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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-08-24

NOTICE TO ADMINISTRATORS 10,
~ 1905. Notice is hereby given that the
channels through draw Of Potomac Highway
Bridge will be closed during erection Of draw
span, commencing this date, aud that all YES
sells passing through bridge will be compelled
temporarily to pass between piers No. 6 and
No. =, being span next draw ON Washington
side Of channel. Eighteen feet Of water can
be carried here at mean low tide, this mini
mum depth prevailing for width Of one-half
Of opening on side adjacent 70 draw. the op-
posite half shoaling rapidly to about ten feet
depth at pier No. 8. IL is suggested that
masters Of deep draft vessels keep safely on
channel side Of passage and that no more
than one vessel attempt to pass through at one
time. r. L. HoxIE, Lieut.. Col. Engrs.
au21 %, 23,2i,25,26
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Pleasantly Emectiye.

Never in the way, no trouble tn carry, easy
to take pleasant and pever falling in results
are DcWitts Little Early Risers These
famous little pills are a certain guarantee
against headache, .biiiousness, torpid liver
and all Of the ills resulting from constipation.
They tonic and strengthen the liver. Cure
Jaundice. Sold by w. f. Creighton. &~~Co.,
4Gl King street.
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GENERAL DEPOT OF THE QUARTER,

4 TENEKAL UETUI OF ITIE QUAhIEK
VI masters Department, Washington ID. c.,
August Il. l905.-Sealed proposals. in tripli-
cate, will be received at this office until
O'Clock p. m, Wednesday. August 30 1905, for
constructing sewer from coal testing plant on
II. S. Reservation at south end Of A4uednct
Bridge, Rosslyn, Va, TO the Potomac River.
Plans and specifications can be seen and
information obtained on application 10 this
Office. u. s. reserves right 10 accept or reject
any or all proposals, or any part thereof. En-
yeopes containing proposals should be mark
ed Proposals for Constructing Sewer" aud
addressed to Captain A. w. Butt, Quarter
master. U. 5. A., in charge Of Depot.
augl4. l5,2S,s9
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PROPOSALS.

OFFICE OF THE CONSTRUCTING
~ Quartermaster, U. $. Army, Fort Wash
ngton, Md, August Z, l905.-Sealed propos-
ais in triplcate, will be received at this office
until " o'clock noon August "a, 1905, for Re-
pairs and Alterations 10 construction work
prorer in the Hospital at Fort Washington,
Nd, necessary on account ola FIRE which re-
Gently occurred in that building. Informa-
tion regarding the specifications may be OBJ
tained at this office. Proposals must be
marked Proposals for Repairs aud Altera-
tions TO Hospital, and addressed to 1st Lieut..
WILLIS c. METCALF, Ariy Corps, U. S. A.,
Fort Washington, Md
aug9, 10, II, ~ 22.23
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GROCERIES.
GROCERIES.
w. A. JOHNSON & CO.,
WHOLESALE GROCERS.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
And naalapQ in

And Dealers in
ALL KINDS OF LIQUORS,
Have on hand GiDson's Xxx, xxx, xxx,
and Pure Old Rye, Old Cabinet and Mono
gram Whskies also Baker and ThOmpson's
Pure Rye Whiskies, to which they invite the
attention of the trade.
Orders from the country for merchandise
shall receive prompt attention.
COnsignments of Flour, Grain and Country
Produce solicited, for which they guarantee
he highest market prices and prompt returns
N. E corner Cameron and ROYAL Streets.
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DRY GOODS.
Nid.SuIOIner'SaIe

Greater bargains than ever. All odds and
ends and small lots. or any goods slightly
soiled or mussed, reduced far below cost in
order to effect rapid clearance.
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VOLUME CVI.---NOi 2O(
AIexan0ria 6azette.

