Pittston Gazette

              K8TAHLISIIEI)1850. I fllftao VOL. XXVI. NO. 38 { UIUBS Newspaper in the Wyoming alley. PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO., PA., FRIDAY. MARCH 13, 1896. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. ]*^0nI£va£cea A MOUNTAIN HERO otio figures of the war. Without tbe loss of a mail he reached Gamp Dick RobirrD sou, of the recent establishment of whkSn he learned while making his way north. As soon as he reached the protection of "the old flag," as the Union  seeans delighted to call the stars and stripes, David Fry and his companions, now increased to more than 100 men, were mastered into the Second East Tennessee volunteers, and he was commissioned captain of Company F. for this work the brave fellow sought a secluded place and prayed long and fervently for God to reach down his strong right hand and help him. Whatever be did after this he firmly believed was under the guidance of Providence, and even when he heard the death songs of his companions near him as be lay in the shadow of the gallows his faith neither departed nor weakened. struction of the ..u„ n . " lines was charged against him. He wa. branded as an outlaw and a price put on his lucid, and aroused to the necessity for protecting the east Tennessee communications the Confederate authorities embraced the opportunity rejected by the Federals, and under General Kirby Smith a large force seized every vantage point from Cumberland gap to Kuoxville. as the halls or cotton wick ana turpentine would burn for at least an hour they were lift to mark the place where the mountaneers were to rally in the event of tliar being repulsed. The instant the sifnal rose a wild, shrill cheer followed, aid the sleepers in the tents and houses Dat Greenville started up in alarm. Shooting "Fo' the Union 1 Fo' the Union!" Fry's men dashed into the town and iwarmed about the tents of the Coufedtrates. Shot and shriek and oath and daath cry rang out The veterans of a dozen campaigns could not have been furprised in this way, but if surprised tkey would have behaved exactly as didLeadbetter's green troops on this oocasioa. it is said, as they lay wuunded on the field, but a majority broke through, and, following bis last instructions, succeeded in reaching friends in Kentucky.dantly and did all in bis power to cheer them up and make them comfortable. STARTLING FAILURE. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL? Captain Fry's fertile brain, he was not employed in holding jftayer meetings for his own comfort and the salvation of his companions, was busy with plans for escape. He watched the guards till he knew eCery man of them, and made a pretty gvod estimate of his pluck And his ability to act in an emer- LESSON XI, FIRST QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL SERIES, MARCH 15. By ALPEED E. 0ALH0UH. Frywas ironed, though he was scarcely able t% move, and, instead of being sent to a hospital, he was marched to Kuoxville jail, charged with being a Yankee spy. An ordinary man would have died under this treatment, or given up in despair, but the captain lost neither his heart nor his head. His wounds healed, despite neglect. His jailers told him that he must die, and he asked to see his wife, but the request was denied. When taken to Kuoxville, his hair and beard were black and without one silver streak; within a month both had become almost white, but it need not be said that this change was not due to fear. 0. B. of Plains, Makes An Assignment. [Copyright, lHDfi. by the Author.] Text of the Lesson, Luke il, 1-13—Mem* CHAPTER L EXECUTIONS AGGREGATING $30,000 ory Verse*, », 10—Golden Text, Luke Of the mofe than 60,000 Union men of east Tennessee and the hill country of western North Carolina who suffered for their fidelity during the war I know of no man who showed greater ability and heroism than David Fry. He was to my mind an ideal mountaineer, framed like a Roman athlete, with those qualities for leadership that led Spartacus into revolt, and, witbal, the heart of a tender woman and the guilelessness of an unsophisticated boy. After hours of deliberation he decided to take with him only one man, a youth wuned Robert McCoy. *1. 9—Commentary by the ReT. I). M. Stearns. A man less heroic than Captain Fry and less fertile in resources would have been appalled by the ever increasing dangers that now gathered thick and fast atjout him, but the high quality of leadership asserted itself, and he rose equal to the occasion. When he had learned the worst, he drew apart from the men, and, as was his habit when he had occasion for rejoicing or was perplexed in the shadows, he knelt down and prayed, and this childlike faith in divine guidanoe was not the least remarkable trait of this man's character. Kntered tn the Protlionotary's Ottice and At this time General Mitchell, one of the ablest and most heroic generals on the side of the Union, was in command at Cincinnati, his department extending into Kentucky. No man at that date had so clear a conception of the war, the resources of the enemy, or the best means of crippling them as had General Mitchell. He was the first to see the vital importance of seizing or destroying the lines of transportation and communication that were so vital to the support of the Confederate armies. He pointed out what it took his successors two years to understand, and that was the necessitv of occuuvins east Tea- " We'll carry our arms, and we'll wear our uniforms under citizens' overcoats," he said that night to General Carter, and when asked if he would not want more assistance in this great work he added: "Thar's hundreds of men in the mountains a-bidin like bunted wolves and a-waitin fo' the com in of the old flag. When they know that I'm back to help the cause, and that the army is a-followin close on my heels, they'll fly down to the valleys a-yellin, and if you find any bridges when you come I'll give you leave to treat me ez if I was a spy. "■ the Sheriff I-evlen Upon the Property— 1. "Lord, toC-ich us to pray." Thus spake one of His disciples to Him as He was praying in a certain place. He was much given to prayer, much In communion with heaven arid In His life on earth always pleasing the Fathor. Luke records five instances of.His praying which do not seem to be recorded by the other evangelists (chapters iil, 21; v, 16; vi, 12, 13; ix, 29, and here). It should be a great comfort to us that, though we know not what wo should pray for as we ought, the Spirit Himself makoth intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered, and Ho maketh Intercession according to God (Rom. vllL 26, 27). Mr. MacKnlght Wax a Prominent Busi- ness and Wax Regarded as Being In Oood Circumstance*. Business circlts at the cointy seat were stouuded last week when announcement was made of the failure of O. B. Mac- Knight, the well known Plains merchant. On Taurcday there was entered up In the Prothonotary's offioe a note for $20,000 made by Mr. MacKoight-on March 4,h, in favor of E. A. Hancock, of Pailadelphia, and Friday morning executions were issued upon Mr. Ma'Kuight'a property. Besides the note for $20,000, the following accounts were entered against the property: Jjeeph Blrkbeck, $4,400; John 8. MacKnight, $5,000; Thomas Cook, $1,800. Half d re«ed men rushed from their qnarten to fire and fall, but the majority, obeying the impulse that leads to preservation, fled blindly into the darkness. When daylight came, the first fight in east Tennessee was over, and the Union mountaineers were masters of the situation, with a loss of 8 men killed and about 20 wounded. The loss of the Ganfedoibtes wan much greater, in addition to which 800 prisoners were taken and all their stores'captured. Fry's ability as a leader may