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WAR ST New Orleans IPlan Rem New Orleaas is preparing lo make thc annual reunion of tba Con fido ra te Veterans' Association, which is to be held t.iere next May, one of thc larg est and most successful reunions ever held bj' the veterans. Thc following circular, telling of New Orleans' plans for the occasion, has been issued : "New Orleans, March 14, 11)03. New Orleans has determined that the annual reunion of the United Confed erate Yetoraus, which wilbtake placo in tho Crescent City May li), 20, 21 and 22, shall bo tho most momentous gathering of thc 'old soldier boys' held during the past decade. "Representing, as it does, possibly the most attractive point in tho great South, it is consequently dear to thc hearts of tho men who fought and bled during tl trying times forty odd years ago. Tho Southern metro polis stands for, possibly, tho greatest aggregate importance, financially and socially, in a wonderfully prosperous South. It witnessed its homes deple ted of thousands and thousands of brave souls who left their families and their belongings to take up arms ib a cause for which they were ready to saorifice everything most dear. Thousands went; thousands remained away; and, the ones who returned to take up the burdens they had dropped ?t the first call, and who havo survived tho vicissitudes of fortune and of fate . 'uing the lojg interim, stand with oj.en arms ready to welcome to their homes and to their lasting affections their brothers who had stood 'on the line' amid the storm and furv whioh --i-J .i-#?i _a. n:":i XL.tn cLu IUD an* ui uovvii u v> ?uv vi <n War. "Because of these memories, and beeause of the associations whioh be gan near half a century since and whioh have been kept alive by the fires of a patriotio sentiment, the old soldiers of the Crescent City are de termined to make the woloomo they will aooord their one-time oompanious the warmest on record. And, in this, they will be supported and assisted by every man, woman and child in the city of New Orleans, all of whom will anxiously count the days until they oan number the ontire host of old Confederate Veterans as their loved and honored guests. "The material side of the reception to the United Confederate Veterans is rapidly assuming u definite and tangi ble form. Realising thc : of making the reunion a red letter oc casion in tho annals of tbeso surviv ors of tho Confederacy, Now Orleans has determined to raise a fund of $100,000, whioh will be expended in providing adequate entertainment, 4both bf body and of mind, during the several days of the convention. A forge number of oommittoes have been appointed under the supervision and direction of tho Confederate camps in New Orleans ?and of Louisiana, and these committees are hard at work en deavoring to perfect tho details of the reunion. "In an interview with Colonel J. A. Harral,. aid-de-camp on the staff of General John B. Gordon and chair man of the press committee, a commit" tee composed cf the newspaper men of the city, it was demonstrated that tho entiro situation hid been Carefully considered and that the looal forces are moving quietly, yet rapidly, in an aggregate effort, to the end that noth ing may be found wanting when the dawn of the reunion heralds the arri val of the old gray-olad heroes. From Colonel Harral it is learned that the railroads centering In New Orleans are making every arrangement neces sary for tho handling of the members of tho 1,500 eamps whioh comprise tho entiro organization of the veter ans. Tho rates will be made low enough to prove an inoentive to even the most humblo of the old "vets," who will find this feature no impedi ment in hi3 desire to reach the con yon ti on, t:The committee on accommodation bas arranged for a sys to rn of 'room listing' whioh, in addition to the ao W^.Siodation provided by the hotels, will enable tbs visitors to be taken care of (without the aunoyiog waits so frequent on occasions of the kind un der consid?ration? At least ten thou sand rooms will be registered with the sevejal 'information bureaas' provided for the purpose, and the oommittee has definite assurance that the rates for board and lodgings will b?: very feaBonabla. Arrangements haye been made, through the kindness of the United States government officials, for a large number of army tints which viii be pitohed within the inolo.ouro .f thu 'fair grounds,' ono ot tho Jove liest locations in ibo city of New^ Or leans, well drained^nd provided with convenience, which will make tho 'Canvas City' one of tho most desira Wc features of t>.s reunion. These ? ORIES. ming for the Great lion. louts will be provided with all thc conifortB necessary, and, in addition to this, thc ?amo locatiou will bc mai ked by thc erection of an immense dining hall ?