University of South Carolina Libraries
ftocnoic s Digestion .C luv rfu I vttt?xd ?VsU'oiil.iins neither (taure.Morphine nor Mineral. >fm ^1 Ait curie. jttof* .SM*Dr&WUELPiTCJUUi f\mtfJtm Seal' Ji.x.Sttuut * ?wAr//s Sr. I is - .Lii.-r . fer tl * i^pfntwtt - Si Cur?atuitr.icda * i ?Cs ru Semd - S?U?rr/*v/i fia var. j Apsrfccl Remedy for Constipa ? Item. Sour Slomach, Diarrhoea Sj li^ms Convulsions ,Fcverish S.voss>?mA Loss OF SLEEP. 3i/:5inulc Signature of XEW YOI?K. .t -Vi jn 11 i o H th > oJUl I' ? s, 0>rvi:s W ,j:;yC i IN r.s.. SOftST. COPY QF.WRAPPERJI PACTAD iJfnw it fyp ? ?[ For Infants and Children The Kind You Have Always Bought 1 Bears the jj Signature of in Use For Ovei Thirty Years -?s?ii THC eiHTtun eoMPANv. new VORN o mr. E In the Piedmont Belt of the South ? Anderson County is the HUB of the Piedmont Belt, and jad jon can select from the following and let me hear from lb He City of Anderson :} House and Lot on Noith Main Street. House and Lot on Houth Main Street. Vacant Lot on South Main Street. lb Carterville Township: 155 acree, improved ; aleo, 67 aerea. 3b Broadway Township : 51 acre?. 3b Pendleton Township : 77 aereo. 3b Jerk Township : 104, 900,105 and 52 nore Tracts. 3D Ball Township : 289 aereo. ALL MORE OR LESS WELL IMPROVED. Jo Piefeena County I have 285 acree in one body and 75 sores in another. ID Oconee County I have several Tracts, running 104, 418,75, 385, 130, 3 ?fr-all ia Center Towoship. T?tere are- no better lands to produce than I offer you above, and if you aa? jai meted in buying or Belling lands in the city or country, see me and ma tell you what I have to offer. "?oura for building up the country and t ity, JOS. J. FRETWELL?, Anderson? 8. Qe 3* & "VANMVER. EL P. VANblVERl - OFFICE OB* -- TANWT1B BH0B-9 AGENTS FOR ARMOUR^ GUANO AND AGID. 1 Britten Seed Meal? Kalnit and all Mads of Fertilizers. FLOUR, COFFEE. TOBACCO? Best gradee for least money. fjpfc?your?patronage appreciated. Your truly, . ? \ VANDIVER BROS. BS Walfrid you aa opportunity to have DELIGHTFUL CHRISTMAS MUSIO J?$? pleasure for the rest of the year we have made SPE0?AL HOLIDAY PR?0ES, $lscd nntil Kow Year's Bay, on new FACTORY SAMPLE PIANOS. $125, $A50, $170, 5200. Jtadsome eases, best qua?ty tone and material? fully war* - 9wo Car Loads OE?ANS of our standard lines, may be Spsws li easy terms at lowest possible prices. @raphapho^eB/4ViolinB, Guitars, Banjos, Etc. Som?, to seo or?writP us for the?^ special prices. THE 0. A. REE!) MUSIO HOUSE, ' Airi>EBj90N, a a ^^^^^ e^ya^rsland Merchants Bank, Anderson, &0.'X WAR ST At The Siege of : Battery Wagner was situated on Morris Island, about six miles from Charleston. Its guns commanded the channel approach to that city. Thc enemy had effected a landing on tho southern end of the island, aHo\ mov ing up their forces, had erected heavy batteries about 1,000 yards in front of Wagner.j The latter, which was occu pied by our troops, was a large bas tioned earth work, inclosed on all sides and situated upon a neck of the island so narrow that the battery (more properly fort) extended across its full width two hundred and fifty yards at that point from the sea or ship channel on one side to Vincent creek, a deep and narrow salt water creek, on the other. This island was a long, low, sandy, sea island, almost denuded of growth save for a few pal i motto trees, a number of which grew along the banks of Vincent creek. There was situated near tho banks of this oroek au abandoned two-story wooden house, muoh nearer the erne raj-'ii works than ours, which a small body of the enemy wok possession of. In faot it was the headquarters of their night outpost pieket. From the upper windows of this house a, band of sharpshooters had been constantly harassing thc garrison at Wegner by firing plunging shots in their elevated positions from their long range rifles, and' scarcely a day passed- without some soldier in the open parade of tho fort being killed or wounded. Of course, the troops oould not perpetually remain under oover in tho stifling bomb proofs, and they were necessarily exposed to the rifle fire of this unseen, pitiless foe, dealing death day after day. They could not be dislodged