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I -:-- -" ' -= ^ - ' BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDEE SON, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 10, 1896._VOLUME XXX.-NO. 50. ' That's a hard thing to do these kind of days-that is, if you are not wearing one of our. Crash Suits ! They are cool, light and durable. Price, $5.00. SUMMER UNDERWEAR, In all grades. SHIRTS, from 25c. up. NEW LINE OF NECKWEAR Just in. Dresdens and Rhum-CLumders is the correct thing. Come in and gaze. Fruit Jars! Now is the time to lock after Fruit Jars. I have them in Stock. JELLY GLASSES, PRESERVING KETTLES, ICE CREAM CHURNS, FLT FANS, FLT TRAPS. _JOHN T- B??RRISS. A REMEDY FOR HARD TIMES ! YES, I can give it to j ou, if you will give me a call, see my Goods and get my price?.. My Stock consists of Fancy and Family Groceries, I : Confectioneries, S Canned Goods, Tobacco and Cigars, In fact, almost everything in the Grocery line. I am not afraid of competition,'but I want you to give me a call, and if j my Goods and prices don't suit you, you need not purchase. 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Ground by Ballard & Ballard Co., of Louisville, Ky., is chem? ically pure, and guaranteed to be the best goods on the mar ket. If you have never tried it, ask your neighbor who has, or try a barrel, and if not entirely satisfactory we will cheer fully refund your money. A trial order will be.^reatly appreciated by Your / ^ds, BI OWNLEE & VANDIVERS. Telephone 75. FRESH AND PURE CARDEN SEED OUR New Stock of Seed have arrived, and we are selliDg them at ex tremely low prices. White Onion Setts..15c. quart-2 for 25c. Yellow or Red Onion Setts. 10c. quart-3 for 25c. ?.11 Paper Seed.,. 3 for 5c. The largest papers-twice as many Seed as you buy for that money any where in the State. WATERMELON, PEAS, BEA\'o, &c, At correspondingly low prices. Our Seed are grown by The Cleveland Seed Co., of New York, and we have been selling them for ten years with perfect satisfaction to ourselves and customers. When ready to plant your garden come and see us and we will save you money. ORR & SLOAN, ^SS?JIsr* NEW JEWELRY STORE ! JOHN l?l. HUBBARD, IN HIS NEW STORE.IN HOTEL BLOCK. LOTS OF NEW GOODS. NOVELTIES IN PROFUSION. JUST WHAT YOU WANT. ONE CENT TO $100.00. ^ST-No charge for Engraving. iSr?Tbe Prettiest Goods in tbe Town, and it'* a pleasure to show them. P. S.-If you have Accounts with J, M. HUBBARD.* BRO. make lettlement with me at above place, <- JOHN H. HUBBARD. A MEMORY OF 1865. Interesting Reminiscences of the Last Days of the Confederacy. Columbia State. In Vol. XL VII of the War Records, covering tho reports and correspond ence of the armies of Johnston and Sherman from March 24 to May ll, 1865, we find letters recording an epi sode of the closing days of the Con federacy which cannot fail to be in teresting to South Carolinians. With out further preliminary we proceed to quote : Hillsborough, N. C., Apr. 19, 1865. His Excellency, PresidentDavis, Char lotte, N. C.: My Dear Sir: Having seen the terms upon which it is proposed to ne gotiate (for surrender of Jonston's ar my) I truBt I may be pardoned for writing to you in relation to them. Most of our offioers look only at tho military side of the picture at pres ent, but you will regard it in other as pects also. The military situation is very gloomy, I admit, but is by no means desperate, and endurance and determination will produce a change. There are large numbera of the Ar my of Northern Virginia who have es caped, and of these many will return to our standard, if they are allowed to enter the calvary service. Many of the cavalry who escaped will also join us if they find we are still mak ing head against the enemy. There are now less than 40,000 to 50,000 men in arms on this side of the Missippi; on the other side there are as many more. Now the question presents it self, shall we-disband these men at once or shall we endeavor to concentrate them ? If we disband we give up at once and forever all hope of foreign inter vention. Europe will say, and say justly, "Why should we interfere if you choose to re-enter the Union?" But if we keep any organization, how ever small, in the field, we give Eu rope the opportunity of aiding us. The main reason urged for negotiation is to spare the infliction of any fur ther suffering on the people. Noth ing can be more fallacious than this reasoning. No suffering which eau be inflicted by the passage over the coun try of the Yankee armies can equal what would fall on us if we return to the Union. * * * * No sacrifice would be too great to escape this train of horrors, and I think itfar better for us to fight to the extreme limits of our country rather than to reconstruct the Union upon any terms. If we cannot use our infantry here, let it disband, calling upon them for volunteers for the cavalry, collect all our mounted force, and move toward the Mississippi. When we cross that river we can get large accessions to the cavalry, and we can hold Texas. As Boon as forces can be organized and equipped, send this heavy cavalry force into the country of the enemy, and they will soon show that we are not conquered. If I had 20,000 mounted men here I could force Sher man to retreat in twenty days. Give me a good force of calvary and I will take them across the Mississippi, and if you desire to go in that direction it will give me great pleasure to escort you. My own mind is made up as to my course. I shall fight as long as my government remains in existence ; when that ceases to live I shall seek Borne othr country, for I shall never take the "oath of allegiance." I am sorry that we paused to negotiate, for, to