/i'i scries of kitchens where meals will bo provided for the attendants upon thc convention at low prices. "I'lans have been prepared Tor the convention auditorium which will be erected at the fair grounds, and work upon thia building will be begun with in the next ten days. Thc auditor ium will be of sufiicicut size to ac commodate tho estimated number of veterans, and the conveniences will be so arranged as to enable thobc present to keep closely in 'touch with tho speakers and thc proceedings. "Elaborate plan^ have been made for thc entertainment of the veterans, and in addition to competitive drills and mi'itary parades in which a num ber of companies from other States will participate, a grand ball will bo given during the convention. The committee on reception will provide a simple method of registration, show ing name, company and residence, which will be open to the public. It is desired that every attendant upon thc convention take advantage of this fact in order to simplify matters for the various committees having their comfort at interest. Bureaus of in formation will be established both in the city and at the fair grounds, by means of which the thousands of visi tors will be enabled to secure infor mation, no matter upon what subject. There will also be established at ?he fair grounds a submailing station or nnotnffifta at Tn 1> ? ^ V? mail m a yr IVQ vCCS stamps purchased and mail distribu ted. This sub-station will bo under the supervision of the United States postal authorities, and, with an ade quate force of mail men, will un doubtedly be a very attractive feature of the gathering. The committee on hotels and accommodation will shortly prepare a circular letter to be address ed to eaoh of the 1,503 United Con federate Veterans camps of tho Uni- 1 ted States, soliciting information which may enable the committee, as soon as possible, to determine the ap proximate number of old soldiers who trill attend the reunion. This will undoubtedly lessen the work of the committee and work to the benefit qf the visitors. It is expected that a large number oft nowspapor men from ' .he newspapers of thc United States 1 will be present during the reunion, 1 md it is hoped that the local papers 1 ind the country press of Lousiana, 1 Mississippi, Texas and other States of 1 .he South may find it oonveniect to 1 ittend. "In or ier to facilitate the work of 1 .he press, especial arrangements will 1 )c made for their convenience and en- ( ertainment. The rooms of the New y Orleans Progressive Union, 331 Ba- ' onno street, will be made permanont * leadquartora of the press committee ' ind of tho press at large. Owing to ts looation, and tho convenience which 1 he rooms of the progressive untan of- 1 er, there is little doubt but that the ( ooation will be ono of great interest o the visiting newspaper men and j rill greatly faeilitate their work. A pecial reception to tho members of h^ press will be given in the rooms of E he Progressive Union during one day B f the convention. Through the kind- * ess of the Now Orlerns Railway Go. ars have been secured for a ride on he St. Charles avenue and Tulane venue belts, under the auspicies of c he local newspaper committee. ?U ? iaiting newspaper men aro urged to t egister at the rooms of the Progr?s- i ive Union immediately upon arrival I a the city in order that adequate ar- 1 ingemonts may bc made for their on ertainmont and well being. The St. ?bar?es hotel has been determined poe as the looation of the General Imted Confederate Veterans head uarterd, and the various sponsors of he visiting camps will be domioiled ere also. "Tho Confederate Southern Memo ?al Association will hold its fourth nnnal oonvention at New Orleans, ?a., on same date rs the United Oon edorato Veterans. The opening fea ure will be the usual Jefferson Davis aemorial service, whioh will be held it Christ Churoh Cathedral, on Tues lay, May 19, 1903, at 10 a. m. The commander in chief, department and kate commanders, with their respec tive staffs, and Confederate veterans in general, are cordially invited to as sist at this solemn and impressive ceremony, in memory of the first and only President of th's Southern Con federacy. "The tremendous enthusiasm of the people of New Orlesn* in regard to this coming reunion makes it beyond per-nd von ture that tho occasion will be most delightful {rom all points of view, and the ' municipal authorities, ' acting as a unit with tho citizens gen erally, will pave the way for a delight ful serien of pleasant recollections and firmly fix the claims of New Orleans and its people upon the good graces and loyal sentiment of thc old boys in gray. xi. M. Mayo, ?Sec. New Orleans Progressive Club. GEN. FRANKLIN'S CLOSE CALL. Interesting Story of His Escape From Confederates. New York Sun. When Maj. Gen. William B. Franklin died last week, the newspa pers mentioned among other incidents of his career tue fact that ho was once captured by the Confederates but escaped-. TIere is tho story of that escape as ho himself told it once at thc request of Gen. Grant: Gen. Franklin was a member of tho board of visitors at West