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il ' i ^ ' i mi^ inbh > . i^- ?*cj VOL.XLIV. TUNNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1887. NO. 6. I a THE RUSSIAN DOCTOR. I \ Entertaining and Romantic Story SmL\ from Real Life. Adapted from rnz German of jImt, elise poeke.] p by mrs. frances a. smatv. ' Translation Copi/rig'Ut<?, itt. by A. X. Kelloq] 2>'eu'?pap^r Company. ^ CHAPTER I. -^T ^ modest ^ dwellreturn from a resi^ name of "the Russia 11 Doctor." was so densely em -1 1J'' bowered in cy- ; ^ '* press and wild i grajje vines that ! one could scarce have found the door- j knob but for its brightness from con- j stant scouring. A large," old-fash- i ioned . arden, in which both flowers | k and weeds were allowed to grow at [ their own sweet will, stretched far be-' Tiirtr! thf? linns** nnrl ^nrlail in <1 fro-pst ; of beeches, a path through which led j to a dilapidated rustic temple on the j "brow of a hill. This temple, which oe- ; cupied an open space, was flanked by a ! weather-beaten stone table, surrounded ! by wooden benches, and had, evident- > i. ]y, been reared by some lover of nat- I ure. But the death or absence of its j owner had allowed the place to fall | into decay, and no one in the little j tov, had eared to expend time or j y for its restoration. . Arnim Elbthal-had won o-reat re- i ..n and an extended practice in that j ^ -i.iita.nt Russian city. Wonderful stories j were told of his skill, which had, in- j f - deed, been phenomenal. These stories i the Russian servant, Ivan, whom he j had brought home with him, endeav- i ored to confirm ri his broken German, j resorting to expressive pantomime when ! words failed him. According to Ivan, j v. his master had cut oil* innumerable noses and ears, to say nothing of arms and leg?, and no one had ever felt pain under Lis knife. Incredible things in glass jars adorned his sleeping-chamber. These Ivan dusted every morning with reverential awe and not without . a secret longing for the spirits in which they were preserved. The doctor sonicTK. times -wondered that the spirits in these jars had so often to be renewed, ir and that his store of Turkish tobacco disappeared in such incredible ways. As none of the other servants smoked, and the housekeeper detested the "filthy weed," Ivan must have been the sole transgressor. In spite of cheeks ofteu distended, and an odor of excellent tobacco he carried about with i the doctor contented himself with an t occasic >al scolding. Unable to speak j Russi?>-; although he both read and wrote the language, lie had been obliged :o make out a list of reproving words from the dictionary. This list, which bsgan with'"rebel" and ended with "dog," he would read from his easy-chair with great solemnity: the delinciuent standing before him and listening with an air of utter annihilation, until, at the last word, he "would ^ kiss the seam of his master's coat, and ^? slip like a guilty thing over the threshold. Fi-aulc'ti Marianne, the doctor's cousin a. id housekeeper, had often insisted v j the dismissal of this "savage;" but Ivan "was to the doctor a living renascence of a strange, active .life on a foreign soil. He had thought t* remain in Kasan to the end, but the inheritance of a small fortune through i.b? death of a distant relative he had Scarce known awakened in him ^ a sudden, homesickness; for Germany, rand for :he secluded little town afar from mi ways, where his craule had stood, ?rd which in an age of restless activity, still dreamed on as it had dreamed on for hundreds of years. <j Having purchased this vine-wreathed. house which, during all those years in a foreign land, had stood before him jj^ a sort of enchanted vision, he summoned his orphaned cousin Marianne, a model housewife, as his minister of V the interior. Marianne indeed sighed Hr mentally that her cousin had chosen H for a home his native town rather than some great capital, with its constant sue^ssion of new faces and amusenv:.. s. But yet the idea of reigning S-"' * isiress of a household appeared auiiful and enticing that she _ have followed the doctor to the k .us of the earth. She had always ^^iiked him; she felt great respect for IV Vnm- r?nlr fault in her eves was an ropes aversion to marriage. A physician "Who remained single was, to say the Jeast, unwise. Arnim would ward off her frequent reproaches 011 this score by declaring that the unmarried physician, like the Catholic priest, is much more efficient than the married . one, being wholly devoted to his calling without the distraction of outside F interests. " Only those undeterred by thought of wife or family sacrifice themselves cheerfully, if it comes to that,'1 he said, r "My patients can attest that I am not L_ uJ^Hfcuic ^ Iicart- Hitherto I have ML ^ had no time for iC7* individual: ?5 i rr*~ r 1^ roo 1 ^^ \ xicjl ni?\11 > a yrhen ha mis like yours keep my house :n order and Ivaii serves mu so faithfully? Why seek to realize personally those torments which the poets tells us are inseparable from love, when I havo seen and still see so muc-h of pain and r sorrow in the lives of others?*' In that foreign land our Russian | doctor had won the name of "father" by ardent devotion to his calling. The ailments of children had been his es? jpecial care. In that somber university r>ifv therp w:is scarce a bov or srirl of the poorer classes who did not know him, did not run after him as he passed , along the streets and press its dirty nose to the lappel of his coat. Many a "beautiful pair of woman's eyes also followed the manly figure with the thoughtful, noble face. Many a rosy L mouth smiled upon him, manyafasci I 2 ating lady teacher offered to assist him in mastering that extremely difficult foreign idiom. But all these enticements were lost upon the doctor; he i&A no time for them. f i j And, bc.