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X- Two Dollars for one rear, tntv uibijrn a(concc, i Two Doilars nil Cliurch Directory. rtosbytorian, Faycttevillc services 1st and 3rd Sabbath at 10:30 and niht; l!cv V II Groves, pastor, Sunday school, 81. M. Methodist services very Rabbath at 10:30 and at night; Rev V A Sowell, pa-stor; Bunday school at 8 o'clock. , Cumberland I'rfsbytcrian services ev ery, fcabbath If :30 and at Jiight; Rev V G T-mpleton,pas1or; Sunday school 8 o'clock. Union Church, l'lcasant riains-Bervicts let Sabbath each month at 11 and night by the Methodists, Rev W B Ixwey and F L CariKnter--2nd and 4th Sabbath each month at 11 by tho Associate Reformed Prcsbytcri ans, Rev J R Muse, pastor. Methodist Sun day school at 1 A R FreebyU'rian, New Hope serviced Jul tbB at 111 Bethel, 2nd and 4lh Sabbaths at 11 Rev A S Sloan, pastor. I Methodist, Mulberry services 01 u ouu day in tach month at 11 o'clock and every Sunday night; Rev T II lliuson, pastor; Sun day School at 9. Raulist. Mulborry services lt Sabbath in each month tll;UcfVriiJIuffJisVir. Cumberland Presbyterian, Mulberry l prrvices 2nd Sabbath in each month at 11 ' and night; Key W.G Tcmpkton, pastor. United l'resbytcrian,- Lincoln services evory Sabbath at 11:15 a m; Rev David Slran pasUr; Sunday school at 10. Liberty Grove services 2nd Sabbath a. 11 a m; RcvT L Darnell, preacher in charget Methodist, Shady Grove, (SJielUn' creek) services 2nd Sabbath m eaoh month at 11 o'clock; Rev M R Tucker preacher 111 charge. Cuiuberlandrresbytcrian.SulphurSpnngs aerviccs 3rd Sabbath 11 o'clock; Rev Wm Estill pastor. Methodist, Oak Hill serv.ces 4 th Sab l ath each month at 10 a. m; 1 L Darnell preacher in charge. Cumberland Frcsbytenan, Oak Hill, Rev B Tieert, pastor. l'rospect, Wells' bill, Saturday before 2d Junday,nch month, Rev B T King, pastor. ' Hester's Creek, Saturday before 4th Sun day, each month, Rev B '1 King, pastor. - MethiKlist, Fly ntviile services 4th Sab bath at 10:30 a.m; Mt. Hcrmon, Uintville circuit, services 1st Sabbath at 10:30 U ; Macedonia, Flintville circuit, serrices 3rd Sabbath at 10:30 A 11 Rev M L lucker preacher in charge. Union, 1st Sunday; Providence, 2nd; Lib ty Grovo, 3rd; Oak Hill, 4h; Rev 1 L Darnell, preacher iu charge Shi!oh,M1hodist, near Millville-preaching on 2nd Sunday in each month at 3 f. u 6mnd on Saturday at 11 A. M., belore the find' and 4th Sunday, Rev S M Cherry, pastor Cane Creek Church, six miles north or Favrltevill., services every 2ud and 4th feuuday, Rev. J. 3. Tig-rt, pastor , Itacxli rlrootory. Fayettcvlllo Post-Offico, - : Railroad leaves every" day,ecrpt S.m- day at 9:15 a.m.; arrives at 4mu t.m. cupp.ics the fallowing offices: Kelso, Lincoln, Fiynt illc OreKon,GeorgeB Store, Flora, Hunt's etati'on, Salem, Winchester and Dccherd. Shelby villesUge arrives Monday, U edr PKdavand Friday at 11 a. v.; loaves same days at 2 P. m. Supplies Mulberry, Lynch burg, Uoonevilla, County Une, Shelby villc. nnavill stare leaves Monday and Thursday at 8 A. M.; arrives Tuesday and Friday at 5 r. m. Supplies Goshen, ilarle Green, Mcridianvillc and Huntsvillc. Shel'byville hack leaves Mondays and Thursdays at' 8 A. m ., arrives Tuesday and Friday at 5 r. M.' Supplies Norrts Creek, Chestnut Uidsc.tlawthorue and Sholbyville. Pulaski horse arrives every Tuesday and Friday at 11:30 A 11; leaves same day al 12:30. Supplies Cy niston.Millville, ris cah. Brsdthaw and Fulaski. w Blanche horse leaves every Monday, Wednesday ad Friday at 1 r- Mi arrives eamedaysat 11 a m. Snpplies Camargo, Molino, Cold Water, Blanche, Cash loinl Boons Hill horse arrives every Satur day at 12 m; leaves same day at 1 r si. Petersburg horse leaves Saturt.jy at 8 a m; arrives at 5 r same day. Supplies' Renfrew Station and Petersburg. Money Orders can be obtained at this of fice upon post offices in all parts ef the U nited Slates. A list of Money Order offices mny be seen on application. Rates of com mission for Money Orders ara as follows: Not exceeding fli 10 cents Over 15 and uot exceeding $:'0. . . .15 do do 30 do do 40 20 do do 40 do do 50 25 do t . . W. B. DOUTHAT. P. M. County Oflloors. "X. T. Carter. County .Tud.ro. V.1V Martin, Clerk Chancery Conrt.' W. C. Morgan, do Circuit (- do Y. D. Boyci', do County do P..T. Midland, HheiifT. G. W.tWiits, V. A. Cunningham, Dep? utv-Sheriffs. , "Henry Henderson, Trustee. U. 1J. Thooipaon, Register. ' J. H. C. Dull", County-Surveyor. 