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4 r a 4 - ;jj . Li Y.WAilS.tVii Mi) CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1893. VOLUME Xtl. NpMBERll4ti ins Paper is 41 Years Old XIjtT 1 i hi I fill, 11,11 1 ' A THE CHARLOTTE DEMOCBAT PUBLISHED KYXBY FRIDAY BY J. P. STRONG. Tkbmb One Doller aod Ffty Cents in advance 7 J Entered at the Post Office in Charlotte, N. C, is second class matter, according to the rules ot the P. O. Department. DRS. M. A. & C. A. BLAND, Dentists. CHARLOTTE, N. C. No. 21 Tbyoh Btrht. Jan. 3. 1893 J. P. HcCOLIBS. M. D., XJIlVTm sail prUiCB51UUi wv iw uw viviv v 'harlAtia nnH an rrnn nrt i n it cntintrY. All Cllll. cm t M !v.l abbSaoi irt t i a ititiitasia aI (vuai avt wux w v w B - g both night and day, promptly attended to. Office in Brown's building, up stairs, opposite Charlotte Hotel. Jan. 1. 1893 r . D. WALKER. B T. CANBLKK WALKER & CANSLER, I ATTORNEYS AT LAW Charlotte, N. C pfflcea, Rooms Nos. 6 and 7, Law Building. i .Tan ft 1893 f . I. OSBORNK. W. C. MAXWELL OSBORNE & MAXWELL, Attorneys at Law. CHARLOTTE, N. C. Will practice in the State and Federal Courts tW Offices 1 and 3 Law Building. July 3, 1892. y fl It RIOT CLARKBON. CHAS. B. DUL8 CLARESON & DULS, Attorneys at Law, Charlotte, N. C. Prompt attention given to all business in trusted. Will practice in all Courts of the State. ty Office No. 12 Law Building. Oct. 7, 1892. Hugh w. harms, wm. m. littlb, Formerly ot Richmond Co. ! HARRIS & LITTLE, Attorneys and Counselors at Law, CUARLOTTE, N. C. I Practice in all the Courts. Special and 2 prompt attention to collection of claims, Con veyancing, Negotiation of Loans and Settlement of Estates. I ()fflo first door west of Court House. Jan. 29. 1893. H. N. PHARR. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office No. 14, Law Building. Prompt attention to all business intrusted. Special attention given to claims. Practices in ftate and Federal Courts. Jan. 6,1893. BOYNE & BADGER, LEADING JEWELERS. SOUTH TRYON ST., CHARLOTTE, N. C. :o: DEALERS IH Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silver and Plated Ware. Special attention given Repairing Fine Watches. 1 March 6, 1893 JOHN FARRIOR, NO. 3 NORTH TRT0N 8TB&KT, CHABLOTTJE. M. C. WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER. DBALXR IH Diamonds. Watches. Clocks, Jewelry, Sil ver aad Silver Plated Ware, ty Special attention riven to Fine Watch tRepairlng. March 28, 1893. K. Nye Hutchison. R.M. Miller. C.P.Wheeler. 5 I E. NYE HUTCHISON & CO., .4 FIRE INSURANCE. ! Offices 16 East Trade Street ; 4 North Tyon Street, up stairs. Feb. 19.1893. THE WHITE FRONT ) DRUG STORE, I NO. 15, SOUTH COLLEGE STREET, Keeps a well assorted stock of all articles usualy kept in a Drug House J. B ALEXANDER. The Poor prescribed for free. April, 8. 1893. NEW DRUG STORE. A fresh line of Medicines, Drugs, Paint, Oils roilet Articles, Garden and Flower Seeds and U articles usually found in a well regulated trug Store like the white front on College street - k J B- ALEXANDER I Feb. 26,1893. PICTURE FRAMES. A large assortment of NEW PATTERN8 of picture frame M0ULDING8, just received: Oak Cherry, and Gilt room Moulding. Call and sea he new MEZZOTINT PHOTOGRAPHS. J. H. VAN NESS. March 11, 1893 21 North Tryon StreeL JOHN C ALDER, i DXALXB IB CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES. CONFEC TIONS, TOBACCO, CIGARS, COUN TRY PRODUCE, ETC. No 300 North Tryon, corner Sixth Street. tST A good hitching lot in rear of store May 12, 1893. Hf Judges frequently excme prom inent men from jury duty because they ay that their private interests would suffer if they were put on juries. These should be made to serve. Jury duty in not welcome to active and prosperous men, but it is a duty all the same and they should not be permitted to evade it by any selfish plea. All the talk about juries is not worth a snap unless those righteous folks who indulge it will prae tice what they preach. Let us get down to business and put our best men on juries. Goldsboro Arqus. Trustee's Land Sale. By virtue of a deed of Mortgage, executed to me by John R. Hall and wife, on the 17th day of September. 