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f?w? s<o, b*for? Ommt 1 as ?ls or w*#? the cMttnii bnuKb had 'eome 'o lot#, Concordia, Kmv ?uat?d It* ??-J| upon the potosslon of ? wild man The wild omi'i iuu?? v'm Boston CorbeU, though be wuo't * prize fighter at oil, and he had the farther distinction of bavlag killed John Wilkes Booth, lb# mmmIu of Abraham Lincoln Also be vu a deed ?hot with an array revolver, wore bts balr long and suffered un der the delusion that be was a much wronged man. ? ? To begin at the beginning, how* ever, which was a good man/ bun dord miles from Concordia- When the Civil War broke out Corbett, who was 22 years old and a hatter, joined <he Hi* teen tb New York cav alry regiment. Corbett was convert ed bj a street preacher in Boston be fore he Joined the army; all during the war he spent much of hia leisure time attempting to evangelize hi* fellow trooper*. Then, before the war was oyer, same the assassination of Lincoln; and Booth's- flight on horseback south through Maryland. Corbett, who had been promoted to the rank $t tergeant for bravery during the war, was one of the twenty-five troopers who went south on Booth's trail under command of Lieutenant Edward F. Doherty. There are a good many different .versions of nrbat really happened after Booth was surrounded in a barn near Bowl ing Green, but none of these ver sions httH ever disputed the fact that it was Corbett who shot Booth. The actor supporting himself upon a rough crutcb, was standing in the middle of the barn floor, refusing to Kurrender, and he held a carbine, with which. In the growing light of the barn which two civilian detec tives had net on fire, be took aim at flohqrty. r Boston ?Corbett, who bad been standing guard at a small opening in the aide of the barn, ?aw the move, thrust the muzzle of his revolver through the aperture and flrqd, wounding Booth at thte base of tho skull. Booth was car ried outside and died two hours lat* ?r. Now, It had been no part of the army officers who had net out after Lincoln's slayer to have him shot down there in Maryland.. They want ed to bring him back to Washington and have kirn hanged in due state, and many poople who knew Corbett, ?ay he waa practically drummed out of the army because he killed Booth At any rate, Corbett always felt afterward he was a much wronged i)u>. He had slain Booth; there fore, It wag only right that. he. Bhouhl have a largo part of the $75. 000 reward that had been offered by con great* for the capture of Booth, alive or dead. Instead, ho got only $2,545 of the money, and before he had a chance to Kpend any of that, he was held up by footpads and robbed of the whole roll. . " c? ?Congress granted Mm a trifling pension, and he went to Camden, N*. J., and applied for the job of assist ant pOBtuiaster there, wiih refused, and made up tils inlnd to corne west He came to Concordia and applied at the land office there for a claim. Kighteen miles from Concordia, there was a little hillside "eighty" of no especial value to any one. and there (U>rbett built a cabin. He trenched his cabin, and there were loophole# In the walls out of which he might shoot. Some one 'had told told him that Booth had belonged to a secret order, and that the mem bers of the order had taken a vow to avenge ills death. Mounted on a pony and riding bin <?!d army saddle, he spent bin time wandering about almleKsly enough, now and again coming to town, but generally subpicioub and keeping to himself. Judge Sturgls, one of. Con cord Ui'b pioneers, in one of the men J now living in the town who know the strange little soldier. "Often enough, as Iwas driving along," he says, "I have aeon th*s Boston Corbett slip quickly off his horse ah he caught sight of me and lie motionless in the grasH, his )ong revolver In one hand, waiting to see what was coming. He never made any attempt to hurt me, or, indeed, to hurt any one, but he was always wary. "He waa a strange, solitary fel low, and ho had not been on his claim long before he succeeded in quarreling with n number of chaps who wore in the habit of riding acrosH hid place. They meant no harm, but Boston had the curious, precise Kngllsh notion of property rlgb4s, and he ^yarned t h**nt upt to set foot on Ills .claim. One thing led to another, and finally they had liim arrested*. chnrgcd with threaten ing to kill them. That court room scene was the sort? a man remem bers. "There was Boston Corbett, a lit tle, slender, dark-eyed chap, his hair hanging down long behind, sit lowft told how he bad threatened to . ..... ... ... .... i* ck^wkt | l , ? ,' u ^vL-i ^ | . * *9 ?