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A MIDNIGHT RIDE.
HOW PllK.-IDJ^T DAVIS WENTTO THIL
Front,i Amidst Shot and
Siqci.l, Alone. U-pp ,
The Good Bay Steed and Fearless
Rider's Gallop Through the
Darkness.
Special Correspondence of the Courier-Journal.
g Eureka Springs, Miss., March 15..
— As the incident in the life of Presi
dent Davis that I am going' to writajj
about was known to but few, perhaps
le«s than Half a dozen, I will first telF
how I came to be in a position to wit
ness it. I went to Virginia as a .pri
vate soldier in Company B, Forty-
second Mississippi Regiment,Gen. J. R.
Davis’Brigade. Gen. Davis was a neph
ew of President Davis. Muj. J. S. Reid
was Gen. Davis 1 (Quartermaster. He
was a man advanced in years for a
soldier, a Wieafthy. planter, a neigh
bor and life long friend of the Davis
family. After the Gettysburg cam
paign, being in a dilapidated condi
tion, 1 was appointed Secretary for
Maj. Reid. Late in the fall of 1804
our command was near Petersburg.
The day liad been a boisterous one.
The morning opened with rapid
picket firing by the Federate*
with all tlie^ big guns in the
forts putting in full work. Early in
the day field artillery was massed
near our front, and sent a shower of
shot and shells across our line. This
latter performance did not last long.
The guns were moved away and the
same thing repeated at other points,
in some j daces the infantry making
strong demonstrations. Late in the
day an order came to prepare the
transportation for moving. As to the
cause of this preparation we could only
conjecture. Teams were hitched to
wagons and ambulances, and all were
driven in line alongside the pTiblic
road. Drivers had orders not to leave
their sears. As the night wore on firing
continued, but there was nothing co
break the monotony, except
Tonally a teamster would slip
his seat, stamp the ground
breast to keep uj
four, miles away, when the sound
ceased.
I had then been making a compari-
on. Suppose Mr. Lincoln was twen-
lniles from Washington to-night,.
r ad ridden that distance alone, and
was then Teturaing with a stranger,
not knowing whether he was a friend
or a foe, and that, too, along a road
where the enemy's heavy shells were
being constantly thrown; what a
commotion there would be about it.
J. C. McDade.
Liver Pills.
Use Dr. Gunn’s Liver Pills for Sal
low comp^ioi*, Pimples on. the Face
and Biliousness. Never sickens or
gripes. Onlv one for a dose. Sam
ples free at f. 'll. Kenan's, Milledge-
ville, Ga. ’ -
Jest What They All Say-
A TALK WITH SAM JOKES.
" —
WHAT IIB SAYS ABOUT CHICAGO AND
PROHLBJTIOJ.
Hon. D. D. Haynie, of Salem, Ills.,
savs he uses Dr. Bosanko's Cough and
Lung Syrup in his family with the
most satisfactory results, in all cases
of Cdnghs, Colds and ^Croup, and re
commends it, in particular for the lit-
g nple beetle free at T. H.
'edgevilmGa.
SMITHS
HJRE filiiousnest; Slefc Hoadacho In Four hours.
^ Ons dose relleves_NaureJgia. _They cure and
prevent Chills > Fever, Sour Stomach Bad
BreatnuCIser I
e ones. . Samp!
’enarite, Milled^
Nashville Americait.
“Nervously under
eir, * said Mr. Jones, sitting with a ! Daniel Webster once wrote after con-
party of gentlemen at Mr. Nat Bax- tinued provocation, to the editor of a
ter’s after the sermon last night. “I newspaper which referred to his pn-
’can hardly control my own mirul af- vate affairs, and especial! v to him not
ter the great strain I have had. Why, paying his debts. He sau. substanti-
that audience looked like a toy house ally: [Ttistrue jjliat I have not
great strain, ; Mr. Webster and his Debts.
occa-
from
ana beat
circulation.
his
The Major and I sat by the fire, hold-
ilia our horses bv the bridles.
TH E
HORSEMAN.
qUIKT
Thi Petersburg bells had just rung
12 o’clock when a horseman was heard
approaching in a quiet fox trot.
