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WAR ST In Many Hard Idough! to Face Deal (FOR THE INT During ihe movement of G'rant'c army from the Potomac around below Richmond to inaugurate the Beige of Petersburg, Gea. Kauts' cavalry was in front of Grant's army, whose part was to elcar the way for Grants' in fantry and artillery. To checkmate this dashing cavalry movement Gen. Mart Gary, with his brigade of cavalry of Hampton's divis ion, was assigned to tie task of vicing with Gen. Kauts. Gen. Gary was in his glory then, for he had often told his men that he oould take the 7th S. "C. Cavalry (Gary's Ii/eoas) and rout a whole brigade of Kauts' oavalry. Gary's Hyenas, the 7th S. C., had unbounded confidence iu "Old Mart," -and when Old ?Mart saw we will take those trenches or cut that column of -cavalry to pieces, they \. ll knew that their gallant commander would be with them and among them in the .hardest part of the battle, and that ??he ohing would be done; for Gen. ?Gary knew no such a thing as failure ia any attack or tho meaning of the "word surrender. Kauts and Gary fought on the flan lc* and ia die rear of eaoh other almost daily while this transfer was going OD, and 1 doubt if any of these oavalry ifighte wore ever recorded, unless it .wasOld 'Church, Ridley's Shops and ?.Fugle's Mill, for in those days of great <&atble? -unless hundreds of men wcro .oct dweo the fight was too small to mrairb ??> a battle, whero hundreds, and nao m ? i iiue.s thousands, were cut down in a few hours, although the fight ?where the man gets killed or woundod .is thc same to him, whether there is one or a thousand killod. It was during one of those "mix up" cavalry fights by Kauts and Gary be low Richmond that thc writer was called upou to march right into what appeared to bo the veritable jaws of death alone. I was then a small boy in my teens, a member of Co. G, 7th ??. C. Cavalry, originally Co. B, Rut ledge Mounted Riflemen, which com pany I had joined after becoming un able to walk longer with Orr's Rifios. I think it waB in August, during ?bis campaign, and a little to the right of the Nioe Mile Road, in a woods, with thiok undergrowth, that (Marj's ?cavalry were dismounted and drawn ?ip in a double line, when Gen. Gary rode down in front of us, saying : .'Boya, there are a few Yankees in the trenohes in front of us, and we ?re going to run them out." Just then the oommand was given that overy twentieth front rank man maroh .out sixty paoesto tho front and "count -oft by regiment." I being one of the ?unlucky twentieth men marched out ?o what I thought my doom. It was ! the cruoial .test of my lifo, for I knew . that twiee 20 made 40, and I caleula- : ?ed if we found tho enemy four deep, es we often did, that meant that it was my lot in the fortune of war to be oalled out aa a living target for eighty < men to shoot at, in order to draw their ; fire and thus proteot my oomrades < tfrom thia withering concentrated storm < ot fire and lead that was then lon g 1 held in deadly stillness for us. While ? my mind was thus engaged at sizing- j up my lot, an officer (a stranger to i me) rode by saying: "Men, at the < sound of the bugle maroh straight for- I ward and keep your distance until 1 .you find the enemy, thon fire." If < ?there was any one put io charge of y .this thin line of "feelers" we never < ?hoard a command from him. After 1 *he bugle had. sounded forward, and i we had gone some 200 yards, creeping i through the thick boshes, we could i hear a few hw oommands and the ] . rustling, roaring sound of our army ; / -Ecving through the woods behind us t ..? that-sounded very like a great storm \ . . of wind. 'A little farther on we oame c ??.v to a natural open space in the woods, c . . ??and?oar vidette line had thinned down t to only one man in light, and my cal- \ eolations had grown from 80 men to < . something like 200 men orouohed over y . ^here, ready for each one of us to step < - Tjtft In that opening to be slaughtered, i . for escape seemed impossible. i Now, standing up in line wi lb oom- ] T Made a on either side of you at the bat- i \ dos of Cold Harbor, Gaines* Mill and i ^.a&aujr other battles where many fell by i "'one's side, wes quite a tame affair be? i aide being marched up In front of a Hine of the enemy's trenches, with 4emetfcing like 100 men or more to fire at yea, ene lone advance guard; but as everything then seemed fair in ?war, there was nothing left for one to do but to repeat the reassuring words: 4lMy God and my jountry,'' and go forward. After crossing over this Aspen space a little diBtanoo in the /tfhick underbrush we saw a few small < creseent-shiped pits, whioh told'ids' % that the main trenches of the enemy * was near at hand, and we were then moving on into the very jaws of death alone. Stooping down close to the vgtouud I made for a large pine tree, 'ORIES. ; Ractles, but Called on ;h bnt Once. ELLIOENCEB.) and lying down belli od it I could soo through openings glimpses of a regu lar line of trenches, and some thirty yards to my left, behind a tree, I saw John D., from Co. A, llutledgo Mounted Riflemen, (who afterwards deserted and went to tho enemy.)