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^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ I |MM^>,T^M,^^^^T^TIM^^^M:mMBWTWrir^ ^ cCBaBMn^DBBPSMBPCWB^MMMMWMPBPlM^MBMMWBM ^ VOL. XLIY. WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1887. NO. 6. 1 ? ?tcmjaju !! _um_m_ -- - nema " - ' ? bbobbsbbsbjbmi nsaennoccpap agm^MMflnMniMaMBPBg gjanBBBB c ? J ???gflp W p. THE RUSSIAN DOCTOR. Entertaining- and Romantic Story from Real Life. from Tiir; Gskkas of Mmt, ELXSE POEK.E.] BY MRS. FRANCES A. SI I AW. Translation Copyritfdf'l, /v>7, by A. X. Kellogg SexctpapT Company. CHAPTER I. : IE modest dwel^* si an Doctor," was so densely e m $ bowered in cyr C '* press and wild x grape vines that one could scarce iiave found the doorknob but for its brightness from constant scouring. A large," old-fashioned . arden, in which both flowers Bk and "Weeds were allowed tr> ffimv nr their own sweet will, stretehed far behind the house, and ended in a forest of beeches, a path through which led to a dilapidated rustic temple on the "brow of a hill. This temple, which occupied an open space, was Hanked by a weather-beaten stone table, surrounded by wooden benches, and had, evident ly, been reared by some lover of nature. But the death or absence of its owner had allowed the place to fall into decay, and no one in the little tow had cared to expend time or v for its restoration. . Arnim Elbthal-had won great re?.n and an extended practice in that distant Russian city. Wonderful stories JUP were told of his skill, which had, in deed, been phenomenal. These stories the Russian servant. Ivan, whom lie had brought home with him, endeav V71C*.! LV WliUi 111 111 1119 U1UIVCU VJt i 11, resorting to expressive pantomime when words failed him. According to Ivan, his master had cut oil' innumerable noses and ears, to say nothing of arms and legs, and no one had ever felt pain under his knife. Incredible things in glass jars adorned his slecping-cham"hpr Tnr?>p Tvrm cvpit mm-nino* with reverential awe and not without > a secret longing for the spirits in which & they were preserved. The doctor somctimes wondered that the spirits in * these jars had so often to be renewed, th:tt his store of Turkish tobacco ^sappeared in such incredible ways, an tnouc ^l0 other servants smoked, : . ~ tll<* < I fr. c-' 1 + K rs "IlliV.,. "> 'W tivn utiwuu niv : ? *?A?.E\ T the sole t 11 "*ust have been j che^softeTS?CSrr- In sPite of excellent tc,o;Kco ho an(* "n ?^or ?* the-doctor contented hini-ck' with an j occasional scolding. Unable to speak Russian, although he both read and wrote the language, he had been obliged to make out a list of reproving words from the dictionary. This list, which began with "rebel" and ended with "dog," he would read from his easy-chair with great solemnity; the delinquent 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 thresh ViU. Fraulein Marianne, the doctors cousin and housekeeper, had often insisted on the dismissal of this "sav; age;" but Ivan was to the doctor a living reminiscence of a strange, active ^ life on a foreign soil. He hud thought to remain in Hasan to the end, but the inheritance of a small fortune through the death of a distant relative he had scarce known awakened in him a sudden homesickness for Germany, \ 7 and for the secluded little town afar * from railways, where his cradle had " ** stood, ?nd which in an age of restless activity, still dreamed on as it had dreamed on for hundreds of years. , f Having purchased, this vine-wreathed } house "which, during all those years in a foreign land, had stood before him ~ a sort of enchanted vision, he s.nnv - moned his orphaned cousin Marianne, a model housewife, as his minister of 1 the interior. Marianne indeed sighed 1 mentally that her cousin had chosen for a home his native town rather than i some great capital, with its constant t suc"r'S$ion of new faces and amuset jne- s. But yet the idea of reigning S " " istress 01 a nousenoio. appeared ;uitifui and enticing that she _ : have followed the doctor to the . .u> of the earth. She had always /liked him: she felt great respect for pt-T: / him: his only fault in her eyes was an / ooen aversion to marriage. A phvsieian "who remained single was, to say the ^ ' Jeast, trnwise. Avnim would ward of! her frequent- reproaches on this score r by declaring that the unmarried physician, like the Catholic priest, is ? much more efficient than the married . one, being wholly devoted to iil=> callm ing without the distraction of outside interest s. Pt " Only those undeterred by thought of wife or familv sacrifice themselves cheerfully, if it comes to that," he said. * "My patients can attest that I am not ^ of a heart. Hitherto I have | had no time for iCTf 1^ua*: ^ now it is too late. Why need 1 man? nviieu bauds like yours keep my house r in order and Ivan serves un< so faithfully? Why seek to realize personally those torments wmc-n me poets tens us are inseparable from love, when 1 havo seen antl still see so much of pain and ^ sorrow in the lives of others?