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Muscle vs Steam
Most Extraordinary
Exploit in Ameri
can History.
Captain W. A. Fuller’s Chase
and Capture of the Bridge
Burners in 18(12, and
their Final Execu
tion on the
Gallows.
A Full aud Reliable Narrative of this
Great Event, Corroborated by
the only Living Witnesses
and by Capt. Fuller
Himself.
; minfttion to re-capture his engine, no matter
| who the parties were. He started out
ON FOOT AND ALONE,
nothing danntad in putting his ninscle in com-
I petition with steam. He soon reached Moon’s
! Station, two miles from ltig Shanty. Here he
: learned from the track hands that the men with
! the engine stopped and took from them by force
all their tools. They reported that on the en-
| gine and in the freight cars there were some ‘24
or ‘25 men. While stopped here, a portion of
| the men gathered the toels, and others climbed
the telegraph poles
AND CUT THE WIltES
; in two places, carrying away about one hundred
j yards of the wire. This statement satisfied
i Capt. Fuller that these men were Federals in
I disguise. This added new stimulus to his re
solve. He started out now not only to capture
| his engine, but the Federals.
With the assistance of the track bands, he
placed on the track a hand-car, such as is used
I to haul cross-ties and tools in, and pushed back
i for his engineer, when he soon met Messrs.
Murphy and Cain.
| Knowing the schedules, grades, stations and
; distances so well, he was confident that bv
: using great effort he could reach Etowah river
j by the time the fugitives could reach Kingston.
At Kingston he knew they would have to con-
| tend with a number of freight trains, which
I would necessarily detain them several minutes.
As soon as he got Murphy and Cain on board,
| he told them his plan was to push on to Etowah
as quickly ns possible, for there be hoped to get
the ‘Old Yonali,’ an engine used at Cooper’s
Iron Works, and his plan proved successful.
Mo men or set of men ever worked harder, used
greater diligence, or were in more danger than
they were, as the sequel will show. In the
‘rapid transit' by band-car, Capt. Fuller, Mr.
Murphy and Mr. Cain took turns in pushing it,
TWO RUNNING ON FOOT
an5 pushing, while the other rested. One mile
from Moon’s station they found a large pile of
cross-ties on the track -placed there by the fu-
QUIl’K AS HE COUI.D BUN,
and met t.he express freight. Having a gun
anil knowing the signal, the engineer recogniz
ed Capt. Fuller and stopped the train immedi
ately. Knowing that Mr Murphy was only a
short distance behind, Capt. Fuller detained
the train until he came up. He then took a
position at the rear end of the train, twenty car
! length from the engine, and
STABTED BACEWABDS
j in the direction of Adairsville, without taking
I time to explain matters to the engineer or con-
[ duetor.
| When be got within 200 yards of the switch
I at Adairsville, Capt. Fuller jumped off the train
ran ahead and changed the switch, so as to
j throw the cars on the side track. He accom-
i plished this, changed the switch to the main
track, and jumped on the engine. This feat
; was accomplished so quickly that the train and
engine
BAN SIDE BY SIDE
for fully 400 yards. He has now only the engine,
with the following crew on it: A. Murphy,
Peter Bracken, the engineer, Fleming Cox, tiie
fireman, and Alonzo Martin, wood passer. He
resumed the chase, making Cilhouu 10 miles
distant in 12 minutes. As he approached Cal
houn, Capt. Fuller recognized the telegraph
! operator from Dalton, a lad twelve years old.
The operator recognized Capt. Fuller, and as
the engine passed by, at the rate of
15 MILES FEE HOUR,
I grasped Capt. Fuller's hand, held out to him,
and was safely landed on the engine. The ope
rator having discovered that the wire had been
cut, made his way down to Calhoun, looking
for the break.
As they sped along as rapidly as an engine,
i with five foot ten inch wheels, going backwards,
| and 1G5 pounds of steam, could possibly run,
; he then wrote outtho following telegram to Gen.
; Leadbetter, then in command at Chattanooga:
‘My train was captured this a. m. at Big Shau-
' ty, evidently by Federal soldiers in disguise.
| They are making rapidly for Chattanooga, possi-
Although jaded and fatigued, Capt. Fuller,
A Murphy, Fleming Cox. and Alonzo Martin
took to the woods in puranit.
