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3, AUGUST tl, ICC o f :, i . . m, - t i i I - i - i i i " i 4r ! it 'A- r 1 - 4 - -5 zi i i -1 4 ESDVBASCE. How much the heart may bear and yet not break! -How mach the flesh, may: suffer, yet not - diet - I question mueh it any pain orach ; -, . "Of soul or body brings onr end more nign. Death chooses his own time. Till that is - sworn . - -.r - All evils my be borne. ; 1 " --'i -"'-.-'5 :'.'y.' 'h?v3 '--SM'T-55--i5L; We see a sorrow rising la our way - And try to Bee from the approaching ill : "We seek some, small escape; we -weep ana pray,- '".- - c -But when the Mow falls then oar hearts - are still, -i - - -Not that the pain U of its sharpness shorn. Bat that It can be borne.. . - - r,- "We wind oar Ufe about another life; - ; "I- We hold It closer, dearer than onr own. - - Anon it faint and falls in deathly strife. " .Leaving us stunned and stricken and - - alone. . . - v . But.' ah, we do not die with those we mourn. : This also can be borne., - :-,- ..r - . Behold, we live through all things famine, thirst, - Bereavement, pain, all grief and misery; AH wie and sorrow. Life lnfliota It worst On soul and body, but we cannot die, ---.Though we be sick and tired and faint and THE . SIXTEENTH REGIMENT. BOLD ;. ADD . BRATB MOTJKTarNKXLBS. Vint Uentenaat B. H. Cathey Furnishes a Well-Written History of His Regiment " The Offlleers--Tne Hombur, Tooth and - 8plwld Bearing of ttie ConaBtsnd Karlv ' tJomment Participated in SSs5 Orea Battle r the Army of N 6rthern Virginia Soldiers Whs Could Be Relied Vpon-flxatinc With Peader, A. P. Hill aad Jackson Interesting Scene and Incident.' The Sixteenth Regiment, North Caro lina State Troops, was organized Jane 17. 1861, at the city of Raleigh. Its offi cers were as follows: .-. - Stephen Lee, of Buncombe eounty, colonel; R.G. A. Love, of Haywood, :. lieutenant; B. F. .Briggs, of Gaston, major; D. F. Summey, of Buncombe, quartermaster; J. M. Israel, of Bun combe, commissary J, H.Wheeler, Jr.,' of Bancombe, adjutant; J. L. Robinson, of Macon, quartermaster sergeant; Co lumbus Mill, of Henderson, surgeon. The regiment was composed of twelve companies, ag follows: Company A, Jackson county, A. W. Coleman, captain: Company B. Madi son, John Peek, captain; Company C, xancey, J. . Mc&lroy, captain; Com pany U, Kutnerrord, 11. u. Lee, captain Company E, Burke, E. J. Kirksy, cap tain; Company t, Bancombe, F. a Thrash, captain; Company G, Ruther ford, C. T. N. Davis, captain; Com pa try u, Macon. 'XV M. Angel, captain; Com pany I, Henderson, W. M. Shipp, cap tain; Company K, Polk, J. C. Kemp, captain; Company L, Haywood, H. Q A. Liove, captain; Company M, Gast n is. i. tirlgsrs, captain. I t These twelve companies were the first to volunteer from the mountains and f t - were composed of. men in the bloom of .. young manhood, 90 percent, of whom f were single, when first it was organ I ' ized and before the hardships of future I campaigns bad told upon It, the sue s . teenth Regiment, North Carolina Vol un leers, was remarked by the citizens " or Kaleigh and Kichmond for its un i usual number and faultless personnel The regiment remained at Raleigh ? drilling and performing guard duty until the 5th of July, when it left for I the seat of war. It arrived in Richmond on the 6th . After remaining there a few days it was oraerea io nortnwestern Virginia to re $ inforce Gen. Garnett, who was being pressed by Gen. Rosecrans, but before t reaching there we were met with the f news that a battle had been fought at Laurel Hill, in which Gen. Garnett was I killed. ' The regiment proceeded to I - Valley Mountain, where it arrived the I latter part of July. Strengthening the ; rorces lately under command of Gen i Garnett, we held the gap without trou i - ble, other than occasional heavy picket engagements. It was while stationed s on this mountain, which, though high was cold and damp, the earth, under a 5 moss-clad surface, being full of water. that the measles broke out in the regi t ment, rendering fully two-thirds of the f men unable for duty. Upon this trou blesome disease came typhoid fever which in a number of cases resulted in death. While dreamily lounging one day the regiment was aroused by a small deer which leaped otf the mountain Side into the cam p. In almost a twinkling the J it tie Virginian lound himself the cap tive of the mountaineers without force or demonstration other than the hands and the "rebel yell." TV.-, It was here that the Sixteenth first - " had the pleasure of meeting face to face ana snaking hands with Kobt. E. Lee. Never can the writer forget thesuperla tive, lofty expression of his face, his person the most magni Scent that human eyes ever beheld, as he sat on his - gallant charger and with the eye of the born commander, aided by that of the skilled general, lie scanned the sur rounding prospect. Imagine the scene wnen, as n to aaa to its impressiveness. . one ot tne cixteentn, a shrewd, inimi table wagv stepped up to the general . ana, paying tne usual homage, prompt ly asked him for a chew of tobacco, which, .when lie had as promptly recetveu, ne carried awav (a roval quid) looking as proud as a knight of the meaiasvai times. un tneiimoi nepiember we evacu ated Valley Mountain and fell back to ' , Elk Mountain, where we remained a . few days. From thence we marched to ' Greenbriar river, where we lay until the 4tlt day of October, when we march- . ed across the country to Millburn; there ..we Doaraed cars for Manassas Junction, ' where we stayed . for several d&vs. - 'Thence. we marched to Ocuaquan Bay. topping a few days. We then marched W Wolfe-Run-Shoals, where, stationing - our picKets several mues in the direc- ' Hon of Alexandria, we remained till " .about the 1st" of. April, 1862, when we took up the line of March to Yorktown - oy way oi x reaericksourg. it was .while we were at the latter place that - we had the first and sad intelligence of . tne oa tue or sniloh and the death of ; Gan. Albert Sidney Johnson. At this time tne sixteenth was attached to Hamp ton s Legion. We arrived at Yorktown in April, where, on the 26th, were-or-- gi.ed the regiment, electing Champ i - xavis coionei, j. . flic til roy lieuten ant colonel, W. A. Stowe major, and B. -- Jnoore adjutant, making a good many cnanges in company officers. Af -ter staying at Yorktown several days. a,Br oysters and surveying the points I verCv nameiy.ineoid rortincauoHs uo spot where Cornwall is surren- Vered his sword to Gen. Lincoln, we .marched again on May 5th, passing through Williamsburg. Just short . time before we reached the latter poin bara cavalry engagement took place -'.In which Hampton's Cavalry and that , of the enemy participated in a hand t band.s?iit. This was followed by a few ; days of hard marching through rain , s - and mud in which there was no time to -, gtopror draw rations. It was under - these circumstances that the rep-intent reached Chickahominy swamps, where picKesuuty ana sktrmishlnir began in -good earnest. By this lime it seemed that General McClellan had gotten pret ty good foothold on Virginia soil, witn . in a few miles of the Confederate capi ' tal. He had extended his line from tho i James