-ides, there was one living ; remembrance that,like a pastel picture : undimmed by time, rose constantly i before him. Waking and dreaming | there was over present to him the face i of a young girl wholly unlike these dark-eyed foreign beauties?a pale, almost childish face with piquant nose, lustrous blue eyes, light-brown hair?a ; delicate, petite figure with charming i hands and feet, and a joyous, musical voice. This fair maiden who had thus captured the fancy of a somewhat grave, bookish student, was the only child of a French emigrant, a widower, who lived proudly isolated in the vinewreathed house, intrusting the educa tion of Ins daughter to an elueriT French governess. The garden wall had then, as now, an artisticallywrought latticed gate on the forestside. In the fine season. Arnim, who loved to study in the open air, would take his Greek and Latin books to the forest, where he was sure to meet a child-like figure in a white dress with rich embroideries and dainty ribbons, skipping up and down the broad, peb bled path. To the amazement of our student, she always wore loose, lightcolored kid gloves. Sometimes she stood close to the gate, her graceful head pressed against the cold iron bars ?the broad-brimmed hat hanging from her neck by its blue ribbon, while the eyes that gazed wistfully into the deepgreen of the forest mayhap caught a glimpse of the student who walked hesitatingly past, and sometimes let a book fall to impede his progress. This blonde child was quite unlike rvtTior rnnntf rrirlc liftlo tnu-n the sisters of his school-fellows. She did not at all resemble the burgomaster's daughter, who was considered a model of good breeding and iine manners. To Arnim she seemed coarse beside this stranger, who had about her something of the libellula, something of the airy grace of that shimmeringwinged creature, destined to Hit about for one brief summer s uay, and then die. The foreign maiden sometimes appeared on the promenade?a somber walk shaded by lindens, which surrounded the little town?but never without her governess, a severe-looking', fantastieally-dressed and elderly onrl flmn qVw? would hang-upon the arm of her father, and both would be chatting merrily. But this seldom happened, as the Marquis traveled back and forth a great deal, passing but little time at home. Once upon a spring day, when the first May flowers were in bloom and bird-songs enlivened the forest, as Arnim passed along the wonted path, a great leather ball Hew over the gate and hit him in the right eye. A sudiicii cry of pain escaped him. his book fell ed, he grasped aftc-r the nearest tree. The key turned hastily, the gate creaked on its hinges, and an excited figure in white appeared before him. Soft little hands sought with gentle force to withdraw his own hand from his eyes, and a sweet voice spoke consoling words in French?then to Arnim an almost unknown tongue. 7- \v. r- ^ N v o^s: ju> ^A?,vK T THEIR FIRST ACQUAINTANCE. He set his teeth?this young girl must not know now ne sunerea. auu yet he was helpless, for he could not open his eyes. Angry at this helplessness, he thrust back the little hands now gloveless, and turned away. But they would not be shaken off. Once more they were extended, and the voice took on a pleading accent. Little as he knew of French, Arnim was aware that the girl was begging his forgiveness, and wanted to take him to the fountain in the midst of the garden. His feet still resisted, but his head and heart were already 011 the way, along which he at length suffered himself to be led. Soon he felt over his inflamed eye a moist perfumed handkerchief. The pain abated, the well eye slowly opened and gazed into the lovely face that, flushed with mingled archness and anxiety, bent toward him. "Merci lien made' moiseilehe said, heroically recalling one of his few French phrases. "Hortcnsc!"1 cried a sharp woman's voice. The girl's small hands tore a web of lace from her neck, laid it over the handkerchief and knotted it around the young student's soft blonde hair. Then hurriedly slipping on her gloves she showed her patient oui through the gate. As she did so, his ear caught ei* treating whispers of which he understood only "A domain. Au revoir." He again sought his wonted place in iV x ^ ^ kiTncolf m>on the n tUU 1V1WI , ilUU bULVtV ^? ..x- grass. But though he lay there for a lonir time he did not study one word? "A demain?an revoirkept echoing in I lis ear. I"pon reaching home he hunted up a French grammar and a French-andGcrman phrase-hook hidden away in the depths of th#> family library. Tomorrow he would return the handkerchief with thanks, and assure the - i i, l.: . tnrowvr ui luc uau mui/ no longer pained him. But lie felt that it would be easier to commit a Latin exercise than these French phrases. His swollen eye did not escape his mother's notice, but the limb of a tree was made answerable for the little j French girl's awkwardness. He locked i the two handkerchiefs in his desk to ! f.nlcp them oitt late at night and unfold them. In one corner of the pockt-f handkerchief he discovered the initial H. with a coronet above it. Could this other dainty thing, with its delicate perfume, be any protection against wind and weather? What use i ?w*mmt-^I less trifles these .-poiled girls must have to wear, and uis was a Parisian through and throu*u! German women were so different. What, indeed, could a manly man do with a doll who carried such handkerchiefs, wound such spiders* webs about her neck and wore I gloves in the garden? What would his mother, who only on Sundays allowed herself the luxury of white under sleeves, ana was Dy no means lavisn in collars and handkerchiefs for her husband and son?what would she say about the always fresh white gowns of this young French woman? Terrible memories of the Revolution and of .Napoleon's wars had taught her to hate the French, and she was displeased to learn that her son even knew these foreigners. This night Arnim dreamed of gigantic balls flying through the air. They all hit him. Handkerchief after handkerchief was wound around his head, and two soft little hands were laid upon his heart, while a sweet voice asked: "Have I really hurt you??' Tiie next day Arnim had many lessons to recite at the gymnasium, but his memory was not as usual at command. At the appointed time he found himself on tlxe familiar path. As he p issed the latticed gate his heart beat violently. From beneaihthe lowdrawn vision of his cap he gazed stealthily into the garden. Suddenly t. ? j: ^ ? ...'l.tm,?. Uf Uidt'aUCU it WI11LC diUJUllUCl. JL UU gloveless hand of Hortense waved liim a greeting through the lattice-work of the gate. "0, sir, you came at last," she said, in French. "How is it with you?" As a polite young man, he was obliged to step forward, to take off his cap, shew the eye which meantime had assumed all possible colors, and say assuringly the words he had a thousand times rehearsed: Jc me parie. assez i.'