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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA GA.. TUESDAY AUGUST 16, 1887.
HISTORY OF A SKULL.
Strange Facts In the Life of Lord
Altham.
A LONG CONTEST OVER PROPERTY.
Bow Ills Unci® Usurped the Title anil i:*-
Ute end Row the Yonng Sian
Recovered Them.
Columbia, Penn., Angost 8.—There Is In
the possession of e physician of this county a
portion of a woman's skull which was plowed
up In a Hold near the foot of the Chickles Hills
sn&syycanaga ThCGYT.srax v ~rls tint It I,the
skull of a woman who was the daughter of
* one of the early settlers In that part of Lan
caster county, and who, but for the sudden and
untimely death of her lover, would have be-
• cetne the wife of Janies Anncsley, Lord Al-
! than), who succeeded to the title and its estates
in the county Wexford, Ireland, in 17471. The
Btorythat the crumbling ek nil recalls is apa
thetic romance ot the video lime.
Among the passengers on board of a vessel
that landed in Philadelphia in the early sum
mer of 17i58, was a boy who said his name was
James Anneslcy. Ho w as thirteen years old,
and *?!d he nad been placed on the ship at
Dublin by his uncle, who had deserted him.
The hoy’s passage had not been paid, and as
his story uws not believed by the captain of
the vet cl, ho was sold, after tho custom of
that day, to sene his purchaser until his ser
vice hail satisfied the amount paid for him to
the ship’s captain. Unfortunate* of that kind
were calh d "rederoptloners," and a* the rich
Bgrcultural lands in Lux-aster and adjoining
counties were then being taken ttp by settlor*
and firm help was scarce in the conn try, farm-
ci» owning such 1 unis were always on iisml at
tl e landing of every vessel from abroad, with
the Iiojm* of securing one or more redemption*
rr*. to lalior on the farms they were making.
The buy Atmesloy was purchased by an old Go r-
man farmer who owned a tract at the foot of
the C'hiekles Hill*. Ho was put to work at
fat hi drudgery, and alaved for the farmer for
over ten year*. Once during thU term of scr-
vice he attended to escape from his master,
hut was captured and locked in tho log build
ing which was then tho county fail, ami Mood
in w list U now the center of the village of
Columbia. Tho building was still standing
Within tho recollect loti of mlddle-agucd resl-
dcuH of Uolunilda today.
Tim lx>y could have been kept prisoner at
the plco.suie of his master, but the story is that
he was retained at tho tearful solicitation of
the farmer's daughter—a girl one year the jun
ior of Anneal#/. Tho young redrmptioncr
Went hack to his drudgery on the farm and
never attempt«m! to escape from it again. Aa
he grew to manhood he developed a wild dis
position, and the fanner's daughter, between
Whom and the Irish lad a strong affection had
grown, was the only person who could hold
him in check- The girl’s father objected to the
Intimacy between Anneslcy and bis daughter,
mid at the end of ton years tried to dismiss tho
youth from his aervlco aud drive him away
from ’ tho neighborhood; but the
young . man refused to go. He
said lie intended to marry the farm-
S daughter as soon as lie could go hack to
land and recover the right* of which he had
n robbed. The old German did not believe
the atories Annesloy was in tho habit of telling
about his Ju*t claim to wealtli and rank in hi*
native land, but tbe girl had the greatest faith
In them.
In the summer of 1740 two Irish Immigrants
Who liad landed in Philadelphia mid were on
their way afoot to a settlement on tho Hus-
quehamia, in what Is now Dauphin county,
Wliile passing by the old Herman's farm
Stopped to ask tor a drink of water. Young
Anuealey happened to be tbe person of whom
they made the request. Noticing that the
men were Irishmen he asked them from
what part of Ireland they came. Ho wa* told
that (hoy were natives of county Wexford,
mid that they had been tenants ot Lord Al-
tliain, whose cruelties had forced them and
others to loave Ireland aud como to America.
Anneslcy surprised tbe two Irishmen, wlio
wore brothers, named John and William
Brody, by telling them that lie was James
Anneslcy, tbe real Lord Altham, and that at
)iia father's death In 1728 he had boon ln-
(lnred by his Uncle Richard to leave hi* school
lu Dublin and go with him atmard a vessel
which hud Nailed with him to America. Tho
Irishmen told him that the uncle was in pos-
tendon of the title and estates, be having
K >ved tbe death of bis nophew, James, and
lug tho next of kin.
Arthur. Lord Altham, the father of James,
had married tho natural daughter of I«ord
Buckingham In 1714. Boon after tho birth of
her son In 171ft she and her husband HO|taratod.
Lord Altham kept fho child, and formed a
llason with a young Irish woman by the name
of Gregory. She succeeded in creating in his
heart a strong dislike for tho boy James, and
tho latter was placed in ehargo of a school
teacher In Dublin. The boy did not know
Who bis father waa until tho latter's death,
when Ids Dublin guanlian told 1dm. His
uncle took bint front tho guardian under pro-
I cnee of conducting him to Woxford, but scut
dm adrift to America instead, and came into
the title and property.
Tho two Brody* were antisflnd Iteyond doubt
that the old German'a farm hand was (the real
Lord Altham, and volunteered to go back with
him to Ireland aud liuln him to ill* rights.
