio l will find we are sellini ?1.00 Kid Gloves at 59c. id Glove that we have sold and guaran3 account of the increased duty on Kid the future, $1.25 the pair. The import, has closed out the residue of stocks on prices. Oar allotment was just 10 dozt silk gloveB in all colon is comp ete. > EMBROIDERY ing the best line we have ever offered. A save you fully 33 1-3 per cent. Our line )m European markets from 1 inch up to 'anging i:i value from 5c to 19c, all on iouble the amount. Set, Linene and Lawn. f n 4'r\r\ L \J attingr 20c Sea Island 5c. Coats Spool Cotton, sale i at 5c. ' ancy Madras, 12 l-2c values, 10c. ; be equaled. ^ ^ ^ ^ ery department are complete, and as rich a et spot cash, thereby effsctiog savings of 1 lent stocks. It is necessary for you to con it and future business by 3b C S wanted nothing that did not rightfully belong to me. And feel a3 if one great >t. wrong was being righted when I send ve it to, and sincerely hope it will give r. you as much pleasure in its reception, I as it has given me to send it. Tell the ar surviving veterans that if I wa9 not . 05 with them in spirit in '61, I certainly j uG am in 'OS and shall ever be for years | re to come. W Trusting I have not neglected any311 thing to cause it to reach you safelyT and many kind wishes to each of you, I am ever Yours truly y- Elizabeth Lacy. I Lexington, S. C., Oct. 9th, 190S. s Mrs. Elizabeth Lacy in If. 141 Biddle Ave., is Wyandotte, Michigan, lie Dear Mrs. Lacy: e. The old flag, or part of the flag5 1(j was receieed with delight by all. It ad was placed at a conspicuous place at our county fair, and both old and ,8. young looked upon it with wonder and ry astonishment, to behold how well it iy had been preserved after so many be years had passed over it. History sr. will tell you that South Carolina seQO ceded on the 20th day of December, vo I860, and our flag was painted and er presented to us by the ladies of Lexir inton on the 10th of January, 1861, to less than a month after the state sean ceded. We therefore claim that it is ,is one of the first flags, if not the first, a to be painted after secession. The if original flag was made of dress silk En and painted on two separate pieces of ta silk and sewed together or doubled, re It being a state flag had a palmetto j ur tree on one side, which seems to have been taken off the side sent us by you, ut and which I suppose did not come in- j jy to your possession. I have not been i ae able to gather any information as to j sd how the flag became lost or captured, j th Words are inadequate for me to ex- | s. press to yon my feeling for the inter- j id est manifested in the return to us of j ut our dear llag, and on behalf of the j st surviving members of Company O, h- Saluda Guards, of the First South 1/1 Parnlino rrrvlnnfflflr rorpimonf T V?or?o_ - u U(*A VlliJO ? ViUlitvVi 1 VglUlV'UVl A UV/i^, I a- by tender my most sincere thanks I id and gratitude to you and assure you it that your kindness will ever be remembered by us all as long as life iy lasts, and the flag will be kept by me to as a sacred relic, unless wc decide to :h place it in the hand3 of the U. D. C., I fc > bo kept by them in the relic room isries, Uses, Silks. r supreme showing o: gle to your purse i on. The fabrics, tl ) ns, compare, then , I a great many go< 10 pieces 12 1 2s Iadia Lir 50 pieces 15c Persian Lawi The above are specials bon SPECIALS F0 32 inch lawn remnants at 7 32 inch fine Iadia Linen E Piques are again very etylii 20c and 25c, in white, black and White and colored licene si yird. Makes swell suits. Fall size "White Counter $2 00, $2 50 are exceedingly go. ed at cur price. L -.dies full size, Dicely trim 30c. GO.; night gowns, sale price 81 25 night gowns, sale pri $1 08 night gowns, sale pri 25c Corset Covers at 15c. 39c Corset Covers at 25c. GOc Cermet Covers at 50c. ?bp??tmamuimm ?no???? ?a?m is a gold mine in good dependable .0 to 25 p-r ceat , all of which goe le and let us show you. the values, then we in the eapitol building in the ciiu Columbia. I have found but one surviving 1 n our beautiful little town that I part in presenting the flag to us. is now very old, hut says that certainly appreciates the