He turned from the road and
came near our fire, about thirty steps,
when he halted and said he wished
after the audiences at the Casino Rink,
in Chicago, where I preached five
Weeks, some tunes three times a d4y,
arid always twice. The newspapers
of Chicago were very kind and some
of them very helpful in the work. I
suppose this is the first time in
the history of the church in
any age tiiat the leading newspa
pers in three leading cities took such
interest in its affairs. There were
twelve wires running from Chicago
to Cincinnati given up every night to
our sermons, telegraphing short-hand
reports in full to the Commercial-
Gazete and Enquirer of Cincinnati.
There were six wares running to the
St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The Globe
had three stenographers, and the Com
mercial-Gazette and Enquirer two or
three each. Notice the work—I spoke
the w r ords, they were taken down,
then transcribed, then got off to the
office and sent over the wires, and
then there came the work of editing
at the end of the wires. Nine times
these talks had to be handled between
9 at night and 4 in the morning. A
stupendous undertaking you see.
There was the Chicago Inter-Ocean
with nine to fifteen columns daily, the
Tribune wdth from four to fifteen
columns daily, in a word, the flvelead-
ing newspapers of the West carrying •
full reports of these sermons to more
than 300,000 subscribers, aud more
than 1,500,000 readers. I don’t know
of any other force in America that
would have so long engaged the col
umns of these papers, one that would
so unflaggingly have maintained the
attention of so large a public.”
After this Mr. Jones sat beating his
brows and pulling at his short chop
ped moustache. Then he spoke
again and said he thought that Avas
matter enough to write a first-class
article on.
in, I
the system.. J>ose: ONE
and Qivs
BEAN.
and you will never be without them,
s per. bottle. Sold bv Druggists and
Medicine Dealers generally. Sen/ on receipt of
price in stamps, postpaid, to any address.
J. F. SMITH & CO.,
M?iaufacturer» nrvl Sole Props.. ST. LOUIS. M0,
February 22, 1886. [33 ly
For Sale—Land.
paid my debts punctually and that I
owe monev. Onp^ause of this is that
I have riot presswfthose who o*a me.
As an instance of This I enclose your
father’s note made to me thirty years
ago for money loaned him to educate
his bo vs.”
Decoration Day at Riverside
PARK.—New York, April 22.— Exten
sive preparations are^ being made for
the ceremonies at Grant s tomb, in
Riverside Park, on Decoration Day.
Gen. Logan will be orator of the da
Rev. Dr. Storrs, of Brooklyn,
deliver the prayer, and Paul H.
Hayne has been requested, by the
Memorial Committee, to compose a
poem to the memory of Gen. Grant to
be read on this occasion.
dayj
will
GEORGIA. Baldwin ’County.
yjNDER and by virtue of a
get directions to Gen. Davis’ quar
rel Maj. Reid said: “I will send you
:o ( jen. Davis. Get down and warm.”
Then turning to me lie said in a whis
per: “That is Mr. Davis. No names
will be called.”
I remained long enough to take a
iire-liglifc view .of our fearless chief,
and then, to be out of ear-shot, ted
my horse to another lire a little way
off. In about half an hour a negro
wa- -ailed and sent with him to the
front, half a, mile distant. After he
was gone I saw from where I stood
that the Major was much disturbed.
He gor up And turned his back, to the
tire, and then turned around and sat
down again. This was repeatedsever-
il times. AVhen 1 went back he said;
“Mae, i don't like this. He has no
right to do this way and I told him
so. It is risking too much. Besides
he can’t stand such a strain. He is
making a ride of forty miles to-night
with a hard day’s work before him to
morrow.” After waiting for him to
become quiet, I asked why Mr.
Davis’ friends permitted him^ tp
such a trip alone,
told him that no one in Richmond
knew of his absence. He then told
me .*
THE CAUSE OF THE UNUSUAL l’RO-
CKKDING.
It was Gen. Grant’s plan to break
our line that night or early next morn
ing. The day had been spent in feel
ing for a weak point. Everything on
our side had been prepared to retreat
at a moment’s warning. The night
passed, and the morrow
The Greeks are pushing forward to
to j the front as rapidly as possible. The
AURANTII
Russian Minister to Greece, has de
parted for LiVadia to see the Czar in. j
pursuance of urgent orders from his ■
majesty. The Turkish General sum
moned the Greeks to retire from
their position on Searkos heights and
upon refusing to rlo so he advanced with
7,000 men to the foot of the heights.