James Anncsley went to rltlladelplda, and suc
ceeded in interesting Robert Kills, a leading
lawyer of that day, in hi* case. Kill.* provided
the young man with passage and fetter* to
Admiral \ onion, of the HritUh navy, who
WHAT A NEIGHBOR HAYS
About the Relation* of Hie tVooIfolk Family
- Thoms* anil If I* HiHers Dlilnherlted.
From the driftn, <»*.. New*.
Mr. Al. Y. Harris, a gentleman well known
in this section, now living at Bolbigbrcke. was
in this city yesterday on his .way to Warm
springs, and met with a cordial reception at
tbe hands of his nnny Griffin friends. Mr.
Harris lives only two miles from the scene of
tho Wool folk tragedy of Saturday, end was
one of tho first on the scene of the terrible
butchery. He was well srifiDniiitod with the
Woolfolk family, while his wife’s family knew
them even morn intimately, the Woolfolks be
ing among the first people of the neighbor-
hood, ami he tciLs some tilings having a bear
ing ii|»on tho murder that have not been
hroii/ht nut lu th«* various newspaper
but which struck Mr. Hatria forcibly,being «n
old journalist himself.
In the first place, it is not true that Thomas
Woo]folk was always treated with kindness
by his stepmother, but on the contrary she
always treated him with evidences of dislike
aud contumely. On tho very night prec* *’ ~
tho murder she had upbraided him ha: _ .
for riding berhoreo to a barroom. .For she
called and considered it her hone, just as she
considered all tho property hen and her chil
dren's. When Mr. Woolfolfc married the second
time,some twenty odd yesrssgo, though be had
three children to whom tho property would
ARP AT CANTON
Mingling: With the Rest of the
Farmers.
have. This disinherited Thomas and his sis
ters, but it waa made a condition
of tho marriage, and in his Infsun
tion Mr. Woolfolk consented to this
icy bill
lid by t
was then stationed at tho West Indies, and
lie forwardod Annesloy to England, with
Strouf recommendations to liiHncntlsI jwr-
tles. The llrodya returned to Ireland
and put themselves at the command of the
Claimant. Ucfore ho had proceedings under
Way to recover his estates and title from hi*
Uncle, Richard Anneslcy killed a man In a
trawl in London. He wits ancstcd and in
dicted for murder. HU undo used money
Without Mint to secure the voting man's cun-
Y let ion. hut he was acquitted, it having been
Shown that he killed tho mau in ecH-dcfuhsc.
The proceedings against his uncle followed
and resulted in tbe complete nucco-vs o( tho
Claimant's suit. In November, 1743.
A few months after James Anncsley left
iMdladdphia to press his clsims as Lord
Altham the old German's daughter gave birth
to a child. Its paternity was never In doubt,
and on receipt of a letter from the girl begging
him to return and marry her the claimant of
the Altham estates and titlo replied and re
newed his promise to return to America nt the
Very earliest moment practicable and fnltillliU
Vow**. He wrote to Him girl by every vessel,
aud on tbe announcement of tho decision of
the court in hU favor sent her word that tho
next vessel after the one that carried tho news
to her would have him as a passenger to
America, whence he would return to lilsestates
In Ireland with heraa I only Altham.
The defeated uncle and false Lord Altham
spiraled from the decUiou of the court to the
house of lords. While the case wa*
heading there the young Lord Al-
fhaut died suddenly and mysteri
ously in hU apartment in London. The
nncle then became Lord Altham In fact aud
tho com waa at an end. The sad news ot the
Young lord’s death waa carried tothe expectant
German girl In America by one of theflrodyt.
Who had remained in England, intending to
take service under the successful claimant.
The news unbalanced the mind ot the un
fortunate girl, and she died a hopeless manfao
three years later. She was buried on her
father s farm, at the spot where the skull waa
found 123 years later. Tim old German sold
the farm attar hU daughter’s death, he being n
Slower, and went away, noon# knew whither,
lie left his namekes grandchild n care upon
Btmnnre. The hoy grew to manhood, and
was killed la one of the frontier Indian fights
before the revolutionary war. The old English
Rovcls ot Roderick Random and Florence Mc
Carty were based on the story ot young Lord
AUkam's life.
treat them that way; and when Miss Lillie,
Thomas' full slater, was married to Mr. Ed
wards, of Athons, though Mr. Woolfolk was
then a wealthy man, she penariously refused
to make any sort of preparation* for the event
or to provide any entertainment for the guests.
Everything was for her children and nothing
for the children of tho former wifo; and It was
this feeling, as much as any dislike of Thomas's
character such as has been dwelt upon, that
led her to treat him a! she did.
Thoms* Woolfolk has been known fn that
neighborhood from his boyhood as a sharp,
cunning, dissipated, unscrupulous fellow. II
waa thin cunning, which started by over reach
ing others and finally overreached itself, as
cunning generally does, that made him a fail
ure in business. Ills general ideas of business
were good, and hL* intelligence above the aver
age, but itconle found out bUuuscrupulousneas
and fblight sny of him.
Here, then, is a motivo for the mnrder, and
it lie comes a strong one when properly viewed.