river a considerable distance up . . tne tnituwiuEiny. uig organization was-to, ait appearance complete. Bal- oons could be seen to ascend every day ..ispying ont onr peculiar Joeation. The enemy was using in front of -the Sir ';. eenth some large New Found land dogs - as aavance ptcKeis. . ' When we wished to move forward onr V'- picket line we disposed of these' qoad - rupe muri uruer oy i reel y administering bur only and favorite ' medicine, "rebel" pellets in lead. On fhe 21st of May, we were thrown in Jine of march in -great haste and -moved at a double-quick a distance of , four.or five miles down the Chickahom- inv and brought up at the battle of Seven Pines. We were at once thrown in line of : battle, immediately in front of a battery of Federal field' pieces. The Sixteenth went forward under s galling fire from these batteries and small arms as well. -: One first and un shaken determination was to charge and take the battery and rout the artil lerymen from their stronghold, but on reaching within fifty feet of the enemy's guns we found ourselves ' confronted by a ' miry swamp, covered with - timber, felled- toward us, and the' limbs of the trees" sharpened.-; Behind 1. these were heavy earthworks, making altogether an Insurmountable barrier between us and on r prey. jHere -Mrfc lay down so close to the enemy that he could not lower his guns so ss to bring them to bear upon us, . Finally we withdrew in perfect order. Nightfall gave-the ene my an opportunity ,.to abandon that part of the line. ; JFrom memory, as the only source from, which "to draw,; the writer is not able to give the exact cas ualties of this engagement but, suffice it to say the Sixteenth lost some of her bravest and best officers and : men, among whom? was the gallant . and be loved Col. Davis. The termination of the whole scene, at Seven Pines, left the Confederates, in poasesaion of the ground and master of the situation. It was here that Gen. Joseph E. Johnston was hit by a fragment of shell, wound ed and carried back to ' Richmond. Jlobert E. Lee, having heretofore bad no command, was now assigned to duty as commander-in-chief of the Confeder ate forces in the- field, and the hills of old Virginia were soon to put on, indeed, the grimV sad visage of war..- 1 The Sixteenth North Carolina Regi ment now belonged to Pender's Brigade, A. P. Hill's Division. The vigilance and activity of both armies were hourly increasing,-, the picket ' and other -duties were growing harder and more hazardous day by day. The mud and slush of 'the swamps along the Chickahominy must be waded by day and v j night, and the only chance for "sleep'or "repose" is to drop upon mother earth, to wake up in a pud dle of water with the dirty foam settled in our already not over-tidy gray jack ets. In this way the hours passed until the 26th of June, when A. P. Hill marched his division across the river at Meadow bridge, and hastening forward to Mechanics ville, dashed bis brigades against the heavy fortifications of the enemy, which we took at the point of the bayonet. After passing our own batteries the Sixteenth had to encounter an old-fashioned paling fence, which apparently "was an obstacle, but the strong mountaineers of the . Sixteenth went against it with such force that it sank down like an oak forest before cyclone. In a minute after passing this fence the Sixteenth closed up to the enemy's fortifications and Immediately in front of a strong battery oi artillery It seemed that the enemy had made ready to bear a heavy cross-fire on the Sixteenth, especially its right wing, in addition to which we were exposed to a f usilade of grape and cannister centered from our own battery planted in our rear. This embarrassing situation of the Sixteenth was discovered by the writer, who made known his discovery to Col. McElroy. who, with all possible dispatch, moved us to the left and thereby released the regiment from its uneven and perilous situation. The struggle that ensued and which had be come general all along the lines of both armies, was one of extreme prowess and severity, which finally terminated in the complete dislodgement of the right wing of McClellan's grand army, from -its formidable and bristling forti flcations, by the inferior numbers io domitable heroes of Hill and Jaokson 1 am not able to give the correct casu alties of the regiment during that ever memorable evening but to illustrate Company A lost in killed and wounded twenty-seven men, twelve of whom were either killed on the field or were mor tally 'wounded and died in a very few days. In this fight Company A had eight brotners representing four families and messing together in pairs; after the bat tie was over the roll was called and only four of these brothers answered to their names. Each of the survivors had lost a brother killed on the field. This was the second pitched battle tremendous, bloody death struggle the Sixteenth had participated in, how severe, the casualties will show. At nightfall we were moved a short distance to the right, the enemy having been dislodged from our "front. Here we spent the night so close to the enemy that every word spoken in a common tone of voice could be distinctly heard from our line. The writer stood picket during the night in the edge of the swamp, (so close o the. enemy 8 picket that any sound above a, whisper could easily have been heard. Well does he remember his comrade, who stood only a few paces to the left. He was A. J. Patton, then a beardless youth, but as brave as any who donned the gray. Our surround iogs ere one solitary desert of horror. The owls, night hawks and foxes had fled in dismays not even a snake or frog could be heard to plunge into the la goon, which, crimsoned with the blood of men, lay motionless in our front. Nothing could be heard in the black darkness of that night but the ghastly moans or the wounded and' dying. Thus passed the night, and welcome day found us again forming in line of battle. General Pender, rode up in our front, took the stub of a cigar from be tween his lips, and holding it between his thumb and -finger, thanked us for our good conduct on the previous dav, and notified us .that in a few minutes we would be called upon to storm the strong line of Federal breastworks as we had done the day before. Express ing his utmost confidence in us, he said: "When you mount the enemy's works i wii oe with you, it living. in a few moments the order was given' and forward we went, out arriving at the en emy s lines we were only confronted by a strong picket, tne army having aband oned its position and recreated in the direction of the James river. We Dur sued, and coming upon them at Gaines' Mm we again gave them battle. ' Here for several hours we waged against ieariui oaas one or the bloodiest strug glesof the war, : which finally resulted in the complete rout and defeat of the enemy. The Sixteenth, as on all oc casions, did - her ; full . duty, receiving praise tor ner coolness and execution from her commanding- officers.' This occurred June 37th. The Joss was heavy. On the 30th the Sixteenth helped to fight the battle ofFrazier' Farm. Here as at Mechanicsville, A. P. Hill opentd the battle and -charged the