1888, and recorded in the Register's office for Mecklenburg county, in book 62, page 135, 1 will, on the 3rd day of July, 1893, sell to the highest bidder, at public auction, at the Court House door, in the city of Charlotte, all that lot of land, described in said deed of Mort gage, situated in city of Tharlotte. adjoining the lands of S. M. Howell and others, on North Col lege Street, known as the old Sanders and Black wood warehouse, including the two store rooms, known as Nos. 14 and 16, North College Street. Terms Cash. Tnls 17th day of May. 1893 EDWARD II. COATES, May 19, 1893. tds Trustee. B. NICHOLS. Those Sideboards that I'm SELLING FOR TEN DOLLARS are made of solid oak, HAVE GERMAN PLATE MIRRORS and are first class in every respect. They would cost you at least 25 per cent if bought elsewhere. Of course I have them worth a great deal more, but for $20 or $25 I can sell you a beauty. Be sure to come in and see for yourself. BURGESS NICHOLS, Furniture Dealer R.S.SLOAN. Undertaker. Night call, room No. 6, Bryan building, over Rogers & Co. May 19, 1893. LANE'S FAMILY MEDICINE FOB The Blood, Stomach, Liver and Kidneys. Composed of roots and herbs gathered in the Rocky Mountains, it is a harmless vegetable remedy, and a positive cure for constipation. Makes the Complexion clear and bright. FOR SALE BY R. H. JORDAN & CO., May 5, 1893. Retail Druggists. E. M. ANDREWS, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN Furniture, Pianos and Organs. THE LARGEST STOCK IN THE Two Carolinas. Styles are all new and artistic. Nothing like my Styles and Prices ever heard of in this country. I guarantee TO SELL YOU Furnlure. Pianos and Organs, For less money by far than you can buy in ANY OTHER MARKET. DO YOU WANT PROOF. Then get other dealers prices and then come and see me, or write for prices and catalogues. Come to see me when you want to buy Furniture, a Piano, or an Organ. And whatever you do do not buy elsewhere be fore seeing my prices. I will save you money and guarantee what you buy. tW Write me for prices and terms. E. M. ANDREWS, Furniture, Piano and Organ Dealer. 16 and 18 West Trade St., Jan. 16 1893 Charlotte. N. C. ; FARMERS' Fine French Kip Harvard Ties, the nicest, and best farm shoe we have ever yet produced. PRICE $1.75, Will not rip, will not leak water or dirt, comfort able, and neat. We would like you to call often to see our goods. Many bargains always going Then you know we have the largest stock, and sell reliable goods. GILREATH & CO. May 12, 1893. Administrator's Notice. Having qualified as Administrator, with the will annexed, of the estate of Jamea Hirrev Brown, deceased, late of Mecklenburg County, N. C, all persons having claims against the estate of said decedant are hereby notified to present them to me for payment, on or before ine win aay oi April, lb94,or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All neroona indebted to said estate are notified to make im mediate payment to me. This the 26th dav of April, 1893. H. N. PHARR. Administrator, with the will annexed, of the estate of James Harvey Brown, dec'd. April 28, 1893. 6w Administrator's Notice. Hnvlnir nnialifiMl aa rrfminiatr r-v the MtatA Af Marv Ann Qtnith r1swM tKin X. : A notice to all persons holding claims against said cbibic tu incBcui uieu w iuc uuuersigneu tor payment on or before April 15th, 1894. All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment This April 7th. 1893. B. F. SMITH, April 14, 1893. 6w Administrator. Hood's Earsaparilla And all the leading PATENT MEDICINES ior saie oy R. H. JORDAN CO CROWELL MILLING CO. Charlotte, N. C. Farmers can have their Corn made into choice Meal (either bolted or unbolted) at the old "Star Mills." Saturday is regular mill day, for custom grinding. W. an. tnOWLL. Manager. March 10, 189? Contrition. Take this heart, oh, God, forgive me AH the deeds I've done before, Though my sins may all outlive me, Take me to Thyself once more ; Tear this standard of rebellion Though it rend my heart in twain. Though Life's sunset's deep Vermillion Shows each dark, enduring strain ! Take this heart, oh, God. in kindness, Mercy and long suffering shown ; Let me not in helpless blindness Tread your desert waste alone ; While the sun shines bright above me And spring's fairest blossoms bloom. Heed the prayers of those that love me, Save me from that dreary doom ! Take this heart, oh God, be with me Through conflict and the strife. From Thy nostrils once more breathe me Full of Thine eternal life ; . Break the chains that sore have bound &, Keep f aitb's flickering embers warm ; With Tby power and strength surrcund me Through temptation's deepening storm ! Take this heart, oh God. and guide me As some weak and weary child, Make Tby presence felt beside me As I tread the wildering wild ; Take me to Thy blessed bosom Like some wanderer from the fold, Or some frail late-blooming blossom, Drooping, dying, in