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vi i s h i Battle ol'ICelley's For Ara.? Marc Atlanta u Iu writing this articlj 1 do so to de scribe simply the incidents of the battle which came under my own ob servation; my fir>t battle. I had left the Virginia Military Institute at Hi years of age, and, although underage, ! volunteered my services t<> the Con federate States army. My father fur nished me with a splendid horse, well equipped with a big cavalry saddle, larre stirrups, spur.-, a haversack, oil clfti: and blanket. 1 started out f?>r the war. My sabre, pistol and carbine were furnished me on my arrival at earn] . i joined Captain Morgan Strothor's company, the Madison cavalry, after wards known as Company C, Fourth Virginia cavalry. The r?giment was composed of the following companies: Company A, Prince William County; Company D, of Chestertield: Compa ny 0, of Madison; Company l>, of Culpcpper: Compauy K, of Powhatan; Company F, of <iooohland: Company G, of Hanover: Company 11, of Fau (juier. The last was the famous "Black Horse" cavalry. The regi ment was commanded at different times by the following colonels: Bev erly 11. Robertson, W. II. Payne, William C. Wickham, l?obcrt Kan dolph and William B. Wooldridge. What vivid emotions filled my mind! The training at the Virginia Military institute had only tended to strength v i and intensify my desires to become "ildier, air.1, of to ii awakened in me ..- of gmry ami romance. I did im.'- .stup tii_u;i;i>i:;i i tin? hardships and dangers, that were t<> follow. Fitz li?e'? brigade was in winter quarters on the Hnjipahat'.noei; river, lew miles above the old town of Freder iek.-burg, guarding the fords?liauks, United States ami Klys. Sometime in January, 18&V, we moved our camp two miles to the north of Culpcpper Courthouse ou the Walleck farm, where we built log huts, covered with our tents, making them quite comfor table. We had a plenty to eat duriug these few months. We spent most of the time iu attending to our horses, rcadiug, Biuoking, and had but little guard duty to perform, and although a mere boy, 1 was struck with tho most superb morals of the Confeder ate soldier in Lee's camp, and more especially with the kind treatment of prisoners who fell into our hands through Mosby's men. Just about daybreak on tho 17th of March, 1803, we were aroused by the sound of the bugle call "to boots and "addles." Each regiment rapidly formed in line and marohed off in the direction of Kelley's ford, a few miles north of us, on the llappahannock river. Tho gray mist of the morning had given away to the crimson light of the rising sun, not a oloud oould be soon. Our boys were in fino humor and in splendid plight for the coming con flict. There was something stirring in the jovial voioe of Fitz Lee and his faoe was lit up as he listened to the occasional shots from our pickets in front. With a little handful of men Captain Randolph, of the Blaok Horse oompany, was disputing every inch of ground along the river banks and in front of the advancing columns of Averill'-i 3,000 cavalry, while Pitz Lee's brigade only numbered 800. We had passed Fletwood hill and Stevens burg, when the gray columns of Fitz Lee moved rapidly towards tho river, throwing out sharpshooters along the wholo line in front. General Averill commanding the Federal cavalry, had by that time succeeded in crossiug the liver, and had advanced a mile or two towards Culpepper Courthouse. At o'clock our whole line of cavalry hu<i halted behind a large body of tituber and at 1(1 o'clock the crack of the carbine could be beard along the picket line, each regiment being in a position to attack at a moment's no tice, .lust then I was ordered to re port to Major Morgan, of the First Georgia Uegiment, who afterwards be came lieutenant-colonel. He was in command of tho picket line, and from him I received an order to General Tiee, on another part of the field sit ting quietly on his magnificent bay mare, "Nellie," in the roar of his brigade, accompanied by two or three of his staff officers. One of his staff asked him why he was waiting. Turn