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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04

ike a crocodile's. He had forgotten
his insult and was back again in the
cotton patches of South Carolina. He
saw the little piccaninies with whom
he used to play He was at the old
camp meeting ground where he used
70 go before the white gentleman took
him North to educate him. Once more
he saw the red bandana on the head
of his old black ''mammy' and feli,
her tender embrace as she croned him
to sleep in their little cabin door. RE
nad forgotten his Greek, his Ethics
and his Northern polish, and while mis-
hands were coming together with claps
like the sound of cannon crackers On
the fourth of July, he sang as he
never sung before.
AS we neared Cumberland the song
ceased and the singers settled back
into their seats. The man from Geor-
gia was feeling bad. Pennsylvania
whiskey is an incentive to singing, but
it is not noted for sticking qualities.
and when / saw the Georgian last he
was standing all bent over on the plat
form of the rear car while the culled
gentleman of Lincoln University. but
formerly of South Carolina. was hold
ing his head The red whiskey was
making the return trip. AS | passed
out by them the negro said: cap, he
is just a little fun, but he seems like
some of my folks after all"
The song had won him.
LEM SEAW ELL.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04
Nature Tells You
As Many a Raleigh Reader Knows
Too Nell.

When the kidneys are sick,
Nature tells you all about it,
The urine is natures calendar.
Infrequent or too frequent action:
Any urinary trouble tells of kidney
ills
Doan's Kidney Pills cure all kidney
ills.
w. r. Hood, formerly Of 81 South
Bloodworth street. employed in Whip
pie & Co. grocery store, says: when
got my first box of Doan's Kidney
Pills at the Bobbitt-Wynne Drug Com
panys store my kidneys had been CIV
ing me considerable trouble for long
time. l had constant duh aching
pain i'm the small of my back and
across the hips, and my urine was very
irregular Sometimes / had TO get out
Of bed a half dozen times during the
night. Then again 1t would be very
scant. That was when / had the most
pain and worst pain in my back. The
sections were very dark and contained
a heavy sediment. Since using the
pills | have not had the pains at all
and the secretions have been cleared
up to their normal state.
>For sale by. all dealers. Price 90
cents. Foster Milburn Co, Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the Doan s-and
take no other.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04
PROHIBITION IN CHARLOTTE.

For the News and Observer:
AS some false impressions have gone
abroad about the working of prohibit
ton here and its effects upon business.
/ desire to submit to your readers a
few facts from observation and other
sources. | have now lived in Char
lotte about seven years, and | have
never seen the town in a more pros
porous condition.
Our real estate men tell me that
property has steadily grown in value,
and nowhere is there the slightest de-
crease. and in some instances a very
marked advance. One man who Of
fered some property at Sill, 900 when
we had saloons has recently been Of
fered $13,500. which he refused.
Rents for business houses have also
very materially advanced. One alnan
VINO had formerly rented some Syores
Tor saloons says he is now receiving
5000 year more for them than he
got then. and was. heard to comment
on the wonderfully improved appear
ance of things now as compared with
the saloons. Another man. who was =
dispensary advocate, remarked that
stores he had trouble to rent for $50
per month when we had saloons he is
now getting for them SIS per month
The Improvement in business is also
very radical and manifest, There is
hardly a business house of any kind
that is rot doing a better business now
than i'm the days of saloons. one of
the prominent hotelists said tonne that
business was never better than now.
But the greatest manifest improve
ment is in morals. There is a radical
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04

among the laboring class.
Drunkenness is far less and arrests for
this cause have greatly fallen off,
Prohibition prohibiJs, and in this re-
spect is a big success. If any one
thinks it easy to get liquor III Char
lotte, let him try it, The enforcement
of the law ar. driving out of the town
could violate the law with impunlty
has done much to deter offenders My
some of that class who thought they
impression is that the saloon in Char
lotte is a thing of the past | believe
the good effects of prohibition in every
way will have great weight in barring
out saloons hereafter.
| believe two years of prohibition
will mean prohibition for ever in Char
lotte. Those who fought for prohibi-
ton in Charlotte were not cranks and
fanatics on this uestion, but men OF
affairs. and represented the very best
class of our business men of all lines
and professions. l don't believe "a
man can be found here with enough
cheek" to come out as an open adVo-
cate of the cause of saloons. Slurs
may be made at prohibition. and whis-
key-loving drummers may go over the
State and say charlotte is dead" but
dare any of them to attempt to back
UP their SANDERS with facts. Let any
man who wants to know the truth
come here and talk with our real es-
tate men and men who have property
to SELL One man here said when pro-
Inhibition carried that he was damaged
$4,000, and yet that same man knows
his property is worth more today than
ever in the history of Charlotte.
S. +. CONRAD.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04

