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‘volume V.
CANTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING. JANUARY 24, 1884.
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[jan3-83-ly]
•How, John,'' the distriot teacher says,
With frown that scarce can hide
The dimpling smiles around her mouth,
Where Cupid's host* abide,
"What have you done to Mary Ann,
That she is crying so ?
Don't say ’twas ‘nothing’—don't, I say,
For, John, that can't be eo;
"Foe Mary Ann would never cry
At nothing, I am sure;
And if you’ve wounded Justice, John,
Ton know the only cure
Is punishment I So, come, stand up;
Transgression must abide
The pain attendant on the scheme
That makes it justified."
sun-burnt face,
Bo John steps forth, with
And hair all in a tumble,
His laughing eyes a contrast to
His drooping month so bumble.
"Now, limy, you must toll me nil—
I see tiiat John will not,
And if lie's besn unkind or rude,
I’ll whip him on the spot."
of itoatrength. It wm an exception to find
a man who oonld not nhow ballet hole*
through hi* olothing, and some of the
wounded were hit three and four times.
Those who buried the dead said that of
the 200 or more killed by the artillery*
Ore at least 175 were ao torn and muti
lated aa to be little better than a bloody
"W—we were p---playin’ p—prls'ner't b--
base.
An’ h—he is s—snob a t—teasa,
An’ w—when I w—wasn’t 1—lookin’, m—
ma'am,
H—he k—kitted me-if you plasm I"
Upon the teacher's faoe the smiles
Have triumphed o'er the frown,
A pleasant thought runs through her mind,
The stick cornea harmless down.
But outraged law must be avonged t
begone, ye smiles, begone I
Awsy, j e little dreams of love,
Come on, ye frowns, oomeon’,1
"i think I'll have to whip you, John,
Such conduct breaks the rals;
No boy, except a naughty one,
Would kiss a girl—at sohool."
Again the teacher's rod is raissd,
A Nemesis sha stands—
A premium were put on sin,
If punished by sneh hands I
As when the bee explores the ram
We see the petals tremble,
Bo trembled Mary’s rose-bud lips—
Her heart would not diseembia.
"I wouldn’t whip him very hard"—
The stick stops in its fall—
"It wasn’t right to do it, but—
It didn't hurt at all I”
"Whatmade youory, then, Mary Ann?"—
The school's noise makes a pause.
And out upou the listening air,
From Mary ooraes —“Because I"
— Will y, AlcSparran, in Our Continent.
FIELD, FORT AND FLEET.
TUB MINMON OF FIBI.D AHTII.I.RKY,
Same
Mlrlklns Bans.pies •(
Canister.’'
“Grape and
J. M. HARDIN.
House, Sign, Carriage
—AND—
ORNAMENTAL PAINTER,
FRESCO m SCENIC ARTIST ALSO.
Oriental and Grecian painting. Mezo
Tintinr, Carbo-Tmting, painting in So-
pei and India Ink.
Twenty-five per cent sived by spply-
'ng to me before contracting with others.
Material furnished at bottom prices.
Satisfaction given or no chargss made.
See or address, J. M. HARDIN,
pan3-’88-ly] Canton, Georgia,
"Bring up the gnns 1”
Let the order be heard by a regiment
of infantry crowding to the rear in a
panic and it will halt the men in their
tracks and make lighten of them again.
There is something in the companion
ship of a field battery that makes a foot
soldier braver than when his regiment
fights alone. The guns may be wasting
ammunition os they roar and crash, bat
it seems to the regiments on flank or in
rear that every discharge is driving
great gaps through the enemy’s lines.
So long as the battery remains the sup
ports will remain. Even when the order
is given to donble-shot the guns and the
infantry can see that half the horses
have been shot down he still carries the
feeling that graph and canister will win
the victory. The loss of horses, wagons
and small arms is lightly mentioned in
official reports and the losers feel no
degradation, bat let a brigade lose a
single gnn from one of its batteries,
and every soldier feels the shame. It
is next to losing the flag presented to
s regiment as it marohed from home.
AT MKCHANICSVILLE.
When MoOlellan, in his change of
base, took position at Mechaniosville,
his left rested near Ellison’s mill. For
three hundred yards in front the ground
was open, a part of it being a plowed
field. Two hundred feet in front of the
Federal linea ran the mill-race, which
then had perpendicular banks and con
tained four feet of water. Thirty feet
back from the race the Federals hod
made an abattis of rails, tree-tops, limbs
and sharpened stakes. Then came more
than thirty field-pieces in line, and be
hind them on the slopes werei infantry
supports three lines deep.
