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THOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S. C., THURSDAY", APRIL 13, 1893. VOL. LVm. NO. ll. 'GOBP?BAt JIM. A-Prlsoner in the Bands of the Apaches. - ' KeW York Son. >At midnight the scouts came in with-information that they had discovered an Indian village a few miles away, and two hours later the .officers passed about from tent to Hratand aroused the sleeping men. Horses were brought in and sad dled, ammunition over-hauled, and HB?bres buckled on, and seventy of us rode quietly away over the plains toward the foothills. There was plenty of time and the horses were not pressed beyond a walk, (just as day began to dawn we halt ed. While we sat waiting we could hear the bells of the Indian ponies and the barking of dogs, and once the cry of a child was wafted to our ears across the valley. "We shall charge right into the ;v village. Don't fire upon any of the squawB unless they take part in the fight. " Keep, together and $ mind the bugle calls I" . So the order came down the lines, and ten minutes later daylight was ... strong enough for us to make out . : the wigwams. We rode forward a few hundred yards, and then the bugle sounded the "charge," and away we rushed. Military reports hav? told you how it jnras. The Indians had some . how been warned, and. were lying in ambush in the dry ravine in front of the camp.. We were stag pred-chocked---slaughtered - ^jrwteoV two Indians killed and two wounded ; thirty out of seventy troopers left lying there in front ^Loi the ravine-all dead or dying, thank*God, when the fight was over, except Corporal Jim. He had been thrown from his horse and stunned. When he recovered con sciousness he wa^ a prisoner hi the Indian camp. ; Corporal Jim is* an old veteran of : the war, a?d this is not the first ; time he has encountered hostile out into the stock of his carbine.: Each one- stands for a warrior he bas aent to tho happy, hunting grounds. He does not say this, but all of us know it to be so. He has never uttered a boast, but we know that he is brave to reckless ness. As he lies on the. grass, bound hand and foot, with the -warriors- daucing about him with bloody scalp locks in their hands, Corporal Jim groans aloud. As they lift him up and point to the mutilated bodies on which the squaws and children are still wreaking vengeance Corporal Jim turns pale, and a faintness steals away bis strength. i A prisoner TO the hands of the Apaches! That meaus death. Ten thousand dollars in gold would not ransom him. If the chief of that village knew that every living son ,in it would be wiped out in re venge, he would not spare his pris oner. Not death by bullit or stroke of tomahawk, but death after hours and hours of torture-such torture as only the merciless Apaches know how to inflict and prolong. They have ever been called the devils . of earth. They are born with the ferocity of the tiger; they are reared to be merciless; they are trained to torture abd kill ; they die happy if they can first in flict a death Jblow. As the lines are formed and Cor poral Jim is unbound and con ducted to the head of them he knows what is coming. He is to run the gauntlet. That is always a preliminary. It is to whet the appetites of the warriors for the feast to come. On his right is Red Bird, a sub-chief. With his own hands'Corporal Jim bound up that chiefs wound on a field of battle, gave him to drink fi om his canteen, and icfended him against the ex asperated trooper who wanted to finish him. Has the Apache for gotten the incident? His eyes flash fire, and there is murder in his look. Gratitude in an Apache! As well hope for it in a hyena I On his left is young Gray Eagle, the only son of ~ ^reat chief. A year ago when we charged a village the boy was wounded and captured. It was Corporal Jim who had bim in charge far pix weefs, showing him every kindness and consideration. Aye, it was the corporal who plead ed so haid for his prisoner that vigilance was relaxed and Gray Eagle escaped from the fort. He is impatient for the torture to be gin. He would inflict it with his own haiifHi joermHtecl?. There is no hope for Corporal J|m, ?le will he oarried on the roll? as ^missing-supposed to be dead." Around the camp fires for a year to come the boys will men tion his name in whispers and hope that he was dead before the red demons reached him. It is high noon. The sunshine never seemed so mellow, the sky so bine, the distant mountains so grand. There is a shout along the lines. The Indians are impatient for the tor ture to begin. The