/ I spoke in a low voice to John, saying lot's open the ball, and seo if we can't send some dirt in their eyes off the top of the trendies. At that moment the roaring noise of our army behind us warned us that something had to be done quioMy, bt'.tall was as silent as death in front uutil the craok of our two rifles broke the silence, when ali at once Yankee heads were as thiok as blackbirds all along the dirt line and guns began to point over the earth. I waited no longer for orders, but tried my best to crawl into the earth, for I knew the signs were ripe then for a mighty storm, and when it did turn loose it seemed like the whole earth was on fire and ina quiver, while falling limbs, twigs, bark and frag ments of shells fairly covered the whole ground around us. A few mo ments after the first volley from the enemy's guns lulled, I oould hear Gen. Gary'B voice call out above every thing: "Forward, charge, cut right through," and then the old familiar rebel yell from "Gary's Hyenas," and to my horror, they oommonoed to fire not more than 50 steps bo Vod mo, and thc din of battle was on, and I must have swooned away, for every thing then seemed like a deep dream to me, aud when I came to myself there we were in the Yankee tronchos, and I was among Tucker's Squadron -our own men-but strangers to mo. It was not long after this until John D. deserted. The experience of this hard luok on that awful day may have turned his head, for a braver boy nev er lived. Fi returned to old Pendle ton-his native home-but once after the war, from New York, where he died, exiled from his native home, losing all the honor ho had gained as a soldier. Farmer's Son. BULL RUN NO PICNIC. Washingtonians Thought It Would Be a Holiday. Very few poople there are wh> are familiar with the date on whioh falls the anniversary of the battle of Bull Run, says the Washington Post. The dato is remembered by and known to more people and comos near er being celebrated in Washington and the District of Columbia than io any other quarter of the United States. The first battle of Bull Run "as fought on July 27, 1861, and w hen that Jay arriv?e during the present month it will see large numbers of old veterans, ladies and gentlemen of the older generation und not a few of the younger, celebrating, in their own , luiot way, this, one of tho list of un- , ofl&oial holidays. This statement may , be a surprise to many, and oauae some j people to inquire why, in view of the , Pact that Bull Run was "a Union de- , feat and a Confederate stampede," as ] me writer put it, the remembrance of , that ovent had .been oherished by , Washingtonians until the anniversary , }f the fight has become a sort of half ?ray, unrecognised, unlegalized holi lay. This, perhaps, is bebt answered 3y a venerable gentleman, now fast ipproaching his 80th year, who for nany years has been oonneoted with he Army and Navy Medical Museum. [Io said: "Perhaps it is a little hard for out siders and newoomera fco understand vhy we Washingtonians set snob itore by the anniversary of the battle >f Bull Run, but to me the reasons ire olear enough. Now that the o i vii var and its long train of attendant ivila are past and gone I dare say it would be utterly impossible for any )ne to imagine or to form a oorreet idea of the altogether vague, mistaken ind even frivolous view that people North and South took of the war at tho beginning of the struggle. You see the country had [ enjoyed a long Bra of peaoe. From 1815 down to 1861, almost a half century, there had been no war worthy of the name. Of course there was the Mexican war and the va* rioua Indian outbreaks, but these were left largely to the regular army to set tle and did not off cot nor convulse tho country as a wholo. AU over the United States the people had settled into a rut from whioh nothing short of a terrible war oould have moved them, and had matters gone on in this way for another half century we would I have been a nation mere backward than the Boers cf South Africa. "Therefore when the oivil war came on both sides went about the matter in a lazy, perfunctory, dilatory sort of way, as though one noisy and blood les? battle would Bettie thu dispute forever and a day. Thia appears all tho moro amusing to mc DOW, . as I look back over the vista of jcars and thick how, early in July, 1801, wo Washingtonians