|w J S tl M tw. s*tttr, *h* Uhn* CM op# ^mt kls ar^^jr roro^vs?' and Mm pointing tt ftt ?m au ?f U?r iMtk#r, " *That's ? lie, a lie, * lift." *o ?krMW. I'll shoot My bm who ??ys such ikiagM ? boot m? ' "I cm toil you there w *? nt ?ticr log, Most of the town had come to to listen to tb? hearing. lor Boston Corbett was ? notorious chap They | trampled oorb other getilsi to the: door* eod vlitdovf. One old attor n*ry. who w ft* crippled up with rheu matism and knew he couldn't make tnuth ?ho?lA( In ? mo, crawled un der ft small tabl*, ftnd It wft? with difficulty tb?t we got him out. ?'flu* Boston didn't shoot, and nothing wft? done to bin either. They quitted him down and talked to him, end he went back to his hillside eighty, tb? cabin ftnd the pony. "Of course we realized before long the chap wasjcrsiy, He would go along gf|iotiy enough and then break out In some new and unexpected way, 1 remember, for instance, the time Judge Dan Brown, of the pro bate Court, got up a scheme to have Boston give a lecture on his life aud his killing of J. Wilkes Booth. Here was Boeton, a celebrity who had been living right In our own crunty and nobody bad thought to capitaii&e him. ' . "The first lecture, they agreed was to be In Concordia, and I think every one In town must have bought a ticket. At any rate the Presbyterian cburcb, the blggent building in towu, was crowded full when the night of the lecture came, and people were standing in the doors and windows. Judge fcrown got up and introduced his protege ? the famous Boston Corbett, the man who hod killed kincoin's s]ftjer, and who would nOw give his own story of just how it happened. "And then Boston stood up, his long hair brushed and oiled and putted back from bts fprehond, and launched Into his speech ? or ser mon, rather. For he told them nev er a word- about himself, never a word about Wilkes Booth or the "w?r, or anything -m^-^s~wsH~war vertlsed to speak upon. He talked religion to 'em, shouting, ranting, street preacher religion, 'Repent aud lye shall be saved! 'Z "Dan Brown wa? so mad he could j have wept or beaten Oorbett, but he did neither. He talked to him quiet ly and gently, and finally they agreed to wait awhile and then he would lecture agaiii ? this time out of town. "So Judge Brown took his notable down to Junction City, advertised, Hold tlckote ? and Bonton did the name thing over again. That was the last time he ever appeared on the lecture platform. "He kept on living here for a number of yearB; the (same wort of ft record of wild eccentricity. H5o rode and shot, and he was a won derful Khot. 1 have seen hitu bring down a barn swallow with his re volver, or one of these circling prai rie bids that we call 'bullbats/ and people around Concordia had whole some respect for hlf> shooting tal entB. Every now and then he would make one of his wild, foolish Kiin plays here In town, but he nev er shot any one and everybody un derHtood he was not Just accounta ble, bo nobody tried to shoot him. "A good many folks were friend ly with him, and finally one of our local Republican politicians got him a job a? door-keeper Aat the legis lature In Topeka."' i That appointment took Boston Cor bett away from Concordia perma nently. For one day in February, 1887, he appeared at the capitol with a drawn revolver, shouting that he meant to kill the speaker of the house. Doorkeepers and ser geants-at-arms fled; legislators Bcur ricd down the corridors like fright ened jackrabblts. CorbotL caught up with one man who resembled the speaker and shouted to him: "You can discharge me, Mr. Speaker, but you can't scare mo." The legislator assured him that he wasn't the speaker and CorboU let him go. Finally the crazy door keeper was captured by Topeka po licemen and was sent to an asylum in Topoka. Ho stayed there a lit ?tle more than a year and seemed to bo improving distinctly; his whole bearing was so gentle that he was allowed the freedom of the grounds, along with the harmless patients. One morning, while the guard was paying no special attention, ho drop ped out of lino to pick a flower. A visitor had ridden out to the asylum arsd his pony was tied near "one of the gates. Corbett untied It, Clambered up and was away down the road, lost in a cloud of dust. A few attendants rode after him, Uut 4lu>y wcro too late. A week later a letter from a man in Ncodsha, who had known Corboft during the war and who had repeat edly protoKted against his imprison ment, told the prisoner had oome to him, had received aid and money and had started for Mexico in^cui to T|^ Weatrllle. B. C? July Ify?* Tbe drouth VM bryk*Hi Im Saturday with a food rata. It wm Meoapt lied wi<h a Hi lie hell, but ao dam 4?? ??i dose to the trope Mr*. }. C. R*y 8M?d children. of Anoiatoa, Ale . ere speadlag ? r*w weeks here wttb ber sister, Mr* J T. Young Mr?. Jtaie Peden, of Plae l>evel, N. C? is spending a few days bere ?.itb ber suoth*r, Mm. J. T. Young. Mike Nellie Wilkes. of Cbesfr H C., is spending a few days b*r? tier boel of friend ? ere glad to have Iter bere again. Mrs, U. M. Trueedale. who baa bH'R rlously 111, we ere glad to r*po*<, hi utt?h better. Her host of friend* ber a speedy recovery. Mr. * belly Trueedalo Is (be hap piest man we have around here ? it'a a bey. Mi*. Jaek lieckhana, of Ileatb ftprlngs, spent Sunday bere witu Mr. ai?d Mr*. K. I- Bell. T^ere will be Cbitdrebi' Pay ex *>rcise* at I>auiaa< us Church, Sunday, i he 27tb, at 3; 30 o'clock. Mrs, Bailee McLkmald. and daugh ter, Mian IJlIian, spent laat week end at Kershaw with relatives. Mr. K. T. Ealrldge, of Bethune, wan here Monday. Messrs. Bennle and