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THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. VOL 3 THE GLEANER. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY K S. PAR KE R Graham, IV. C, Jiafei of Subscinption. Postaye Paid : One Year.../........ ..$1.50 Six Months 75 Tiiree Months ......fig Every person sending iib a club of ton' 1 b eribers with tiie cjish. entitles himself to one copy free, for the length of time for .which the club is made up. Papers sent to liferent offleoo. A r o Departure from the Crish System Ratoa ol nilrrrliaitig Transient advertiserfienrs' payable in ad vance; yearly advertlsemets quarterly in Advance ' t |1 m. |2 m. m. 6m.|12 m. Iqu ro I*2 00j$3 00l $4 00$ 600 $lO 00 3 ' 1300 4 50| 60010 00 I i.» 00 Transient advertisements $1 per. square for he first, and fifty cents for each subse cr lent insertion. THIS PAPER Ig OK FUJI WITH Khar* AivartlaliHi Oontracta can b« mat* National Hotel Raleigh N."C. BOARD m. PEB DAT *: S Brown, Proprie tor. * . I- The table is surpassed by no house in tlie State. 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I offer you every possible guarantee thai whatever you may buy of me shall be genu Ine and ?u*t as represented, and you shall pay no more for it than a fair advance on the wholesale cost, Good* ordered shall be fur nished as low as if purchased in person at my c juutor. I have made io the handsomest manner, Mair Chain*. (lair Jewelry, Dlaeaaarf ■"* SZ?** 1 ?* •" htmSm •r Finr Jewflrj, G*M mm* Wlm W»ck Caaea, Ml,, CIC. My machinery and other appliances for making the different parts of Watches, is perhaps the most extensive in the State, con sequently I can guarantee that any part of a watch or clock can be replaced with the ut most facility, I guarantee that my wefrk will com pare favorably in efficiency and finish with any in the land. tJOHN CHAMBERLAIN, •Watch Maker and Jeweler, Greensboro, N , * - ■ ... • * ' DR. W. F. BASON, Dentist, ;- s '" Would be pleased to attend the call* of alt in Alamance and adjoining counties who appreciate the best condition of tholr OWN or CHILDBBN'9 TEBTH.— N. B. Communications through P. O. at Haw River, N. C., or otherwise will baat tended the -first opportunity GTTBBTH extracted without patn(if best) and AKT. DISTURBS on short notice Charges, rerjr moderais. 1 The Queen of the fcioux, [From the New York World.] On Saturday afternoon, the 22nd, when the clerks ot the Talent Office ? swarmed out of that building after j tlieir day's duties, a lttdv of handsome face and carriage, neatly dressed in black, took her way to the office of the Indian Commissioner and asked t>bfe informed of the prec'Bi time [ wheh the Si nix delation should ar rive. That evening, the easts wardvboulnd (rain rolled int6 the • depot/ she stood quietly among the crowd, ami as the Indians appeared stepped forward and saluted one ot them in a strangely outlandish 1 tongue for one who seemed to repre sent so thoroughly the refined type ; of American civilization/ ,An excla ination of surprise and pleasure, a deep, quick guttural note that called the whole band together, and Mrs. Fanny Kelly stood once more among the savages, who had once held her a prisoner, but now surrounded her with an euthusiasm of delight akin to reverence. Let'fne tell her story: It was the evening of tho 12th of July. 1864. Five men, a lady, and a l ! itle girl seten years of age—Mrs. Kelly's niece, committed to her by her dying sister. —who camped ou the prairie with a small emigrant train of wagons, near the Black Hills, on their way to Idaho lVom Kansas. Behind Idem were other larger I rains, and they were on the broad trai. from Fort Laramie, over which many others had passed in advance; but they hud outstripped the others and we're alone 011 the vast plain, The Little Box Elder ran at their feet, its bluffs risiugabove thein on the oppo site side. There was no thought of fear, no sign of danger. Tire Indians were represented as friendly, a id up to this time none had been seen. Qui2t settled upon the little camp; the tw > colored men wero busy, in their culinary preperalions, Mr. Kelly had ridden oft to select a suitable pla>".e (or crossing the stieam, when the opposite blufts were filled with painted faces, and some two hundred warriors rushed down upon the helpless emigrants. In a moment three of the men lay dead, one disap peared in the darkness and Mrs. Kelly and Jittlu Mary were left ti» real ize the horrors of being captives a uiong those savage men. "O'.i! it s.