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LEXINGTON, HOLMES COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1902.
YOL. LXV.
NUMBER 34.
( ELECTION
RETURNS
Shows Material Gains for the Re
publicans—In Mississippi All
Constitutional Amendments
Were Defeated
The election here Tuesday passed
'<■ off very quietly, very little interest
was shown and a small vote polled.
New York.
i; New York, Nov. 6.—Latest returns
I from various parts of the state give
I Odell a plurality of 10,000 over Coler.
jj The rural districts were Odell's re
demption, for the Democrats carried
The De
. New'York ci tv by 80,000.
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mocrats elected all their Congress
[ The Legislature wil be Republican
by reduced majority. Platt's return
to congress is assured if he cares for
another term. Queensborough elect
ed Geo. jf. Gregg, Deocrat.
J sionalfcandidates but one in New York
1 City. Greater New York gave Coler
L 121,000.
Ohio.
Special telegrams to The Progress
Mvertiser indicate that this sate
i
eist Republican by an overwheling
majority.
m
■ „ Minnesota
I! This state is in the doubtful
7 column. Both parties claim it.
J Virginia.
ill return full Demo
tion al delegates.
' Pennsylvania.
V Pennsylvanir shows up the Repub
| lican columns, Quay claimes a maj
ority of 150,000. Over million votes
ft was cast the largest in the history of
■ of this state.
Ilfinos.
Illinois was carried by the Repub
l lican State ticket, led by Busse for
Treasurer; plurality 20,000. The
Legislature is Republican on joint
I ballot, indications are that Con
I gressman A. J. Hopkins is elected as
I a successor to Senator W. E. Mason.
Rhode Island.
L. Indication point to a Democrat mar
jority for L. C. Garvin for Governor.
The Legislature is Republican by
greatly reduced majorities. Four of
the five cities elected Democrat
Mayors.
Massachusetts.
John L. Batts, Republican, was
\ elected Governor over W. A. Gaston,
* --Democrat, by about 35,000 plurality
The Democrats get four Congressmen.
TOLARVILLE
Y Social Notes Gathered Each
Week By M. F.
# There is lots of cotton to pick in
■ the hills yet.
'The Sermon delivered by Brother
p Ellis Sunday was very interesting.
» I think quite a crowd from Tolar
ft, ville, Will attend the show at Yazoo
I Oity.
ft Mr. Lute Smith made a business
K trip to Lexington Monday.
W Miss Minnie Shannon visited her sis
I ter Mrs. Shipp last week.
| Miss Pearl and Ida Wallace, of
\ Coxburg, attended preaching here
| Jnday.
rVMrs. Pitchforv' is visiting her fa
^ V-Mr. J. T. Nixon this week.
j Mrs. Shannon is on the sick list
This week.
ml Mrs. Montgomery is getting along
[ nicely with her school.
| Aunt Sallie Bridges spent a few
hours in Tolarvile Monday, come
jj> .again Aunt Sallie and stay longer
SLwt: time.
Veterans Meet.
Held regular meeting Nov 3,1902.
Camp was called to order by Com
mander R. H- Baker, and opened with
prayer by Comrade T. C. Wier, Roll
was called and minutes of last meet
ing read Dr. G. C. Phillips read mem
ory of W. A. Ried, J. J. Shanks made
application to become a member hf
this camp and was elected. Chas.
Povall (col.) recommended by M. Hol
mes and T. W. Smith was elected
honorary members. Dr. Phillips read
his remmesences which were order
ed published in The Progoess-Adver
tiser and Durant News and Confed
erate Veteran. C. Ottenburg was
requested to read at our next meet
ing some remmesences of the army of
Northern Va. camp adjourned with
bindictionby comrade W. M. Broad
away.
R. H. Raker Comd'r
F. A. Howell A djt.
Fine ball bearing Sewing
Machine, valued $35.00 given
away at Hardware
^ evefy cagh purchase of
$ I>00 cnti i es purc haser to ticket
contest c l oses Dec. 23rd, 1902.
Best cement and lime. Willis &
Co.
Ellington Reception.
We clip the following from the
Commercial Appeal giving an account
of the Greenwood ball in honor of
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Ellington.
A dance was given by the young
men Wednesday evening in honor of
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Ellington. The
dance hall was beautifully decorated
in pink and green. Elegant refresh
ments were served. Those who at
tended the dance were; Miss Ella
Jayib and. Will Priestly, Miss l izzie
May Coleman and Walter Jack, Miss
Ethel Baker and Alfred Barr, Miss L.