It is not merely a deeire for all the property,
such as has boon attributed to lilm as a profli
gate who has already squandered his own pat
rimony, but a fierce passion to regain (hat
which he regarded aa properly belonging to
him and of which lie was to he for
ever unjustly deprived, and share it with
his sisters who would nave inherited U with
him hut for tho entrance of an usurper. Keen
enough to appreciate tho value of property, ho
was not to bo satisfied with
any small portion that Ilia father
might glvo him against the consent
and ex portal* lion of his stepmother; growing
up to be made to feel constantly that no waa
an intruder where he should have been the
coming owner; the sense of injustice rankling
in his breast from his youth to mature man
hood ; with reproaches and scorn from the very
person who was tho causo of his deprivation;
in the place of the tender mother-love that he
saw bestowed around him upon tho
ticnoflclaries of his deposition; froth
from a quarrel about tho use of some of the
very property which otherwise would have
been his own, with the very person who had
deprived him of It; Is It ao very strange that a
nature like this should be goaded into the only
way he could see to effect retribution? Or
that tho father should share the same fate of
the stopmoiher whose tool he had been In this
matter ? And having proceeded thus far, why
not rid himself of all those who so persistently
stood in his way and who wore his enemies
from the very tact ot their birth ?
It is always customary and natural after a
crime ot this kind lias been committed to mag
nify the evil of the criminal and to represent
his victims without fault, and It Is thus it sp
ites!** to tho general reader. Rut tlmso wlio
havo been nelghltor* of lioth parties know that
ltotli are human, und It should bo tho effort of
tho writer to realize that justice Is duo to the
living as woll as the dead.
U'hI knows there wna no sufficient motive for
Thomas Woolfolk to murder tilts family or sny
mcinlter of it; yet what extenuation thoro is
should be given him. to And what he
might have considered a reasonable motive Is,
after all, only to tlx the crlino more concluslvo-
HOW THEY DISPATCHED BUSINESS.
A TALE OF TREASURE.
A Regular Old Fashioned Chicken FleVTUe
Improvements In Canton Surprise
tho Philosopher, Etc.
The Georgia Agricultural society la still a
power in the land—a growing power. The leg
islature Is a big thing, but when these solid
farmers file a veto against any measure that
affects the farmers the lawmakers must sur
render. They took hold of tho Brady bill at
Canton and choked Its lifo out in thirty min
utes. They didn't read it three times nor re
fer It to a committee nor debate
It, but they killed-lt and buried it without
a coffin or a shroud or a prayer, and
there were only twelve mourners at the funer
al. I thought from the tone of Mr. Living
ston's address that they would tackle the tariff
and settle that but they didn’t. They are
against protection unless they can be cted proto
some, too, but the trouble is the government
has got to be supported and there l« no other
way to do it except through the tariff, and if
tho tariff protects certain trades and busincssc*
we can't help it.
If foreign natious wanted to tell us
corn or cotton or wheat or meat then we could
B rotect our farmers by Imiiuslng a duty on
lose things, hut they dout. So now what do
the farmers want done? Just let them say
in theirpower and majesty what they want
done. I am afraid that we farmer* are in tho
same fix these anti convict lease folks are.
We can’t get up a substitute. Wo can grain Me
1 and complain but where is tho
». There la only one thing that w o
nd that Is we ran quit farming and
try something that has got protection. W e can
go to mining or manufacturing. We can dig
ore or make chairs or brooms or ax-handles.
The government has got to have about thrro
hundred millions aunually, and nobody wants
a direct tax. Georgia would bare to levy
and collect about twelve million*
if we had federal taxation just like we have
state and county taxation. Bo I reckon we
had better let tbe present system alone and
quit fussing. I had rather give one dollar for
a hat and pay no direct tax than give fifty
cents for it and pay twenty-five cents tax. for
you see I could refuse to buy the
hat if I choose and pay no tax.
No man llkea to pay taxes in money. He had
rather give two prices for a hat, for whe n ho
buys a list he don’t think about the tariff. It
never enters his head, but when the tax gath
erer calls on him It takes away Ills appetite for
■upper. He feels like he to cheated out of
that much money, and that it all goes to
support officeholders and keep tin the
ail and the court house and to build bride's
hat he never crosses. I’ve paid about $500
taxes in my county and nearly half of this lias
gone to bnud bridges that I have never crossed.
That la all right I know, but I would'nt have
paid that much If I could havo helped myself.
A man has got to be a mighty good ChriMiun
*e a good cuixen* But if
can't got protection mayl*®
we can get even some other way. My friend
lie one day tor
ly upon him.
flow Margaret ’Drew the Line,
letter to tho 8t. Louis Fost-DUpstch.
Our pantry is next to our kitchen, where
Margaret received tho visits of her Mickey.
Ono ovening I went down to the pantry for
something, and whilo there was l * involunta
ry eavesdropper on popr Margaret. She liad
conQAed to mo only a few days before, that
shortly alter Lent wo wonld have to look out
for n new girl, and wro consequently received
Mickey with more good-will than before lie
had declared his intentions, although we were
sorry to think we would lose Margaret. On
the evening In question. Mickey was in the
kitchen, where Margaret waa finishing up her
work. After tho rumble of a gridiron falling
to the floor had subsided, I heard tho follow
ing dialogue:
A Wife's Curtoit* Request Denied.
