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Who visits the large Auction Sales
occur almost every day in
NEW- YORK-CITY!
’THE BOTTOM HAS DROPPED OUT !
^PRICES HAVE TAKEN A TUMBLE
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Sheuerman &
^ CUSTOMERS GAIN THEREBY, if
1CASE REMNANTS WHITE LAWNS 31-2
These Goods would be considered cheap at 5 c.,
were bought cheap and will be sold the same way.
★ AT EIGHT CENTS PER YARD ! *
One case of White Lawns, that we defy anybody
match in quality for less than 12 1-2 c.
BUT THIS LAST, A PERFECT BEAUTY !
2,500 yds of beautiful, sheer, line, “Linen D’ Inde”
10 c., in remnants from lto 8 yds that would be
worth, cut from the piece, not one cent less
than 25 cents per yard. But we can sell
them at 10 cents and make a small
profit. So 10 cents will be the
price to-morrow morning.
ORIENTAL AND EGYPTIAN LACE
Jnst received. From 50 c. per yard to $2.50 per
Goods that sold for double that
price last season.
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GOOD STYLES COLORED PACIFIC LAWNS
7 1-2 CENTS PER YARD!
this is a bahgain that every lady h ill
PRECIATE AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF
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GRIFFIN GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNK 10 1888
THE 53D. GA, VOLS.
A BRIEF SKETCH OF ITS VALIANT
RECORD.
Fighting all Through the War—A Call
for a Reunion of the
Survivors.
Haralson, Ga., June 9. —Some
time since I noticed in the Weekly
JAETfs a call to tbo survivor of 58 rd
Ga. Regiment for a reucior. A
sketch of that regiment might not
come up amiss in this connection.
The 53d. Ga. VoK was organized
in the manufacturing city of Griffin,
June 1862, with one of Griffin's no
ble sons, Leonard T, Doyaf, a 8
Colonel, - Thos. Sloan, of McDon
ough, as Lt. Colonel, and J. P. Sims,
of Covington, as Major. Tea compa
nies composed the regiment, with
Capt. Nutt, Co, A, Spalding county;
Capt. Chestnutt, Co. B, Newton coun
ty; Capt. Marchraan, Co. C, Fayette
county; Capt. Moses, Co. D, Coweta
county; Capt. Glass, Co. E, Coving
ton, Newton county, Capt. Brown,
Co. F, Ileniy county; Capt. 11. P.
Taylor, Co. G, Coweta county; Capt.
Bill Baker, Co. H, Pike county;
Capt. Bond, Co. I, Butts county; and
Capt. J. M. Ponder, Co. K, Monroe
county; with Capt. Ktch Hogan, of
Forsyth, Quartermaster; Lt. Hanson,
of Griffin, Adjutant; Dr. Simon San
ders and Dr. J. J. Nott, of Griffin,
Surgeon; Capt. Bill Glass, of Fayette,
Commissary; Rev. J. T. Bowles, of
Haralson, Chaplain; and with one
thousand (1000) as good soldiers as
ever left Georgia. During the seven
days fighting around Richmond, Va.,
this gallant regiment was ordered
from Griffin to the front to join the
army of Northern Virginia.
Many of the regiment never saw a
musket till they drew guns in camps
beyond Richmond. In the fight on
Sunday evening of the Seven Days,
this regiment was thrown in reserve
line. The regiment the 53d was sap
porting being pressed, an artillery
company was ordered up into a gap
on the 53d’s left, and the Captain of
the company gave orders to “fire
and fall back" until the order reach
ed the color company, when the gal
lant Tom Sloan, Lieutenant Colonel,
came dashing down the line from
the right and rallied the regiment, rt
turned them to their original post
tion under heavy fire and they hwW
their position till night put a stop to
farther hostilities for that day.
For that misguided step the regi
rnent of many “raw recruits’ was
stigmatized by some of the older
soldiers “The Bloody 53rd: the
Twentieth Georgia army corps,
etc." At tho last crowning victory
of the seven days fight aroand Rich
mond; where Gen. R. E. Lee showod
beyond all doubt his superiority of
generalship over the best general
the Federals ever had; Gen. George
B- McClellan, the Maiv«.:u Hill vic¬
tory, this regiment did gallant ser
vice, Tho 53rd Ga. Regiment never
drilled three weeks in preparation
for military service till after en
gagiog in several hotly contested
engagemonts. At the battle of
SharpBbnrg, Md., Sept 17tb; 1862,
where Lient Colonel Tom Sloan was
shot down, and Major Sims and
naarly every officer had received
wounds, that grand old military
chieftain, Lient Gen. James Long
street forever removed the uncalled
for stigma by complimenting battlefield; and the
gallant 53d on the
from then on till the lamented Ge: -
eral Lee, surrendered a small
remnant of the 53rd with his shat¬
tered and broken down army at Aps
pomattox Court House, did the gal¬
lant regiment do valliant service:
Fredericksburg, Cbancellorsville,
Culpepper Court House, Gettysburg;
then to the Army of the West,
with her bravo and gallant chieftain
Longstreef, through to Knoxville.
back to Wilderness, SpotLylvania.