*' In that foreign land our Russian ^ <wt.nr had won the name of "father"' F by ardent devotion to his calling. The ailments of cliildren had been his es? pecial care. In that somber university city, there was scarce a boy or girl 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 ? mouth smiled upon him, many a fascinating lady teacher offered to assist him rin mastering that extremely ditnculi foreign idiom. But all these enticements were lost upon the doctor; he d no time for them. / J i And, besides, there -was one living j remembrance that,like a pastel picture undiramed by time, rose constantly | before him. Waking and dreaming there was ever present to him the face of a young girl wholly unlike these : dark-eyed foreign beauties?a pale, ali most childish face with piquant nose, ! lustrous blue eves, liirht-brown hair?a ; delicate, petite figure with charming j hands and feet, and a joyous, musical : voice. This fair maiden who had thus capt; ured the fancy of a somewhat grave, ! bookish student, was the only child of : a French emigrant, a widower, who i lived proudly isolated in the vine w reauieu. nouse, iuuumhi^ i:ie euui.i* 1 tion of his daughter to an elderlv o ; French governess. The garden Avail ; had then, as now, an artistically! wrought latticed sate on the forest, n O I side. In the line season, Arnirn, who ! loved to study in the open air, would j take his Greek and Latin books to the j forest, where he was sure to meet a ! child-like figure in a white dress with i rich embroideries and dainty ribbons, ; skipping up and down the broad, peb i !>led path. To the amazement of our j student, she always wore loose, light: colored kid gloves. Sometimes she i stood close to the gate, her graceful ' head pressed against the cold iron bars j ?the broad-brimmed hat hanging from j her neck by its blue ribbon, while the ' eyes thai gazed wistfully into the deepI green of the forest mayhap caught a j glimpse of the student who walked liesI itatingly past, and sometimes let a book fall to impede his progress. This blonde child was quite unlike other young girls of the little town? the sisters of his scliool-fellows. She did ;jot at ali resemble the burgomaster's daughter, who was considered a model of good breeding and fine manners. To Arnim she seemed coarse beside this stranger, v.-ho had about her something of the libellula, something j of the airy grace of that shimmeringwinged creature, destined to flit about for one brief summer's day, and then die. The foreign maiden sometimes ap reared 011 the nromenade?.1 somber ! X - X walk shaded by lindens, which surrounded the little town?but never without her governess, a severe-looking:, fantastically-dressed and elderly Frenchwoman. Xow and then she j 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 tin e at home, i . Once upon a spring <-\;;y, when the | bird-songs enlivened,'the forest, as Ar! nim passed alon^-the wonted path, a great leather Ij^il flew over the gate and hit him in/faie right eye. A sudden cry of paiiVescaped him, his book fell tO. I' i I ijlPlilli i 11 HXMHI 1 ed, he grasped :;fter the nearest tree, i The key turned hastily, tke gate i 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 olYY-?Arf miVnfr?no*no | wiii\UV M u ^ >iv? <j %? mfs. 7? n v_ *f& 'biit' M\s? Fiih-w, Am Mi i pfekk^ff mm, Hi iSllli THEIIi FIKST ACyUAIMAJNXJS. He set his teeth?this young girl must not know how fie suffered. And yet he was helpless, for he could cot open his eyes. Angry at this helplessness, he thrust back the little hands now gloveless, and turned away. But they would not be shaken ofi". 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 mids* of the garden. | His ieet still resisted, but his head and heart were already ou the way, along which he at length suffered himself to be led. | Soon he telt 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 bicn made* ' moisclle," he said, heroically recalling one of his few French phrases. ^Hortense!"' cried a sharp woman's voice. The girl's small hands tore a web of lace from her neck, laid it over tlic handkerchief and knotted it around the young student's soft blonde hair. Then hurriedly slipping on her gloves she showed her patient out through the gate. As she did so, his ear caught treating whispers of which he understood only "A domain. An revoir 11 He again sought his wonted place in ,, , * " ? liimaftlf ljlion the i the forest, anu . ... . . grass. But though he lay there for a long time he did not study one word? ".4 demain?au revoirkept echoing in ins ear. Upon reaching home he hunted up a French grammar and a French-andGerman phrase-book hidden away in the depths of the family library. Tomorrow he would return the handkerchi'f v.iih thanks, and assure the thrower of the ball that his eye no longer pained him. But he 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 lor tnc lime French girl's awkwardness. He locked the two handkerchiefs in his desk to take them out late at night and unfold them. In one corner of the pocket handkerchief he discovered the initial H. with a coronet- above it. Could this other dainty thing, with its delii eate perfume, be any protection against -wind and weather? What useI r. less triiles these spoiled girls must have to wear, and this was a Parisian i through and through! 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 gloves in the garden? What would his mother, who only on Sundays allowed herself the luxury of white undersleeves, and was by no means lavish in collars and handkerchiefs for her husband and son?what would she say about the always fresh white gowns of ib:s 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 llvinsr 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?" The 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 the familiar path. As he passed the latticed gate his heart beat violently. From beneath the lowdrawn vision of his cap he gazed stealthily into the garden. Suddenly he discerned a white sliimmer. The gloveless hand of Hortense waved him a greeting through the lattice-work of the gate. ' O, 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, show the eye which meantime had assumed all possible colors, and say assuringly the words he had a thousand f?rr?r*c rv*hvcrxl nrnp. fMrf.P. lien, mademoiselle.''' Then taking the 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 gayiy on, while the rosebud mouth was wreathed in smiles and the 2Tes glowed like sunbeams. "0, how I love the forest!" 