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SOLDIERING W I * . ? J I I 1 ) I ? ^ ? . I M 1 ( ' I ? v.; , , I lill* Cavalry ll'. C. It'itUon m I II response to your request for some reminiscences of General Weder, my . ld commander. I will say thal I was captured in IS??.'!, just preceding tho hattie of Giiickamaupa, I cannot tell you from personal knowledge anything >>f his campaigns after that date. As. however, I was with General Wheeler before and arter thc battle of Murfrecshoro, it has occurred to me that possibly some of his doings dur ing that memorable engagement might bc of some interest to your reader-. < ?f course thc recollections of a private must be more personal than historical, and 1 trust I will not he accused of egotism if J am compelled to o e the ? pronoun "I" rather frequently. The battle of Murfrecshoro has al ways seemed to mc the most deliber ately planned of any during the war and should have resulted in a greater victory than we achieved. General Bragg seemed to have selected his own ground, intrenched himself, and then sent his cavalry under General Wheel er to bring ?lithe engagement. We skirmished with the Federals for sev eral days, gradually falling hack and "tolling" them on to the hattie ground already selected. Toward the last thc enemy "tolled" rather too freely for comfort, and on tho afternoon before the battle we wi n? elad to gallop through th*.' infantry lines to escape a shower of bullets. The night preceding the hattie we J were marched a little distance from i Murfrecshoro and encamped. Wc Were allowed to feed our horses, snatched a bite to cat and a little rest for ourselves, but no saddle.- were removed and profound silence was commanded. At about midnight wc were mounted and on thc march, but what our destination was we had not the slightest idea. The camp lires of the enemy were in plain view, arni it seemed that we were marching directly toward them. 1 remember thinking i that if we were to charge tht? enemy's ; line what a mess we would make (d' it | in the darkness, not being able to dis- j tinguish a yankee from a rebel. In ? fact it was the darkest night I remem ber before . or since. Wc literally could scarcely sec our hands before our faces. Wo forded Stone river and ! I could not sec the water, but could hear it gurgling and hissing, arni could feel it half way up my horse's sides. We rode on during the night, and as day began to dawn I commenced look ing for some landmark to indieato where we were. Imagine my amaze ment when I discovered we were in the outskirts of Luvcrgne, which I knew to be fifteen miles in the rear of v euCrai uftuy. Our regiment (John T. Morgan's) rode second in thc command, and it was not long before we beard music ahead. (Any old soldier will know that by music 1 mean thc clatter of \ musketry, punctured with an occasional j boom of cannon). Presently a courier j came back to order up another rcgi- < ment, which was ours, and we went in | with a whoop. The lighting was about I over, for there was but a small loree to oppose us. which we brushed away with scarcely a halt. But thc fun had just commenced. Prisoners running this way and that, hunting somebody to surrender to, army wag ons blazing, guns popping, mules braying, etc. Some of the wagons were loaded with ammunition, and some were set fire to while the teams of four to sis mules wert- yet hitched to them, and as thc fire commenced to scorch the wheelers, and thc ammu nition to explode, you can imagine about as wild a stampede as you can conceive of. When I first rode into the circus I notieed a pair of mules that had broken loose from a wagon. They were still hitched to the double tree; one had got entangled with the harness and was down, with the other dragging him. As I rode out I en countered the same pair of mules, one having dragged the other nearly a mile. One of us dismounted and cut the hame strings, when muly jumped up as nimbly as if he had just been taking that sort of a ride for his health, and was not in thc least in jured. 1 was riding a borrowed horse, and my first care was to provide one of my own at Uncle Sam's expense. This I did, got him safely to camp, and rode him to the end, which came for me less than a year after. Our orderly sergeant captured thc finest mule I have ever seen, a magnificent iron gray, about sixteen hands high and beautifully proportioned. Ile was naturally very proud of his cap ture until some one yelled, ''Tom, look atyourmule'seyes." One glance and he dropped thc halter like it was hot-the mule was as blind as a bat. Of course wc were not there to stay, as our position within a few miles of an army of probably 15,000 infantry, was not one to hold. So we collected / our prisoners and rode on to safe ' quarters. Daring this battle General Wheeler's command made two complete circuits 1 ihnitu Journal, around tho rear of th? Federal anny, and partially a third, which wa- nut altogether successful, a- thc yankees had prepared for us, and wc were re pulsed. 