1 J. Rives. Sup't of Public Si hol , J. R. Mor.an, Coroner. U O. Walltce. JUacur. t Established December 15111, A FAIPw DEMON. V t- . Slaying ; Her Father After Having Been His Tilistres3--A- Demoniac , Slaughter-Tae Son'sOath of Ven-geaiice-The Confession of a Cow ard, and & Merciful Verdict-Singular Scene in Court--The Oath FulfiHed--A Murderer Devoured Alive by Red Ants-The Kurdor ess' Fate-Death of the Avenger, On the morning of May 21 1877, shortly . after daybreak, a little Chinese boy, exhibiting the most violent consternaticTn and terror, informed the police man ou duty at the Post-office at Georgetown, JJemarara, tha he feared something had occur red to his master, a wealthy merchant named AlcxanderFor- bes, an eccentric Scotchman ol of fifty, who had been a resident of .Btiticli Guiana tor upward of thirty years,and lived in apart ments in the building in which he transacted business. His on ly servant was little "WahLong. On the morning of, which we write Wan Long, one of whose duties was the preparation of the catlypoflfee, with which ev ery Olie in the tropics begins the day, rose before the dawn While kindling his fire he notic ed that his blouse and trousers were wet, and to his hoiror dis covered bv the brightening flame that they were stained with blood.-: The matrcss. on which he had lain was puddled with the 'same frightful fluid, drops of which were still dripping sluggishly from . the ceiling whicn formed the floor of Ins master's cd-room overhead. In spite of his terror the child went upstairs and tried the door of the merchant's apartment. It was locked, and his repeated knocking was unanswered. He then went in search of help, and the policeman returned to the lonsc with him at once. The bedroom looked as if a egion of raving mad devils had .wen holding carnival there. The chairs were fairly beaten to splinters. The desk in which Mr. Forbes kept his private pa pers was battered into a score of pieces. The door was cover d whh broken bottle and frag ments of glass from the 'side board! ' That article of furniture itself was overturned and one of the pannels stamped in. The freiizy of the murderer or mur derer ssccmed to' have extended to the very '.walls; the numerous pictures on which were slashed and destroyed in their frames. Midway between his bed and the door; clutching the corner of one of the sheets which he had dragged after him, was Mr. Forbes. His night-shirt and muslin night drawers were rip ped to ribbons. There were eighteen stabs jn his face, and neck. Through a ghastly wound in his abdomen his-bowels pro truded." His . right bare arm was cut half through, and the bone's broken. Every rib on his right; side"- was, smashed. His right car and a portion ' of ihc check were eliced away, leaving fhe jaw-bones bare. The cheeky vvith ear and whisker at tached was found on the floor several ' feet awiy.. Nevertjicless the ..wretched man was not dead. Lying on his back, motionless, his eyes wide open and dilated by terror he mtutcrca consianuy in voice sprang eujviin .tiiu uiuuu which f5t almost ' every iru'sl ied I lorn 1i i s k mo u t h, word "She I she These unvarying words were lTthat could be obtained from him. jiV two .hours he died. Th;it the crime had be'en com mitted for purposes of plunder seemed impossible. 'The mur dered1 man's' ; valuable watch, chain and diamond, studs were under his pillow. Scattered a mid .hp debrif on the floor. was oter '300 in American" and En glish gold,and 53,500 in Colonial bank notes was jammed in one corner of the drawer from the broken desk. All the private papers, Jeters and the rcst,how- tver, were uueriy uu&uujcu, torn into mhnitessimai irag- ments,a heap of which had been burned on the slab of the table. Although Mr. Forbes was a bachelor, ho" was responsible for the existence of several children, all the fruits of his amours with native women. To the mothers of these children he had been in the habit of paying an annual allowance. The children them Pelves he had caused to bo cdu- - i catcd. The eldest, a handsome quadroon of .twenty, was at the I r I time of the murder, head over seer on one ot hia father's sugar estates. 