From tbe Lane* ter Fa. i Examiner*
Mr*, i-uiuft .1. it. H, «ife of a very prominent
attorn y x > UkcsUn*. recently apt He 1 to court
fb an in nc n t revent he. h'. stand fr.>n»
tlrit ®* r. u rt Kt on Tu®s toy, uc. U the
ta l Ire a I Ju c le o the round ri al the
couca ot * vie h s wh as Go I *had
f l • • T e to ' *. B u * • a y itmrre
§ a I to l * at oa.* Um« a pi.-mV
ic . i New Y tk i d ia>vcd to
r*"A* 1 * 1 ; , ■ *■“ Jy ‘f .» he b« Atthe>odof tt.t tin. 1 «a perfectly well,
KI* 5m. tu. k 'JJ Uil: Su * 5 10,1 ■“"* •» »m etare.
No, Mickey. No, you cannot."
"Ah, Maggie, dear, gi’ mo one kiss from
those sweet lips.”
"Mickey," replied Margaret, in a stern
voice, "you must own the bowl before you
claim the sugar."
1 r<<on i mend Margaret's vie wa to the actions
consideration of young Indies who are uuablo
to decide what is the proper conduct for en
gaged couple*, without writing to the newspa
per*.
Who Take* All lire Medicine?
The Aycr'a Barsap arllla company, of Lowell
Mass., havo recently contracted with a Now
Jersey glass manufacturer for JA28.00D bottles,
to lie delivered during the coming winter ana
spring. This is ssld to bn tho largest single
order for glass over given in this country.
lllown to the Floor In a Pile.
From the llartwell, (is.. Sun.
Mr. Lewi* Hhitlct met with a very narrow
escape from death on Monday evening about
dark, llo and family were sitting around the
fireplace. Ho cot hi* powder horn and Hint
and steel to strike a fire, no poured a little
powder on a bunch of cotton and Ignited It witli
the Mbit and steel. The cotton waa probably
a little damn and didn't bum quite aa fast aa
Mr. Bhltlet desired, ao ho raised his horn and
began pouring powder on the fire. Tbe coaso-
quenee was precisely what might have been
expected, as tbe fire flashed np tbe stream of
powder into the horn exploding It with a deaf
ening report that could be heard for a mile or
more. The family were blown to the floor in
a pile. Mr. 8hifiet was badly burned on hit
left arm and slightly in the face. Mrs. Shlrtet
waa struck on the shoulder by a chunk and
badly burned and had a thumb knocked out of
joint. The children received alight injuries,
but fortunately none of tho family were dan
gerously hurt. It made all of them sick for a
while. Mr. Bhltlet says ha has dona this trick
hundreds ot times, but stands ready to taka a
pladga to do U naver again.
Cured af Malaria.
32 Flobda Sr., Elizabeth, N. J.,
March 17,1881.
I have bean using Alloock'b Porous Puls-
tkbs for tho last fiva years. Borne two years ago,
after having been sick for upwards of six
months with malaria, I found myself with
an enlarged apleen, dyspeptic, and constant
ly troubled with a headache, and my kidneys
did not act vary well with. Having spent most
ot my money for medicine and medical advice,
X thought to aave expense I would usa All-
cock's Poaots Plasters, two on the small ot
my back, one ©a the apleen or ague cake, and
one on the pit ot the stomach, just under the
breast-bone. I continued using tbe Plasters
about thirty days, changing them every weak.
Gao bob Dixon.
Bill Harney wanted to buy a mu
a hundred dollars, but ho didn't havo tho
money. 80 he goes over to tho bank and sells
his uote for thirty days and gets the money and
pays five dollars for toe use of it. That was
very high protective tariff for the bank, but
Ramey didn’t care. He sold the mule tor FJ5
dollars biforo sundown, and made fiva times as
much ns the bank did and yet Ramey had no
protection. The best protection In the world
is for a man to protect himself, and a smart,
dlligontmancandoit. Shifty is the word.
Ho most be shifty. Tho trouble is that nine-
tentha of the. farmers spend all they
make, and many of them a little more.
They will do this tariff or no tariff. More do-
n economy and industry than on tho
The rich pay ID per cent of the reve
nue anyhow. What the poor pay does not
bother thorn. I never bear tho average far
mer grumbling about the tariff. Most
people complain of the tariff not h&cauae
they really feel oppressed by it
but because some energetic, thrifty manufac
turers are gotting rich. 1 heard a Macon man
J iuarreliug with an Atlanta man about the two
airs, and he said that Atlanta waa selfish and
moan and wanted to gobblo up everything.
The Atlanta man fought back as bard as lie
could, and finally said: "Well r why don’t you
move to Atlanta and gobble sorno. too ?" It is
human nature to be envious of those who are
doing better than we are. Wo can't help it,
and so wo criticise thoir methods aud qnoto
Scripture liko tho dovil, for the devil docs
quote Scripture sometimes.
The llttlo, unpretending town of Canton
surprised mo, and I fell In love with it. I
thought it was an old wooden town that was
looking np n little since the railroad got there,
but 1 found it nearly all of brick. A new brick
court house with oil the modern attachments,
brick stores, brick churches and a fine, lane,
brick hotel that is well kept. 1 had to wait for
tbe aecond table, and didn’t expect much, but
I nover sat down to n better chicken pie. The
Kimball house nor the Markham can't make
the chickens until thoy
coops and hotcars, anil
perished out, and thoy lose their flavor and
freshness. And besides, a French cook can't
make such chicken pies. It takes a good old
fashioned patriarchal motherly womau, who
learned how from her mother fifty yoars ago.