1 was al.sn with the second raid in which we lost some nu n hut captured more prisoner:* than at the lir-t. I started with the third raid but was compelled to return on account of a lame horse the third I had rode down in t hat campaign, for Wheeler's "cril ter company" didn't know much about walking horses in those days, a gallo]) hiring our usual gait. On tin.- second raid among th*; prisoners was a fellow we had mounted on ai: old gray mare, which had belonged tootie of our com pany who had been killed in the melee. She was a very rough gaited critter, and while the other horses were in an easy lope the old mare was in a long, swinging trot, and the poor yankee with his feet ont ol' the stirrups cling ing fur dear lif<- to the saddle ami bouncing about 15 inches fruin his seat , at every jump the old mare made was > ridiculous in the extreme. I rode np i by his side and remarked, "My friend, i it seems that you are not aceustotned ? to riding.' Tho ?.r fellow replied i betwen gasps: "Yes I've rode-in- i a--buggy ?nd in a carriage hut - | never rode like this before."' lt is not sale to lru-t memory after i all the-e year-, hut my recollection is ] that the results of this campaign ol' I General Wheeler's were the destruc- i lion and capture of one thousand ami ; ten wagons and contents, nearly a 1 thousand prisoners, remounting many i of his men who needed fresh horses, < and the rapture and destruction of a I gun boat, on the Cumberland, river. : We had the whole Federal army with- I out rations for neatly three days. \ There is a citizen ?d' Atlanta who was ] a paymaster in the Federal army, and ; one day he remarked tonie that at the I battle of "Stone Uiver'' (that heine ; the name the Federals called the bat I tlc) he had ?SlWO.000 in his safe and ? couldn't buy a pone of eoni bread, i Of course 1 reminded him that I was i one of thc boys who had helped destroy t his rations. c As I said before I can tell but little \ about General Wheeler's subs?quent . campaigns, but the above is a fair 1 sample. 1 should scarcely have flat- t tcred myself that 1 am remembered by <? him, but at Nashville last summer lie assured my son that he had not for ( gotten the Pelham boys and Dodson \ of the Fifty-first Alabama, and Colonel < tlack Prather of the Eighth Confede- s rate. There was a slight disparity ] between the positions held by General | Wheeler and myself, the one being | Major General and the other a high ( private in the rear rank. Hut I never \ met him that he did not seem to try to ] show by his salutation that ho rc- \ spected the private as much as the ] private respected thc (?enera!. To nie , bo was and is the ideal cavalry com mander, and 1 can not help feeling a personal pride in the fact that my old commander is one of thc first for I Cuele Sam to call into service. In ! my youthful eyes such men as Wheel- 1 i cr. Stuart and Wade Hampton "sccm ! cd giants, and manhood's more dis ? criminating gaze see them undimin I ?shed." i General Wheeler never asked his ! men to go where he would not lead, and for this wc loved him, and gladly rode with him into places where wc knew all could uot come out alive. ?f ? ?m Why a Ship is Called She. Thc word ship is masculine in French, Italian, Spanish and Portu guese and possesses no sex in Teutonio and Scandinavian. Even a man-of war is she to our sr.llors. Perhaps it would not bc an error to trace the Greeks, who called all ships by femi nine names, probably out of defcreuce to Athene, goddess of thc sea. Hut the sailor assigns no such reasons. The ship is to him a veritable sweet heart, and it is a common thing to hear him ascribing to it vitality and intelligence. Thc seip possesses a waist, collars, stays, laces, bonnets, tics, ribbons, combings, earrings, chains, watches, jewels and scarfs, and there is often considerable "bustle" about her. She is full of pins, hooks and eyes. She also possesses a forehead, nose, head, eyes, shoulders and more than one heart. The keeper of a ship in port is familiarly called the "ship's hus band." If wc add that she looks best when fully "rigged out." we may ' have enough of sailor logio to account for thc feminine name.-Nieto York Tribune. -- - ? mr "One Minute Cough Curo is the best preparation I have ever sold or used, and I can't way too much in its praise, h. M. Kennon, Merchant, Odell, Ga." Evans Pharmacy. - Leisure hours are the best or the worst part of our liv^s. 8. M. Geary, Pierson, Mloh., writes : "Dewitt's Witch Hazol Salve is curing more piles here to day than all other remedies combined. It cures eccema and all other skin diseases. Evaus Pharmacy. DISPENSARY LAW SUSTAINED. - j I mal D?cision hy Hie I it i ted States Supreme Cniirl. \\ ism V?TI?V, May il.