-euas a grand sight," said this lady last Friday, when she witnessed the delegation in its interview with the President, "to look upon twenty-five Indians in such a place as this, sur rounded by the paraphernalia of pow er bf this Government, but it makes me shudder to think how d I, alone ami unprotected by any mortal po.v er, have looked into those dusky faces when hundreds and thousands were gathered togjther; sometimes with the war-paint on in the fury of the wardancej sometimss when defeated and retreating from m* pe iple and hurrying through arid ovi r boulders 1 and across precipitous ra •tines, they cast sulleA 1 scowling glanc es at their single white prisoner, and oice— shall I forget it?—when my doom was already sealed and Ihe sentence had gone forth that I must die because I had been found attempt ing an escape/' The scenes that followed their cap ture were ot suck a terrible nature that they can be but poorly portray ed. They were compelled to mount' a horse that was led by an Indian, and to leave their plundered teams and theu dead behind them. As they proceeded Mrs. Kelly thought of a piau to save her little darling's life. She began dropping bits of letters that she had about her person, and, quietly directing the child's at* tention to them, whispered to her to slide down from behind her, as they were on the same horse, follow the trail guided by the paper till she came back to the main trail and there for the other wagons to arrive. This was done. Then the mental torture of thinking about the child alone on the prairia caused her to make a desperate venture to save her self also. As silently as possible she dropped from the horse, secreted hers self a moment in the tall grass and GRAHAM, N. C-, th«n began her back ward flight for Mary and freedom She was sooti missed, tlie alarm given, a circle f irtned and gradually closed in, till the crouching prisoner was retaken. Little Mary, ho wove*,- li&d inailo her way further. Indians were sent swiftly back for her. but Mrs. Kelly knew not with what success for months. g- The brave little one had nearly reached the large trail, ouly a ravine intercepting her path to ic. Here she Waited and hid till morning, when, as sho looked forth her glad eyes met of two or three soldiei;o approaching. Springing up -with joyful haste she ran towards them, but ev*m then the Indians who had l een sent in pursuit came riding after, pushing their ponies to the top of their speed. The soldiers hesita ted at sight of the Indians. The In dians came within bow-suot. With a last appealing glance to heaven and her arms outstretched towards the soldiers, the child ran towards them. On the edge of the ravine three cru el arrows overtook her and drank her life»blood. A moment later, with a swoon and a yell, the savages rode headlong back, and one had a scalp of long, fair hair hanging at his gir dle. Months later Mrs. Kelly saw that hair and recognized it. Although then enjoying a fair share of consider ation at the hands of her captors, she fell to the earth in a dead swoon, and recovered only to find hernelt, struggling in a delirious fever, out of which, after many days, she slow, ly drifted back to reason and life. Imagine, then, the terror*, of this first night of her captivity. Iler husband's whereabouts she could not know, and where was the best loved darling left 011 the perilous trail? What would her savage captors do with her? "Never," said she, as these scenes all came back with the Indians the other day,; "had I known the strong, innate love of life in the human breast till then. To contemplate the scene beforehand, one would think death were prefera ble at oucej yet it was with me, as it is with the ag(d or the sick—life clings to life to the la«t." Perhaps death or insanity would have come, but as a merciful although severe curative for inward torture, bodily sufferings intervened. Awea ry waste of desert lay in tha track ol the returning warriors. Unused to privations, the captive bore the ago ny of thirst but poorly in compnri son with the Indians. Obliged to ride one horse and lead another, a vi cious and stubborn brute, bis sudden jerks backward frequently pnllcd her to the grouud, when she vas beaten fir falling. Faint wit h thirst, she be came bewildered in mind and seemed careless of the commands of her mas ters, and was treated with proportion ately greater harshness. She was spared any