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M. QUAD’S STORY. BETWEEN TWO FIRES. [Copyright, 18KI. by Charles B. Lewis.] During the last year of -the war the lighthouse on North island, at the en trance of Winyaw bay, on the coast of South Carolina, was destroyed by fire. The one erected to temporarily replace it was built by a party of Federal sol diers. Its height was about 25 feet, and the material used was stone, brick and timber. There wasn’t much architec ture about it, but it was solid enough for a fort. Indeed, it was built as a combi nation and for several weeks was in charge of a sergeant of infantry and sev en or eight men. Orders were finally received to leave two men in charge un til relieved by an appointee of the light house board. The name of my compan ion was George W ilson. We were left an abundance of rations, two extra muskets and plenty of aufinunition, and aside from keeping the old fashioned light in order we had nothing to do. War was over, but the country was unsettled, and gangs of bad men were prowling along the coast as well as through the interior. On the afternoon of the fourth day aft er the sergeant's departure a sloop which had probably come out of the Santee river approached us from the south and came to anchor just inside the island She had six men aboard, and after fish ing for an hour or so two of the crew came ashore in the small boat. Wilson was asleep at this time, and I had been watching them from the lantern room with the glass. It needed only one glance to prove that the crew of the sloop were ; r WS • li - i i! • - -s® tense. While tb<-y I'A Aijri inspected the lighthouse, and a:isd®fc® the boat put out I rotted up we went outside to receive the strati®' During the war many blockade rut®' pad succeeded in getting into Georgetown, at the head of the ut least half a dozen had been driven ashore An pui; viciufty. There were then two wrecks on the east side of the island and two on the mainland, and unknown io us a story was afloat that a large amount of English gold had been taken from one of the wrecks and deposited in the lighthouse for safe keeping until its rightful ownership could be decided. It was a very silly story, but found many believers. We had no means of getting jit any of the wrecks, and had any con siderable sum of money been found if would have been turned over to the gov ernment, of course. I had time before the boat landed to tell Wilson what I thought about the men, and we agreed on what we should say and how we should act. Only one man came up to the lighthouse. Had he been encountered on the main land -he would have been called a guer rilla. He was a middle aged man, with ft fierce pnd crafty look, and his efforts to appear pleasant and pass for a fisher man were lamentable failures. When we had saluted each other, ’ ' said that he and his men were to wait where they Were for a British bark called the Har vest Home to come out of Georgetown, p-hen five of them were going to ship in her. He asked if we had any objections ggajnat their camping ashore for the pighf, and he wanted to buy bacon and poffeo of qs. I pretended that I would have to ask the sergeant before answering, and turn ed and entered the lighthouse and closed and fastened the door behind me. We had mot the stranger about 40 feet from tho door and had planned not to let him enter the building and discover that we two were alone. The fact must have al ready been known to them, however, or at least strongly suspected, for I had scarcely closed tho door when tho man knocked Wilson head over heels by a I >lqw p.n the nc.se and dashed at the door! fef me tell you about tho build of tho lighthouse, and you will get a clearer idea of my situation. The door was nar row and studded with boltheads. There was a loophole ou either side for mus ketry. ’ The ground floor room was cir cular, with walls over two feet thick. Ascent to the lantern room was made by j]|Cfimi of wooden ladders. There was a circular walk around the lantern, with a brick parapet four feet high. The lighthouse stood back 200 feet from high fide, find about she same distance in year of it was a i idgo of sand and gravel punning clear across tho island. Here and there grew a bush and a patch of grass, but there were no trees within Wk; weekly th gunsnot, nieauor upeieuiuwuru auu was secured by a heavy bar across the center. I had intended to remain inside two or three minutes and then return and deliver a message from the sergeant, but when I heard some one kicking on the door I realized that the stranger had already shown his hand. From one of the loopholes I saw Wilson sprawled out on his back and also noticed the small boat making off for the sloop. Just then the stranger called to me through the other loophole: “Look here, young fellow, don’t you lose any time opening this door if you want to live to see sundown!’’ “What do you want in here?” 1 asked. “None of your business! You open the floor, or I will show you no mercy!” “You can’t come in here!” “Open this door, I say!” he shouted as he pounded on it with a stone. The small boat was now coming ashore with the rest of the fellows, and Wilson was sitting up and looking around him in a dazed way. He did not get up un til the men reached him. The leader of the gang left the door as they came up, and all gathered about Wilson for a consultation. After a few minutes he was tied hand and foot and deposited in the boat on the beach. Then the gang approached the door in a body, and the leader called to me: “Come, now, open this door! We know you are all alone in there, but we don’t want bloodshed if it can be avoid ed. We have come after that money and are bound to have it.” “There’s no money here. Ask my com rade, and he’ll tell you the same.” “But open the door and let us see.” “I shan’t do it!” The lighthouse was a place worth loot ing. We had three or four barrels of oil, a barrel of molasses, one of rice, half a ban-el of sugar, two barrels of flour, a lot of bacon and hard tack, a barrel of coffee and other stuff. If the gang plun dered the place, they were not likely to leave two witnesses behind when they sailed away, nor was it probable they would land us at any point where we could give an immediate alarm. The chances were at least even up that they would murder us to conceal their identi ty. Having served as a soldier for over three years and knowing the strength of I occupied, I was not. at all of the / -:g. . Iji I - " >Ul'l BBmter oT the leader. He wasn't over io feet away, and the bullet whirled him twice around and then pitched him head long. Two of the gang seized him and pulled him aside, and then all got out of range. Every man of them had a knife and a pair of revolvers, but they soon discovered that numbers and weapons didn't count. There was no chance to fire on me except through the loopholes, and I was carefully watching one of those. They did creep up to the other and fire five or six shots into the room, but it was powder and ball thrown away. It was about |i:>.lf past § o’clock in the afterhomi when I was driven inside. Half an hour after the wounding of their leader they were ready to give it up as a bad job and return to their sloop. Their small boat lay directly in front of the door, and as they began moving toward it 1 fired and slightly wounded one of the men assisting the leader to get down to the beach. All of Them at once hur ried to the left to get. out of range. It had struck me that if they took Wilson away they would murder him, aud I de termined to keep then, from the boat. In u few minutes' one of the gang came I PUT A BULLET INTO THE RIGHT SHOULDER OF THE LEADER. Lieppiug aiinimi near lay loopiime o'- lie dared to demand my surrender. If 1 refused,' they would burn me out. There being no drift stuff within a mile pf us, I di<| pot worry over his threat. As lie retreated to the rear of the house to rejoin his companions I saw Wilson’s head rise above the gunwale of the boat. Seeing the eqast clear, he rose up, leaped out of the boat and shoved her into the water. The tide was going out, and with the help of the oars he was soon aboard of the sloop. I made my wav to the lantern room to watch his movements, uilti wneu x caw unu uau dling a double barreled shotgun which he had brought from the cabin I gave him a cheer which put the rascals below on the alert and resulted in their discov ery of -what had occurred. The situa tion now presented was a curious one. I was a prisoner inside the lighthouse, but the gang were prisoners outside as well. Wilson had captured both boat and sloop, and while he could render me no assistance he stood between the men and escape. I expected to be fired on when I light ed the lantern, which was in an exposed position, and sure enough they opened on me with their revolvers and shaved me pretty Close tnree or tour times, i got. down safely, however, and then had only the door to guard during the night. The fellows could not tell whether I had been hit or not, and about 9 o’clock I heard one of them at the loophole ■where I was watching and listening. I had a cocked revolver close at hand, and the yell which followed the report told me that he had been hit. What the four un wounded men would do during the night I could only guess at and be on the