Pender’s brigade, of D. H. Hill’s com
mand, advanced alone to assault this
position, intending it as a flank move
ment to turn the Federal left. They
had no sooner moved out into the open
ground than the artillery had a full-
sweep at them. Grape, canister and
short-fused shell were hurled at them
almost by the ton, and in five minutes
the four regiments which had left cover
in beautiful order were little better than
a mob. However, instead of retreatiug
in a panic, the men dropped to the
ground, and began a sharp musketry
fire. This was answered by volleys
from beyond the mill-raoe, which liter
ally plowed the ground.
Pender hung until the assault beoame
; a butchery, and then the order was given
to retire. Pender’s brigade- numbered
less than 8,000 men, and yet in twenty-
five SQihDftes its loss was nearly one-sixth
As Pender was driven book he met
Ripley's brigade, of the seme command
coming to his support Lee knew the
position, but he must carry it to turn
the Federal left. This seoend brigade
hod leas than two thousand four hun
dred men, and, united with Pender, the
total strength was not over five thou
sand. Four times that number oonld
not have made an impression upon that
position.
When Peuder had rallied his men, the
two brigades advanced in column of as
sault, breaking cover with n chest and
on the double quiok. The Federal guns
were worked with terrible energy, but
under cover of the smoke, and by crawl
ing upon hands and knees, the Oonfed-
ates reached the mill-raoe. Indeed,
several hundred of them crossed it.
Then, for forty minutes, there wss s ter
rific struggle. Bo fierce wss the Federal
infantry firo over and through tbs
abattis that it wss gradually whittled
away. Limbs ss large aa a man's arm
were barked, chipped and splintered ss
if lightning had played over them, end
the surfase of the mill-raoe was oovered
with splinters, twigs and leaves.
Pender and Ripley could not advance
beyond the canal in force. They oonld
not long maintain their lines where they
were. The fire from the Federals
searched every foot of ground, and
every minute their lines were melting
away. When the order was given to
fall book, the artillery raked them again
as they crossed the open ground, and
when the men finally reached cover, the
loss of each regiment had beoome amaz
ing. For instonoe, the Forty-fourth
Georgia, which numbered only about
700 men, lost 338 officers and men.
Every field offioer was killed, and of the
ten captains and twenty lieutenants,
only twelve remained. It was the same
with the Third North Carolina and other
regiments.
AT FRAZIBB’S FARM.
At Frazier’s Farm, during this same
eventfnl week, Randall's battery of six
pieces was c.u McClellan’s right, and
supported by the Fourth Pennsylvania.
‘The front was au old field, devoid of
shelter, and the battery wasplaying into
the woods half a mile beyond. This
battery bo annoyed the Confederates
that a brigade was ordered to charge it.
The Eleventh Alabama had the lead,
and was to be closely supported by the
other tliree regiments. Through some
blunder the Alabamians, nnmliering
about seven hundred and fifty, were per
mitted to advance alone.
They were seen as soon as they broke
cover, and more than one hundred of
them were killed by the artillery as they
advanced across the field. The men
were thrown into disorder one moment
to be rallied the next, and, finally, with
muskets at a trail and caps swinging in
the sir, they made a rush straight upon
the guns. As they came near the Penn
sylvanians rose np and delivered two
or three volleys right into them. These
were returned, and then the final rash
was made. In a minute a wild mob was
swirling 'round and 'ronnd the gnns—
bayonets drinking blood—clubbed mus
kets felling men—the wounded stagger
ing np to elntch on enemy and pull him
down.
The gnns were won. The Fourth was
poshed slowly back, but as the cheers
of the Alabamians drowned the noise
of the battle to the right and left, the
Seventh Pennsylvania came to the sup
port of the Fourth. The fight which
now tooV place was witnessed by at
least two generals and half a dozen
oolonelB, outside of the hundreds in
the ranks. It was two regiments to one,
but the Alabamians had won the guns
and were determined to hold them.
Not a single oompany formed in line—
nut an officer had a command. Two
thousand mad and infuriated men
rushed at each other with murder in
their hearts. No one asked for quarter
—uo one gave it.