11c was an especial fa vorite with the dead man, who had allowed him to assume hislrality ba bhintod ibis .Bensibtli natne. " ... 1 tics, and, although he dismissed "Let 1850, Frederic Forbes was tireless in his assistance of the detectives in the questfor his father's as sassin. AVhen they abandoned the work he swore solemnly not to relax his efforts to hunt the murderer down till he. succeeded 01 was dead. This proceeding created an immense impression at the time, and was the town talk. One evening, the young man, returning to the house in which he lived, found a scrap of paper folded like a letter and fastened to the door with a 6harp thorn. It was an assignation. The wri ter, who signed herself Rosa,pro fessed to have fallen in love with him, and desired him to meet her that night at a street corner near his house. 1 He complied. The street was deserted. The night was dark, and the air filled with prognos tications of a storm. There were occasional flashes of light ning. Frederic Forbes waited the coming of his unknown sweetheart impatiently, sud denly a vivid glare of sheet lightning showed him, close be side him, a stealthy figure, with knife in its uphlted hand. With an exclamation of alarm he threw out his arm as a guard. At the same time tUe figure, with a savage cry, dashed at him, and, striking his arm up vvith one hand.pl ungca hiskuile into -his side under the armpit with the other, and fled. Fortunately for him his as sailant, in his hurry and the larkncss, had only half perform ed his work. In two weeks the young man was convalescent and returned to his Home. As young bachelors in the West Indies commonly do, he ived alone, with no other ser- i i vant than an old woman, wno i i came every day to prepare nis meals and put the house in or der, and who returned at night o her own home. One day this old woman gave him a basket of fruit which had been left lor iim in the name of a friend, a danter ;of the Demarara Kiver. He fed a couple of bananas to a et monkey, and the brute ex pired with frightful convulsions. The fruit had been pricked with poisoned needle, and was charged with sufficient manchi onel juice to kill a hundred men. -r . ... 1. ' K i: I Up to IMS nine ne uenuveu the assault on him had been made for the purpose of robbery. Xow, associating with it this "enerous gift, he became con- inced that his unseen enemies were the murdeivrsof his father. He at once commenced to search for them, f lis only guide was the description of the girl who had delivered the. note, and whom a neighbor had seen, and that of the person who had left the fruit, which he obuuned Irom his housekeeper. They tallied exactly. Both letter crfrricr and messenger were a young1 girl of seventeen, a light quadroon with reddish hair, whose face,al though very beautiful, was marred by the deep scar of a knife wound on the left lower jaw. On jew-Year's night he saw a man and woman emerge from a house In which a dignity ball was in full blast. The man he recognized at once as an Irish man named Hayes, a disgraced soldier, an adventurer and bil liard sharp who for some years had been well known in the colony. The light of a street lamp and a chance movement which displaced the light veil which she wore on her bare head revealed the face of Hie woman to him. I; was the face of a woman with reddish hair, who had a deep scar of a knife wound on the left lower jaw. He tracked her to a house in the upper part of the city.vyhich she and her companion entered. Very little inquiry sullict-d to inform him that she lived there She was a common 'woman of the town, and was - known as Rosa Nunez. Hayes was said to be her lover. Next day Forbes entered-a charge against her of attempted murder. Hayes, who was in bed with her when the .police- man entered, was arrested with her. ; To all' interrogations the o-irl remained obstinately silent. The mart confessed. " Hj; ' ' v' . , . 