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VOL. XIX. LITITZ, PA., FRIDAY MORNING JANUARY 3, 1896. NO. 17.
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iiotiiinj House,
W. H. BUCH, Proprietor,
RECORD Building, Lititz, Pa
HIS FIRST NIGHT OUT.
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A T S T I L L L O W E R P R I C E S . A L S O T H E L A R G E S T L I N E OF
Men's, Boys' and Childs' Caps and Gloves
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and Upwards.
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LES S. GILL,
No. 12 N. Qûççq St., - LaoçasUr.
p t CROSS the avenue from the
Plummer House there was an
•A open field called " The Green,"
which was used as a play-ground by
the boys of tho neighborhood. Dick
Plummer was allowed to play there
in summer evenings until half-past
8 o'clock ; but if he were not home by
that time his father would inyariably
call him in, so that he might be ready
to'go to bed at 9.
Mr. Plummer had some notions that
he called " good old-fashioned " ones,
and one of them was that young people
ought to go to bed early. Dick could
never prevail upon him to let him stay
out later than half-past 8. Often he
would lie awake in bed listening to
the boys' shouts and laughter, and
wishing that he were with the boys.
Dick felt half ashamed to tell the
boys how very strict his father was.
He chafed under the rule so much
that he was finally tempted to break it
and have his own way. He told him-self
that not for the world would he
make a, practice of disobeying hi8
father ; but just for once he wanted to
know what kind of fun the boys had.
He could think of no harm that might
come from stealing a little pleasure.
But how should he manage to go ?
This now became the great question.
Mr. Plummer was very particular
about locking doors and windows,
always doing this work himself; and
there was no la'chkey in the house.
Finally Dick appealed to Maggie
the house-maid. Maggie was a good-natured
girl, and he had a vague no-tion
that she sympathized with him.
So, finding her alotie at the back
door step one day, be said : "Maggie,
will you do somethiog for a fellow ?"
" Sure !'' answered Maggie with a
smile.
" But you won't think it*isn't right,
will you ? You know how strict father
is?" Dick went on.
" S u r e ! ' answered Maggie again;
this time with surprise and not a little
suspicion, as she scanned Dick's plead-ing
countenance.
" Oh, don't be scared !" said Dick.
" I'm not going to do any harm. I
only want to go out to-night after the
folks go to bed, and have a little fun
on the green. Won't you come down
stairs and unlock the kitchen door, so
that I can get back ?''
" Mercy on us!" exclaimed Maggie,
disapprovingly.
Dick renewed his plea, promising
not to stay out later than 10 o'clock,
and finally he succeeded in wringing
from the girl a reluctant promise to
unlock the door.
That evening, five minutes before 9
o'clock, Mr. Plummer sent his children
off to bed. Dick headed the line up
the stairway. He slept by himself in
a room opening into the front entry,
and it was a simple matter, when the
time came, for him to walk atound
and step quietly down the front stairs.
He felt uncomfortably like a thief
stealing his way to the front door, and
for a moment he was on the point of
turning back repentant. Cautiously
he opened the door, and stepped out.
A full moon was shining in a cloudless
sky. Strong lights illuminated several
factories in the distance; and the boys
were well represented on the green.
Dich ran over to his friends, and
was greeted with a welcome " Hello!"
One of the boys more curious than the
others asked :
" Did your lather let you come,
Dick ?"
" Yes," responded Dick, falling
readily into a falsehood, though the
next moment he was heartily ashamed
of himself.
. Some of the boys were running races.
Dick took a stand among the lookers-on,
and helped to cheer the winning
boy. After awhile be joined a group,
headed by Pete Conni,le, that wander-ed
off to the blacksmith's shop.
Here the boys spread themselves
around the wide front door, and gazed
in at the smith shoeing a horse. Even
in daylight this was an interesting op-eration
to Dick. But now, in the glow
of the forge, with resounding hammer-strokes,
and the grime-covered smith
looking like a modern Vulcan amid
flashes of red flame and flying darts of
fire, the scene was highly picturesque
and enchanting. Dick enjoyed his
freedom exceedingly. It was reassur-ing
to think that there was no one to
put an end to his pleasure by calling
him home.