? 7 ? ?77? :? "Uav VflUUCM IJLilUli I4.xiiug l/HO handkerchief "with the coronet from its paper wrappings, with a "thank you very much," he handed it to its owner. Where was the other? Hortense did not ask, but still chatting and laughing merrily, she opened the gate and came to him. Arnim listened in silence as the rippling rivulet of her speech flowed gayly on, while the rosebud mouth was wreathed in smiles and the eyes glowed like sunbeams. "0, howllovethe forest!1' she cried, in ecstasy. The trees murmured softly above those two young heads, and with happy hearts they paced slowly up and down the path. Young violets in charming profusion nestled amid the grass. Arnim would gladly have plucked a bunch of them for his lovely companion, but he could recall only their Latin name, Viola odorata, and he forebore. He told her as "well as he was able that . 'out very lilli^Pr rench, anu laughing, that she knew no GermaS^ nriAr*** frv (Tl'rD I xugu oiiu iwavu aaaaxa iv v uw* w* man lessons, assuring him that her father would not object. She next inquired as to his name, his home, whether lie had parents and brothers and sisters. When he had answered she said, sadly: "I have no mother, no brothers or sisters." Then she begged him not to be afraid of Mile. Fifine, her governess, assuring him that she was not so cross as she looked. "Is it she who always makes you wear gloves?" he asked. She laughed and nodded. .. y"> __ a. t J ~ 1 4.^ ~"?>Ut JL UU 1UVU IU UlivC uu, she said, suiting the action to the word. "Here they are. Please keep them awhile for me.'' He put the gloves in his breast pocket. "And yet I would not like to have brown or red hands like so many of your German girls," she added. "That is so ugly?uglier even than gloves." So they walked up and down or stood a a4- a a nntil "iV/f 11 o OlU.*? KJJ O-U IUV ^iVCV) VLIAVLX Finne's call separated them. This day, also, our student learned little from his hooks, although his eye was now well. In response to a courteous note from the Marqnis, he ere long found himsell didy installed as German teach or to Hortense. The Marquis also paid his parents a visit, charming both with his elegant manners and the prospect oi an engagement for their son, although the mother shook her head ominously and talked more than ever of the dire evenis of the French campaign of 1812. The German lessons were not given in the usual formal manner. Teacher and pupil wandered out into the gar* den, and seated themselves comfortably in the r^bor or by the fountain. Sometimes when ICle. Filinc was in good humor, she accompanied them to the forest, to the meadow or to the temple on the hilltop. Arnim soon got over his fear of the morose old French governess, who every day cursed the lot that forced her to remain far from la belle France in this stupid Germany. She scorned the young German in no friendly way through her. eye-glass, and honored him with hut little of her conversation. But she left the "two children'' to their fare, as she sat a lit- i tie distance away absorbed in the ficti- j tious destiny of the hero and heroine | of some romance. 2sone questioned which learned most of the foreign language, Arnim or Hortense, but both found the alloted hmii-r mnoh t/iA oJ?A?4 rrv% e, auu xxiniin remained longer and longer, not leaving until Mile. Fifine, from the depths ol her novel, gave the signal for departure. They belonged to the laughing spring and to the season of roses, these two youthful creatures. How musical ro.se and fell Hortense's clear laugh amid this merry twitter of birds! now I droll an ore her German words and phrases, and how awkward from Arnim's tongue came the dear, familiar French sounds! Both soon learned to laugh heartily over their mutual blunders. Sometimes the lively child would spring up, shake back her golden-: UIUu UUUO auu i uu aiTt*r. -*.u tt j then the preceptor's manifest duty to bring back the refractory pupil. While within range of Mile. Fifine's eyes, with the grave, slow dignity of a teacher?then in the full eagerness of youth they would play hide and seek like two merry children, until Fifine's grim figure loomed up near by, and her? * ' Enough of this nonsense"?recalled them to their tasks. Then they would again sit opposite each other, Hortenso repeating while the dimples in her cheeks deepened into an arch smile* *4lclihabe, du hast, cr hat,'''' etc. But she remained rapt and silent when her teacher read aloud some German poem. "That is music," she would say. **x ieei tne meaning 01 tne woras if I do not understand them." He never wearied of reading to her from Eichendorf, his favorite poet. These lines impressed her as so beautiful that she begged him to copy them for her in Frencli characters so that she might learn them by heart: " I hear a brooklet murmur, Now far. now near, it seems: Through the forest at its murmur 1 pass on as in dreams. 41 The nightingales trill softly In the silent, leafy ways; And the burden of their singing Is the lovely olden days. "Beneath the moonbeam's shimmer It seems so fair, so near; That castle in the valley That lies so far from here. " As if within that garden Of roses white and red. bbc stu: lor me were waiting? My darling, long years dead." , I*' ^wMWmWrn' THE READIKGOnce?summer was already passing with light footsteps through the land? when Arnim, at his pupil's request, had recited these dreamy verses, Hortense rose suddenly, and with feverish haste plucked a nosegay from the red rose.- and white lilies, which bloomed in wild luxuriance in the garden, and laid it on the table before him. He carried it in his hand as he went home, delighting in its beauty and fragrance. What a dear, kind-hearted creature she was, this little girl! Even his mother, spite of those reminiscences of 1812, could but love her. The next noon when Arnim returned from the gymnasium, he found a letter from the Marquis. It contained a check and some obligatory words of courtesy, - T- 4. iLat *1, ~ expressm^ 111 uuji ruj^rct uuit uic jt:?sons must be discontinued for a season, as his daughter was about to visit Paris. Arnim persuaded himself that a brief pause ill the lessons won Id be the best for him, as his examinations were j t hand. He also decided that he 1 - - -IX a- j_ . 1 M TT A. 