the cold ! Take this heart, Oh God, forever ! Make me true and pure and brave, Give me light across Death's river And a hope beyond the grave. Take this heart, all bruised and broken, Heal it in Thy gentle breast. Let its last beat be a token Of Thine everlasting Rest ! Montgomery M. Folsom. - Unaccountable Drowning. We see . -. . a t in the .worm western ijancei a very reasonable explanation, supporting the facts, of the sudden drowning of good swimmers, hitherto attributed to cramp. There is nothing in a cramp that will Erevent an ordinary swimmer from saving imself in the water by swimming on his back, nor to cause him to throw up his hands and sink once lor all Like a stone. The cause is attributed to per foration of the ear drum, through which the accesB of water pressure occasions vertigo and unconsciousness : and a prac tical caution results, to persons having such perforations, to protect their ears with a stopper oi cotton when bathing. Medical Meview. Blood Will Tell. Of course it will that i if it is good, healthy blood. It will glow in the cheek, and tell the story of perfect physical health. If it does not, it me complexion is devoid oi color, tne mus cles weak and flaccid, something is wrong, and something ought to be done about it at once, for in such cues delays are dangerous. For torpid liver, "biliousness." and the thousand and one ills to which these conditions of the system lead, there is no remedy in the world equal to Dr. Pierce s Golden Medical Discovery Boils. Dim ples, eruptions, scrofulous sores, salt-rheum, and all kindred diseases are cured by it. LONG, TATE & CLOTHIERS AND FURNISHERS. EXTREME MERIT, GREATEST VALUE, PERFECT FASHION. Each point is watched most carefully and a high standard of excellence maintained in the clothing we offer, a glance at our line will tell the story. ARE YOU AWARE THAT WE ARE SELLING THE BEST SPRING RAIMENT IN THIS MARKET. We enable you to wear a suit of clothes no longer bearing ready made upon the face but having every appearance or a made-to-order gar ment. Avail yourself of the opportunity. ALL THE NOVELTIES as well as the FIRST-CLASS STAPLES are represented on oar counters, nothing is miss ing. Your loss as well as ours if you fall to secure the best. Every thing in furnishings and hats. LONG, TATE & JOHNSTON. One Price Clothiers, 42 S. Tryon St. Maich 31. 1893. IC E WAT E R. KEEP COOL! We will have in our store for the comfort and convenience of our friends and customers every day, except Sunday, ICE WATER, and we cordially invite every one to call and see us and get a cool drink of water. WE HAVE, ALSO, THE MOST COMPLETE STOCK OF Hardware, Cutlery, Guns, AMMUNITION, Carriage, and Wagon Material, Woodware.and Queenware in the South. Call and see us and eet a cool drink of water and buv from us anv goods in our line that you may need. We will promise to sell as low aa any one else and as low aa tne lowest. BROWN. WEDDINGTON 4 CO , 29, East Trade Street . June 2, 1893. TAKE CARE OF YOUR WATCH. Keep It Clean, Wind It Regularly, and It Will Keep Time. "Not one person in a thousand takes proper- care of a watch,"- said a watch maker to a New York -Times reporter. ' Good watches are ruined --by the care- lees treatment they receive from their owners, and the makers are abused when they get out of order. The modern watch is a wonderfully intricate and most delicate piece of mechanism. It is com posed ot ninety-eignt . pieces, and over 2,000 operations are used in its manu facture. It takes 306,000 of the small screws which are used in its construction to weigh a pound. The hair spring is a strip of steel about 9 inches long, is 1-1,000 of an inch wide and 27 10.U00 or an inch thick.' A 20-1,000 part of an inch difference in the thickness of the strip makes a difference In the running of a watch of about sir minutes an hour. "To keep the going'bf a watch as reg ular aa possible it must be subjected to regular treatment that is to Bay, it should be wound up at the same time ot day, and during the time that it is not worn it should be laid down or hung up reg ulaly, according to habit, as the move ment of every watch is more regular when it is hung up or laid down than when it is worn in the pocket. "I always advise my customers to wind up their watches in the morning, not only because they generally rise more regularly than they retire, but because a mainspring fully wound up in the morn ing will more readily overcome the dis turbances which affect the correct going of a watch during the movement occa