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IJ; REPRIEVED TOO LATE. ' BOJEE OF THE HOK ICO KM OF OUR 1 TK CIVIL WAS. A Little Story of the War, Told by an , Kx-ltebel. When the O 'ederate ariny?or at least one of 'en - lay at Dalton, this being in the winter of 1804, there Were many desertions from the rank and file. While.it was at' all times true of the Confederate soldier that he did not feel the bonds of enlistment holding him as tightly as the Union soldier did, f)in numKnp r\f nlwnnfnna at. t.liiu VilV JiUWUV* V* UWMVIIVVVW V"1U time was really appalling. It was a time when everything felt blue. We were ragged, half-feu, half-armed; H . and could see notliing hopeful in the spring campaign. During December and January little attention was given to the mutter of absentees, as it was known that most of them intended to return after a brief visit to their families, but when February came the rein began to tighten. It was not long before a general order was issued to the effcct that future deserters must expect the full penalty provided in ? army regulations. This was check sufficient on the great majority, but outa d-cut desertions continued to occur. r. One night, when 1 was sergeant of a pickct post well advanced towards the Uniouvlines, instructions were received to keep a sharp watch for deserters. Not more than an hour later we made a captur3. A boy-about, 18 years old, a private in a Gt oroia regiment, had left camp with the intention of visiting his home, which was then inside the Union lines. He was not over bright, ana when brought in by a picket he seemed to look upon the matter as a joke. It was only when he had been escorted to camp and put under guard, charged with trying to desert to the enemy, that >c seemed to realize the gravity of his j situation. A court-martial made short work of . his case. The only defense he set up ( was that he was homesick and wanted to sec his mother, and that he surely i meant to return that same week. There might have been something in this ap- , peal had he not admitted that lie knew J his home to be within the Union lines, j and that there was a strong probability ] of his being captured by the Federals. From the hour he was jtcnced to be J shot he was placed tinder my charge. I , think it was?about a week from the find- 1 ing of the court-mai tial to the day of , his execution. For the first two or three ( days the boy was like one struck dumb, and he answered no questions. When this state of mind 'wore off he spent most of his time in weeping, praying and writing letters. It was only on the night before his execution that he became talkative. As I carried him his supper he asked: "Sergeant, did you ever see a deserter 1 shot?" "Yes." "How was it done?" "By a file of men. Six of ray squad nave been detailed In your caae." "Will they blindfold me?" "Yes." ' . "Will I stand up?" "No; you will be seated on your eoffin." He spoke with more curiosity than ; concern, and I was glad to see it. So long as he had to die it was better to , show a brave front. 1 sought to en- ' courage him in this; but he replied: "Oh, you needn't be afraid of my ' breaking down. All I ask of you is to ] make quick work of it." Next morning when he was marched ' out the air was ra^r and the sky as ' gloomy as. <1 pill. When I brought him ^ out lie was the cooler of the two. I was nervous and trembling, while he was * absolutely cool and self-possessed. J "Is it time?" he asked, as I went in. "Yes." 1 "Well, I am ready." J "How do you feel?" "I'm all right." 