enemy's earthworks, sweeping over his first and second lines and reaching the. third, stormed the same ; with the bayonet. just at this crisis came Federal rein foreementf in overwhelming numbers. and making a determined: charge re gained tne works and, ad vancing. poshed ; the little force of rHilL onlv about Height thousand - strong, slowly or our men oereat never was written and the Sixteenth, with Hill's Division: took and held a stand against odds of proba bly rou r- w one. ; To all human reason destruction was our unavoidable doom: slowly butsurely we vrere being de- siruyeu, aau lust wiuiuat s murmur. Just at the crucial moment a welcome sound the roll of musketry and thun der of artillery was heard in the direc tion of Old Cold Harbor House: at this sound the decimated -lines of the" Six teen th and - Hill's Division, closed nrx Decamere-invuroratea. ana witn a - cour age born of the soul, raised the rebel yell, for they knew that it was Jackson and that reinforcements were at hand, ioe struggle eontiauea tut about sun set. Hill still holdine the center, when. suddenly, the Jife and death struggle ensued which terminated in the renulse of the Federal lines and the driving of them back under ; cover of their; gun loaSk5Our loss n officers as well as men was heavy and atroarentlv Irrenar- able. Capt. A.-W. Coleman. Company A, was killed by a shell --earl v in th' engagement. Lieutenant A. W. Bryson - commanded the company until he was severely wounded, when Sergeant John S. Keener commanded the company the remainder of the dav5 1 failed to state that CoL J. S. McElroy was severely wounded on the 26th at Mechanicsville while gallantly leading bis men. - -. At Malvern Hill the Sixteenth par ticipated, ogicers and" men acquitting them selves wi th t hei r ; usual 1 coolness and intrepid ttyWThe loss was compara lively light. - - " - '- Thus ended Seven Pices, and Seven Days. The survivors got a little rest and recuperation. McClellan has fallen back on Washington and time rolls on. Soon the Confederate forces are attract ed northward. - On August 9th the Six teenth took -part in the battle of Cedar Ron; casualties small. -After mach fa tigue from hard marching, we reached the field of Second Manassas on the af ternoon of the memorable 29th of August. Pope at once made a vigorous attaek oa our left, plunging with great fury Into A. P. HiH's Division, piercing with the bayonet, a gap in our line, ; It looked for a time as if the entire left wing of the Confederate army would.be overwhelmed by the greatly superior numbers, and nothing but genuine hard fighting did save It from almost annihi lation. Finally the enemy along this line were repulsed. They rallied, only to" be driven back the second time. Volleys were delivered at a distance of from ten to fifteen paces.- .The Six teenth, noting as usual, repulsed the en emy in its front in five or six separate assaults.. Our combatants; on this his torical day, were the soldiers command ed by General Kearney, of Mexican renown,-and fought like tigers. Night fall finds Hill, having been re-inforoed, still holding his ground. -General Kear ney has retired from our front and 'the day's operations are ended. The cas ualties were heavy.' The railroad out contained many wounded and dead bodies, riddled with bullets, and torn by shelL and not a few were pierced by bayonet. - August 30th still found the two armies face to face. Some time in the after noon a tremendous force was driven like a thunderbolt against the Confeder ate left and centre, and a struggle en sued so furious and- deadly: that the writer fails of language : to describe it It was one of the most, desjerate and bloody of the war. S The Sixteenth held her position Jrom first to last, dealing just such blows as they . were capable of and . repulsing every attack of the enemy and doing their full duty in bringing the rich but dearly earned victory to the Southern arms at Second Manassas. The loss to the regiment was heavy. ' On the afternoon of September 1st, the battle of Ox Hill was fought in a terrible rain storm. . In this engagement the Sixteenth took part, evincing the same fortitude shown on former occa sions, sustaining some loss in killed and wounded. We crossed theaPotomac September 4th, and arrived a? Frederick City, ML, on the 6th, and after remaining there some days, we marched by a circuitous route, crossing the Potomac some dis tance above Harper's Ferry to Martins- burg. The small force at this place fled be fore us to Harper's Ferry, leaving tOjUS what they had or quartermaster ana commissary stores. By Sunday night of the 14th, we had completely sur rounded Harper's Ferry. The Sixteenth, with Pender's Brigade and Hill's Division, cccupiei the South side of the town. Just after dark the Sixteenth was assaulted by a line of battle, receiving verv unexpectedly a heavy volley, but nothing daunted, we returned the com pliment, raised the yell and, Sweeping forward like a tornado, repulsed the so recently elated enemy with great slaughter. It is not out of place to say that we were troubled no more that night except by the moans and groans of wounded and dying Yankees, who failed to regain their fortifications. Our casualties were small. Monday morning, the 15th, we appre hended another bloody job. Sunday night had been cool and frosty. the Sixteenth having lain upon their arms. Though chilled and shivering we were eady for the fray. An artillery duel was al ready proceeding with great fury. At sunrise Pender was ordered to the front He was on the spot in person and the order was instantly obeyed. Over the hill the left wing of the Sixteenth swung and was the first to be exposed to the enemy s fire. Suddenly the fir ing ceased. The enemy had shoved up a white flag (under such circumstances a clean bit of cambric makes a pretty Bag) and 11.000 men and 13,000 stand of arms, with 73 pieces of artillery was our trophy. The Sixteenth, with Pen der's brigade, were the first to march down upon them. We found them drawn up in line with arms stacked, discoursing flrat-cUss muic of a patri otic kind from their standpoint. In deed, it was quite a decent reception but what a contrast ! - X hey were dress ed out-and-out in brand new uniforms, shoes and brass buttons shining, while we "rebels were almost naked, a great many of ns without a shoe to our feet or a f&ded emblem on our tattered gray to-show even rank or official com mand. Thus ended Harper's Ferry; the Sixteenth s casualties were small. From Harper's Ferry the Sixteenth Regiment, with Pender's Brigade and Hill's Division marched to Sharpsburg. arriving there early In the afternoon of the loin, and found the battle rag ing furiously. , Gen. Jones, with 2,300 men, was opposing Burnside, with 15,- 000. By sheer brute force the latter had compelled the former to descend from the crest nt the hill, where he had taken position, in -which place the lat ter had planted his batteries. Hill's force of 2.000 men, together with Jones' 2,500, numbering la all only 4,500, fell upon Burnside, and after a -desperate struggle, of more than three to one, we drove him back to the bridge from which he never rallied, dark coming on and ending the engagement, and the grand army ULder Burnside . had ex perienced another decisive defeat. The loss of the Sixteenth was comparatively small. : : . The nest day Gen. 