At the end of twenty minutes the
Pennsylvanians gave way, not overpow-
efcd by numbers but pressed back by
such dare devil fighting as nobody had
ever witnessed before. The gnns had
been taken, but there were no horses to
draw them away. The captors were
making arrangements to draw them
away when there was a rally on th^part
of the Federals. The smallness of the
Confederate force suddenly became
plain as the smoke lifted, and before a
gnn oonld be moved hot fire was opened
from a whole brigade, followed by a
charge. The Alabamians were picked
np and hurled back in a broken mass,
and the last of them had, not reached
the wood* before the fihus were ogajg
playing upon them. The loss of the
Confederate regiment woe over 160 men,
100 at Whom, including eight oompany
commander*, died aroaod the battery,
•n aaruum at manuk
The day after the repulse of the Fif
teenth ’Corps at Kenneaaw Mountain
the Fortieth and Fifty-seventh Indiana,
Ninety-seventh end Twenty-elxth Ohio,
Twenty-eigth Kentaoky, and One-
hundreto Illinois regiments, each um
bering sbolt 800 men, ware seleoted to
moke an —salt on a ridge 800 yards in
their fr The Mmn win fitufi In
regimental divisions, and while the
front woe only the width of two com
panies the depth wne thirty 11ms of men
in open rtder. It wee In (net a giant
wedge of flesh and blood end steel
whieh was to drive itoelf through the
As the men eteed fat Hm their
explained to them In low and
tones what woe planned and what was
hoped for. It was a forlorn hope indeed.
Every nun most have realized that there
would be z terrible loaa of life even be
fore the salient wee reached, bnt each
one seemed to nerve himself for whet
wes to come. During the twenty min
utes’ interval between forming and the
order to odvanoo there was almost deed
silence in the ranks. The men leaned
upon their muskets and peered through
the forest in their front whieh hid the
Confederate position, and the supports
on the flanks moved upend into position
as if fearing that their footsteps would
disturb the deed of the day. before.
It wee not positively known to the
Federals that the salient Wm defended
by cannon. The hope that it wm not
gave the men more spirit, as the lay of
the ground—forest, thicket and ridge-
furnished fair shelter from musketry
fire.
Soon after 8 o'clock a single low
spoken order brought every man to
front face. The moment had come.
As the column had formed under cover
it was hoped to take the defenders of
the salient by surprise. The linM were
dresae^ j^’ *■- moment more were
novfA^iw ^^u irlu> woods. From the
valleys at the base of the Keuncsaw,
Lost or Pine Mountains to their crests
there is scarcely a level spot. The
sides ere oovered with forests and
thioket, and the ground is almost a suc
cession of rocky terraces. Over this
difficult ground the great blue wedge
forced its way at a rapid paee, but no
cheer wm heard—no shouts were given.
"Crack I crook I crack!”
It is the alarm from the Confederate
skirmishers, who have crept down al
most to the base of the mountain. They
are posted behind great rooks and hid
den behind ledges. They cannot retreat;
they must surrender or fight it out.
They choose the latter course. Nine
out of every ten hold their positions un
til the point of the blue wedge reaches
them and brings a savage death with it.
All along the sides of the grim moun
tain the skirmishers bar the way, seek
ing to detain thp wedge and alarm the
defenders of the salient. Here and
there a Federal throw* up his hands and
falls bock, but the column makes no
halt. Up, np, up, and now an officer in
front waves his sword m the slopes of
the parapet oome into sight. Here the
oover suddenly ends. From the bushes
to the salient, a distance of 200 feet, the
ground has been swept bore of tree and
bnsh, and rooks have been rolled Mide.
At the foot of the parapet » a palisade
—outside of that an abattis. Behind the
works are a thousand muskets—a thou
sand Confederates with fingers on trig
gers. At regular intervals along this
line—250 feet front—are Bix field pieces,
each one loaded with grape and canister.
The men within ore waiting, Not an
order is given nor a head appears in
sight until the first Hue of blue is out of
cover.
Now, m if one finger had pressed the
thousand triggers, a great sheet of flame
leaps forth and scorches and blisters
and shrivels the advance. The seoend
line crowds up over the dead and dying,
the third and fourth oheer m they oome.
Now, with a crash as if a volcano wm
breaking through the crest of the moun
tain, the six guns belch their contents
into that mass of men sixty deep.
The effect wm horrible. What were
men a moment ago ore now bloody
shreds blown against the rocks and scat
tered far over the ground. Some of the
gory fragments fall upon the lines yet
half-way up the slope.