When the fugitives abandoned the engine,
Andrews, their leader, said:
‘EVERY ONE TAKE CARE OF HIMSELF;
and they left in squads of three or four. Four
of them were run down in the fork of the river
at Graysville and one was forcibly persuaded to
tell who they were.
The mili ia, mounted on fresh horses, took
the woods that evening, nnd by the next day the
last one of the fugitives were captured.
A TALK WITH THE LEADER.
Capt. Fuller visited Andrews, the leader,
while he w».s confined in prison, at Chattanooga,
and had a long conversation with him on the ! sive effort we broke the rail
chase and object of their expedition. He stated
to Capt. Fuller, in the presence of all the others,
that he suggested to Gen. Mitchell while at
Shelbyvillo, that lie could take a detachment of
gard.” The tank-tender was named William
ltussell, who said that he would give his shirt
off his back to Beauregard if it had been asked
for.
Pittenger says : “We obstructed the track as
well as we could by laying on cross-ties at dif
ferent places. We also ent the wires between
every station. * * Finally, when we we'e nearly
to the station where we expected to meet the
last train, we stopped to take up a rail. We
had no instruments tor doin ' this hut a crow
bar, and instead of pulling out the spikes as we
could have done with the pinch bars used for
that purpose by railroad men, we had to hatter
them out. * * Just as we were going to relin
quish the effort, the whistle of an engine in pur
suit sounded in our ears. ’ * With one convnl-
n two, * * and we
took up our precious half rail and left. * » We
were scarcely out of sight of the place where we
had taken up the half-rail, before the other train
met us. This was safely passed. * When our
soldiers, descend as far south as Marietta, and pursuers came to the place where the broken
on their return trip, burn all the bridges on the , rail was taken up, they abandoned their engine,
Western and Atlantic Railroad in their rear, nnd ran on foot till they met the freight train!
Gen, Mitchell said that if he would do this he i nnd turned it hack after us. * * We adopted
would give him every expedient we could think of to delay pnr-
$50,000 IN GOLD, j suit; hut as we were cutting the wire near Cal-
which was agreed to, and soldiers volunteered k°nn, came * n . sight of us. ‘ * We in
to go with him. It was afterwards concluded H ^ ant; l. v I ,ul our engine to nil speed, and in a
that a large force would he necessary, and $60,- j mo , ment the wheels were striking ti-e from the
000 was asked for and agreed upon. The addi- ; rH , 1 . s , la ^ lelr rapid revolutions. I he car in
tional $10,000 was to be divided among the vol-
‘ Truth is stranger than fiction,’ and the late
war between the States produced many an epi
sode substantiating this aphorism. The year
3862 witnessed one of the most daring exploits
of the age; twenty-two Federals coming one
hundred and twenty-five miles into the Confed
erate lineR, stealing an engine, and almost suc
ceeding in accomplishing the object of their
daring expedition, viz: The destruction of the
bridges on the Western and Atlantic Railroad.
That they did not succeed, was due to no neg
ligence on their part, hut to the quickness to
plan and execute on the part of Capt. W. A.
Fuller, whose portrait we present in this issue.
To appreciate fully the situation, the daring
deed of the twenty-two Federals, and the value
of Capt. Fuller’s achievement, it is necessary
first to consider the status of affairs.
Early in the year 18G2, Fort Donelson, after a
heroic struggle, fell into the hands of the Fed
erals. Gen. Bragg’s fore's evacuated Kentucky; !
Columbus and Nashville were abanboned by the
Confederates; Island No. 10 was invested and j
the Tennessee river was filled with
A VAST ARMY AFLOAT,
ready to strike into the center of the South, j
Gen. Buell, with 40,000 men. was marching
across Tennesse; Gen. O. M. Mitchell was at !
Shelbyville, aiming for Chattanooga, at the head
ot a strong force; and Gen. Morgan was at Cum
berland Gap read} 7 to strike through to Knox
ville. This in brief was the position of the Fed- 1
eral forces.