Point in Juno, 1868. One evening, while a party of old graduates wore talking about old times, Gen. Grant asked Gen. Franklin to toll about the acci dent that befoll him when the Confed erates got him. "Franklin told it to me once," said Gen. Grant, "but you other people never have heard the particulars and 1 want you to hear how things hap pened and how he came out of it all and so is able to be here tonight." "I had been wounded at Sabine Cross Roads- -that was April 8,1864 and had generally beoome pretty bad in stamina," said Gen. Franklin, "and so was forced to beoome tempor arily an invalid. I was in a oar one evening on the road between Balti more and Philadelphia when a troop of Confederate guerrillas took posses sion of things, I being one of those ?biogs. "Finding they L..d a major general of the union army they felt jubilant. They didn't seem to think it was worth while to capture cnybody else and so I was walked out alone. They treated me kindly-indeed kind o' Hymnal hi zad with ??; ?.-nt added 'Them things we're doin' is war, gen eral.' "Where they intended td take me I knew not-to the nearest Confederate prison, of course, but where was that? There were about 20 of them, and af ter we had tramped along through the woods for hours they decided they'd go into oamp for the night. "They built a fire and made a big circle of themselves around it, with me nearer the fire than they were, so they wouldn't lose sight of me. We had a fairly good supper, thanks to what those chaps had got from the oar they had stalled, and there they sat and smoked till they began to get sleepy. "Finally, ali of them, with their guns in their arms, stretched them selves out to sleep-after designating DUO man to keep awake for an hour to watch me, and then he could 'shake up' bis relief from the group. They were ali soon fas' asleep-exoept the watoher. "I laid myself out and apparently Event to sleep. But I didn't. I kept ny eye on the watch. He nodded and iwung about uneasily where he sat ?rith his gun between his knees, till lie too, without ohanging his position, tall asleep, his head hanging over his enees. "How long I lay quietly observing ihat circle of men I never can tell. It leemed to me ages. How oould I get mt of that oirole? "The fire used for the supper had liokered down, but there was enough ight to seo anything move, and I tnew if any one of them saw me on ny feet I would be k dead man. 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Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure diy xineas and rick headache. ground, resting OD my elbow. 1 bed DO firearms-even ia a tussle I'd have had 00 chance. Would I risk lt all? "I gradually got on my feet and stealthily moved a foot or two. Just as I did so one of the fellows said something. I thought it was all up with mo. But no-he was talking in his sleep. I had let myself fall to the ground when I heard the voice., I got slowly up again. "It was only a question of seconds. I stepped over one of the men who was nearest to me and got away a few steps when I was held in check by a voice. Again it was a sleeper talk ing. "Slowly I crept along until I thought I'd got at a fair distance where they would not hear my foot steps, then-I hurried along. I never hurried so fast in my life. Wei), to make a hog story hort, I scrambled, groped, orept, tottered along, trying to find some hiding plaoe. "I saw at last that I was near a great cornfield. Thc ground was full of brakewood and brambles and pit falls and in ray weak oondition I was in a bad plight. But the knowledge that my captors would, as soon as they disoovored my escape, scour the land for me, which probably they knew every inoh of, gave me some strength. "HeavensI How long I tramped in the cornfield I know not. But where was I going? All that I knew was that I was going into a cornfield that seemed to have no end. The oom was high and dose ranked together, I saw. "Finally, exhausted, I reached a Bpot just as day was breaking, where there was a pile of brambles that had appa-ontly been dumped there, and even there the cornfield was thiok. I could go no farther. I used my last strength burrowing myself under the brambles and dead wood, covering myself up completely. How long I lay there I don't know. But I Soon heard shoutB and the rush of horses right through . tho field. It was my captors. They actually, one or two of .u_J_ ?tit*_J_ll_-J .Hutu, luuv iiguv viot(w? au? gwivjrau near me a dosen times in their mad huni. for what seemed to ino many hours. "That is ?11 knew until I suddenly saw division after division of troops maroh by me-in fnll review, and as I thought, so magnificently. Would the review never end ? I had never seen such a tremendous army. Then I oame to my. senses. I had been wandering in my mind-the army I thought I saw passing in review was the great field of corn swaying to and fro with the wind, and the bayonets 11 ARE YOU Jr\? WO F THE people of Anderson County sensible