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SOUTHERN BANNER: 31 ARCH 12, 1878. 6 «5- •IASE FLINT’S EXPLOIT. About ten years ago, a man by the name of Elkanab Flint moved with Ills family from one of the New Eiig- to~ | 'T3'e*rine'ym’ '^Stiffly. Minn., where lie took upland under the Homestead Law. .Being unable, fpr some season, to obtain a dear title to his Hind, "he moved again, and settled en the St. Louis River, about 8(1' miles ’tidrtli- west of Duluth. It was while at Duluth the writer was told the fol- ■i; . i ,,v '■ o-i' , • j. lowing story: Flint’s family consisted, besides his wife and himself, of three children, whose names were Jason, a boy of 16, a daughter, Abigail,' 2 years younger, and a little girl but three years old, whose name, I think, was Flora. Their first clearing w as made on a fertile wooded interval, on the right bank of the river. About a 100 rods back from the stream stood their house, built of cottonwood logs. It was a wet season, and their lo cation proved to be a damp one. From this cause, very likely, Mrs. Flint and her little girl sickened from colds, and both died of pneumonia. The death of child occurred two days after the death of the mother. All the care of the household thus fell TtponAhby Flint; now-m her 14th year, and who seems to have been a ypry capable girl. Her brother Jason was pf a different ftamp, and rendered his father but little help. He was attracted by nothing but hunting, and scouting: Often he brought home a deer or a quarter, of moose, but it was with the greatest reluc tance that he set himself to ploughing or planting. t: “ ;' 1 '"« •' ■»>»•* “ To trap,along the upper conrse of the river was far more to Jason's liking than felling trees. He was very adroit in trading with Indians, parties of whom often came to the settler’s house. So sharp, indeed were his bargains in furs with them, that they had, within a year, bestowed upon him the nickname Tarouch-tu-gippoo; which I should translate liberally as “ Young skin flint." i,,. !■ ..j . It was not very long afterwards that the memorable troubles with the Sioux began, marked by those hor rible massacres of the settlers in the back counties of Iowa and Minnesota. During the first days of June of the year of our story, Mr. Flint- set off in his “ dug out ” boat for the then small village of Duluth,.to pro- cure some farming implements. He ordered Jason to remain close at home, and set him to, hoeing in a small field of potatoes on a piece of ground recently cleared and burned over. But Jason, whose mind was intent on Indians, believed it necessary to make a scouting tour across the country to a neighboring settlement. This trip occupied the first day of his father’s absence. The next morning ho set out to work on the potato patch—all. the more dilligently because Mr. Flint was expected home that night—and, as was not very oncommou with Itim, he coaxed his, sister Abby to leave her work in the house and help him. Sprouts from the roots and stumps of the latelyjfefied trees, had come np plentifully among the; potatoes. Abby went abend with a bush hook, or bush-bill, and cut up ;tbe sprouts, while Jason followed and hilled np the potatoes withw.hOe.y,,,,; a . But his eyes .roygd about,a,good deal as ho hoed, and* for oner, at least, those sharp wandering «yes of his did him good- service, to look forward f# the, endvof thfe 'iWj' Miefe the forest 'bordfered the clearing, hU f ^ an •Ijyl&n in thQ act' the t*unk of a.great wapluto a blackened Tiic distance to the pine stub was 13 or 20 rods—too far for the red skin’s gun to shoot with certainty. Dropping his eyes, Jase hoed on with apparent carelessness. Abby had not seen the Indian, and he daryd pot even whisper a warning to