by infantry, as they had the near support of 10,000 troops in their own works (our force in the fort beiog less than 1,500 men.) They oould not be shelled by artillery, beoause we were dey and night strengthening our works, and any ar tillery demonstration from oar fort wonld have resulted in drawiog upon as tho concentrated fire of all the enemy's siege guns, whioh were of the heaviest oalibre. In the daytime the enemy's pickets were drawn from the 'house, leaving only the (harpsuooters io do their daily, deadly work. No feasible ex pedient oosld bs adopted to barn this houoo and abate this intolerable nuis; anoe, and night aione bvought relief to the harassed garrison? It was possible for a very few men, under the shelter of the creek bank in prases and the scant growth of shrub bery, to approach tl o house io tbs day time; bat no considerable number could do so without being seen at once, and it was, of coarse, imprspti oable to do so at night. At the time mentioned ? was a captain of infantry - ????. WWWVUWW IIWHi U.J .?.Q.puwwv iii Virginia, and was temporarily aa sign ed to staff duty with General William B. TaliaferTo, who commanded Fort Wagner, ss inspector general.- One morning in July, .1803, about a week or ten, days before the bombardment and assault on , tho 18th bf Joly, Lieutenant J. J. Doughty, i of Augus a, Go., who ia still living in that atty, received a box of eatables from home and invited me, Lieutenant M; Hitt and Thomas Tatt, also of Augus ta at that time, sod Sergeant Hopps, from Missouri, to dine with bim in nis quarters in fie fort. We were en joying, only as ravenous soldiers could, the delioious viands whioh tender hands at borne bad stereo' away io thia precious box, and bad nearly finished our meal wheo one of Tutt's men carno in hurriedly and re ported, with fe voice quivering with emotion, th st ? well known comrade of his command (?bose name tie writer has forgotten,) bsd just been shot dead io the open tort by one of the .enemy's sharpe hooters from the house referred, to. ' Tutt sprang from his seat?bH dark eyes flash!og fire, with a strange Hgbt gloaming from their depths, and, ieosy lng Into bujt feces, said, wUb his own set hard with determination and w,lb lory written in every line. "Boys? let us get a rifle ? pi eoe and drf to tbs d-n r?scala from that bouse and burn it or perish in the attempt.1' There were five of us present-Tutt,' Doughty, Hitt, Hopps sad myself in the'part*. We were all quito young, and tba strang? magnetism/of Tutti who was our senior by several' years* and his ' determined . bearing imme diately fired us allVwithatrjtelgto.u tbusiaim wbioV I ' W?K;'nefer-1?rgei] ani, without taking, ?me tb re fleet updo thc pur il nr thc oons^queoaes of the enterprise, wa agreed and at once formed our' plan of ^.t?6inp|^||M&M General Taliaferro bad goqb^Mt day to the city of Charleston, t&?ffl :?.la; a'psenoe the command :of- tipTjfnjjr devolved upon Coiooo? ?berlas H. Gi matead, formerly of ; tblj city, but OR?ES. Battery Wag&ex. now living in New York. We quick ly made our plans, and, each securing a rifle and ammunition, we secretly left thc fort about u p. m., on the per- I ilous expedition. Being a stat! em civ, I was enabled to pass thc party out at the sally port, and, crouching low and stealthily, in Indian file, Tutt being in the lead, we glided slowly up the creek, taking advantage of itu banks, the palmetto trees and occasional sand dunes to hide us from view. The house was about fifty yards from the creek, and, when we had reached a point about ono hun dred yards from it, we halted, and, lying down together behind some stunted shrubbery, held a council of war. It was impossible to retreat then, because the sharpshooters had ', evidently seen some movement and, j with their rifles in hand, we could see them at the windows, looking intent ly in our direction. The space be tween us and the house was a perfect ly open sand area, without the slight est shelter or protection. There was oot a moment to boo, aa the enemy was growiog more and more suspic* ious. There were eight sharpshooters io the house, but at the time we did oot know the number. There were only