The Confederates under Gen. Beauregard were j
at Corinth, Miss., with smaller detachments
scattered along the railroad to Chattanooga. All
the commissary stores had been brought out of
Kentucky and Tennessee to Atlanta, and for
warded to the Confederate army as needed. Sup
plies, reinforcements and communication
with Gen. Beauregard, all depended on a line
of railroads, forming an irregular parallelo
gram. Tho Northern side extended from Mem
phis to Chattanooga, the Eastern fiom Chatta
nooga to Atlanta, the Southern from Atlanta to
Jackson, Miss., and the Western from Jackson
to Memphis. The East Tennessee and Virginia
Railroad intersected the paralellogram at Chatta
nooga. To destroy the Northern and Eastern
sides was to isolate Gen. Beauregard and leave
East Tennessee in the hands of Gen. Morgan. .
It would have prevented the sending of rein- : citizens, Mr. Smith who lives in Jonesboro, and
forcemeats or supplies to the Confederates. The , Mr. Steve Stokely of Cobb county, who render-
railroads were taxed to the utmost to transport | od valuable service in the subsequent pursuit. |
7 •• * “ ’ - . , Hesuming their journey they found no ohstruc- i
tions until they reached a short curve two miles !
from Etowah. Here two rails from the outside j
of the curve had been taken up. The result j
was the hand-car was ditched. In a few seconds j
Captain Fuller and liis men had the car on the j
track
unt°ers, seven in number
William Campbell, citizen of Kentucky; Geo.
D. Wilson, co. B, 2 1 Reg. Ohio Yols.; Marion
A. Ross, co. A, 2d Reg. Ohio Yols.; Perry G.
Shadrack, co. K, 2d Reg. Ohio Yols.; Samuel
Slavens, 33d Reg. Ohio Yols.; Samuel Robin
son, co. G, 33d Reg. Ohio Yols.; John Scott, co.
K, 21st, Reg. Ohio Yols.
The following were detailed:
W. W. Brown, co. F, 21st Reg. Ohio Yols.;
William Knight, co. E, 21st Reg. Ohio Vols.; J.
lv. Porter, co. C, 21st Reg. Ohio Vols.; Mark
Wood, co. C, 21st Reg. Ohio Yols.; J. A. Wil
son, co. C, 21st Reg. Ohio Vols.; M. J. Haw
kins, co. A, 33d Reg. Ohio Vols.; John Wollam,
co. C, 33d Reg. Ohio Vols.; D A. Dorsay, co. II,
33d Reg. Ohio Vols.; Jacob Parrott, co. K, 33d
Reg. Ohio Vols.; Robert Bnffum, co. H, 21st
Regt. Ohio Yols.; W. Bensiuger, co. G, 21st
Reg. Ohio Vols.; W. Reddick, co. B, 33d Reg.
Ohio Vols.; E. II. Mason, co. K. 21st Reg. Ohio
Vols.; W. Pittenger, co. G, 2d Reg. Ohio Vols.
As none of the prisoners d.*nied the state-
which we rode rocked furiously and threw us
from one side to the other like peas rattled in a
gourd. * I then proposed to Andrews * * to
let our engineer take the engine out of sight
while we hid in a curve after putting ou a
cross-tie on the track; * * when they checked
to remove the obstructions, we could rush on
them, shoot every person on the engine, reverse
it and let it drive at will back as it came.” Pit
tenger corroborates Capt: Fuller in all the es
sentials, even to firing the freight car.
The article in the Southern Confederacy, says
of the fugitive federals: “ They had on the en
gine a red handkerchief * indicating that the
regular passenger train would he along pre
sently. They stopped at Adairsvilla, and said
Puller with the regular passenger train was be
hind, and would wait at Kingston for the freight
train, and told the conductor to push ahead and
meet him at that point. (This was done to pro
duce a collision with Capt. Fuller’s train.) * *
When the morning freight train reached Big
Shanty, Lieut. Cols. II. F. Maddox and C. D.
Phillips took the engine, and with fifty picked
meat of Andrews, it seems to have been a true men * followed on as rapidly as possible, (Capt.
- - - ■ •• - Fuller on his return met them at lunnel Hill
and turned them hack.) * * Peter Bracken,
I statement of the ease. Andrews JaugLingly
said that inasmuch as Capt. Fuller had defeated
him, the State of Georgia, or the Southern Con
federacy, if it lived long enough, ought to pay
Capt. Fuller the $60,000 for saving the bridges.