'Lee lingered, awaiting another attack, but none was made. The morning of the- following day found Lee on the other side of the Potomac, supplying his army with rations and ammunition. -At-Bunker Hill we stopped, devoured some plain provisions, prostrated ourselves -upon the ground . aad fell - asleep sweet sleep! On the 20th we were ordered in line and marched down the Harper s Ferry , road.. There -were many con jectures aa to where we were going. On reaching a point opposite Shepherds- town, we were baited, froatedtoward the river, our guns provided with fresh caps, sk'rmish lines thrown out and the order given to forward,-? march! Our skirmishers were good hotly' contesting every inch of ground with those of the same old enemy, and in less than fifteen minutes we were closely engaged. The i Sixteenth as she was wont. moved steadily forward, driving every thing before her. Retreat! ng through an open field, the enemy-fell back under cover of the river bank.",. It was " now that the "decisive blow must be struck. Rush i ng oyer the river bank we in tended giving them the : bayonet, but before reaching them they ned In confu sion, some plunging into the river.others attempting to .cross on a . root-bridge erected ; for - their - retreat : should - ne nessity require. Ia this attempted escape many of them lost their lives, streaking the historic waters of the Potomac with their life-blood. This duty was perform ed under the fire of as many Federal can -non-as could be planted- and manned in our entire iiron.t,and,i:added to: the storm of grape and canister which they continued to belch . forth, there was a line of ,small arms "playiBgupoa ,us from the Maryland side, but the charge was made and the victory gained with such amaxi og dispatch th at our casual ties -Were,' comparatively, inconsidera ble. Thus ended the engagement at Shepherd stown.- . - - - The writer deems it not uninteresting to give from memory in this connection the official address of A. P. Hill after the last named battle, for the reason that Io all the engagements therein enumerated the gallant Sixteenth par ticipated, j Genv Hill said: ' . Soldiers of the Light Division: You have done well and I am well pleased with you. You havai fought in every battle from Mechanicsville to Sheperds- town and no one can yet say .that the Light Division was -ever.broken. You held the left at Manassas against over: whelming numbers and saved the army. You saved the day at Sharpsburg and at Sheperdstown you were -- select ed to ; face a storm of round . shot, grape and shell, such as I have never before witnessed. .. Your services -are appreciated by our commanding; gen- eralz,r-t -;v'- ' After the battle of Sheperdstown the Sixteenth Regiment marched back to Bunker Hill. .Here Company A. to which the writer belonged, and Cam pa ny L, left r the regiment Company A having been transferred to- the Thirty ninth North ) Carolina Regiment and Company L.to Thomas Legion, North Carolina Troops.' - ; ; . ; The Sixteenth remained in camp at the above named, place -till about the 1st -of October. About this time the Federal ; army crossed v the Po tomac at Harper's Ferry and "advanced to Warrenton. Leaving the r valley, Longstreet's Corps confronted the ene my near Cufpeper CourfTHouse. ; About the 20th, Jackson also abandoned the valley-- above Winchester and moved forward to. New Market, from thence to the vicinity of Guano Station, a point on the railroad leading from Fredericks burg to Richmond. Everything now pointed to Fredericksburg as the seece of another and dire, conflict. -: On ' the 10th of December Bu reside .began pte paration for crossing to the south side of rthe KappahannocK. finally with muen: difficulty and loss of life, be succeeded, and on the morning of the lath the bat tie began. The wrestle was a bloody and destructive one, ending in Burnside being literally cut to pieces, repulsed and defeated, not for want of numbers or want of courage among his troops but for want of generalship. Here, Tor some reason unknown to the writer, it seemed that A. P. Hilt . in forming his line left a gap of about two hundred yards, and that, bordering on this gap, the Sixteenth, with Pender's Brigade, was placed, remaining there for a short time a little in the rear, but was moved up opportunely enough to participate in the bloody butchery of tne nay. Many unsuccessful attempts were made by the enemy to break through us, first at one point and then at another of our line, but without success. The battle as a whole resulted in a signal victory for the Confederate arms. Burnside retreated to the north side of the' Rap pahannock. The Sixteenth Regiment only lost in this engagement in killed and wounded 32 men.. The regiment remained about Fred ericksburg and .along the Rappaban nock. perform ing guard and picket duty. until a short time before the battle of Chancellorsville, .Which occurred May 3d, 1863. The Sixteenth was thrown into this fight at a point where the ser vice of none but veterans was compe tent. When the smoke had ascended from the field of Chancellorsville and the roll of the Sixteenth North Carolina Regiment was called, it was ascertained that 59 of her brave fellows were killed or wounded helpless upon the field. Surely the surviving heroes of the grand old Sixteenth have reason now to be discouraged and forlorn, but they are not. Jackson, the hero-Christian, the war-genius of the Western World, is mortally wounded and is borne, amid the heart agony of an army and the weeping of a great land, forever from the field. How expressive the brief words of Lee: "I have lost my right arm," when he heard that "Stonewall" Jackson would strike no more like an eagle, to sustain that noble limb; gal lant little A. P. Hill is wounded and borno to the rear: the cool, calculating, grey-eyed, tan-faced Pender, still the soul of grit, may be seen ever at his post; the chivalric Marshall Stuart is in temporary command cf Jackson's corps. and a brief but 1 ainful cassation of hos tilities had ensued. About the 1st of June the larger por tio t of the army of Northern Virginia disappeared from the valley of the Rap pahannock, leaving Hill with his corps to watch the movements of Hooper, About the middle of June, the latter withdrew from Fredericksburg and simultaneously the Confederate forces left Fredericksburg. Hill's corps, cross iog the Potomac on the 25th of June at Shepherdstowu, arrived at Fayotville, Pa., on the afternoon of the 27th. The armies are now concentrating their forces at Gettysburg. The Sixteenth is to boon hand at the initiatory. The 1st of July has arrived. Another time. place and event well ordered and cal culated to "try men's sonls," has ap peared upon the bloody canvas. Upon that canvas is pictured in horrid tints ihe fate-or a nation and the status of a race on (he one hand, and the consti tutional rights of a people on the other. In its enactments of destruction' and horror fr end will be seen to strive against friend and brother against brother. It is not necessary for me to reiterate