Aldrich and Shelby Steele, Miss Ray
Aldrich and W. C. George, Miss Bes
sie Reynolds and L. Gates, Miss Mary
Metts and Peary Dennis, Miss Mc
Laurin and John Casey, Miss Hattie
Aaron and GeorgeChambliss, Miss An
nie Moore and Jim Wright, Miss Cora
Ray and S. Ridhardson, Miss Reed
and Boyd Brister. Stags C. Wilson,
C. Hale, B. Chandler. 0. Bledsoe, Will
Ward, J. Faltz, Nichols, E. Younes,
Henry Denton, Chaperone- Mr. and
Mrs. Lee Sims, Mr. &Mrs.T. H. Baird,
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Aaron, Mrs.
Robert Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Sam
Young, Mr. & Mrs. Joe Barnwell.
Call for Hon. S. N. Sample.
Mr. Editor: I noticed in your last
issue a communication from Beat 3
calling upon Mr. S- N. Sample, of
Ebenezer to enter the race for one
of the Representatives to the Legis
lature. I wish co add my endorse
ment to the article in question. Mr.
Sample is a simon-pure Democrat,
and has always been actively indenti
fied with the party. He is a man of
affairs, full of energy watchful of the
people's interest, jealous of their
rights, and would make a model Leg
islator. He would always be found
at his post, and could be depended
upon to discharge the duties of the offi
ce with credit to himself and satisfact
ion to his constituents. Of sound
judgment and incorruptible integrity,
he would make a faithful official in
any position he might hold. If Mr.
Sample will announce for the Legis
lature he will find strong support in
Beat 1.
Cabinet mantels cheap. Phone 31
and we will call:.
Willis & Co
Mrs. Fannie Eggleston Dead.
Mrs. Fannie Tabb Eggleston, widow
of the late Mr. Stephen A. Eggleston
died at the resident of her daughter,
Mrs. John J. North, at Yazoo City on
Wednesday,|5th. instant, and was
buried at Yazoo City on Thursday.
The many friends of the family in this
county extend to them their sincere
sympathy.
Mr. w/w.Mayo of Goodman spent
Sunday here with his sister M rs. R. C.
Lipsey.
Mrs Alice Nelson and sou, Edwin, of
Pickens spent several days with Hon.
and Mrs. Sydney Smith this week.
AN INTERESTING LETTER
READ BY DR. PHILLIPS
AT THE LAST MEETING OF THE HOLMES COUNTY VETERANS
CAPT. OLTENBURG HAS BEEN REQUHSTED
TO PREPARE AN ARTICLE TO
BE READ NEXT MEETING.
Commander and Comrades: You!
have asked me to give you my ex
perience in removing the wounded of
my brigade from Corinth Miss., after
the disastrous battles fought there!
Oct., 3rd and 4th, 1862 by the Con
federates under General Earl Van
dorn. Of the desperate charges
made by our men against the enemy's
breast works; line after line of which
they carried, until checked on the
second day by the enemy, concentrat
ing their entire force on the almost
impregnable position of College Hill
I have nothing to say but leave to
some of our comrades who were pres
ent and took part in that awful
strugle, my field hospital was on a
small creek immediately behind our
brigade line of battle, where there
was shade and water. The infirurany
corps ambulace drivers and asst,
surgeons were informed where to
bring the wounded, fhe surgeons of
the brigade then set to. work to pre
pare for the wounded that we knew
would soon be on hand, improvising
tables from wagon beds or any pieces
of board we could get, or door of a
hotfljj!j£any was near, having pots of
water boiled, buckets of cold water
set handy, instrument and bandages
put in order. We had no tents. In
the mean time the battle had opened
and was waging in our front. By
the time our crude preparations were
finished, the wounded commenced com
ing, in those who could walk, on foot
others in ambuntance, some in wag
ons, as we had but few ambuntances.
The men were taken out and laid on
the grown in the shade of trees, and
the conveyances sent back for others.
Now came hard work for the surgeons
first in the lignating arteries that
were bleeding, cutting out bullets
that could be felt, laying aside, often
a hurried examination, those requir
ing a capital operation, until the rush
was over, splinting and bandaging
broken limbs that might be saved.
Late in the night, working by candle
light. We finished, first work, wiht
the lot of wounded and the poor fel
lows as comfortable as we could with
the scant means at hand, lying on
the bare ground with only their one
blanket around them. Fortunately
it was not cold, early the next
morning the battle reopened and all
through the day the wounded con
tinued to come, in, though not so nu
merous as the day before, the artil
lery doing most of the fighting in our
front. The infantry suporting it.
About 4 o'clock in the afternoon I
received orders to remove all the
wounded, who could bear transporta
tion in wagons, back some miles on
the road we came in on, to Chewalla,
where we made the famous charge
on the saw mill—so humorously de
scribed in ' poetry by Col. Reid.