corporal is a brave man, and a man in his prime. He will last for hours and afford them a feast. They have let go of his arms, and he is standing alone and waiting for the signal to st wt. The signal is giv^n, and as a yell rends the air Corporal Jim jumps to the left wrenches a . tomahawk from the hands of a warrior,and the next instant he is flying over the ground with the speed of a horse. Thirty warriors rush after him; thirty more mount their horses and pursue. Some day when these red devils are again being fed and clothed at Government expense and com plaining of their "wrongs" they will tell us the rest of th*? story.. They will not exult as they tell it. They overhauled Corporal Jim, and he turned at bay and fought so desperately that they had to finish him then and there. He did not die alone, and those who tell us might show the scars of wounds inflicted by him in that last des perate struggle if they would. No man knows where he lie?. The Apaches dig no graves for their enemies. The wolves and the vul tures get everything but the scalp*. But we raised a mound to him in the desolate graveyard to the west of the fort, ' and it is there to-day among the graves of the soldier dead : "Corporal Jim!" No other name, no date,- no epi taph. God will know where lies the dust of his bones when the last, trumpet shall sound. Convinced by a Oriental Adept* Washington Na wc "The stories of the remarkable power of the Oriental adepts to bury themselves for months have not been exaggerated in the least." said Archibald C. Lewellyn, a Bri ton ian , whose ruddy tan and sturdy frames bespoke the ex posure and trials of many lands. "When I first went to India some ye8rs ago, like every other white man I was absolutely incredulous as to the ability of any man on earth to be her metically sealed in a box and buried underground for six months, or six .hours for that matter. - "One day my dhinga told me of a fakir who had just come into the little village, who, he said, could perform the faet. After a great deal of ceremony and by dint of a liberal bribe we set about to bury the yellowskinned old rascal. He was not a very lovable object, and I would have about as little trouble on mv conscience in kill ing him as any human being I ever saw but I felt like an accessory to a murder as we lowered him into a trehnc in my garden and heard the plunk of the earth upon his coffin. He was swathed in bandages from head to foot. He had drawn him self into a ball, had rolled back his tongue into his throat, stuffed his ears and nostrils with soft wadding, and was apparently dead ten minutes after he began his final preparations. "I put a white guard over that grave night and day for six months. At the end of that time as agreed, natives gathered together and I sent for the officers of our mess and we dug him up. If J. had seen Moses resurrected; if JuliusCosar were to walk down Pennsylvania avenue, I woutd not be more as tonished than I" was when I saw that fakir. He was covered with mould, and while perfectly, in animate, had not decayed. "In about three hourn he had fully recovered and was chanting the praises of Budpba." ?A God-send to Me in This Time of My Dire Necessity." CORRYTON, S. C., March 20, '93. Mr. D. B. Durisoe, Agent Georgia Home Insurance Company. DEAR SIS : Allow me to thank you, and through you Mr. R. P. Spencer, the Special Agent and Adjuster of your Company, for the prompt pay ment of my loss in the recent destruo tion of my residence by fire. The sum paid, Fifteen Hundred Dollars, in full of amount of policy, will be a God send to me in this time of my dire necessity, and will enable me soon to give my wife and little ones a home again. Remaining your friend, and a well-wisher of the old reliable Georgia Home, I am, Yours truly, E. J. BARKER. MARRIAGE AND MURDER. Tracie Fate o?a Beautiful Young Woman of Kentucky. MOKGANFIELD, Ky., April 5. There was a very sensationalj?Tair in this county last night and this morning. Miss ?bbi? Oliver, of Sturgis, Union county, the beauti ful young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Oliver, was ruined about eight months ago. Henry Delaney, a young drug clerk of Sturgis, was charged with causing her downfall. He denied it, and both parties sought legal advice, but np proceedings were held iii court. L?st night about 9 o'clock the mother of the girl entered" De laney's place of business in Stur gis, and at the point of her.pistol forced him to accompany her to a carriage outside in which her hus band and daughter were seated. The four drove to Morgan fie Jd, a distance of