further peisonal indignity than blows, yet she was compelled to witness the drunken orgies and hear the coarse and protane language 1 f Hie ludians. In several notable in* stances she was made to stand face to face with death. During one of the rides throogh the wilderness, becom ing utterly worn out with the trials she hnd bad with the two horses, she threw away a long and favorite pipe of au old chid. She was bonnd to a tree, a fire kindled, and whilo they danced arouud it Aoarisbing knives and blazing brands in the air', one of their numtor caught a wild horse, and the sentence was that she should be bound to the horse, sliot to death With arrows and her body be left to be carried by the horse in bis wild 1 flight. Trembling and waiting for Ihe f ital moment to come, she bethought herselt of some nfoney which she had carried concealed in her dress. Tak ing tbte out. a roll of bills, she ottered it all to them if tiiev would spare ber life. Not knowing what it was, they gathered around ber, asked her to ex plain the meaning ot the figures and writing, and in their childish oariosis ty their veugeance was forgot ton. At anoth r time an arrow aimed by an enraged Indian at hef heart was at the last moment thrnit aside by an other Indian who was friendly to hef. 1 And again, a squaw becoming angry ! with her, wonld hare taken her life , WEDNESDAY COTOBER 24 1877 with a knife but for tho timely inter ference of ethers. '•Haw is it possible," she was asks ed, "Tor yog to cherish any feelings but bitter ones for these men?" '•I meet them kindly because I feel kindly towards them. They treated me kindly town ids the last. They grew to regard 1110 with absolute af fection, so that they shod tears when they at last had to give me up as their Captive. And not only so," she ad detl, \tith 11 twinkle of the eye, "but J I bad a genuine lover Among them. | Jumping Boar would have risked his life anytime to save mine, and even ; after 1 explained to liiirr that with us one man must have 0111 wife, and I was already married, and it would 'offend tho Great Spirit and be a great crime tor mo to marry any one else, he acquisced in an arrangement that lie could not understand better than soirvp married nrert in Washington do. who think it 110 harm to carry 011 a flirtation with siuglo ladios. Jumps ingßcar is a uiueli better Christian and gcntleiftan than they are. Aud then I learned to pity theso untaught savages. They found out I could teach them, and they were docile. Tliev found out I could sing, and I could sootho theui. Many »s the time wo have spent the whole evening in this way. I would sing and fliey would listen without any weariness hour after hour. Th.'y found out 1 had a religion, tho worship ot the Great Spirit in my peculiar way, aud they respected it. They expressed often the great sorrow that they had that they treated me so cruelly. Just, the other day I received a letter from a friend at the Cheyenne Agency, in which lie says the Indians there tell him over and over how their hearts hurt them that they treated me so badly, and they all wish I would come out thero and teach them aud govern them." fo "All hail, most august Queen of all the Sioux?" said the World corress poudent. "You may laugh, but they really do wish me to go out there and be their big chief. Not twenty-lour hours ago one ot their head men wept because! would not promise him to go back with thorn, and another because I des dined in a kind and respectful way to go to the theatre with him." "But if they really bad you back in their power would they not again lord it over you and treat you harsh ly at times?" "1 do not have any idea they wtmld. 1 really think the Indians have boeu in many instances treated unjustly aud cruelly by the whites, aud one reason you cannot believe an Indian is because the Indian has learned that he caiinot believe a white man." "During your captivity did ther fe males treat you kindly?