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THE ST&IID&RD. r THE STANDARD. HE TANBAR 1 VBLI9HED EVEEY FRIDAY BY IX ANTHONY & J. M, CROSS Rates or AdTertisinK) . One square, one inssftion, $ 00 One square, one fciprith, 105 One square, two months, 2 00 One square, three months,. 2 50 One square, six months, t . 5 00 One square, one year, 9 00 TEEMS : 6KE YEAR, CASH IN ADVANCE, - $1.25. SIX MONTHS, .75 YQLUME I, CONCORD, K. C, SEPTEMBER 7, 1888. NUMBER 35. B BRING YOUR WOOL TO THE S IT .OH IT And have it shipped to. th,e Gvyii-IIarkets,AVoleu Mills "the best mill in the State" and have your Blankets, Cassimeres, Jeans, Liusey md Knitting Yarns made. "Comes first srved first. BELL & SIMS, Agts, X. B. Highest prices paid for woo Dl'dS AXD THE CODE. HUT ViCTOHY ITll Iiei--FB1GE81 III! 1ST E DEAL OF TIE UIIIMIIEIRSIE-A-SOIsr The rmdcrsigned once njoje rnmes to th. front and avows hi dctcrnunai.ion to Vnd all competitors in toe go-sl work of saving the peoj Ie money and Bin plying them with a superior quality of, - GENERAL MERCHANDISE, AYe are 'Voided to the muzzle,'-and if our s-tock is not speedilv reduced there is danger of an explosion when ye fire off our big gun. Everybody must '.stand from undr," lr th bottom has dropped out o! LOU PRICbS, and ifan-vbodv sets ciufflit when it fl 8- somebody is sure to get liuit. Now open your eves, bargain hunters, and if you ate close calculator and know a gocd thing when you see it come and see me if you want to save money by buying jonr Drj Goods, Ills, Booh and Stiocs, Greceiics. provisions and other articles of home use. A specialty on flou w hich cannot be pnrchasod elsewhere of the sama grade as cheap as I will se 1 Don't sell your country produce before calling on IR- A. BEOWIsT. P. S. Thanking you for past favors, I hope by fair dealing and reasonable pices to merit a contiuuance of the same. NEW fillLLIHERY STORE. I would inform tlie ladies of Con cord and surroundin; country that I have opened a new Millinery Store At ALLISON'S CORNER, where they will find a woll selecred stock of Hats and Bonnets Ivilbons. CVlars, Corsets, Bustles, J'uching, Yeilinir, &c., which will be hol.1 cheap for OASU. Give me a call. A. H. PROPST, ArKitsQt and Mrask Plan s and specifications of build wgs made m any style. All com- a...... 1 " 1 1 -.1 i . u una jur iunujura iaitniuiiv ear ned out. Omce in Catou's building. up stairs. 13 For Sale Cheap , ASE OXD HANI) OMNIBUS wu.li a capacity for twe ve passengers m good running order. CU- at this ouice. G 3m Respectful iy, MES. MOLLIE ELLIOT Mill i mm nice. Having qualified as administrator of Erwin Allman, deceased, all per sons owing said estate are hereby notified that they must make imme diate payment or suit will be brought All persons having claims against said estate must present them to the undersigned, duly authenticated, on or before the loth day oTJune. 1889, or this notice will b'j plead in bar of their recovery. GEO. C. HEGLER, Adm'r. By AY. M. Smith, Atto. T22 Gv FUNiTURE CHEAP FOB CASH AT M. E. CASTOR'S ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Haying qualified as Adm:nistrafT de bonis non of th estate of Jas. S. lacker, deed, 11 persot s indebted to said estate are hereby notified to mak prompt payment ; and all per sons having claims against said e.state must present the same f r payment on r before the 4th day of ' May. 1880. or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their reeovfry. JOSEPH YQCNG. Aiini'r de bonis non. By v. G. Means At May 4. 1888. FURITME IWL Bureaus,' MOOSE'S Blood Renovator, This valinhle Remedy is adapted to the following diseases ar sing from an imureblool. Eruptive ai-d Vivian epus diseases, St Anthony's Fire, Pim ples. Tetter, I'ingworm, Rhnmatism, Syphilitic, Mercurial, and all deases of like character. Jt is mi Alterative or Restorative of Tone and Strength to the system, ii affords fiat i iotectio.i 'roni attacks ihat originate in changes of climate and season. For sale at F-ter Drug Nore Rnidol (11 I'd ses, HOMADECOFFINS.ALL KINDS A SPECIALTY. I do not sell for cost, but for a small profit. Coine and examine my line of goods. Old furniture repaired. 12 M. E. CASTOR. CHAMPION MUM U M I .