Tne Federals were then pressing on Chatta
nooga, and the prisoners were removed to Knox
the engineer on the down freight train, ran his
engine 50.\ miles—two of them backing the
whole freight train up to Adairsville—made
twelve stops, coupled the two .cars, dropped by
the fugitives, and switched them off on side-
1 ville, then under the command of Gen. E. Kirby bugs—in one hour and five minutes. (Capt.
! Smith. At Knoxville | Fuller fully corroborates the invaluable service
j rendered by the veteran Bracken.)
aouiri . s organized, j Another interesting incident of the chase is
none of the court being under the rank of the fact, that on the return from the pursuit of
Lieutenant There were two Colonels and one ; the fugitives in the woods, Capt Fuller was so
Major. The balance were Captains and Lieu- ' ’ ...
Captain W. A. Fuller.
troops and supplies to the Confederates and the
importance of keeping the line free was felt bv
the Confederate authorities. There were
THIRTEEN BRIDGES
on the Western and Atlantic Railroad, guarded
by small detachments. These bridges cost about
$300,000, hut their destruction would have in
volved a loss almost Incalculable to the South at
that time. It will he seen that although the
risk undertaken by the Federals was great, the
■end to he accomplished was greater. They
made their daring effort on
THE 12th OF APRIL, 1862,
having succeeded in getting down to Marietta.
That morning Capt. W. A. Fuller left Atlanta
at 6 o’clock in charge of the passenger train,
having three empty freight cars next to the en
gine, which was intended to bring commissary
stores from Chattanooga to Atlanta. When he
reached Marietta, twenty miles distant from At
lanta, a considerable party of strangers, dressed
in citizen’s clothes, got on board and paid their
fare, some to one point and some to another.
They all claimed to he refugees from within the
Yankee lines, desirous of joining the Confeder
ate army.
Seven miles from Marietta, at Big Shanty, the
train stopped for breakfast. Big Shanty has
been noted for the past twenty years as a place
to get a superb meal. Most of the passengers
and train’s crew went to the breakfast house,
which was situated some forty feet from the
track. At this time Big Shanty was the location
of a camp of instruction, called
camp m’donald,
and there were only about 3,000 Confederate re
cruits there at the time, being drilled ready to
send to the front or into active service. The
passengers had taken seats at the table. Capt.
Fuller was sitting on the opposite side ol the
table from the railroad, and facing the train.
He saw through the window some of the stran
gers, who got on at Marietta, get on the engine
in an excited manner, and
START OFF RAPIDLY,
xvitn the three freight cars detached/from the
passenger train. He remarked to his engineer,
Jeff Cain, and Anthony Murphy, who was pres
ent, the then foreman of the Western and At
lanta Railroad shop:
‘S ,me person who has no right to do so, has
gone off with our train.’
All three rGse up and hurried out of the
house, juBtas the engine passed out of sight.
Some deserters had been reported as having
kit Camp McDonald, and the commanding offi
cer had requested Capt. Fuller to look out for
them and arrest any soldier who go*, on his train
v/itiiout a passport Capt. Fuller had no idea
that the parties in possession of the engine were
Federals, hut supposed that it had been taken
bv parties desiring to desert Camp McDonald,
and who would run off a short distance and
abandon it But he left Big Shanty with a
and well-defined motive and a fixed deter-
gitives to obstruct pursuit. The ohstru tioDs ; bly with an iden of burning the railroad bridge
were removed, and they pushed on to the Ac- I in their rear. If I do not capture them in the
worth. Here they pressed into service such f meantime, see that they do not pass Chattanoo-
guns as they could find, and were joined by two j ga.’
Capt. Fuller’s desire now was to reach Dalton
and send the telegram before the fugitives could
cut the wire beyond Dalton. Two miles beyond
Calhoun, Capt. Fuller saw
THE FUGITIVES FOR THE FIRST TIME
and from their movements they were evidently
greatly excited. They detached one of the freight
cars and left it at the point where they were dis
covered. They had partially taken up a rail,
hut that nor the car did not detain Capt. Fuller.
He coupled the car to the engine without stop
ping, got on the top of the freight car and gave
signals to the engineer by which he could run,
as the car in front obscured his view. Two and
a half miles farther Capt. Fuller came acriss an
other freight car which the fugitives had detach-
e 1.