Cold Harbor and down to Rich*
mond: and in the last regular en¬
gagement of the Army of Northorn
Virginia, at Ameliar C. H., nine
tenths of tho regiment was captured
with GeLeral Ewell's command
three days before the surrender, and
■pent threo months in Northern
prisons. On detach service tinder
tho gallant, dashing Maj. Gen’l Kon.
■haw, with Gen‘l Early‘s army in
Valley, October 191h, 1864, tho
ment scored a splendid record.
regiment had the misfortune to lose
killed on the battlefield five lieuten
abt colonels, as follows: Lient Col.
Tom Sloan at Sharpsburg; Lieut.
Cbl. Hanee, at Gettysburg, Lieut.
Col. R P. Taylor, at Knoxville,
Lieut. Col- Glass, at Spottsy]vania,
and Lieut. Col. Wiley Hartsfield, at
Ameliar C. FT. With twelve bun
dred (1,200) in her first fight aud
not over two hundred (200) in her
jist, she made a record that history
may never recount—a record that
will live as long as kith or kin of her
survivors lives.
Fellow soldiers imd officers, let us
reunite, somewhere. I will suggest
the city of organization, Griffin.
She is no longer the town of Griffin
of 1862, but the manufacturing city
ol| the New South. Why Griffin!
yqu say. Because, she gave ns our
first colonel—a camping ground—
■be shared her hospitality with ns.
It was freely shared without cost to
us. (I know whereof I speak.) She
is nearest the center of the regiment,
with railroad facilities sufficient.
Many of us are old men now and
soon we will pass away. I assure
you, Griffin will share her hospital
ityjigain with her regiment the 53rd
Gn. Volunteers. 1 would like to
Trffnrp trpon the same old
ground with all the survivors of
gallant old regiment. One day spent
in retmion would dispel the gloom
of twenty two years of separation.
I have received several letters from
gentlemen from Newton, Pike, Cat
roll, Henry, Butts and Spalding
counties, saying “old age and de
crepilude are crawling upon us, and
wo would like so much to visit a re
union before we go hence to be no
more.“ So would I, dear brethren
of the Lost Cause.
I felt constrained to give this
sketch not a full history. I rejoioe in
my old age that I was
a member of the 53d Georgia
Regt., Seeme’s, Bryant’s and
then J. P. Sims Brigade, McClaws
and then Kershaw’s division, Long
street’s corps, and the army of North
ern Virginia,
Newton, Henry, Monroe, Pike,
Batts, Coweta, Fayette and Carroll
papers, if friendly to reunions, please
give of your valuable space the sketch
and you will very much oblige-
Throngh thf Griffin News I pre
sumo the subject of reunion can be
discussed or you can address me at
Haralson, Ga. W. L. Taylor.
NakiH 6
POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
This Powder never vane*. A marvel
parity, strength and wholeaonroem.
economical than the ordinary kind*, and
not be sold is oompetiton weight, with toe
of low test, abort alum or
Powders. Sold only in emu.
Powmcs Co., 106 wall Street, Mew
nti-dAwly-ton column let or 4tk were.
number ut
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GRIFFIN PEOPLE
:- HAPPY!
Not so in ii cli by the Nomination of ......... 'fjiM.....
Cleveland and Thurman
,s .< ■ n* • * •'•’■‘At*
as by LYONS,the gi^at <H sponsor of Bargainii,
delighting his customers by some of his
EXTRAORDINARY LOW PRICE TUMBLING.
'
He performs by far the most marked evo¬
lutions in low cuts ever witnessed by his
thousands of patrons.
The New York Store.
has been crowded every day since ! < j Mon¬
day, but this week’s prices will delight, as¬
tound and captivate. The irresistible magic
of LYONS’ special prices will prove the great*
est boon this community has ever had of¬
fered it.
Case of full width Scrim in solid and colored . ■
stripes at 61-4 cents. We have nothing at IS
cents betfer. r
any
I case Plaid Linen de Indes at 7 cents. My I
What a Bargain.
I case extra Fine Plaid Lawn Goods very sheer
and fuil width at 10 cents. Nothing better in
stock at 18 cents.
I solid case of the best 50 c Corsets in the world,
i case Short ends of India Lawns at 5 cents.
YOU HAVE SEEN THESE GOODS BEPOBE
AND KNOW EXACTLY
What - They - Are!
k ^GINGHAMS ALL MARKED DOWN WHERE ANY¬
BODY CAN REACH THEM!
Another line of those 5 c. colored Lawns. These are
not the goods usually ottered at 5 cents, but a very
much better grade; in fact the regulars c. line.
Parasols, - Fans, - ,
Hosiery\Ribbons.
lliis week will he the best all round week ever
known at
NE W YORK STORE.