-.II DPI) M A 10 ). ( I still keep on hand a stock of Champion Mower Repair. My old customers will find meat the old ctand, Allison's corner. 'al-tf 1 C R.AVHITE. FOE SALE Sme Noted ana t'omlcnl Fight. Cincinnati Enquirer The recent duel between Gen. Boulanger and President j Floquet calls to. mind many I i -i xi-.ii.i.il knew what Af i,-,. m. w i. declined to wi uuiau, j-iie rrfuru nave from early times been the most zealous promoters of the code. In fact. Francis I. declared that any Frenchman who would be called a liar and then not tight, was a base-born churl, a precept that President Floquet appears to have not oniy oorne in mina, put. 9aj-. nea out o he letter. Duels were not known to the Greeks and Romans, but originated in the middle ages, when devotion to women, chiv alry and knight-errantry were the customs of th ? t'mes. In the middle ages, when there was scarcely a vestige left of the glories of art, science and polite accomplishments, when their scattered nuns and the tradition of them alone remain ed, then the duel was born. Swarms of barbarians overran the great empires, and the right of the sword was the only one recognized. The deity was supposed to be pro pitiated by deeds of blood. Tribes and individuals avenged the wrongs offered to them, and the ordeal was considered as the only way. to settle a dis pute or difference of any kind. Somebody calls ''duelling the triumph of fashion," and, in truth, all the fashionable of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries upheld the practice Ferocious Duels. In the sixteenth century, duels, like the age, were bloodthirsty and ferocious. Everybody wore sword and fought at the drop of a hat. Lives were a romance of war, love and conspiracies. The duelling blade was heavy, flat, straight, double-edged, pointed, and about three feet in length. The combatants handled it with one hand or two. Cut and thrust were equally permissible, but the thrust was made at the face and not the breast. Gen. Boulanccor 111 "Fl-i quet a liar, and they fought. This was a serious charge with serious results, but men have often fought for the most tri vial causes. There is a story of an Irishman who called a man out for doubting that he had seen anchovies grow on trees, and when his opponent lay wounded on the ground repentantly owned that it was capers, not anchovies, that he meant. One of Louis XA'III.'s body-guard fought three times in one day, first with a gentle man who had given offense by looking cross at him ; second with a stranger who looked hard at him, and third with a nvan who passed by and didn't look at him at all. President .Lincoln was once challenged by Gen. Shields to tight a duel on account ,oi a letter written in a newspaper reflecting on the General, which Lincoln claimed to have written so as to save the real author from the consequences. The latter having the choice of weapons elected to right with the broadsword, not that he was skilled in its use, but hav ing such a tremendous length of arm, combined with great mtiscular power, that he calcu lated upon. being able to chop his adversary's he&d o,ff before he could give him a scientific thrust. Lincoln was the first on the field, and when Shields arrived was liard at work with a hatchet cleaning away the bushes. It was decided to sink a plank perpendicularly in the ground, leaving four feet of it protruding from the earth, the combatants to fight up to, but not beyond it. Shields exam i ed the swords, then looked doibtingly at Lincoln's arm. CoJ. Hardin, Lincoln's second." saw th.e look, and urged the combatants not to make fools of themselves, and, like wise men. they concluded thev da my best to kill you. I have in my house loaves of siegebread, which Good, the West Indies. During one of ! twenty jtjr Cruises the first lieutenant had The Bangers mlT . Mountaineer jauiinciMty wun me parson, aim i Eneountercfi. have kept for souvenirs, AA"e I said that' lE lt was not foP &own bta L1romole will sit down and eat against 1 he W0Mia i""1 -U rentl n the Summer of '44 I crossed 0i .,tv manner Uh, said the parson, the plains with the treasure wagoiis eacii other. One of us is sure (ilof ' un. . .i i h,.A..,-,i i, nr f,.f;,, to die. 1 he challenger, who Lfn;; ff i, ,i.r..i. nmrnn,- 'u v;f iiv..,r. ' oiiu.i'iii" i wc :.la iiii-ii l u-i.iui.iia t vvuiimn