the oft-repeated scenes of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd days of July at Gettysburg. Were it deemed indispensable, my-feeble pen would falter and fall trom my grasp at its utter bluntnessand stupidi ty. Suffice it to say that the Sixteenth was there from first to last. Its casual ties are the best commentary upon the part it plaved In the drama of those critical three days. The Sixteenth as all the other regiments of Lee's army, before it reached the field of Gettysburg, had been reduced to a mere handful. Out of its veteran residue, during the three days it lost in killed and wounded, seventy two men. This is its only and to me sufficient argument and message. After Gettysburg the brave and generous Pen der is seen, no more by the Sixteenth and the ban cred, dust-covered band of his brigade; for.succumbinjr to a mortal wound,, he has crossed the last dark river and gone to rest witn Jackson ''under the shade of the trees." Thus one by one they .go, the patriot general and the private in the field. The Sixteenth re-crossed the river on the 14th. Thus ended the campaign north of-the Potomac. " Realizing that I am making my sketch too lengthy, I will abridge by saying that the Sixteenth remained with the army . of Northern Virginia all the way through; marching, starving, fighting. enduring,a great deal of the time under Ore; often engaged i n hard flghti ng, losing a man now and then from the little band until complete annihilation seemed to be inevitable. Staggering from fatigue, on they go. Petersburg is reached and left, and .with it they leave forever the gallant A.- P. Hilk Jackson at Chancellorsville, Pender at Gettysburg, Stuart at Yellow Tavern. They so more to thrill the souls of the men In gray.' But the little squad that remained of the Sixteenth have not given opTln despairr On they trudge, bleeding, dying but dying game rag ged, barefoot, famished, they quit, at tempting to wash, their emaciated faces. " Stilt they go. With an ear of corn taken, from ithe horses, they make their daily meal,, but grim and determined they-trudge. The 8th of April has arrived.: More than once Lee has been asked , to - surrender, but still .thinks the emergency is not sufficient to Justify it.. The 9th arrives and we are completely surrounded. The Old Cavalier, representing bis 8.000 cat tenuatea . Heroes, - noids : a conference with the generous and soldierly Grant, with his grand army of 130,000. Lee returns from the sad but fateful Inter view. The men gather about him and read the result iu his sorr .wf ul but fatherly face. The Sixteenth ia-there. wiping with -ragged sleeve the tear from the sunken eye. Never known to weaken or falter, they helped to drink to the dregs of this last bitter cup;- and aa they, -with their comrades, pass for the .last lime in melancholy review, they hear like a paternal benediction these immortsl words from the immor tal Leer God bless old North Carolina." - The total casualties of the Sixteenth Regiment for the war were something more than SO0, leaving about 500, ..a large majority of which number were not at the surrender from legitimate causes. .: - . ... - On the 10th at Appomattox Court House the surrender was made formal, and the Sixteenth, together with the remainder of . the once magnificent Army of Northern Virginia, turned its face homeward to rejoin the broken households in peace and rebuild their once happy homes from the ashes. - - Now, if , my comrades, historians of the Thirty-ninth and Thomas' Legion, will pardon, I will return to Bunker Hill for a brief campaign of reminiscence of the toils and struggles of Companies A and L from the time they left the Six teenth on the 5th day of October. 1862. From Bunker Hill they- marched: by way of Staunton and : Lynchburg to East : Tennessee, where Company L stopped with Thomas' Legion. Company A proceeded to Middle . Tennessee and joined the Thirty-ninth, then a battal ion under ; Colonel ? David Coleman. From Middle Tennessee we were trans ported . in the spring of 68,v to Missis sippi. - - -- The company experienced a compar atively easy time until the 1st of July, when we took up the line of --march heading for' Vicksburg, the object of which was to relieve Gen.- John C. Pern- berton, who was being severely be seiged; but before reaching thero we learned that asurrender had been capit ulated, f rom tnence our races were turned toward Chicamaugs,' where in the battle of the 19th and 20th' of Sep tember the sixteenth took part as fol lows: Being transported from Missis sippi as fast as freight trains could carry us, we reached Rio gold, Ga.. about noon of the 18th. Sweeping up the muddy little Cbicamauga, we drove the blue coats before us until they had taken refuge within their main line. At this juncture night came on and with it the usual cessation of arms.' The night passed t daylight beheld the ball opening. (It is not my pur pose to infringe upon 'the territory of my brother historian of the Thirty ninth but simply to record some facts which may chance to escape his notice and to lay acrecedent that we in the penning of cur memories of the deeds of our comrades, living and dead, need npt take any umbrage if we repeat, for it is for the benefit of the future impar tial historian that we contribute our in dividual experience and observation in a book the sum-total of which, jt is to be hoped, will contain facts and truth tor the enlightenment and. pleasure , of posterity.' Company A lay down behind and in support of a Georgia regiment. The latter endeavored to "just shoot it out" with the enemy. Reinforcements final ly coming to the relief of the enemy. they were making proper smash of the brave Georgians when the Thirty-ninth North Carolina and Twenty-fifth Ar kansas moved forward, passed over the Georgians, and changing the-tactics, raised the "rebel yell" and charged. The Indianians stubbornly disputed our right to their stronghold bnt, at last preferring to keep out of the way of the bayonet, they fell back. It was at the most critical moment of this charge that the color-bearer of the Thirty ninth, William Breedon, of Cherokee county, was shot down. As the Jlag fell from his nerveless . grasp it was caught before it touched the ground by a first lieutenant who bore it forward until Joseph Sutton, of Company A, took it from his hands and oarried it for the remainder of the day. ThaW night Sutton turned over the colors to Col. Coleman, saying that he preferred to carry his gun. Then J. Wesley Shelton, of Jackson' county, volunta rily took the -flag and bjre it to the close of the war. and who now has it in his possession. It is but jus tice here to state that the preservation of this old relic is due to Lieut. R.'II. Brown, of Jackson county, who, on leaving Spanish Fort after the surren der, took the flag, and concealing it about his person, carried it safely home. Such is the correct history of the tat tered old battle-flag of the Thirty-ninth North Carolina which has been exhib ited at the late re-unions in western North Carolina Company A went through the whole of the two days' Struggle for the mas tery at Chickamauga," every inch of whose ground was bitterly contested, and on Sunday