*' "Tho emales are like the males, auspicious, impassive, skilled in tho art of Some of the wo men became very kind to me, sooner than the men. They are all disgust ingly dirty in ther haoiis; they are vain } they are human nature in asav* ago state; but fliey saveu my life and treated me kindly when they could liaye killed me, and I shall always remember them gratefully for it." ■*' During all this of captivity Mr. Kelly, as may be supposed, was not idle. He organized private I'es. cueing parties, and obtained assist ance from the army in pursuing Indi ans. He paid hundred of dollars to Indians, who promised to rctnrn with Mrs. Kelly, but never retuhied. Not even were hi* messages of any news of him brought to her, or of licr to him. At last be despaired and was forced to tho conclusion that she had been killed. On the plain, with arms outstretched to heaven, little Mary's body was found, uul with grief added to grief lie tbooght this, too must have been the fate ot bis wife. From the first hour of ber captivity to the last she never let an opportunity to es cape pass without a trial. Three sev eral times she was out of the camp, but her flight WAS discovered too soon and her recapture at once effect" ed. So many reward bad been offered for Mrs. Kelly, and such persistent efforts were oonstatautly made for her recaptnre or the recapture of some white woman who was said to be held bp tbe Indians, tbat tbe I.idians began to fear they would have to give her up. A council was called .and an old chief, by name Ottawa, he who led the warriors u hen Mrs. Kelly was captured,made a characteristic speech to the assembled bauds. Mrs. Kelley represents it us a more than ordinarily effective and rhetorical one. lie spoke ot the power of the wbito man through his big guns that shoot to far, ot bis deceit and treachery to the Indian, and exhorted them to meet deceit with deceit and treachery with : reachery. "Meet them with equal cunning. Let us have two tongues as they have. Our knives are sharp and long; our bows are sharpe and the lata! af - row flies far It licks the blood of the pale face; it s.icks in his heart, Our arrows are strong with death, and many, like the birds that lise tip in clouds ;fbey arc strong;r than ih'i guns of the pale.fuce, for they are without number. They have stolen our lands; let the lauds bury them. They are wis6 and long bended; let their scalps grace' our lodges. We will coine homo bravely from battle. Our s'>ngs shall sound among the hills. The tibrftf that drinks iu the blood of the pale face shall tremble beneath our war dancC. It was thm determined to gather together as many hostile Indians as it was possible to do, to send overt lures to the commandant at Fort Sully for tho restoration of a white squaw, to appear 011 a certain day 1 before the fort iu full force, escort Mrs. Kelly inside the stcokade, and 011 a preconcerted signal rush upon the garrison and masjacre them. In pursuauco ot this plan Mrs. Kelly was sent to the Blackfeet Indians, so that they could unite with the Sioux hi dealing this blow. Meantime, while she was there, Man- Afraid -ot-His-Horsos, one of thei delegation at present in Washington, rode into the camp of tbe Blackfeet splendidly mounted. lie pretended tc take great interest in tho captive,- shook hands with her, saying (hat she JoOked sad, and after receiving much holior troni the Blackfeet took his departure. She afterwards learned that llye horse and equipmentshud been Mr. Kolly as a reward for finding out whether tho white captive he bad heard of was his wife, and the deceitful Indian had returned and reported that he had not been able to And any white captive among tho Ogalallas. This was literally true, but he had found her among the Blackfeet. lie is 0110 of the few Indians tor whom the lady has little sympathy. "He was always very much afraid ot his own horses lest they should bo stolen." said she. To save the* gm'rfeon at Fort Bully was now Mrs. Kelly's one thought. Female ingenuity can find 110 sifter way to accomplish a purpose than by wing tbe devotion of a man that loves. Jumping Bear was her re. source in this extreme hour, and. she summoned thh faithful man to her presence. She arked him if he would do her a favor, and his reply was ot course in the affirmative. She told bim that she had become very fond of Indians, and believed she could be sure always of some noble protection; then, without waiting to hear all th*t Jumping Bear bad to say. told him frankly that she wished to have orfe last message conveyed to ber white frieuda. She wished to tell them that she had chosen to stay aiuong the fndlaus bad hi fact learned to love them, and wished to tell them that he I Indians were friendlp to (be whites/ and they must not believe to the contrary. Iu short, she wished him to take a letter to the commandant ot Fort Sully. But Jumping Bear thought there would bo [danger iu this. She roplfod that he could i 1 easily go to the loft and btck before I I the