got word that a bat* tlc was soon to be fought out at Bull Hun. Our half century of peace had rendered bloody spectacles a de-'.ded novelty and I can remember, as the day drew near, how thc city was all a-bustle and agog over what many looked forward to as the greatest sight of their lives. Had any of Napoleon's veterans dropped into the city a few i1 .tya before Bull Hun he would never have guessed that a battle was immi nent. It was more like a city getting ready for a flower carnival, an exposi tion opening, or a grand holiday of some sort. Department dorks were bustling about, beseeching leaves of absence in order to take their wives and sweethearts out to see the fight, nor were they obliged to beg very hard, for their superiors were quite as anxious as their subordinates to gape at the battle whioh was to settle for ever the question of secession, etc "When the day came and the boom ing of cannon resounding over the hills told us that the struggle was on in earnest I venture to say you could not have hired a horse and rig for 610 j aa hour. I happened to be one of the spectators and so I know whereof I speak. I also obtained a leave of ab sence, or, rather, I took it, inasmuch as the department in which I was em ployed was deserted and, joining a friend who had a horse and buggy, we followed the throng out to where the fighting was in progress. On reaching the battlefield we join ed a large crowd of sight seers posted on a little hillock in the rear of a body of infantry, which, by the way, had one cannon that was firing, in a sort of desultory way, at the enemy, whoso cattery was situated 02 an opposite rise beyond an intervening hollow or gully. The latter were bombarding the Federal infantry at a pretty lively rate and, as it seemed to me at the time, were using more solid cannon balls than shells. Many of these passed over the infantry, fell and re bounded near the spectators on the hillock in the rear. Instead of fright ening any of us, from the very outset wo lost all sense of fear. The big, solid cannon balls from tho Confed erate battery were not at all terrifying. They seemed to bowl over to our side like so many base balls and, although moving at a very rapid rate, they crea ted just the opposite impression, so muoh so, in fact, that there was a great deal of useless dodging, whioh was at times quite amusing. Street arabs were on hand and whenever a cannon ball struck there was a general scram ble of small boys, men and women to gain possession of the ball for a sou venir. One rather haughty lady, who felt it beneath her dignity to join in any such competition, purchased a cannon ball from a twelve-year-old youngster for $1.00. Others did the same. "My companion soon got tired of the spectacle and returned to his horse and carriage, whioh were left in the rear. He was afraid that, in the excitement, someone might steal it, but I was anxious to secure a oannon ball and he consented to wait for ?ne j until I bad scoured one, provided it I did not take too long. I ran after j several, but missed them. Finally, after two or three disheartening at tempts, the rebele fired one shot that played havoc among the infantry in Front of us, carrying off tho hoads of two men whom I myself saw fall and scattering the spectators righi, and left. I calculated about the spot where the ball would strike, guessed right, remained where ? was standing ind beat the others to it by several /ards. Tho ball waa covered with The 8 Hour Day Which the working man has fought for and succeeded in obtaining is something the wife has no share in. Her day be gins before his and ends long , after it, as a rule, ana many a night her rest is broken by tbs baby's fretful ness. The healthiest woman must wear out under auch a strain. What can be ex pected then of those women who are weakened by womanly T^J* diseases? * Woman ?MajH who ar? fraPfKRl we.**, worn-out and run ?flV^'V?! dtm? fiod new Ufe and new strength in the nat of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, It establishes regularity, dries weakening draina, heals inflammation and ulc?ra tion, and cures female weakness. It makes weak women strong and eick women well. rat WOMBI WHO Car^OT SS G?SSS? Backed up by over a third of a century Cf remarkable and uniform cures, s record each ss no other -remedy fer th? dtaasssa and weaknesses peculiar to women ever attained, the proprietors of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription now feel lally War ranted in cherin* to pay $500 in legal money of the United States, fte any cese of Leucorrh?e, Female Weakness, Prolap sus, or Falling of Womb which they can not cure. All they ask is a fair and reeson ahte trial of their means of cure. . ' ?I wafered -?ito ft male -aresknes? atoate&fct -rears-tried eereral dodar? Ns* d*^jted M*?