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, vut he could , recall only their Latin ;me, Viola odorata, and he forebore. He told her njf ypll ns hp-vv.^s i but very lilii^^rreneu, and laughing, that she knew no Germm!^ Then she asked him to give her German lessons, assuring him that her father would not object. She next inquired as to his name, his home,whether he had parents and brothers and sis| ters. When he had answered she said, saclly: "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. "But I do love to take t'^em off," 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 bruwn 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 side by side at the gate, until Mile. Ifinne's call separated them. This day, also, our student learned little from his books, although his eye was now well. In response to a courteous note from the Marquis, he ere long found himseli duly installed as German teacher 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 events 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 comforta? bly in the r>rbor or by the fountain. Sometimes when Mile. Filine 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-giass, and honored him with but little of her conversation. But she left the "two children*' to their fate, as she sat a little distance away absorbed in the fictitious destiny of the hero and heroine nf snmp rnmnnfte. None questioned which learned most of the foreign language, Arnim or Hortense, but both found the alloted Unr ? ^ Vj a.xxn xi.iiii.ni It?" raained 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 - 1 rtlnor lanrrTi rose null 1CI1 iJL'Ji UCI13C O amid this merry twitter of birds! How dr.Vil -\\ ore her German words and phrases, and how awkward from Arnim's tongue came the dear, familiar French sounds! Both socn learned to | laugh heartily over their mutual blun1 Sometimes the lively child would spring up, shake back her golden-: brown curis and run away. It was 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 meiTy children, until Fifine's grim tigure loomed up near by, and her? \? ' Enough of this nonsense1'?recalled them to their tasks. Then they would again sit opposite each other, Hortense repeating while the dimples in her cheeks deepened into an arch smile"lchliabc, da hast, cr hat" etc. ?i4- j r\ i ?rl ivmf o-n/3 cilnnl &V\ xj u l> x ^ ii v, V* * <(jsu ci/aav* .jixwxAw nuvw her teacher re:td aloud some German poem. "That is music," she would say. '"I feel the meaning of the words 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 French 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. " The nightingales trill softly In the silent, leafy ways; And the burden of their singing Is the lovely olden days. 41 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 v.*hite and red, 5>nc stu: ior me were waiting? My darling, long years dead." *j i / -v \ THE READING. Once?summer was already passing with light footsteps through the land? wlion Avnim -it Viic nnnil'a rpnnp^fc had recited these dreamy verses, Hortense rose suddenly, and with feverish haste plucked a nosegay from the red roses 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, expressing much regret that the lessons must be discontinued for a season, as his daughter was about to visit Paris. Arnim persuaded himself that a brief pause ii^ tin- V'ssop- >?<???? I him,?;:* 'us examinations were It i , , t hand. He also decided that he I make no attempt to bid Hortense fu^*ell, 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 conelusion! He was 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, then he wandered again along the dear old path, past the garden gate. He wanted to say to his pupil that in her 1 absence he should no longer pass this j way. To let her go 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 heard Fifine's sliarp voice. He lingered long, awaiting the silvery laugh of Hortense?she laughed so often and so merrily when lie was near! i5iu 10-nignt n sne laughed it was not aloud, and he slowly j returned home. The next evening just as he was setting out for the forest, an unknown j lad appeared bringing him a note with a perfume of violets. "From the | Freneh young lady," the boy said. J "No answer required." With a strange feeling of approhension he broke the seal. Awkward German characters confronted him. He read: "Dear Teacher: My aunt, the Marquise Duvois, has come, and will take mc with her to, Paris. She is the mother ot my cousin Ren'fc ?vl-svvm nor\n orwl CflT' t rim fiTlf. fl.'iV trt marry. I do not know whether we shall return | here." I have wept very much at the t hought, ot j leaving. It we do*return, I shall at once resume j my lessons with you. They have been so beau- j tiful and so jolly! I shall never forget you? j never! Au recoir. Please remember your sad, _ Hobxbssb." [to he continted.*1 1 HE CA \ADI A.VF I ^ H E HI E S. The Coming Aegctlaiiong Between Enalcpd n nd This "Country. Washington, August 31.?The Department of State has cot yet been officially advised of Mr. Chamberlain's appointment as president of the Royal Commission charged with the dr,*y of ejecting a settlement of the questions at issue between the United States and Great Britain concerning the iiaheries. While this government h:is oot yet selected the persons who will be enwith the fonrlnrt. of the ncjroti.