evening whsn the last charge was made and the Ninth Indiana battery f nine pieces was captured in a life and death struggle and at the point of - the bayonet, Company x was there and among the first half dozen men to lay their hands' on a Federal field-piece. The struggle is over. The victory is won and the enemy flees to ward Chattanooga. Thus ends the bloody battle of Chickamauga. Company A's loss was heavy. It played a conspicuous part in all the hard fighting, starving and .marching under Johnston from Dalton to Spanish Fort. Ken nesaw and Altoona doubtless still bearing marks of her dogged skill and executive strength. And until Nashville, Company A never met with what uld be styled a defeat. Still on Virginia's soil. Company L bore ber full share of the heal and burden of the day, laying down her arms when her strength was insufficient to bear them. , I Sincerely trust, that my surviving- comrades of ihe Sixteenth will abun dantly pardon me for any error of omis sion that I necessarily may have made, Swing to the meagre facilities, in data, with which I have been favored, and the jreacherousness of memory, more tnan toirty years naving eiapsea since that sanguinary struggle and the events that then transpired. Finally, my comrades, I have obeyed this order and performed this, doubt less, my last duty, as I did those of the sixties, in behalf of my children and yours, my conscience, and my 'country, to the very best or my ability. Fraternally, - B. IL Cathky, -First Lieut. Co. A, I6th N. C. Vol."" Her Suspicion Aroused. Louisville Post. She got off the Indiana train with , a big bundle that she could hardly man age, and as l naa nothing to ao i took pity on her and offered to carry it to the ferry dock, - in which direction she seemed to be going. - ' She acquiesced and we went to the dock: ' On arriving she took out. her purse andjianded me a dime, with the remark that it -was not much of a walk, but she thought it was worth a dime, I thanked her, and told her .that my ser vices would be free, at which she asked me what I carried her bundle for If not for pay V'-r-5 'sy'- aOh;: I thought to do you. 4 favorJ I 3Tala't natural 'talL" she replied. "WeiL I can't take your money," She "Studied a minute and saidft 1 can't make out whether you" intend to pickmy pocket or.; steal my "bundle. x oung . feller, you d better stop your bad ways or you'll go to the bad place. " ttdoit 1 replied sv : -That's rightii-she said, "do it. and when yoa come over to Indiana you Jest inquire f er Mrs. Jones, and I'll give you"; good dinnerrlf Iever hear of your get tin' bung 111 tell folks that you had a good streak in you, anyhow. Mrs. Phoebe Thomas, of Junction City, IIU, was told by her doctor sbc bad con ram ption and that thero was no hope for her, but two bottles of Dr. King's New Dis covery completely cured her and she says it saved her Uf. Mr. Thomaa Fggers. 120 Florida street, San Fraaeisoo, suffered from a dreadful cold, approach ing consumption, tried without rult everything else then bouirht one bottle of Dr. King's Nfw lis- eovery and in two weeks was eared He is naxaraur vnanaxni. i is suca results, oi hich these- are earn pies, that prove these- are ampies, that prove the wonderful efSeacr of this medicine ia eooehs and colds. Kre trlnl bott les at the droi stores of Harwell A Dunn and Jordan 4 fecotu Kegular sue SOc and U. -; " 9 UTB1BT KOTES. Magazine readers will learn with pain that Ida D; Coolbrith , Is dying at her home in Oakland, . Cal. The name is a familiar one upon the pages of our best periodicals; and the. lines to which; It was appended were always well worth perusal. " - Sir Walter Bes&nt, the eminent Eng lish writer, is 57 years old; but his plump face,' bis clear complexion, his thick brown hair and beard make him seem much younger, v . . ... ". -. ' ' The Bankers' Magazine, which has been -for half a century an authority upon finance, has ceased, to exist. It has been merged into' Rhoades's Jour nal of Banking; a younger publication,. j: v.--" :. - r -:v . o : A. writer in the August Peterson's sayg: "The World's Fair in the South is a pregnant and tremendous fact. It means more than the passing away of old ideas and traditions; it means more than the creation of a new and keen eyed spirit of ind ostry and progress looking out over the fields" once con secrated to a dying cult; it means the regeneration of an entire people." -. . - . ' - - Gustav Ven Moset is a most success ful German playwright. He has just produced his hundredth drama. His plays are often put upon the American stage, --,. - . "; -'-- , - - . John Oliver Hobbes Mrs. Craigie,) has been elected president of the So ciety of Women Journalists of London. - ; - ; , Sir Robert Ball, possibly the greatest living astronomer, says if the people of our planet carry out. the much talked of signaling by flag: to toe supposed in habitants of Mars, the banner must be at largeas Ireland and? the pole 500 miles long In'order-to attract any at tention .from the ruddy, planet. . He thinks and rightly too there are too many astronomical cranks at present airing their theories about Mars. - Sir Edwin Arnold has a story "The Master Thief," in the Cosmopolitan. It Is an old Egyptian story re-told. . -. . If titled writers add to the literary value of a periodical, the Cosmopoli tan has the palm this month. Sir Lewis Morris name, too, appears in its table of contents. :.- ' "- The Review of Reviews for August prints a portrait of Walter' Page, and speaks in the "most complimentary terms of him as an editor. Does the Review not make a mistake, however, in saying Mr. Page began his journalis tic career in Missouri?- I "was under the impression he was first connected with newspaper work in Raleigh, N. C. , "Tendencies in Fiction' is the title of a paper by Andrew Lang, contributed to the Worth American Keview. tie says: "We are humanitarian, and so are our novels; revolutionary, and so are our novels. All institutions are brewing in a witch s cauldron, whereto the novel 1st drives bis hook, like the sons of Eli, and brings forth matters good or bad." Maurus Jokai writes of his literary recollections in.the August Forum. He says: I elaborate my novel to the very last dialogue, mentally: I then write with great rapidity and without erasure. The manuscript of all my work is in my own hand. Someone has calculated their contents to be seventy two millions of letters. - It is rot quite a literary note, but aesthetic people will be pleased to know Padereweskl'a hair is falling out. Speaking of Padereweski, he is said to have finished his opera. The scene is laid in the Carpathian mountains Some time ago it was said this work would mark an epoch in music, hence its production Is looked forward to with impatience. It will be brought out first in London. The Southern Tobacco Journal, of Winston. N C, in its issue of July 27th gives its reader j a surprise. This num ber is a "woman's edition" for the bene fit of the T-win City Hospital Associa tion and is a credit to the gentle hands that presided over its pages. Mies Adelaide L. Fries acted as editor-in- chief, assisted by a large editorial staff Let every one who feels an interest in these good women's efforts to raise funds for this purpose and who should not? send for a copy of the magazine. Mr. Charles W. Hubner.of Allanta,hiis issued a prospectus of a book he is com piling 'War Poets of the South and Confederate Camp Fire Songs." It bids fair to be an interesting volume. The war has been the theme of some of the most stirring poems produced in Amer ica "Jly Maryland, for instance, and The - Conquered lianner "Uixie, etc It is well that these lyrics are to be collected and preserved. Mr. Hub ner. appeals to the South generally for be support of his undertaking, and be should meet with a cardial response. When one reads these beautiful lines of French concerning the quest the ancients made for the Isles of Paradise, Imagining witn him . . . Bow evermore the tempered ocean-gales Breathe round those bidden Islands of the blest. ; Steeped in the glory spread when daylight inns. --Far In the sacred West; -How unto them beyond our mortal debt Haloes evermore la strength the golden - dav. : ' - .