'in mase noaui'inpi 10 uiu norrcn>c that in his visits to the forest he would choose a path not leading by the latticed gate. If the roses and lilies in that glass of water had only been less enchanting in their perfume as he came to this conclusion! He w? - about to throw them out of the window; but why make the poor flowers answer for reminding him of the garden where they grew? He kept his resolution until evening, i tlipn lift wfindfrcfl :v:iin :ilon<r the dear I o old path, past the garden gate. Ke wanted to say to his pupil that in her absence he sVmld no longer pass this way. To let her <ro without one parting word would be discourtesy. But no shimmering white dress greeted him: all was silent and empty. The window of the chamber looking on the garden was lighted; he saw* figures moving to and fro. and hoard Fitine's sharp voice. He lingered long, awaiting the siiverv laugh of Hortense?she laxighed so often :isul so merrily when he v,*as near! But to-night if she laughed it was not aloud, and he slowly returned home. The next evening just as he was set-: j ting out for the forest, an unknown i lad appeared bringing him a note with j i nerfnme of violets. "From the | 1 French young lady," the boy said. "No answer required." With .a strange feeling of apprehension he broke the seal. Awkward German characters confronted him. He read: ''Dear Teacher: My aunt, the Marquise Duvois, has come, and will take me with her to Paris. She is the mother of my cousin Ren'fc whom papa and Fifine say I am one day to marry. I do not know whether we shall returrj j here. I have wept very much at the thought of ' leaving. I: we do return, I shall at once resume my lessons with you. Tiiey nave Deen so oeau- ; tiful and so jolly! I shall never forget you? i never: Au reooir. Please remember your Sad, _ _ HORTESSEt" [TO BE COKTINTErO 1 HE CASADIA^'FISHERIES. The Coining \esoiJaiiong Between Knslapi c n?l Thi? Country. Waskx>*gto>, August 31.?The Department of State litis cot yet been officially advised of Mr. Chamberlain's appointment as president of the Royal Corcmi^lon char-red >\1LU inu uivj cucuixug a JU'iKuiciJi ui the questions at issue between the Ui.-iiecl | States and Great Britain concerning the fisheries. V. hile this government ha> not yet selected the persons who will be entrusted with the conduct of the negotiations in its interest, yet little difficulty is expected to be met in finding men whose breadth of view and legal acumen will ensure a proper presentation of the interests of the United an agreement honorable in ter;?a and satisfactory to the whole uOuniry. Secretary ibay&rd will make it a point tba't on the questions at issue our representatives shall present an undivided front. He believes that there can be no dor&t as to the power of the President to "appoint the American Commissioners, as he is constitutionally authorized to initiate negotiations and make treaties with foreign countries. subject to ratification the seuaie. The e^acs functions of i^e Commission have not been defined. Generally it will consider all of the questions r >w issUv between the Unit^cJ Status 4cd Canada arming iiUill l-uc cuuui^iiiig I'liiuud ui Uic two countries respecting the fisheries, trot whether the result of the r.e^otiauons, if successful, will lw a n-jw treaty or an amicable agreement under the treaty now oper ative cannot at present be predicted. The negotiations with Great Briiaia have, however, now reached sut-h a phase that Secretary Bayard is encouraged in the belief that a final adjustment oi 1^3 questions which have vex*^ t'ue two cations since the expiration of the treaty of Washington is near at hand. Don't disgust everybody by hawking, blowing and spitting' but" use Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy and be cured. CAPTURING DESERTERS. 3IETH0DS OF RECAPTURE DURING THK WAR. A. Conscript in Female Attirc-Watcliicj :: House for Several Days?The CJct-jsig Days of the Rebellion?A Dc>i><Tate Struggle. T_ ru_ lOei 4. Aome'e JHI tug a 111II mm Ui JLUVTX Mau cavalry, after an arduous campaign, rested to recruit men and horses in Shepherd's old fields in Copiah county, Mississippi. Food and forage were abundant; the horses grew fat, and the lazy life soon wearied the men, whose home was in the saddle. Time dragged, but Sergeant Heath's old Creeper create a diversion, one morning, by stamped1 rrrsr the brigade horses, which were ui* w ? Icose at grass. Creej>er kne w a thing < r two, and counted on fan. when he laid his plans. Working around the t.vo thousand grazing horses, until all were between himself and the camp in the woods, the old horse, whose wisdom was known and acknowledged throughout the brigade, took his stand and surveyed i-ke ground. With a wild sijra*t and a ringing neigh he sprang into the herd. What he intended to convey to the understanding of his fellows I cannot say, but a panic seemed to seize each separate beast, and with thundering hoofs tb^y bore down upon the camp. Then was there "mounting in hct haste" the friendly trees beneath whose shelter we bivouacked. Mad, blind with an unnamed terror, and turning not aside, like an avalanche the flying squadron swept through the camp. With the streaming mane and tail, head on high, and flashing eyes, that old demon Creepex led his frightened hosts. It was plain to see that he gloried in the mischief he had wrought. ATTACKING TIUE CAVALRY. The c*rup monotony was broken at last when the outlying scouts reported the advance ox a Federal incursion from Bruinsburg, on the Mississippi river. This force of white and negro troops, composed of infantry, cavalry, and fieid artillery, ind amounting in all to about 1,200 mei, hai been landed from transports on the river;, presumably for the purpose of surprising and capturing our force at Shepherd's old fields. Timely warninc: enabled General Ailams to meet them more than half war. Eleven miles south of Port Gibson is Coleman's lane, in the county of Jefferson, and h^ie the advanco parties of the hostile forces met. Hot skirmishing and an exchange of shells frum the held batteries on either ! side opened the engagement. Mere a ! curious, and perhaps unique, casualty j occurred. Our cavalry was dismount iiig, prepariuurv tu an uuvuuue ua jluuu An officer was seated on the top rail of a fence bordering the road. A shell from the enemy struck the rail at one end : without exploding. The rough rail was | driven