i net J-'iu. "Now I am your man." At this it j goons, had been detailed as escort waa agreed, that thev should fiaht ! and I had enlisted with them a short siege-bread a: D. D. JOHNSON DRUGSTORE was, run the risk. Gen. Isaac Putnam, of revolu tionary frame, was challenged to fight a duel by a young offi cer, and proposed that each should sit on a powder keg with a lighted fuse in the bung. As he would hear of no other terms, the General had his Avay. At the appoint ed time the belligerents took their seats astride the kegs', and the fuse was lighted. Th veteran watched the progress of the burning fuse with iin moved countenance, but his opponent was not so cool. H took intense interest in tfte. fast lessening match, and when it got suggestively near to the bung-hole, deeming discretion the better part of Valor he jumped off and ran for the woods, Avhen old Gen. Putnam yelled out, "Hold on, .man; it's only onion seed !" AVhen Egan and Curren met to decide their quarrel with the pistol's aid, the former complained that he might as well tire at a razor's edge as his adversary's thin body, while he offered as fair a mark as a turfstack : whereupon his ready witted foe declared that, he had no desire to take r.n undue advantage, and was willing to let his size be chalk ed out on Mr. Egan' s side, and agreed that every shot outside the mark should go for nothing. Noted American Duels. The four ,most noted fatal duels ever fought in the United States were those be tween Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Uurr at AVeehawkjen, X. J., Inly 11, 1S04; Stephen Decatur and James Barron at Uladensburg, 51 d., March 22, 1820; Jonathan Ci'.leyand William I. Graves, near the boundary line of Maryland in the Pistrict of Columbia, Fohuary 24, 18:50, and Hun. David S. Terry, mar the la gnna de la Merced, about twelve miles from San Francisco, September 13, 1859. All of the challenged parties in quiseuueis wero mortauy woumieu ov killed. None of the others were injured except Rarron, who though dangerously wounded, survived. The weapons used in three of these duels were pistols, while Messrs Cilley and graves fought with nlles. Hamilton was a general in the army, and liurr was Vice-President of the United States. Decatur and Ilarron were post captains in the navy. Cilley and Graves were members of Congess from Maine and Kentucky. lirod orick was United States Senator from California, and Terry ex-Chief Justice of the supreme Court of the sap.ie State. Mayne Reid's Duel. Capt. Mayne Reid the well-known novelist and boy story-writer, once fought a due1. During "the Mexican war, after the American army had entered the City of Mexico, the young officers had little to do except shine their boots, dress well and call upon the senori tas. Among the Kentucky troops was Mavue Reul. Une uav ne was shining his boots, and at the same time repeating the lines : "At midnisrht in his iruarded tent The Turk lay dieumiug of the i hour AVhen Greece, her knee in suppli auce bent. Should tren b e at his power." When Ed. C. Marshall, afterward Attorney-General for California, put in with "Grease her kuee, Reid?'1 "Now, why did she grease her knee?'' "That's the question that agitate.? tin whole continent." Reid looked at hi ii weth a glance of withering con tempt, and made the laconi? reply, "Yon are a fool." A duel followed, and Marshall lost a finger and got tl e, worst cf it a 1 around. Preachers' Duels. It may seem strange that men of the cloth would fight duels, but so late as 1700, Rev. Henry Rate, an Episcopal clergyman, had fought and killed three men in duels. He died in 1824, holding a high position in Ely Cathedral Eng land. He was a dead shot, but was winged at last by Capt. Stoney Rub inson, who was danaerouslv wounded by the nnclerical -parson, a lady hav ing, been the cause or the troiuue. In'1815, Rev. Mr Bate, who had taken the name of Dudley, was mad.' a baronet. Two of his duels arose from quarrel about actresses, " and on a small island where the ship lav, and that the one who fell should be rolled into the sea by the survivor, so that it might seem that while walking on the cliff he had stumbled and fallen in. The lieutenant fell, to all appearances, as if shot. Black burn at once. vcUvd the prostrate