Well, tho beef and mutton ami potatoes were
all seasoned un right, and the peach pot-pie waa
just sidcnuid. Tho hotel at Can
ton fa full of visitors from
tho low country and there are a
number staying in private families. Indeed,
Canton la quite a summer resort, and her alum
spring Is gotting famous. I rode out there
with Judge Drown. Ho had a jug and a cup
and wo did not go by the distillery. When w®
passed tho old abandoned copper mine wo
»*-•-«- -* •*-- yav ’ -
wind
sunk. It was tho hard earned
ntouoy of solid men and they lost it all, "Did
thoy all lose what they invested?" 1 asfced ot
the judge. "Well, yes," said he. "That Is,
nearly all of them. In fact I believe every
ono lost wbat he put in, except brotlior Joe.
He came out pretty well, pretty well. He
made about twenty-fivo thousand dollare. He
sold out wlieu tho boom was up."
"Just so," said I, "exactly ao", as Varney
Gaaklll would say "correct," or as King Solo
mon said, "a wfso man forsccth the danger
aud avuideth it."
The little railroad that Is booming Canton
and Jasper and Kill jay, is also
doing wonders for that interesting
region. It has increased the values
of property along Its line for more than the
road has cost. It has brought comfort and
convenience and a higher civilization to thou
sands who were almost hidden from the outer
world. No wouder these people are indignant
when the legislature refuses to let the road go
on to the capital. Of course it can buy its way
into Atlanta without a charter, but the day-
haspareed for exclusive rights or privileges.
Let the railroads come and go wherever en
terprising men want to push them. The more
roiula the better ft will be for the people. If
we had another line from Cartersville to At
lanta we would be happy, for there ia no com
petition there now,
I left Canton with regrets and a kind fare
well. May her people live long and prosper.
Everything la lovely In that region, and her
crops of corn and cotton are aa good aa they
can be. Indeed, I believe they will make more
cotton than they can possibly pick,
and more corn than their cribs will hold. But
there is Governor Bullock's barn cleee by, and
it will hold a vast amount of the surplus. It
looks lonely and desolate now. and the farm
around it has grown up in bushes and briars.
It is a monumeut ol something, but I don’t
know what. Bill Aar.
The " Favorite pTWripiloa."
Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y., whoee
name has become known ov't the world
through his success as a physician, and espe
cially through the reputation of his "Golden
Medical Discovery,” has done a good work in
preparing an especial remedy for the many
distressing troubles classed as "female weak
nesses.” it Is known as the "Favorite Pre
scription.” Under iu administration all the
pels ic organs are strengthened, and the woman
becomes that embodiment of health and beauty
which God intended her to be.
For the gen nine Texas He-i Kust proof Oat* In car
esto. write to TUomi-on, \i LeaUey A Pickett, Wax-
Mr. Charles Lewi* and III* Wonderful Chart
—Bunting for Hurled Wealth.
Ralrioh, NX’., August 10.—North Carolina
has once more become the scene of a sensation,
which offers In reality aa much excitement as
does Edgar A. Toe’s famotts.story, "The Gold
Bug.” To-day Mr. Charles‘Lew is was here,
and he revealed to your correspondent a ro
mance fn real life, of which he is the central
figure. Mr. Lewis is a native of fair Normandy,
in France, where his name was Alois Courtal.
At the age of nineteen ho became a seaman,
and saw the world from his ship’s deck, ao
speak. He liad a comrade for some years, wlio
w*« In all rupee's the opposite cf Ccurta!.
Where Hie iattor was thrifty, the comrade was
lazy and idle, as much as possible, and si>cnt
money as fast as it came. After seeing the
world, Courtal cauio to Nortli Carolina and
landed at Wilmington. For over a year he
had not seen his Comrade. What was ills sur
prise to learn that the latter, whoso name was
Charles Lewis, was a nativo of North Carolina
and that he was at Wilmington sick. Courtal
spent weeks with Lewis at Wilmington and at
BmithvUle, a picturesque seaport near by.
In the winter ot IS0O-6t Lewis died, but not
until he had done two remarkable things.
First he had a long talk with Courtal, in
which ho told tho latter that ho must assume
the name of Lewis (the same as his own.)
Courtn! agreed to do this out of love for his
old shipmate, and in the presence of witnesses
formally assumed the name of Charles Lewis.
A DTIXQ SKCRRT.
Tills done, tho dying mutt dismissed from
his room every person except Courtal (now
I«owis), and told the latter his life secret. He
directed Courtal to look in a telescope case
aud take therefrom a chart. Courtal found
that tho telescopo case was in two parts, of
double thickness, and that between these was
tho chart. Lewis, taking the chart in his
bony fingers, made Courtal swear that he
would never cense his efforts to discover what
the chart might partially reveal.
The promise was made, and Lewis told his
life story. He was of English descent, but
was bom in Canada. His grandparents bad
been residents of Guilford county, N. C., and
near Greensboro bad buried during the war of
the revolution, or just nt its commencement, a
chest containing much coin and plato. This
chest was buried ou a plantation some ten
miles nortli of Greensboro. The chest is a cu
rious piece of workmanship, which Courtal
could not at first comprehend at all, but It is
fast expiring friend told him all ho knew of
its mvstories. Lewis said that lie was afraid
to prosecute his search for the buried treasure
too eagerly, and lienee liad been in North
Carolina frequently. He had, however, pur
chased a niece of property in Guilford county,
on which he thought tho cheat waa buried.