When the blacksmith closed his
shop Pete Gonnig!e entertained the
boys for awhile telling them stories of
his own adventures. Pete had a room
over a shop iu the closely-buiit part of
Casperville. He was learning a trade
of some kind. Up to this night Dick
had been but very slightly acquainted
with him.
When Dick thought that it was 10
o'clock he left the boys and went home,
I t was really half-past 10, and the
neighborhood of, the Plummer house
was very quiet. Dick crept cautiously
to the kitchen door, and turned the
knob.
To his consternation the door was
fastened.
He tried it again and again, but the
door remained firm. " Had Maggie
forgotten her promised" Dick wonder-ed,
his sense of having enjoyed himself
giving way to grave uneasiness.
Unwilling to believe that he was
really locked out, he tried the kitchen
window, the two dining room windows,
and lastly the front door. All were
securely fastened, as were also the cel-lar
windows.
Dick had to acknowledge to himself
that he was in a bad plight. A most
uncomfortable sense of helplessness
came over him as he stood in the
shadow of the house wall gazing up at
Maggie's window in the third story.
He did not dare to call her, for fear of
waking his father in the story below.
All the chamber windows were partly
open ; for the Plummers believed in
ventilation.
Splicing two clothcs props with his
handkerchief, he tried to reach the
girl's window pane ; but the sticks fell
apart with an alarming rattle against
the house, and Dick did not dare to
repeat the experiment. Yery miserable
and very much ashamed, he sat down
on the back door-step and wished that
he was well out of his " scrape." He
felt that he was almost in the position
of a thief, and he was afraid that his
father would never trust him again.
By this time the neighbors houses
were all in darkness. Dick did not feel
like ringing any neighbor's door bell
and revealing his situation ; especially
as he had told the boys that Lis father
had allowed him to go out.
He was desperately angry at Mag-gie,
who, however, had not been guilty
of bad faith with him. A chance that
did not enter into Dick's plan had
taken Mr. Plummer to the kitchen
after the girl had gone upstairs for the
second time, and seeing the door un-locked,
Mr. Plummer had fastened it
without suspecting any other harm
than that of carelessness.
Bat anger was poor consolation for
Dick. He felt that he must choose one
of three courses. The first and simplest
one was to wait at the back door-step
until Maggie came down in the morn-ing
and opened the door. This, how-ever,
involved hours of suffering from
cold. It was early in October, and the
nights were chilly.
The second plan was to walk two
miles into Casperville, and arouse Pete
Gonnigle, who, he doubted not, would
share his bed with him. The third
alternative was to seek the shelter of
an empty stable on the other side of
the Green, and return home early in
the morning. This last plan finally
seemed to Dick the least objectionable,
and soon he was crossing the open lot
in a flood of cold moonlight.
The old stable, which was a very
dilapidated affair, stood in an open
space some distance from any house.
Dick looked cautiously into the yawn-ing
door way to assure himself that the
place was not already occupied by
tramps. To his relief, the room was
quiet and empty. The moonlight lay
white on the ground floor, and pene-trated
the old stalls.
The boy climbed up to the loft and
curled down under a pile of musty-smelling
hay to try to get warm. This
was a wretched exchange for his com-fortable
bed, and Dick felt more than
once that his night's pleasure had
been too dearly purchased. He longed
for morning to come. The gloom of
the old stable was almost unbearable.
He heard the town clock strike
twelve. Through chinks in the boards
of the stable the moonlight streamed
in upon the loft floor in long lines of
ghostly white. In spite of his discom-fort,
however, Dick fell into a troubled
sleep, from which he was aroused
about 2 o'clock by the sound of talk-ing
close at hand.
" I guess it would be safe enough to
turn in here," said one voice. " I'm
done out carrying this truck. I wish
it was all changed for greenbacks."
With his heart heaving, the now
thoroughly awakened Dick heard the
men come in the stable. There were
three of them. They were talking
about a robbery that they had perpe-trated
farther out in the country. Rea-lizing
the great peril of his situition,
Dick knew that his only safty lay in
keeping perfectly quiet. It was impos-sible
for him to leave the place, with-out
being seen. Peeping cautiously
from under the hay, he perceived the
men half-reclining on the floor below.
The moonlight falling full upon their
faces showed them to be desperate-look-ing
characters. Each had a revolver
and a burlap bag full of silverware.