my apprehension, no evil can equal that of a return to the Union. I write to you, my dea.r sir, that you may know the feelings which actuate many of the officers of my command. They are not subdued, nor do they de spair. For myself I beg to express my heartfelt sympathy with you, and to give you the assurance that my con fidence in your patriotism has never been shaken. If you will allow me to do so I can bring to your support many strong arms and brave hearts-men who will fight to Texas, and who, if forced from that State, will seek re fuge in Mexico rather than in the Union. With my best wishes, I am, very respectfully and truly, yours, WADE HAMPTON. Greensborough, Apr. 22, 1865. His Excellency, President Davis: My dear Sir: I came here intending to go to Salisbury to see you, but hearing that you are not there I am unable to reach you at present. My only object in seeing you was to assure you that many of my officers and men agree with me in thinking that noth ing can be as disastrous to us as a pease founded on a restoration of the Union. A return to the Union will bring all the horrors of war, coupled with all the degredation that can be inflicted on a conquered people. * * If you should propose to cross the Mississippi I can bring many good men to escort you over. My men are in hand and ready to follow me any where. I cannot agree to the terms that are proposed, and I shall seek a home in some other country. If Tex as will hold out, or seek the protecto rate of Maximilian we can still make head against the enemy. I write hur riedly, as the messenger is about to leav. If I can serve you or my coun try by any further fighting you have only to tell me so. My plan is to col lect all the men who still stick to their colors, and to get to Texas. I can car ry with me quite a number, and I can get there. With my best wishes for yourself, I am, very respectfully and truly yours, WADE HAMPTON. Charlotte, N. C., April 22, 1866. Lieut. Gen. Wade Hampton, Greens borough, N. C.: Letter not received. Wish to see you as soon as convenient; will then confer. JEFP'N DAVIS. War Department, Charlotte, N. C., Apr. 25, 1865. Gen. J. E. Johnston, Greensborough, N. C.: General : Should you think it im practicable to move off the inTautry and artillery, allow Lieutenant Gener al Hampton to receive such of the men of these arms as may desire to join the cavalry service, together with such transportation and other animals as they require. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE, Secretary of War. Charlotte, N. C., Apr., 26, 1865. Gen. Wade Hampton, Greensborough, N. C.: If you think it. better you can, with the approval of Gen, Johnston, select now, as proposed for a later period, the small body of men and join me at once, leaving Gen. Wheeler to succeed you in the command of thc oavalry. JEFF'N DAVIS. ' Headquarters, Apr. 26, 1865. Gen. J. E. Johnston, Commanding. General: On my return tonight I was notified that your army had been surrendered. Yesterday the honora ble Secretary of War ordered me to move to South Carolina, where the en emy were threatening some portion of the State, and I was carrying out this order when I was notified of your sur render. This fact and the additional one of my absence during all the late negotiatons, relieve me from the sur render, and I beg most respectfully to say that I do not regard myself as em braced in the capitulation. It is due to you, as well as myself, that this ex planation be made. I will add that if the secretary of war regards me as embraced in your terms, or desires me to accept them, I will at once disband my men. I am respectfully yours, WADE HAMPTON. Lieutenant General. Greensborough, N. C., Apr. 27,1865. Gen. John C. Breckinridge: You gave me orders on the 25th to move. On my return on the 26th I found military convention. I think I am free from its terms by your pre vious order. Have notified Gen. Johnston that I will abide by your de cision. Am ready to move as ordered. Answer here or Lexington. WADE HAMPTON, Lieutenant General. Greensborough, N. C., Apr. 27,1865. Lieut. Gen. Wade Hampton, Command ing Cavalry. General : The fol'o ving telegram has just been received at these head quarters from Brig. Gen. E.. H. Anderson, commanding Company's Shops : "Gen. Hampton has left here with Butler's division." Gen. Johnston directs that you cause this division to return immediately to the position near Hillsborough in which it has been suffering under his orders. A. ANDERSON, Assistant Adjutant General. Quartermaster's Office, Butler's Cavalry Division, April 27, 1865-9:45 P. M. Gen. J. E. Johuston. General : Your letter has just reach ed me. * * * I wish solely to have my own record right, and if you will consider the position in which I find myself placed you will see now great is my embarrassment. By your ad vice I went to consult with the Presi dent, the armistice having been an nulled. After full conference with him a plan was agreed upon to enable him to leave the country. He char ged me with the execution of this plan and he is now moving in accordance with it. On my return here I find myself not only powerless to assist him, but placed myself in a position of great delicacy. I must either leave him to his fate, without an effort to avert it, or subject myself to possible censure by not accepting the terms of the convention you have made. If I do not accompany him I shall never cease to reproach myself, and if I go with him I may go under the ban of outlawry. I choose the latter, because I believe it my duty to do so. But I leave my command to abide the terms, as I shall not ask a man to go with me. Should any join me, they will be stragglers