sioned in wearing it on one's person in the daytime. "In watches having a double case, that over the glass should never be left open. An attentive observer will find that if a watch is left open, even for one night, the glass will be covered with a thin film of dust, which will gradually work its way into the works, even through the tiniest openings in the case, and thus cause dis turbances. JNor should a watch ever be placed directly out of the warm pocket against a cold wall, or, worse yet, on a still colder marble slab, and for that rea son a protective mat or wash leather cover is always desirable when a watch is not kept in a pocket. The capacity of a watch for keeping good time is very much governed by its construction and its more or less perfect finish. It cannot be expected of the best horizontal watch that it should always keep good time, and even less so of the inferior make or mahine-made watches which are now a-days manufact ured and sold for $10, $20, and $30 in such large numbers. " lhe changes of oil, the variations in temperature, the diversity or humidity of atmosphere, all greatly affect the going of a watch. Indeed, it is only the most perfect finish which neutralizes the ad verse influences to the greatest degree. As a matter of fact, no watch keeps per fectly correct time, and even the best chronometers used in observatories and on board ship must be regulated accord ing to tables which are kept to fix the variations to which all watches are liable. "A watch should be cleaned regularly once a year. it this precaution is not taken in time, the oil decomposes, gets mixed with the particles ot dust which enter the works ot the best-closing watch, begins to act as a grinding material and wears out the working parts. The best watch will be ruined in one or two months in this way and will never keep such good time as before." 13T "I learned a new thing," said a woman recently, "while visiting last week an English friend who is living in this country. We had a small dance one evening of my stay, and my hostess served the most delicious lemonade I ever drank. I spoke of it the next day, and she told me it was made with freshly boiled water the secret, she said, of thoroughly good lemonade. " 'I have a regular rule,' she further in formed me, which insures success if I am making a quart or a gallon. For a quart I take the juice ot three lemons, using the rind of one of them. I am careful to peel the rind very thin, getting just the yellow outside; this 1 cut into pieces and put with the juice and powdered sugar, oi which I use two ounces to the quart, in a jug or jar with a cover. When the water is just at the tea point, 1 pour it over tne lemon and sugar, cover at once, and let it get cold. Try this way once, and you will nevor make it any other. Now Try This. It will cost vou nothioer and will surely do you good, if you have a cough, cold, or any trouble with throat, chest or Lungs. Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, coughs and colds is guaranteed to give relief, or money will be paid . it m . -r ft i : . t . . u n DacK. ounerers irom jjb urrjppe iuuau ujusi wo ihing and under its use had a speedy and perfect recovery. Try a sample Dome at our expense and learn for yourself just how good a thing it is. Trial bottle free at Burwell & Dunn, wholesale and retail, and at Jordan & Scott, wholesale drug store. Large size 50c. and $1.00. ON TOP, THE Celebrated Eagle Cotton Gin Feeders and Condensers, G S. JOHNSON, AGENT. CHARLOTTE, N. C. Has for Sale the Celebrated Eagle Cotton Gin. Eagle Cotton Gin Company are manufacturing the Rollins Friction Clutch Pulley, the only Clutch Pulley adapted to a Gin, strong, reliable, and easily attached to any Gin, will go on where the ordinary pulley will, and so simple in con struction that any one with mechanical skill enough to run a Cotton Gin, can take off the old ulley and replace it with a "Clutch Pulley." The advantages of a Clutch Pulley are : It gives the ginner complete control of his Gin. In case of accident, or anything getting into the Gin that wonld injure the saws if allowed to run, the Gin can be stopped instantly. It obviates the necessity of running off the belt when the Gin is not in use, and will pay for itself in five years in tne saving oi neiia. it mihln fh rlnner to stoD hta Gin when run ning up his press, thereby throwing all the power oi his engine on nil presa, aaving iime ub uu proving the quality of his cotton. May 26. 