They were examining the stolen treas-ure
and computing its worth.
Presently Dick found to his horror
that he had taken cold, and was threat-ened
with a cough. Do as he might
the disposition to hack would come
over him. He resorted to all sorts of
devices to regulate his breathing ; but
at last nature asserted herself too
strongly, and the cough took its own
way.
I n an ins'ant the three surprised
robbers were on their feet.
A Y E A R ' S DEATHS.
"Hands up! whoever you are!"
commanded one of the men ; and Dick,
who was on his feet by this time, did
not dare to disobey.
Ah ! how often he had read that-thrilling
order, in a story, little think-ing
that the experience would come
to him in the quiet neighborhood of
his own home ! lu a moment more
the men had climbed up to the loft.
The first one seized Dick roughly,
threatening him with instant death if
he made any outcry, '
" Who are you, and what are you
doing here?" the man demanded.
Dick trembled out his story truth-fully,
while the men laughed at and
mocked him.
"Sonny," said one of them, "next
time you get a chance to go to bed at
9 o'clock you'd better go."
" Let us put him- where he won't
tell no tales," said one of the party,
whom the others called Guff, when ihe
examination of Dick had concluded.
The other men demurred ; not
through any feeling of compassion for
Dick, but on account of the grave»pen-alty
they would have to pay if they
should be arrested and the crime of
murder traced to them. They par-leyed
for a while, one of the men in
the meantime stuffing cotton into
Dick's mouth as a safeguard against
the boy's shouting for help.
Finally one of the burglars said :
" Let's tie the young fellow up secure-ly,
and take ourselves off."
They had plenty of strong hempen
cords in their burlap bags with their
stolen silverware, and they now pro-ceeded
to make the hapless Dick fast
to a beam in the loft.
This accomplished, they gathered up
their plunder and left.
Poor Dick ! He felt keenly ali the
horror of his situation. How the hours
dragged ! He heard the city clock
strike three, and then, after what seem-ed
like an age, half-past three. The
cords with which he was tied hurt his
arms and his legs, and his joints ached
from his cramped position. Towards
dawn merciful nature let him fail into
insensibility.
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The Plummer family rose as usual,
and as they sat down to breakfast at 7
o'clock, Mr. Plummer asked where
Dick was.
No one knew. Mrs. Plummer said
apologetically : "-I never knew Dick
to fail to come to breakfast before."
Maggie bustled in from the kitchen
looking red and confused. " I ' l l go
and call him," she said, and ran up
stairs. When she saw Dick's bed un-disturbed
she was thoroughly frighten-ed
and hurried down to the dining-room,
where she confessed the whole
matter.
The house was now the scene of great
distress. Mrs. Plummer, who was
a delicate woman, was prostrated with
grief. Almost distracted, the father
left his breakfast untouched to run to
the nearest police Btation to report
a " missing boy." Maggie wept copi-ously
and accused herself. The neigh-borhood
was alarmed, and friends
dropped in every little while to inquire
if Dick had bee%found.
I t was nearly nightfall before the
boy was discovered. He was so much
exhausted by this time that he had
to be carried home. Then he realized
how fond of him his father was, and it
pained him worse than his physical
sufferings to think of his disobedience
and the distress that it had caused.
Nevertheless, there was one element
of good in Dick's night out ; he was
able to identify thé three burglars,
who, in the meantime, had been
arrested.
Robbers M a t e a R i c h H a u l.
NEW YORK, December 28.—Thieves
broke into the residence of Mr. and
Mrs. I. Townsend Burden, No. 5
Madison Square, north, late last night,
and without the least disturbance se-cured
diamonds to the value of $57,-
380. Mr. and Mrs. Burden were vis-iting
the opera, leaving their two sons
and six servants to care for the house.
It was midnight 'when they returned,
and then they made the startling dis-covery
that robbers had entered their
house during their absence and had
carried .away nearly every article of
jewelry they could secure.
F a t a l to C h i l d r e n.
At a certain stage of childhood worms
are the greatest menacers of child life.
To kill worms ana not expel them is
still more dangerous. Magic Worm
Tablets both kill and expel worms.
Children eat them as readily as candy.