with tremendous force from im- j ' de!: the officer, leaving a great splinter j tirTee ur four feet long, and of ihe iiiick-1 ness of two lingers, transfixing the un-! happy man's thighs and projecting a i foot "or more beyond each hip. The j man swore with rage and pain, repelling j all approaches on the part of friends, j until Dr. Martin coming up forcibly | oroiie on one projection 01 xue tougn oak and drew out the remainder from the other side. The wounds healed and the captain soon resumed his duties, but he heard cot the last jibe on that "cross buttock" thrust until he met a soldier's death in the closing days of the straggle. DRIVING THE FEDERALS BACS. The enemy had posted himself in and about Coleman's dwelling, barns andj outbuildings. Here ^e assaulted him j and drove him out and back after a short j resistance. The Federal force greatly j outnumbered ours, but would assuredly j have been captured had the white con- j tiugent been as easily demoralized as j were the negro soldiers. Time after j time these men, composing the rear j guard as the Federal commander drew ! off his forces, were broken and hurled j helter-skelter upon the main body, and only the stubborn lighting of the white ! troops enabled any portion of the com- j laand to escape. Darkness fell ^hile we j still pursued them, and the "chase was i not given over until near midnight, j when exhaustion compelled a halt. i>ay-! break found the enemy on board his [ transports, and the fleet steamed away j for Natchez. I have often thought that; iiaci tne Jt eaerai torce been s?Jiiluiiy: commanded on this occasion General j Adams would have found that this ' was a rash venture. Eaa his force been : a third larger not a blue coat would have ! escaped.1' To the best of mj knowledge j the Confederate force did not exceed ; four hundred men, while I am surg t { saw three times that number of the | enemy. They also the advantage of a s;rong position of tbeir own selection, taken as soon as made aware of our approach. Our first rush, however j drove them from it, and thf?r officers j found it impossible fuiiy to rail 7 j negro troops. Xhey wo^d ois&nd"when ~C paused, bv* ?-cn succeeding onset j swee^ily broke* their ranks. Their fire ! tfas very high. Far above oar headc minie bullets snug an anrnrj chorus, and our loss v,as tr;*Ung. At intervals, when crossing ?,n eminence, a man would fall i in darkness. Andrew Battle, a rugged I Irishman, went back for a horse to carry I off the body of Ed Sueduskie, a mess- j mats. "Whom have yon there?" he was i asked irom a bank on the roadside. j "Poor Ed Sneduskie, as dead as h !" \ he answered. "That's a lie, Battle!"' replied his questioner, who was none j other than bueduskie himself. Down j went the unknown dead upon the j ci ouniL and Battle, with an oath stmnf*-! ly suggestive ci ditgust, resumed his i place among the pursuers, 4 yoang cavalryman, intent trpozi glory, went, contrary t?. orders, mounted "into the action,' Soon he was seen on foot rushing to the rear. "Hello, Jones, where new?" "My horse was shot from, uscler me and I am going b?.?1* ^or another." Again he i7i.ee. to tile rear and again rePvJrw his horae killed. Five separate times that day and night his horse wis \ 'shot through and through.'* I\eit dav i 0 ^ - / j all live of these ^ruoreunate animals were j uuscratched, peacefully grazing i among the slain. Well, well, their riocr f was scarcely more thuxi a bo.v and j doubtl^c sent home his thrilling bul-: letin, and mother and sisters glorifd in ; his dashing courage ar.d xaorveled at his r wondrous escapes. Poor fellow! he had I ins weahhetises, but he had his virtues j and his friends. Huyrixo THE DEtitlP.l'EKij, 1 Among the bouthern solders' duties, one of the least important toward the close of tlie war, was that of bringing in from the hills and forests and habitat tions in the wilderness deserters from the armies and slippery conscripts who sought to evade the service. The cavalryman's son! delighted in this work for awhile. A detail for suet, an expedition j meant relaxation from the discipline oi: thie camp, exemption from the hardships i i ' of the march, and variety in place o. j irksome r-ju'iue. There was also a sp;ct ! of adventure, for deserters would some j times fight, though hkulsing was thcij ! main point. The writer was one c! | twenty men, under tho command of s b'euteiisr.". dnriorr tnu early part oi 186* iuto Scott :.Jid Lake counties, it .1 >. nifln-liiintincf errand. Game vas abnndunt uihI our olKeer wa< provided "vit.'i a formidable list of those t<* be ran down. We touk a guide from >1 nc-ighborii-g eeonty. whose name was Pigue. Ho kne*" the country and he knew the people, and be went disguised. His uisgui.-<: %i.s tfieefcaai, but his name must be changed out of consideration '"or tiie future. From pig to shoat was an easy transition, though something safer might h??ve been found. Never theiess, to iih lie was always Siioat. Jfcie served a? feirhiuly as be had served his I ritate in the ?kl.! before being wounded ! and disabled. H<.; w>i? a good guide, and I i.'/pe Ids Bobbers v.ill not ciii himtc account when they read this. rorxx> r:.Dra; the isoD. The first house we-visited was matched in vain for several days. Authentic information said there should be two deserters thereabouts. Two of our party ky ail night under the house listening to the conversation of the inmates, bat not a word was dropped of advantage to our quest. Openly in dayiighs the hr:i?t> was visited and diplomacy used in vaiit. The women would not be led into betraying the ir lords, but received with keen su-p*'c-on and reserve all our advances. Surrounding and searching the house in the small hours after midnight only gave us our labor for our pains. Yet the men were known to be at k-avc in communication with their hom^s, and our orders to take them w.