The advance halts iu confusion—the
rear lines crowd np. There is another
bloody feast ready as soon m the cannon
can be charged. Then oomee the order
to break lines and divide to the right and
left to get ont of range of the artillery.
The men rush forward to the abattis—
some lie flat down—others take sever
behind rocks.
For fifteen minutes' heroic carnage
bolds them before the salient. The Con
federates have them st their mercy. Meu
take deliberate aim and send a bullet
{lurouph the heads of ths living targets.
work it will And that seven ont of every
ten Federals lying before that abattis
hM been killed stone deed by a single
bullet
The fire of musketry might have
eheeked the asMnlt, but aided by artil
lery the check beoame a butchery.
Grape and canister searched out spots
secure from bullets, and men in the
~ery rear ranks, who did not even oatoh
sight of the abattis were struok down by
the iron missiles. No assault eould
have brought out more nerve and hero
ism, bnt it wm the wave daahing against
s rocky cllfl.
When the men had fallen back to their
original positions the roll of dead and
wounded wm a shook to those who had
escaped. No one hod blundered. John
ston’s linos were there, and they must
be carried by assault. Sherman wm
looking for a weak spot to drive a wedge
into. That salient wm one of the
strongest points on the Confederate lino.
M. Quad.
THE HUMOROUS PAPERS.
GLADYS M'NULTVB I.AMENT.
"God pity me I"
Gladys McNulty, nsuolly so proud and
composed, and who moved about in the
little world of those who knew her with
the stately grace of a New York Putt
editorial, sank on a fautenil hr she ut
tered these words, and sobbed m if her
shoestrings would break.
In the lindens that lined the entrance
to Brierton Villa the robin redbreMts
were thrilling their merriest lay*, while
over by the woodshed the haggard out
line of an abandoned hoopskirt through
which the daisiM were peeping showed
that spring, the most pulmonary and
beautiful season of the year, had ar
rived. In the broad fields that stretched
away to the westward the farmers were
preparing the ground for the seed which
nourished iu the ltosom of Mother Earth
and warmed .by the genial rays of the
suu, would soon beootuo the ripened
groin, yielding to its owner n bounteous
harvest, and enabling him to play against
the bunco when be visits Chicago in tiie
fall. A ruddy-faced boy, piokiug seed-
burrs from between his toes, flecks the
horizon and lends nu added beauty to
the enchantment of the scene.
And yet, lying there ou the fantcuil,
whose velvety snrfaoe is not more soft
than her cheek, Gladys McNulty is sob
bing away the hours of this beautiful
June morniug, and ever and anon there
oomes from between her white lips a
low, despairing moan that is pitiful in
its sad intensity. Bnt finally the con
vulsive sobs that are racking her dress-
waiat grow fainter, and in a little while
she sits up, tho pink suffusion of a lilnsh
telling all too plainly which side she had
been lying on.
And M she sits there gazing listlessly
into the middle of next week her mother,
a pleasant-faced woman without corsets,
entered the room.
"Why are you weeping, Gladys?” she
asks. •
The girl does not answer, and strive
as she may to keep down the sobs that
are welling up from her heart the effort
is in vain, and again the pretty face is
bedewed with tears. But an instant
later she has conquered her emotions
and looks bravely up at her mother.
"I will tell yon, mamma,” she says,
"the cause of my sorrow. I wm crying
to think that you cannot go to the mat
inee to-morrow."
"And why may I not go?”
"Because,” answers Gladys, in a voice
that is hoarse with agony, “I have con
cluded to take it in myself.”
WHAT WE BIND IN THBM N USM
oru.
TEAT BAMBOOS* MZfU
But ok, that dimpls in roar shin I
I’m ram my heart Mas buried there.
In euoh a pit ’twere sooth no tea
To fall. Tour ejres were ben bom Mr;
I drank ths frngronea of vow hatri
You digged the pit, I turn hied In,
And then you did not sows to ear*.
Bat oh, that dimple lz your chin I
I’m euro my heart Uea buried these;
Wor prinoe, nor pear, nor paladin
BOWBIWWllMWi SO MM WRMK
To kiss that ■opslekro I dare?
But oh, that fzpb in yaw shin t
AT m Rtzr WINDOW.
■Hm postaga bean reduced to *w#
cents ?” "Yss’m.”
•For letter ?” "Ym’w.”