be inferred from the fact that, before making this attack, he sent men to the north and south of Greenville to destroy the telegraph wires connecting with Bristol and Kuoxville, It is not my purpose at this time to renew my sketches of "The Mountain Men of the South," though the subject is to me intensely fascinating and my material abundant, but to illustrate by the experience of Captain Fry the difficulty prisoners often bad, particularly when held by the south, in proving that they were not spies. Judge Temple and Judge O. P. Baxter of Knoxville volunteered to defend Fry when he was brought to trial. The Confederates were forced to acknowledge that Fry was a Federal officer and had the tight to recruit wherever be could do so, but they based their charge on the fact that he wore wheSf—eaptured a Confederate overcoat. The friendly lawyers proved that this was liot intentional, and pointed to the uniform which the prisoner had worn from the first. The result was that Fry, though condemned to death, was not executed immediately after the trial, as is the custom in suoh cases. He rose from his kuees, and coming back to the fire, about which the men were talking in eager whispers, he said: "Boys, the old flag ain't a-comin back ez soon ez we expected, but she's a-comin, praise the Lord, and he's a-leadin her as did the cloud of smoke by day and the pillar of fire by night, when the children had crossed the Red sea and was bavin a doggone bard time of bit in the wilderness. I've asked the great Master to help us this night, and he's put hit into my heart to come back bere and tell you that our frieuds may be a bit late, but they're a-comin, and they'll come to stay. Along the Great Smoky and ovah No'th Caliny way thar's hundreds of Union men anxious to jine us. Let us send thetn word that we're a-waitin. They'11 come, and when they do, we'll be strong enough to go dowu and look fo' them ribils ez hez sot a prioe on the head of Davy Fry." 2. "When yo pray say, Our Father which art la heaven."' This seems to have been on another occasion than that referred to in Math, vi, 9, a repetition and indorsement of this beautiful summary and sample of all prayer. Only Christians can truly use it, for none but the redeemed can truly say "Our Father." Compare John viii, 44, with i, 12. Inasmuch as the carnal mind is enmity against God, none but the redeemed can honor His name, and only such will desire His kingdom to come and His will to be done on earth as in heaven. That night, with young McCoy, Fry left camp and marched with the rising moon to his left and the north star behind him. The better to understand Captain Fry's case it will be necessary to outline his exploits before his capture. If I had space to give the details, the story of this man's doing and daring would be found more thrilling than the most sensational work of fiction,and the reader who perhaps bears his namo for the first time would wonder why so remarkable a man was destined to sink into the oblivion that is fast obscuring the splendid exploits of himself and his comrade heroes in that mountain land. It should be said for General Carter that he firmly believed what he had told Fry about the immediate invasion of east Tennessee. He was sure that before a month passed General  at the head of a well organised army, would be at or near Cumberland gap, the gateway to the rich valleys stretching south to Chattanooga. At this time the Confederate force in east Tennessee was insignificant,so that its conquest and occupancy presented no obstacles that a soldier would seriously consider. But before Fry had been gone a week, and when it was impossible to recall him, the plans of the Union generals, against the protests of Mitchell and Carter, were changed, and the brave fellow was left to bis fate. For nearly two years more east Tennessee was destined to be the harvest land of the Confederacy. "Here is the thief and murderer!" gency. He conferred with his associates from day to day till about the middle of Juno, when his plans were completed. But now happened a thing for which the little band of Union men in that jail were wholly unprepared. The news of Mr. MaeKnight's failure ccmee as a atait'.ing surprise to his many friends He has been one of the mott prominent reeidents of Plains, and was at the lead in business, political and social I circles. The first intimation that there was something wrong came a few days ago when, without any ado, George Shiffer, of Plains, was appointed by the Court to succeed Mr. MacEnight as a member of the Central Poor Board, which position he had held twenty years or more. Investigation showed that Mr. MacKnight bad resigned as a result of differences with other members of the board concerning poor district money which lay In his hands. It seems that the tax collectors in the neighborhood of Plains have been in the habit of handing over their collections to Mr. MacEnlght. They had no legal right to do bo, but did it for convenience Collections amounting to $4,800 had b»en ptid to Mr. MacKnlght during the p »st year, which had not been turned over to the district treasurer, Abram Neebitt. Members of the board objected to euch methods, and Mr. Mac Knight resigned. He paroled all the prisoners except ten officers, whom be decided to carry back to the mountains to be held as hostages for the good treatment of bis own wounded, whom he was forced to leave behind, or for men who might be subsequently captured. All the rations, ammunition and arms that were not necessary for the rastenanoe and equipment of his own command be destroyed. He fell back, taking the wagons as far us the foothills, where they were burned and the supplies packed on the backs of horses and mules for transport into the heart of the mountains. As soon as Fry's capture became known to the Union men in Knoxvilie, they dispatched a messenger into Kentucky, and at once two Confederate captains were held as hostages and word was sent to the nearest Confederate outpoet by Generals Morgan and Carter that if Pry was executed the hostages would be promptly disposed of in like manner. It was this dread of retaliation that saved the gallant fellow's life and induoed Kirby Smith to recall his order for the hanging of "the Yankee spy." So long a time had elapsed since their trial and conviction at Chattanooga and Nashville that the least sanguine of the men began to feel that he was safe from the fearful sentence of the court martial On the morning of June 18, 18(52, as Captains Fry and Mason of the Twenty-first Ohio were looking out the jail window, they saw a squadron of cavalry riding up and forming about the prison. They turned to their companions, who were amusing themselves with some simple games on the floor, and reported the facts. 8. "Give us day by day our daily bread." The whole teaching of Scripture is that we have to live but one day at a time and not to allow tomorrow's cares to intrude upon today. "As thy days thy strength." "That which they have need of, day by day without fail." "A daily rate for every day, all the days of his life." "Take therefore no thought for tho morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself" (Deut. xxxiii, 25; Ezra vi, 9; II Eings xxv, 30; Math, vi, 34). 