-itions i in iis interest, yet little difficulty is expected to be met in finding men whose breadth of YiVnv and legal acumen will ensure a proper presentation of the interests of the United an agreement honorable in t-;r?s and satisfactory to ihe wJ;ole oOuntry. Secretary Bayard will make it a point that on the questions at issue our representatives shall present an undivided front. He believes that there can be no <?.0'jV;t as to the Dower of the President to "appoint the Arnoriean Commissioners, as he is'con- j slitiitionr.li}' authorized to initiate negotia-! tions and make treaties with foreign countries. subject to ratifies J io?. ;i?e senate. The evr.ct- functions of the Commission have not been defined. Generally it will consider all of the questions now it isa^v between the I"nit^r itaios and Canada arming from the conflicting claims of the two countries respecting the fisheries, but whether the result of "the ^e^otiavions, if successful, will be a new treaty or an amicable agreement under the treaty now oper ative cannot at present be predicted, 'jfbe negotiations with Great Briuuu have, however, no?v reached such a phase that Secre tary Bayard is enroll raged in the belief that a final adjustment Of **? questions which, have vex^i t'ue two nations 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. METHODS OF BECAPTUKS DUKINO TKK WAR. A Conscript in Fenir.lo Attire--Watching :: House for Several l>ays--Th? Jiays of tile 1??-O<illoii?.V Struggle. In the glimmer of 186-1 Wirt Adams's cavalry, after an arduous campaign, rested to recruit men and horses in Shepherd's old fields in Copiah county, Mississippi. Food and forage wove abundant; the horses grew fat, and the i lazy life soon wearied the ioen, whose home was in the saddle, 'lime dragged, but Sergeant Heaths old Creeper creator, a diversion, one morning, by stampeditrg" the brigade horses, whicii v-c-re >-IJcose at grass. Creeper knew a thing c'r two, and counted on fan. when he laid his plans. Working around the two thousand grazing horses, until all were between himself and tbs camp in the woods, the old horse, whose wisdom was known and acknowledged throughout the brigade, took his bland and surveyed i-ke ground. With a wild snort and a ringing neigh he sprang into the herd. What he intended to convoy to the nn derstanding of his fellows I cannot say, but a panic seemed to seize each separate beast, and with thundering hoofs they bore down upon the camp. Then was there "mounting in lict haste" the friendly trees beDeath 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, acd flashing eyes, that old demon Creeper led his frightened hosts. It was plain to see that he gloried in the mischief he had wrought. ATTACKING THJS CAVALRY. The omip monotony was broken at last when the outlying scouts reported the ac ranee oi' a Federal incursion from Bruin sburg, on the Mississippi river. This force of white and nt gro troops, composed of infantry, cavalry, and field artillery, and amounting in all to about 3,200 me:, had been landed from transports on the river, presumably for the purpose of surprising and capturing our force at Shepherd's old fields. Timelv warning enabled General Adams to meet them more than half way. Eleven miles south of Port Gibson is Coleman's lane, in the county of Jefferson, and here the advance parties of the hostile forces met. Hot skirmishing and an exchange of shells from the held batteries on either side opened the engagement. Here a carious, and perhaps unique, casualty occurred. Our cavalry was demounting, preparatory to an advance on foot. An officer was seated on the ton 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 iuidtft tire otKeoT, Ic-avtcg a. {rmit splinter fcjdYee of four feet long, auu ol the tliicL.ness of two lingers, transfixing the unhappy man's tuighs and projecting a foot "or more beyond caeh hip. The man swore with rage and pain, repelling all approaches on the part of friends, until Dr. Martin coming up forcibly broke off one projection of the tough oak and drew out the remainder from the other side. The wounds healed and the captain soon resumed his duties, but he heard not the last jibe on that "cross ! buttock" thrust until lie met a soldier's j death in the closing days of the struggle. DRIVING THE FEDEHAI.S BACK. The enemy had posted himself in and about Coleman's dwelling, barns and outbuildings. Here we assaulted him | and drove him out and back after a short i resistance. The Federal force greatly | outnumbered ours, but would assuredly have been captured had the white contingent been as easily dtmorahzed as were the negro soldiers. Time after time these men, composing the rear guard as the Federal commander drew ?! ?vl U1L 1113 AUlUCOj \>C1C tiliU HUIa^L J helter-skelter upon the main body, and I only the stubborn fighting of the white ! troops enabled any portion of the com-! maud to escape. Darkness fell vrbile we j still pursued them, and iLe "chase was j not given over until near midnijhf; j when exhaustion compelled a halt, itej- j break found the enemy on board his I transpoits, and the fleet steamed away! for Natchez. I have often thought that j had the Federal force been skillfully: commanded on this occasion General j Adams would have found that this ^ttacil ' was a rash venture. HaJ his force been : o rVnrri 1 i? rc.'dv nfit. ft Vilrxi WArlrl li'iVi. ! U V* VAMV VWlvy ?T V UU | V ' escaped. To the best of my knowledge j the Confederate force did not exceed ; four hundred men, while I am surs T 1 saw three times that number of the! enemy. They i^d also the advantage of a s;rong position of their own seleci tion, taken &s soon as made aware of I our approach. Our first rash, however,1 drove them from it, and th^r officers i | found it impossible fully to rail? U! negro troo^. They w;,!;! oeand"when ' ~C paused, br* ?