-re imperative. The visible members of the household consisted of a bedridden old woman, two middJe-aged women, and a small army of white-haired scions. A second time spies were placed under the house, and about midnight one thrm earner to the rendezvous and repcrf?d that he and his companion had heard whispering overhead, and believed they had detected a man's voice. At once the hou.se was surrounded and :idn>itrance demanded. The door was opened, and the women sullenly demanded why we continued lo persecute li> ni. Th^v as-eritd in the strongest t< ;rus that lite whereabouts of their husbands v..?? absolutely unknown to them, and decl; r..'u that they had not seen or heard o'i them for months. Disregarding ail th?Jr prorectatious. we proceeded to turn the cabin topsy-turvy. The scant furniture vas moved ai:d tiie loft ransacked in vain. Xc. thing remained bat the l>c*d on which the iu-ipless oid woman iiy. Wiien called upon to rise that it might be overhauled, *he wept and her daughters remonstrated violently. They vowed that she euu'.d not get up. and to move h?jr woul kiil I ner. The lieutenant approached to lift | her, when she sprang at him and attacked him with the ferocity and celerity of a tigress. Le^vim; him to defend himself against her long talons, we tore away I'jo i-ea cioniinjr, ana unaer liie boards was revealed a box-iJke structure wherein lay the objects of our sesrch. Thej* were wixic-jcd, cravs.-ii looking creatures a::d sbiverea and whined as V.e dragged their ;:rnp carcases out. IX KEilALE ATTISE. v;c watched another house i'^r days i and jjassed a srnaii Sold where t^o woxaen cultivated a crop oi eora. The man we wanted was not to be st*cn. The j women gave no indications that they j knew the nature of our errand, but j would talk fti any time with apparent | frankness. The wife of the deserter said j that her husband had abandoned her! and that she and his sister, who lived with her, had a hard struggle to keep the wolf from the door. We were all but i"nr?nr} + "Lie fo/?f ori.^ fliAi'i/l _4. Ul aii,v. >J*Z\J\.l.\.l I-*.'* I v_/ j been wholly so but for the direct and j authentic manner in which we had been j informed to the contrary. Finally we ! were compelled to abandon this" case' from sheer lack of any eiew to work upou, as, in tpite t.f constant and rigid espionage, we n-ade no headway and saw no sugg.'-sk'/e action on the part of the two women. The detective instinct I must have been utterly lacking in everv i member of tie squad, for we learned j sometime after tLa: the alleged sister in', law with whom we had frequently conversed, and whom we L.ad inai3yv times seen at work in the ?eld, was iiutply the deserter hiir.reir, clothed in one of his wife's homespun govns. A TEUB13LE SIGHT. Another case was thut 01 a man who had no family. He was a shaggy, bearded giant and owned t^c oiu negroes, who guarded him ?md the secret of his Ixunts with u. sagacity and hd^iiiy almost superhuman. His habit was to j lie out in the woods, scido?n approaching the house, and the ne^c servants contrived to provide for his daily sustenance i-i spitsi oi all our efforts to i>re vent ii, it. would Lave been easy to prevent the negroes from going t>> iim toy placing the:n in clur^s, or by v*? moving tiiun altogether i'roig *n-ne. But this might have (ip-Vr^ed ui:r ends, for we kuo?* :u^ iiow close the hider jo.iglit i>e ijixig and bad no assurance mat we ourselves were nut under \\iz oh- [ servrttion, for the der;??, ?oods and i thickets encron/^.eu directly upon the j small in which the house stood, i in clcfiiuit oi a better plan we at length I took measures to keep the old servants under close ?arv..iliaiice for tventv-four hours uninterruptedly. At break of day the cabin was entered by two men and they wt-.re given certain instructions and informed that the slightest violation or attempted infraction would result in the immediate death of both. But one was permitted to pass the door at a time, and the dead-iine, which lay near at hand, must not be crossed. They were i cautioned against any signaling and j a^urea mat .-u^n in attempt wouid be promptly paciohed. 3lt.ii were lying in tmoash all around, and at dark our line was drawn. in to closely encircle the building. SLortly before midnight a i stealthy form crept past me in the g)->om j and the g?-rv\e '-as in the toils. Swi, tly passing Abound tne cordon I notified the j men that lowers hud entered the kouse, I and we at once to ;k positions; at every j door and window, As soon as the lieu- j tenant's siip sounded upon the porch j eke fugitive leaded from u back window I into the iron grip of Ssr^eant Howard. | The man fov.^hi and bit and swore and I yelled ii'^e a demon, but strong; ar-us j bore him down and strong cords bound j bis writhing limbs. ah hair and beard [ f??i dcvu his back and breast in matted; ii::vs?<;5, his bauds and f:;cc were blnck with the accar.:uiatcd grille oi months, i and tku iiaiu ci his lingers resembled I the ior.g cui'ved foioii* of tome great j bird of prey, eyes glared like a mad- j loan'* 'hu every struggling motion re-' minded us of those of a baiHed; raging wiJd beast. The sight was terrible, and one who witnessed it can never forget it. A fire in Richmond, Ivy., Thursday, destroyed Kiags's livery stable, Arnold's grocery, Gentry Jc Co.'s hardware, the new opJra house, I^ifs produce store, Douglas's butcher shop, Green's opera house, ;he Adams Express Company's office, Dinuell & Co.'s restaurant and Smith & Bel ton's shop. ? ; A GAMBLER'S DKEA3X. ; i The Msuie of tlie Winninu Horse He vealec to Him in Sleep Beforehand. CFrom the St. Pau! Globe.) l i A down town pool-room furnishes s ; story, whiie not romantic, proves ibat t: dreams, while not infallible, can be | turned to good account at times. A ; i prominent St. Anthony hill youth vrhc . j had been plaving the horses there fox ! three -weeks with intermittent fortune, i TT*n c? v? rr Itatwa o trr rrV?fo Tr/*J1 j | ??UO U.VU1W tti XVH *u^uv>; kiiuvv > vw .! tinder the influence of cocktails which lie had absorbed purely for their . medicinal virtues. He was in that happy mood when everything out of the crdii nary run of thiugs attracts the eye and i :r.jl.*oc o c-fiwn/y !v?r? -fr.