4. "And forgive us our sins." If wa confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (I John i, 9). It is understood, however, that confession includes, on our part, the forgiveness from the heart of all who have injured us (Math, vi, 14, 15; Mark xi, 26). As to temptation, God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth He any man (Jas. i, 13, 14), and yet it is written "God did tempt Abraham" (Gen. xxii, 1), but Heb. xi, 17, says that Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac. God tries His people for their good (Deut. viii, 16; I Cor. x, 13), but never tempts them to do wrong. When the Confederate oonscripting officers came into east Tenjjpssee in September, 1861, David Fry was farming in one of those lovely little valleys that nestle in the foothills of the Great Smoky range to the northeast of Knoxville. At that time he was about 82 years of age, with intensely black bair and beard and the bravest and kindliest bluish gray eyes ever set in a man's face. He bad received a fair education, considering the advantages afforded in that land at that time, and he bad just been married. Like all the mountaineers, bis nature was intensely religious, but unlike tbe great majority of his neighbors, be was addicted to neither whisky nor profanity. He had no feud calling for vengeance, and, though known to be spirited and determined, Fry had never had a quarrel nor struck a blow in anger till forced to take sides for or against tbe flag, which from his youth he had regarded with the idolatry which a pagan has for his fetich. The men cheered this declaration, and the battle light glowed in their faces and flashed from their eyes as they swore to fight under Davy "for the Union and in the shadow of their own mountains." " Waal, I gw'ar we never hollered $o befo'." nessee and so holding the railroad that afforded the shortest route between the Confederate armies east and west "Seize and fortify Cumberland gap" was bis command. With this as our base the rest wonld have been easy. Although our own General Morgan ably carried out this advice of General Mitchell, the occupation was too long deferred to be effective or to prevent the subsequent raids of Kirby Smith and Leadbetter. Only a student of military campaigns can fully appreciate the moral effect of a first victory on troops. In their exultation Fry's men felt that they were irresistible, bnt a first viotory, though preferable to defeat, may prove to be as disastrous by inducing overconfldence in the victors and an underestimate of the defeated. «£Vy, however, never lost his head. Success brought him volunteers, till be had about 1,000 men under him, but it also intensified his appreciation pf his responsibilities. Fully realizing the demoralisation that accompanies inactivity, and, it may be, keeping ever in mind the object of his coming back to east Tennessee, be determined to destroy the bridges again, many of which had been promptly repaired by the Confederates.Faithful to his pledge and all unconscious of the cruel change that left him to bis fate, Captain David Fry and his companion made their way into east Tennessee and back to the old home. During this journey he avoided the Confederate guards and pickets and was never once called on to practice a deception, though be would not have hesitated to do so had the suocess of his mission or his own safety required it. Captain Fry, like a wild animal, was kept confined in "the cage" at the Knoxville jail till mid-May, when he was joined by 12 Union soldiers, who, like himself, had been condemned to death. These were a part of the famous Andrews raiders—men who had been sent out by General Mitchell to burn the railroad bridges between Atlanta and Chattanooga. After a daring and nearly successful attempt, the story of which is the most thrilling chapter of the war, these raiders were captured and taken to Chattanooga. Andrews, a Kentuckian, was hanged, and the others, regarded as spies, were divided, part remaining back to be tried at Chattanooga, and the 12 men referred to being sent to Knoxville for tbe same purpose. Tl* Union lawyers who had defended Fry used all their skill in behalf of tbe raiders, bat law is not a matter for the consideration of a court martial that is convened to convict. At once, and with beating hearts and ashy faces, all the men leaped to their feet and looked out They heard doors opening below, and then the stamping of spurred boots and the clatter of sabers on the stairs. Within two weeks after Captain Fry had learned that he was abandoned be bad enlisted 672 men. As this force could not be kept intact and fed in tbe mountains, it was necessary to go down to the rioh valley of the Holston, and to do this meant battle. But neither the gallant mountaineer nor his followers hesitated for a moment The door of the room in which the condemned prisoners were confined was thrown open, and an officer strode in with an ominous looking paper in his hand. Bowing to the men, this officer said: At that time it was believed in our camps in Kentucky, nor was the belief confined to the enlisted refugees, that east Tennessee was an objective point, and that after we bad brushed Zollicoffer aside, as we felt absolutely sure we should do when we met him, the next move would be through Cumberland gap. Had General Mitchell been in command with power to act after the battle of Mill Springs, east Tennessee would have been permanently wrested from the Confederacy before the spring of 1862, and so saved tbe subsequent destruction and desolation that came upon it CHAPTER Ji As Geueral Carter foresaw, east Tennessee was vir ually unoccupied by the Confederates, the handful of troops there at the time being employed in collecting supplies for the quartermaster and commissary depots at Knoxville and Bristol. Captain Fry was now his own master, but this fact intensified bis sense of duty and magnified to tilm the importance of speedily accomplishing the work for which he had been sent south. Captain David Fry, until a bitter experience convinced bim to the contrary, never lost hope of tbe coming of the Union troops to east Tennessee. In this bis companions shared his faith just as they shared his religion. Tbey felt that tbey were now regularly enlisted in the service of tbe government, or "j'ined to fight to' the gov'ment," as they put it and tbey conscientiously believed that they would be violating their oaths if they did not begin fighting at once. "Gentlemen, as your names are called, please answer and form in line facing thedoor. William Campbell, George D. Wilson, Company B, Second Ohio; Marvin Ross, Company A, Second Ohio; Perry G. Shadracb, Company K, Second Ohio; Samuel Slavins, "Thirty-third Ohio; Samuel Robinson*Company G, Thirty-third Ohio; John Scott, Company H, Twenty-first Ohio." 6. "Which of you shall have a friend?" Abraham is the only man mentioned in Scripture by name as the friend of God (II Chron. xx, 7; Isa. xli, 8; .Tames ii, 23), but Jesus said to His disciples "Henceforth I call you not servants, but I have called you friends, that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in My name. He may give it you" (John xv, 15, 16). And this in connection with fruit to the glory of God. A GOOD I.J BRAKY SUGGESTION Although so etrongly attached to the Union, it is doubtful if David Fry and so many of bis friends would have gone so early to its defense had it not been for the harsh and impolitic methods of the Confederate conscripting officers. Indeed, these overzealous and arbitrary officers stung into revolt hundreds of young men who were wavering in their allegiance, and who might have been won to tbe south by a broader and more humane treatment These mountaineers "would not submit to being treated like Riggers," and so they swore, one to tbe other, to meet force with resistance, even to the death. How the Ogtertiout Books May be Hroagbt to the Cm of Oar i'cople The Gazette has mentioned before the action of the trustees of the C • tterhont Free Library, Wilkesbarre, granting the use of the library on certain conditions to the people of Pittston and other residents of the Vallty outside of the immediate vicinity of Wilkeebarre. The dlffioulty in securing such outside patronage Is the expense and trouble of