1 "When we reached the grounds which * had been selected I saw that about 6,000 ^ men had been marched up to witness . the execution. The boy looked about him with considerable curiosity, but ' showed no signs of weakness. We reached the open ^ravc and the coffin resting in frint of it, he caught a quick breath, and something like terror could be read in his eyes. I stood there with him while tha firing party retreated a few paces and ci\me to a "front." Then an officer camc forward and road the charge and the findines. All this f lmH of the boy's hand, we standing shoulder t to shoulder. There was no trembling, ^ hut his flesh was so hot that it seemed j to blister mine. , When the officer had finished reading ^ he stepped away, leaving us alone. ^ "I must blindfold you," I said, as I ( produced a hankorchicf. . "Yes." r "You are gomg to die like a brave ( man." j ;?v "I told you I would. I placed the liau kerchief ove? his eyes apd tied the ends at the back of his | head, and then raking his arm, I whis- { pered : "You must sit down." '.'Yes.1' ' I am going now." "Good-bye to you, Sergeant. Let it J be over soon!" When I had reached the squad there , was nothing to wait for, ana the orders KSffi were isfluca : "Ready "Aimiy The command "lire" was just trem- 1 bling on ftvy lips when an officer waiving a Y&ftc Handkerchief appeared be mua tnc prisoner. 1 ascertained, at a later date, that none of the muskets were loaded, -but this fact was not even known to the firing squad. The prisoner had been reprieved. I advanced and broke the glad news to him, and then removed the bandage from his eyes and assisted him to rise. Great Heaven, but what a change! Be had a smile on his face?the grin of an idiot 1 T^he light of intelligence had | gone out of bis eyes, and bis first movement was to spring up, flop his arms, and crow like a rooster! From that moment until he was finally discharged and sent home, no man he&rd an intelllsent word from his lips, nor saw any thing like intelligence in his faee. He ; was not crazy, hut idiotic. That one \ f minute of awful suspense had drowned out the light of reason, and so changed his every >ook that his own mother could uot hare identified him.?Detroit Free Press. ' Gen. Grant's Daughter. It wan well known here, says a Washington letter, that President Grant was greatly depressed at the time of his daughter's marriage and quite broken down when he. bade her good-bye on her wedding day. I know that Mrs. Grant said within a week before the marriage that she greatly regretted that Nellie had chosen a foreigner for a husband, and added that she had always hoped that Nellie would marry somo nice young army or navy officer. I have heard more than once, first not long nftnr thn wpjlflinrr tpln tn Enirliind iinH again within the last few months, from those who said they knew whereof they spoke, that Mr. Sartoris's neglect of his bride on the Baltic, on which vessel they left New York the third week in May, 1874?tlie 23d of that month, I think?excited the greatest indignation among the American travelers, and that this indignation came near being made Jmblic then; especially when on their andmg in England it was found that he had made no arrangements to insure her being made comfortable on their arrival, not even having had rooms engaged in the hotel. He was then about twentythree years old, but seemed totally devoid of any idea of how to take care of any one but himself, and his poor little bride, who was seasick all the time on the voyage to England, must have had a most unhappy honeymoon. Mr Sartoris's father, Mr, Edward Sartoris, lia:? been from the first devoted to her, and has kept her with him as much as possible. lie lives on his own property in the country, near Southampton, England. He was a very talented man when in his prime, having a good voice and being a gooa amateur artist. He was very well off at the time of his son's marriage and had previously been a member of Parliament. His wife, Adelaide ? e 1.1 - Lxvuiuiv} <io a \"v its irtvuiiiniy known all- over Europe. Algernon's only brother was older than he. His name was Greville, and he was killed by a fall from his horse only a few months before Algernon's marria ;e. The latter had every advantage given him for a cjood education in England and Germany, but. never showed any evidence when in society of having improved these opportunities. He has recently undertaken the charge of his father's estate in the country. My Good Little Girl. I was called one day in October to the family of a German who lived on a small place three miles from town, says a phy- J sician who tells the story. He was a poor man with many children, oqc of whom, a boy of ten years, had diphtheria. I attended my patient faithfully, and he recovered. He had a sister two years older, called Sadie, who seemed inexpressibly grateful to me "for saving brother Jimmy's life." Always she spoke of me as the "good doctor who saved brother Jimmy's life;" and I in turn, won by her affectionate words and wayB, r~n ~ c jl\. ?