Telling these things, Ida voice grew weaker,
and atlast he gasped but did not apeak. With
a last effort be drew Courtal towards him and
said, "I know." It was his last speech, faint
and ghostly as It was. for with set teeth and
clinched hands he fell back dead.
sbrkixo tub tbkasvbr.
Courtal, or Lewis, as lie may now be called,
took his comrade's body to Guilford county,
and there buried it. Tne war came on and
Lewis joined a regiment of North Carolina
volunteers. He was a brave soldier, and in
Scales’ brigade stormed the bloody ridge at
Gettysburg. No soldier went further that day
and none was more gallant. At the end of the
wi#Lewfs settled at the little town of Reids-
villo, Rockingham county, near Guilford
county..and married there. Always a practical
man, lie did not permit the great mystery, of
which he alone had the key, to turn him aside.
He worked hard and accumulated properly.
From time to time holies made search tor his
treasure. Three years ago his wife died. He
remains nt Rcidsvillo cherishing the thought
of his treasure, and is confident of finding it.
He has never been able to discover the exact
spot. The fault lies in the survey, which is
owing to compass changes. Mr. Lewis, now
quite an old man, keeps Yiis chart in the bank
at Reidsville, not dating to keep it in his
house. Last week an eccentric man of that
section, a skilled engineer, urged Lewis to
permit him toald in the March. Lewis is here
to see what his friends think ot this matter.
If they say they think it host to so act, Lewis
will share tho secret with the engineer, whose
name Is Coleman. Lewis la very highly
esteemed and his straneo chart is known to be
no fanciful affair, but a real designation of the
hiding place of treasure. Tho last search
made was about two miles north of the battle
field of Guilford court bouse. Ho lias been
offered large auras of money for Ids chart, but
always refuses to sell or even to show it to
anyone. Onlyonco lias any person seen it.
When wounded in ono of tlio fights In the
wilderness, he showed It to his captain, bid-
The
ROCKCASTLE,
Beautiful Springs In
State of Kentucky.
THE GAYEST PLACE IN THE MOUNTAINS
week the captain was .
TUB HOLD WAS GOME
Jlut !h. I)].l Indian waa V«f7 M/at.rions In
Ilia Movement*.
From tl • Tatlapoon Ga. Journal.
Aa Andrew (Fanner |wa* peeving along a
lovely and aecluded path, which runa along
tho western bank of the Tallapotwa river, ho
saw near a large plno tree fresh upturned
earth. It attracted fill attention. It hod evi
dently been dono the night beforo. On exam
ining tho •iirroiin.IInga, Ire «aw tire tracks of n
man and woman. Ho Immediately went for
aomo of Ida neigliboro, and waa soon Joined by
Me»rs. Sewell, Yancey and I.lttle. The four
were soon at tho big pine treo—which bv the
way, is ono of tlio largest in the county. They
examined tlio track., tho tree and the newly
removed earth. Tliia tree, a monster in
lire, stand, near the Savage bluiT, which forces
the river to make its andden betid from west to
south, forming that semi-circle on tho McBride
place, on which an old Indian village uaed to
stand. On one aide tho treo waa blaxed for
seven feet or more, on tho other two notchee
were made. All ot it had the appearance of
having been done fifty years at leaat. After
theie observations tlio investigators then went
carefully to work to remove tho fresh earth.
After going down two feet or nioro they found
whom a Tesscl ten inches in diameter
and two feet high, liad evidently rested tor
many yean. But it was gouo. Many am
Ibo surmises as to what It contained. Many
believe that some descendant of the MnrreU
clan came to secure booty hidden them.
Othen tliiuk that the “Pony club” dog the
hole, buried the treasure and hissed and
notched the tree. 8omo think that a luckless
party from DeSoto's band while prospecting,
along the Golden river were hard pressed by
Indians and hid their gold them. But a
majority believe that tons rich Cherokee,
when forced to leave the beautiful land ot tho
Tallapoosa, carefully bid away his gold and
marked the tree, and that tho old Indian
doctor and hit wife who spent several weeks at
Tallapoosa, cams to secure the gold. There
old Indiana while here said manystrange things
about the wonderful wealth of this region,
among othen that “tho white man had driven
thoir tathnn from this beautiful land, but the
white man did not know wbat he bad—that ho
did not dream ot the wealth beneath his feet,”
etc. .
n. Knew It Wonld Rain.
Ftom the 8u I/xils Globe-Democrat,
“I spent the fourth of July,” (aid Sergeant
McCbmb, “in a part of Illinois where fie farmers
baden't any rain for a month and were praying tor
It to com.. I was In th. boure of eo. of three fkrm-
en, a strong believer in tbe efficacy of prayer, and
be told me he though tho Lord waa sending them
the draught to punish them for their tricked-
turn. After dinner I went out into tbe
woods aud lay dona under a tree.