**' fit until ? began using Dr. ??ero?'* ^J?dt?J3a* ecrtption," writes Mrs. John Green, or DsnviU*, BoylsCo., Ky. ?This mediane wa? recom mended to mc by other retient*. 1 hase taken atc bottles and Z feel hke another person." Refuse ?ill substitutes. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets should be used with ? Favorite Prescription?? when ever a la ratlve ia required. j blood arm before I rejoined my com panion I bad ?ever%l offers of $1, $2 and $3 and a3 high as $5 for tho bali, which I declined, preferring to retain tho grewsome souvenir of the first battle of the long four years' struggle, whioh I, at that time, thought would bo the last. I have the ball yet. Yonder it lies ic tho corner. "I had no more than reaobed my friend before both he and I became aware that something extraordinary was in progress. As I climbed in the buggy I noticed several artillerymen ride past at a dead gallop, with their harness traces cut. I had read of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow and of other retrograde movements, but it was some time before I oould get it through my head that a retreat was in progress. When I left the hill the battle sr'med to be raging in a man ner whioh, to a oivilian like myself, seemed quite ideal and proper, and I oould not understand the meaning of these artillerymen, who were now fly ing past in rapidly increasing uumbors. I looked at my companion and he at me and then we asked each other : 'Is this a retreat?' "We drove leisurely along at first, a trifle alarmed, and slowly increasing our speed as the meaning of the thing began to dawn upon our minds. W? tried to stop several artillerymen, so as to inquire of them whether thu was a retreat, who had ordered it. etc,, but none of them would remain lonf enough to give a reply. Present?] the road became so ohoked *ith flying oannoueers and cavalrymen, buggiei and civilians on horseback that w< were in danger of being overturned Horsemen were bumping into us an? I oould see men throwing away gun and knapsacks. My companion ha? his buggy whip out ready to whip u his horr.? into a gallop, when someon in the rear yelled: 'Run for you lives; the enemy's oavalry are upo us.' 'That settles it,' muttered m companion between his teeth and th way our horse got up and fairly dust cd, under tho stimulus of my oompac ion's whip, was a sight. We passe everything on the road and landed i Washington safe and sound, altboug Our poor animal was nearly winded. "The next two days were days < sorrow, fear and trembling for tl people of this oity. Everyone expect ed the Confederates to advance upon, storm and tako the city immediately and it was thoo, for the first time, that we began to realise that the war was a far more serious proposition, as ?be boys say nowadays, than >we had at first imagined. When days passed and they did nothing of the sort, and the Federal troops began to . retrieve their'losses, we were indeed happy and thankful. It was this thankful' ness over our unexpected good fortune and deliverance that has led Washing ton people to remember the day with feelings akin to thanksgiving for *our streak of luck' in not falling into the hands of the rebels.' Alfalfa Roots Go Down Very Deep. Columbia, Mo., July 14.--Investi gations have beeo made to determine to what depth the roots of alfalfa will penetrate. An eight-year-old plant in a etiff "hardpan" subsoil was followed to a depth of 10 fest without the end of tho Up root being found. Many instances have bean recorded of the roots penetrating from 38 to 66 feet. A mining tunnel waa excavated in Nevada 129 feet below an alfalfa Cold and the roots of the plant were found in the roof of the opening. The searching roots of this wonderful plant not only obtain food far below the shallow-feeding plants, but when, the large boring roots decay they leave their own fertilising ingredients and opening for air and water to penetrate. Alfalfa thrives best in sandy loams of oreek and river valleys in a warm climate, and with only a moderate rainfall, but it is grown successfully on the uplands and prairies. It grows in altitudes from 8,000 down to sea level, but is seriously affected by cold, wet "winters. A plant eighteen years old with 334 stems growing from one root, with a height of 52 laches above the ground, is the product bf a Kan sa? field. The more alfalfa is abused by cut ting the better it will grow. After it gets 8 inches high the first year of sowipg it will double the amount of stalks by dipping. If not out it will probably grow up spindling and die. St. Louis Republic. ^B?l^t CQSts Oidy 25 ceDt? at Dnig^ ^MUST *mS^wS??S^0r 25 ceBt* G. *Ja MOFFETT. M. Dc. ST. L.OUI8, MO. ' _ . ATLAOTA, GB,, NOT. W. 