1893. FAME WELL WON. Lane's North Carolina Brigade A Command Which Shed Lustre Upon the Confederate Arms. ' Lane's Brigade" was organized at Kinston and left the State for Virginia as a North Carolina Brigade under General L. O'B. Branch and was never reorgan ized. After reaching the Uld Dominion it was ordered over the mountains oeten sibly to reinforce Jackson, but it did not cross the Blue Ridge. It was marched backwards and forwards between the foot of the mountains and a little town called Criglersville to deceive the enemy whose signal station was in full view, and whose flag was kept constantly waving during the day. It waa then suddenly ordered back to Gordonsville from whichpoint it was moved rapidly by rail to Hanover Court House. Shortly afterwards it made a gallant fight at Slash Church and Kinney's Farm against an overwhelm ing force of infantry, artillery and cav alry under Fitz John Porter, and was handsomely complimented by (reneral Lee in a written communication which was read on parade. It was then assign ed to A. F. Hill's Light Division. It was the first brigade of Lee s army to cross the Chickahominy, which it did near "Half Link," and sweeping down its eastern bank, it cleared the way for the division to cross at Meadow Bridge. The official reports tell how nobly it fought and how terribly it suffered in those memorable seven days fights around Richmond. At Cedar Run it was the first brigade of Hill's Division to go into action, and it there gallantly repulsed the enemy's infantry and cavalry, and restored Jack- eon's disordered left. At Manassas Junction, in rear oi Pope's army, it chased, with rebel yells, Taylor's New Jersey brigade, after it had been broken by the artillery fare, and made many amusing captures in the swamps of Bull Run. On the extreme left at Manassas Plains it and McGowan's splendid South Caro linians fought repeatedly over the same ground, while Jackson anxiously awaited the arrival of Longstreet. It was one of the brigades that met the enemy at Ox Hill, and fought them successfully in a pouring rain. It was this brigade that scaled at mid night the cliffs on the Shenandoah, and lav concealed in the woods on the left and rear of the enemy on Bolivar Heights, ready and eager to charge, but Harper's Ferry having soon surrendered under our concentrated murderous artillery fire, it had no opportunity to do so. It was also in that noted rapid march of the Light Division from Harper's Ferry to Sharpsburg, where it arrived just in time to help hurl back the fresh troops ot tne enemy, ana save me ngnt of Lee's grand but hard pressed army. Here it was that the peerless urancn gave up his life in defense of the cause be loved bo well, and Jjane was cauea . n 1 i upon to take commana oi oib neroes upon the battle-field. A.a . a . t It was one ot tne three origaaes mat formed the rear guard of the army of Northern Virginia, when Lee retired from Sharpsburg and re crossed the Po tomac. There brayely facing the enemy it held its ground until every wagon and ambulance bad safely crossed its own litter corps hauling an ambulance of brave wounded Georgians across that turbulent river, as the driver and others bad mounted the mules and cowardly deserted them. It was this brigade that chased the finely dressed Pennsylvania Corn Ex change Regiment over the banks of the river'near Shepherdstown, and, under a heavy artillery nre irom tne opposite siae of the river, made the Potomac red with Yankee blood at the old dam just above the ford. It was also this brigade that fought so stubbornly on the right at Fredericks burg, driving back two lines ot battle after a large force of the enemy had ponetrated tbe unfortunate opening left between Archer and itself, turned its right, and caught its support with their arms stacked. It was this North Carolina brigade that was ordered to the front to make a night attack in that matchless flank movement of Jackson at Chanoellorsville, but the attack was abandoned on account of the wounding of Jackson and Hill. This brigade and Pender's braves con stituted tbe front line that terrible night until after 12 o clock, and it was Lane's men that repulsed Sickles' . formidable midnight attack on their right. This brigade was charged by some of the heroes of the rear with being unduly excited on that occasion, because the Eighteenth, under a misapprehension caused by the darkness, had fired upon its friends; and yet it stood its ground under three terrific and prolonged artil lery fires which doubtless made those self-constituted critics of the rear