ing to me he ordered that I wait a few minutes, and then turning quickly in his saddle, throwing his leg over the pommel and raising his field glasses to his eyes, ho replied to the question asked by his staff officer: "Ho is coming now." We turned our eyes in tbo direction of Culpepper Courthouse au { in a few minutes a single horse rouo -une into view in full gallop to t w'ardf ns. The long strides of his horse was rapidly lessoning the dis lance between us and him, and as he approached nearer, I noticed that hie ,,as champing the bit, while th : 1 d. C i il])cppei2cmnty. ih 17, *<*>a. tournai. white foauj was dripp from his flanks, his nostrils expled ai d his lica? cf?ct as he was be urged for ward by his dashing ridt I noticed General Loo closely. His eyes sparkled as he suddenly xclaimed: ''It is Job Stuart." H vas alone am: near enough by tliis t > for us to hear his voice as it rang oupon the stillness: "If you want to have a go?time, Jinc the cavalry.*' Stuart's blue eyes fiashohis gray cloak was thrown back overs shoul ders showing plainly the recuing, a heavy black plume lloatcd -k from his soft, felt li?t, and a hdsotnc Confederate uniform adornccis per son. It was the lirst time I d q\ er seen General Stuart, and all e boy ish martial spirit was fired at t .sight of these two gallant warrioraupcrb in appearance, magnificent itotion and grauu in heart and life. Stuart soon reached us andiaid: "Hello! Kitz, what's the matteiown acre?" k seems that Stuart had hea of (Vverill's contemplated attack ion IjCo, and had taken the train at b.d ?ricksburg, gotten oil at Culpe,or Courthouse, mounted a horse ant.y lard riding and reached us in time r he fight. General Lee replied to hi ha? h<> was going to have a little f ind was glad to see him. YYhereup. ?encrai Stuart, who had dismount! orm his horse i:ind was in the act . mounting, said, '"Where iri Pelham? aid, turning, said, ''ti ll Pelham t< ri A'; 'em witli bis artillery." Aftci , hearty good joke and a laugh Stuart hen said: "Fit/., are you ready? I><'u't M A veiiil get you." Lee received the remark with a augh and nil they went, drawing their aloes aud ordering C. II. Powell, the tugler, to sound the charge. As their abren flashed in the sunlight they led he First Regiment into a headlong harge. Veils broke forth from every hroat, the horses seemed crazed with xcitcment and in a twinkling of an ye the regiment burst upon the enc uy, who had formed in front of a stone ?all. The clanging of sabres, the rack of the carbine, the smoke is lift d and for a time the struggle is end d. The YankccB stood their ground rith unusual courage. Numbers on oth sidos have fallen from their hor es, pierocd by sabre and minie balls, 'harge after charge is followed in uick succession. The battlo again iges, while dismounted Federals be ind the rock wall poured a galling rc into our thin and bleeding ranks tuart and Lee could be seen in front f evcy regiment, 'leading them on in esperatc charges, fighting band to and. The Yankees are now pouring l on our left flank, while the Confed rates for a time retire, fightinc brave 7 and contesting every foot of round. Our regiments then reform 1 aloug the edge of some timber, hile Pelham's batteries unlimbored i the crest of the hill to our left id soon mingled their crashing re >rts with the inoessant fire of oar rbines. While the batterios were pouring tot and shell into tho advancing ene y, young Pelham left his pieces and ined Stuart and Lee in a desperate large, and in the act of cheering on s men he fell pierced by a fragment shell from the enemy's guns. Just Fitz Lcc was leading another rcgi jnt into a charge I passed him and ticcd his horse suddenly stop, reel one side and fall to the ground, iTced by a minie ball. Ilowas soon inouutcd on another horse furnished an aid, and in a few moments he is in the thickest of the fight. <^en iil Stuart was in a hand-to hand fight th the Sooond and Third Regiments they gallantly beat back a desper u effort made by the Yankees tit turn x lcfi tluuk. The rebel yell is heard I along tho line and the Yankees are en rapidly retiring from the field, le day is now drawing to a close, nie Averill fails in his effort to ush out the gallant Lee and Stuart id their v.