number of battles and under fire at
GordonsVille.
w. 7. Johnson went into the First
Bethel Regiment as regimental drum
mer and was afterwards drum major
of the Fifty-first North Carolina Regi-
ment, and was later honorably dis
charged for physical disability. still
later acting as drill master in the Sew
enth Regiment of the Home Guards
\ Richmond Concert.
On their way to the reunion the
Drum Corps, leaving Raleigh O. the
morning of the 18th of June. will stop
by in Richmond, where they will give
a concert on the Capitol grounds at
o'clock that evening. The Richmond
people will have an opportunity to see
and to hear a remarkable organiza-
ton, composed of veterans of a war
ended forty years ago. and capable to-
day of serving as a drum corps again
in actual service.
Music of Fife and Drum.
There is nothing that will quite take
the place of the music of the drums
and the fife. 1t gets into the veins and
tingles in the toes. 1t is action COM
bat. merry sparkling with death to the
fore. 1t is the jig making of war. 1t
calls to the battle, pushes onward to
the charge. With closed eyes. one can
listen TO its strains and see the long
lines. dusty foot-sore, weary after a
long forced march; can hear the voice
of command, the distant booming of
the guns; see the deploy through the
fields, tired muscles responding with a
snap to it's confident notes. 1t is the
living soul of patriotism. this music of
the drums and the fife, and through it
in these days can be read palmer than
i'm books or the descriptions of oratory
the tale of the men of the COS and
the dashing self-abnegation of their
courage!
Hep, Hep, Hep!" goes to the rear
when the drums begin to beat. Feet
move with lighter tread. Doubling
hearts pluck courage. The regiment
cheered with the wine of its music,
goes on againi The L'O. b. b. Camp
Drum Corps came to fill a want and
add zest to the times when Confed-
crates meet to join hands across the
years
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04
Unique Organization to
Leave Next Week.
C0NCERTAT RICHMOND
Will Stop at Confederate Capital On
Evening of lune 18th, Something
of the Men Composing the Corps
and Their Records During
the War.

AT the great Confederate reunion in
Louisville on June 14th, 18th and 18th,
probably the most unique organization
in attendance will be the L'O. b. b.
Camp, Confederate Drum Corps, the
only one of its sort among all the
veterans and from North Carolina.
OF the four members, three are
from Raleigh-M cssrs. j. J. Lewis w.
d. Smith and A. II. Haynes-and one
from Greensboro. Mr.. w. II. Johnson.
Since it's organization four years ago
at the North Carolina reunion at
Greensboro the drum corps has been
pet of the veterans organization, its
fame as a unique entity and the per-
sonality of its members combining to
make it one of the most attractive as
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04
The Old Lady's Idea of Being Sworn
In Court.
Monroe Ennuirer.l

The refusal of the Catawba county
man to be sworn in court reminds us
of an incident which our old friend.
Mr.. E. A. Jerome, tells. GA number
of years ago" says Mr.. Jerome. IAN
old lady was witness in our court.
1t was her first experience in a court
room and when the clerk told the old
lady to come forward and be sworn,
she was shocked at the idea, and in
formed the court that she had never
'sweared in her life and that she did
not intend to cuss now. The court in
formed the witness that she would
have to swear as the law required. or
go to Jail for contempt. The witness
was then told to go to the table, put
her hand on theN book and be sworn.
Rather than go to Jail the reluctant
witness walked slowly up to the table.
like a criminal going to execution, and
touching the book with the tips of
her fingers, like she would touch a
piece of hot iron, and quickly with
drawing her hand, she blurted out
damn and took her seat, having
been, as she thought, duly sworn.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04
The Headline Tells the story.
BASKERVILLE Citizen.)

korean Waters Shudder Under
Shock of Terrific Naval Disaster.
Warships Crumble Under Togo s
Blow screamed the News and OBJ
server in its headlines Tuesday. by
what process the briny aqueous fluid
became SO CONCEALED as to perccptibiy
shuddcr when the atmosphere was
agitated by the impact of Togo's
strenuous delivery is not quite dis
cernible, but the sage of Raleigh has
evidently solved it,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04

The man who makes a corner in
wheat thinks he can relieve all the
suffering he caused by endowing a bed
i'm a hospital. Watsons Maya
zine.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04

Mr. w. j. Baldwin of Troy. has To-
Gated a shingle mill near Jackson
manufacturing shingles in few
days. Mr. Baldwin is a practical mill
man who will doubtless succeed with
his new plant.-Troy Montgomerian.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04
ADVICE TO TOGO.