man down the cliff, but just as they reached the last self of the declivity the lieutenant recovered sufficiently to cry out: "For God sake, Black bu.m, hold out your hand !" "Aha," said Blackburn, "you call ed just in time, for in another mo i inent you womd have been in the j sea. In the United States there have not been any duelling parsons, yet a great many preachers carried pis tols and were excellent shots. There was a gifted clergyman- who died at ElMiart, Ii:d., in a native of Kentucky, who, for a long time preached at the Church of St. Athanasiusat Los Anj.elos, in 1868, who could whip' out a six-shooter nd knock the spots out of the six of diamonds at twenty paces, or ring the beli at a shooting' gallery with a rifle twenty times in succession. The Wises of Virginia have al ways been great duelists. Henry A. Wise, the distinguished M ar Govern or, fought a duel iust before the breaking out of the rebellion with Philip SSt. George Cooke. The dif ference grew out of a canvass to a seat in Congress, to which they both aspired. It is said that when they reached the field of honor Cooke un dertook to jockey Wise's courage by saying: "J call heaven to witness that 1 am guiltless of this man's blood." Wise replied: "You had letter attend to your own blood d n you," and put his bullet in Cooke's thiurh. would not, and played a game j a third from some articles he had I will deliver at any time, and leave your ordeis. of old sledge" to decide who should pay the expehses'o.f the trip, a pleasure that fell to Shields. Queer AA7eapons. There have been many queer weap ons selected by duelists. A Missouri backwoodsman in sisted on a combat with raw hides, limiting the time to half an hour's duration. An old whaling captain said he would fight with harpoons or not at all, a proposition that his op ponent declined. A French iournalist. more fond of fun than fight, accepted a chal Call lenge, saying : "Of course I claim the choice of weapons. You want to kill me. .1 will written besmirching thv reputation of the countess of Strathmore. In 1782 an Episcopal minister, named Rev. Bennett Allen, challeng ed and killed a Mary lander, named Lloyd Delany. the duel took place at Hyde Park, London, shortly be fore midnight, and was fought with pistols at eight puce- Delany ftll to the ground, rose like a flash, and tottering backward, fell into, the arnis of his second, mortally wound ed. The difficulty wr.s caused by the publication of anonymous ! articles ina Lond'm paper reflecting upon Djelany and other American loyalists, and a subsequent publication where the writer was called a scoundrel and coward The most interesting Christian fighter, however," was Rev. Dr Blackburn, who, in the earley pa'vt of his life, was a baccayeer in time before." This remark interrupted the! thread of bear stories which the hunters were spinning about the campfire, for we were in the moun tains of North Carolina. The in terminable "flights" had grown te dious and ? pidly we turned to the old man who had now spoken for the first time since we gathered. Ik was tanned and grizzled, and there was upon his face that expression which conies from many dangers met and hrqve.d. Unlike his com rades he spoke in a quiet way that did not bid for admiration, and none questioned his story as v.e listened. There were six of the treasure wagons," continued he, "and it re quiied ten mules to draw each loi.d of silver. Besides these there was a quarter piaster's train freighted with food and clothing and all that was needful for an army of men. A great herd of beef cattle transported themselves, and the whole caravan Mas guarded by oui company of sev enty men. I n those days the plains stretched away one vast uuexplored wilder ness. No railroad had come near the Mississippi, scarcely a village was in the interior, and across thou sands of miles of western country the white man had never passed foot. All through the month of June our train dragged lazily across the rolling meadow, now turning aside from the treaetherous prairie dog vil- j lages, now pursuing the elk and au- teiope that sprung off at our ap proach or pausing perhaps upon some swell to watch ;. vast herd of uiiffalos roll awav like a black cloud shadow upon the land. Our men relieved