-.liant 800. The rebel yell is still hoard along e line.as the rumbling sounds of tho ii eel s of Avc rill's artillery arc heard pidly retreating toward the river, e now wend our way baok to oamp tho setting sun sinks behind the lue Ridge mountains, crimsoned as ough bathed in tho blood of tho ho io dead who had fallen upon the inks of the Rappahannook. The gallant Pelham is dead! Something on his comrade's oheek "ashed off tho stain of powder." Du. Wm. B. Conway, arporal Co. C, 4th Reg. Va. Cev. Athens, Ga. A Core for Lumbago. W. C. Williamson, of AmhcrU, Vs., \ys : "For more than a year I suffer l from lumbago. I finally tried , karaberlain'r Pain Balm and it gave L o entire relief, which all other rcme^ cs had failed to do." Sold by Orr ray & Co. ( arlyh : thai ?.:.< of the mbsf rciiaukable incddonts in Li. :? >ry was .In.; of tho making of George Fox's of leather, lie made it him -elf. Tlie man, the first of the Friends, and by trade a shoemaker, A'as one to whom the divine ideal of ihc universe seemed to be manifest ed. Fox made shoes until he be ?ame so interested in the books he iad studied that he could not hold limself in check. Ho had to preach. He had no clothes fit to A'ear, so he made himself a leather uit that would withstand years of iveor. Carlyle wrote, "Let some Angelo or Uo-a picture George Fox m that morning when ho spread )Ut his cutting board for the last time ami cut cowhides by unwonted patterns, und stitched them together into one continuous: nil including case, the farewell service of his iwl." "Jloger Sherman never paid n foolish thing in his life," said 'J'homn ilcdl'erson. "i?oger Sher maii had more common sense than any other man I ever knew," said nurd her eminent man. "When 1 om<- in late, ami do not know which way to vote," said Fisher Anus. "I ask how Sherman voted. Ife always votes right.". Sherman tt'as one of the signers of the Decla ration of independence. lie was a shoemaker until he was twenty-one rears old. People used to point out where he sat, where he worked ami studied, and where he could set Iii? hook so that he could glance at iti in the interval of the work of tha hammer and the awl. Of Iiis eon nod ion with the "gentle craft" he was never ashamed. He declared in, congress against a certain contract; for shoes. "The charges are ex* orbitnnt," ho said, which fact he) proved by specifying the cost of tho lout her and the materials and of the work. The minuteness with which this was done excited surprise, and thon he said to the Committee, "1 am by trade n shoemaker." Ves, a pittri ami shoemaker h<; was, ami In bo h capacities he was pre-emi nent : ?r common sense.?Success. A Train Probiere. It i- seldom, indeed, that the fol )winu; question i.i answered correct oinuand: A train starts daily from San VanA-ro to New York and one dily n-oin New York to San Fran ctco, |)?' journey lasting five days. Hrajj Jianv trains will n traveler m^'t ?fi journeying from New York to vftioFrancisco? Abojt ninety-nine persons out of a hundad would say five trains, as a mattes if course. The fact is over looked; fiat every day during the journey a fresh trnin is starting from tn other end, while there are f vc train on the way to begin with. Conseqnatly the traveler will meet n<?t five tains, but ten. What a "Inch" of Rain Means. Few pfcple can form a definite idea of/yhat is involved in the ex pression, ; An inch of rain." It may aid sth to follow this curious calculation \An acre is equal to 6,272,040 iniaro inches. An inch deep of wsnr on this area will be as many ethic inches of water, wh|eh, at ;<Mf to the gallon, is 22,000 gaums. This immense quantity of-'ater will weigh 220, 000 pounds, e';100 tons. One-hun dredth of an nch alone is equal to one ton of waer to the acre. What Your Temperature Should Be. The temperature of the body of a healthy perstA varies from about 97% to 98M.. deuces F. It is low est between 2 a. m. and 4 a. m., and highest in the a4ernoon between 4 p. m. and G p: rL The body may feel hot: or cold It different times, but its-actual temperature does not alter by as much is a single degree, whether^ a person in good health is at tho hottest or boldest parts of the earth, eating cl fasting, at rest or taking violent e rcise. Webster .and tie Clock. Onco-while Danil Webster was speaking in the sense on the sub ject of internal inqrovements the senate clock beg tolstrikc, but in stead of striking twice at 2 p. m. it continued without ctesation more than forty times. 