New York sun.
If they want you to accept a house
Mr.. Togo, don't
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04
AMONG THE RAILROADS.

Who has purchased the Norfolk &
Southern Railway? That is question
that is agitating the railway folks in
this part of the world. a special
from New York says: "Otficial in
formation as to the identity of the in
terests to which control of the Nor
folk & Southern has passed is still
awaited with keen interest. Those
who have authentic knowledge of the
matter are silent on the subject
While there are limitations that men
connected with the new tidewater en-
terprise are the concealed owners,
there is reason to believe it is justified
i'm saying that this is mistake and
the Seaboard Air Line has acquired
the property. 1t will be of great value
to that system as the key to the situa-
ton at Norfolk, giving it tidewater
outlets for the products of rich btum-
inous coal fields in West Virginia and
the neighboring States
TIE Washington Gazette Messenger
predicts that Washington will be one
of the leading railroad centres in the
State. 1t says: The Atlantic Coast
Line now has one of the handsomest
passenger and freight depots on their
system; the Norfolk & Southern are
building mammoth warehouses and a
passenger depot. The Raleigh &
Pamlico Sound Railroad seems to be
leading in the direction of this city.
The Vandemere road is an assured
fact The latest railroad project is
said to be line from Durham, n. c.,
through Apex, Goldsboro, Snow Hill
and thence on 20 this point. For
week or more corps of engineers has
been engaged in running a survey on
the south side of the river. looking
towards this end"
The stockholders and directors of
the Statesville Air Line Railroad met
yesterday and instructed the prasi-
dent DR.. J. J. Mott, to appoint COM
mittees to solicit funds for a survey
of the line. The Statesville Air Line
was chartered many years ago and
the charter has been amended at least
once. 1t provides for a railroad TO
start at or near Spartanburg, s. c.,
and to run via Statesville to Mt. Airy.
-Statesville Landmark.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04
"oh mothers won't you meet me?'

And a voice Joined in so much
louder than the rest that ] stood on
tip-toe trying to locate it, and | Save
the culled gentleman of Lincoln Uni
versity peeling off his coat while his
mouth was expanding and contracting
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04
All Drummers and Fighters.

The war record, in brief, of the
Drum Corps is as follows
j. j. Lewis, age So, enlisted in the
Oak City Guards, of Raleigh. in April,
1851, in Company e, and was drum
mer After williamsburg, became an
infantryman, giving up the drum after
his first battle in 1862. Was at Get
tysburg, Charlottesville. Cedar Creek
and the numerous battles of the val
ley compaign, and with Cox at APP
pomattax.
w. d. Smith volunteered in Capt.
r. S. fuckers cavalry in February.
1862. each man finding his horse.
bride and saddle and double-bar-
relied shotgun, the government pro-
viding holsters and singlc-barrel pis-
tolls and sabres After nine months
service, went to the Forty-Seventh
North Carolina Regiment as drum
major.
A H. Haynes was, at the age of II
in 1863. enlisted in the Waterford Ca
diets. Of Raleigh, members of the
Home Guards. but in September. 1864
went away with the Third Alabama
Regiment. in Company C, and was
made drummer. Was present at a
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04
BY the grace of God I'll meet you,
BY the grace of God I'll meet you
On Caanan's happy shore.