watch checkmate. By 10 o’clock it was so lark I could not see the beach, and then two of them, as subsequently appeared, went down to the shore and undressed and swam off to capture the sloop. It was a daring thing to do, for the craft was a quarter of a mile away, the tide running strong and the waters infested by sharks. Wilson not only found the shotgun, but a loaded revolver and a cav alry carbine, and he rightly reasoned that as soon as night came the gang would attempt to retake the sloop. Be ing at anchor and swinging with the tide, he knew that she could only be boarded at the bows, and he took his sta tion there and was on the alert when the swimmers came off. One of them was swept past him and out to sea shouting for aid, while the other was shot as soon as he seized the forechains. 1 saw the flash and heard the shot, and Wilson aft erward waved a lighted lantern as a sig nal to me that he was all right. I of course could not tell how many of the gang had gone off to the sloop and continued watchful for any move against the door. The two wounded men must have suffered a great deal, but the leader was a determined fellow and bound to get revenge if nothing more. He sent the two unwounded men back to the woods for fagots, and about midnight I heard sounds which made me suspicious. Os a sudden both loopholes were closed up by limbs being thrust into them, and the fagots were heaped against the door. I had anticipated this move and planned What to do. Before the fellows could fire the fagots 1 opened on them from the paiapet jwith my revolver, wound _jng until, two hours ‘■’They went off to the sloop and got ghot. Say, mister, fur heaven’s sake (lon’t go back on us! Wo cum to rob the place, as I won't deny, but we’ve got the wust of it and want to cry quits.” I believed it was a plot to get me off my guard and refused to open the door. Twice more before daylight the same pan came and appealed to me, but he received the same answer. When the day broke, I looked down on them from the parapet and saw that the leader was dead and the qther three wounded. Be fore opening the door I made them dis card their revolvers and knives, and as I went out to them Wilson was coming ashore in the small boat. The captain, as they called him, had bled to death, one of the men was wounded in the foot, another in the and a third in the find they were as humble as you please. We bound up their wounds and pade them as comfortable as possible, and that afternoon a government steam er took them up to Georgetown. We had a good overhaul of the sloop before w<2 |et her go, and we made several surpris ing discoveries. She had about $500,000 oi Confederate money aboard, which was of course worthless, but we also found S9OO in gold and greenbacks; jewelry, Which WO afterward sold for $750, and a puinber of knickknacks valuable as keep sakes. She was also a valuable prize for the government, as we found in her shal low hold two bales of cotton, about 20 muskets and carbines and a lot of med ical stores. It turned out that they were a bad gang, most of them being deserters, and in their operations along the coast they showed no partiality. The one who was wounded in the foot was an outlaw who was wanted for several murders and robberies, and he was either hung or shot at ! peaufo.rt. The others were sent to prison tor long terms, and thus the en tire gang was wiped out. Seventeen years after the close of the yvbr I was at pened tq be wearing a gold, ring which was part of the plunder found on the sloop. The ring Was identified by q gentleman named E. A. Ilgynea as one Stolen from him in 1860 and was of course cheerfully handed over. ALMOST BURNEP, (fin Hqurb of Mr. J I, McArver Haroly Escapes. Spepial to The Tribune, Coosa, Ga,, Oct, 31.—Yes'erday morn ing about 9 o’clock, the gin house on the J. L. McArver farm, which is rented ard operated by J. L aud John A. Webb, HOME. GA., THUBSDa Y. .NOVEMBER 9. caught fire, and for a time it seemed as if the entire structure and contents would be consumed, but by heroic efforts the fire was extinguished after it had burned a pile of seed cotton, part of the roof of the bouse, and the bagging from thirty bales of cotton on the yard. Cotton is too scarce in these parts to feed to the flames. The low cotton lands are coming up very well, but the uplands are exceedingly short, requiring from seven to ten acres to make a bale. STRUCK BY A TRAIN. Two Prf ml< ent Young Farmers the Victims, One Instantly Killed. Calhoun, Ga., Nov. I.