1 All cycaiwere turned! to the clock, and Mr. V'ehster regained silent until it had struck nlout twent}1, when he thus appealed to the chair: "Mr. President, tho ch\k is out of order! I lkye the flood!" -!-r~ The V/onderful Spider. The body if every spid?r contains four little rr.asses, pierced with a multitude of holes (imperceptible to the naked eye), each hole permitting the passr cc of ^ single thread, all the threads, to i.he amount of 1,000 to each mass, join together when they come out and make the single thread with which the spider spins its^ web, so that what we call a spider's thread consists of more than 4,000 threads united. A system regulator is a medicine that strengthens and stimulates the liver, kidneys, stomach and bowels. Prickly Ash Bitters is a superior sys tem regulator tt drives out all un healthy conditions, promotes aotivity of body and brain, restores good ap petite, sound sleop and cheerful spir its. Evans Pharmacy. ? A contemporary hus been gath ering the causally statistics of foot jall and finds that during the season just ended eight pers m s were killed iud s.veaty five injured. A small boy on railroad tram can I asily gel into trouble. A hctroit man bad to leave his little sou while he trau.saut cd some business with the conductor, says the Free Press, and, as was saturai enough, he gave the boy careful instructions as to his be havior. "Now, Willie," he said, "I'm going to be away just a few minutes. You sit right where you are, and don't you move a bit. If you do I'll spank you good and hard. So don't stick your head out of the window. You might have it taken off if you do. Then you wouldn't have any head, and you'd get a spanking besides." The man went away to find the con ductor. After a few minutes he came back. There was Willie with just his feet aud the scat of his trousers sticking in through tho window. He seemed to be more outside than iuside, and mora cver, whenever a telegraph pole whizz ed by and looked especially close, he would make a lunge for it, as if'trying to catch it. The father did not hesitate long. Ile made a grab for the boy just as the latter was making a lunge for a pole. He pulled him in by the heels, laid him over ..is knee and began to fulfill his promise. The little fellow yelled and yelled until he almost drowned out the noise of the train ; but du ring a lull in the uproar the father heard a snicker behind him. He laid tho boy down and turned around to see what it meant. There was his boo, two seats behind and aoross thb aisle, with two fingers in his mouth to keep his merriment in. The mau looked again and rubbed his eyes, but there was no mistake. He looked ot the boy in his lap. Behind the tears was a face that he had never seen before. lie had spank ed some other man's son. Not Wlwi he Meant at'All. Politeness, it is true, must have its j origin in a kind heart and a desire to I ploase; but tact aud thoughtfuluess i aud quick wit arc also essential to good manners. A very stout hostess who was enter taining a large company one evening, turned to a group of young men who were standing near her chair and smil ingly asked: "May I trouble one of you young gentlemen for a glass of water from the pitcher on the table?" Several of the young men hurried to comply with the request. One, who was particularly active, succeeded in reaching the table first. As he handed the glass of water to the hostess she complimented him on his quickness. "Oh, that's nothing," he said, "I am used to it. I got into many a cir cus and menagerie when I was a boy by carrying water for the elephant." It was