^cii succeeding onset j | speedily broke their ranks. Their fire [ Was very high. Far above our head? j j minie bullets sang an au^ry cl*wi-us," and i j our loss v.as tricing. Atfintervals, when j ; crossing eminence, a roan -would iail ! in darkness. Andrew Battle, a rugged i Irishman, went back for a horse to carry j off the boo v of Ed Sueduskie, a mess- i mate. "Whom have you there?" he was j asked i'rom a .wnk on the roadside, j "Poor Ed Snednskie, as dead as h !'" | he answered. "That's a lie, Battle!" ! replied his ouestioner. who was none I other than fcueduskie himself. Down j went the unknown dead upon the | giounj, and Battle, with an oath strong-; ly suggestive ox disgust, resumed his! place among the pursuers, 4 y?"ES I cavalryman, intent upon glory, went, j contrary t?. orders, mounted into the \ action,' Soon he was seen on foot rush-1 ing to the rear. "Hello, Jones, where i I now?" "My hone was shot from un^er me and I am going ior another." Again he ?;cu to the rear and again repvrw his "horse killed. Five separate times that day and night his horse v;zz j "shot through and through." Next day all five of those unfortunate animals were ! tin scratched, peacefully grazing i ! ' ' XV - 1- TTT -11 ?! 4.1. ? among ice fiam. vv eu, weu, iwi- .?uci j I was scarcely morn tl>?a a boy and! : donbtl^c 1?& cent home his thrilling bol-j j ietiii, and mother and sisters gloried in ; i his dashing courage ar.d marveled at his : wondro eioapes. Poor felloe! he had S iiis weaknesses, but he had his "virtues 2Jid his friends. HO'-riXO THE IDESERTElfcj, Among the Southern solders' duties, one of the least important toward the close of war? was that of bringing in from the hills and forests and habits r tiorxs in the wilderness deserters from thi armies and slippery conscripts who sought to evade the service. The cavalryman's son! delighted in this work for awhile. A detail for such an expedition meant relaxation from the discipline oi' the camp, exemption from the hardships !' 1 of the march, and variety in piace oi irksome routine. There v;s? also a spice of adventure, lor deserters would >omstimes ngLt, though fduvkmg was thcii main point. The 'v/iler was one cj twenty men, under tt*-> command of a lieutenant. wS. dari?jr< the early part o: i$t>i into iicoti and Li'.ke countie?, in : Alissi>sppi, cu a juau-hunting errand. Can;-4 vas and our officer was provided wit-i a formidable list oi those ? - * t. -t. : ji ?0 oe Hi!I U-v.v;.'. u yuiuc iLuiu a ncigaboni.-g eoiii>ty. v. Lota came v,a< Pi^no. Ho kui-v the country and he knew th'i pcop;e. and he went disguised. His disgui.^-effecta;>I, bat his Dame must be chained out ei consideration for the future. From pig to shoat was an easy transition, though something . safer might have been iound. Nevertheless, to nh he wms always Shoat. Ho served u- fairhfuWy ;:s be had served his Bute in the il- ! ! bc-.rors being wounded aud disabled. Hi: w>xe a good guide, and I i.'.pe his neighbors v.ii! not caJi him tc account when they read this. rorxi/ ?J.\DUS THE hZD. The first house we-visited was vratehed in vain for several days. Avthtntie information said there should be iwo deserters tbereaboi, ;* Two of our party lay ail idglit under the house listening to the conversation of the inmates, but not a word wars dropper? of advantage to our quest. Openly in daylight the lir-u&fc was visited and diplomacy used in Vidn. The women would not be led into betraying their lords, but received with keen su-i/c-on and reserve all our advances. But-rounding and searching the nou.se iu zue sir.au nours aicer miun;gut only gave vs our labor for our paios. Yet tie men were known to be at leas>t in communication with ihei: homes, and our orders to take them w-.re imperative. The visible in mbers of the household consisted of a bedridden old woman, two raid die-aged women, and a small army of white-haired scions A second time spies were placed under the house, and about midnight one of thr-m came to the rendezvous and reported that he and his companion ha-.! heard whispering overhead, an.d believed they had detected a man's voice. At, once the house was surrounded and :.omittance demanded. j iucuwx Lilt: \*ULUtil sullenly di'iaiinded why we continued to persecute i-j> m. They as^ericd in the .sfcrongt-.-t it-nun fL:tt tiie whereabouts of their nusbunds was absolutely unknown to them, uij< t dee!:'rod that they had not scon or hear 1 of tiicm for monk s. Disregarding ail their protestations. ie proceeded to turn the cabin topsy-turvy. The scant fjmitnre v.-as move:? and the loft ransacked in vain. Nothing remained but the- b?d on which tha heirless old woman itty. When c.-.lied upon to rise that it might be overhauled, s>h? j wept and her daughters remonstrated violently. They vowed that she cotrd not get up, and to move h-.r woul kill her. The lieutenant approached to lift her, when she sprang at him and at lacked him viLh the ferocity and celerity of a tigress. Leaving him to defend bimseli against her long talonr, we tore! away t'jc bed clothing, and under the j boards was revealed a box-like structure j wherein lav the objects of ^iiL..aaaich. J 'i'iiey were w c>. i, cru-ri-n looUittg ! creatures and euiverec and whihed as vvc dragged their limp carcases out. : iioiani; attise. We watched another house ic.r davs i t . 'i ana passea a smaji Eciu :^o v.