fifteen miles, and at 3 o'clock a license was secured and the couple were married. The' party started home, but when about three miles from M or gan field, four men on horseback surrounded the carriage and began shooting. After the first shot, Delaney j um pe d{ out of the vehicle and ran to the attacking party, who were supposed to be his friends, and the firing continued. Miss Oliver was shot 'hr ?ugh the head and her father in the face and right arm. Mrs. Oliver escaped without a wound. She ran the team at full speed for a mile down the road and turned in at a farm house. The attacking party fol lowed, shooting at' every jump. The girl, who would have given birth to a child soon, was fatally wounded and died at 5 o'clock this morning. Mrs. Oliver recognized the party, and warrants of arrest for four prominent young, men. are being issued. The families are of high standing, and sympathy is with the Olivera... The indications are that Oliver will not" live through the night. Physicians say that his injuries are necessarily fatal. ' Late this afternoon George, Henry and Frank Holt were ar rested by the sheriff of Union county, and identified by Mrs. Oliver." Seven others were also arrested, but, not being recognized, were released. A brother of Henry is still at large. The Henry boys are cousins of the unwilling bride groom. It is reported that just before she died Mrs.% Delaney gave birth to a child. Excitement in and about Mor ganfield, Sturgis, and Uniontown runs high, and this evening there is strong talk of lynching. De laney is of most respectable family, but the sympathy of the com munity is largely with the Olivers. Getting Into the Baptist Church. Nathaniel Carter, a colored theo logical student, who is preparing for the Lutheran ministry, gives in the Lutheran Standard, the following as his experience in getting into the Baptist church in Virginia. After some preliminaries he says : When a candidate has gotten thus far, he is considered well on the road, but has yet another very flrey trial to pass through. He must pass the examination of the officiating minister which is prerequisite to baptism. But be fore this examinotion the can didate is required to go from house and "tell his experence," in which he must show himself to have been a most wonderful noctambulist whose noctambulations and somnambulisms have been through drifting raining and.fearful storms and through dangerous places, such as steep river banks and the like, and if he was not hurt and not afraid, he is ready for the minister's examination, provided he did not read or listen to the reading of the Bible which is al ways prohibited "while passing through the wildernesse." After passing through the above ceremonies I, with one of my sisters andmany others, was taken before Rev. W. W. Quarles, and the examination begun as follows : "What was the first thing to set you out to pray?" "I knew that I had a soul to be saved." "That's right; well, what did you soe?" *CI saw the devil." "How did he look?" "He looks black, and had one club foot, and a pitchfork in 1 hand." "What was he doing with t fork?" "Sticking up souls." "That's right. What did you" with your sins?" .J left them in hell tied up io bag." "Taat's right. B re them and s: ters, do you all wish to ask ai questions? I am satisfied.". Deacon Wi?lian Butler:. "He many rounds in Jacob's ladder?" "Three." "What is they?" "Hard trials, trivelations ai humble prayers." . "Dat'sright.". Sister Nancy Kemp, leader those who cannot understand wh they see in the other worlds ai must be brought out of the "wilde ness :" "How many persons' in God head?" "Three." -What is dey?" "Faith, Hope and Charity." "Dat's right, exactly right; see God is been widyou." . Rev. Quarks - again : "Brethren, I would like to ae another que.tiou which I can near sor'gettiug. Do you want j be baptized?" "Yes sir." "Why do you want to.be baptize when you are already converted do you think that will help t save you or do any good?" "No sir." "That's right; well,' what d you want to bo baptized for then? "To fulfill the commandment. "That is exaerv *hf, brethrei Jesus said to Jo*, that it wa necessary to fulfill all righteous ness, so the baptizing does nc have anything to do with you going t?heiven, but just means t fulfil while you are here." We were baptized in Mr. Korb" ice-pond, after which we * wer taken back to the=: church fo furthe^instructions. "-^.