like myself, willing to sacrifice everything for the cause and for our government. * * Very respectfully yours, WADE HAMPTON, Lieutenant General. Love's Ford, Broad River, S. C., April 28, 1865. Lieut. Gen. Wade Hampton, Greens borough, Salisbury, Lexington, or any other point on line. Your dispatch of the 27th received The verbal directions to you cootem plated your meeting Gen. Johnston and his action before any convention with the enemy. If my letter to him of the 25th, which you carried, was not received before completion of terms, the government, with its im perfect knowledge of the fact, cannot interf?r? as to the body of troops, but in regard to yourself, if not present nor consenting, it is the opinion of the government that you and others in like oondition are free to come out. JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE, Secretary of War. Gen. Hampton went to Yorkville with a hndful of men, intending to join Mr. Davis and his cabinet, but they had a long start and he did not know their line of retreat, and although he sent out couriers in every direction he could not trace them and was final ly compelled to abandon the effort to unite with them. This historic correspondence not only shows that the South Carolina cavalry were plucky to the last, but it illustrates the courage, the loyalty and the domitable spirit of their lead er. It is a record upon which the State, after thirty years, can look back with pride. What Wrecks the Home. The two twin evils which wreck our home are drink and scolding. It is true that many men of middle life have practically given up their homes, taking some of their meals there and usually their sleep too; but it is equal ly true that there they have a refuge from that tongue which no man can tame, not even an apostle. Our fath ers tried to duck a common scold, un der the mistaken belief that heat of the spirit could be cured by lowering the temperature of the body , but ex perience only proved that a fiery tem per is fed by water as if it were oil. Andrew Lang, in his late comments upon Shakespeare's "Taming of a Shrew," says that it makes an amus ing comedy, but that "no shrew ever was tamed" by Shakespeare's process or auy other. We are very much afraid that woman's temper has driv en more men to drink than woman's tears have redeemed; and that many a Xantippe is married to many a So crates who can seek solace for loss of home comfort in the consolations of philosophy More will follow Rip Van Winkle to the woods with his pint bottle in his pocket. English literature is a literature of chivalry, and is apt to condone every failing a woman but one. But is doubtful whether the immunity thus given to woman to "do her worst" has been a benefit to her. Everybody knows what few care to say that the wife's temper is responsible for as many wrecked households as the husband's vices, Chicago Interior. ! FLAGS THAT MEN DIED FOR, Colors Round Which Soldiers of North and South Rallied. There is u field for social study in the uprising of 1861. On neither side was there then firm anchorage for the souls so profoundly stirred as to rush to arms. There was no national idea, as today. F salty had been given pre viously to parties and to party leaders, and the degree of hatred felt and ex pressed in those days towards politi cal opponents would be considered treason now. With respect of the great question which caused the war the armies on both sides were divided; a flag representing slavery would have found half the South arrayed against it, and one emblematic of abolition would have divided thc armed North. There were abolitionists in hosts in the ranks of the Confederacy, and there were hosts of anti-abolitionists in the armies of McClellan and Grant. The star spangled banner was the symbol of the one thing in which the united North did believe. Military power and the appeal to be true to the flag proved more effective in stirring up war enthusiasm than the slogan of any party or section. The Southern leaders were fully aware of this, and quickly devised a banner in which the stiiking and. familiar colors and em blazonry were preserved. The custom in the Union army was to have each regiment carry two flags, a regimental, with the State coat-of anns emblasioned upon a plain blue fieid, anda national, the Stars and Stripes, with the name and number of the regiment The regimental flags of the Irish brigade (New York) for instance, were of deep green, emblaz oned with the harp, sunburst, and shamrock. All Irish regiments in the service carried such flags. How deep ly Celtic enthusiasm could be stirred by the banner of green was illustrated during the repulse of Pickett at Get tysburg. Cowan's First New York battery was ordered in to relieve Cushing's about the time that Armi stead's men had reached the stone wall. A simultaneous movement was made by the Irish, brigade from the left toward lihe threatened point. One of Cowan's drivers, an Irishman not especially brave, hesitated about urg ing his team, forward where the mis sies flew thick and fast. Suddenly Erin's banner flashed from behind a ledge of rock and caught his eye. Rising in his stirrups, he exclaimed: "Mither of MosesI the owld flag," and lashed and spurred his horses on with a display of zeal that his cap tain, by the most profane appeals, had ncrer been able to arouse. All that can be said of Northern battle flags can be said of Southern ones, too. Each seceding State sent out troops on its own a:count, and with them, as a symbol, its own col ors, usually the coat of arms of the State on a plain field. Among such w(;re the famous .'Palmetto" of South Carolina, the "Pelican" of Louisana, and the "Lone