the tedious march with, hunting, but the daily support of meat did not come . with out danger. For hardly had our backs been turned upon Civilization when the Indians began to gather and from that time on thev were rarclv out of sight. Never within they flitted about like phantoms. row watching our march from some eminence that Ave had passed, then presently clustered upon the level plain miles removed, then before our line had dragged its length as if whisked by magic far before us their feathered heads ti-M 1 1.1 ja.. ltv .fiimill , njl 1Q1T lyinTRrStand and watch while we pitched our camp for the night. Like silhuettes, I have seen them, horse and lance and man cut bold against the evening sky. They nev er came near : they were rarely seen in motion : no one nuew men num ber. Their distant and mysterious flitting seemed spectral, niihnman. At night the animals were corrall ed. The heavy wagons were circled, front to rear and within this stock ade the herd was secured from prowl ers and stampede. But in the early morning the cattle were turned upon the prairie and while the wagons were drawn out and baggage packed thev sought thier breakfast. The Fourth of July found us at Pawnee Fork in New Mexico just fiftv miles from old Ft. Mann. At that time the day was red-lettered in a soldier's calender. No military service was required of him. It was a rest day with a grand feast by the Government and his only duty was to eat and be glad. AVe were out of our blankets early, had been trunneled back, karrols s nd boxes were handled by willinor hands, and knapsacks were searched for hidden flasks or some dainty that would help to celebrate the day. The cattle had strolled out into the grass. Not a Comanchee had been sighted and the mounted oTMii-fls were htmsrinsr wistfully near the broiling steaks, whirring the fra grance of wine and baking pastries and hallowing to the boys f rollicking with expectation Suddenly there were screams and whoops and galloping. A shower of arrows fell among the wagons, the men ran to arms, the wouned mules reared and plunged, drums rattled and for a moment there was wild confusion. Another instant the dragoons sprang to saddle at word of command. AVith whoop and tcream a thousand Comanchees dashed be- tn-ppn them and the cattle and in a. moment were stampeding the herd across the plain as fast as frightened beasts could travel. Fifty dragoons stood about the treasure, three hun dred teamsters guarded the stores, while I and a score of comrades we.re ordered to "Charge." And away we dashed. The Camanchees were massed about the cattle and when in rifle range we opened fire. Not a shot failed. It was like shooting at shingles upon a house. On they rushed screaming and lancing the rattle into frenzy. Soon we were in through my bridle. Just then I saw a comrad? cleave an Indian's head with his cutlass and as the Coman chee fell backward the lad was run through with a lance from behind. If I fought I could never remember ed it. They said afterward that 1 did and there was blood upon my blade, but it seemed ta me that I was in a dream, with strange noises in my ears, with horses and lances whirling in a wild dance before me. How long we fought or what happened I cannot say but presently I found my se'f wih thrte companions dashing across, the plain towards camp. My arm wjis numb and I had lost my bridle. We had cut our way through them. Blood was gushing from the mouth of a man who rode near mo. An arrow had transfixed his body' pinning both amis together. He kept his saddle, escaped and lived. A German, named Straub, fell from his wounded horse, and with ready wit lay still. They thought him dead tin.1 scalped him. He also liv ed. " By the time we reached camp the Comanchees had disappeared with the cattle behind a rise intheprarie. The command had not dared to fol low, they thought this dash a feint to draw "them from the treasure. To guard it was their duty. Qn, the following day the cattle were found slaughtered and mutila ted by loss of tails and tongues. It was now apparent that the Coman chee were in the service of the Mexicans. For these evidences of destruction they received a bounty, and were right in supposing that large inducements had been offered for the destruction of