They yell for them. Price 25 cents.
Magio Remedy Co., Glen Rock, Pa.
Sold at the Lititz Drug Store.
—There are still plenty of
running about,
nirkeys
The Names of Those W h o Died in
This Vicinity D u r i n g 1895, Their
Ages, a n d W h e r e B u r i e d.
Jan. i, at Lfititz, Ralph, son of William
and Annie Smith, aged 2 months.
Moravian.
Jan. 7, at Brunnerville, son of Rev. C.
R. Gibbel, aged 5 weeks. Middle
Creek meeting house.
Jan. 9, in Penn township, Graybill
Hershey, aged 17 years, Grabill's
meeting house, near Pennville.
Jan. 9, in Warwick township, Peter
IvOngenecker, aged 79 yeans. Long-enecker's
meeting house.
Jan. 17, at Lititz, Henry I,. Oehme,
aged 42 years. Moravian.
Jan. 21, near Neffsville, Samuel G.
Kemper, aged 72 years. Kemper's
graveyard, in Ephrata township.
Jan. 24, at Warwick,. Irwin, son of Ni-cholas
Yerger, aged 2 years. Mach-pelali.
Jan. 26, at White Oak station, Mrs.
Andrew Hummer, aged 50 years.
White Oak church.
Jan. 26, at Brunnerville, George Irwin,
aged 81 years. Brunnerville U. B.
Jan. 27, at L,ititz, Mrs. Emma Tsliudy,
aged 52 years. Moravian.
Jan. 31, at Lancaster, Susanna Fetter,
aged 76 years. Middle Creek meet-ing
house.
Feb. 1, at Lititz, Reuben Kline, aged
67 years. Brickerville Lutheran.
Feb. 5, at Lititz, Carl Kemper, son of
Monroe and Lizzie Souders, aged 8
months. Evangelical.
Feb. 5, in Penn township, Daniel W.
Ritter, aged - 83 years. Kreider's
meeting house near Manheim.
Feb. 6, at Akron, Andrew Laufer, aged
66 years. Middle Creek meeting
house.
Feb. 6, at White Oak, Ella, daughter
of Andrew Fauser, aged 4 years.
Hernley's meeting house, near
Manheim.
Feb. 8, at Penryn, Mrs. Elizabeth
Koehler, aged 78 years. White Oak.
Feb. 8, at Neffsville, Elsie, daughter of
Henry Schreiner. Neffsville Luth-eran
graveyard.
Feb. 9, at Brickerville, Ida, daughter
of John H.Steiner, aged 18 years.
Emanuel's Lutheran church ceme-tary,
Brickerville.
Feb. 14, at Lititz, Kate, wife of Harry
K. Hacker, aged 37 years. Machpe-lah.
Feb. 16, at Lexington, Levi Bohner,
aged 54 years. Family graveyard
near White Oak.
Feb. 18, near Penryn, Mrs. Samuel
Long, aged 50 years. Kreider's
meeting house near Manheim.
Feb. 19, at Pennville, Mrs. Mary
Diehm, aged 68 years. White Oak.
Feb. 22, at Brunnerville, Mrs Fanny
Wissler, aged 67 years. Hammer
Creek meeting house.
Feb, 24, in Lititz, Mrs Margaret Badorf,
aged 71 years. Moravian.
Feb. 27, at. Lancaster, Monroe Kyle,
aged 24 years. Lititz Machpelah.
Feb. 28, at Neffsville, Emanuel Korte,
aged 30 years. Neffsville U. B.
church cemetery.
March 4, at Millport, Jacob Young,
aged 48 years. Rothsville Lutheran.
March 12, at Lititz, Miss Pauline
Tsliudy, aged 83 years. Moravian.
March 12, in Penn township, David A.
Snyder,aged 32years. Erb's meeting
house.
March 16, at Lititz, Daniel Carper, aged
60 years. Kissel Hill.
March 18, at Brickerville, daughter of
John and Anna Stauffer, aged 2
years. Hammer Creek meeting
house.
March 22, at Halfville, Elias D.
Schreiner; aged 68 years. Graybill's
meeting house.
March 23, at Brickerville, son of Jacob
McQuaite. Scheafferstown.