'ir. A year bcioro nis iicain xur. Forbes had met RoaaNnnez,and added her to his long list of mist resscs. Within t wiomonths accident had ledtoUhe horrible . . . i revelation that she was nis own child, the forgotten result oi an amour with a handsome Barba dian mulatto. Incredible . as it may seem, he received the' reve lation with little emotion. A long career of shameful iramo- all the ends thou aim'st at be FAYETTEV1LLE, TENNESSEE: TIRM, OCTOBER 21, her at once with a liberal gift he did so with no sign of con trition or of horror at his revolt ing error. The girl on her part was too perverted and Calloused by the 11 i' it i a-uanuoneu caning., sue had lol lowed from childhood to expe rience any painful sentiments a her unnatural crime. bhe soon saw in the event . . . however, a source of profit. Be tween her lover, Hayes,, and herself a system of black-mail founded on their threat to give the history:of his incestuous li aison to the' world, was estab iisnea, unuer which the mer chant was bled.. persistently and with an unsparing hand.' Finally he revolted,and threat encd to brave the shame of pub licity and rid himself of his tor mentors by prosecuting them for conspiracy, using their letters as evidence against them. The Irishman and his para mour then determined to put themselves in posscssion of the dangerous papers. 1 - - -.On the night of . the murder the httlcChinaman was dispatch ed by his master to carry a note to an acquaintance. , During his absence,Hayesaud Rosa introduced themselves in to the lonely house without dif ficulty. They found Forbes in his sleep ing-dress 6l retched on his bed, smoking and driii king cold bran dy and water. Half drunk, and wholly unsuspicious, he had left his room door unlocked. The girl remained outside to watch for the return of the Chinaman. At the entrance of Hayes Forbes leaned to his feet. The Irishman seized him at once,but the merchant was a powerful man, and struggled hard. The contest promised to result in the alarm of some chance passer-by, and the girl interfered.5 " With the dirk which, like most women of her class in the tropics, she was never without, she, in the most business like manner pos sible, dealt her father half a dozen strokes in the face and neck, while her paramour held him by the throat. He fell back on the led. 1 1 Hie accomplices then proceeded to carry out their purpose. While they were searching the disordered room for the ob jects of their coming, Forbes recovered himself 'and recom menced the combat. Hayes de fended himself with the cutlass which he had found among a lot of rubbish on the landing out side the door, and which he had been using to force the drawers of the desk open. Whi le the fight went on the girl employed her self in coolly destroying all the papers she found. By the time she had finished a final blow had stretched her father on the bed again, with his stomach laid o- pen. Snatching up a bundle of bank-notes alid a couple of rou leaux of sovereignSjthey retreat ed. They closed and locked the door, and threw the key away in the street. Hayes, who had me chanically retained, possession of the cutlass, dropped it where the policeman found it next day, and the pair made off together just as. the 'boy returned. " Hayes and the woman were found guilty, and sentenced to labor at the Essequibo penal colony for 1 i f Nothing but the objection of the authorities to impose the death penalty saved the prison ers' lives. Frederic -Forbes de nounced the verdict in ' open Court, and demanded the execu tion of the criminals. He be came eventually so violent that he had to be it moved by the of ficers. A day or two later he disappeared. , The penal 'colony at Masaruni is divided into communes like the French establishments of the same sort at Cayeimel The fel- ons live in gangs in quarters es tablished within a guarded area, ami arc cmpioveu m cuinng. i i ;. . a i ' timber and 'working the linei granite-quarries for which the district is famous. One day the gang-master under whvm Hayes' worked reported nnn ; missing. Search was made for him and his body found, i The miserable scoundrel had been tied, naked, to one of the huge nests . the venomous red ants build aroundithe tree trunks, and left to be. eaten alive. Only his torso . and head were left. The bare bones of his hip and legs were in a heap at the foot of the tree, and millions of ants swarmed in his empty body and over his skull. j A month passed. Then, at midday the settlement was a larincd by the cries of a woman uroceodiiiir from the house of one of the officials, at the edge .thy Country's, thy God's, and of the forest. They grew rapid ly fainter and by the time assist ance arrived were quite still. On the floor of the . veranda of the house,' Rosa Nunez, who had been living with the: keeper as Ins mistress, was lound dead. She had been almost disembow eled, her skull was battered Vto pieces, and one-side of her face partially cut away.