quake; and it gallantly repulsed that formidable attack of Sickles, taking from him the colors of the Third Maine Regiment and a number of prisoners officers and men. It was this censured brigade that carried the enemy's works next morning in a direct assault, but was forced to retire because its intended support broke under the tremendous fire, in the teeth of which Lane's men had so intrepidly advanced. At Cbancellorsville this brigade lost nearly one third of its strength in killed and wounded, and of its thirteen field officers carried into action all were shot down killed or wounded except tbe gallant young Barry. Here the noble and fearless Purdie, of the Eighteenth, the gentle but courageous and dashing Hill, of the old Seventh, the heroic boy captain, Johnnie Young, of the same regiment, Captain Kerr, Lieutenants Campbell, Bohck, Emack, Weaver, Bou chelle, Babb, Callais, Ragtn and other noble spirits lost their lives in tbe gallant discharge of their duties, as did also Gen. Lane's boy brother, J. Booker Lane, who was acting aid at the time. In the first day's fight at Gettysburg, Lane's brigade was ordered irom the centre of Hill's line, put on the right and charged with the responsible duty of protecting that flank of the army. In tbe second day's fight, its skirmishes under that daring young major, Brown, ot the Thirty-seventh, elicited by their daunt less bearing a written compliment from General Ewell, who was in command of other troops. Next day it was on the extreme left of the so called Pickett charge, and though flanked by a large force it retired in order and re formed in rear of the artillery by order of the battle-scarred and experienced Trimble. How many of the brigades in that bloody charge re-formed as close and stood ready to repulse the expected countercharge? A Northern military writer informs General Lane that his brigade has never had justice done it for its valiant part in that great battle. After boldly confronting the enemy at Hagerstown while the Potomac was "on a tear" in its rear, it withdrew in a rain, and after a weary night's march, was or dered to act as rear guard to that portion of the army which crossed the Potomac on the pontoon bridge at Falling Waters. There it stood alone, with tbe spirited young Crowell, of the Twenty eighth, in charge of the skirmish line, unerringly picking off every man that dared sw himself too close, until every- other com mand had. crossed safely ; then it retired to tbe Virginia shore in perfect order, and General Hetb, in honor of such un usual fortitude and success, doffed his hat to those veterans as they proudly marched by him in column of fours. Next day when Heth greeted Lane in the rain, while on the march, he told him it was an unexpected pleasure, as he feared when he ordered him to cover the rear that his whole command would be killed, wounded or captured. I was the guns of this brigade as it went into action in the Wilderness late in the afternoon on tbe fifth of May that caused Colonel Venable to remark to Colonel Palmer : "Thank God 1 I will go back and tell Gen. Lee that Lane has just gone in and will hold his ground until other troops arrive to-night." The brigade not only held its ground but drove the enemy some distance. It was this brigade that left tho works, formed a new line and piled the Yankees in front of it at Spottsylvr nia Court House, early on the morning of the 12th of May, after they had broken through Johnson's front. Its gallantry on that occasion caused a London correspondent to write to his paper that "Lane's North Carolina veterans stopped the tide of Federal victory as it came surging to the right." Later, it was this brigade that Gen. Lee selected to cross the works and strike Burnside's corps ic flank, in which assault it captured between 300 and 400 prisoners, three flags and a battery of six guns, but was unable to bring off the latter, as they were without horses and could not be dragged through the woods. Gen. Lee acknowledged the receipt of the flags in a complimentary note, written on the battle field, which was read to the command by the brigadier in person, and was received with the wildest of rebel yells. Still later in the day it was that splendid body of tried men the sharp shooters of Lane's brigade under the dashing and accomplished Nicholson, who were "kequistkd" by Gen Lee, through their brigadier, to make an im- portant reconnoisance for him in front of Spottsylvania Court House, though they had been fighting all day, and there were fresh