Than a two cent stamp Dill Mtoiliy
oarry a latter ?” "It will."
•And thorn's bo Mod of putting oa
three oenta?" "Not a bit.”
"Do you know Mrs. Blank?”
No’m."
"She nays it's two osnta is tb# eity.”
"It ia two oenta anywhere in the eoun-
try.”
•She soya oho oenta tetter to her hie-
band in Chicago with a two osntatomp
on it and he never got it." "I osn't
help that, ma'am.”
"Then two oenta Is enough?”
"Plenty.”
"And her husband probably got Am
letter and didn’t answer it?” "Prob
ably."
"Well, I'll take a two sent stamp, but
if there is any doubt about tho matter,
I’d m soon pay mors. It will gut will
it?"
"lea’m.”
"Go right ont to-day?"
"Yea’m.”
"Well, I hop* so, for It’s z vary im
portant letter. You know lbs. D ,
who lives on street?”
"No’m.”
"Wall, its for Me. -She Mesa to to*
falo now. She naked am for the boat
wzy to pickle mixed .” The woman
had to stand aside for two or throe min
utes, but m soon m too window was
clear aha returned to say: 'Tv# gut tha
stamp on.”
"Yea’m.”
"Two oenta.”
"I sea.”
"And it’ll go?”
"It will.”
"If it don’t 1”
And she probably didn't ateap a wink
fast night.—Detroit Free Press.
au fait in avaurnow.
"What kind of a man is ho?” askad a
gentleman about a young aooioty man.
"Ob, he's mighty popular with tho
women.”
"Is he intelligent?”
"No, not particularly. You see,
there’s not much demand for intelligence
in society.”
"Does he donee?"
"Of course.”
"Knows what's going on in theatricals,
music, etc. ?”
"Of oouroe."
"Au fait in everything, I premise T
"Well, I don't know whether ha owm
Fay or not, tut I know ha owea about
every man of my aoquaintonoa. Who
is Fay? I’ll look him up and sea if ha
doesn't owe him too. Ill bat lto does.”
—Merchant Traveler.
THE WRONG PABTT.
"You know Blank, don’t you ?’ quer
ied a citizen as he entered a Griswold
street office yesterday.
"Yes,”
"Have you any influence with him ?'
"Well; I may have.”
‘‘Then you are the man to go to him.
He lias a sou about sixteen years old 1”
"Yes.”
"That boy is on the road to min be
cause his father is too good-natured and
too much wrapped up in business.
Seems to me it is your duty to go to that
mau and tell him in a friendly way that
he must exercise more government or his
boy will be lost.”
"I don’t think I’m the man," replied
the other as he chewed at a blotting-pad
and gazed out of the window.
"But why ?”
"Weil, I’ve got a boy about the same
age, and I’m just going up to the Police
Court to pay a fine of $20 for him suutsh-
ing up saloon furniture I Try the next.”
—Detroit Free Press.
Trimming.
The Exfobto or Pztbolmum. —The
total values of the exports of petroleum
and petroleum products from Hie United
States for September, 1883, war*
$4,773,490; September, 1882,83.410,955,
nine mouths ended September 30th,
1883, $35,691,122; nine mouths ended
September 30tb, 1882. 834,267,811.
Five man were kept busy *11 day In
Bridgeport, Conn., trimming the feat
of two elephants. Tha operation is
performed once on the road, oaee in
tho fall, and again in the spring. The
sole of an elephant’a fool is nfiTflwil
with a thick homy substonoe, whieh,
m it grows thicker, tends to oootmet
and crack, often laming tho animal.
At the time of trimming, the elephant
stands on three legs and plaees the loot
to be operated upon aeroM n large tab.
Two men hold tha leg down, and one
stands at the animal’s head to prevent
him from turning. Then with n two-
foot drawing knife one man shaven off
great pieces of bone from tho sole of tho
foot. The elephant held tho foot high
of his own accord, teeming to under
stand what the men wore doing, and
after the operation ho flourished his
trunk, trumpeted, and expressed almost
in words his sincere thanks.
A PHTLADBLmnA FATBB
John Swinton’s grievance agatoat Will
iam Vanderbilt ia, that tha gsatteaum'e
wealth wonld, if put in geld safe, osar-
bnrden twenty-six elephants. Thus
through the nigged crags sad peaks of
Mr. Swinton’s character, ahtos the pan*
soft rays of his davottea toHmoava of
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