going to the oounty seat for the books. A writer in the Leader makes this excellent suggestion of a means of uvercomlng the dlffioulty: Fjr Instance in Pittston, a place easily accessible to all conld be secure*!, where Dooks when read, might be returned, and from whence they conld be brought by an expreea to the Library. Theee books conld be discharged and new ones selected from cumbers on the cards, and would then be carried to Pittston the same day. This wonld enable many who conld not spare time to oome to the Library, to avall themselves of its use. In Newton, Mass., out of a circulation of over 160,COO per year more than half the books reach the borrowers in this way. If any special book is wanted, Or any epeolal subject is being studied, a note sent to the library always meets with careful attention. In Newton the delivery is made dally to ten dlff irent parte of the city, but once or twice a week would serve our present As before, he went to Strawberry Plains himself and again destroyed tbe bridge at that point which the Confederate engineers bad nearly completed. Some of tbe other parties, particularly those sent to burn the bridges over tbe Holston, near Knoxville, were beaten back, but tbe outcome of tbe second raid may be set down as a success. These men were led out into the hall and a number of Tennesseeans from the room opposite took their places. 6. "I have nothing to set before him." What a condition of emptiness and helplessness, but just such is our condition apart from our Lord Jesus Christ no matter how hard we may toil. His own words are "severed from me ye can do nothing" (John xv, 5). When the disciples had toiled all night and Jesus in the morning, from the shore, said "Have ye any meat?" they had to answer, No (John xxi, 4, 5). Tbe Union men, who had kept in hiding in the hills, soon learned of their old neighbor's return, and by night they gathered to see him. As he needed the help of these men and nothing could be gained by holding back his purpose, he told them why he had come and cheered their hearts with tbe assurance that within a month G«neral Mitchell would be leading an irresistible army into east Tennessee. But the desire for battle was not nearly so imperative as tbe necessity for food. The supply in the mountains was limited and the transportation difficult, so that Captain Fry was forced to go down into the rioh valleys, where provisions were abundant and where, by this time, there were swarming men ia gray, quite aa eager for a fight aa were the mountaineers. With all these men Captain Fry at once made friends, and with his hopefulness and undemonstrative piety he was a godsend to the harassed and despondent raiders. Soon after meeting them—the next day, I believe—the captain and the raiders were Bent on together to Atlanta, where there were no Union lawyers to protest or to report to tbe Federal authorities the outrageous manner in which a Federal officer and prisoner of war was treated. Soon after David Fry and his comrades were mustered into tbe service General Carter, then colonel of the Second East Tennessee, had an interview with General Mitchell. At that time both of these officers felt absolute certainty that the army then assembling in central Kentucky would be pushed south to Cumberland gap as soon as it was in a condition to move. The faots I am about to submit will prove that General Carter, inspired by tbe veteran Mitchell, bad no doubt of this. The men taken out, as well as those who remained in the room, were astounded—so much so, indeed, that most of them were unable to talk. But Captain Fry was as cool as if this were an ordinary proceeding. Addressing a Confederate officer, he asked: These daring depredations stung Leadbetter to increased activity and so alarmed the authorities at Richmond that a special meeting of the Confederate cabinet was oafled to ocusider thq alarming state of affairs in east Tennessee. Strong detachments of eavalry were sent into the mountains, but it was much like hunting foxes with a brass band. Fry's mountaineers eluded the stronger bodies, forced the weaker to surrender, and before mid-April compelled the disheartened and weakened troopers to fall baok on Knoxville. 7. "My children are with me in bed. I cannot rise and give thee." Children come closer than friends, and while it is good to be a servant of God, better to be a friend, It is best of all to be a child of God by faith in Christ Jesus. A father will keep nothing good from his children, and as to all our need Jesus has said "your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things" (Math, vi, 32). The ooming of a strange flag to the mountains of east Tennessee found David Fry equal to the emergency. His correct life, his sense of fairness, bis gentle courage, and his rude but stirring eloquence had already made bim a leader in all things that worked for prosperity and peace in his own and the surrounding valleys. And so, when the gray coated and mnch bespangled officers appeared to enlist or conscript the men of the Great Smoky mountains, they said one to the other, "Let we uns go over and h'ar wat Dave Fry hez got to say about hit." "What is up, captain?" "ThiH is the first batch," was the re ply. These men, many of them North Carolinians, announced themselves as ready to further the captain's designs. Without due form, perhaps, but nevertheless With all honesty of purpose, he swore 60 rnen into the service of the United states within six days after his arrival. The fact that he could not uniform these men did not trouble him, or if he gave it a thought it was to confirm his belief that Union soldiers had quite as much right to wear their homespun butternut clothing as had the Confederates. One thing is certain—that neither these men nor the many whom Fry subsequently recruited and swore into the service ever doubted the legality of their enlistment Although un drilled and not nniformed, Fry's men bad nil those qualifications that ooont for so mach in such a campaign. They were tireless marchers. They oould subsist on ooarse food and "The first batch?" Pry was no sooner freed from the cage and ont of the prison at Knoxville than he began to plan for escape. He consulted with the raiders, and pointed out that the guards who were to take them to Atlanta were green and numerically weak. These men could be easily overpowered "Once we get a half mile start," Fry explained as the cars started for Dalton, "I can get you all safe into the mountains, but we must act befo' we get out of east Tennessee." Some of the raiders opposed this scheme, and as it would have been folly without united aotian it was unfortunately abandoned, and so all of them went on to Atlanta and many of them to a death intended to be ignominious, but which was destined to make them .immortal. "That is what I said." "What are you going to do with those men?" And for the first time the cap tain's strong voice trembled. On returning to his own headquarters General Carter sent for Captain Fry, and after making sure that they could not be overheard be said: 8. "Because of his importunity, he will rise and give him as many as he needeth." There is somewhat of the same teaching in chapter xviii, 1-8. What do.we knowof the heart that says, "I will not let thee go except thou bless me" (Gen. xxxii, 26). Do we understand anything of prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears? (Heb. v, 7.) were on their hunting expe- "They are going from here to be executed," said the officer. ditions to go for a long time without eating. They had been habituated to camping out, and it is safe to say that in the use of the rifle they were not excelled by the men of any state in the Union. If to this ia added an intense earnestness of purpose, which