\.men cultivated a crop oi corn. The man | we wanted was not to be seen. The women gave no indications that they knew ins nature o.' our errand, but would talk ar. any tiaie with apparent i frankness. Tnc wife of the deserter said that her husband had abandoned her and that she and bio sister, who lived with her, had a hard struggle to keep the wolf froru. the door. We were all but convinced of this fact, and should have | been wholly so but for the direct and ontttontirt r.i'i'ifif.r in rt o lii'l informed to the contrary. -Finally we ! were compelled to abandon tiiis case | from sneer lack of any clew to work j upon, as, in c-pite i.f constant and rigid | espionage, we made no bear!way and saw no suggestive action on tLe part of t the two wmta. The detective instinct } rauct btc-n utterly lacking in everv j | meialxv of tLe squad, for we learneci j sometime after tLut tlie alleged sister inlaw with whom we had frequently coil- i versed, a'id whom wo l-.aq. inasy' times seen at work in tiic* flold, was simply the deserter hijr.?ei;f. oloilidd in. cue of his wife:s liOBiespua govus. A TEIJBI3LE SIGHT. Another case was that 01 a man who had no family. He was a shaggy, bearued giant and owned tv/e oiu negroes, who guarded Lyji isd the secret of .'us ?.c.r.nTs wixh a sagacity and fidelity iuiiiu-iv " iunaaii. xiis was TO j lie out in the woods, seldom ayprofwh-' iog the house, ai:<? the segrc servant* contrived to yro\"i-'C for his daily sustenance in oi all our efforts to prevent it. l\ xvould have been ea;-y to prevent the negroes from going L> iira j 0y placing them in dur^-s, or by removing them altogether fro? ?Uu-- *Wae. But this ha-VA d^iV->iied uur ends, for we kuow ;u.* ho -.v close the hid or might i>e iyiflg and had no assurance i itiat we ourselves wpiv not imrtcr i>i-. ' serration, J or the denss voods and thickets encror-^ju direcfciy r m the sraa'J g m which the house stood, iu default oi a better plan we at length took measures to keen the old servants under close JurvoiLionee for t*ventv-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 taie <k>or at it time, and the dead-iine, "wLiicb. lay near at; hand. must not be crossed. They were j cautioned against any signaling andj assured that au^ti an attempt would be j promptly punished. 311 n were lying in j ambush nil around, and at dark our iine ! whs drawn in to closely encircle the j building. Shortly before midnight a i stealthy form crept past me in the gloom | and the was in the toils. SwL'tly j l.nts'iizg Abound the cordon I notified the J men that browers hud entered the Louse, f ar-d we at once to ;k positions at every | door and windov:. As soon as the lieu tenant's siip sounded upon the porch j ' be iugiiive leaped from a buck window J iiiiu ljlil* 11 uu #u?j ui >zi>xgvuui nu^aru. j The man fov.^hi and bit and swore and I ye'led iike a demon, but strc iP oi-uis j bore him dov.'n and strong cords bound i bio Yv-ri thing lir?bs. .?iis hair and beard ftr*i l.ovii bis back and breast in rnaiiec; I u-jtssts, his hands and !' :cz were bhck ; the aceuruuhiteu gr^e oi months, ! and tho iiuiU oi his lingers resembled ' the long curved Uk?ii> of feome great | bird of prey. eyes glared iike a mad[ man'*, every straggling motion re| minded us of those oi a balHed; raging v> JJU uca-S1.. iui; miiuiv, tvjjv* | one who witnessed it can never forget it. A fire in Richmond, Ivy., Thursday, do- j stroyed Kiggs's livery stable, Arnold's grocery, Gentry Jc Co.'s hardware, the newop Jra house. til's produce store, Douglas's butcher thop, Green's opera house, the Adams E.\p;iss Company's office. Dinneli & Co.'s restaurant and Smith <k Bel ton's shop. I A GAMBLER'S DREA31. > i Tlie N?me of tlie Winainu Horse Kevealed to Uiiu in Sleep Beforehand. CFrom 'lie Paul Globe.) ,! A down town pool-room furnishes a I story, wliiie not romantic, proves that : dreams, while not infallible, can be j t urned to good account at times. A ; I prominent St. Anthony hill youth who . I had been pla-vinar the horses there for i three weeks with intermittent fortune, , I was going home a few nights since well . i under the influence of cocktaiis which lie had absorbed purely for their medicinal virtues. He was in that happy mood when everything out of the ordinary run of things attracts the eye and i makes a strong bid for the curiosity of | the beholder. The young man had felt ! ids way carefully along the sidewalk to I lV-p hill hn.'irrl iiirb'nrr Dnw'w'o j wood yard, oil "Wabasha street, when ! though the dim glare of the street lamp j fhe highly colored lithograph, advertis:L-g tue play "Hj Geraldhie,:: caught his eye. There was something about the blazing building, the tall man with a twentyinch dagger in his hand, the I moncolored locks of the girl floating on the j night air and the elaborate lettering that I tickled his curiosity, and leaning up ; against a telegraph pole. he gazed at the j gaudy bill and read and reread, "My (leraidine, my Geraldine," and when he I reached home and had rolled into bed j he sank to sleep whispering '"My Geral ; In bis dream tliat night he met a j beautiful girl with divine form and wav| ir.g hair that had captured the softest I beams of the midday sun and married ! her. With her personal charms she brought him great wealth in valuable city property and bank stock, and her name was Geraldine. The following rooming the young man awoke and i'-ithed his extended mind in ice water f'.