None of our wounded wanted to be
left, so I had them all placed in wa
gons (seventy two, if my memory is
correct) I am speaking only of Bow
ens brigade. We reached Chewalla
and got the wounded all taken out
about seven o'clock p. m. and I pre
paved to remove a man's arm at the
shoulder joint who ought to have
been operated on the evening before
but we did not have the time. It
was a dark night and the wind blow
ing, I had two sperm candles, held by
two men with their hats shielding the
flame from the wind, in spite of
which, first one and then the other
j would be blown out. The case was
j so urgent however, that 1 determind
to operate, even under these difficul
ties. As the amputation was to be
at the shoulder joint, no compression
of the blood vessels could be main
tained. So I with the understand
ing that Dr. McMilleif, a large strong
man, was to grab the lower flap, as
soon as cut, with thuipbs across it
compressing the bleeding artery,
| The bone was shattered by a piece of
j shell so that I was forced to sweep
j the knife around to disarticulate the
head, Mc's thumb was in the way,
j "hold on.' he says "you are cutting
| my thumb" "I can't stop" says I "but
j damn it Phillips it hurts, you are cut
j ting right into my thumb" says he,
j "Hold hard Me says I, this man's life
is in your hand and you must not
turn loose" Me did hold, and the
o'clock that night I received orders
"to load up the wounded and start at
them; that a quartermaster sargeon
would be sent with me, with funds to
buy provisions and that I might de
life was saved, but Me had a
man
sore thumb for some time—About 9
once with them to Holly Springs, on
the same road that we came to Cor
rinth on; to travel until I reached the
budge across the Hatcher River:. to
stop there long enough to dress the
wounds of the men and to feed
tail an assistant surgeon to go with
and assist me"—I secected Dr. B. T.
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Kittrell of the 22nd Miss., Reg
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ment, we placed the wounded mostly
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in wagons that haa been used for
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hauling provisions and forage for the
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army, there being only five or six am
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butates, m which the worst wound
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ed were placed until filled, some were
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too badly hurt to be moved, but they
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begged not to be left, and I had all
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loaded as best I could with straw and
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leaves in the wagon beds. Ihese
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were the regular army four mule wag
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ons without springs. We got started
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between ten and eleven o clock that
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ne88 was g0 intense that the drivers
could not see the road and the jolt
n g g0 great from runing into ruts
night. About twelve o'clock we came
to a creek bottom, where the dark
and over stumps that the wounded
could not stand it so I was forced to
disobey orders and halted the train.
We stoped right in the road, and
drivers mules and all who could, ex
cept myself went to sleep, I was aw
fully sleepy but had to stay awake
to start the train as soon as day be
gan to break and the drivers could
see to avoid rough places. We pro
seeded without incident until we
reached Hatchie bridge about 12
o'clock on the 5th. The train had
just stoped and the team of the front
ambulance unhitched, when two cav
alry men came charging across the
bridge, at full speed, there hats in
their hands. Shouting "go bacak,
go back the enmy are just across the
other side". 1 told the division to
turn round and drive to the edge of
of the woods on the platau above the
river bottom and wait further ordesjto
to give Dr. Kittrell and myself all the
canteens we could pack and we would
bring the men water, many of them
were suffering and calling for it, we
not having been aple' to get any one
route, Dr Kittrell and I hitched our
horses, went down the stream and
flilled about a dozen canteens apiece
when we got up the bank, we found
a Confederate cavalry regiment form
ed acroos the road, tied the canteens
to our saddles and mounted, says I
Kittrell lets see what this fcavalry is
going to do, there may be only a
small force of the enmy on the other
side and our men may drive them
out of the way and we can go ahead.