As before he coupled this on without stopping,
aud pushed on to Resaca, where die switched
the two cars ofi' on the sideling. Again he start
ed out with an engine only. Two miles beyond
Resaca, while standing on the rear end of the
tender, he discovered in a short curve a T rail
DIAGONALLY A( ROSS THE TRACK
and being too clos9 to stop, the engine went
over it at the rate of 55 miles per hour.
After this until they reached Dalton, only ®c-
casioDally were obstructions met with.
At Dalton he dropped the telegraph operator
with instructions to put through the telegram at
all hazards, and continued the chase. Two miles
beyond he overtook the fugitives
TEARING UP THE TRACK,
in plain view of Col. Jesse A. Glenn’s regiment,
camped near by. They cut the telegraph wire
just after the Dalton operator flashed Capt. Ful
ler’s telegram over it, preventing him receiving
the usual acknowledgement from Chattanooga of
‘O. K.’
The fugitives resumed their flight, and never
perhaps did two engines with five feet, ten inch
wheels make faster time than the pursued and
the pursuer. The fugitives had the advantage
in the fact that the ‘General’ a ‘ Rogers’ was
headed towards Chattanooga while the ‘Texas’ a
Danforth A Cook engine was running backwards.
The fifteen miles to Ringgold and three miles
beyond was made in less time than Capt. Fuller
even made the same distance, in twenty-two
years experience as a conductor. Half way be
tween Ringgold and Graysville he got within one
quarter of a mile of the f ugitives, who, being so
closely pressed set their only remaining
FREIGHT CAR ON FIRE
with a view to cutting it loose on the next bridge.
The smoke of the ‘General’ plainly evidenced
that she was fagging. The fugitives abandoned
the engine and took to the woods in a westerly
direction. Capt. Fuller now ran up and coup
led on to the burning car. The fire was extin
guished and the car sent back to Ringgold in
charge of the engineer. As Capt. Fuller passed
Ringgold he noticed some fifty or seventy-five
militia mustering and sent word back to the
commanding officer to pat all his
MILITIA ON HORSEBACK,
and send them into the woods in pursuit of the
fugitives as quickly as possible. This was about
half past one o'clock.
BEYOND THE BREAK
and with renewed energy and determination j
they pushed ou to Etowah where, to their great 1
joy, they found the engine as Captain Fuller !
supposed they would. And yet it appeared a
slim chance. The engine was standing ou a side
track with the tender on the turn table. The
tender was turned around and pushed to the
engine and coupled up and a coal car attached. |
Some six or eight Confederate soldiers voiun- ;
teered in the chase aud took passage in the coal i
car. From Etowah to Kingston Captain Fuller ;
ran at the rate of
SIXTY MILES FEB HOUR
and found the fugitives had passed by. A large
number of freight trains had pulled by the sta- |
tion so as to let the fugitives out at the farther j
end of the side track. The agent informed I
Captain Fuller that the leader of the fugitives
claimed to he a Confederate oflicer who had im
pressed his (Captain Fulller’s) train at Big
Shanty, and the three cars were loaded with fix
ed ammunition for General Beauregard at Cor
inth. Capt. Fuller he said was behind with
the regular passenger train. He insisted that
agent should let him have the keys of the
switch and instruct the conductors of the down
trains to pull by and get out of his way, as it
was important for him to go on to Chattanooga
and Corinth as rapidly as possible. So authori
tative was he in his demand and so plausible in
speech, that the agent, a patriotic man, believ
ing his story, carried out his request and so the
fugitives, by the finesse of their leader, passed
by one great obstruction. The freight trains
were gathered here, and so heavy to move, that
had Captain Fuller stopped to get them out of
his way to pass, his delay would have been too
long. Finding he could not pass with the old
Yonah, he abandoned it. The Rome engine
was on the Y, headed for Chattanooga with one
car attached. He immediately took possession
of it and continued the chase with all who would
volunteer to go with him. He had not proceeded
far before he found cross-ties on the track every
200 or 300 yards.