^ Rev. Quarles instruction at th church : "Now, childron, you have on th whole armor of God and can figh the devil no matter where yoi meet him. Your nam** bas beei written by the angel on th Lamb's book of life, and itaanno be blotted out. You are compelled to go to heaven now no matte what you do, you can't help you self. When the angel call the roi on Judgment Day everybody whosi name is called ii bound to come Now we give you the right ham of fellowship, and you can go oi singing, praying, preaching ant doing just as you want to for Gc* has made you justas free as i lark." Some who were baptized on thi above occasion have died in tba faith, and others are still member of the old Ebenezer church ii Hanover county, Va. Some singinj some praying some preaching none studying God's Word, but al are doing as they please. Spring in Old Virginia. Richmond Dispatch. Frogs have commenced thel: serenades; the mellow-bugs an describing circles, hyperbolae., anc ellipses upon the surface of th? crystal ponds ; the trees are bod ding ; the whole town is play in t. marbles: Easter cravats have made their appearance: Uncle Smith has planted his 'taters: Tom has writien some poetry to hit "callico." asking ber if she hasu'l a few affections for him in thc right ventricle of her heart; the prospective fried chicken is al ready scratching in the grass, and spring is beginning to begin. Mahomet's injunction against the use of ardent spirits is so well obeyed even at this late date that it is an extremely rare sight to see a drunken Mussulman. A lady who has been making a tour of Egypt' says that during a long stay none of her party saw an intoxi cated man. She says that she ask ed her dragoman if he ever under any provocation indulged m strong drink, and he answered : "If my wife weie dying and the doctor or dered her to take brandy and she died with that brandy in her stomach God would not receive her in Heaven." Paul's doctrine of a little wine for the stomach's sake has no place in the Koran code of ethics. If the has been made to grow a natural color on bald heads in thousands of cases, by using Hall's Hair Renewer, why will it not in your case? WlXi| jirOT FIGHT IT. The Liquor Dealers Will Not Fight the Dispensary Law. Charleston Seto. Tho counsel engaged to make up a test casCin behalf of the liquor dealers ia. this State against the Evans Diroensary law, which goes into effecmn. the 1st of July, met in thisyesterday . with the chairmahgand other members of the commpee of fifty which was appointed*'; at the recent State Liquor Dealern' Convection held here fori ^purpose of conducting the litigaj on, if any, against the enfor.;emerit of the measure. The Uj?p?rs who were present at the meetigg came for the purpose of makin^rtheir professional and delirjerafcffeport on the grounds for and inadvisability of resist ing the enforcement of the law in the courts!; These gentlemen represented the eminent li?gal firms of Mitchell & Smith, J.(N. Nathans, Simmons, Seigliug o? Cappel m an, all of this city, and^)l. Joseph H. Earle, of Gronvili?rFor more than a month they had h^ld this question under adverti8ep?ht, with straightfor ward instructions from that law abiding citizen, Benjamin Map toue, the chairman of the commit tee of fiftj'i to make a case only on the contingency that after a full examination they could con scientiously declare the law illegal. The answer the counsel eub mitted we^shnounce substantially and in brigf- not officially, but for a fact, vfllpy said in effect : 'Theltraipr traffic is not a le gitimatejbusiiiess. In every city and^tateM the Union the busi ness is su^ect to legislative enact ment W?S&lice regulations, and against timk- there is nothing to do, W?lltvise the liquor deal ers of the?State not to spend five cents in .resisting the law." Thus ^brought to a potential termin?tSpn. any hope of. the effectj^Hfctance to the inagnra ?ionro?^^: momentous measure. ^T??fi^^i 3??^rj- in. th&cMff ftpoV elese where bave ouF~~?ij?cere sympathy for the hardships which this decision will work with them, and they have our admiration for the sensible and law-abiding manner in which they have pro ceeded and which, we take it, thay propose to submit to the law. There is no mistaking the result however. The State Administra tion has won for the present a Signal and conclusive victory. What Viii be the practical results of the* Dispensary law when put into operation, time alone ean de termine ; but since old things shall have passed away and new con ditions hay^ take their place, we see nothing for it but that every citizen shall observe the law and wish that as much good as pos sible shall be derived ftom it. Our Party and Its Pledges.. Atlanta Constitution. Our republican contemporaries