Star" or "bonnie blue flag" of Texas. The flag of the For ty-seventh North Carolina bore the dates of May 20, 1775, and May 20, 1861, the dates of the revolt of the colonies against England and of the secession of the State. The first official flag of the South was the Stars and Bars, a flag partly copied from the Union banner and bearing such a strong resemblance to it that the two were not distinguisha ble in the field. In battle the oppos ing commands became hopelessly en tangled, as in the first Bull Run, and though the results were bloody enough to suit the occasion, the South erners thought the slaughter was not well distributed, and began to intro duce new colors as battle flags, leav ing the Stars and Bars for civil and headquarter? use. A flag known as a "battle flag" appeared in 1862, and the cross, similar to that of the Cres cent City flag of 1861, was its princi pal emblem. This flag consisted of a red fly with two blue diagonal bars having narrow white borders crossed in the centre, the bars were white stars numbering according to fancy. Some of the Texans pinned their bars with a single star. The famous flag song, Hurrah for the bonnie blue flag That bears a single star, was suggested by the flag of Texas. The original Texas flag had been a blue fly with a white star in the centre, and when the Texas troops took the cross they retained the lone star. The cross made the Confederate flag conspicuous in battle and it was retained to the end, being twice modi fied. On the battle flag of 1862 the crossed bars extended from corner to corner, making an easy target for Union guns, and that arrangement gave place in 1863 to one with a white fly having a reduced battle flag as a corner piece. But the white so pre dominated in mass that the color be came almost invisible in a strong breeze, and the flag looked like a sig nal, of truce. To remove this objec tion, a wide, vertical bar of red was placed on the other edge of the fly. There was no mistaking this symbol, and it satisfied the South, as the feat ures of the old flag still remained, the stars, and the red, white and blue. The flags of the Forty-ninth Geor gia and the Sixth Kentucky are types of the Confederate battle flags of the East and the West, as they were first designed with thc mammoth blue cross with white stars and borders on a red ground. The Sixth Kentucky belonged to thc renowned Orphan brigade of that State, a name bestowed by Gen. Breckenridge after the battle of .Mur freesboro. Previous to the battle these men had been referred to as or phans, because they were expatriated sons of Kentucky, disfranchised and disowned by their native State for joining the Confederacy. At Mur freosbor" they lost their leader, Col. Hanson, the father of the brigade, who was killed while leading them, under the fire of 52 Union cannon, a fire that not only mowed down ranks of men but laid trees of the forest low, a3 with the smiting hand of a tornado. Taus they became doubly orphaned. Prof. Shaler. of Harvard, in his study of "Man and Nature in America," speaks of the men com posing this brigade as illustrating the highest type of American manhood. Numbering originally 5,000, after three years of service in the hardest fields of the Wost, the "Orphans" entered upon the Atlanta series of battles only 1,140 strong. During the 100 days of fighting in retreat uuder Hood the ranks lost 860 wounded and killed. Fewer than 50 escaped un hurt and only 240 remained for duty. Thc remnant of the Sixth with its flag and colonel were captured at Jonesboro by the Tenth Michigan. It was a saying in the West that Hood J abandoned Atlanta because he had no more Kentuckians to use as breast works. The color guard, which plays the chief part in the manipulation and de fense of a battle flag, numbered in the Union infantry regiments eight men and in the Confederate 12. The color bearers were sergeants, chosen for their fine soldierly appearance and records for bravery. As a rule the voluntcsrs were not given to brilliant deeds individually. Modern methods of fighting not only do not invite them, they scarcely fur nish opportunities for them. But a chance to seize ac enemy's flag, sin gle-handed, ofttimes lured men to a heroic death and Col. Ellsworth, the first flag martyr, had many imitators. In the charge on the stone wall at Frodericksburg, a charge equal in every respect to that of Pickett at Gettysburg, the Sixty-ninth New York, in common with the rest of the Irish brigade, left its green-tufted he roes in rows along the fatal barricade. The color-bearer fell mortally wound ed, but he had strength left to detach thc banner-the "Stars and Stripes" -from the staff and wind it round hita underneath his jacket. He then propped himself up against a boulder der to await death, and was found there with a bullet hole through his heart and through the flag that cover ed it. The flag of the Sixty-third New York of the same brigade, met a simi lar fate at Chancellorsville. Its bear er, Lloyd, was shot down alone and unseen in die hazel thicket, and to save the banner from capture, he dis posed of it in the same way. The State banner of thc Forty-third New York was in a like manner preserved in the Wilderness, when the bearer. Sergeant Hackett, knew that he and his charge were about to fall into the hands of the edemy. It remained un der his uniform during a long impris onment at Andersonville, and at his death was buried with him. More fortunate, though not more worthy of praise, was the valor of Color Ser geant W. H. Greene, of the Thirty seventh Wisconsin, in the assault at Petersburg, June 17. Mortally wounded, and separated from his com rades, far out between the