Then the man from Georgia began
to shake hands with the other pas
sengers. and everybody seemed 10
catch the spirit of the occasion anu the
Misunderstanding became general and Ill
stood up and sang. There were sew
eral persons of note on that train,
among them Tom Moran and his wife
Moran is a millionaire who finds II
necessary to use eight figures to
enumerate his millions. but when /
locked back | saw him singing with.
his whole soul thrown into the ancient
melody. while he was shaking hands
right and left just like the old Metho-
dists used to do when they got happy
The train sped on, but / was back
again to the old Methodist church 1T
Carthage, when the pulpit stood be-
tween the two doors. and the seats
were not painted. Old Brother Tillett
was in the pulpit and Mr.. Enoch
Sykes was sitting on front seat with
his high beaver hat, the first one of
the kind ! ever saw, on the floor under
him. Old Uncle Jenkins, the blinG
man, was in his accustomed place. anG
on the left were Aunt Betsey Cole.
Aunt Fannie McNeill and the other
mothers of Israel. who have long since
met on Caanan's happy shore, / got
home sick and longed to be a boy
again back at the old Methodist Sun.
day school and wear the pair of striped
cotton breeches that / bought with tn.
money / made picking blackberrie2
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04

we'll as conspicuous features of the big
Confederate gatherings.
AS they march in the procession the
ranks behind step quicker to the music
of their Dixie" than TO the crashing
notes of the finest of brass bands. and
the sight-and the music-are both
inspiriting, martial, calling the imag-
nation OF younger generations TO the
scenes of long ago, carrying the
marching veterans back almost in
reality to the days when hope ran high
and blood and toll and suffering were
but the incidents of ambitious patriot
ism.
Personnel of the Corps.
Starting on the right goes MI.
Haynes, now a Raleigh policeman, the
youngest of the lot, and still strong
and vigorous. a long, loose-jointed,
big boned man he is, with the grey
mustasche of a cavalryman and the fire
that sent him to enlist as boy of 10
still shining in his STRENGTHENING eye
And the way he can roll the Kettle
drum is a thing to stir the blood. Next
follows Mr.. Lewis, an old man now of
50. who fought in a hundred battles
with a musket, and was one of those
who swept up and down the valley
clearing it as clean as a billiard table
of Union troops and throwing playful
shells in the Washington that lay oper
to their hands, and which they We're
not numerous enough to hold had they
taken it. There is a stoop to Mr.
Lewis now. and he walks with the
knee action of age, but his face still
holds the look of cool courage, of inn
pertnence to death that distinguished
the infantry of Early and Gordon and
Ramseur in whose commands he
fought for the four years of the war
still shows the year-softened dare-dev
iltry that prompted the last volley of
Coxs brigade al Appomattox, of which
he fired one shot Mr.. Lewis beats the
bass drum and he hits a whack thai
reverberates in time and gives tho
thunder to the kettles of Haynes anc
Smith. the piping fife of Johnson. Mr.
Johnson, himself, is still very youne
looking, with curly black hair. a laugh
ing eye and a mocking bird in his
lips, and next him the other kettle
Mr. Smith, was cavalryman in 1862,
and looks it today in the set of his
hat. the hang of his clothes and the
gaunt alertness of his face.
All of these men were drummers or
drum majors during the war, and one
carried a sabre and the other a mus
ket a part of the time. Mr. Lewis, in
fact, got tired of his drum after the
battle of Williamsburg tired, in
deed that he discahred ii in the mud
along the road, and after that he took
"a musket and his place in the ranks
where he served continuously al
though twice wounded before the end
IF tho war.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-11-24
HUBBY NO.. |
lICkS I'd
HUSBAND

Cleveland. Nov. 24-while being choked
by her husband at her home several days
ago, Mrs. John Grant shrieked for help.
Her rescuer was John Dingwell, her first
husband. from whom she was divorced.
The two men fought until ~neighbors sep
arated them.
Grant was in police court. in the wit
ness box was the divorced husband with
him Mrs. Grant left the court room when
her husband was discharged upon a sus-
pended sentence.
Take him back said Grant. For some
time the two husbands and the wife have
been living together.
my second husband invited my first
husband to make his home with US" said
Mrs. Grant.
1T was you that insisted upon having
him make his home with u.s." answered
Grant.
Grant felt sorry for me because he had
Eutred- the affections which ] lost ana
wanted TO make me feel easier" said
Dingwell.