five of us. We at onoe oonoluded to make a dash for the house. The enemy were at the win dows on the side looking toward our fort. We had crept to a point nearly opposite the end, so that they oould get only a few oblique shots at us from the windows before we oould pass the line of fire, tho end of the houso interposing its friendly shelter after passing this line. At a signal from Tutt(who, by com mon consent, became our leader,) and raising the Rebel yell, we widely sep arated, and on the full run we rushed for the building, a scattering volley being fired at ns, providentially with oat effeot. Meeting together on the opposite side of the house, we ran pell-mell into the building through the open door in tbe back of the same. The enemy seemed stunned by the sudden ness and the audacity of the at took, and we were fairly in the hall before they were enabled to oome down the np...3w stairway to meet os. The first two were shot dead in the gen eral fasilado which followed, the vivid flashes of the rifles lighting ap thc hall, whioh was soon filled with dense smoke. Tho surviving six drew bask from oar view and Tatt, raving like a de mon, started apstairs alone, bat we palled him biak. He thea, ia a load voice, ordered tho house set on uro, whioh we at onoo did, retiring to the open area in the rear af ter the fire had made considerable headway. The building was old and dry, burned like tinrlar^ SSd lt WSS. ? SS5S O? bs?Sg mated or leaving the houao. Some of the sharpshooters ran out of the doors, add others lamped from, the lower windows. We stood around, With our Titles cooked, and shot them as they appeared.. They made a feeble resistance, ablating wildly ^ and the survivors took to their heels. Four or tuen were MUed, one waa badiy wounded, and threa made good their escapo. The writer dragged the wouodod man a*?ay from tho burning building io prevaos his hsiis^?p^ ali ve, and left him lying sn the ;?nd at a safe distan oe from tho house. . . By tbio time tho ,musketry and the burning bnildiog had aroused tho re spective garrisons of the two forts, wht?h swarmed io kastei do tjsi.tsi parapets; we were at easy rifle range of the Yankee garrison, add if ?a at* tempted to retreat acreaa the open area.of saud, death to m would have beeo tho- inevitable resols;- ?h> was already swept- by ? hurricane of bullets, the en erny e v iden Uy suppos ing that there was a largo body of W ooo oe ate d io the sh robb sr y I oe ar - th e now ooofldmed hooBs.- W? . realised top iate tuet we Were etugus Ii ko r*ta io.i 'trapl-' lo' front pf us, two hun drad yards nearer tba enemy's '*" little hiHook or taod dos?. Opto area of sand, and, sith brought oe mooK^oelallM? works, we mads.u dash forlt, So o to shelter ourselves from n?* -? * IJ?IXJM'J Ml m It Wis our iiiea io becking tbIM tilt 1 ter to remain there uutil Dight had set in, and theo blip back to Wag ner under cover of darkoess, but it | waB not BO ordered. After lying in the position described, under the pit iless rays of a scorching July sun fo: some little time the enemy's fire greatly slsckcucd, and I stealthily peeped over the sand durne to take an observation, when, to my horror, I saw a fu i i company of Yankee in fantry, which had silently moved out ol *teir works, rapidly approaching us, the sunlight flashing from their ? bright bayonets as they maven ed. [ Turning to my companions I said. .'Boy's, look yonder, it's all up with us now." Certain death, or oapture indeed seemed inevitable, aod we each real ized it. The invincible Tutt, how Iever, swore that he would not be taken alive, and seemed inexorable in this determination, although we as sured him that any resistance wo might then make would be unavailing against ouch a body of meo, number ing at least sixty rifles, and would end in our butohory by an exasperated I foe. Tutt persisted, however, and, indignantly scorning tho idea of sur* I render, without further parley, dis I oharged his rifle full at the approach. I ing enemy. This, of course, settled I the questioo, as nothing was then I left to us but to stand by our reckless j and iutrepid comrade, which we did I for all we were worth. With elbow I touching