lines, with both legs disabled, he worked his way slowly back to the Union parapet by means of his hands and elbows, drag ging the flag .with him by his teeth. New York Sun. Amicable Relations Restored. A young man in San Francisco and a young lady in San Jose were for a time very much in love with each oth er, and during that period each wrote the other a two pound letter jvery day weighted down to the lim; with kisses ano. expressions of love. But they quarrelled a few weeks ago. "Send back my letters," she wrote. ''Return mine first," he replied. "If you had been a gentleman you would not have waited for me to de mand their return," wrote she. "Ethics, for the use of women only, don't go," he responded. Then there came a pause in their correspondence. The young man wanted his letters very badly, for he knew he had made a fool of himself in. every line of every letter. The young lady wanted hers, because any one would think she was crazy to fall in love with such a brute. '"Send my letters on April 5th, and I'll send yours tho same date, so we wil- both get them at the same time," wrote he. "All right," she answered. t Each waited to see if the other would really act in good faith and send the letters, so neither received them. "A man who has so little regard for his word," etc., wrote she. "A woman who would deliberately attempt such a confidence game," etc., responded he. There was another pause in the cor respondence, during which both tried to devise some way of effecting an ex change. The idea of a third party oc curred to both, but was abandoned. The intermediary might read the let ters. Finally the young man decided to go after them. He effected the ex change, and now the correspondence has been resumed. "You know, dear little sweetheart, that I was just teasing you," wrote he. "You horrid boy, to treat me so. I have a notion never to love you again." answered she, and there will soon be another stack of two pound letters to exchange. Tarent and Child. Nothing is sweeter than sometimes finding a father who confesses himself a child with his children, a mother who is a young girl with her daugh ters. There is no question of author ity or infallibility with these, yet somehow there is always obedience, always harmony; dignities are not sac rificed, while something better than blind homage is rendered. There are no harsh judgments, no moral reac tions. Each recognizes that the thing to bc attained, the quality to be ex pressed-as, for example, beneficence, love, courtesy, charity-is forever greater than possible human attain ment, yet that each individual grows in knowledge, perfection and under standing while he strives; grows with out pain, development being normal, and grows without effort, the imp2tus being from within and reactive, not from without, coercive and destruc tive. True respect each for the other -and this is the vital point-true re spect each for the other, for even the opinions and the standards of the oth er is at last attained. Certainly this ?3 something better than any obedi ence born of the exercise of blind au thority, or cultivated by a parent's per sonal pride in his position.-Harper s Bazaar. Deafness Cannot be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion nf tho car. There is only ODO way to cure Deafness, and that is by constlut tioniil remrdiro. Dearness is caused by an hill nu rd condition of tbe mucous lining of tho Eustach ian Tube *Vhen this tune gets i-lamed you have a rum tili nc sound or imperfect Y /iring, and when it is entirely closed f'cafness is tho result, and unie? the inflammation can be takrn nut and this Mibe restored tn its normal corni'"'--:*, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine CUPS .out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed coodit'on of thc mucous surfaces. Wu will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Bend for circulars, free. F J. CHENEY ? CO , Toledo, 0. -*J-!?oId by Druggists, 75c - An ingenious man has invented a device for feeding his horse, and he does it with one of the ordinary alarm clocks. For instance, if the horse is to have its morning feed of grain at 5 o'clock, the alarm is set, and when the morning conies the horse gets its breakfast before its owner's eyes are open. It is so arranged that the alarm pulls the slide, letting the grain run through a sluice to a manger, THE REUNION AT RICHMOND. Old Veterans Will Scarcely Know the Piara. Baltimore Sun. RICHMOND, VA., May 29.-The ol Confederate veteran who attends th reunion of the United Veterans her in June will find that wonderfu changes have taken place in the Capita of the Confederacy since the grea conflagration of April 3, 1862. Thei the city was in flames from a grea conflagration which destroyed all o the best business part of the place Every bank was burned, the leadinj mills, bridges spanning James Rive and every newspaper office except th Whig. Now when they return thes old veterans will find almost a nev city. The burned district has lonj ago been rebuilt, and that, too, wit! business houses far superior to th old ones. A splendid city hall, cost ing $2,000,000, has been reared, i splendid new chamber of commerce and the whole west end, which durinj the war was little more than barrel commons, now contains the handsome s residences here. The old fields which during thosi days were infested with garroten whi made it dangerous for pedestrians ti pass over them at night unless heavily armed are no~ 'ie sit., jf some of tht most palatial residences in the city The spot upon which Major Lewi: G-inter's magnificent city residenci now stands was during the war part o an immense garden. So it is witl nearly all of the western