1300. Wc taro handlea Dr. Xfoffttt'0 TEETH!NA fTcothlns Powfon) ?rtr Bino? ttl Ant iotrodnnttan Jp the publia and trado a? a proprietary mcdlslno, and our trado In ? hal steadily increased trop? ycarto ycarunU\iMir ordera now amount to two or taroo hundrod ?TOM POT year, which ls . Terr etrons evidence ox ita merit and tho etta-faction u 6cir! n s to tba moth e ra ot tho conn try, for th sy say no thins no oflcctaaUy counteracts tba e fleets ot tavnuaasar ^uaoroxercomeasooplosly^t^ln^^^^ ^ ^ ^<>l^T**&*. NOW FOR THE Our tace for business the past season hat been more than satisfactory to ourselves. We find ourselves fax in advance of all past records, having done the best year's business up to this time ever before in our experience. From now 'till September 1st we propose to Keep up the record, and so A ?iret-claeO; elegant three-quarter Percale, beautiful s ty Jes,- worth 6 c, to | 50 at 5c. A 40-inch Perca! Vnewest designs, worth lOo, our price 7c. A 40-inch White Lawn, worth 6c, going at 5o. A better quality Lawn, same width, worth 10c, to go at 8c. Summer Shirts, worth 75c, now going at 60c, to keep from carrying t^m TRTJN. >ver.J Df all grades at prices to please. If you're going to tho mountains you want s strong ode. If you go to the Ajssociaijon you'll need k big one. We can St you in both. . . ' I Prioes on FLOUR ?a?e advanced ?sharply, but with the .;ua!ity wo jive you we will be found lower iban the prevailing markets justify. Alway? Beady for Business, .: i v See us at once for genuine, old-festooned PERUVIAN GITANO. Orders must be given before (September lat, as we can't get any ato date. Analysis-i?hos. Acid 20J, Potash 3.82, Ammonia 4.; The Kind Ton Have Always Bought, and which _ in nae tor over 30 years? baa borne the signataire of and bas been made nader bis pe*, sonal supervision since ita inftmcy. Allow no? on? to deceive you in .thia. All Counterfei- 0, Imitations and " Just?as?good" are uni Experiment? that trifle With and endanger the health ot* Infants and Children-Exxiorlonco against Brnoriment? What is CASTORS A easton? ia a harmless substituto for Castor^ goric, Props and Soothing Syrups* It Is Pleasant. Ifc contains neither Opium? Morphine nor ether Kareotto substance* Its age ls its guarantee; It destroys Worms end allays Feverishness. It eures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimil?tes the Food, insulates th? Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and nasura* sleep, The ChUdren's Panacea-The Mother's Priens? GBNUIMB CASTORIA ALWAY? The KM Ton Haye Always Bought In Use Por Over 30Years. fifflfffflS IMBI ii u t iWflflBi^ McCormick Vertical Lift Mower. The McCormick Vertical Lift Mower, a view of which is presested here with, io specially designed for cutting on rough and stumpy gronnd, hut is abo well adapted for general uee. This machina combine3 all the essential features of the most perfect grass-cutting machine. By virtue of ita achie7> ments on rough and uneven fields, as well as on smooth and level meadow lands, the Vertical Lift Mower is generally recognized ; aa being the hast aU Surpose Mowing Machine manufactured. . The McC<?miok ia equippedjnth evfees by means of which the cutter-bar can ha raised to a vertical position and lowered by the driver, the machine beinrf thrown in and out of gear au tomatically v'thout stopping the team. This form of constrootiou ia found invaluable, ss it enables the operator of tho McCormick Vertical Lift to cut close up to tree, stump or rock, and eave all tho hay. The cutter-bar is easily raised for passlag any obstruotlon, and the ma chine is thrown out of gear automatically, without any . loss of time that would otherwise he consumed ia operating an ordinary machine under such adverse conditions. : I _. - - -_-'-i . SULLIVAN n???WAB? Ut?. This is the ideal season to enjoy a : : : ? : Nice New Buggy, And we have a splendid line of them to select from at reasonable price?. If you need a nice ISTew Billys Surrey, or Set of r-??truess? It will pay you to see ua before you bay. Tours for New Buggies, V?NDIVER ?ROS. & MAJOR. We have about Twenty Excellera AND ?ft?AUS, In perfect condition, better gooda than many of the Cheap new ones, at 325.00 np* Hew ones, auch as MASON. & HAMLIN, ESTEY, . CROWN and F?KRAND. AU the very highes* quality, Rt prices we have nuver been able to give. Come end seo our Stock ; wo may haveJos> what you have been hunting. ? L0H6 LOOK HHE?O ces of late have shown how life hangs by a thread when war, flood, hasfti^e and to suddenly overtakes you, and tho only war to be sure that your family is protooted ?fc case cf calamity overtaking you is to h> sure in a sohd Company like Drop in and see us about it. STATE AGEKTp People*' Bank Building, ???DBBSG?sr 8 o.