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Wilkes Mary High Shoals. Gaston Co. July 19th 1867. Dear Sir - Your letter of 26th inst has been received, & I hasten to return my thanks to you for remembering "High Shoals" In no section of country could this handsome donation of $100 be more acceptable. For the past three weeks, the "Flux" or Dysentery, as we Northerners term it, has prevailed among us, as an epidemic - & all my energies physical & mental, have been