people. They consider it the p only the quantity but the quality, of th< their hard-earned money. They have 1< to boy inferior Gooda, ..even though th teaches them that so-called Cheap Good expensive. Thia, in a measure, accounts for th They appreciate our efforts to give a hu dollar, and we renew tc them now our ] best Goods at honest prices, we shall ex them values commensurate with their m Under this agreement we ofter iron Plantation Supplies the best values Wv> 1 Geniiinfl New Or Genuine Maine 1 New York State Peerless Potatoe (No cheap groray Flour of ?v?ij j (And each Sack g\ Heavy a?d Fins Hats, Pants, Qy Shirts and Dry Of e It is our honest desire to please? an are pleasing to the tastes of the people, the future as in' the past. Tho Store of Quality ai had seen were the . ilky cora stalk tips lit up by the SUD. It was day time-probrbly high noon. . "Partly because I was too weak to creep out of my hiding place, partly because I expected every moment to hear tbs 'rebe' gallop around me again, I lay where I was. I mus? have faint ed, for when I peered through0 the branches over me the sun had almost disappeared and there was less light. "I made a Supreme effort and got tip my feet, and tottered along, for miles and miles I tboutrb*. Had that corn ijeid no limit ? "At last I saw a wooten farmhouse. I had reached the corn's border line. Owing to my illness, my exposure in the hot field, lack of food and water, 1 was barely able to keep on my feet. "Then the thought came to me-my oaptors may be in that house, Or the owner may be a 'Johnny Bob.' But it was u oase of slow death anyhow j what was the difference of places ? I reached tho door and knooked. The ! farmer half opened it. Then he bade I me oome in. He saw I WPS near faint ing. ! " 'I know you,' he said. 'They've been here and gone Von are Maj. Gen. Franklin of the Union army.' " 'And yon?' I asked. 'Are you a friend of thoso men?' 1 "Imagine my chango of feelings when he exolaimed: " Tm a Union man. Do as I tell you.' "And that Union man gave me nourishment and stowed mo away in that house until ho could notify the nearest Union forces where ? was. "I heard a ol at tor of horses' feet and the clanking of sabres outside about two hours afterward. They were not my oaptors-they were Un ion troops that had oome to my res on?, thanks to that owner of the corn field." A Good Maa Gone. The following obituary reoently ap? pared in a Missouri paper: "John Anderson, we are sorry to aay. haa^deaaaed. He departed this last Munday, he went fourth without a strugel and suoh is life. He kept the grocer store at the Corner and his wife will still-keep it. His virtues was numerus and h's -wifeinherits them. We are happy to stait that he never ob. ea ted abd was always a honorable man and his wife is also. His wife will be pleased to see old ouBtomers at any time." Stops Conan and Work? off the Cold. Laxative Bromo Quinino Tablets cure a oold in one day? No Cure, No Pay. Price 25 cents. GETTING TH 'OF are, aa a rule, a most practicable and ?art of wisdom to investigate well, not 3 values they receive ia exchange for Barned that it is pecrbuaasss peiky e price ia cheap. Their , experience s are in the long run extravagantly e gratifying growth of our business, ndred cents worth of value for every pledge that so long as they desire the j ert ourselves to the utmost to give oney. i oar large and weil-seleoted Stock of j lave ever shown in leans Molasses? Bliss Irish Potatoes, ) Kose and ?] ' " -house stock,) laranteed not to be sticky,),? '?*'" ."*'*'cl" Sil er&lis, lVy. Goods, very description. d IC Good Goods and fair treaAsnent our trade will continue to grow in. ia Bispane&ry of Value. PromotesDigeslion-Cheerfu?- ^ w ^~m$?T * ness and n?st:C^?**fl?!*?neiib?P J?? ''iv J??'s? . WOT "NARC OTIC. JjS AperfeclJReiuedy for Cons lipa- | nf # Jae Hon,SourSto?Tat?t,Diar*hoea KI l&J^ Worrns,Co?wulsiorts,F<^rish- li If PA? ii an nts (ness and LOSS OF SLEEP. F ?i UVBF FaeSinito Signature of H -, ?? THE OtRTAUR COMPANY. tin? VON? CITY. ... ; We have about Twenty Excellent; In perfect condition,.better goods than many of the Cheap new ones, at 025.00 up. '? l?ew ones, such as-4 MASON & HAMLIN, ESTEY, CROWN and FIR K AND. AU the very highest Quality, at prices we have never been able to give. Come and see our Stock ; we may nave just what you have been hunting. THE C. A, EEED MUSIC HOUSE. D. 8. VANDIVBR. / E. P. VANDIVEB VANDIVER BROS., GENERAL, MERCHANTS, ANDERSON, B.C., October^, 1?02. We propose pulling trade our way this Fall, and have made, prices os good*, reliable, honest Goods that will certainly bring it. We have the strongest line of Men's, Women's and GhUdr-mV SHOES trs have ever shown, and havs thcsimarked down so low that e?ery pair is ? great value. We have another big lot of Sample Shoes/ that we throw os the market at factory prices. * Come quick while we have your size. We aro rnoney-savera on GROCERIES. 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