Pretty soon a big dead limb dropped off
a tree dore to my haul I had Uved ta tho country
long enough to know that was e food sign of ap
proaching twin. Then fa a little while more Z beard
a tne toad chirrup. Rain sign No. s: Then I heard
a rein crow caw and I ret up to listen. SlgnNo.3!
Presently l heard a locomotive wblMIe end tbe
train nimble over e track I knew tree fifteen mile,
away. Sign Ho. S! I got np and went Into the
boure and told my friend that I bad beea out
praying foe min to como before night, and added
Sat I was cunfldeut of getting whet I wanted.
He looked at are mourefall] and said in a
hopeless way that he gnrered not. It wasn’t for on
trrvUgion man ftom St Louis to come out tbme and
ovtptay all the good people of that neighborbooL
I took him out In tho yard and she wed him the
clouds -Oh,'mid he, with checrftilMM, thani
nue around us. We've ted that to occur before.*
But I made him nmke every thing reeure, end before
ttereceme .toag e rein the, would have
drowned e nun If he tod tmu out la U. The for-
met was in c*»uck* and wonld Bare canonised mo
If he htd known bow. I le:t white mjr lauiris were
gt«ro. and I suppose my (Head hasn’t yri daef**** -
whether Of not 1 ponta supernatural pawns”
Majpilflcent Pool* of Water—Th® Scenery
Surroumllne the Resort— Struggle
With n Large Fish, Etc.
Rockcastlr Springs, Ky., Atigtwt 10.—I
liad intended this week to prepare you
■ketch of "Old Ben Hardin," one of iho (treat
lawyers, not only of Kentucky, bat of the
whole south, but the surroundings of this
place seduce mo unto dreams. Bitting under
the shadow of great mountain*, with a clear,
bright river at my feet, roaring over its shoaly
rapids, as these mountain river* do,I can hard
ly keep from yielding to the seductive fancies
which the placo inspires and indulging iu a
cliapsody on tho scenery which surrounds me,
I brought with me when I came here,a history
of "Old Ben Hardinlife, the best and most
complete which has been written, but I can
not read here in the midst of such surround
ings as predispose the mint! to things of other
sort. Let the readers wait for solid informa
tion, for it is my summer’s outing.
This place I have known a long time. My
first visit here was made iu 18U3 when there
was no railroad In a hundred miles of it and a
few old people came here In their own vehi
cles and put up in log huts which had been
erected about the spring and liad to take such
country fare as conlil be had. Borne of them
brought corn and fodder for their horses aud
provisions for themselves and rented a log
cabin for the season. Others brought their
tent along and camped on vacant' ground,
where they could find it, near the spring.
There were then not more tlinu twenty-five or
fifty perrons at a time visitiug the place and
half of them were servants. But they were of
tho best people in Kentucky and were pc *
who came for the benefits of the in<_ .
inal water and the mountain air and brought
their retainers along to wait upon them.
Many of them are hunters, who slew the
mauy branched bucks on the hills around here
and spared the does and fawns to make sport
for another season; and many were expert
fishermen, who rejoiced to snare the pike with
his voracious maw and many fang 'd mouth,
or the salmon with his transparent cheeks and
panting gills, or the game black boss, the
strong, stout Sampson of the waters, who
could make the reel sing its thrilling opera
and the line hiss like a shark's fin through the
seething waters. Oh! there were great doings
in those days on this brawling stream, and
men found solace from their cares and women
got health and strength and went home with
a now supply of vital power to force the cook
ing troubles of another year. And If a match
was made among the youngsters it was regis
tered at once in Heaven.
And iu these days, though times have
changed, mayhap much of the same light and
sweetness is about the place. The eternal hills
are still the same. Lost night, just at the
turn of darkness toward morning, I saw the
moon lift up Its silver sickle over the pine
crowned mountain which abuts the rivor just
across from where I write. Barely an hour
and all the surface of the wimpllng watt
mode glorious with the molten sheen
fell in oue grand flood from heaven. The stars
shone large and limped through the sweet
moist air four times their natural size and
with great tearful beams down-falling from
them aslf they reached forth angel arms to
draw the souls of dying ones to God. Tho
smaller lights that twinkled in the sky were
blotted out with brightness. There
was a clear heaven and a re
splendent earth. The mountain peaka which
loomed about were dark in their deep bosomed
cliffs, and silver crowned where their thick
bristling brows were lifted up to brush against
the stars above them. The faint roar of the
rapids came with method in its monotone and
harmony In its wind broken cadences. Over
the bright breasted river a thin fog settled,
making most spiritual with iu half mist the
of iu burnished dimples. Every nemo of
within half a mile, but In winter, after a thaw,
or In summer after a heavy rain, it becomes a
roaring, rushing torrent, dangerous to life and
the destructive to property along iu banka. AH
along its course where the small streams and
branches run in, and even In some places where
*P er « springs send their little rUls to join it,
the cliff is hollowed out into scallops, extend
ing far back into the hills and
forming most magnificent arcades ot
fern-growing giottocs. where the water bos
eaten out the soft rock by its constant trick-
l*»f* Along these arcades there are iittlf
* • 7*5JPrings bubbling up from betow, and
cooI « ,, h 3 '” rijey are called, falling most
musically from above upon great beds of snow
white pebbles below. Almost all the water If
impregnated with Rom* k*rd of :::inL r ai3 :«
solution, and gives to tho face of tlio concavf
cliff b wonderful array of varigaied colon, dy
ing away in the glooin as the visitor goes fur
ther under the overhanging roof away from
the light of day. Sometimes these semi-caves
extend under the cliff forty, fifty or sixty feet,
aud even the hottest midday of August cannot
make them other than cool ami invit
ing. The rocks beneath, which hare
fallen down liundreus of years ago,
are piled In strange and often times
fantastic confusion. Their tops are covered
with im>*i and lichens, and all the ekrth In
their crevices and between their Rides is fecond
with ferus. Like some old Valhalla or hall
of the Scandinavian gods, theso places art
dim aud gloomy and awesomo, but, withal,
most wonderoiiMly magnificent.