amounted to fanaticism, it will be seen that Fry's band of nearly 700 men required the attention of the enemy, and in the end compelled their respect. "I suppose you find it rather dull in camp, oaptain?" After this Lead better, at the head of 7.000 men, determined the field In pawD, but he oould not hide his movements, no matter how much he oould conceal his plans from the Union people in the capital of east Tennessee. Scouts brought word to Fry that the Confederate leader had left Knoxville with a large force, moving in the direction of the mountains. No reply was made to this. The news was eo sudden, so appalling, that no man could speak. Even the cool and ever ready Fry stood and looked in mute horror at the line of pale faced but still heroic fellows who constituted "the first batch." "Tbe drillin's all necessary, I'll allow," replied Fry, "but I reckon the boys'd rather have a fight now and then. Yon see, sir, that's what they left home fo\" One night in mid-September, 1861, 43 men, varying in age from the fuzzy faced stripling to the gray haired veteran who "had fit with Old Hickory down New Orleans way," aasembled at the little log meeting house where David Fry often conducted services "when tbC reg'lar preacher didn't show np." Eae'l man carried an old fashioned rifle and from his shoulders hnng a powder hori: and ballet poach, while the broad belt of untanned deerskin held the cap boj and bunting knife. Many women, quitr as earnest and intrepid as the men, ac companied their kinsmen to the meeting. 9. "Ask, seek, knock." One lias said, "Ask with the humility of a beggar, seek carefully as a faithful servant, knock confidently as a friend." Some helpful words on each of these will be found on "ask" in John xiv, 13, 14; xv, 7; Mark xi, 24; "seek," Prov. 11, 4; viii, 17, R. V.; Jer. xxix, 18; "knock," Col. ii, 8; John vi, 37; Rev. ill, 20. We are apt to think of asking or seeking something for ourselves, but Jesus never sought anything for Himself (John vi, 88; viii, 50); always and only for God. "If we can gain a point by stratagem, it is better than if we won it by fighting," suggested Carter. Mr. Scott, an Atlanta clergyman— and I have every reason to believe an excellent man—came down to pray with the first batch. One half hour was spent in devotion ; then the men rose and faced the stairs, Wilson of Ohio still calm and fearless, stepping into the advance with a firm tread. The quality of magnetic leadership in actual conflict is far from rare, nor, though desirable, is it requisite for the highest generalship. Bat the ability to organize a mob into an «army and to turn to his own advantage the adverse forces that threaten destruction, as did Captain David Fry, implies a genius of a higher order than that required of the mere fighter. The little military knowledge the captain had gained daring his stay in Kentucky he - now used to the greatest advantage. He appointed subordinate officers, the corporal feeling his honors quite as much as the lieutenant, and neither able to tell which was the more important position. He attempted no drill—that would have been a waste of time—but he insisted on obedienoe to orders and impressed his followers with the importance of promptness. A strict military disciplinarian would have driven these men into open revolt within a week, if indeed he did not provoke one or all. of his command to agree to his own taking off, yet they were willing to follow Fry to death with the faith of Mussulmans and the ardor of crusaders. He oould give no command that they were not eager to obey nor require a hardship that they were not ready to endure, simply because they knew that Davy was working for the common good and required nothing from them that he was not prepared to illustrate by his own example. Again he held a prayer meeting, at which many of the "brethren" apoke, (be captain having, as usual, the last and only effeotive talk. "I'll allow fo' myself, sir, that tbat's all so, but I must confess tbe boys is rather hnngerin fo* a fight. Nothin'll satisfy 'em so mnch ez that, onless hit moot be a-orderin them to march with thar faces, praise the Lord, all turned to the homes in east Tennessee." needs." The news that "the notorious outlaw Fry" was coming to Atlanta with the Yankee raiders reached that city in advanoe of the train. Among the immense crowd that gathered to see the arrivals was the mayor of the city. This fellow had seen Fry before, and now striding forward to where he was standing in the station he shook his clinched fist in his face and shouted so that his constituents might hear him: The idea is a good one, and if we may be allowed to add a suggestion it would be that the Pittston Library, rt jo vena ted and now nearlj ready to be opened, be made the medium through which books from the larger library in Wilkesbarre could be secured and returned. The looation would be most convenient, and the plan wonld have the additional advanage of having the services of the local library officers to keep the work in good shape. "The ribils hex mostly left Knoxville, a-gunnin to' us," he said in his slow, impressive way, "and God he* just put hit into my mind that if, so be, we was now tq move mighty fast down Knoxville way, we mout find the back door open. This Lead better is a-oomin out h'ar, and he won't find us home. If we call on him, we won't find him home, and mebbe that'll be wbolesomer all round. So, with Qod's help, friends and brethren, we'll go down to whar the Holston and Tennessee meets, and mebbe when we're through the ribils'll wish they'd staid home." "Forward, march!" came the order. The Yankees, who within the hour were to sleep at the foot of a gallows, obeyed the Confederates' order to march to death. Not a man trembled or faltered. As they movod from the hall they shouted goodby to their comrades. Tbe captain's mention of bis home gave General Carter the clew he wanted, and so enabled him to state his purpose at one*. 10. "For every one that asketh receiveth." The limitations are given elsewhere as, "That God maybe glorified," "According to His will," "In the name of Jesus" (John xlv, 18, 14; I John v, 14). Could we but live solely and wholly to hallow His name, to hasten His kingdom, without a thought for ourselvos, we would then know the meaning and power of the "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you." When we live uprightly unto Him, wo may ask what we will for His glory and receivo' it, and be perfectly sure that He will see well to all that concerns us without our asking anything (Math, vi, 83; Ps. lxxxiv, 11). After pickets were placed at the approaches to the valley to guard against surprise a great fire was started in front of the meeting bouse, and on this a hog was barbecued. When all the people 'had $aten, a number of men lighted torches and gathered about the steps on which David Fry stood. Obeying his example the people knelt down while he who was to lead them in battle led them in prayer. "As soon as it is safe to move this army, captain," he said, "we will march into east Tennessee, and once there the rebels will not be able to get us out. I tell you in confidence that our plans are all ready. I have sent for you to tell you this and to speak with you as to your knowledge of the country between Cumberland gap and Knoxville and between the Cumberland and Smoky mountains." The sound of descending feet died out on the stairs. Below the cavalry formed about the prisoners and the march to the gallows began. Qreenville, Andrew Johnson's home, was the nearest objective point to the mountains. At (hat time it was reported to Fry by his scouts that there were about 2,000 infantry and cavalry in the place, but appreciating the tendency of people to exaggerate numbers