elbow, and our beads alone I visible above the sand bank, we kepi I up a steady fire upon the Hoe of blue j rapidly neeriog us. At the first vol I ley the; halted, returning the fire 1 aod then with huzzas oame for us oi j the full ruo-the situation was ap j pal?Dg, but we continued to pour ou j fire into them. j What''was it then that shook th j islaud from oeoter to circumference I Turning our heads in the direction o I the Sound, ure witnessed a sight whio I sent the blood tingling io our veins j The entire faoe of Wagner was enve' I oped in rolling clouds bf smokev li j up with crimson flame from bastion t I bastioo by the guns of the fort. Th j heaviest batteries of siege guns o I this entire feco of Wagner were su< I denly opened upon the approaobic I federal infantry. Charlie Gimotead, rx I old schoolmate, who was comraaodit I in the absence of Gecera? Taliaferr II had ooma to tho reson?. The artille! , I fire, conducted.by that aoooraplisrn I aod gallant soldier, Lieutenant Cc i l onel J. C. Simpkins, of South Cat j lina, and ohief of artillery, was t j rooted with wonderful precision, QI I I the shells passing over our heads a i bursting beyond us unoomfortat i close in the very face of the enere . scattered'them like oh off before t 1 wind.' But somehow, we had r i counted on what followed. i The Yankee fort immediately opt cd their batteries of heavy guns up 1 Wagner, and one of th o most terri ' artillery duels I ova? witnessed duri 1 the war w?s thus precipitated betwi 1 the respeo si vo f or ta, and all stirred ! by our little band. The ebene s ?t grand and awe-inspiring, both cai? ' shelling furiously ?vor our beads eaob other. Of course, all ibo 1 fen try on both sides were dtii from she parapets by thia . terr artillery fire. It was plein that t 1 d?monstration on the part of Colo 1 Olmstead wee made solely to co our ra t re at, and we rapidly wed on? works through the heavy sa 1 under the rays of the hottest SIDO 1 eyer felt. W? arrived safe,:oomplc ly winded aud exhausted; ouse in t wo separated, sud silently crept to < respeetive quarters. Colonel O I stead-soon made bia appeaWnc?, J . placed mo under arrest. He h .w|tho?^erdeiif >j^m^*\greve : ' apoosibiUty in thu prompt ard gall V a^tib^ b:e';bad'^ I eavenfl?be did, ss but fofblacoad j ubi one bf us would have bees.' left 1 island bad greatly excited tho pee hurried back to the fort, reaobiog ; lhtle afier.; darlt.^y??ms^ : [mot, ? ; at the boa>;.). Undi og st 0 nmwA ; Point, and related to tbi? grim soldier ali;' tbst bad- pses^d, # tb? **me together into my quart (else the quarters of the general,) i : ;f^bln*'*l?*P^ ^?*k^ Ration. '?Well,- ?id tho eche ^ponded OtaaUri. "Goodl"fir? ci thc old general. Theo, node : to*ard:?*^ : leawblt^fru^ be w< \ ^^HfWeh Charlie was,t??|j|^p| ofeottne, to do. ' V v. ^t asii li^ps uefc bog after? Jo-ned tbe rsnks of ifcat'grea* a Tsodergitoiiod*~th?y i'^^^^tteil'l QifaMiit?y}&$n?M*-? >? ai \ A ppot ?PvV^y'w^ "A?ha&y, \?a^.faad libe; KWr?ter^?l b^t?vw??^:'-boye; be; spared' - for :n $e*#fe^^ Some Flag Incidents. M ra. Fannie Leaker died ai Cham jcisburg, Pa., the other day. Speak vg of her, The New York PreEB 4,in Civil war days she was 'Dolly' I Harris, the hau?jomo yoong daughter f of a resident of Greeocastle, which is ? in the route of Lee's advenoe to fight j the battlo of Gettysburg. When\he < Confederate army oame niarooiag ? through tho valley, 'Dolly' Harris I j lived where tho Citizens' bank now |, Blands in Greenoastle, and as tho gray olad army passed the plucky Uoion. girl stepped to the curb and waved the Stars and Stripes almost io Geo. Lee's face. '.The Confederate's passed without molesting her. hut ' Jolly V name waa heralded as that of a heroine of the greatest battle of the war of the Un ion. The yoong girl took no risk when she waived the flag, for there was not a soldier in Gen. Lee's army who would harm a woman. We served un der Gen. Lee from the day he took command until the surrender and never heard even a disrespeotful word used about a woman by one of his soldiers. It is not on record where any woman in Pennsylvania or Mary land waB treated wi tb the slightest ineivility by any of our