-' ,. These wounds, as will be no ted, were almost identical in character . with those of which her. father had perished. : Tke pretense of a search was made for her murderer, and ten days later the skeleton of a man was found in a little ran a mile rom the house. He had evident y thrown himself into the creek and been devoured by the ra venous little caribes, the finny cannibals which infest all the :resh water streams of the Gui- anas. Dome miners from uoi Creek, a mining camp on the Mazaruni. identified the belt anc machete sheath which were bund in the stream along with he skeleton, as those of a man who had spent a few davs with hem and wiio answered to the description of Frederic Forbes. SOMETIME. Sometime, in the beautiful Future, When the lessons of Life ore all learned And we turn from the school by the way side, Each wearing the laurels we've earned We shall know why, when toiling and striv ing, ' ' The Master withheld from our grasp he things which we strove for the hardest Ihose toys which we lunged most to clas; We shall know why to some there was rnetid ' Life's sorrows, Its anguish and pain ; Why our vain hopes, our sure disappoint menls And losses, to others brought gain. And why upon some there was lavished, With generous, bounteous hand, Earth's richest and choicest of blessings, So widely spread over the land. I am sure in the beautiful Future, When the lessons of Life are all done, We shall turn from the school by the way side, Each wearing the crown he haa won. For we look now through glass that is dark ened, "But then we shall see face to face ; We shall know as we re known" at the dawning, And dwell in the light of His grace. He Wanted Something New. A cigarette-smoking scion of one of the first families , on the West Side came into this office to request that a notice of his coming nuptials might be inserted in the paper. "Don't say, bowever," said the young man earnestly, "that I am about to lead to the hy meneal altar the beautiful and accomplished daughter of Mr. So-and-So, because that kind of slush is too old; and, besides, no one can lead a woman, and then again, it's leap year. Better make it read that I have consent ed to be her'n." He was assured that it would be done, and left. A Father's Perplexity. The Galveston (Texas) News has the following anecdote: "How is your son coming on r "Oh, I am having a power of trouble with him." "What's the matter now?" ."Well, you know, I couldn't send him to school, because, thanks to Governor Roberts, we have no free schools, and 1 could not afford to send him to a pri vate school." "Yes, I know that is so." "Well, I sent him away from Galveston to the frontier, and, as luck would bavo it, he was convicted of horse-stealing and got five years in the peniten tiary." "That was bad." "No, it wasn't for you see at the penitentiary he could learn a trade and become a useful cit- '... lzen "Well, that's good." ' . "No, it ain't; for - Governor Roberts has" pardoned him out on account of his youth and ig- "A is gentleman thinking of buying an estate and negotia tes in person with its shrewd possessor. 1 . ;The lowest price I will take," says the proprietor, "is 900,000 francs, and the timber alone is worth850,000franc8if it is worth a penny. That I know." "I'll tell you what I'll do you cut the timber yourself and I'll give you 50,000 francs." The oiler is promptly and en thusiastically declined. Professor "Can you multi ply together concrete numbers? The class are uncertain l ro fessor -"What will be the pro duct of five apples multiplied by six potatoes.