- - " - - . And meadows, with purpureal roses blight, - Hloom round tnnineei aiway , And when one comes upon these mag nificent lines of Tennyson's, ' breathing very much the same Bpint - -.- St indeed I go. : To the lland-slley of Ayilton, ' . -Where falls not hail, or rain or any snow' Not ever wind blows loudlr: toot it lies . Deep-meadowed, happy, fair witn orchard - lawns,. . . And bowery hollow -crowaea with summer sea" -- - - . When one is stirred by such -magical lines, t say, he little thinks these same notes were struck by Homer thousands of years before. . -r - , - ; ., :. r-: The August Century is .very attrac tive It contains three' beautiful wood engravings by Cole, after celebrated pictures by Rubens. "Reminiscences of Literary Berkshire'Ms fine -article? There are, .in addition to the : serials, short stories by George Wharton Ed wards and others. James Whitcomb Riley is one of the contributors a popu lar writer, by the way, but, one who I confess bas few charms for me. 1 L?T MB SOT KWBt WmiJI.AtJi.'T : : Thomas William Parsons in the Century for August. - - Les me not much complain of life, io age; - s Life hi not faulty, tile -is well Snuusb. . - -S-For those who love their doily routid of doing,-':- .... . And take things rounded, naver ia the - roagh-, .cr- --c-.-' -r Tarnln s from day to day the same old page, - And their old knowledge evor more r- newtng. .- ' - " " ' IX have known many such ; through life they weak . - -'frr! - - - v With moderate as ef m derate ber - ttage. Olvtng and spading, saving as they spentr .? These are-'wiee- men, . tkough x uever ,"- "- goaautf ssgt; si..-,.;..:-...-..-.?.-'.. They looked lor little, easy men to - - pleaesv -f:;i. - . - ---: -v---But X, more deefif y drunk of life's full en p, - Feel, as ray lips come nearer So the iees, : I dived for pearls and brought but peb -bJesan. .. :.ifes4fc'i-v r-?.-r -.- '-""-' ' '. : - : ...... . . - ... -. ' . - St. Nicholas for August is rich in the educating papers . tb at- are always . a prominent feature of this best of all the children's periodicals. ' Those boys and girls are fortunate - whose, parents .teach them to love St. Nicholas.. Like the dear 6aint after whom it ia named, it is always loaded with good things, and comes, twelve times a year instead of once. ::-'- '-.f'-j r v .tl" "z '.. "-- '"; '-.,; "-..;...? ..- ...-'- .- . :-.T-- J i- It seems as if Mr. John Vance Cheney started a sonnet and closed with the oe vtsve in the- following poem from the Century.5" The effect is pleasing, how: V ' .'"J,-.-'. HAIX3TOSB. . - ' '. When sings Halcyone her lovely lays -Wi' And piteous, oil the charmed Sicilian sea 'i he winds of winter Into hiding flee, . Far from her nest. - Along the utmost wavs No sound la heard, nor ever torni-win strays, - . Btlll both the seaweed and the swinging - - tree, - - - Bound la the quiet round Halcyone, And all the troubled world has happy days ; 'V:-"CAJI THXIT CO UK TO tJS? New York Herald. . " Zi ' -The ancet of the' Lord encampeth round about them that fear Him, and delivvreth them. F alms, xxxiv , 7yr vi't?. c-. - In what way do) the dear f bnes vrho have been summoned to the other shore employ themselves? . Love often .; asks that question and love ought to -have, an answer. It is a problem that cannot be solved, or are there fciews which jwill lead us through the labyrinth into the clear sunlight of unwavering faith! - Is it rather an important matter, for if we feel that they are always or even sometimes within reach of us we can bear the separation more bravely, while the thought that they are in some re mote region into which no intelligence from the earth penetrates is so depress-' ing that our: shoulders shiver beneath the burden . - - .- v ' . - . - - - Death is a little less than death when we are reasonably - certain that the father who has gone has stilt the power to watch over the child who remains, and death is a little more than death .if it means the annihilation of the affec-. tion which made this life so precious. ' -Fortunately, we are well rid; of . the curious and fantastical ideas of heaven which have prevailed so extensively in the Tmst. ; It has been pictured as & con ventional place, whose very joys partake of a dignified, and gloomy solemnity; where the natural propensities from which so much pleasure in- the present life is derived are relentlessly suppress ed ; where- such excess! ve atten tion Is given to music that the future-seems like an eternally , prolonged chorus of vocalism, and where the soul will ' no longer take delight in those intellectual pursuits which have heretofore given it both its enjoyment and its individuali ty. Ia a word, it was regarded as so un desirable a residence that the s longing for an extended life here became, pain fully intense. We did not wish to goto heavep, partly because it was a region peopled by strange beings and partly be cause iv was impossible to see now we could be contented .there. I . . , fe ' All this was demoralizing spiritually; and we clung to life, and not only with the tenacity that God Implanted In our constitutions as a necessity, but witn an added tenacity which was . morbid and unnatural, since we felt ourselves want ing in the capacity of adapting our selves to the peculiar kind of happ'ness which the angels are supposed to enjoy. ' Bnt these - legendary , notions are a figment of the past and a more rational view has taken their place. Our present faith is not based' on the imagination merely, but on a superior knowledge of God's providence and on a wider view of the soul's requirements,':" We now know that eternity for us began when we were born; that the future is only the present prolonged, and that heaven will simply furnish us with added oppor tunities -for spiritual and; intellectual development. Eternity is nothing more than a Now indefinitely repeated, and the law which : govern us to-day wlil also govern us to-morrow.