her, lest slio should take fright, and thus bring the savage at once upon them. Jase's own gun, though loaded wa?nt the hppse, which was out of sight behind the bushes.. f With great presence of mind, Jase Mid to his sister— . ' «“ P°n’t hurry so, ,4‘b^, jit’s too warm to hurry. I’m going to fetch out some water.” And setting down his hoe, he strolled leisurely across the piece, whistling as he went, half- expecting at every step to feel a bullet. i m ,Jn- { , Getting among the bashes, he ran to the lionse and caught down his gun and powder horn, with the eu- tention of making a circuit through the woods, and coming round in the rear of the savage who, be thought, would be intense in watching his sister. fitoHMthe potatoes, .: sis «IsiiHMsh«,i (, . : * Boy though h<J was, Jase was at no loss to understand the movement of the savage.. He knew’ that he was only waiting there for his sister and himself to approach nearer, when he would probably shoot him, and en deavor to take his sister prisoner. But the leathern pouch which held his stock of bullets was gone * from the peg. In (doing her' vtork ’lhkt morning, Abby had. herself knocked it off, and it had fhnOn dowirthroagh an opening in the floor. • In breathless haste Jason searched the room over and over, bnt could not And the pouch. Knowing there was not a moment to lose, he’set off, with hut the single' charge!'• his gun. He had but just got otit’of the door when lie heard’ Abbyscreara. Then there followed a smothered sound. And then he heard her try to call his name.' l '*‘ Even then the boy’s presence of mind uiu net desert him. He thought if the savage was alone, his sister’s sole chance of life lay in the Indian’s not discovering that he was pursued He ran to the edge of the bushes that skirted the potatoes, and looked out. The redskin was dragging Abby after him by her wrists, and was just entering the woods on the farther side going out towards the river. From this, Jase concluded that the Indian had come down the stream in a canoe, which he had left not tar off. If the savage should re gain his canoe, Jason’s only chance would be to shoot him from the hank. This, he resolved to attempt. Not much more than a mile above the clearing, the river makes a great bond, and at one point is quite swift and narrow. Making a circuit through the woods, Jason ran to in tercept the Iudian at the bend. He was right in his conjecture, for he had but just crept through some thick alders on the bank, when he saw a canoe coming swiftly up the 6trenm. The Indian’s paddle glit tered in the sun as he sat in the stern, and, with quick, strong strokes, propelled the little craft against the current. He could sec his sister crouching in the middle of the canee, with her head muffled in some coarse doth.' •’):»- ’ ■ / -v/ Jase cocked his gun, aud, with the greatest caution, brought the piece to bear on the savage, determined to fire the instant he came near, enough. But the weary Indian either heard some sound from the shore, or sus pected danger at this narrow point in the channel, 'for, before he had come witliih rangfc, Jase saw ‘him creep forward 'and ,! crouch beside Ifis Cap* live in Such a'manner own body with hens.'; ; Jason,.saw$e Ravage’s sharp eyes'! J scanning $)e bifsW but herc^d not f , g eves ¥^ouia^^j.isrister. < ,r Chancing i* T ¥»3* bpld boy t i¥8ftJ»of ^islje^ftened. Three or four mjlfi? jchfpipql . ^ss Vrflken by, ileJges' t .,3ndj ri ^irgq ( ,.^ljJer^ against which, near the upper end of the broken water, were piled great Wirt* UP'driftfogfr tatnwtth/- Jase hdd trapped there; dnfl kttew the il i; •* W*rubH '!<, low,..; '* ' 'fhefy u h’«e'tTitte f piles bf drift in * at that poihtb. etM *ear the"light bank, .