troops at hand. At Jericho Ford this brigade advanced as far as if not further than any other troops, and held its ground until relieved that night. At the second Cold Harbor it behaved as it did at the first. Here Gen. Lane was severely wounded it was feared at the time mortally and had to be borne from the field. Around Petersburg it was not kept in the trenches, but as "flying infantry" or "foot cavalry," under Colonels Barry and Speer, it behaved with its accustomed bravery in the fights at Riddel's shop, Petersburg, Gravel Hill and FusseU's Mill. Under Gen. Conner it was one of the three North Carolina brigades that han died Hancock so roughly in his en trenched position at Ream's Station, after the failure of the first attack by other troops. It was this fight that caused Gen. Lee to write that handsome letter to Gov. Vance about the gallantry of Cooke's, McRae's and Lane's brigades, and also caused that grand old chieftain to tell Gen. Lane, when he rejoined his command just before tbe battle at Jones' Farm, that those three brigades, by their gallantry at Reams' Station, had placed not only North Carolina but the whole Confederacy under a debt of gratitude which could never be repaid. In the Jones Farm fight this brigade occupied the right, soon routed the enemy in its front and on its right flank and captured a large number of prisoners. It was in the Pegram House fight the next day that the modest but daring young Wooten with his sharp-shooters dashed into the enemy's works, which wero being shelled by Brander'a artillery, and returned with more prisoners than be bad men in his command. It was around that beleagured city Petersburg that the sharp shooters of this brigade became still more famous, and Wooten's name was made so familiar on the enemy's skirmish line by his frequent and most unexpected "pop calls." It was Wooten's brilliant Davis House surprise that elicited congratulatory letters from his corps, division and brigade com manders, all of which were embodied in a general order and read on parade. It was this North Carolina brigade that, after its attenuated line on the right at Petersburg had been broken by Grant in the spring oi 1865, stubbornly fought the enemy Irom behind the winter quar ters, in real Indian style, as it slowly fell back towards the interior lines, some of the men being ordered to Battery Gregg and others to the dam near Battery 45. It was chiefly the brave men of this bri gade who were in Battery Gregg, assisted by the supernumerary artillerists, that made the stubborn defence of that little earth work one of the most brilliant events of the war. From Petersburg to Appomattox this brigade of brave and starving North Carolinians fought by day and marched by night without a murmur; and when at Appomattox it was ordered back from tbe front, and told that Gen. Lee had surrendered, officers and men burst . into tears, aad some were heard to remark .... : ') 1 . 1 . - i i .- : ail this tor nothing 7" 1 " There' were other minor engagements all through the war in Wbieh this brigade took an active part, but they were not of importance enough to demand particular notice. , In a recent letter from a Northern military historian asking Gen. Lano for information about the battle of Cbancel lorsville, he closes with,, the following playful but gratify ing jwords: "If Lane's Brigade" had' remained at home many New ' England regiments would have been happier. It is admitted here that Lane's boys were a bad, quar. relsome set of fellows, and too - fond of a fight altogether." - - Gen. Lee's complimentary.1 letters and note about the battles at Slash Ghnrch and Kinney's Farm and Reams' Station, and the capture of tbe flags at Spottsyl vania Court House, have ceen published, in the Southern Historical Society Pa pers also Gen. Trimble's admiration of the conduct of this brigade at Gettys burg. Copies of the congratulatory let ters to Major Wooten are on file in the War Records office in Washington. Most of the official reports relating to this brigade have been published in the South ern Historical Society Papers and in the "War of the Rebellion," a work author ized by the United States government. Charlotte Observer. Widest River of All. The Rio de la Plata, Whose Banks Are 123 Miles Apart. Were it not for a decided difference in the color of the water you would, never know when tho Atlantic is left and the Rio de la Plata entered, says a writer to the Philadelphia Record. The high-rolling, whitecapped billows are the same, and no