be made np his mind that there was only about one-half that force there, and so told his men. In their eagerness to come face to face with the enemy the council would have advocated an immediate attack had the number been twioe as great as reported. Nearly all were now armed Springfield rifles and fixed ammunition, the booty of their first raid, and they carriefi bayonets obtained through the same souroe, bat they were regarded as things decorative rather than useful. "Here is the d——d thief and murderer, Fry 1 Ah, cursa him 1 I know him 1 Yes, you dog, I know you I" IMMENSE BED OF GRANITE Fry neither quailed nor showed anger. Bracing himself up, and looking straight into the mayor's eyes, he replied:BAPTISTS REUNITED. Found Near Whit® Haven and a Company Organized to Quarry It. (Wilkesbarre Record.) This audacious suggestion was answered with a oheer. These men were ready to follow their leader "plum on to Richmond, if so he'd only gin the bint" With them to decide was to act, and Lead better had not been gone from Knoxville 48 hours before Fry was moving for that point His plan was entirely feasible, and it would have ended in success had the scouting and secret information been confined to one side. Two of Fry's men, who had recently joined for the purpose of betraying him, deserted on the march. They secured horses and made their way to Knoxville with the news of the mountaineer advance. Fresh troops were at once sent up from Chattanooga and Leadbetter fell back at the came time, so disposing the comparatively large foroe at his command as effectually to block all Fry's lines of retreat. Baal* Upon Which the Plttaton Churches Fry's plan was to destroy every bridge of importance between Knoxville and Bristol on one night, and, as a preliminary to this work, to destroy the telegraph lines. To accomplish this, Fry divided his men iuto four bands. Fireballs of cotton wick and turpentine were prepared and loaded on pack horses. After deciding not only on the night, bat the hour, when the work was to begin and' a point for rendezvous afterward, the men separated, the captain reserving to bimself the destruction of the most northern bridge at Strawberry Plains. "You are a liar and a coward, and the truth isn't in you. You can put on airs with your friends about you, but if you're a man you'll give me a man's chanoe. Now, make good your bluff; here I stand, and I'm ready to fight you and any friend you may choose with fair, square weapons. What do you say, you cowardly old windbag?" Decided to Get Together The Lehigh Granite Oo., which Is compesed of a number of prominent men from this section, has applied for a charter for the purpose of qlurrying and manufacturing stone for bailding purposes. The offi cers of the company are: President, G. L Halsej; vice president, E. H. Li wall; secretary and treasurer, Arthur P. Kunkle. The other interested parties are Cornelias Cronin, C. W. Boone, James D. Edwards, Charles Hntchlnson and Robert A. Hutchinson, Kingston; S. N. Oallender, Scranton; lir. Chllds, W&namie; E l ward Gnneter and mloe inspector G. M. Williams, Wilkesbarre. Tae capital stock of the oompany is )200,000, and the necessary 10 per cent, of that -imount, which Is required by law,'la-already in the hands of the "I've beern many a man talk," said an east Tennesseean in d&cribing this meeting to me, "bat never a one ez spoke like Davy did that night Hit was more stirrin than a camp meetin, and bit seemed powerful like hit, with the women a-rockin and a-wringin thar ban'sand a-moanin and tbe men a-leanin on thar rifles with thar hats poshed back and a-bollerin: 'Glory to God I Amen I Amen ! Amen I Give the rebels bell, Davy, and don't never let npl* " As heretofore noted in the Qazcttb, overtures were recently made iTy the First Baptist Choroh of Pittston to the Bethel ohuroh, which is largely composed of former members of the First church who were excluded therefrom some eighteen months ago, looking to a reunion of the two bodies. The action of the Bethel ohurch, in voting to dissolve its separate organized sn and accept the proposition of the First church, is a happy ending of an nnpleasant affair. The basis of reunion, whloh was arranged about a month ago by committees appointed by the respective churches, and whioh the churohes have both approved, is as follows: 11, 12. "If a son shall ask bread of any of you that Is a father." No parent would ever give a stone for bread, or a serpent) for a fish, or a scorpion for an egg, or anything to harm his child instead of something good. If a man will gratify his friond at the cost of his children's comfort, how much more will he give what is good and needful to his children. The thought running all through the lesson seems to be that of "Our Father" and His ohildren. Others, may havo to ask and seek and knock, but a child is at home in its father's house and counts all that the father has as its own (chapter xv, 81). "Thar mout be men ez know that country better'n me," said the captain modestly, "but I ainjtnever seen 'em." "You know all trie railroad bridges between Knoxville and Bristol?" "As well, sir, ez if I'd built 'em." "And the long bridge at Strawberry Plains?" Many cheered the mountaineer, and the raiders, who were gallant, bright young fellows, laughed long and loud. This maddened the mayor still more, so that if he ever had any conception of manliness, honor and dignity be now lost it. With flushed face and protruding eyes this man rushed at the raiders and shouted: As if thinking aloud, rather than speaking for tbe information of Captain Fry, General Carter stroked his bead, looked thoughtfully up at the ceiling, and continued: "Every stick of hit." To detail the outcome of this meeting would be to thrash old straw. By vote "tbe men agreed that they'd got to fight, fo' thar was no gittin outen hit Thar wasn't no uster ask who we ons 'lowed to fight fo', and to fight agin. Davy's wife brought out a bit of a flag no bigger'n a child's bib, and she fastened hit to his rifle, and then one of the boys brought a torch nigh, and Davy lifted np the flag. Didn't we holler? Waal, I sw'ar to God we never hollered so befo' and never agin fo' two year, and that was when Bnrnside cum down with lots of flags and planted 'em roand Knoxville. In February,. 1862, when the north was thrilling with the news of the decisive victory at Mill Springs, Ky., tbe southern leaders at Richmond were startled, if not horrified, to learn that the Yankees were in force in east Tennessee, and had cut off telegraphic communication by way of Knoxville and destroyed the railroad between that point and Bristol. Captain Fry had carried out his instructions to the letter; not only this, but be had destroyed a number of trains, after he bad helped bimself from one with arms, ammunition, food and other supplies enough to maintain a regiment in the field for some time. The other bauds had been equally successful, and when the work was done, as silent as tbe shadows about them, they fell back to their rendezvous in the mountains. Greenville and its vicinity swarmed with Union men, with whom Fry was in oonstant communication. Through these friends he learned of the location of the Confederate camps and pickets. He decided on a night attack; but, as was his custom, he laid his plan before his men, and, as was their habit, they at once adopted it as their own. 13. "If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give tho Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?" This oonfirms what 1 said on the last verso, that the whole topic is one of our relationship to God as our Father by faith in Christ Jesus and the privileges of that relationship which should insure to us the most absolute rest of soul and freedom from all