_ I.? t Lt-u miu inu nuuit ui Luuitvinguna speaKing of her as my "good little girl." Thus we be ame excellent friends. Not long afterward Sadie herself had iiphtherin, for which she was "very jorry, because it prevented her from gathering a bushel of hickory nuts to pay me lor saving brother Jimmy's life." [n all her sickness she never expressed me regret for herself. Her disease ran jminously, but at last she seemed convalescent, and one day her father called to say that Sadie was very much better, ind that I need not trouble myself to mil again. Hut early the next morning le roused me, and said he feared Sadie was dying. I hastened to her l>edsidc md found that it was even so. She <ncw me. Beside her in bed under the agged quilt she had a small bag of hick>rv nuts gathered by her the day before, it the expense of her life. "For saving jrother Jimmy," she gasped; and in a ow moments my good little girl was lead. Henry Ordnance. One of the members of the Conrmit;ce on Artillery in the United State9 Senate is Senator Aldrich, of Ithode [sland. He is deeply interested in the 11 vestigat ions thUt nave been going oo. tfe said to a party recently: "It is renarkable what advances have been nude in scientific means of warfare in he last ten or even five years. The coolest between ordnance and armor has jeen definitely decided in favor of ordnance. Of that thc^c can be no ques;ion. Wo used to think that the old Parrott and Hodman guns were tremendously long. They are short, indeed, compared with the big guns now made, rhc length is now determined by th? iiameter of the bore. Thirty diameters is the latest rule. Thus a twelve-inch ?un is thirty feet in length. They make them forty odd feet long of the larger l>ores. Such n gun could not be handled in board shin under the nlH mnzfelfe. loading process, but it is easy enough an the breech-loading plan. On tfoe large English ships the gun carriages are operated by hydraulic power. Ona man with his hand to the levers can. do all the work thaj; it used to take a small army of men to do. Power is used even to handle the loads and elevate or depress the gun. Nothing can withstand these heavy guns. The only thing Is to get out of their way. The ship cannot i be made that will carry armor eaongh to withstand them. They pierce thirtyinch armor plate like a shell." Ross Wixans, Mobbed.?The action of Mr. .lioss Winans, the Baltimore, millionaire, who owns an extensive dee? park in northern Scotland, in closing a roadway on his property at Guisachan, an nnirnrpd t.Vin nAnnU in that vioinifv that tkey mobbed and stoned him one day lately. Mr. Winans has offered a reward of $5000 for (he capture ot 1 he culprits. Aftkb Many Years.?Mim Anna Pixley borrowed a baby for the play in which she first appeared in Bangor, Me., and was. very much astonished the other day in the same city when the sama baby, now twenty-five years old applied lor an engagement in her company. . k vr \?'V- - ' ' * >$*>/> -'?<? " : -. > ' GOO Carriage CAN" HE FOUND TFTE LAR Plinoton* Roao ('mis, Plantntior I HiiraiS'i S:hI(1!hh. Hcllitur Innthnr nf thirty day* J ^ill OFFERSPECTATj GlES nt lrsa tlmn Manufacturers' Pr cm rr.Hko*: which I will cunrantoe e vir.co yourselves that tlioy nre abuolut A. R. < (S i^ccssor to R. H. May sai.hs rooms, i . nnn< cc't..s..!'jr ol- I ADwUi DAY & " Are Now Recer GARRIAGI FOR THE AT PIUOJES T And Never Before Attai We :;rc c uabled to ^ivc our cus at the cicacst possible cash priccs. Children's Car Tie* I:0 f TTANE THI NKS. WHITS ami UAltlRET THE WILSON. CHILD'S <fe 0( TENNESSEE WACONS, 1, 2, DAY .