sentirm expressed in your letter. Yours very truly, M. D. liarma Wyandotte, Michigan, 141 Biddle Ave., Dec. 6th, 11)0 Dear Mr. Harman: Your very welcome and fully ap ciated letter received, and I have layed answering it in the hope fcha could find something to add to story of our flag. * I have written to the Captain of Company my brother was in waited, hoping to have some wore send. He is in the West and I afraid you would think I was i lectful if I waited longer, but ass you I will write you as soon as pc ble after receiving any (if receh information. Everyone who has read your le has expressed themselves in the se way?"A beautiful letter"?and it be placed with my treasures, to kept for my grand-children, whe am gone. It has brought South ( olina so much nearer to have kn( you, as I seem to do, and the worl small after all. The flag was just as it is, Jwhen received it, only the silk wa3 wl and pure and could not have been posed to the weather. No, James is not living that know of. He disappeared in 1868 69, and I have never been able to I trace of him; but as he was woun at Fair Oaks?shot through the lung?he was never a9 strong af wards. Mother nursed him until wound healed, when he again enlis and went out with the 9th Michij Company, but rode so hard in Morgan Raid that it brought oi hemorrhage, and we have alw thought he must have died in sc Marine hospital, but I have ne been able to find ouc. I think that when the flag ^ scorched the back must have been moved, as there was no sign of sew on the edges. I would love to see dear old lady who participated in presentation. I have been with i all in spirit many times. In regard to my letter, it is yo , ano Dress lsods= i f new Spring Goods. fl md taste we have I le wedves and the B judge for yourself. I Dds at about what fl Itn 9c. ghfc for thie sile. H iB THIS SALE. M c worth 10c. iemnaots worth 16 2 3o at 12 l-2c. <H| ah. We have th< m at ICb, 15c, jj^H I all staple colore. aiting with borders at 15c the panes, 79c, $1 00, $1 25, ?1.50, 3d values aad cannot be dcplicat- *3BI cued night gowns worth 50c at BH i 50c. |gB merchandise. We hnve strength. ij^fl s to our customers. have wasted a life- |H r of | to do with as you please. It was ce^^fl tainly very honorable of you to refu^^J lady publication, without permission. .ook fear I have been more remiss, as She have allowed our city paper to pu^^Q she lis'u an extract of your letter, whi<^^| ?nts was noticed, I see, in the Detroit Su^^J day paper, and both of which I wiflH send you the clipping in the letter n. our paper by mail, in the hope that may reach some old 9th Cavalry and I may hear from him, and so sei^^B 8> more news to you, which I assure yt^^J I shall certainly do. I have receiv^^H pre- as muc^ Pleasure as you and yo^^H comrades from the return of the t j so am not deserving of any gre^^H the amount of thanks, but assure yonj^H| shall not allow my new-found frien^^H the ou^ 80 ^ou comrades hear from the cold I to occasionally you must not be s^HH prised. was MH We have about two inches of jure now' an(* * cau see PeoP^e %oi?g )gaj_ holding their hands over their ed) I suppose, is the reverse your winter weather. tter Wyandotte is located on the Lme tr0^ river? which is abont four mi^^H wjH wide at this point; much narrower^^^H be Detroit, but you can see there n J plenty of room for cold winds to re^^H^ ^ar_ us from Lake Erie, and when fro^^^H )wn over connects us with Canada, d j3 often used by those wishing to gle goods across. The current, hc^^^^ we ever, is very swift and makes it ^HHj hite safe, except in the most severe wea^^^H ex- cr. I have pictured your home, its mild climate, as am everlast^^^H we flower. 9^H| ; or Thanking ycu for 3*0111* veiy bea^^^H find ful letter and trusting that the c^H^B ded ing holidays may bring left blessings, I am as ever, ter- Your friend, the Elizabeth Lacey^^^^ ted nco n r I Electric! I Bitters! re- B Succeed when everything else I In nervous prostration and femal^^^H in? I weaknesses they are the si^rem^^^^B the 9 remedy, as thousands have testifec^^HH the g FOR KIDNEY,LIVER ANE^H ou | STOMACH TROUBLE I it is the best medicine ever solfl^^H urH 1 over a druggist's counter.