our caravan. Our officers redoubled their vigi lance, and while we lay to for the wounded a detail was dispatched to Co.uncil Crove for cannon. By the tiip,e the injured men could ride we had four howitzers. Our little squad of blue coats had shown the Coman chees that it would fight, and they were wary. They hovered around us as before, watching from afar, but never came within rifle range. A dozen dragoons could scatter hun dreds upon the open prairie. The Comanchee is a brave and gallant fellow when he can act with whoop, and dash, but he cannot stand and fight. They outnumbered us ten to one, but we kept iu the open plain and watched. Four days our caravan had been toiling along the north bank of the Arkansas river. Elsewhere upon the plain the water was gone. Veg etation had shrieelled and parched under the intense sun. Here and 4lvA. aiwnfnll.t.i . nt millll plmmm! white and bare, and in the riddle; of the day, look which way we would, the plain seemed one vast stretch of rippling water. Thedust rose in stifiii-g clouds from the many scores of feet aud but for the river near neither men nor mules could have traveled. lt was the morning of the 15th cf July and Fort Mann was about twelve miles away. 1 or several days nq Indians had been sighted. Bv crowded into a circle, th.eTstoek cor alled, and every nau stood rifle in hand. "' ; By this time the dusUiac rolled within a mile. The ramble had grow n in to a roar. The buffalo could be seen now under tW cloud galop ing madly towards us, urged on by the thousand sereamingComarichees. They had been driven down upon the river and had massed in front of ' . us as thick as swarming beesi There was no.t; a - space between them, and as one sprang from the ground an other t.ook his tracks. Before ns were tens of thousands and stretch ing away to the eastward the dnjst rose as far as the eye coule. reaclk It was for this the Comanchees had disappeared, and they must have swept the plain for a hundred miles. No sooner were they in range than' our howitzers opened fire. We pour ed grape and canister amongst them as fast as men could load. The shot mowed'the beasts down like grain before a scythe, bntthe living rolled over the dead and trampled .the dy ing. The furrows torn by the mis sels closed, np as ' trrjgh they hid; been fired into water. The buffalo never wavered, but rolled and plun- -ged over the falieu like waves of the sea. Thousands were pressed into the river struggling, drowning- The ' howitzers rain id upon them, but tho panic stricken myriads pressed the foremost on. Above the roar of fcefc ana sound of cannou came the shrieks of Comonchies driving the black avalanche down npon . ns. That flood could sweep over us like a tidal wave upon a sandy bar. Their front was almost on ns, tho clust was in our faces wh,eu the order came to load and fire the guns to gether. Quickly we rammed down the powder and filled the shot to the muzzle and then at a word pourred them into the struggling mass a hundred feet away. It was the smoke, and; rear, and not the slaughter, 'inhere was not a mo ment's paiise. Electric, as by a sin gle impulse the'' vast herd whirled. A plunge, a mighty cloud of dust, .urn me wiioie line Dore oacK upon the Comanchies as madly as they hd rolled upon ns. For a moment the Indians raved and screamed, but me nue nau turned and awav across the plain they fled for their lives be fore the storm which they themselves nau gatnerea. Un, how we yelled ? Back the dust cloud rolled tls it had come but the plain was left black with the 'trampled and slain. I rough t Comanchees a dozen years. I saw Buenavista and followed Kit Carson in some of his wildest rides, I charged Rosencran's battery across that orjun plain atureeshoxa-wlLCiu a hundred cannon ponreu upon us, night the long, dangerous march when I awaited that unknown enemy and faced a charge of a hundred thousand buffalos." Johx W nAYs, Jr. Gov. Wise's son, O. Jennings AVise,whowas kilhd in the rebellion, fought a duel with Shcivard Clem ens, who was a member of Congress from Wheeling in 1801, and after ward a lawyer in St. Loi is. Vv hen the difficulty between Clemens and Jennings Avise first arose, Clemens announced his purpose -of iu t fight ing. He was" engaged at that time to a young