Most of the diseases which afflict mankind are origin-
ally caused by a disordered condition of the LIVER.
For ail complaints of this kind, such as Torpidity of
the Liver, Biliousness, Kerens Dyspepsia, indiges
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lency. Eructations and Burning of the Stomach
(sometimes called Heartburn), Miasma, Malaria,
Bloody Flux, Chills and Fever, Breakbone FeTer,
Exhaustion before or after Fever?, Chronic Diar
rhoea, Loss of Appetite, Headache, Foul Breath,
Irregularities incidental to Females, Bearing-down
Lr■£%. SHDIGEB’S aURftHTII
is Invaluable. It is not a panacea for all diseases,
but^Biigs>u all diseases of the LIVER,
WJ1B STOMACH and BOWELS.
1
will
It changes the complexion from a waxy, yellow
tinge, to a rnddy, healthy color. It entirely removes
kjw, gloomy spirits. It is one of the BEST AL*
TERATiVFS and PURIFIERS CF THE
BLOOD, and Is A VALUABLE TONIC,
deed
made by H. F. Newton and I. C.
Newton, of said county, on the 24th of
Feburafy, 1885, to secure their certain
promissory note of the same date, and
payable Feb’y., 1st, 1880, for the prin
cipal sum of two hundred and eighty
dollars, to the undersigned, which
said deed has been duly recorded in
the Clerk’s office of said county, and
which was executed and delivered in
conformity with* sections 1909—1970,
and 1971 of the code of Georgia for
1882, and by the authority therein
conveyed and given, I will sell on
the First Tuesday in May, 1880, be
fore the Court’House door in said
county, the following tracts or par
cels of land—to wit—that tract or
parcel of land lying, situate, and be
ing in the 322nd Dish, G. M., of said
county known and distinguished in
the plan of said District, (it having
been originally the 5th Disk, of Wilkin
son county,) as part of lot No. 13,
containing Fifty acres, more or less,
also, all that tract or parcel of land
containing sixty five acres, more or
less, lying and being in the S22nd
Dist., G. M., of Baldwin county,
Georgia, bounded north by lands of
I. C. Newton, on the east, by high
water mark on the east side of Turkey
creek, west by lot No. 12, it being in
the north-west of comer lot 25, in the
old land District. Said lands will be
sold to pay the principal and interest
due on said note, and attorneys’ fees
and the costs of this proceeding and
sale. This April 2nd 1886.
SAM’L WALKER.
Whitfield & Allen.
Att’ys at Law. [39 4ts
Mrs. S. D. Wootten
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take
Davis
The
but no fur
flier eff ort was made. Weak as we were,
we were thought to be too strong to
cackle. Had some one been over
-here a little akin to ’Stonewall Jack-
sun, many a brave soldier might have
been sent home who never got to see
his family. One division could have
accomplished it at any time during
hat long and bitter winter.
Mr. Davis was gone about an hour
when lie returned, and again
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TOOK HIS SEAT BY THE FIRE.
He had not been there long when a
horseman was beard approaching at
rapid speed. When he got opposite
our camp, ?Jr. Davis commanded,
halt! with the question:
“Where are you going?”
To Richmond,” was the answer.
1 will go with you.”
A s this short colloquy passed an un
easy feeling came over me, as I looked
ax the quiet bay standing behind his
master, his head down and apparently
fast asleep. He was a good one, but
he looked as if he was suited to draw
a vehicle loaded with women and
children, but not the horse for speed.
Then looking at the rider, I thought
he had passed too many years and
was too frail to stand such a strain.
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he mountnd,
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his overcoat, and settled himself well
in the saddle. By this time I saw the
horse had been misjudged. His met
tle .was up and he was eager to be
£one. After making a few steps, a
touch of the spurcarried him out into
the road at a speed that might have
been expected of a cavalry leader.
The horseman joined him, and as they
passed over the dry, rocky road the
sound of their horses’ hoofs rang loud
and clear in the still night. I listened
until they were three, or perhaps
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