part of thi city. The changen which have takei place there have removed all of thi old landmarks familiar to the eyes bl the Southern soldiers during the war Where the Jefferson Hotel nov stands was in those days the homi and grounds of Gen. Joseph R. An derson. , Every building of note occupied b] the Confederate departments excep the postoffice was destroyed in th< great conflagration of April 3. Ot the site of the Mechanics' Institute which was the war department, now stands a building used as an auctior. house. The Postmaster General'! office was in Goddings Hall, 11th anc Bank which is now used as real estate and lawyers' offices. Castle Thunder, which was used for the imprisonmeni of deserters, Federal spies, counter feiters of Confederate money, and other offenders against the Govern ment, has long since been demolished and upon its site stands a plaining mill. It was in this famous prisor. that Mrs. "Dr." Mary Walker was confined for a time. (She had been ar rested within the Confederate lines after an engagement.) Here was exe cuted the first Federal spy, and within its walls were imprisoned soores of women, some of whom had histories which would have furnished a theme for an .imaginative novelist. Among this number was a pretty Louisiana woman. She had followed her lover, who was an officer in a regiment from that State, to this city. He deserted her, was killed in one of the battles around the city, and the woman be came entangled in some way with some offenders against the law of the Confederacy and found herself in Castle Thunder. The prison was under charge of Major Turner, who is still living here. Libby, the famous Federal prison, has been torn down and removed to Chicago. Bellisle, where thousands of Union soldiers were confined during the four years' struggle, is just across the river. The islana is now the scene of busy industry. Here are located the plant of the Old Dominion Nail Works and other similar indus tries. Richmond contains more monuments thar y other city in the South. Bet. J the Jeff Davis monument, the corner-stone of which is to be laid during the coming reunion, this city has the equestrian statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee, the bronze figure of Stonewall Jackson in the Capital Square, presented by Sir Bersford Hope, a distinguished Englishman, to the State of Virginia, the handsome monument on Libby Hill to the private soldiers and sailors of the Confederacy ; the monument to Gen. A! P. Hill on Hermitage Road, the bronze figure of Gen. William C. Wickham in Monroe Park, that to the Richmond Howitzers on a special space at the intersection of Grove avenue and Park avenue, and the granite pyramid erected in Hollywood Cemetery to the ten thou sand Southern heroes who sleep the long sleep of death in that beautiful "city of the dead.1' These are only Confederate monuments, and do not, of course, include the many other memorials here to revolutionary and other heroes. The equestrian statue of Washington, in Capital Square sur rounded by figures of Virginia's prom inent men of revolutionary fame, the Houdon statue of Washington in the State House and t'liat of Henry Clay in the lower part of thegrounds of the same park are some of the other con spicuous monuments here. So it will be easily seen thal; the Richmond of to-day is a very diff?rent city from that which Lee's i.rmy knew in 1865. This metamorphosis will be easily appreciated by thousands of veterans who trod these streets during the war, and who have never been here since those eventful days. The programme for singing of Con federate airs by an immense choir is to be an interesting feature of the reunion. This concert will take place in the Auditorium. The reception which Mrs. Jeff Davis and her daughters, Miss Winnie and Mrs. Hayes, will give at the Confede rate White House, now the museum building, will probably present some of the most pathetic scenes of this great reunion. Mrs. Davis's health is feeble, and it may be the last time she will ever be present at one of these gatherings. Thousands of old veterans who have not seen Mrs. Davis since the close of the war will, in all likelihood, never meet with her again. Miss Winnie, who will assist her motlier in this function, was born in the executive mansion, where it will take place. For this family there clings about this historic old building the tenderest memories. It was here that Mr. and Mrs. Davis spent some of the most eventful years of their lives, and where they received all of the conspicuous Southern leaders during the war. From the cupola of thc White House thc smoke of battle could easily be seen during the bloody seven days' battles around Richmond. Some of the most important Cabinet meetings and councils of war were held in this very room in which the widow of the President of tho Confederacy will grasp the hands ol' thousands of our soldiers on the 2d of July. These scenes will recall to that lady many i hallowed memories connected with her residence beneath the roof of the old White House. Besides Mrs. Davis and her daughters, the members of the Confederate Literary Association, the thirteen pretty young lady sponsors, and the ten maids of honor from Mis souri, will assist in the ceremonies. Each of these ladies will wear a Con federate gray badge on the occasion. The fight for the Southern Battle Abbey will be one of the most inter esting which will be made at this reunion. The chief competing cities are Richmond, Washington, New Orleans and Nashville. The latter offers a site for the building, and. it is claimed, has already collected $65, 000 of the $100,000 which it is neces sary to contribute to secure the