^tfotbef bh' al led£e a little* |farther 4?feWfjpfr higher up, and a one lodged against two enormous rocks, still nearer the opposite bank. It was between these banks and the shore that boats and canoes go ing up the river usually passed. For the current was 'here neither so strong nor so swift, but flowed smoothly over a pebbly bottom. With a line, a canoe or boat could be pulled np against the current; and the water was not so deep but tliat a mau could wade and draw a boat after him. To shoot at the;savage when he drew his canoe up the rapid was Jase’s next thought. T ; a 1 After a hot raft,- be am-- out near the rapids, and -easily • waded across to the first pHe of drift. There were rocks on which he was able to jump to the second of the three. But it was only by wading that he was able to get to the farthest drill-pile, the point he wished to reach. Several times, he was.nearly swept away by stumbling over,, the slippery rocks upon the bottom. But lie goes over the slippery rocks upon the bot tom. But he got over, and, hiding himself partly under some of the brush, and behind an old tilted-up stump, he lay in trait* for the Indian. From this lurking place he eould not see down stream j' hut in about twenty minutes he heard the Indian wading in the rSpid,' ■ splashing his way up, pulling the canoe after hiin. A minute more, and Jase caught sight of him, bent over, as he carefully planted his moccasiued feet autqng the slippery, stones on the bottom. He had the line ovet one shoulder, and the cahbe v «i*hr Abby, w*s 10 or 12 feet behind The girl was now sobbing bitterly,'quite despair ing of escape or rescue. ■ ff< The Indian had come within 30 or 40 feet of Jase, bnt at that moment his qnick ear caught some sound from drift-heap. He stooped and turned shortly round. 1 This was Jase’s chance. Before the savage could stir, the young backwoodsman had fired at him. And it was a most fortunate shot— for Abby Flint, at least. Jase had hit the Indian in a vital part. Uttering a dreadful cry of pain, the savage let go the. Hne, and attempted to reach the drift-heap; but being so severely gwounded, he lost his footing and rolled down the rapid. * • v »-. The canoe, too, eaught sidewi.se by the current, was upset, and Abby, clutching at the gunwale, which was wound with basket-stuff, was carried with it into an eddy beneath the other bank. ' J ' u Hang on to it, Abb!’’ were the first words she heard from her brother. Jase had waded into the stream, and ciossing over, he seized hold of the canoe; bnt stepping into a deep hole near the eddy, both he and his sister sank completely out of sight. For a moment, they were near drown ing. The boy struggled ont, how ever, and pulled his sister to the shore. * ’ r-" !• t Neither of them saw anything more of the Indian. Probably lie was carried into the deep water be low the rapid and was drowned, I wish I had been able to learn more of the subsequent career of: Jase ^li^t j JifljtT could only hear at Duluth that he had become u scout Wdjn^sn fighter out West. He was certainly a cool-headed, Stypdy-haiitled youngster—if not t very good farmer’s hoy. I wish he cpnld have been both. But there iS an .old. proverb that, “it takes all ^ f” 1 !" kinds of folks to lqake tip a world as to slneld his and also another, that “iyon cannot lomii-oj vd; 'Thave' everything' in one boy.” So, while wo regret Jase’s failing, let us OTqispfris.fdupk attd.qpergy.; LIVERY AND m n . -n mj, t>- >«_> },, j-.j i , ff ! m. r, -jj O '»!■ llil ui --if i a i f ! -X nr ,1 STOVE and Tinware T «.T I ii }j\ru ** I v.leimbUaui A ; i( ., - ** rtffa Aaxena, Ga. I - Proprietor, Good an< uuuu utu vreniio nor8os, Cnrriafre3, Buggies, (topimd no top) Phaetons, <fte., &c., for hi*! Careful Dnv^rs sent with teams when desired. .O .1, drovees; * '/If *- •♦'if b .imofnq <1 *M -.1' rc-if neb-mu I'jtj.rJ lUtn .vidj ^niii»dwc>*> ter v ii .m-flU/.’i-j, v!