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t-w? -y, h z& .. - -4 I 1 1 ■ tiffin ^ f ■■ w w VOLUME 17* r ,1) «:» (DC if BARGAINS *1 v ■ ■ I B > '* \t ■ ^ , f. V V ' ' -T*-. *2£»B¥ ODR'gJ Who visits the large Auction Sales occur almost every day in NEW- YORK-CITY! ’THE BOTTOM HAS DROPPED OUT ! ^PRICES HAVE TAKEN A TUMBLE ANI) 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. -(O)- 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 ^ Place The ^ 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 - - 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.