care of self because "He careth." The only way to this freedom from self care and a whole heart for His kingdom is to be tilled with His Spirit, which by comparing this verse with Math, vll, 11, you will see to bo the sum and substance of all good things. If filled with the Spirit (Eph. v, 18), the life will be right, thoughts, words and actions all subject to Him, self subdued, the whole being for God, Christ magnified in our bodies and a sample of the reign of Christ seen In our lives. "It is General Mitchell's opinion, and I agree with bim, that if w« could get some brave, trustworthy man to go a few weeks in advance of the army and destroy tbe bridges along the East Tennessee railroad, particularly the Strawberry Plains bridge, it would be of the greatest advantage to as. Now, captain, do yon think this can be done?" "You're all sent tip here to be hanged, a—n your cowardly Yankee souls I" Then, holding up his right hand, he continned : "Look at that hand, curse yonl Do you dogs all see it? Well, it  that hand that fastened the rope round Andrews' neck when he was sent to hall, and it'll do the same for all you I" "To the officers and members of the Bethel Baptist Church of Pittstoo, Pa., greeting: Brethren—Whureas, by the movements of times past, the First Baptist Church became divided, part of its former members now being organized into a separate body, and whereas we believe it should be again united in one body; therefore it is in our hearts to say, and to say it unanimously and unreservedly, that— The spires of Knoxville were in sight when Fry discovered that he was in a trap and that a hard fight was inevitable. He instructed his men, in the event of defeat, to break into small bands and make their way north to Kentucky. For the first time, to use his own words, he "felt a shadow on his heart and saw God had clouded bis face from him to' awhile," bat he kept the feeling to himself and cheered his men with the hope that their saccess would continue. From the first he always wore, in all his attacks on the enemy, the captain's uniform which he had brought through with him, and the little flag given him by his wife before he went north he carried displayed in every action. He wore this uniform now, aud a man, detailed for the purpose, carried the flag beside him. He was quick to see that he could not regain the mountains, in which he wonld have been quite strong enough to set the Confederates at deflanoe, so he wisely determined to make his way into eastern Kentucky, where at that time there was a considerable force under the Union Qeneral Morgan. treasmer, The stone which this company la to quarry and manufacture for ball cling par poses Is granite, which most people Kill be surprised to hear exlsia In snob large quantities In this region. Pennsylvania has been made by nature the repository of much mineral wealth, but it was never known nntll some of the nun en gaged in this new enterprise discovered it that so valuable a building stone as granite existed in this region. The location of thib new found mineral wealth Is two milaethle side of White Haven on land of John Danaker. It is said to covet an area of 300 acres, and all this has been purchased by the company from Mr. Danaker. The lDed is from thirty to flity feet thick and praotlcally bare, leaving but very little stripping to be done. Two hours before daylight on the 16th of March, 1802, Fry, at the head of 700 men, divided into seven companies, each led by a trusted man, moved as silently as the night shadows toward the coppery glow to the west that marked the location of the Confederate camps. With the stealth of Indians on the warpath they seized all the Confederate pickets in their front without the firing of a shot or giving the slightest indication of their presence. The Confederates knew that Fry had a band in the mountains, but they treated him with contempt, and General Lead better promised himself to send a squadron of cavalry to "smoke Fry and his thieving bridge burning traitors out." Certain it is that the Confederate commander at Knoxville never dreamed that the "hill Yankees" could have the temerity to assume the aggressive. Without an instant's hesitation, Fry replied, "I know one man wbo'd be willin to try hit" "You look like a hangman," said the imperturbable mountaineer, "and so when you say you are one, we're obliged to believe you that much, but if so be you was to hint that you was a soldier and a gentleman, then we'd have you allow that you lied from your heart to your tongue and the truth isu't and never was in you." ■ "1. We ask the Bethel Baptist Church, individually and as a body, to overlook, forgive and forget any unkindness they may have received at our hands, any and all inconsistencies they may have seen in onr lives, and any wrongs or grievances, they may have anffered at our hand?. "Hit brings tbe tears to my eyes jest to think of hit now, and I can see Davy a-standiu tliar in the light of the torches, with that gal beside him, and as strong men a-sobbin like the women at the sight of that bit of red, white and blu& " "Who?" "Myself." General Carter seized the brave fellow's bands, and for some seconds the men sat looking into eaeh other's eyes. Then he resumed: " 8. That we will, on our part, forgive, overlook and forget any and all things we may have suffered, or thought we have suffered, at the hands of our brethren and sisters of the Bethel Baptist Church. And so ft came about, as it often doea, that tbe peacemaker of the neighborhood became the leader when they had a common cause to fight for. Deliberation and careful preparation were out of the question in thone stirring times. Before the men went back to their cabins in the mountains that night it was agreed that they should meet the following night prepared for their long march to tbe Ohio river, for no camps of refnge and instruction had then been established in neutral Kentucky, nor was there a blue clad soldier to be seen five miles south of the line, and this while Morgan with his armed Lexington rifles and hundreds of the young men of the blue grass country were marching under the Confederate flag to join Albert Sidney Johnston at Bowling Green. "I must tell you that this is a delicate and dangerous undertaking. I have no power to order you to go, for it may be that if you are caught we cannot help you. Do you clearly understand this, captain?" According to the promise made in good faith by General Carter, the Union advance should have been by this time south of the gap. The captain waited for a*"week, his scouts in the meantime being sent forward to the Kentucky line with orders to report back by signal fires along tbe mountain peaks when the old flag and the bine uniforms came to view. Looking back at this incident after all these years, Fry's reply to this official may appear imprudent and even rash, but the occasion should be borne in mind. He and the 12 men with him were prisoners condemned to death. Nothing was to be gained by a pacific manner. His daring won the respect of the mob, and O. H. Jones, the fellow who insulted these helpless men, retired beaten from this verbal contest, as he pertainly would have done from a physical encounter had he accepted Fry's ohallenge. Marvelous Result*. " -3. It is our earnest wish and desire that each member of both of these churches shall manifest the Christ-like spirit hy wholly for giving each other, as we trust Christ h s for given each of us, Prom a letter written by Rev. J. Gunderman, of Dlmondale, Mich., we are permitted to make this extract : "1 have no hesitation In recommending Dr. King's New Discovery, as the resu ts were almost marvelous in the case of my wife. While I was pastor of the Baptist Church at Rives Jnnotion she was brought down with pneumonia cuooeeding la grippe Terrible paroxysms of coughing would last hours with little interruption and it seemed as if she would pot survive them. A friend reoommended Dr. King's New Discovery ; It was quick in its woTk and highly satisfactory in results " Trial bottles free at the drug stores of W. C. Prloe, and li. D Stroh, West Pittston. Regular 6.7.) 