-- Death is removal from a lower sphere of ac tivity to a higher one, with no changes whatever to mark it except the loss of bodies which, have achieved .their pur pose and can no longer be made useful. It becomes easy, then,- under the re gime of this new thought, to decide in at least a general way what are the re lations between the two worlds. We may make grave mistakes jf we deal too largely in details, which is the ten dency in this age of reaction from the formal and eold and unnatural specula" tions of other times; but we can venture upon - some generto statements, whiorr must certainly contain the gist of the whole matter, and .these' statements come to us like unexpected strains of cheering music to the weary traveler. The soul is so fortified by tbem that the direst bereavement has a modicum of comfort in it, and the profoundest sor row, like.the cloud at sunset, a silver lining. " - :-."; They who have gone have not-gone far. They have not been transported to such a diStance that their interest jn and love for us have been interrupted or intercepted. Those who were dear to each other are still dear, and will re main so until changes - are effected by mutual consent. They are- not asleep, awaiting a summons by the archangel's trumpet for the trumpet has already sounded for them. ' They will not arise from the grave, . for Ihey never -went Into the grave, t From here to heaven is only a step, and those who have taken the step to heaven can - also take the step from heaven,. The soul without a fleshly body can do what a soul ham pered with a body cannot do. Heaven, as a literal fact, is all round about us, and not a Cry goes up from 'earthly misery that is not heard there, and not a loved one has gone bnt finds it possi ble tb return and to influence in Some degree thost who are left behind.- If we have - the power to think of them they certainly have an equal power, toj think oi us, ana tnougn, imprisoned in this tabernacle of flesh, wo may not visit tbem, they have no such impedi ment, and not only may but do throw themselves into our interests just - as tbey did when they lived in-this lower boose.. - , - - - ' - : ' it is a mistake to suppose that a soul become enfeebled simply because it bas crossed the river. Its intellectual anL spiritual powers are greatly en larged, it can ' love With a deeier love and it can help us in many ways to bear our burdens. w That kind of" a faith is a healthy stimulant. It glorifies this life and irradiates the other life. . Religion be comes a joy forever, the most desirable thing in the world, as necessary to'our comfort as our daily, bread. . They see you, they sympathize, with . you, they help you. . The dear Lord said, "'I will come into you, and can it be-true that He always, comes alone, or is lie accom panied by those who still pray for our welfare and love us as deeply as ever 1 The prettiest dinnerware on the :- marketj illuminated with gold, Also handsome line of new- class, :vases. rose bowls, - berry sets, ca rafFes, butters, 'sugars. &c Ohio Freeze rs are selling every . lay'. They-are the best: 1; We Have a few fruit jars lett: uall on us lor all seasonable goods in our line. WasMnrfoa Sknd, Ko. 20.W. Tra.e St Dtbject CtTRBiHTUynamos for Isolated f. lighting. Alternating Current Dyna mos for Central Station Lighting . : Power Generators ror llallway riants Tni - WBSTmoHotrsa Electric ako Manotactubiko Co., ; . Charlotte, 11. C. - ' Sillloill O. - Vol-Pvp-.p.i i i a ' By virtue of a Deed in Tn t t ; made by J. II. Holland, an ly ir of a resolution of tho crediirs cf e . Holland, passed at a tneeticT eft' Creditors held In accordance v i; .i t terms of the deed in trust, I clcr -r sale the followingreal estate an persona property : First-That bouse and lot situated ia the city of Charlotte, N. C, and known as the reMdeoce of J. II. Hcllind, v joining the lots of John Yanl.MP : ham, John P. Orr, fronting liJ foet , East Trade street, and extendins bacs to Fourth street, and all the household and kitchen furniture in said dwelling after the assignment of the personal ex emption of said Holland in such person al property. Second All those lot in the city cf Charlotte, S'tuated on Mint street, and which'was conveyed to said Holland by W, M Wilson and wife by deed d.it: ! DecJ20, 1802, and registered in 1'. lenburg county, Book 81, par -Upon these lots are erected many dwell ing houses which pay a fair rental. Third One lot In Dilworth, being lot No. 8 in-square No. 8 on the map of said Dilworth property, which was con veyed by the Charlotte Consolidated Construction Company by deed dated May 20, 1891, and registered in Meck lenburg county N. 0 in Book 78, Page 482. Fourth -One undivided half of that lot In the city of Charlotte at the corner of College and 8th streets, which was conveyed to J. It. Holland and T. II. Oalther by Catherine Warlick, by deed dated November 2.1, 1887, and registered in, Mecklenburg- county, in Book 17, Page 530. . ; Fifth All those tracts of land in the county of Gaston, situated on the Mouth Fork of Catawba river, containing 318 acres, more or less,' and known as the IU ver Side Dal ry Farm of J. It. Hol Und.f t--;s:f:;-; ,f Sixth All the cattle, horses,! mules, hogs, wagons, farming tools, dairy fix-' tures, furniture and all other personal property of every kind whatsoever on the -aforesaid farm, and used by the said. Holland in the cultivation of said farm and operating dairy, which arti cles are too numerous to mention. A hcbedule of which wilt be shown by the trustee to any one who-may wish to purchase.' Also two horses, two surrles, one phaston,: one buggy, saddles, har ness, etc.r;::---":'..';.--v.-. ,;. ' All of tho above propervy wi:j le offer ed at private sale until the rsl jay of September, 1803, and if not sold private ly, will then be offered at spubllo auc tion. The Gaston county - property at the court house in Dallas, on Tuesday, the 10th day of September, and the property in the city of Charlotte will be Cffered at phbllo auction on Tuesday, the 3d day of September, 1895. - 4 v Persons wishing to purchase the prop erty or any part t thereof ;will confer with the undersigned as to price and terms of sale. - If sold at public auction terms will be made known on day of sale:--V;.- . ' - ' . - -' J. II. McADEN, Trustee. Charlotte, N.O., July 6th, 1805. - Gastonia Gazette please copy. 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These are- genuine leaders, all new and very popular. ' - All the novelties in fine footwear, - - GILREATH&CO FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS Mrs.' Winslow's Soothing Syrup Has IwMtn-ued for children while teething. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allavs all pain, cures Wind eolio, regulates the' fiOBiHcb nd bowfi. and is tne bst remwny for dlarrtuea. Twenty-flve cents a bottle. : fold by all druggists throughout the worjd. I have now tb nteest stork of Htearn. Waverlr. llDoers and Waverly Belles ever put on the market, besides a large flock of second-band wheels which I am sflllnt; nt reduced nricea. Every girl and Indv la Charlotte who bas a eheap wheel hou! 1 n-, the Waverl Belie. ; tm w or - ew Ymk cltr ride Is. - W. F. DOWD. Full supply of sondries ana repe I in g. RICHARD A." BLYTHE, COTTON WARF3 AND YARNS. No. 1 1 Cesmut Street, , Philadelphia Ho. 4's to 20C's Singlo and Double. V7arjs i'c. -- -i in Chains and Betmt, in 3ry and Co... -. 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