-The Supreme I" iii i" 'lay handed down its decision in the case of Vance, liahr ct al., against iii?' NV. A. Vandcrcock Com pany, appealed from the ('ireuitCourt <>f Sunlit Carolina, and thc effect of that decision is that thc validity of thc dispensary law in its vital parts is sustained. Thc decision places the South Carolina law clearly within thc police powers of the State. Thc right of thc State to forbid thc sale of li quors in thc original packages thc Court bolds to be clear, and it regards tin; dispensary law as merely voicing that right. The opinion of thc Court was delivered by Justice White. It alli rms part of thc decision of thc Court below and reverses part. Chief .Justice Fuller and .Justices Shiras and Mc Kenna dissented as to the por tion of thc opinion reversing any part of the opinion nf thc Court below, but the other members of the Court agreed with .Justice White. lu his opinion .Justice White re views at some length thc decision of the Court in thc cases of Scott against Donald, and explains that in neither ease was thc question raised whether the State could, without' violating thc Uonstitution, confer upon certain ofli .ers and ?gents thc sole power to buy ill liquors which were to bc sold in lin- State, and allowing no other liquor Lo be sold. Ile explained that thc [(resent law, while ??iuilar in general ?scope to that passed upon in the for mer decisions, was different in many [.articulais, thc clauses which had been found under those former decis ions to . operate as discriminating igainst citizens of other States having been eliminated. .Justice White set nit thc three grounds upon which thc constitutionality of thc law is denied by thc decision of .Judge Siinonton, ind pointed on', that two ol' these go Lo thc very root of thc law itself, while thc third is narrower in its pur port, only assailing as unconstitution il thu particular restrictions which .he State puts upon thc rights of per mits of another State to ship to South Jaroliua, and of residents of that State to receive liquor for their own iso. Upon this latter feature of the .'ase .Judge Siinonton is upheld. The *ourt is unanimous ?ti afiirmiug his lecisiou. lint on thc other two points, which go at the very root of the law, Judge Siinonton is reversed and thc aw is upheld. Thc language of Jua ,ioe White iu summing up the Court's lecision is this : "lt follows from thc foregoing that ihe decree below rendered was well 'ouuded in so far as it restrained thc lefendants from seizing the property ?.hipped into the State of South Caro lina from the State of California by Lhc complainant for the residents of Lhc State of South Carolina on thc ardors of such residents for their owt ase. because said shipments had uol been made in compliance with thc reg illations of the law of South Caro lina. Hut it further follows that th< decree below was wrong in so far as i restrained thc State officers from le vying upon thc property of the com plainant for thc purpose of bcioj stored therein in original packages and from interfering with such sales These conclusions require that th judgment below be affirmed in par ?..nd reversed in part. This renders i necessary to remand the case to th Court below with instructions to cute a decree setting aside the injunctio and dismissing thc bill to the exton above indicated, and perpetuating th injunction ouly in so far as it isabov pointed out, tho whole iu accordanc with the views hereinabovc expressed and it is so ordered." Thc effect of this decision is th; thc inspection provision of the law tantamount to a denial of the right < Inter-State commerce, and thcrefoi antagonistic to thc Constitution of tl United States, while in all other e scntial respects thc law is held to 1 valid. The decision of the Court w; widely discussed among South Car lina people here. Senator Tillman, discussing it, said : ''It seems to me the dispensary la is decidedly on top. With this deci ion thc mere question of suppressii blind tigers will not be very dimcul Thc only modification made necessa by this decision is as to the requit mont for thc analysis and inspeotii of liquor imported for private UE and it will not be very difficult to me this. I believe this decision of t Court means that the question is st tied for all time, so far as the Unit States is concerned, and thc dispens ry system will be left alone to wo out its own destiny. All that Gc Ellerbo will have to do is to reorga ize thc constabulary, and, if necesi ry, usc the metropolitan police a enforce tho law ; in other words, si: press tho illicit sales. I think t Governor could well afford to doch an amnesty and facilitate tho expon tion of all liquors now held by t original package people, with the ii dcrstanding that after a certain d the law will bc enforced with all vig ?o other words, now that the law declared constitutional it might ..".?'.?y! ..SCI <:?.S!iflj)':.\ .*..'...?.."