Ed. Peach, of tho Hoonetown section, spent Satur day and Bunday here Wttb relatives. Messrs. D. G. Fletcher and O. M. Anthony were In Camden on buslnee Monday. Mr. and Mrs. R. L, Bell will spend a few days next week at tbe Isle of 1'altns. , Stockton Newv Note*. Special to The Chronicle. Boy kins, 8. C., July 24.? Thia section lias been visited by , severe storms for several days. The cropa were badly damaged. Hail fell in some parts of the community. Mr. Byron Hudson and children, (BT-BSnO^ "cotmly," visited relatives here last week. Misses Maud Cook and Y eat La Block have been the guests of Miss JLorena Ihumphrleg. - ? ? , ; Mr. Luther Sowell spent Sunday with relatives here. Miss Maureen Hammond, of State bUrg, was the gyest of Miss Jessie Owens last week) We are glad to report that our sick ones here are not in any worse condition. Carlton Humphries has been sick for several days with fever Mr. and Mrs. Jesse, Sowell, <> of Hartsvllle, have been visiting rela tives here. ' Mr. Jesse Hammond, of Stateburg, spent TAit Week-ehd at the home of his son, Mr. H. Hammond. Mr. B. A. Hornsby, of Cantej*, vis ited relatives here last week.; Mr. Henry Pearce spent Sunday j here. ' " Mr. Arthur Humphries, of Cam den, spent Sunday with relatives* MIsb Ethel Humphries and broth er, Willie, spent Tuesday In Cairf den. - ? Miss Etta Watts, qf Cantey, is visiting Miss Jessie Owens. Messrs. Tom Shiver and Lin wood King were in this section Sunday. Born? -to Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Work man, on July 18 ? a daughter, Re becca Elizabeth. ? Mr. Jesse Holland, of Cantey, spent the week end with relatives here. -v Mi sb Ethel Humphries spent Satur* dsay night at tho home of Mr. C. N. Humphries. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence White, of Lee. county, were visitors here last week. ? ' ? An Interesting protracted meeting was closed at Beulah church last Sunday. There was only one mem ber added to tho church but it was a great spiritual revival. The Beulah Epworth League will meet the first Friday night in Alug ust at the home of Mr. and Mro. 8. It. J. Smith. The members are spe cially urged to attend as officers for the coming year will bo elected. Messrs. Ned Pearce, C. N. ? Hum phries and Miss Ethel Sowell have been appointed by the presiident to nominate the new president. It is hoped that the new officers will put forth every effort to do good work. According to English figures, 620, 000,000,000 cubic feet of illuminat ing gas was made in the world last year, requiring sixty million tons of coal. after "shaking $he dust of thetlnit ed States from his feet." The pony was left behind to bo returned to its owner. And that is the -last news that has ever been Received from Boston Corbett. If ho is alive today he is 81 years old. Numer ous imposters have turned up at one ttmo" nnd another, trying to palm themselves off as Corbett and Judge Sturgis was called on a few years ago to refute one such claim. The little hillside eighty changed hands years ago, and today is pasture land, and the fort Booth's slayer built is crumbling fast. ? Kansas City Star. I ? ? - ? i i 1 1 ii i| i i >n . ; ^ Having tec u red at a sacrifice a big lot of IWWf?rtlfW dose out* In Lace^ consisting of Valenciennes, Orientals, Shadow and Cluny Law*, and desiring to give our customers the benefit of our Bargains, we will offer them during the sale, ranging in price fras 1 per yard up. Also, one lot All-over Laces in White and Ecrue at lOe per This Sale Began Thursday, July 10th and Will Continue Until Further Notice ' : " ' ? " ' Colored Drew Linens, in all the leading evening shades, value 35c, sale price . . 24c 3rpwn Linens, specially priced for this Sale, 36 inch Brown Linen Suiting 9c 20c value, sale price . . f\ 13c 25c value, s^le price 19c Cotton Foulard?, one lot, value 25c, Sale price |0c Bordered Cotton Suitings, 1000 yds. in very attractive combinations, value 25c. . 11c Solid Colored Organdies in the leading season's shades, sale price. fa One lot White Duck, sale price 7C Embroidery ? We only mention a few of our immense line of Embroidery. We are cutting deep into prices for this sale. One lot Corset Cover Embroideiy, value 25c, sale price : ... 15c ? 27 inch Swiss Flouncing, value 50c, sale price 24c 45 inch 3wiss Flouncing, value 75c, sale price 39c Flaxons ? Sheer and beautiful white goods, suitable for Mid-summer wear. 20c value, sale price , 14c 25c value, sale pric^ . .... 18c 35c value, sale price. . , . . ...... .22c ] Remnants. Who can resist them? A table ladened with Remnant of a variety of materials. Don't miss the opportunity. Dresses ? Cool Dresses for hot days, every dress this seasons style. Value rang ing in prices from $2.00 to $3.00, sale price. . . . . T . T . M Colored Batiste, the thing for Mid-summer dresses, Jb stripes and figures .'.J, Bath Towels, 50 doz^ extra large Turkish Bath Towels, value 35c4 sale price. . 22c Corsets-? one lot of B, and American Lady Corsets, value $1 .00, sale price . .29c REMEMBER THE DATE, THURSDAY, JULY 10 L. Schenk & Co. 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