men. Greenoastle is a familiar name to the editor of The Medium, being the birthplace of bio mother. In our marok to Gettysburg we turned off after passing Hsgerstown and missed seeing Greenoastle. Captured at Falling Waters July 14th, 1863, we were marched back through several villages on the Way to Harper's Fer ry, and at one of these we witnessed a flag incident. Two women came to the side walk and waved the Stars and Stripes in the faces of the prisoners screeching out words of abuse when the soldiers of the Fifth New York cavalry, guarding us, made them take their flags and get back into their bouses. The same, women bad waved the Confederate flag at us a few days before. The guards said they knew what kind of people the women were. A little farther on a crowd of noncom batants stood on the street corner and began to jeer at us when the guard denounced su ob proceedings and said if a stop was'net put to ouch behavior he would turn bia gun over bis pris oners with, permission to shoot into tho crowd. That hint was enough. The flag incidents maka interesting reading.--Abbeville Medium. Plan For Raising Fonds. The capitalisation of the Associ?t tton of United Confederate Veterans, making of it a half-million dollar ob** portion, ur atook company,. the ato?is tc t> hvid' b> :hs hss^Veds ^ staajgfti th ru uti lum t. the South, ia one of. tba lattst ou -?estions offered ' in oonoce iioft mth ii>e. mattet of assuring funds for. tba oKpenses' of, the annual re anions the veterans bold in tba cities of tbe S?utb. v . | ; Under the present conditions tua veterana aro forced annually to solioit fonda for tba gatherings and there aro' many in the ranks who object to this oustom pfj0paasin? the ??ti^ ; At a recent mee ti og of ODQ of the big comtnittoep in charge ?of tbo com ing reunion thc au?geation of the cap italizatiou was \ brought ont. The various members bad bee? diaouesing tbe financial status of affairs, and in theos discussions it,waa shown that annually tbe task of raieing&aouity by snl is ntl n t?n? haA hnnam e h ar der ard more unsatisfactory. Than came; ? tba suggestion that the Assooktion of United Confederate Vete?^ od a chartered atoefe company, ?ad tfeetit* capital be p!eei>d fti W>r OOQ^that th*.^^f^^^M called upon to subscribe io this stook, The Prussian army and tho Prag, ian people '..ore so completely pulver sed at Jena and Auerstaedt OG that atal October 14 that they allowed, heir oountry to be overruu without toother attempt at resistaQce. Never ^ >efore or since has sash a discredit ible panie seised apon a whole nation tod paralyzed all effort and ?rill. The irrny laid down itearms in mobs with out fighting, and the fortresses sur rendered ia baicbes at the first sight of the Kreuch uniform. Hohenlohe gave up at Prenzlow, Blaeoher at Luebeok; Madgeburg opened its gates to Ney without hesitation; Stettiu hauled down its colors on the appear LUI co of Lassalle's light horse; Kues trio, not to bo outdone, plaoed boats at the enemy's disposal lo enable him tc cress the Oder. There was, as tho Duohesse'd'Abrantes truly declared, a regular d?gringolade de villes. Na poleon was allowed to enter Berlin as conquerer without another blot? being struck for Prussia. Tinco hundred and forty captured standards graced bis triumph, while the sword of Fred erick became, and has remained, a Napoleonic family heirloom.-London Times. Why the Doctor Couldn't Go In. j A lady bad been ill and under medi cal treatment for a long time? As she grew no better all the while, she became distrustful of ber physician's skill and did not. wish to see him sod yet was not bold enough to tell him so. She communicated her state of mind to ber maid. "L'avo 'ira to me, mum; l'avo 'im to me!" said the girl. By sud by the doctor came to the door, and Bridget opened it about an inch. '"Sorry, sir," said she, "but yb can't come in the day, doohter." "Can't come io? How's that?" "The mistress do be too ill for ta see ye the day, sir."- London Tit?? Bits, m m ^ ? ' I Banns tito v?1t? Kfad Voa Haw Always 8ffll$ ' - After a man hos acquired a cer tain amount of wisdom he would rath er add to it than make a display ot what little he has. . ; ?