? V Well to take a new tart with those who have gone ?nt?? tin- illicit sale with tin- idea that the law was uncon stitutional. ' Commenting upon thc political"ef fect < f thc decision, Senator Tillman sahl he believed the decision would strengthen the Governor as well as the Kef orin Movement very much. Senator Mclaurin said : "This de cision takes the matter out of thc Courts and leaves its .settlement to thc people, lt means that thc dispensary law is a fixture, and will never be ehanged unless there is a change in sentiment of the people, and that is reflected through State legislation. The decision puts the vital features of the dispensary law necessary to its en forcement within the police powers of the State. It is a very important de cision, and doubtless will lead to ex periments of the same nature as the South Carolina dispensary in other States. I think," he added, "that the decision will have a very marked effect on the campaign in South Caro lina. I regard it as favorable to the re-election of our present Governor." I asked him about the bill now pend ing before the House. He said : "No further legislation by Congress on tue subject is necessary. Thc de cision of thc Supreme Court complete ly eliminates every question of doubt as to the validity of the law. As a judicial interpretation of the effect of the Wilson Act it is of very great im portance in a commercial way. as af fecting the trade between the States and defining exactly what the police powers of the States are."-SjwitH lo Xi H s mu? Courier. - Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because h< differs in opinion from you. It wonk be as rational to knock yourself ot the head because you differ from your self 10 years ago. Mr. John Peterson, of I'atoutville La., was very agreeably surprised not long ago. l;or eighteen months he hat been troubled with dysentery and hat tried three of the best doctors in Nev Orleans, besides half a dozen or mon jiatent medicines, but received verj little relief. Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Komedy havinj been recommended to him he gave it! trial, and to his great surprise thrc< doses of that remedy effected a per mancnt cure. Mr. Wm. McNamara, ? well known merchant of the sami place, is well acquainted with Mr. De terson, and attests to the truth of tl)i: statement. This remedy is for sal by Hill Orr Drug Co. A confederation nf Porto Rico, San Domingo and independent Cuba is now said to bc thc cry of insurgent leaders. This information was receiv ed in St. Louis by Luperi'SO Mar tinez, a Cuban, who bas two brothers fighting in the insurgent ranks, and who are very close lo thu leaders in the fight for Cuban independence, ?ud published in Saturday's Republic. When the Cubans have thrown off the yoke which binds them to Spain, and independence is firmly establish ed and the Government duly recog nized, a federation between the Repub lic of San Domingo, Spain's colony of Porto Rieo and Cuba will probably be effected. In support of the state ment it is cited that Maximo ( Jo.-nez i* a native of Porto Rico, and it is his wish to see his native country free and independent. His wife is a na tive of Cuba, and his love for those two countries is about equally divid ed. -A clergyman who was very partic ular about his personal appearance went to preach in a country parish in Connecticut. Finding there was no glass in the vestry, and fearing his hair might not bc quite as smooth as it should be. he asked tho clerk if he could get him a glass. The man was gone some minutes, but at length re turned aud produced a parcel very mysteriously from under his arm. To the astonishment of the clergyman, he found when it was opened that it con tained a bottle of whiskey, with water and a tumbler. "You musn't let on about it, mister," said the clerk, "for I got it as a great favor, an' I shouldn't ha' got it at all, bein'church hours, if I hadn't 'a' said it was for you." -One of the stories that tho late James I'ayn liked most to tell was about what he called an American duel, wherein two duellists, with one second, ?jiet within doors and drew lots to decide which should shoot himself. A was tho unlucky man, and without a word he retired into the next apart ment to carry out the purpose of self destruction. B and thc second, both very much moved by the tragedy of the situation, remained in listening attitudes. At last thc pistol was heard; they shuddered with emotion and remorse, when suddenly in rushed thc supposed dead man, triumphantly exclaiming, "Missed, by heaven!" "I would not be without Chamber lain's Cough Remedy for its weight in gold,' writes I).. J. Jones, of Holland, Va. "My wife was troubled with a cough for nearly two years. I tried various patent remedies, besides nu merous prescriptions from physicians, all of which did no good. I was at last persuaded to try a bottle of Cham berlain's Cough Remedy. which promptly relieved