The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1894-04-25
OFF FOR BIRMINGHAM.
Inc Ne"herry 0eiegaeton Left yesterday
FOR the Grand Reunion.

I The following New be.rians left yes
teroay morning 10 take part in ths
.. great reunion OF Confederate We, ecau.
at Birmingham, Ala, this week:
u L. Schumperr- l. N. Speers
". W. Riser; J. W. Gary, N. J. Scott,
! w. H Long, Silas Johns1one, }. II.
RnH- J. Y Cuibreath, E H. Aul!, T. J.
! Maftett, James Lester.
The party went on Il special train on
/ the Seaboard Air Line az far as Clin-
ton, where connection was made with
the fast restiouie train for Atlanta.
THE ONWARD TRIP.
CLINTON, 10 j. u.-'Fhede!pgatesf from
the James D. Nance Camp reached
Clinton at a. H., en route To the great
reunion of Confederate Veterans at
Birmingham Through the courtesy
OF the G.. y. & l. r. R., and the-effur's
OF Mr.. J. F. Livingston, the energetic
agent at Newberry, the trip was mace
from Newberry 10 Clinton on Capt.
Jno. Griffin special veStibuie- limited.
We have Il jolly good party, ali old vet
eraDs who saw service on the field, eS-
cept the writer, who in those trying
days was not old enough TO bear arms.
At this point we will board the vestl-
bule limited on the Ssahoard Air LiEe
and reach Atlanta at ) O'Clock, ahd
Birmingham at 10 tonight This ls,a
great convenience to our delegation,
for without the special from Ne"oerry
to Clinton We would have been forced
to haye=left Newoerry on Monday to
have reached Birmingham Tonight
We were accompanied this far oy
Mr.. J. T. Livingston and Col. C. j.
Purcell
We have ia our party an even dozen.
ONTO ATLANTA.
ONTRAINNA NARARBEyILLE, II q. 10.
Col. Tom Madatt and Capt. Bill Long
are=the life of our party. Col Maffett
thought we had run over a. COW this
morning and it took great effort on the
part of Col. 'sNickn Ruff Capt. Schnm-
pert and Capt. cary to bold him on the
train, but finally by force aad persna-
sion he was prevailed upon not to jump
headfonsin the Gltchzoh the moving
train. Ee then proceeded at once to
take out an accidental policy. He vas
followed in this latter act by Capt. Bill
Long. They hope TO return in safety,
however. Capt. Bill Long says that
in the hurry TO enter the Chicamauga
fight he left some undergarments at
Dalton, Ga. and ne hopes on this trip
to he able to recover them
Our party proposes to have ali the
fun out of this trip that it is posslbieto
get.
Capt. Wallace Riser met on the train
at Clinton an old veteran from Rich
mopd who is man after his own
heart. His name is Capt Watkins
Lindsey. and says that Senator Ah-
boc5, of Sumter, is d, cousin Of hIsT and
he wants to meet himin- the ring be-
tore he leaves Birmingham and give
him few rounds for voting against
Gen. Hampton for Senator Capt.
Riser says he proposes to see the act
well DONE and if Capt Lindsey does
not do&it properly he shall not return
to Richmond. Capt. Lindsey is 8 d-l-
egase from Lee Camp, No. ] OF RIeh-
mond. Va, and is the senior editor OF
the Eastern Shore Herald Eastviile,
Va. He=says while on a-yisis to Sena-
torLAbbott some time ago he saw pie
ture of Wade Hampton hanging in his
parlor and told him in the face Of his
vote, that pictureshouidb be taken down
or turned to the wall. He is an enthu--
siastic veteran and wasa brave and
valiant Confederate % the testimonials
from bis superior officers IN that con-
Mct bear ample evidence.
Our trains is in charge of Capt. ?. C..
Gailliard. E. H-AELL-~