March 27, at Millway, Jacob • Polk,
aged 72 years. Browiistown Evan-gelical.
March 28, near Lexington, Joseph Bis-singer,
aged 70 years. Brunnerville.
March 30, at Millport, Peter Stiefb
aged 65 years. Lincoln.
April 4, at Lititz, Lottie May Greek,
aged 4. years. Kissel Hill.
April 7, at Lititz, Charles Ellsworth
Evans, aged 2 months. Moravian.
April i2,*near Kissel Hill, John Fens-termacher,
aged 64 years. Kissel
Hill.
April 15, near Lititz, Raymond S.
Mumma, aged 4 months. Iiess''
meetinghouse.
May 2,. near Lexington, Benj. Fire-stone,
aged 67 years. Brunnerville.
May 4, at Warwick,Hannah Hallacher,
aged 53 years. Middle Creek meet-ing
house.
May 9, at Rothsville, Jacob Doster,
aged 56 years. Hess' meetinghouse.
May 10, in Penn township, John L.
Minnich, aged 77 years. Longen-ecker's
meeting house.
May 10, in Lititz, Anthony Rapp,
aged 72 years. Machpelah.
May 20, in Lititz, Jacob Adams, aged
76 years. New Zion's, Rothsville,
May 29, at Neffsville/ Reuben S.
Grosh, aged 59 yeasts. Neffeville
Lutheran.
June 2, at Lexington, Kcsrmtani Lutz,
aged 2 months. GnayfeiB's. meeting
house.
June 3, at. the couety hospital, Lan-caster,
, Isaac . Hmiaaaaier, . of . White
Oak, aged 44 years. White Oak.
June 4, fit Lititz,, Carl Price Seaber,
aged 4 months. Machpelah.
June IIJ at Neffsville, Jeremiah Ben-kert,
aged 82. Lamdiis Valley.
June I3, at Rothsville, Joseph Hess,
aged 71 years. Rothsville Lutheran.
June 13, at Owl Hill, Mrs. Harvey
Spang, aged 25. years. Lititz Evan-
June 25, at White Oak, Mrs. James
Boyd, aged 58 years. Graybill's
meeting house.
July 14, at Warwick, Helen Ida Seaber,
aged 5 months. Moravian.
July 18, near Lititz, Frank F. Kauff-man,
aged 27 years. Rothsville Lu-theran.
July 21, at Bethlehem, Miss Agnes
Grosh, aged 49 years. Lititz Mora-vian.
Aug. 1, at Lititz, Mrs. Mary S. Kauff-man,
aged 56 years, Moravian.
Aug. 6, in Elizabeth township, Benj.
B. Brubalcer, aged 23 years. Ham-mer
Creek meeting house.
Aug. 8, in Lititz, Milton Brubaker, of
Elizabeth township, aged 28 years.
Longenecker's meeting house.
Aug. 19, in Lititz, John W. Hollinger,
aged 67 years. Moravian.
Aug. 24, near Unionville, Mrs. Eliza-beth
Bomberger, aged 30 years.
White Oak.
Sept. 19, in Clay township, Mrs. Anna
Wissler, aged 88 years. Hammer
Creek meeting house.
Sept. 20, near Pine Hill, Mrs. Emma
Sweigart, aged 27 years. Groffsdale,
Mennonite.
Oct. 3, at Unionville, Charles Keath,
aged 6 years. White Oak.
Oct. 23,at Lancaster, Mrs. Mary Young,
aged 60 years. Kissel Hill.
Oct. 29, in Clay township, Geo, Weid-niaii,
aged 87 years. Emanuel's
Lutheran, Brickerville.
Oct. 29, at Halfville, Miss Elizabeth
Rudy, aged 76 years. White Oak.
Oct. 31, at Reading, Frank Adams,
aged 31 years. Kissel Hill.
Nov. 6, at Kissel Hill, John D. Carper,
aged 53 years. Landis Valley.
Nov. 12, at Lancaster, Mrs. Lillie
Wike, aged 31 years. Lititz Evan-gelical
,
Nov. 13, near Unionville, Sam'l Boyer,
aged 87 years. White Oak.
Nov. 14, at Lexington, Benj. Kaufl-man,
aged 75 years. Lexington.