«v«i <■. .ei-fs im^nnimlw vtj»m hi II l if* '*■•! -/(;• •,<-. 1‘lWoT • Hi i a«i / Ji.rfjr fntfitntbim Jird lif'n-«-r Tin* is; -i* *;i >ji ATHENS, GEORGIA. smrrte w.-sr ,;'.u :ii ■ 1^ •ii. Are reminded that I have ample Stable Room; Clean Stalls and Extensive lot for their accom modation. Give me a call. jan292m. J. Z. COOPER. ? *- f h W, 3*. . ” 'in; » t ’> } su PERINTEN DENT. • JjanS 6m Esnellsnza Cotton Fsrtilizar -AJNTD DOBBS’ CHEMICALS »l t.w • J..< t . ! ... : ■ 'V11 t. | . FOR A t'l ». - . - 1 - NNCa- • The undersigned has just had manufactured to his own order a large and fresh supply of the well known which he oiler, to planters of Northeast Georgia and surrounding country, at the same price as last year Giving I5cts. per pound for Cotton on basisof liing Payable 1st Nov, 78, have been inspected by authority of the State and found to be up to former stand- They'can'a'lgo be^ibtuln^'from thc^cdiowing agen”s^ ,hen5 ’ W "‘ 0,1 ,he hiB5W rc. S. M. SHANKLE,... Harmony Grove, Ga. BOON & ALEXANDER,. Maysvillc. Ga. McWHORTER & YOUNG, Antioch, Ga. P. H. BOWERS,. ..... .’i Franklin Springs, Ga. W. A. ROYSTON. .. «« G a. M. M. JOHNSON, i. .Baweusville, Hurt county, Ga. A. R. ELLIOTT,..!..... 7 ; . . .|.Grove, Elbert county, Ga. R. H. KENNEBREW,. .Lexington, Ga. S. C. DOBBS, Athens, jan223m. 1 ? 'fi -?n >1-1 i .in /:rii!T .,*■ ■ ,, , f ~ GUANO! GUANO! ni 'Hii-ii viiihn* ti ri ot-n — U| ‘>t H HOUSE. BETTS l 30. f :r>? WO 6, BROAD STREET, . ATHENS, GEORGIA- , „ AGENT8 *°* '* : " 4 ' **h? i * -fl«.nlra sill 1 - * ,ii 1 Eagle Ammoniated Bone Phospliato s Eagle Compound Acid Phosphate. The above Fertilirers areoffered to the planter, ol Nortbeas-t Georgia with the assurance that their commercial value is equal to any in the marki t. 1 hou.-ands of Farmers in Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama are ready t» atteit their value, and wc havr no hcsitincy in recommending them to our friends and cu: tomers. Pr ices as Low as other Standard Fertilizers. janSom. HOUSE, BETTS & CO. PLANTERS’ HOTEL, ■ * 'I / i AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. NEW ar.r.anoesm:c]vt. Rates Reduced to $3 per Day. HAVING LEASED THIS WELL KNOWN HOTEL, I enter upou its management by Reducing Rates, and asking ot the Travel ing Public, especially my friends of Carolina and Georgia, a contiuu ance ot that liberal support they have always given it. B. F. BROWN., inn!3-5m , , / .FORMERLY OF CHARLESTON, PROPRIETOR. "Wando Fertilizer AND Wando Acid Phosphate, * ■*<;• ■ ’ •: .<V.I : .,11 -■ t :-*?irtlvf ,<■*! •< -..‘l . »i * a • r 1/ MADE B% > ft. W itlSfl i-K TOW If l •qaihlt'.tl Qjj, Viil, I V •if-jimi v ri>\ CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA J-nqino*itfulwI»nr ,->/tp.»e-if t< * l , ,• h Our Fertilizer and Add Phosphate rank among the highest grades in ^ the marked,Sold, l l ,i/ Mlddlini^tton at; pound, : Clvtl9i in m ‘itiT , ‘ STANDARD QUAKANTEliil). .P?«J ,?.a tivu-U ‘ . , . _ ‘ . .; ;Seud for Gireu}^ yiith. Analyses apd Terms. For sale by J, ® ii?it* feb.12.2m ’ ’ / . _ , ‘j .TL ^ MA^ES23E3I^h«E ITCJTTSE f. Ifcltl ,-,l»O r «Vft > i> vor «Georgia.-- v- .MSsinVi If .onM ‘•qid'irm, 't(i If bait ' J ' , . The proprietor^ the MARKA^ takes tins method of informing the traveling .public, tji^t, notwithstanding/the gieat Euio- pean war, his hotel wall continue to.entertain with its usual hospitali ties and first-class ? accommodations, such as he flatters himselt lias given great popularity aud success to his house, and general satisfac tion to those Who' have honored him by becoming his guests. Board reasonable and accommodations first-class.