-r r*f [ i ?he beholder. The young man Lad felt , his way carefully along the sidewalk to i :Le bill board hiding Alderman Bo wlen's wood yard, cn Wabasha street, ^hsn j through the dim glare of the street lamp I the highly colored lithograph, advertisj iug fee play "ily Geraldine," caught liTs ! eye. j * There was something about the blazing | building, the tall man with a twenty ! inch dagger in his hand, the lernon| colored locks of the girl floating on the j night air and the elaborate lettering that I tickled his enriositv. and leaninsr uu ; against a telegraph pole, he gazed at the j gaudy bill and read and reread, "My ; Geraidine, my Geraldine," ana ^hen he | reached home and had rolled into bed I he sank to sleep whispering e'2>Iy Geralj dine, my Geraldine." ; Jn his dream that night he met a i beautiful girl with divine form and wavj i:ig hair that had captured the softest I beams of the midday sun and married ! her. "With her personal charms she I brought him great wealth in valuable city property and bank stock, and her name was Geraldine. The following morning the young man awoke and bathed his extended mind in ice water and went down to breakfast, but lie could not drive the cream from his head | nod as he went down town to his ollice ; his lips mechanically muttered "Gerali cine, Geraldine." He dropped into the pool-room, as ! was his custom, and in looking over the iict of horses that were to contest in the s-aratoga races he was startled when half c.-av down the list his eye fell upon the name Geraldine. A queer superstition crept into his mind and he concluded to bet her hard for a winner. The horse was not a favorite in the race and the crowd eagerly grabbed at the young man's offer to plav her and gay*; him liberal odds. At last, -\rith ail his available fimds placed on the race, he rested confident that he would win. Finally in * deep voice the pool seller announced that the horses were off, and the young man calmly waited for the name of the winner to be given. He haa not long to wait and he showed no signs of surprise when the caller sang out: "Gr-raldine wins the race." iiifa young man waui?i caimiy up acu cashed ia his checks, putting SoOO deep in to his trousers pocket as tie result of a | | tow cocktails and a drop or two oi j superstition. WAK GOV?KSTOii V? IS?. j r*.>ei KaiiUalrs Story Awntfc Hie. "uc Capitol Statues. (From the Aunistoa Hot Blast.) | It seems a fact ti^fc history repeats j j itself. The phrase, "Let her go, Gil-! i higher," that has been going the rounds | lately in the Southern papers, reminds via of an incident that occurred in Washington a good many years ago when j I ion. Henry A. Wise was a member of Congress. "While engaged in conversation near the statue of Washington, on tlie east front of the Capitol building, a strange looking genius approached us and asked: "If we could tell Mm the meaning of the statue opposite?the man with the extended arm ana a ball in i his hand, looking directly in the face of I the statue by which we were standing*?" j and also asked, "Who the stati1,? repre- j scnted near us?" Mr. Wise looked intently at him for a j few moment: and, being satihed thai he ! WD'rSiiiiv seekini? information. f-v.Vif.in- 1 eel to him who ths statues represented, i The man with extended arm and ball in ! his hand, represented Christopher Co- i iambus, the 'I'scoverer of America, and j the bail in his hand illustrated his theory i that the earth -was round and by sailing ! due vest he could circumnavigate tne j globe, or rather he would ficd a new j continent to balance the one they knew j all about. The s.taiae by which we were i standing represented George Washington, known as the "Father of his Conntry." Ivlr. "Wise called, his attention to the sup0r2criptiv.il: ' First in Peace, First in Tvar ana First in the Hearts ox hia Countrymen'----which had evidently escaped the stranger's attention, but here is no name or inscription on the statue of Columbus, and he or any one else could rAftsr.T?ftY?to lA-cnvd for asking to wbotft siatue -was erected mad. tho iaeaniiig of the ball in the hand. Bui Mr. Wise continued by calling tho attention of the stranger to ihe right of tho Washington statue, extended n'ith the bfisd open and looking directly ;p the face of Columbus, about 120 yards j distant?Columbus looking as in tho ? act of tbrowirig the ball at him. Mr. j n lse said it. remintita liim of boys playing cat (base ball was not known at that .lay) and lie almost fancied lie could hear George say, "Let her go, Christopher, I will catch her!" A Remarkable Cane. John H. Robb, a Camdon, Pa., paperhanger, 39 years old, who has bad a needle traveling around in his body for thirty one years, was relieved of tne pointed piece of j .st.ijel Tuesday, by the surgeons at the Coop- j or Hospital, in Philadelphia, lie went to ! the hospital Monday sutlering i'rom a sensitive tumw on his thigh. The surgeon suspected the presence ot a foreign body and decided on a surgical operation. An j iricibion was n'ade iu the tuni;<r a;: when knife readied almos': down to tne thigh i; .ne it struck a hard substance, which proved to be an ordinary sizea needle, p uily in?ysted. On recovering eonsciou?ticss after the operation Kobb recollected that while slidiug aloiig '.he floor when he was but eight years oid he bad driven a r.r ..rllo <-c. .<??nlv in liic *r.r>t t it ! >t be recovered. He experienced but lit tie discomfort free: the accident and bad entirely forgotten it i mil the surgeons found ibe needle in operating on ibe tumor, which it caused in cuoiiiig in contact with ! the thigh borv?. Jiltiions ol AcrcH fi r Settlement. "W.vsiiiXOTON. August 2:).?Acting L-v.d ; Commissioner Stockslager hits i.^ueu the | nccessary instructions ti c-ariy into effect I Secretary Lamar's vecent order restoring to : setrb'rr.cni and entry certain railroad, in- I uenmity lands, as follows: Southern Pacific j i. *; , r : ? ^ " ? a r\t\c\ f\f\r* nauroau ui ^wuuiub, auuui *,uw,uw i acres: the Dalles Military Road Company, 1 of Oregon, about 1.200,000 acres; tLe Ala j bama and Cbattanoocra ii&ilroad, of Ala : bama, about 2,500 acres, covered by un j approved selections; iiie Yicksburg ano j Meridian Railroad, of Mississippi, about} 1,000 acres, alio covered by unapproved se ! lections. Ac earthuuake lasting seven seconds was ' felt in Arizona on Thursday [ THE PENNSYLVANIA PLATFOR3&/ 1 I i Cleveland and the National Platform of ISSi Fully Indorsed. The following is the platform adopted l by the Democratic State Convention of ; Pennsylvania: Fikst. That we renev our allegiance . I to the principles and declarations of tbe 11 platform adopted at Chicago in 1884, | which Mr. Cleveland, tlie nominee of j the party, heartily indorsed, declaring j in his letter of acceptance: "I have care. j fully considered the platform adopted by the convention and cordially approve I the same. So plain a statement of Democratic faith and the principles upon which that party appeals to the suffrages of the