Noy. 15, at Lexington, Mrs. Catharine
Zartman, aged 79 years. Bricker-ville
Lutheran.
Nov. 17, at Lititz, Blanche Irene Stur-gis,
aged 6 years. Moravian.
Nov. 20, at Rothsville, Geo. Geyer,
aged 85 years. Rothsville Lutheran.
Nov. 23, near Kissel Hill, Miss Martha
Nolt, aged 19 years. Hess' meeting
house.
Dec. 5, at Lititz, Miss Margaret
Dysart, aged 64 years. Moravian.
Dec. 7, at Lititz, David M. Spangler,
aged 42 years. Hess' meeting house.-
Dec. 13, at Lititz, John Bollinger, aged
62 years. Middle Creek meeting
house.
Dec. 15, at Lititz, Ellis Franklin Stur-gis,
aged 15 months. Evangelical.
Dec. 17, at Lititz, Henrietta Gibbel,
aged 7 years. Middle Creek meet-ing
house.
Dec. 19, at Rothsville, Lizzie K . Hess,
aged 18 months. Rothsville Luth-eran.
Dec. 21, at Baltimore, Ralph Bailey,
aged 4 mouths. Lititz Evangelical.
Dec. 22, at Warwick, John McCloud,
aged 3 years. Evangelical.
Many tires IjOfti in it Panic.
I n a senseless panic, caused by a
«infective gas burner and a foolish cry
BACKWOODSMEN AND BRITISH.
of fire at the Old Front Street Theater,
Baltimore, Friday night twent-four
people were .killed, t.vo fatally injured
assd ten more seriously hurt.
Almost ali the victims are of Polish
nativity and Hebraic extraction, and
many of the injured were taken to
their homes lay friends, rendering it
almost Impossible to get a complete
list at that time,
gelicaL
W h e r e D i d t h e P o t a t o Corns From.
The early naturalists differ greatly
as- to the origin of the potato. In
Eogland it was held to be a native of
Virginia and in Spain it w«a said to
haye originated in Peru, Modern
opinion holds that it is ino^igeiKsus to
ito the elevated tablelands of Cihili,
Peru, Bolivia, Costa Kica, Mexico ««ad
¡southwestern United State. It pr
•ably got to Virginia by the hands of
some early Spanish explorers. It is'
(certain, however, that it was not cul-ttivated
in Virginia till far into the
¡¡eighteenth century, aad then it was
¡1 ¿introduced in the American Colo.aies
on account of the esteem ia which it
{ was held in Europe.
F a l l i n g B r i c k s Start a Fire.
LEBANON, December 27.—During
| fee high gale of wind and rain which
©emmenced here at 9 o'clock last even-ing
the nine-inch brick wall at the
end of the Lebanon Match Com
jpamy's plant in the eastern »uburbs of
ttiM city was ¡blown down. The bricks
ifeffiloipon the matches which, are stored
fesxes in the building And caused
i t em to igni te. The flames within fif-teen
minutes communicated to every
p a i t o f the plant and it was destroyed,
iogetfae'r with its contents, which in-chaded
several millions of finished
matches, much expensive machinery
mod large quantities of unfinished ma-terial.
The damage will amount to
i$20;(MML Upwards of fifty persons are
-thrown out of employment by the fire,
I n a D i l e m m a.
This 5« a position in which you are
often placed, when suddenly. taken
•with severe cramps or pain and the
TDoctor is away. Moral: Keep a bot-tle
of Magic Pain Balm in tbe house,
i t is a king among pain killers. For
•a-Eternal an<t internal use. Cures
BJkeumatisirit Neuralgia, Cramp Colic,
; d e m i t i n g and Diarrhoea. It has no
wflttal. So4<l At tbe Lititz Drug Store.
f r o n t i e r Patriots Gathered to Opx>083 th#
Forces of C^rnwallis.