land is visiblo, for tbe great river which James Diaz de Solis discovered is 125 miles wide at its mouth, though with an average depth of only 50 feet. Sebas tian Cabot who arrived in the year1520, soon after the natives had murdered poor Don Soils, dubbed it River of Silver, not on account of its color, which might have won for it the more appropriate name of Golden River, or River of Chocolate, but because he had wrested quantities of silver from the Indians who swarmed its banks, and naturally imagined that an abundance of precious metal remained in the vicinity. In point of fact the terms Argentina and Rio de la Plata (both meaning the same thing with reference, to silver) are misnomers, for no metals of any sort, precious or otherwise, are found along the banks of the mighty stream, or anywhere near it, and tbe scanty 'argen tiferous deposits in tbe hills of the interior have never been worked. The Indians aforesaid probably obtained tbe silver which so excited Spanish cupidity from Peru and Bolivia, by some primitive system of internal commerce known only to themselves To this day me tals do not figure in the exports of the adjacent countries Uruguay, Par aguay and Argentina, but such pro saic articles as bides and tallow, horns, wool, preserved and refrigerated meat, Liebig's extract, etc. for their wealth lies solely in grazing facilities and fertile soil. The Murmuring Sea. "They use to tell me when I was a boy," said a middle-aged man, "that if I would hold up to my ear a sea shell of a certain kind I would hear in it the murmuring of the sea. I have tried it many times, and it never failed. "Now comes my son, a boy of 12 who holds up a tumbler at the dinner table and pays: . .,- . "Pop, do yon want to hear the sea mur mur ?" "And I say yes, and then he holds .tb mouth of the tumbler to. his ear and I do likewise with mine, and, bless my heart t there's tbe tnurmur, sure enough. "And then tbe boy goes on to talk about sound waves, and to tell me just what makes the sound in the tumbler, and all that sort of thing. And I say to . myself it's a fine thing, no doubt, the advanced education that the boys of tbe present generation are getting; and yet I am not altogether pleased to have one of the pleasantest of old fancies. disposed of so summarily. I like tumblers well enough to drink out of, but I think , I'd rather have my sea murmuring out of a sea shell.'' m ., t3T The deadening nature of debt has been shown time and again in the -coal regions of eastern Pennsylvania, where a miner sometimes works for ten years without receiving any cash payment, be cause some disaster has brought him in debt to the company store. Mine owner and miner share the financial risks of mining, and it sometimes happens that an accident will place beyond the ; miner's reach thousands of tons of coal which he has cut with months of labor, but for which be could not draw full pay until it had been delivered at tbe breaker. While he was thus busied, be lived' upon credit at the company store, and the disaster left him deeply in debt. The effect upon many men has been to make them utterly indifferent to their future, and at least one mine owner, recognizing the evil re sults of such conditions, makes it a rule to discharge a miner who is hopelessly ' in debt. The discharge clears his score, and many men thus relieved of their burdens depart from the coal regions with their little belongings to begin anew elsewhere, armed with tbe courage that hope alone can give. Sunbeam. IzST Those who come to you to talk about others are the ones who go to others to talk about you. Phillip Brooks Speclmea.Caies. 8 H Clifford .New Caasel, Wis, was troubled with Neuralgia and Itbeomatism, his Stomach was disordered, his Liver waa affected to aa alarm ing degree, appetite fen away, and be was terribly reduced in flesh and strength. Three bottles of Electric Bitters cured him. Edward Shepherd. Harrisbarg, 111 . had a run ning sore on his leg of eight years' standing. Used three bottles of Electric Bitters and seven boxes of Bucklea's Arnica Salve, and his leg is sound and well. John 8pekfT, Catawba, U-had five large Fever sores on his leg, doctors said be was incurable. One bottle Electric Bitters and one box Bucklen'a Arnica Salve cured him en tirely. Sold by Boiwell & Dsns, wholesale and retail, Jordan & Scott, wholesale arogglsts. . most feelingly : "And have, we .endured
The Charlotte Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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