-'" Pupil Ctrium- jphantly) - "IIash!" Truth's." A Box at the Right Time. In one of the most important commercial cities of JN orthern Germany, there once lived a mer chant named Mueller, who in his walks. about the city, often en countered a bright-faced, well- dressed young man, who always took on his hat and bowed to him in the most deferential man ner. ..;....,.,'' The young fellow was an en tire stranger to the merchant, but the latter alwavs returned his greeting with a friendly nod, supposing himself to be mista ken by the young man for some one whom he probably resem bled. One day Mr. Muller was invi ted to the country seat of a friend, and, arriving there at the appointed time, he noticed this young man walking up and down the shady paths of the garden, engaged in earnest conversation with the hosU . ! "Xow I shall know who this young man is," thought Mr. Muller, and hastily 'approached them. "Allow me," said the host, af ter exchanging greetings with his friend, "to introduce " " "It Is not necossan I assure you," said the young man, "we have known each other for many a year 1" " 1 ou must be mistaken, said Mr. Muller, "for in answer to your greetings, I have repeated ly bowed to you still you are entirely unknown me!" "And yet I insist, replied the young man, "that I have been acquainted with you a longtime, and -am delighted to have the oi portunity of meeting you here, and to present my heart-felt thanks for a service you once didmel" "You speak iu riddles," said Mr. Muller; "how can you be under obligations to me, when I do not even know you! "It does seem a little myste rious, laughing answered the young man, "but let us sit down icre on the piazza, while I throw a little light on the subject. "Seventeen 3-ears ago, when I was a lad of nine, I started to school one morning, with mv books under one arm and lunch of bread and butter under the other. I was a poor boy with a big appetite. And my luncheon seemed never enough for my hungry stomach, and I used of ten to envy boys whose mothers could afford to give them choice nut for dinner. "My way to school was thro' he market-place, and as I ar rived there it seemed to me the fruit had never looked half so beautiful or desirable. I" stood here several minutes, gazing at the abundant supply, instead of hastening away from tcmpta- lon, as I should have done. "Suddenly an old market-wo man, who. superintended large rosy-streaked apples, turned her back on her wares to gossip with a neighbor. "Such lots and lots, "I thought to myself, "surely one from so many would never be mis.sed,yet it would do me so much good." "Quick as a' flash I stretched out ray hand, and was just a- bout to thrust one into my pock ct, when a Sharp slap caused me to drop the fruit in an agony of terror. "Youngster," said an earnest voice close to my burning ear, "have you forgotten theTcnCom maridments? Nov 1 hope this is the first time that you have ever stretched out your hand af ter, goods that were not your own; let it be the last time also." "1 hung my head down for shame, and only for an instant lifted my eyes from the ground to see who my reprover was. '"When T reached school the words heard were still sounding in my ears. My heart was so full 1 could scarcely keep from crying. "Let it be the last time also," "Let it be the last time al so," again and again confronted me. Bowing my head on the desk, I resolved that it should indeed be the last time, even as it had been the first; that never as long as I Jived would I covet what belonged to another, or strive to gain unlawful posses sion. "After a few years I left; school and became a clerk in my uncle's counting room. From there a year or two later I went to South America. You will readily be lieve me when I tell you that there thc temptations to a young merchant are not few. I repeat edly hail opportunities, which ac quaintances of mine did not hes itate to improve, to' benefit my self at the expense of others, but every time these presented themselves, that ringing blow on the car ami those words, "Let JFroprletGr vol ra-m 31 that be the last time also-' minded me of my duty, and helped me to distinguish be- twecn right and wrong. . "I have been back in my na tive country about five months. t v,.. 