* TANNAIIILI/S ONE EXPRESS AND DELIVERY Ax:i!3, Springs. Hubs. Spokes, lloVTS LEATHER LELT1N( LACINU, RIVETS, Et?:. . OAI CALK ANM LININO SKINS, . HARNESS rtND. SADDLES. OUR IIAKNES:: DKPAHTMEN' PRICE. 3 WHITE Would call tho attotion of I DRESi l-nmiMnilly Inriro ami nltraofivp. T |i.i\<> fvo1- oflnrud. "I'liey Iihvm al*o h *?>runonlof lihitrk hihI Colored VEL a uiff line of Wool l/ucoft iu all crtlo Their slock of It LACK OASHMEI ! car*? io IIto Hulnolion of tlieae uoods, qiiniily and prico. A yood lino of J] I 11 would axtoninh any one to tvo lio ?en?oii Itiiyui-rt in litis linn would d< AT? f "t'VrS nr?? .to vory nhonp an to rC'lS ?*? ! Ill'liS iMin lio ?it til 'J t'c urn oriiy it fow linos in \ Tlit (x'lii'tnl Slock of T'iiU nod Wii W IIITE i.f'lvw.f, <i*-orlcd, and mo r;?.te ui all jc.|,?i*lnioiila. THE HUMAN 1 JOSEPI OI?T In any in iidh, ?v?iiHtm ..f Itiu |M<<Mi|jiir form of H ( ft . ?? . i nf nij/lit, Hlili pvrfHOtly tv, >ifii?>o iivur in vented;. J. SILVER ~ \r '* ?- fn"M'nu it this timo fhronjrf Kj<M?v?r M- Miwuy a?id I'mctirw, nmt !?? ? Imvo l?p?n t?unl they ai ??? ;*< ni-mmU will corlify; tlin origin rowittT lie at tlio Hiitnn tiino winhn* fftKi-k-s v?Jio ninrcly Mill* yon n pai ' ** & again. Hh Iihk OHtablinliwI ?c>tmia jr?h? *)?>i?l<) bii|>|if)ii to Ioho or l>r< a iMitiuiiiil sum, hm it is hi* nils tuin.w jurtt ftm i|la>:v> yon liavn >iuri? ibou >i? .lu'J^e I'ottlu, Guveru (J-< CLOTHING! CI DYEAB'S ? Repository. GEST STOCK OF CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, i Waeons (nil *izes, 1 to 6 ho^ffo,) Single and DonbU nil kinds, Wngon Mnterial. <S|0.. Ac. For the nexl BARGAINS IN A LOT OF O^EN AND TOP BUG ices. Those Baggies are all Fine Northern and Eastcjnal to the best. Call and examine them and conte bargains, GOODYEAR, Agant. & Co.,) OPP. GEORGIA RAILROAD BANK. 5TA. GEORGIA I *10T2W~. rANNAHILL, Ting a Fine Assortment of ES AND BUGGIES : SPRING TRADE, O SUIT THE TIMES I ned in the History of the Business toracrs every aclvandtiigc by purchasing our good Call and be conviuccd. riages in Great Variety. >BAGS and SATCHELS ever brought to the citj jLAS. >.'S PHILA. WAGONS, all sizes. and 4 Horse. AND TWO HORSE WAGONS. WAGONS. Ac. Rubber Belting and Packing. 3. The best iu thfc World. ? AND HEMLOCK SOLE LEATHER. LASTS, THREAD, CEMENT, Ere. WE CALL PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO T, IN WHICH WE EXCEL IN QUALITY ANE if Ad tannahii.l^ Augusta, Ga. BROTHERS myera to a Few Specialties: Their stock of 'hey have the cheapest line of BLACK SILKS the] ome handsome Coiered Silks. They have a good an iVETEENS for Dresses and Trimmings. They have rs, the latest thing for fine Dress Trimmings. IE cannot be surpassed. They have bestowed unusual and are assured they are all right in regard to color, ERSEY JACKETS, cheaper than ever before. >w very cheap FLANNELS and BLANKETS are thii > well to examine the stock of , BROTHERS be in the reach of all. A good assortment of CAR e storo of WHITE BROTHERSvhic Special Bargains can be had. iter Goods now offered to the public by brothers, re attractive than they have over carried. It is coro aep.30,1883-Lim SYE AND SPECTACLES. H SILVER, ICIAN. H;?it in nonordauef wilh tho science- and philosophy -'ONfJ^VE CONVEX ELIPSES, admirably adantea ' natural to the eye, affording the beet artificial heli JBIAS ESTABLISHED A ACLE AND EYE liLASS EMfP?RIUM IN T11E CITY OF AGUSTA. lorn ttmxtatoof Ueorcria for the pnrposeof making ul tlxrHwnetime introdncinfftho.se Lenaos. Wherever e- H|x>kor> of in the highe.it term"*, aa> the following nl r\?xl mnny others can be seen and!examined at his to t?> understood i hat he is not oue of the traveling ir of crlaxHm at exorbitant prices and' whom yon may i in Angusta, at present, r>48 Broad Street, where in vtk yonr glnnse*. he will replace the eeme for yon at torn to U?ep u r??i.-*ter of all he setl.?t thereby enables purnhaitod irom him. ThtMt testimonials are from allium (it'ii. Gordon and a host of othucs. 