people needs no supplement or explanation." To these principles he has faithfully adhered in all his public ?j.l. * itt- r l' j.1 v> c iUitULUT amriii wic yjizxxr form adopted by our State Convention of 1SSG, and in view of the existing condition of tiic public treasury demand with empliasife that the large ' orpins already in the Treasury shall be used to pay the public debt and that fee current and unnecessary increase going on beyond the needs of government shall be immediately prevented by a wise and pruuenti reduction vi uiierunu ia^a,uuu and of duties on imports in accordance with the foregoing declarations. Second. That we fully indorse the administration of President Cleveland. Wise, sagacious and patriotic, he has restored confidence to the business interests of the country in the Democratic party, has directed the financial affairs of the government with apt ability, has strengthened the public credit and thereby given us a period of great ind us trial and commercial prosperity. Apprehension in the minds of some that the advent of our party to the control of v ^ fiii* Po/loro! r?-nvp>mrnprit; wnnlrl T>a rtan. ""^"unn mi nut-iiff* gerous lias been dispelled. Oar people are more contented and well-to-do than j in many years and more respected than ever by oilier nations. His period of administration has been >ore, economical and fearless, and mec ; the approval of-all fair-minded and conservative citizens. Third. We recognize the material benefits which this country has received from immigration. We indorse the legislation of Congress against the importaj tion of contract labor and to compel the I return of paupers and criminals. We i commend the national administration i for its efforts to rigidly enforce these | laws, and while we are opposed to any 1 illiberal restrictions we favor such addi| tional measures of regulation as may be found necessary. Fo nrrs. We favor liberal pensions to ; deserving union soioiers ana sauors, I and refer to the action of the present ad! ministration in adding to the pension : rolls a larger number than was ever be' fore placed thereon within a correspond! ing period, while at the same time proi tsctmg the treasury from fraudulent j claims as proof-this iact. Fifth. We point with pride to the | fact that since uie Democratic party has been in power in any branch of the i Federal Government not one acre of the | public lands has been granted to cori porations, nor has any land grant been j revised or_extendecL Si-vXii. failure of the Stale revenues I Din, alter it liaa oeen careiuny penecteo ! and nearly unanimously passed by bot} branches of the Legislature, was a crim against the majority of the Common wealth whereby the people must pay L million dollars arnuaily in taxation that" should and would have been paid by the corporations, and the failure of the State administration to attempt any correction of the wrongdoing or exposure of thefraud or criminal neglect, condoned a crime against both authority and peopleand confessed the supremacy of ring rule in. rennsyivania. Szyesth. That we reaffirm our declaration in favor of the passage of such. legislation as will properly enforce the provisions of act 17, of the Stata Constitution, relative to corporations to prevent improper discriminations and to ecjualize taxation. Eighth. That we denounce the action of the last Republican Legislature in the u;il {* * 4-U-. : r UCxCiil; Ui uuc Ulll XKJL xenci U1 LUC producers and refiners of oil in the oil district of the State, known as the Billingsley bill, as being in the interest of monopoly and against the interest of the people of that large section of the State. Nixxh. The Democratic party sympathizes with the oppressed of all nations and in ail movements having for their object che attainment of the blessing of local self-government such as are enjoyed by the people of this Union as the result of the enforcement of Democratic policy. The granting of home rule to Ire land is due as the acknowledgment of a sacred inheritance, and the gallant struggle for the accomplishment of this long delayed act of justice under the magnificent leadership of Gladstone and Pamell ? commends itself to the moral support of the American people. It is our earneet wish that the efforts of these distinguished statesmen may soon be crowned with success. Tenth. We still hold to the anient doctrine of the party that the preservation cf the rights of the people; demands chat we should look with jealousy upon monopolies and restrict corporate power within its proper sphere, and we heartily approve the action of the national administration in reclaiming and throwing open to the people for settlement 100,000,000 acres of lands which through artillee and fraud were wrongfully held by corporations, having been forfeited to the people by failure to comply with, the conditions of the , rants. LASHED TO DEATH. Tales of Horror from the Convict Campa of Georgia. Atlanta, Ga., September 1.?Governor Gordon lias received information from Dodge county of a case of brutality to convicts in Degree's camp, which lias been unearthed by the Dodge county grand jury. At that camp, where fifty convicts are worked, Uie superintendent's name is Bryant. One of the convicts who was sick with dropsy, was made to work by the fire. He complained of being sick, but with a lash Bryant compelled him to keep at work until at last the convict fell dead at his feet. The grand jury has indicted Bryant for murder, but he heard of it and escaped into Alabama. Other convicts were equally badly treated. Another case .was that cf a negro who escaped from the camp. The managers supposed that he would make his escape by the railroad and sent a guard to intercept him. The guard went to the cut below the station, where there had been an old mill. After some time they heard the clanking of chains, anu knew thatthc negro was coining. The negro came in sight and was shot dead. The iruard said he halted the negro and he ran. The statement v:as controverted by the fact that every shot was fired into the negro's breast and "front. The .Secretary of War has approved the request of the ex-Ccnfedcrate Association at Ck;cugo to erect a uictaorial to the Confed! erate dead buried in the Government lot in I Oa'idand Cemetery ne:ir that city, under S sut h regulations as may be prescribed by wiic C^uaruirmus^c* Gc^ier&i,