only when he 3aw the ex pression on the lady's fcoe, and no ticed the silence, that the young man realized what he had said-.?Ex ohaoge. _ ? J. M. Loogyear, of Marquette,. Mich., who built himself a palatial home at a cost of 9500,000 in that city, has beoome so embitternd against the oity for allowing a-, rail road to run so near his property that he will move the house, stone by stone, to Boston, which project will cost him almost as much as the house itself cost originally. ? Dibbs (facetiously)?"This is a pioture of my wife's first husband." Dobbo?"Great snakes! What a brain less looking idiot! But I didn't know your wife was married before she met you." a Dibbs?"She wasn't. That is a picture of myself at the age of twen ty."_;_ The Christ Car We are showing this season ar They are the latest in style, th manship, the lowest in price, a We sell all styles Low Do* See the big stock on my floi The Bishop's Predicament. An interesting stpry of the late Bishop Whipple is contributed by one of the clergymen in his diocese. The bishop's first wife was a strong be liever in dreams, and, singularly enough, many of her dreams came true. One Sunday morning in Octo ber, while they were at Faribault, she aroused her husband and told him mat her son in New Mexico was dy ing. She described him as he lay on a hard bed in a miserable adobe hut, and declared that his ^erious condition was due to inattention. She urged the bishop to go at ofcoand rescue the boy. Obedient to his op Whipple went, s steam could carry he found a t> le which read: "Pro New Mexico. Doj fe's wishes, Bish thward as fast as an. At St. Louis am awaiting him od without delay to t waste any time. livery moment isdjireoious v He followed directions and reached his tcpson's Hi 1b just in time. The scene was as Mrs. Whipple had de scribed it. Th? boy was sick unto death on a pahet of straw in an adobe hut. What i ?odioal attention he had received wa> doing him more harm than good. / It was apparent that he could not survive another day insuoh surround ings. Bishop Whipple had left in such a hurry that he neglected to bring any n:ore money than he needed for his bare traveling expenses. In his dilemma he wont to the bank and told the cashier?a manly young Mexican? his story- He needed money to ?et bis -on out of the country; would/,ho bank honor a draft. / The cashier was impressed with the recital.. "Any one can tell by locking at you^lface," he said, "that yoi arc a bislibp of the churoh of God and that ytu speak the truth. Lsh.ll be glad to accommodate you. Howmuoh moueyU'o you want?" The \ ishop drew on the biik for $500, all he aud the sick mi were soon on\heir way north. Tha ove to God andman, the years of selfiuerifice aud unslfish service for othej which had writliu their indelible h?ory on the goodjman's face were tic means of savid the boy's liic-ifouth's Companin. I ? In Arne parts of Peru fins" eggs are used .?currency. -? j-~ - ~ - l.? ?sDoctor?iot seldom give up&case, but a mother I ever does. Whil|ifs lasts, while the? is a spark of vitaty which love's labi may fan into ajrame, she toils untirfcly for the child & brought into the vida. And sornettes where the doctor* fail the mother succeeds. She has ncorejudices. Anyneans she will use viich will save her child. g The motbr's prescrip tion given telow is a case in point. |ler daughter was given :p by physi cians as sowing from an incurable I (ease, called "wasting o he digestive organs." 1 : mother pre scribed Dr. Ierce's Gold en Medical iscovery and n Favorite rescription, and had th ?appiness o seeing her aughter restored tc perfect health Dr. Pie: Golden M* Discovery diseases GS ae stomach and -i li er organs <ctU gestion ana lutrition nourishing, |sh - fori making newbood an ?Golden Maical no alcohol ar.it is a' opium, It is a true ce'aedicine. "My sister Nebr.,) doctors, Douglas Co.. Ni good, and told any more, aa could not digestive It is a nerve medicine ? new life. _ cry " contains lutely free from other narcotics. Washington Co.r and had several n. of EU; City, not do her any me mother bey would not com coud help her. that she tie ' tad ' wasting of the . tn?her said to my sister: ' well, I almost icw tua Dr. Pierce'a medi cines will cure t r So Si- bought s be bottles three of 'Gold? Medics! Discovery' three of ' Favorite Pre sc tlon,' find some of the '.Pel lets; ' and now t deter ,1 a Well woman. " We thank yo ir your medicine." Dr. Pierce'i ^om?on Sense Medical Adviser, in pi ;r coiers, is sent free on receipt of .iirme-qnt. stamps to pay expanse of idling only. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Iffalo N. Y.J te o the finest Bigs on wheels, e best in mffi?l and work 11 things coxoered. m. ors. JOS. J. ELL The lu Kint d You Have Always Bought and which bas been rjso for over 30 years, has borne the signature of and has beenniade under his per sonal supervision since its infancy. Allow no one to deceive yon in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and ?* Just-as-gocd** are bat Experiments that trifle with and endanger thp health of Inlauts and Children?Experience agnlnst Fa; p?riment. What 3s CASTOR IA ftoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare gotic, Drops and Soothing Syrups, It is Pteasaut. It coMains neither Opium, Morphine nor other NarcotiO substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms ami allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea, and Wind Ot lie. It relieves Teething Troubles, euros Constipation njid Fhituleucy. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Dowels, giving healthy and natural sleep* The Children's Panacea?The Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears, the Signature of The KM You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years, THE ctNTAun COMMIT, TT MUMMT ?TUKKT. tICW VORN OttV. WE have on hand the best selection of comfbrt-bringers for cold and Lired feet that we have ever carried. Our long experience of ten years Shoe buying has enabled us to select only the best values from the largest manu facturers' lines. V j bought this season in such quantities that we can offer to our customers better goods for less money than we have ever before been able to do. You will, therefore, not consider that our Shoes are CHEAP Shoes because they are lo??-priced. The little school fellow will find his Shoes he buys of us the greatest delight of Winter, excepting his Christmas juns, as Jack Frost will have uo terrors for him ; and his parents will find ;heir Winter's worries overcome, as our School Shoes, protect the purse as well as the fee(. There are a few old shelf-worn Shoes in stock that we want to sell at a large discount. They are pretty fair Shoes, but not as good as lew?hence the big mark-down in price. They are yours . for > the cash only while they last. They can't last long at.the price. REMEMBER WE SELL PLANTATION SUPPlLES lift M OF EVERY KIND. . " tlM 1-2 i ' I DEAN & RATUFFE, The, Store where your Mends Trafte order that you " When the Leaves Begin to Turn [8 the time to sow OATS, RYE and BARLEY. Now, in nay not come up lacking in harvest time, we have boaghtjGOOD SEED for you. JUST RECEIVED? 3000 bushels Toxso Red Bust Proof OAs, 2000 bushels Ninety Six Bed Bust Projf Oats, 1000 bushels Winter Grazing Oats. C&? Load Bye and Sarley. - Could have sold the above without moving same for a Handsome profit, out preferred to gjve.theni toryon^at a^oss, as we want to ? aply those that have always patroniieo?'Ua. H v> Recollect the above is only about one-quarter our usual pply, and is all sve can get ; so come and secure your Seed at onoe. Can bu; plenty of Kan sas Red Oata lor less ntoneyj but they, will not do iu this clim be. t ? IH / ti?ON & SEND IT] 1 if ?? ? 'WHOLESALEDJBAL1 rfI I vi r A LONG LOOK AHEID A man thinks it ia when the matter F life insurance suggests itself?but ctroucstan ces of late have shown how lue hangby a thread when war, flood, hurricane ? 1 firo suddenly overtakes you, and the on) Way to be sure that your iamtly ?s prot?t ?in cu?o of calom?ty overtaking yon & :> in fauro in a solid Company lifo-? The Mutual Benefit Life Ins Co. Drop in and see us about it. . ?I. IMC MATTIBON, 8TATI AGENT, Building, ANDERSON & ?.