Alter passing Kingston they punched out the
end of the rear car which enabled them to drop
out the ties without slacking up. Captain Fuller
was forced to lose time in stopping to remove
these obstructions. Laboring under these dis
advantages the Captain redoubled his energy
and proceeded to Adairsville. When he reach
ed a point four miles from Adairsville he found
sixty yardB of track tom up, and
BET OUT ON FOOT,
calling on his men to follow. When he had
gone half a mile, he looked back and saw none
but Anthony Murphy following him. He made
two miles as
exhausted that he had to lie down on the back
of a mule and he held there by a man walking
on each side. The blood vessels of his thighs
hursted from his extraordinary effort.
It cannot he gainsaid, that the expedition,
in the language of Judge Hall: “In the daring
of its conception, had the wildness of a ro
mance; while in the gigantic and overwhelming
results it sought and was likely to accomplish,
it was absolutely sublime.” We would not de
tract from their laurels. It was a deep laid
scheme, on a grand scale.
They were impelled by the hope ef reward in
money and fame, and devotion to their cause.
They seized every moment and converted every
opportunity to their own advantage. It appear
ed as if everything favored their success. On
the other hand, Capt. Fuller had all the odds
against him. He had to start on foot, use a
hand-car, remove obstructions, fix up engines,
shift trains, abandon one engine to take a new
one, and made the last race with an engine run
ning backwards.
Dangers beset him on every hand. Rails and
cross-ties threatened to wreck his engine, him
self and men and the enemy might ambuscade
and kill them. The trains that he thought like
ly would detain the fugitives, did not accom
plish that end, hut were simply in his own way.
His chase commenced on foot and ended on
foot.
CAPT. W. A. FULLER
was horn in Henry County, Ga., on the 15th of
April, 1836. His father was born in Morgan
County, Ga., February the 17th, 1810. His
grandfather, John Fuller, was born and raised
in Camden District, S. C., and was in the battle
of Camden, when Gen. Gates was defeated.
Capt. Fuller worked in the cotton field until
he was sixteen years of age. He was educated
at the Piiiladelhhia Academy; entered the ser-
i vice of the Western and Atlantic R lilroad as
to the decree of the court ^sanctioned j con( i uo tor, on the 8th day of September, 1855,
at the age of nineteen, and continued in that
service for twenty-two years. Our engraving is
a perfect likeness of him, and he is now a prom
inent, useful and popular merchant on Marietta
street, in Atlanta, Georgia.
tenants. The President of the court was Col.
Leander W. Crook, then in the Confederate ser
vice, hut formerly Judge of the Rome Circuit.
The trial was conducted in a most solemn man
ner, only one prisoner being tried at a time.
TRIAL OF THE FEDERALS.
The prisoners were ably defended by Hon.
John Baxter and Judge Gault. The witnesses
were William Pettiuger, one of the detailed men,
and Capt. W. A. Fuller. Pe.tinger’s evidence
was as to the object of the expedition, and what
they tried to do. Capt. Fuller’s testimony was
as to what they did and tried to do. Ppou this
testimony, the seven volunteers and the leader
Andrews were convicted. The others were not
tried. Eight of them, viz: Brown, Knight, Por
ter, Wood, Wilson, Hawkins, Woliam and Dorsey
escaped in October from Fulton county jail.
Parrott, Br.fium, Bensinger, Reddick, Mason
and 1 e finger were exchanged in March, 1863.
In his evidence, Pettinger stated that during
the chase. Andrews’ men came near open mutiny.
They proposed to stop the engine in a short
eurve, and
AMBUSCADE AND KILL FULLER
and his men as they came up, but Andrews
would not agree to it. Capt. Fuller was not
aware of this danger, hut he pressed his pursuit
so hotlv that they had little time to take on wood
and water. When the ‘General’ gave out the
fugitives were burning oil cans, the tool box and
planks ripped off the freight car. As they aban
doned the engine, they reversed her in order to
bring ou a collision with Capt. Fuller’s engine,
but in their excitement they left the break on on
the tender, and the steam had not sufficient
force to back the engine.
THE EXECUTION.
On the 14 f h of June, 1862, tho prisoners were
brought to Atlanta. Andrews was executed ac
cord in
by Gen. E. Kirby Smith, commanding the de
partment. lie was hung in the hollew near
Walton Springs.