braves returned f that the squaws 1 , wished ber to stay among them to | ; teach them and they desired him to ! go aud would not speak ot life being Absent that her white husband would have done 9* little a thing as ttmt lor her with no hesitation/ and now probably he was dead and sbe never | shonld find one as devoted to her again/ This decided Jumping Bear. As the fathfu'l Indian disappeared in the shadows, departing on his mission, the faithless woman went with a heart trembling between hope and fear to her sleepless couch. The end came with Jov and soon. The letter was delivered and put the commandant on his guard. Before Jumping Beat eon Id bring back an answer 2,000 Indians, with war in their hearts but peace on their lips appeared before Fort Sully. The garrison, 800 in nnmber, stood behind shotted guns, and the commander requested twelve or fifteen Indians Ito approach first with their captivo They entered the walls ol the lort. i Straightway the gat 6 w6s closad, the guns were run ont, the garrison stood to arms and the Indians saw they were foikd. The captive was froe! Afier a few weeks the husband came and they were reunited hr a home,- happier than eve*. A lew years laler Mr. Kelly died, and Mrs. Kelly removing to Washs ing ton was in some measure rewarded for her services to (he governmeirt and her sufferings daring captivity bv a handsome sum—s,sooo—voted to her niiauimottsly by Congress. Sub-> sequently Bhe received an appointment fn tbfe Patent oftce, which sh# holdrf at the present time. But the Indians still insist that she ought to fat urn, aud as their part of the compenstion they will give her horses, honors and hinds, and make her "Queenr of the Sioux." A. W. WANTBD TO'MKT OIT TUB IDRT, Presently the stillness of the court' room was interrupted by the entrance of a man' who came in with a shuf* Bittg, uneasy step, and with Ma hat in his baud. He halted, leaning a gainst the railing. Ndibtfy took the slightest notice of him howevef. lAt _last he took courage and apokt?: "Is the Judge in?" The clerk immediately awoke hi* Honor. "Well, what do you wan»?" "I'm looking for a job, your Hori —l've been looking for a job over a month." "There's nothing fo%you here." I thought you occasionally gave jurymen a job. I don : i read newspa* pers any, and bein' s stranger in town, I havn't got any prejudices agin anybxly. A pard of riine wrot# doWn to the at Reno last week, and said that the jury business op here was brisk, an' it would pay to come up. As I'm a itrarrge* to you, and a little hard up, 111 start in and s«rve for a case or two for half pricey and you kin see what I kin do." "What are your main qualifica tions." "Sly strong suit id making a jury agree. No jury ever gets hang if • I'm on 'em. 1 jtist lay low till they take the first ballot, then join the majority afid rfrgfte the rest into* it. I can dissount any lawyer talking. I can show 'etn pointtr they never tumbled to before. Sometimes I have to use force, but fehfony. Once 1 down at Truekee, in a murder case, there was a couple of fellers staudiu' out agin' hangin' and after 1 arguing with 'em as smooth and gentlemanly as I could for over a quarter of an hour, I went for 'em #idi chairs, arid by the time I'd busted half a dozen pieces of furniture over 'em Ihey was glad to come'in with a verdict of ''Murder in the first degree/* and the feller was hung not long aftef ward. In these justices courts 1: CM get on a jury/ and if yerrr'J give me a wink as to how you want the case to go* I'll guarantee to fetch in the verdict you want, or not take a cent,'* The man wes told to drop around again in a day or so, and they would try to make a vacancy for Aim.- In order to do It however* boom regu# I lar jurymen will probably have to be discharged. Said a Setub Police.' h I came out here from the happy home of my' sliildhood to get elected United States Senator, and here I am a simple Justice of the Peace, throwing the pearls of rhetorio and good advice before an inebreiated galoot that can't appreciate the favor shown him." Russian to Turk, Who fecleves a bayonet thr.ist: "But, my poor Turk, you don't seem to ol»)Mt " lurkf It is the first time in eight daya that anything baa gone into my rtom-- ach " , . • 4 While the often are so busy carto ning everything th«y can get 'heir Hu Igers on, why don't th«y prtt rip soawr of this weather for winfei 1 use?—las* ton FretYrest. N0,33
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