When Cornvrallis invaded North
Carolina, ho sent Ferguson into the
Western part of tho state to crush
out any of the patriot forcos that
might still bo lingering among tho
foothills. Ferguson was a very gal-lant
and able officor and a man of
much influence with the people
wherever ho went, so that he was
peculiarly fitted for this scrambling
border waafaro. Ho had under him
a battalion of regular troops and
several battalions of Tory militia—
in all 1,100 or 1,200 men. Ho shat-tered
and drove tho small bands of
Whigs that wero yet in arms and
finally pushed to tho foot of tho
mountain wall till he could see, in
his front the high ranges of the
Great Smokies. Horo ho learned for
the first time that beyond the moun-tains
there lay a few hamlets of fron-tiersmen
whose homes were on vfhat
were then called the Western Waters
—that is, the waters which flowed
into the Mississippi. To these he
sent word that if they did not prove
loyal to the king he would cross the
mountains, hang their leaders and
burn their villages.
Beyond the mountains in the val-leys
of the Holston,and tho Watauga
dwelt men who were stont of heart
and mighty in battle, and when they
heard the threats of Ferguson their
hearts burned with a flame of sullen
anger. Hitherto the foes against
•whom they had warred had been
not the British, but the Indian allies
of the British—Creek and. Cherokee
and Shawnee. Now that the army of
the k i n g had come to their thresh-olds
they turned to meet it as
fiercely as they had met their Indian
allies. Among the backwoodsmen of
this reigon there were at that timo
three men of special note—Sevier,
•who afterward became governor of
Tennessee; Shelby, who afterward
became governor of Kentucky, and
Campbell, the Virginian, who died
in the Revolutionary war. Sevier
had given a great barbecue, whero
oxen and doer were roasted whole,
horse races wore run, and tho
backwoodsmen tried their skill aa
marksmen and wrestlers. In the
midst of the feasting Shelby appear-ed,
hot with hard riding, to tell of
the approach of Ferguson and the
British. Immediately the feasting
was stopped, and the feasters made
ready for war. Sevier and Shelby
sent word to Campbell to rouse tho
men of his district and come with-out
delay, and they sent messengers
to and fro in their own neighborhood
to summon the settlers from their
log huts on the stump dotted clear-ings
"and the hunters from their
smoky cabins in the deep woods.
The meeting place was at the Syca-more
shoals. On the appointed day
the baokwoodsmen gathered, 1,600
strong, each man carrying a long
rifle and mounted .on a tough, shag-g
y horse. They were a grim and
fierce people, accustomed to the
chase and to warfare w i t h ihe In-dians.
Their hunting shirts ©fJfajcJc-skin
or homespun were girded in by
bead worked bolts, and the trappings
of their horses were stained red and
yellow.
At the gathering there was a black
frocked Presbyterian preacher, and
before they started he addressed the
tall riflemen in words of burning
zeal, urging them to stand stoutly
in the battle and to smite " w i t h the
sword of the Lord and of Gideon."
Then the army started, the back-woods
colonels riding in front.—
"Hero Tales From American His-t
o r y , " by Theodore Booseveli, in St
Nicholas.
Over the State.
With remarkable bravery and at the
peril of her own life, Miss McGill, 18
years of age, dragged a drunken man
from the railroad tracks near Wilbea-barre,
in time to save his life.
Twenty-seven head of cattle and
four horses were burned to death in a
fire near Norristown, that caused a loss
« f $20,000.
John D. Patterson, candidate for
the Eepublisan Mayoralty nomination
in Harrisburg, secured twenty of the
twenty-eight delegates to the nomina-ting
convention.
Samuel Sunday, SO years, died sud-denly
after returning from a fair in
Hamburg.
Ex-Highway Commissioner Holling-er,
of Lebanon, is accused of misap-propriating
$60 of the sum realized
for a lot of Christmas trees.
Mrs. Matthew Thompson, of Me-chanicsburg,
fell down the stairway in
her home and died.
The Burgess of Beaver Falls sued
three councilmen because they wouldn't
attend meetings, but lost his case.
Little John Thomas in a quarrel
shot another boy in the eye with a
small rifle at Williamspost, and is un-der
arrest.
Farmers along Mahanoy creek re-ceived
$12,000 from the Lehigh Val-ley
and Reading Companies for dam-age
done by coal culm.
Shooting at an eagle at Muncy, while
on horseback, Boyd McMicbael was
thrown to the ground by the concus-sion
and severely hi^rt.
The jewelry store of Ermold & Ty
ack, at Reading, Pa., was closed by
the sheriff on three executions amount-ing
to $2600. The failure is attributed
to dull holiday trade.