Campbell, Wilson, Ross, Shadrach, Slavens,
Robinson and Scott were hung ten or fifteen
days afterwards, a little south-east of the Atlanta
cemetery.
Wilson was granted permission to speak and
denied being a spy, claiming to have been de
tailed as a soldier to perform what he did.
Ross, while under the gallows, requested
Capt. Fuller to mark his grave, and if he sur
vived the war inform his I Ross') father and
mother wh 7 re he was buried.
After the war, Capt. Fuller wrote to Ross’ fa
ther at Christanburg, Ohio, who subsequently
came out here for his son’s remains.
When the trap was sprung,
THREE MEN FELL TO THE GROUND,
Items Of Interest.
the rope breaking. These men were Slavens,
Campbell and Shadrack—all heavy men. The
rope was readjusted and the trap sprung the
second time, with fatal effect.
O. Winniugham was officer of the day, and
Col. W. J. Lawton commandant of the post. Mr.
Winningham wishing to be excused, Col. Cruz
was detailed to conduct the execution.
Capt. Fuller during the war witnessed the ex
ecution of thirty persons, hut says he never saw
as brave men as these were.
TOES TIl’l-ING THE GROUND.
At the execution of Andrews, it was seen that
his Let were touching the ground. A man
named Jim Barnes, as an act of humanity to the
suffering man, removed the earth from under
his toes, which were just tipping the ground.
INCIDENTAL POINTS.
Three or four accounts have been published
ci".* enung this chase: John S. C. Abbott, in his
‘Her uc Deeds of Heroic Men;” William Pit-
i. > g**r in his worK, entitled “Daring and Suf
fer hi;’ .,u artiel- in the “Southern Confeder
acy.” .nid another in the Confederate Monitor.
Lt. I'm uger, in his “Daring and Suffering,”
givis ; graphic account of the race, but in the
exeitem. in of the affair, he viewed it at a differ
ent s'.anG point from that of the real facts. Yet,
his at count in the main is correct as to his part
of the occiii ence. He says: “At the next sta
tion, Andre vs borrowed a schedule from the
tank-tender, telling him that he was running
an express powder train for Beauregard.” The
article in the Southern Confederacy stated that:
“The fugitives, not expecting pursuit, quietly
took in wood aud water at Cass Station, and
borrowed a sch dule from the tank-tender upon
the plausible pretext that they were running a
pressed train, loaded with powder for Beaure
The first balloon ascent was made in 1783.
The first copper cent was coined in New Ha
ven in 1687.
Kerosene was first used for lighting purpos
es in 1826.
The first use of a locomottve in this country,
was in 1829.
New York street cars carry 165,000,000 passen
gers a year.
Wade Hampton can call over 8,000 citizens
of South Carolina, by name.
It will cost one frauc to enter the Paris Expo
sition building.
One hundred and thirteen persons in Pitts
burg answered an advertisement for a book
keeper, while only eight responded to another
advertisement issued by the same firm, for a
hand to work on a farm.
The Pacific ocean covers 80,000,000 of square
miles; the Atlantic, 25,000,000; the Indian oceaa
14.000. 000; the Southern ocean, to thirty de
grees is 25,000.000: the Northern ocean, 5,000,-
000; the Mediterranean, 1,000,000; the Black Sea,
17,000; the Baltic, 175,000, and the North Sea,
160.000.
Texas has fifty wheat producing counties,
one fifth of which, fully cultivated, would pro
duce 86,000,000 bushels of grain. It has also
69,120, 000 cotton yielding acres, which, if taxed
to the extent of their productiveness, would
yield 6,962,000 hales—more than the entire pro
duct of the world.
The inducements for a man to become a de
faulter are growing beautifully less. Nowa
days a man to attract much attention and sym
pathy, aud keep out of jail, must embezzle not
less than $500,000, and such opportunities are
deeidedlj scarce. It may have been noticed,
that the official, who "misappropriates the big
gest sum is he who gets the biggest salary. It
would seem that a small salary is an incentive
to houesty—aud yet we don’t want our salary
reduced. —Hock land Courier.
Rev. Dr. Isidor Kalisch is evidently indignant
at the charge made by the Jewish Messenger
boys about his sketch of the Talmud being cloth
ed in heart-rending English. Ignorance and
impudence are the chief characteristics of those
•Boys.”