lady whom he afterwards marrUid. She heard of his intention sent him word that unless he fought he should never marry her. He did tiorht and Wise,s shot lamed him for life. Gen. Jackson's Duel. Gen Jack son's marriage was the cause of a good deal of tiouble, both to himself and the c nu: try. His wife was the cause of both his duels with Gov. Sevier in 1S03, and the cause of his duel with Charles Dickinson after ward. Dickinson was a law or and trader a patron of the turf, who ran horses and bet his money on them, lie was bright, enterprising and popular, and reported to be the best pist 1 shot in Tennessee. He had for some reason conceived a dislike to Gen. Jackson, and when drinking made remarks about him. '1 he Gen eral knew this, but the difference in tl.cr ases Dickinson was 25, while Jackson was nearly 40 forbade him irivincr it anv attention until the former spoke dispaiaginglv of Mrs Jackson. When informed of this the General called upon him and de manded an apoloirv. He denied hav ing said auvthinsr : said he must hae been in his cups, and apologiz ed. The matter there dropped. Af terward trouble aro-e about a horse race, in which one of Jackson's hors es ran, and a correspondence ensued i in -which General Jackson called Dickinson a coAvard and a poltroon. A challenge was sent, and May 30th, 1807. the parties met tit Harrison's Hill's, in Logan county,1 Kentucky, pistols were the i capons, distance twenty-four feet. At the word giv iu by" Gen." Overton, Dickinson tir ed instantly. A puff of dust fiew from the breast of Jackson' coat, just where Dickinson boasted he would hit him. The muscles of his fac;e contracted. He placed his left arm firmly across his breast, steadied himself, and took deliberate aim, Dickinson astounded at his failure, stepped back from the peg, when Overton called to him to resume his position, which he did, presenting his side to his adversary and avert ing his eyes, Jackson pulled the trigger of l.i.-i pistol ; it stopped at haff-cock. Hcicpplly recked it, carefully aimed and fired. Dikinson reeled and fell. The ball had struck him just above the right hip and passed cleur through his body. When assured by his surgeon that his A oui:d avus mortal he insisted upon another fire. "Gen. Jackson must go with me," he sad, excitedly. He was cai vied to a neimiuonng ! 1na rillicrp anJ dronninsr the her.vv o " i a . ? carbines used the quicker Thef fell from their horses ... C a.J.:-L like leaves trom a tree, cu ioa.iv.. , . ranifli they were we cou.d not fail iO t, . niim(,n. ip ol),rY them.' We were fS ei it, then giving his hand cumej when quick as a f.a,h there a a 'j towiml us a3 fa,t as horse right and let wneei ana a -, - Bnflal0S! BuSalos! Buf- ment they had hemned 8 iu J'd f , Comenchi,s! were pouring arrows from evei y siue jt a if gtorm as they circled round and round. Ju in; Pistols were dropped and outlay n magterg wm? m in nana Ae i-uwgw in orders. Drivers snnmg to their J ht it sounded like music. Then I An "rf i-imw vh:it haDncued. 1 1 a.1 a.i...-' Y . i f conuuer, uuu me umu ,.n m; xed up with tnem. l re- , ... T v.. r1T1Tirtl IJTf, ;n ihe vicinity of Clifton Force, .. . i i iii;tiiii i ; i Liitrii viiiv-v. v a lOllg laUCC -..a TV,. .-sino n-om ... lio Ttina T?i,1fTO tnftlintflmS . . r ..,..,. I "-v c v , . , i u ere run uui. iuc naiuuo 'iy "w "v paper commeut iur uei ea house, av here he died at four o'clock the next morning in great suifeiing. Jackson and his friends rcpioun'ted their horses and rode to the tavern. When Jaekjon took olf hiseloth.es it was discovered that he vyas Avbunded, having two ribs broken. Though Jackson "lived to be seventy-dght years of age, Dickinson's bullet gave considerable trouble, causing fre quent hemorrhages of the lungs. The press of the" country was espe cially severe upon Gen. Jacksou,and one editor put his paper in mourn ing. From his sick-bed Jackson defended his continued to be the source ot news- ear. avou Id be over and the treasure safe ly lodged. On Ave toiled, the weary mules struggling with the wagons hub deep some times in sand. Fre quent pauses Avere necessary, and it AVas while Ave rested in the loreuoon that 1 heard a voice at trout sing out "Cyclone !" Men who have lived upon the i -1 , ii. . i pi am