the cough. The second bottle effected a complete cure.' ' The 25 and 50 cent bottles are for sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. HOES, HARROWS, CULTIVATORS. TEE TERRELL, ROMAN, and EUREKA HARROWS. Take your choice. These are the leading grass-killers. Prices reduced. Absolutely perfect in shape of blade and handle. All superior steel. Bought in car lots. Our customers shall have the benefit. We have the Hoes and the prices. Sullivan Hardware Co. COTTON IS CHEAP AND SO ABE GBOCBRIESI LIVE AND LET LIVE IS OUR MOTTO ! WE have a choice and select Stock of FAMILY and FANOY OB00ERIES, Consisting of almost everything you may need to eat. Our Goods are fresh, were bought for cash, and will be sold as low as the lowest. Please give me a call before purchasing your Groceries. Thanking all for past favors and soliciting a continuance of the same We are yours to please, GL F. BIGBY. DURING THE SPRING MONTHS While business is supposed to be dull, we have decided to offer GREAT IN DUCEMENTS in our large and well selected Sioct of DRY GOODS, irOTIOHS, EATS and SHOES. We have several thousand dollars worth of these Goods that we are going to sell for leas than same Gooda can be bought for elsewhere. No wind-work abont thia. Come see for yourself. * We carry a Splendid Stock o? Heavy Groceries, And make Specialties of Fine Flour, Molasses, Coffee, Tobacco and Sugar. If you will honor us with a visit when you want to buy your next bill, we will appreoiate it and make it mighty interesting for yon. Come see for yourself. Yours for Traffic, BROWNLEE A VANDIV?R3. ?Ve?etable Preparation for As slnt?latirig Ui?FoDdaiuiRc?ula ling the Stomachs aralBowels of IMAMS ( HILDHKN PromotesT>igcsUon,Checrrul ?iessandlkst.Conta?ns neither OpnfflT.Morphine nor Mineral. T?OT NARCOTIC. ?KIIV i nu in lunuiuiun For Infants and Children^ The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of mope ofOldlk-SAMUEL HIUIZIl JKottflai? Sad" Abc J nina - /txkUUSJu Aoite Sad * Jtffxnmnt - Iii Cart amit SaLi * fUrmSted - flanhtd Suaar . lHhtoynw. runxr. A perfect Remedy f or Constipa tion, Sour Stomach.Diarrhoea, Worms .Convulsions .Feverish ness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Tac Simile Signature of NEW YORK. i - i EXACT COPY OF WRAPFEB. ' - mmTCti^'? You Have Always Bought. RAGS, RAGS, RAGS I I am again buying Rags-Save them up and bring them your Hides ! Il'yotu need ti gj-ood STEEL BANGE OR STOVE AT bottom price?, either for Gash or on time for a good Note don't, rail to? my line. I will swap you a New Stove tor your old'one or for Cattle, ?BI give you the market price for your Guttle. Now is the time to get you a gwx Stove before cotton-planting time Tinware, Croc&ery, Glans, Lamp Goods, SPECIALTY. Thanking you all for past favors, and soliciting a continuance of same Respectful Iv, _ !OHN '!'. BURRI Ss CRESCENT BICYCLES. MORE of them sold than any other There must be good reasons f? this, when the same condition prevails every year. They must have merit Why You Should Ride a Crescent ! The price as well as the quality is guaranteed. If you buy a CRES CENT you will never be annoyed by. having a duplicate of your.wheel afire, tised nt Department Store prices. CRESCENTS are told through Bicycle Dealers, who protect and stand b] their customers. We sell the CRESCENTS as cheap as they can be bought anywhere ii the wide world. Buy where you are assured fair treatment. 83,000 Crescents sold in one year. Best liked where best known.. SULLIVAN HARDWARE 00. W. W. SULLIVAN- Manager Bicycle Department. THE OLD, RELIABLE Furniture Store 1 - OF - ?. F. TOKAY & SOH Still in the Lead ! They have the Largest Stock, Best Quality, and Certainly the Lowest Pri?es ! OTHERS try to get there, hut they m?w it every time* New, beautiful and select Stock of Furniture, Ac., arriving every fcjj and at PRICES NEVER HEARD OF BEFORE. J Here you have the Largest Stock ; therefore, you can get nut what J"| want. Here you have the Best Grade of Furniture ; therefore? you CSD ?? Goods that will last. Here you have the very LOWEST PRICES ; therefore, yon saves* big money. t&~ Come along, and we will do you as we have been doing for the ? forty years-sell you the very beat Furniture for the very lowest prices. sm- The largest Stock in South Carolina and the Lowest Pr'we ? ? Southern States. New Lot Baby Carriages Just Received C. F. TOLLY &> SON] Depot Street, Anderson, S. C. THSS ?S MO FAKE ! That Jewelrv Palace - O?T - WILL. R. HUBBARD'S, NEXT TO F. Mi H. BANN, Has the Largest, Prettiest and Hoest lot of . XMAS'^ND WEDDING PRESENT! IN TUB omnr. Competition don't cnt any ice with me when it comc3 to prices. I buy goods to keep. I want the people to have them. Gold and ?*vm Watches, Sterling and Plated Silverware, Jewelry, Cloche, Lampa, ^Tfl Spectacle?, Novelties of all kinds. Rogers* Tripple Plate Table Koi?ea per Set. A world beater. _ WILL. R. HUBBARD