^d went down to breakfast, but he could not drive the dream from his head aod as he went down town to his office I his lips mechanically muttered "Gerai: .tine, Geraldine." Ho dropped into the pool-room, as j ! '-vas his custom, and in looking over the j j i lit o? horses that were to contest in the { Saratoga races he was staitled when half J r.-av down the list his eye fell upon the; name Geraldine. A queer superstition j crept into his mind and he concluded to i bet her hard for a winner. The horse i was not a favorite in the race and the j crowd eagerly grabbed at the young i man's offer to play her and gave himI liberal odds. At last with all his avail- { able funds placed on the race, he rested j confident that he would win. Finally in : deep voiee the pool seller announced ; I that the horses were off, and the j i young man calmly waited for the! j name of the winner tu be giren. He haa | not long to wait and he showed no signs oi surprise when the caller sang out:j "Gcraldine srins the race." The young: man walked calmly up and j cashed in his checks, putting SoGO deep i i-ii:o his trousers pocket as the result oi a ; r'-jw cocktails and a drop or two oi j superstition. t WAK GOVJEKNOii VYiSiX I rnei Kauiou ? JIUIJ- cr: in. j V. O J Capitol Statues. (From the Aaniston Hot Blast.) It seems a fact that history repeats: iSself. The phrase, "Let her go, 3a!-! agher," that has been going the rounds j lately in the Southern papers, reminds | ns of an incident that occurred in Wash- j vngton a good many years age when j ilon. Henry A. Wise was a member of j Congress. While engaged in eon versa- j tion near the statue of Washington, on j the east front of the Capitol building, a j strange looking genius approached us j and asked: "If we could tell him the! meaning of the statue opposite?the j man with the extended arm and a ball in i his hand, looking directly in the face of i the statue by which we were standing1?" i and also asked, "Who the statue repre-1 seated near us?" Mr. Wisft looked intently at him for a i few moments and, being satitied that be ! va? rawily seeking information, explain-1 ed to him. "who the statues represented, j The man with. extended arm and ball in i bis band, represented Christopher Co- i mm'ous, the discoverer of America, and j the ball in his hand illustrated bis theory 1 that the earth was round and by sailing J due west he could circumnavigate the f globe, or rather he would find a new j continent to balance the one they knew j all about. The stains by which we were 1 standing represented George Washing- i ton, known as the "Father of his Conn- j try." air. Wise called his attention to | the superscription: ' 'First in Peace, j First in Vvar and First in tha Hearts of | ui;i Countrymen"3--whicli load evidently i scaped the stranger's attention, but! '.here is no name or inscription en the statue of Columbus, aud he or any one ??]se could. be reasonably excused for asking to whQ?ft iht> statue was erected and the sueaning ox the ball in the hand. Bui Mr. Wise continued by calling the j .attention of the stranger to the right j arm cf tho Washington t-ratae, extended j with the b&ud open' and looking directly i the face cf Columbus, about 120 yards j distant?Columbus looking as in the; act; of throwing the ball at iiixa. Mr. Wise said it reminded him of boys playii:g cat (base ball was net known at that .lay) and he almost fancied he could hear George say, "Lei her go, Christopher, I will catch her!" A Remarkable Case. John H. Hobb, a Camden, Pa., paper- j hanger, 39 years o!d, who has had a needle traveling around in his body for thirty one : years, was relieved of the pointed piece of ! steel Tuesday, by the surgeons at the Cooper Hospital, in Philadelphia, lie went to the hospital Monday sutiering from a sen>i;ive turner on his thigh. The surgeon s-.xspeeted the presence ot a foreign body uctiucu kju ?i i/^uauvii. :\ii j incision was made in the turner a; I when ;he knife reachc-d almost dewc to me tLiuh t). >ne it struck a hard substance, which, proved to ho an ordinary sizea needle, iniily ir:? ysted. On recovering consciousness after the operation Robb recollected Suat while slidiug a!oi?g the U-x-r when he w:is but eight years old he bad driven a ni edle so deeply in his foot that it could j.-t be recovered. He experienced but lit lie discomfort from the accident and had entirely forgotten it until the surgeons found cue needle in operating on the tumor, uiiich it caused iu corning in contact with the thigh bone. vi .iricf tvr ccuir**iii*ni, I "W.V'-ili .voto.n", August 20.?Actio u L- ^d ; Con.raissioner Stockslager lias issued the | accessary instructions to carry into effect j Secretary Lamar's vecent order restoring to i settl'-rrxui and entry certain railroad ia | I demnity lands, as follows: Southern Pacific 1 | Kailroad of California, about 4,01)0,000 i acres; tlie Dalles alilitary Road Company, J of Oregon, about 1.200,u00 acres; the Ala! !?ama and Chattanooga liaiiroad, of Ala | bam a, about 2,500 acres, covered by un j approved selections; the Yicksourg and i i .uenaian Kauroaa, 01 .ui.siis-.ippi, aoout i 11,500 acres, also covered by uuapprovcd sc ! | lections. j - An earthquake lasting s^x-n seconds was ; felt in Arizona on Thursday f TIIE PENNSYLVANIA PLATFORM^ 1 I Cleveland and tlie National Platform of 1SS4 Fully Indorsed. The following is the platform adopted by the Democratic State Convention of Pennsylvania: FUsst. That we renew onr fllleenanee to the principles and declarations of the platform adopted at Chicago in 1884, which Mr. Cleveland, the nominee of the party, heartily indorsed, declaring in his Isrtc-r of acceptance "I have carefully considered the platform adopted by the convention and cordially approve the same. So plain a statement