KiiOAV Avnat me Aoru( rn.eai.yi and every eye Avas turned 'tovvarcts the Avest. There Avas no breath of air stirrinar. not a cloud in the skv but fur oft' on the horizon was V white line that seemed to roll, swell and rise, "Cyclone!" "Cyclone!" ran cIoavii the train, and men Avho wonld have charged a battery with scarcely a hearts beat'quicker' turn ed pale iu their saddles. What could courage and daring aArail be fore this monster, no escape." AVe, could ould wait and hope that it avou Id break before it reached us or pass away northward. The long line of dust had rolled nearer as we Avatchcd. It boiled up from the earth aud turned like a great serpent iu pain. It seenjed to stretch from the river aAvay to the eastward and Ava3 bearing directly upon us. Now a id then a strange sound could be heard, low and rum bling like far away thunder. But the mules, quick to detect a storm, had taken no heed of danger, and the men Avho had I eiii watching in si lence began to comment on the sIoav pace of the blast. "Roys, that's no .cyclone," I heard one say, "A cy clone Avonld have been upon us by now and the mules'' would have stampeded." The strange murmur, too, had become plainly audible. It hail grown into one continuous roar, deep, unnatural. And as Ave listen ed another sound seemed to come above the rumble, wild and shrill, a sound that we had heard before. Spuring his horse forward Lient. Love made towards a little sand h.ll that rose near by in the prairie. My heart never beat so fast. Some dan ger, tremendous, terrible, I kneAv not 1 wateli- Was a Confederate Spy. . Memphis, Tennessee. Mis. Fanny Ada Scott, a woman with a history, was found dead in her room in a bpardjng house this morning. She had succumbed to cloroform. which she had been in the habit of taking to get relief from neuralgia. She came to Memphis six years ago, and had gained a scanty livlihood by sew ing. On more than one occasion when utterly destitute she was urged to apply to the authorities for assist ance, but refused, saying that all she. asked of charity was a decent funeral Avheh the death she crayed bhould come. Her maiden name was ifanny Ada Spaiks. Her father was Gen. Sparks, prior to the war a man of Avealth and high social position. Hewasntono time con uected with the New Orleans press and the reputed author of that touch J ing poem of the 'war, '.'Somebody's Darliug.V - Her first husband was Agustus A. Fowlkes, of New ' Orleans, from whom she was divorced in 1867. Three years, later, she married Gen. Thos. M. Scott, Avho commanded the 12th Louisiana regiment during the war. He died three yeara later. Amon Mrs. Scott's effects were fouhd a number of letters from per sons of distinction in the Confeder aey, including Jefferson Davis and Joseph E.' Johnston. It appears tlluf 1ica tiNavIra rv-tiiot- horA tnav a . . i v AiAiO --' a O, aVUU9V UOilQ UOCU i Confederate spy, as mention is made of he being imprisoned by the Fed erals in Vicksburg and New Orleans during the Avar. Some time before death he told an acquaictance Unit she had papers of great histori cal value; Avhich she proposed tell ing to the Oovernment, but during her absence from home one day this person stole the documents, Mid Mrs. tfr.pt i cculd uot recover them. From what she let fall in conversation these papers would throw a light on some of the dark passages of the war in the AVest. and deenlv concern leading commander? on both sides. ,fV. j what, avbs coming upon me. 1 wa w' I ed the officer as he clambered the little mound and brought his glas The workingmen of Indianapolis recently resolved that they are "un alterably opposed to the election of Benjamin Harris on to thePresidency, because his' life and official record fully dt-monstrate that he is blindly wedded to the corporate ppw;ers of the country, and ha3 no proper re sard for the interests of labor." World. AVashixgtox, Aug. 28. The P- esi dent. and. Col. Laaoit, accompanied Mules plunged through tkei by Internal Keve.nuo Commissioner i i u.Auihi! unii kuhpj' jVLi.ier. abuiuiziou iasi iuxm on Viiieay sa.nu uuuci vatuo y y"- - . y- " . - 1 ne uraoous ooeveu iue-quiviw eoiu-, ii--uiiis-Av".ioivia. v.. . - : nlace? I I weie an iin-vy ...... j member dodging as a came at me, and a ponj v ran his head