The commender of the regiment call
ed in a loud voice "all men with long
range guns step to the front,
a man moved it looked as if none of
them had long range guns, at least
they did not Jthink they were He
then rode down the line and pointed
them out, one man said "my captain
told me to hold horses.' ( another said
"my captain told me to take care of
his overcoat," and so on, one excuse
after another. It was a wedding
they die not care to attend, says I
Kittrell these men are not going to
fight, and we are in a middle of a bad
fix. We had hear the distant boom
of cannons bock on the road we
came. Lets get our train together
and await developements, we found
our train where I had directed them
to stop, I moved them out of the road
in the shade of some trees, while dis
tributing the canteens of water, I
saw one of our infantry brigades
coming down the road at a double
quick, thinking that it was Federel
cavalry that had run our cavalry
across the river, and that they were
no better fighters thau ours (that was
before Vandorn and Forrest had
made fighters of our cavalry) and as
soon as our infantry struck them they
would sweep them out of the way
and open up our road. I went to
looking after some of the wounded,
giving opiates to some that were
suffering greatly. Sam Gwin came
to me saying that Dr Keirn was in an
abulanOe not in my train, suffering
very much with his wounded hand
I went and dressed his hand, as I fin
ished, one of out men who had been
; to me several times on the trip, came
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to
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and begged me while we were stopp
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ed to cut his finger off, which had
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been shot the day before, and was
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hanging by the tendons and a piece
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of skin and swinging about pained
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him very much. I told him all right,
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and for Dr. Kittrell to come with him
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to the shade of a black lack, off from
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the wagons about forty yards. The
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Dr. asked me to let him operate as he
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did not often have a chance, to which
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I agreed, laid the man on the ground
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and commenced administering chloro
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form on a towel. For some reason
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he was the hardest man to anaesthe
lize I had even tried it on. He got
to the stage of excitement and would
not pass it. In the mean time the
infantry that passed us had become
heavily engaged as soon as they got
down on the river and cannons fire
ing from the other side, says I Kit
trell Ihe enemy are not cavalry alone
they have infantry and artillery. I
pressed the chloroform an our patient
who could hear the firing and in his
semi delerious state imagined himself
in the midst of a battle, fighting the
yankees shootupr, ajid charging. At
last the chlorok. m got the better of
him. I told the Dr. to ahead and be
as quick as possible as the fighting
was growing hotter and appeared
coming nearer and I must get my
train back out of the way- The Dr
had made one cut on the finger to
form a flap when a shell passed
through the tree top we were under,
Kittrell remarked we cant stay here
Dr- we will be killed oh, says I go
ahead that a shell and they don't shoot
in the same place, but the Dr- was
nervous and his hands shook so that,
I said keep cool Kittrell or you won't
make a good job of this. I am cool
enough says he but this is operation
under great difficulties. As he said
this another shell struck the ground
and bursted about twenty feet to on^
side of us throwing dirt over all of usl
(Continued 4 next J week)
FREE DELIVERY
FOR HOLMES
Mr. Watson, of the U. S. Post
Office Rural Delivery Depart
ment, is Here Inspecting
Routes.
Mr. W- C. Waton, special agent
for the U. S. post office department,
rural free delivery service is in our
county making surveys preliminary to
establishing several routes here.
The service now proposed will call
for fifty or sixty carriers at a com
pensation of $600 per year. Each
family along the route will be requir
ed to place a box on the public road
at a point near their dwelling.
From a conversation with Mr.
Watson, we infer that he is well
pleased with his investigation. But
the nature of his position prohibits
any statement in regard to what his
report will be. He has already % sur
veyed the routs to Acona, Ebenezer
and the eastern section of this
county.
Hon. W. P. Tackett has been active
in getting this inspector to come here
and has aided him in
sible since his arrival.
every way pos
GOODMAN
Lady Bountiful" Tells of The
Happenings.
< <
Mr. B. A. Mayo and
attractiv
daughter Miss Minnie of Morrilton
Ark. are the guest of Mr. W. F.
Mitchell and family,
^ Mrs. Maria Pickens having spent
several months in Texas has returned
and is visiting her son Mr. E. W.
Pickens.
The pretty new colonial home of
Mr.John W. Henderson is nearly
pleted and is quite an improvement to
Main street.
The following party of gentlemen
attended the world renowned show in
Jackson on the 4th Messrs T. F.Cobb,
J. R. Moody, W. A. Shumaker, Paul
Waugh and Cecil Gill Smith,-and
port "Buffalo Bill" excellent in every
respect
Mr. Geo. Craft of West Point Ga.
made a brief stay with relatives in
town last week.
Mr Ike B. Pickens of Lexington
was a welcome visitor to his old
home last Sunday.
Mrs. Geo. Carter and bright little
girls from Ebenezer spent Tuesday
last in Goodman.
Mrs. Walter Brimly has returned
from a short stay in Kosciusko.
Mrs. C. F. Nelson accompained by
her daughter Miss Rena also Mr. Carl
Thanson returned Thursday from a
six month visit abroad the entire
town were delighted to welcome
them home again.
Your correspondet announces with
pleasuro the marriage of Miss Nellie
Shepherd to Mr. William Murphy
Doty inl9nth to be solomninized in
the Methodisn Church Richland.
We regret to hear of Mrs. Richard
Lipsey's illness of Lexington and
sincerly hope that she may be restored
to her former self again.
Mr. W. W. Mayo is spending this
week in Lexington. -
com
re
Lady Bountiful.
Church Notice.
The adjoined quarterly comference,
Lexington and Tchula cuarge, for
closeing up the work of the year
will meet in the Methodist church at
Lexington, Monday Nov. 10. at 2
o'clock p. m. Preaching at 7 p. m.
By the Presiding Elder, Rev. W. S.
Lagrone.