—This morning Groige Bailey and John Buffington, two farmers living near Tilton, started to Calhoun with a bale of cotton in a two horse wagon. When they wqre crossing the W. & A. railroad, about a milu above Resaca, the down passenger train ran into them and Bailey was instantly killed. Buffington had a leg broken and the wagon and the bale of cotton were torn into fragments, but the mules escaped unhurt. The train stopped and backed up as soon as possible,but Bailey, who had been knocked several feet, was already dead, with a great incision in the back of the head. Buffington was suffering greatly with his crushed leg. Both were put on the train and c trried to Resacca, where Bailey’s body was prepared for burial and Buffington received medical atten tion. Both were young mer, well to do, and Buffington is the son of J. B. Buffington, a well known butcher of this city. WHITFIELD WHITECAPS. Notices Have Been Received by Ginnerß and Merchants, Special to the Tribune. Sugar Valley, Ga., Nov. 2—Notices, signed “Whi ; field County Whitecaps,” have been received here addressed to ginnere, merchants, farmers and bailiffs. Giuners are forbidden to run their gins at the risk of their being burned, until cotton is worth ten cents per pound. Farmers are told that if they sell cotton for less than ten cents a pound their corn wifi be burned. Mer chants must not buy cotton for less than ten cents, else their stores will be burned. Bailiffs are notified that they will be killed if they serve any levy. Bailiff Harris, of this district, received the several notices with n quest to post them. The letter was postmarked “Dal ton, Ga.” The gin at this place has shut down. s. the Methodist and had been rqn for eighteen months. They plead guilty epd are now in At lanta jiil. They successfully run this and it took good detective work to catch them, Horsewhipped. Atlanta, Nov. 2. —Will Venable, one of the owners of Stone Mountain, horse whipped G. T. Woodward this afternoon. Woodward is a job printer. Venable went to Woodward’s eflise, locked the door on the inside, ard accused the proprietor of havlpg called him a thief Woodward denied iL Venible heat him severely with a heavy whip. Woodward was left in a pretty bad shape, NEWS IN BRIEF. Items of Inte'est Picked Up Here an-: There. The; new Curry building will be a handsome one. Work is progressing very rapidly, and the walls metre several feet every day. The contract calk for it to be finished by the first of February Says Thursday’s Constitution: “The Georgia delegation met this morning and elected Judge Maddox as the Georgia member of the congressional campaign committee. He received the unanimous vote of the delegation.” A number of apple wagons Gil mer county were in town yesterday. The men report the crop almost a failure. The traveling of those men over 100 miles by wagon to dispose of their truck and make their purchases gives an idea of Rome’s territory. It is regarded bs very probable by rail road men that the popular fast train on the Nashyille, Chattanooga & St. Louis railroad, known as the ‘Velvet Vesti bule,” and running between Atlanta and Chicago will be taken off next Sunday or the Sunday following, ‘ I have had a number of pwple to tell me today,” said Mr. Lige Moultrie yes terday, “that collections and trade were both good. 1 was surprised? is every body has been crying tynd times. One man said collections were as good as he ever knew them to be.” There’s a sign of ths times for you. “Better times? Why, of course we are going to have them,” remarked Captain Ingram yesterday, as he occupied a chaij in the real estate offi :e of Mr. Hirafl Hill. “Drexel, Morgan & Co., the bifl gest bankers in the world, are going B spend $25,000,000 on the West Point isl minal, and that much mofl scattered throughout the sqfl' ; means! a great deal. Preparations® being made to spend $3,000,000 o® Montgomery, Tuscaloosa & Mei® railway, and the E. T. V. & Ga. s® is fixing to put in $19,000,000 on in®|f|| ing its roadbed and other partr. are a few items 1 happen to think®||4W in themselves mean much. “Then nine-tenths of the iron fMH rolling mills aud factories are sh® 1 because the railroads are spefl money and buying no iron a®. AS®” With the railroads spendin® again they will open u]>, are. Os course we are goi® better times.” ' “The drouth is keeping u® in our section of the M L. Palmer yesterday. is so hard we cannot break ■ ~ A ’ could nothing will grow wJ . is a very dry spell, and I isl rain soon. “Cotton? Why, arouni® is hardly two-thirds of S A'*? year, aud then we had® crop. It is nearly all be a bit. in the fields in® ‘ \ it is all beii’C in n kt «' b:e. Nobody Is able t-® ’AI THE SOLOI« Tri. <1 by -qui " Charlie Turn: r isj||| ' 'll of Conductor Tut® hunting. .Ls-e N® wilh a ! 