1 .1- r x wiuv uac. Mossusscu ui considerable wealth-but money earned squarely and honestly! Never have I knowingly reach- ed out this hand and taken a pen- ny even that did not rightfully belong to mer The young man remained si- W fn, , wr,a , with emotion, then reaching forth his hand he took that of Mr. Muller, and exclaimed: ' "Allow me to gratefully grasp he hanpl that once did me Tsuch a service. A Elood-Eound's Gratitude. Detroit Free Press. There is now living in Eaton county, this State, a farmer who, s a Federal soldier and a oris- onerf at Andersonville, was a partv to a strange incident dur- ng the palmy days of that ter- iqie prison pen. ine prisoners were to go out in squads,strong- y guarded, to collect hrcwood. One day it came to this man's turn to co, and for the first time since his imprisonment he had caught sight of "Colonel Catch- m, " the big blood-hound who ad run down more Vscal)in& irisoncrs than all the other dogs combined. In fact at that time le was the only hound at the )ost. He was a monster dog cavase as a tiger, ami lie naa in several cases pulled down and killed tho prisoners before the pursuers could come up. Such 1 were the stories of his ferocity, whispered inside the stockade, that more than one tunnel wan abandoned just as it was ready to lead its diggers under the posts and to liberty. The Michigander noticed that ihe dog limped painfully on one of his fore feet, but gave the matter no special attention nn- til, after being out for half an hour, he sat down to rest near one of the guards. Ihe dog approached the guard as if to 1 -f ask some favor, but "was repuls ed with an oath and a threaten ed blow. He then skulked a- round and came near the priso ner, who saw that he had an old horse-shoe nail run into his foot. With a little coaxing he got the dog near, and finally pulled out the nail, and the animal ran a way, seemingly well pleased. Twelve days alter, that, one night about midnight, a tunnel was ready to pass out the lew who had secictly dug it. The Wolverine went first, and, in deed, last. The others remem bered the stories of the big blood-hound, and drew back at the last moment. Ihe prisoner was a long time getting clear of the neighborhood, and weak and starved as he was, he was not more than two miles from the stockade when day broke and "Colonel Catchem was put on his' track. When he heard he1 hound coming he looked for 1 suitable tree to climb, but fail ed to, find one. Armed with a club he took his stand and dc- Itermined to make a fight for it j u alon thc traji with a rush, stopped short at surht ot the prisoner and was a- o . . ., bout, to spring, when he recog nized thc man and began exhib iting every; sign of friendship. After a few minutes the pursuers were heard m the distance. The dog at once, trotted off in that direction, and was shortly bay ing and leading them over a fic titious trail. The prisoner pushed ahead for half an hour, and was then re joined by the dog, who -kept either close to his heels or just ahead of him all day, and lAy beside him in the woods at night. This , position of guardian or companion he maintained until toward night of the second day, when he returned to the stock ade. The prisoner was tlxcn thirty miles away, but the roads were patrolled and on the. fifth morning he was recaptured. When he was returned the bound met and eareswed him, and for this wna whipped by one of the guards. From that hour to the close of the war the dog would not take thu trail of an escaping prisoner. He was tried, time and again, but he would not follow the trail a single rod. Another blood-hound was pro cured, but a soon as he took up a trail thc other dog would fol low aud fight him. During the last three months of Ander sonville not a prisoner was run down by thc dogn, although doz ens tunuelcd out,aud many were lying in the woods when thc Confederacy went with a crash. Tragedy of tho Butte. In the early part of April in this year, George Harland, As sistant Recorder of Lembi coun ty, Idaho, while strolling in the Salmon River Mountains, ajxmt three-fourths of a mile from the rivcr,clambered an isolated butte, whose small top arose above its neighbors. -There, scattered o- ver the narrow