8ep.3>,l88 NOTHING! CLOTHING! J ^.OOIv at the oldl gent above in a badtix isn't he -with his pants all Daggy and no. fitt My friends do you wish to avoui getting into just guch a scrape-? Then when you make up your mind to buy a suit of clothes come right along to our fi store and have your measure talfen I. and have your clothes made to orJ ^tr ^ Vt>ry *)e8t yvV TAILORS IN THE COUNTRY. and then if they arc baggy and don't lit, just say to us "send these ^ clothcs right back, I don't want them and wont have them." More-^ over, we would not let you keep them ourselves if they did not fit you. We are not working for a fall trade, but a trado we can by giving entire satisfaction hold in the fu turc. Remember our motto is "no JKSP> fit no pay. . I?N^ We are youra truly, Brotliers. .? ' ' ' ' Palmettc THOS. McGET of the largest SALOON in iho up-countr advertisements. The Imlf in not menti< prepared for fall trade. The Palmetto He Foreign and Domes the best the market affords. He h Rye and Corn, Irish Apple, Peach, California and F: He can cheerfully recommend his n mixed druiks with all the DELICIOUS B PER ATE DRINKS. His specialty is a It GENTLEMEN'S RESOR and you will not forget a?ain. A Good Line of Tobacc Beer a CUNNINGHAM | II AVI TMr Large and 1 cai i Jtun \k I MI.L flllU VI Consisting i Foreign and Doi NOT HATS, HATS, I i3C UBDWARE, HAB Groceries, Grocerii Crockery At Lower Prices than they were E\ PAVILION HOTEI CHRLESTON, S. C. First Class in ah its Appointmen RATES, $2.00, S2.BO. Excellent Cnisene. large airy rooms, 0 Passenger Elevator. Electric bell and ligt Heated rotnnda centrally located. Oct. I, 't4-tf 2 QENTRAL HOTEL, Mrs M.W THOMA.3, Proprietres Broad Street, Augusta, G:?, yXOHANGE HOTEL, Gkeekyiixe, 9. C. The Only Two-Class Hot in the World. W. 1\. WHITE, Pkofriktou. J^EW DINNER HOUSE, git kenwood, s, C. Kept by Mrs. F. G. PARKS. Cheap rat j Firet-olass fare. June lfith. 1882 tf. Ill t. P. thomson. j. w. thomho r^HOMSON & THOMSON, Attor?eys-ut-I>tt.\v, A.L1BJ&VII.L.K, S. C. pyOflice iu rear Mr. Lee's* June 8th. 1 QALIIOUN & MABRY, Attorneys and Coansellors it Law, ARRKVILLK C. H., S. C. ffice formerly occupied by Judge Thoi son. tf-50 ROBT. R, HEMPHILL. WM. P. CALIIOU JJEMPHILL & CALHOUN, | Attorney s-at-Law, j> Abbeville, 8. C. Will practice in the Courts of tho Stai 54 l. "w. pbuitlk. t. 1?. oothll, pERRIN & OOTHRAN, Attorneys* at-Law* ftl Abbevillk. 8. 0 > Saloon j TiCAN, Proprietor y, don't intend to dupe Iiih cuutoruorH by falno mod in tlio thr?iw Abbeville pupcrH. Heia wolf >uso in well utooked with everything in the lino of tic Wines and Liquors, us K<>t Liquors nine yearn old. Good old And Sn.n^h Whiel# IOC ? < wwtwao anieaj rench Brandies, Porter, Ale and Freah Lager Beer. oods to the public for MEDICINAL USE. and EVERAGESof the bohaoii. Also COOL. TEMirjre stock"of PURE GOODS, Cull at the T. NO. 4 WASHINGTON ST, THOMAS McGETTIOAN. ? ;o and Cigars. Budweiser Specialty. 47 A.TEMPLETON 3 fell Selected Stock of riNTER GOODS, n ]Part ot nestic Dry Goods, ION S9 IATS, )OTS AND SHOES DWARF, HARDWARE, es, Groceries, % Crockery, Crockery. er Offered Before l-tf-22 EI.DOSSED BY LSTTEk AKD tg SCIENTISTS AS TEA. PRACTICALLY^^^^^ AE7 IndestmctiDle STONE. >fcis ? its. Ovor 500 Send lot j Beautiful |nw||T^||Prioe List _ P os?gn 8 l ar s ^ MANUFACTURRD BY MONUMENTAL BRONZE COMPANY,. BEIDGKPOET. CONT7. el 1885 AT TIIE f ~| Centennial Saloon I For this year will be found es ! i L ! Absolutely Pure Jpirlta, N' North Carolina coppur distilled Corn. Fiueat brand* of Kentucky Rye, from ? $2 to S6 Per Gallon. Imported Cognac Lrandy a Specialty, ALSO Ales, Porter, Champagnes, &c ^ In fact all the popular aud staudard goods mm that can bo obtained. Together with an asnortmont of Tobaccos and Fin? Cigar* that ean not be excelled in quality. Persons needing such goods would not b? ix). humbugged by buying from them. The place ia second door from Court House. " O'DONNELL & CUNNWGHAM, I Proprietors, ABIJEVILLB, S. C. jail ii-H Z ' A_7L tli new shades in Hats ana Bonnets with Uibbnns, Birds, Flowers, Sat inn LU* i nnd Velvets to matcu. _ ! ?2 K. M. HADDON & CO. j . K" ! J^UGENE B. GARY, i IHnrnnn anil Oaiiiim llA. > r?ktvi cuiu UVUIIDCIIlll *al*LaW| 82 Abbeville, 0. C.