are urging the new administration to settle down to business and fulfil tue promises of the demo cratic platform. The New York Morning Adver tiser, for instance, says of our platform : The democratic party knew then that it was hopelessly divided as it is now upon both the currency and the tariff reform questions. It knew . then that it would be impossible for it to so get together on silver, for instance, as to agree upon any change in existing law. It knew then as it does now that to make the change in the tariff laws which it so glibly promised could only result in irreparable injury to the business interests of the country. The average republican editor spends most of his time these days dancing around the democ ratic camp with a tariff chip on his shoulder, daring somebody to knock it off. It is. all right. The administra tion ?B not likely to forget the fact that it owes its existence to the tariff and financial reform planks in the platform of its party. These pledges will be kept. We should have an extra session cf congress, and it should be called mainly for the purpose of tackling th? vicious tariff system. The democratic platform sa) s the tariff will be reduced to a revenue basis, aud its operation will neither oppress the poor nor build up monopolies for a few favored plutocrats, In other words, the administration will carry out the promises that brought it to the front with the endorsement of people. The promise of financiol refc will be just as faithfull kept, are going to remonetize sil and re-establish slate banks. These matters take the shape positive pledges in the democra platform, and Mr. Cleveland, wi he ?was elected on that platfoi became absolutely bound to cai out its provisions to the best his ability. ' He is a man of j word. He can neither be cajo] nor intimidated. He will call extra session, and . the work tariff and financial reform will pushed through with his acti aid. The clamor and the taunts the republicans will not cause t democratic-reformers to turn asi or delay their business. From t president down to the young* congressman, it is understood th the existence of the democrat party depends upon its fidelity keeping its promises, The par will have to get together on tl right side of the tariff and fi nan ci questions, or go out of busine with a. record of broken pledge This is the situation. .We mu wipe out the protective tariff ai establish bimetallism, witho discrimination against either gol or silver, and we must have sta banks. Any other course would 1 poi i ti eel suicide. If you want God's fire to bui brightly everywhere, see to that it never goes out in your o? heart. The confidence that people ha' in Ayer's Sarsaparilla as a bloc medicine is the legitimate ai natural growth of many year It bas been handed down fro parent to child, and is the favori! family medicine jin thousands < households. Ex-Governor Franklin J. Mose Hon. John B. Goodrich, a lax yer from Boston, was] on a vis: tp^?h?rlestojanofc^ long ago,. au 'tp^Teporter of fhe News "an Courier he gave some informatio about Franklin J. Moses, ti .notorious scapegrace of this Stat? which may prove interesting t some of our readers: "Mr. Gooc rich said that several years ago h was sent for by the sheriff, wh told him he had a queer case, man up for obtaining money o false pretences but who did nc seem to be a very bad fellow aft? all. but only a man in troubl who had yielded to temptation His client proved to be Frankli J Moses. Ii was a clear case, an Moses by his advice pleaded guilt and Mr. Goodrich made an ap peal to the Judge for clemency an a light sentence. But the Judg did not taken Mr. Goodrich1 view of the case, and ho* sen Moses to the penitentiary fe three years. When Moses ha seved out his time Goedrich fe! sorry for him, paid his board fo awhile and employed him as clerk in his office. The imprison ment had proved a blessing i: disguise, for it had cured Mose of the opium habit. He got a plac in Winthrop, a suburb of Boston ingratiated himself with the pee pie, and obtained from some c the business men of the plac money enough to start a loca paper, and is now making hi living in that way, and is highl; respected by his neighbors anc fellow townsmen." One might as well try to sten the rapids of Niagara, as 'to expec perfect health while a Scrofulou tint exists in the blood. Througl its ulterative and purifying pro perties, Ayer's Sarsaparilla rt moves every vestige of Scrofulou poison from the blood. Ladies Hats at Cobb's. Ladies have you seen Jas. 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