prize. Richmond believes that the Jefferson Davis mansion, which is now used as a museum, will offer the most accep table site for the proposed Battle Abbey. Improvements have been made to the building which cost $20, 000, and relics have been placed in it at a cost of many thousands. It is believed that the majority of the old soldiers will prefer that the abbey shall be located here. It is pretty well decided that the Virginia Military Cadets will attend the reunion in a body. Gen. Scott Shipp, the superintendent of the in stitution, to-day sent this telegram here: "Cannot positively answer. They will attend unless the number objecting is large enough to break the organization." Col. Charles T. Loehr to-day, re ceived from Judge Daniel E. Johnston, the Commander of the recently organ ized Mercer Camp of Veterans, whoso headquarters is at Bluefield, W. Va., a letter of inquiry regarding the arrangements for the reception ' of visitors. Mercer Camp is about 200 strong and will send a large delegation to Richmond, arriving here on the night of June 29. The camp will apply for a charter in a few days. The question of Mr. William L. Royall delivering his lecture here on Gettysburg during the Confederate reunion was the subjeot of discussion to-night at a largely attended meeting of Iee Camp. In this lecture, as de livered here by Mr. Royall, some months ago, President Jefferson Davis and Gen. James Longstreet were somewhat severely criticised. Com mander Kirk Otey, of Garland Camp, of Lynchburg, who was a member of Gen. Longstreet's staff during the war, wrote here to Lee Camp, protest ing that this lecture should not be delivered during this great gathering of ol d Confederates. At the meeting of Lee Camp friends of Mr. Royall gave assurance that if his lecture is repeated, he will omit the criticisms of Mr. Davis and modify those of Longstreet so as to embrace only mat ters of record as to his responsibility for the result at Gettysburg; The camp adopted a resolution declaring that it was inexpedient for that body to take any action in this matter. How Old Age Comes. What we call old age, says tho St. Louis Globe-Democrat, does not come suddenly, like the stroke of a clock, or the blow of a club, notifying the consciousness that it has arrived.* It creeps in stealthily and by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The fire begins to go out before the man is aware of any lowering of the temperature. There are little furtive, day-by-day encroachments which pass unnoticed or are treated as incidental and insignificant experiences, until at length their accumulative force brings home to the victim the sober truth that it is afternoon with him, and that the night-cometh when he cannot wprk. This phase of the matter is aptly illus trated in Dr. Holmes' allegory, where Old Age is represented as calling upon the professor and saying to him, "I hope I see you well; I have known you for some-time, though I think you did not know me. 1 The professor draws back a little, and says, "Will you tell me how it is you seem to be acquaint ed with every body you are introduced to, though he evidently considers you an entire stranger." Old Age replies, graciously, "I make it a rule never to force myself upou a person until I have known him at least five years. I left my card on your steps longer ago than that, but I'm afraid you never read it yet I see you have it with you-there, between your eyebrows, three straight lines running up and down. When he makes his first call, Old Age goes on to say, people usually send back the message, "Not at home." Then he leaves a oard and goes. The next year he calls again, gets the same answer, leaves another card; and so for five or six, sometimes ten years or more. "At last," he de clares, "if they don't let me in, I break in through the front door or the win dows." Thus the process of gradual approach performs its service in a se ries of crows' feet, backache, stiff jointedness ?nd other unmistakable evidences of rust and decay. The One She Wanted. The girl with fluffy hair and a shirt waist was reading over the signs on the soda fountain. "You have vanilla, have you?" she said. "Yes, miss," the young man an swered. "Have you pineapple?" "Any quantity of it, miss." "Have you raspberry?" "Yes. miss." "I wonder if a sarsaparilla wouldn't be nice. Have you sarsaparilla?" "By the gallon, miss." "You have nectar and peach and ba nana and all the other fruits, I sup pose." "Every one of them, miss." "Have you any chocolate?" "No. I'm sorry, but we're out of chocolate. There has been such a de mand that we find it almost impossible to keep enough on hand." "Oh, dear! I'm so sorry! I have been thirsty for some chocolate soda water all day. But it doesn't matter. There is another drug store down the street." And she was gone.-Detroit Free Press. Caught by a Balloon. WINSTON, N. C., May 29.