50o and $1.00. "I da It means that if I'm caught they'll be mighty apt to treat me ez a spD. Ain't that hit?" " 4. That we invite the Bethel Baptist Church to come back In a body Mo the mother church, bringing in her sheaves, either of converts or Sunday school scholars with her. "That's it, captain." One night while the captain was holding a prayer meeting in the heart of the mountain to relieve the increasing nervousness and impatience of his men a member of Company P of the Second East Tennessee, whom he had parted with in Kentucky, came into camp iii a state of great exhaustion. This young man was Andy Hal), a mountaineer. He had been south as a "soout" to recall Captain Fry and to freight his brave heart with the crushing news that the invasion of east Tennessee had been abandoned for tbe present by the Federal leaders. A Fortune "But hit'll help the good cause to git them thar bridges out of the way afo' our folks comes down?" " Yee, that'8 it." "When we strike 'em, boys, holler ez if we was a million and every man ez mad ez a thousand b'ara; but, at the same time, don't, to' your lives, lose sight of the fightin, to' you won't never have a better chance to put in solid licks." • la within reach of voung people who go to Wood's Business C )ll«ge, Scranton. Oar terms are lower than at some colleges having fewer students, but our faculty Is much larger and our course of study more varied and thorough. The new president for sever tsen years taught, lectured on law and olvics, and has written business col lege text books now In use all over the country He Dae ednoated soorea of business college teaohers, and 10,COO yinng people for business. He was sent to France as United States Consul for four years, and now teaches and lectures days and evenl««s at S sianton. The college baa now 665 students and last year located 231 of itsitulents in good paying situations. In thorough work and In aid to students, it is the leadlrg business college of Pennsylvania S»nd for illustrated journal. O. F. President. "5. That the past shall be to us all as though it bad never been, and that we come together in the spirit of Paul, 'forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, we press toward the mark, for the prise of the high calling of Ood in Jesus Christ.1 "Well, gen'ral, with the help of the good Lord, them bridges'U be burned, more particular the big one at Strawberry Plains. Now, when do you 'low to' me to start?" A number of severe skirmishes followed, in which Fry routed the enemy, bnt each fight, even though won, meant hia ruin, for it hindered his march and enabled the enemy to hem him in. The jail in Atlanta at this time was an insignificant affair. The lower of its two stories was occupied by the jailer and his family, and the four rooms of the upper floor were set aside for prisoners. One of these rooms waa occupied by city prisoners, principally negroes, and in the others were placed Fry and his Union Tenneaseeuns, with the eight additional Andrews raiders who had Just come on from Chattanooga. This was the purport of the whispered Bpeech that Fry delivered to his men when they crouched for the dash on the sleeping camps at Oreenville. "As soon as you can." At length there came a day when the Confederates, 80 to 1, blocked every road by which fry could move. With characteristic skill he discovered the weakest part of the encircling line and oharged through. This was in the evening, about sunset In fie attack Fry was wounded in the shoulder and side. He lay on the field till night | then, taking the overcoat from a dead Confederate, he put it on and tried to escape to the hills. That night, weak from the loeq of blood, bnt still undaunted, he ran into a picket post of the enemy and was oaptured and recognised. "6 That we believe it has been laid upon oar hearts by the Holy Spirit to say tbi«e things-to you, and we pray the Holy Spirit may guide you in your consldera' ion of this matter. "I am ready now. But fo' the sake ot oompany, gen'ral, I'd like to take some one along." To the Union men of the south, as to the escaping prisoners from that region, the north star became an object of as much solicitude, if not of actual devotion, as the sun was to the Peruvian priests. With this for a guide, David Fry led his company over the mountains and along the tortuous valleys stretching north to the Ohio. Without meeting with opposition, Fry, with three companies, reached the oemetery. Here a companion lighted a fireball, such as had been used in the destruction of the bridges. He held it at the end of his bayonet, waiting for the oonnnand. At once a similar glow was seen a few hundred yards away to the north and south. "In the name of Ood, let her go I" whispered Fry. Instantly the ball was sent whirling into the air, and at once the other balls flashed up. Buettlen'a Arnica Salve. ' It is to be earnestly hoped that this message of love and good will may lie received and acted upon in the spirit in which it is so cor dially given." The beet salve in the world for Cuts, Breuses, Sores, Ulcers, Sault Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped. Hands, Chilblains, Corns and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It Is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Prloe 26 cents per box. For sale by Wm. 0. Price, Pittston, and Geo. D. Stroh, Wsst Pittston. "You are free to select one or a dozen men from your own company, and it they are willing, well and good. Now go and make your preparations; then oome back to me for instructions,'' said General Carter. It would have been a comparatively easy matter at this time for Captain Fry to have made his way with a few companions back to his old command, but to carry through the 100 mountaineers who were now with bim, and whose safety was more to him than his own, was an entirely different matter. His return to the mountains had beoome known to tbe southern sympathizers as well as to the Union men, and the de- The jailer, a man named Turner, was inclined to the Union, but his position prevented his declaring his preference openly, Had he done so he would have heen put into one of the upper rooms as • prisoner instead of being permitted to live down stairs with his family. He did, however, show his kindness in a waotical wav. for be fed the meu abun- As eoon as arrangements c.»n lie effected it is proposed to hold a service *t which the reunion will be formally completed. On this expedition be displayed those qualities of leadership that were yet to distinguish him in a wider field and which were to prove bim one of tbe •blaat aa well aa one ot the moat patri- There were many cool, gallant men in that army, any one of whom won Id have esteemed it an honor to be selected for this hazardous work, but not one of whom was so well fitted for the undertaking aa Cat)tain Fry. Aa a proper "AU worn out" la the expression of the sleepless sufferer with that terrible oongh. Pan Tina pats a stop to It. It's a remedy for ooughs, colds and consumption, 25 oents Pan-Tina is sold at the drag stores of J. H. Houck and Q. D. Stroh. Shlloh's Care ie sold on a gnarantoe. It t.uiee Incipient consumption. It Is the best c ugh cure. Only one cept a dose, 25 cte., 50 cts , and $1 00. (3) j Dr. Miles'NBBVKPLAsrzRScnreRHBCMArfSM. W EAK BACK* At drusgists, only Ke, This waa the signal agreed on, and, Many of Fry's men were killed, some,