top, which wa3 less than twenty-five feet square, were the remains of three men. re. umai a , uucmuc ucc. Bleached bones were scattered about, catridge-boxes, metal ar row heads, rotting arrows and two bent and broken muskets, with short bands like carbines, 1 , :fl , t 4'. ;f win " T ' ?CK -,uli euu. V1 ' 4 8"8whic(f, J :u f IV BO uu "ILIUT ""l X f 1 l""o"- , Persons: An cxammauon oy an anatomist, noweer,Miuveu uuiu there were only three. The guns broken so as to be utterly useless, and had probably been used.mclubbingana attackingan en,em3r:1 c tea as 11 in a vice, uiiu uiie oi them was bent double.' A les3 reasonable suggestion is" that, having exhausted their ammu nition, the men, seeing certain death before them, broke their weapons over the rocks 111 order to prevent their falling into the hands of the Indians. Two o- pinions are expressed, however, as to whether tne party met t f the reason at the time of the occurrence,prob- ably twelve or fifteen years ago, a musket or gun of any sort was aPnzc 10 tne 11KliaP especially 111 the lar-away jez .Tercet country, where the remains were found, and the Indians would never have left the guns, no matter how much-broken they were, had they been able to take them away. The spot is near the old mail road, which ran along the Salmon River, and which wras frequented in many spots by "gentlemen of the road," wiio were on the lookout for prospecting and hunting parties quite as much as for chance travelers and stage coaches, the latter of w hich they did not of ten dare attack. A prospecting party which had been lucky or unlucky enough to pick up a few ounces would have been considered well worth the killing had they defended themselves. The read agents, too, sometimes scalped their victims, and other wise mutilated them, and biuck arrows into bullet wounds in or der to leave an impression that the work had been done by In dians. Mr. Oliver A. Gagcr se cured one of the guns and some of the ribs and vertebrae of the victims. He says the general belief in Idaho is that the men had been killed by the KezPer- ccs. me gun may possiijiy lead to the identification of the party, although scores of hunt ing and prospecting parties have disappeared in that region and never been heard from. Tho weapon was probably a United States musket which has been in thc confederate service, or may have been manufactured af ter the outbreak of the war. There is stamped in the rusted ock"aIl & Cunningham, iNash- ville,.Tenn., On the barrel is he stamp: "Pulaski, T. C. b. A. 61." The figures referring, it is supposed, to the calibre, and not to the date of manufacture. On the trigger plate behind thc shield there had been stamped nto the brass, apparently w ith a small pointed cold chisel and miner, in upright" dash lines, the letters "S. R. T .," which may have been the initials of thc soldier or of the hunter. The sight had been filed out for hunting purposes on the plains. As only the war, brought anna of this character oirt of the hands of the Government and into the hands of the people, the men probably met their deaths alter 1865. Another means of limit ing the time ic. the fact that the Indians of this region had no metal arrow heads before 1S63, when they succeeded in pm ch asing a large quantity of hoop and scrap iron and old files 111 Montana. Thc affair is, howev er, placed back a dozen years by ' the bleached white of the hard wood of the stocks of the guns, from which every trace of yar-. nwh had been taken by tho titOrm and hunshine. The fine, clear, dry atmosphere of the Vestern mountains has prevent ed any geat rusting. That the. men must have been of a res pectable clas Is fthown by sev eral things, but principally by tho fact that- the white and al most ierfect teeth iu thc smuli cet of the aku.lL are filled in tho places with gold. The' work muBt haye been done, by an ex pert dentist, since the fillings are even yet bolid,and the filliu baa ' neither receded from the teeth nor tho teeth from the filling. A party of citizens finally went out, and, gathered all tiat re mained, placed them in the ten ter of the knob nd coe ed them with a monument six iet-t square and eight feet high, made up of the scattered Java rcks.