of Democratic faith and the principles npon which that party appeals to the suffrages oi tne people needs no Supplement or explanation." To these principles he has faithfully adhered in all his public utterances. * We further affirm the platform adopted by our State Convention of 1883, and in vierr of the existing condition of the public -Treasury demand with emphasfe that the large ~ oxplus already in the Treasury shall be used to pay the public debt and that t'&e current and unnecessary increase going on be vend, the needs of government shall be immediately prevented by a -wise and prudent reduction c internal taxatfon and of duties on im'x. rts in accordance with the foregoing declarations. Second. That we i'ully 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, lias directed the financial affairs of the crovemment with ant abilitv. has strengthened the public credit and thereby given us a period of great industrial and commercial prosperity. Apprehension in the minds of some that the advent of our party to the control of. the Federal Government would be dan- ' - ? gerous has been dispelled. Our people are more contented and well-to-do than in many years and more respected than ever by other nations. His period of administration has been pure, economical and fearless, and meets the approval of'all fair-minded, and conservative citizens. Thip.d. We recognize the material benefits which, this country has received from immigration. We indorse the legislation of Congress against the importation of contract labor ana to compel the return of paupers and criminals. We commend the national administration for its efforts to rigidly enforce these laws, and while we are opposed to any illiberal restrictions we [avor snch additional measures of regulation as may be found necessary. Foueth. We favor liberal pensions to deserving Union soldiers and sailors, and refer to the action of the present administration in adding to the pennon rolls a larger number than was ever before placed thereon within a corresponding period, while at the same time protecting the treasury from fraudulent claims as proof-this fact. Fifth. Wp r>oint trit'h rm'^A tr? t,lm fact that since the Democratic party has been in power in any branch of the Federal Government not one acre of the public lands has been granted to corporations, nor lias any land grant been revised or extended. jLiiC failure oi the ofcaie revenue"? bill, after it had been carefully perfected and nearly unanimously passed by botlr branches of the Legislature, was a crim against the majority of the Common wealth whereby the people must pay i million dollars annually in taxation that should and would have been paid by the - corporations, arid the failure of tne State administration to attempt any correction of the wrongdoing or exposure of thefraud or criminal neglect, condoned a crime against both authority and peoples and confessed the supremacy of ring rule in Pennsylvania. Seventh. 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 equalize taxation. Eights. That we denounce the action of the last Republican Legislature in the defeat of the bill for tile relief of the K/iCUU'vCIC iXLiU. (JX KJXX M1 ULLG UU district cf the Suite, knowii as the Billingslev bill, as being in the interest of monopoly and against the interest of the people of that large section of the State. Ninth. The Democratic party sympathizes v.lih the oppressed of all nations and in all movements having for their object; the attainment of the blessing of local ;5eiI-government such as are enjoyed by tho people of this Union as the result of the enforcement of Democratic policy. The granting of home rale to Ireland is dnp. as tbfi ncknowledsment of a sacred inheritance, and the gallant struggle for the accomplishment of this long delayed act of ju*. acq under the magnificent leadership of Gladstone and Parnell 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 oi the national administration in reclaiming and throwing open to tlie people tor settlement iw,000,000 acres of lands which through artillce and fraud were wrongfully held by corporations, having been forfeited to the people by failure to comply with the conditions of the grants. L.ASHED TO DEATH. Talea of Horror from the Convict Camps of ^ Georgia. Atlanta, Ga., September i.?Governor Gordon has received information from Dodge county of a case of brutality to convicts in Degree's camp, which, has been unearthed L>y the Dodge county grand jury. At that camp, 7/here fifty convicts are worked, the superintendent's name is Bryant. One of the convicts who was sick with dropsy, was made to work by the fire. ne eomuiaineu 01 ueiog sick., uui wim a iash 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 cf it and escaped into Alabama. Other convicts were equally badly treated. Another case .was that of a negro who escaped front the camp. The managers supposed that he would make his escape by the railroad and sent a guard to inter ccpi iiiia. me guara went to me cut utile w the station, where there hail been an old iniil. Alter some time they heard the clanking of chains, aud knew that the negro was coining. The negro came in sight and was shot dead. The guard said he halted the negro and he ran. The statement was controverted by the fact thai; every shot was fired, into the negro's breast .".eel front. The Secretary of War bos approved the t-<iuest of tuc ex-Ccnfederate Association at Chicago to erect.ViL-inorial to the Confederate dead bmied ia Government lot in. Oakland Cemetery he ,: 'Tint city, under regulations may So proscribed by tile (.^uai'termaslvV General.