's pl® hound dogs. ® The negro b.. In ' ‘‘‘ p ah; u.E - -I to be bis prop. 1 puted, and Tl.i® ' # A took cut a (, ”i: •!' : *. 3 ** - Harris tried A pl v. d the The said . J|| ‘ I'll y<® ■ ® .cel t. ®.' ’..ke, fl - B•: p.<r® ' . the Evergreen establishment at Coventry. During the past few days the B. B. & H- Knight Manufacturing company, which operates big cotton mills n Paw tucket valley, has shipped 700 bales of cloth to different concerns and agents in Massachusetts. This is one of the largest orders sent out by this concern in some time, and there, is a degree of confidence estab lished thereby. The Knights are con tinually running their mills in full with the largest number of hands possible. The Inter-Lake prints mills have re sumed on full time. J. D, Nichols’ Sons’ mill, at Oak Valley, has resumed on half time. P, H. Peckham & Co.'s mill, in Cov entry, is running on full time with full wages, and extra help has been secured in some departments. The New York mills, at Saco, Me., employing nearly 2,000 operatives,which has been shut down for three months, will resume operations Monday. A Florida Bank Resumes. Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 2. —The Bank of Leesburg, Yager Brothers pro prietors, which suspended Aug. 14, has Resumed business, and will pay deposit ors in full within eight months or sooner. HESTER ON COTTON. The Movement H** staple During the Month of October. New Orleans, Nov. 2.—The October movement of cotton in sigl)4* as shown by Secretary Beater's monthly New Or- report, was nearly 180,000 bale| in yxcess of October, 1892, but shows a de. licit from the. same month of 1891 of 388,006., The gain for the last four days of the month since the last weekly im port has been 43,717 bales Th.' total numi»T ® , '' ' tH -■• '--AwpWW ."M " H ' :,,;i > 1 ■ Pi-o the sen- b.'iiul, The niov.-iiieiit from liv.i Oct. 31 in.'linl":; total United States delivery |>ortsof against 1,526,754 last year and the year before; net overland moveine® by railroads across the Mississinni. nll >, > uin and goes on to say the Forepaugh show will not go out next season. Dietl in a Fit of Laughter, St. Louis, Nov- 2, —Mw, Ferdinand Heim, of Los Angeles, Cal., wife of the former proprietor of the Heim brewery in East St. Louis, had l>een visiting friends here at her daughter’s house. While laughing heartily at some remtv-k she suddenly clasped her hands over tier heart, gasped and died. She was a highly respected lady about 65 years of age- Advice to Allianceineus Opelika, Ala., Nov. 3.—ln his speech here before the Farmers’ Alliance, Hon. Joseph H. Harris, state lecturer of Ala bama, advised the Alliance to enter pol itics, and at the same time lie careful to avoid partisan politics. Mr. Harris made an excellent speech, and endorsed, Senators Morgan ana Pugh’s position on the silver Question. ONE MULE DROWNED ’flie Other Saved Arter Swimming the River Twice. Mr. V. Shipley, a young farmer of Livingston district, brought a load of corn to McClure’s wll Thursday, and after unloading bis wagon, hitched his mules about 30 feet from the liver bank. The traces were undone but the mules were left in their places with the breast baud on. W hen Mr. Shipley went to look after them a half hour later, he found a crowd trying to get them out of the river. The mules bad in some wev got them selves and the wagon One was cut loose from the swam the river. He did not climbing the bank and mm On this side he was helpedM|*ffiHgH|g Coiley. littl but motion pre**- , wit out the nfdic portion and Mat referring to ciga; tobacco. Thrill was then report the senate in order to test the sentnj and a thorough canvass shows tl will never become a law. I The Legislative Matters. I Mr. Hatcher today introduced I regulating the number to form al net’s jury to six iu cities as well! towns, and specified certain cases I inquests shah not be held. The biill the interest of economy. Mr. Doolan introduced a bill for the Australian ballot in 40,000 or over. Mr. Osborne introduced a bl quiring special compartments fol white and colored people on err* street car lines and suburban roads. 1 Mr. Holbrook a bill anl ing the widow pension act so as ti elude tft widow of every ConfiJ soldier who enlisted iu any Gsorgß ment, or wbo is a native of the s» Mr. Walker, of Pierce, wants th* license in his county $1,500 to 120,000. The Hay* and Scott Bond Mattei 1 ® Special to The Tribune. I Atlanta, Nov. 2.—The special M of the day at the capitol was the in the house over the Hays antß bonds. The matter came up by ■ tion of Mr. Fleming, wbo chamH the cause of the bonds providing™ committee of eleven, one fre-mea* v e s t i gaß