-During a balloon ascension in Martinville, Va., at 5:30 this afternoon, an old col ored man named Fichie Brown was caught in the ropes and carried up to a distance of 300 feet, when he fell. He was killed instantly. The old man was employed to help arrange the balloon for the ascension. He, with the other helpers, was told to get out of the way, but thc old man failed to get loose in time. - In the days of Queen Elizabeth, each guest at a dinner party always brought his own knife and spoon. All Soils of Paragraphs. - Truth loves to be looked in tho face. - A sunbeam in the hr *t is bound to light the Pace. - One who boasts of his honesty will bear watching. - Fine sense is not half iso useful as common sense. - A covetous rich man may be said to freeze before the fire. - He that wants the earth will be sure to get it when he dies. - A boy all his life is the object of some one's suspicions. - There is nothing in mourning a loss that cannot be restored. '< - Fourteen veterans of the war of 1812 are living. - Diligence is a fair fortune, and industry a good estate. - It would be well if some dreams were realities, and many more real] ties dreams. - This year.the Prinoe of Wales will have been Grand Master. of the English Free Masons for 21 years. - Tn New Mexico 6? per cent, of -'li the population attend church while in :. i Wisconsin only 32 per ce at. axe church goers. - Some one has said that the man who has an itching for success must constantly keep scratching. Laziness is the only sure inoculation against the disease. - "Professor," said a graduater~""*T trying to be pathetio at parting, "fi V J am indebted to you for all I know,"', "Pray do not mention such a trifle," was the reply. - A mass of eels weighing 300 pounds clogged the waterwheel which runs the electrio plant of Biverhead L. I., and the town was in darkness for several hours. - The late Sir Andrew Clark, the eminent English physician, said on one occasion that 7 out of 10 hospital patients owed their ill -heal th to the use of alcohol. - It is said that a maa who won't buya paper because he can borrow one, has invented a machine by which he oan cook his dicner by the snoke of his neighbor's chimney. - Visitor: "Well, Freddy, how many brothers have you ?" Freddy : "I have one, but sister Sallie has two." "Why., how is that ? Who are they?" "Me and my brother." ;, ' - Proud Pop (to old bachelor frier d) "I tell you, Dawson, there's no baby like my baby." Dawson-"I'm glad you've waked up to that fact. I knew mighty well there never was a baby like the one you desired." - Ethel Go trox : "Papa, you must J^z let me marry Jack. He says he posi tively oan not live without me another day." Old Gotrox: "This is more serious than I thought ii was. I had. no idea he was so hard up as that." - One hundred tons of cats' tails were recently sold at once for the purpose of ornamenting ladies' appa rel. This means that, assuming an average cat's toil to weigh two ounces, no fewer than 1,892,000 pussies had to be killed. - For several years the number of lost children reported to and by the New York City police has remained about 2500 per aennm. Two-thirds' of them are boys, ar '. the largest ?umber are lost in the poorer quarters of the East side. Very few New York children are deserted. - The tallest man in Maine is W. H. Kelley, of Philips. He is six feet " ten inches tall, and of symmetrical build,weighing more than 200 pounds. He rides a bicycle, which he had to have made expressly for his own use, because of the length of Ms legs. He is leader of the local comet band. - "I have here," said the agent "a _ little book that will show you hopj&fi^ be your own lawyer." "Ef-rt~wou?Qa/ show me how to be somebody else's lawyer," said the man with the black beard that wa s gray at the roots, "I might buy it. But what is the use fer a man to learn how to rob hisself ?" ^_ - Mothers will find Chamberlain Cough Bemedy especially valuable for croup and whooping cough. It will give prompt relief and is safe and pleasant. We have sold it for several years and it has never failed to give the most perfect satisfaction. G. W. * Richards, Duquesne, Pa. Sold by^ggfl Hill Bros. - The boy looked a. good ?eal puz zled, and was silent for such a long time as to attract his mother's attention. "What are you thinking about?" she inquired. "I want to ask a question, only I can't get it so that it. won't sound mixed up." "What is itV?*?r~^m "Why, when an elephar t shakes h?3 trunk is he wagging his tail ?" - A little maid of 7 yuars attended the wedding of an elder brother. Thc Episcopal service, heard for the first time, made a deep impression on her mind. A few days later she called to see the bride, and found her sitting on her husband's lap. Lookt?rgtjit them wistfully a few nioaents,^^^ ?'. axclaimed, "Oh, yes ?I see-to hawjL and to hold." - Mr. James Perdue, an old soldier residing at Monroe, Mich., was severely afflicted with rheumatism but received, prompt relief from pain by using Chamberlain's Pain Balm. He says : "At times my back would ache so badly that I could hardly raise up. If I had not gotten relief I would not be here to write these few lines. Chamberlain's Pain Balm has done me a great deal of good and Ue?l-var^ thankful for it." For sale by Hill ^ Bros. - Everybody knows how fond chil dren are of playing in sand. We know people who have loads of sand brought , and dumped in their back yards on purpose to give the youngsters a chance to play in it, and now it is proposed that sand hills be provided in the public parks of New York for the same purpose. It ii said that in certain European cities the experiment.Jias boen tried and the hills have become chief centers of pleasure and exercise for the little ones. - If it required an annual outlay of $100.00 to insure a family against ^ any serious consequences from an attack of bowel complaint during the year there are many who would feel it their duty to pay it; that they could not afford to risk thier lives, and (those of their family for such an amount. Any one can get this insurance for 2S5 cents, that being the price of a bottle of Chamberlain s Colic, Cholera tind . 4 Diarrhoea Remedy. In almost every J neighborhood gome one has died from j?k an attack of bowel complaint before medicine could be procured or a physician summoned. One or fcvptiB doses of this remedy will cure any ordinary case. It never fails. Can you afford to take the risk for so small an amount ? For sale by Hill Bros. - ?