But what gives its name, Rockcastle, to tho
river, is tho peculiar formation of the cliff*
which abut upon it. These do not often rise
up in the straight line* or palisades but where
tlio scallop iiegins to run back iuto the heart
of the cliffs the point abutting on the rives
rises in castellated form, sometimes with
gables and chimneys and spiro-liko peaks
that make one wonder how nature could have
so closely followed tlio nattom of man's kandL
work. Nature rather foreknew it than fol
lowed, for these peaks must have been as they
arc long before Adam’s day in the Mosaic ac
count of creation. But when the white men
first saw theso castles in tlio air, made of the
eternal stone, they naturally gave to the river,
whose slow eating teeth had formed them, the
name of Rockcastle. Tho namo clings to It,
for no one wlio has ever seen the stream can
suppose a more appropriate me.
Just here where the springs are located the
beauties which have made the stream famous
in Kentucky, are to be seen in their most lux
uriant abundance. Several small branches
put into the maiu river here and form a most
magnificent panorama of craggy castles up
and down tho stream. And buck In the bel
lows are tlio finest of all, tho "arcades" along
the river in its entire length. Throe miles
above here is "Sublimity/ f once itself s famous
watering place noted for its great heighth and
rich colors of its cliffs but now deserted. About
a mile above theso is tho greatest pooltn the
river said to bo seventy feet in depth. Ills
nearly half a mile in length and about two
hundred yards across end certainly of great
depth st all times of the year. It is a famous
place for catching large pike, and I have
known them to be caught there weighing from
' ' . I myself hooked
ago who must have
is. We bed
an hour bo-
loaded down the atmosphere gavo solace to the
soul that liad grown sick in cities. The scep
ter has not departed from Judah, nor the gloty
of Its heritage from the house of Israel.
Today in the more garish glory of the sun
■till does the old magnificence stay about the
place. What is moat spiritual In the half con
cealed tenderness of night becomes most ex
quisite when day reveals It in more perfect
shape. The colors of tho great cliffs glow bo-
neath tho sunshine, browu and yellow, and
carmine red, and dark with shadows thrown
■cross the gray crags by the branching green
of waving pines. The soft foliage of the ma
ple trees along the river’s bonk contrast with
theptlegrayof the birches emerald green—
deep dark emerald—mingling with tho soft
quiverings of Invisible green. Far on the
summits of the cliffs the golden rod is glowing
■nd the sumac with its deep scarlet joins Its
sister in s sweet prophecy of autumn. Sweet
peas with purple eyes look fondly st the pass
er-by as if they almost wept for him to pause
and plnck them. The deep green waters of the
river throw bock the shadows of the trees and
mountains on the retina of the eye most rest-
fully entreating to be gazed upon, In the
calm sky some white clouds float like messen-
| ?rs from hekven soon fading from our grosser
ght. Out on the still clear pool in front of
me some plashing oars are heard and there are
white hands dipped idly down into the spark
ling water. Tiie sweet solitude of silence falls
about me broken now and then by the soft
cadences of voices which age has not made
harsh nor trouble toned up to a shrillr treble.
Perhaps there are heart-burnings here, but na
ture knows It not nor cares for it The earth
and sky end sir are still aud pure end sweet
end tender to munificence end If we know
it not then do we fail to take the largess which
the great Creator gives. The bountoous Father
opens both bis bonds with beauty In them to
abundance. . . ....
There can be no wonder then that the im
agination take* the helm and makes tho affairs
of history dwindle by comparison. Who
could think of lawyers and lew pleading, of
he transitory things of politics with all this
;lory of the earth soont him ? It wonld bo al
most a profanation to sit here end write of
matters that one generation does, to be forgot
ten by another, when the infinity, aye an
eternity, o( these unchanging cliffs are all
about, and this still river Hows its ceaseless
course along, and the white clouds drift round
tbe crags to speak of higher things. It would
not salt the mighty monotone of nature. Yet,
are we of tbe earth, most earthly. Making
love and marrying and begetting our kind.
We go our ways, passing liko the clouds
which fade so quickly, coming wo know not
whence, going we know not where: though
we do eat and drink and care for the body and
be merry. Old age comes to restore iu health
here, and young men and young maidens—
yes, and a tew widows—como to lovo and bo
loved. 8o mote It bo. .. .
This place is in tbe midst of scenery which
-ot Switzerland itself can excel and which
has no parallel save in the Rocky mountains,
where the sense Itself is pelted by sn unchang
ing panorama of unequalltd grandeur until
thesightlswearied tmd memory slone ( Csn
make us bow glorious were our opportunities.
Close by tbe river’s edge the spring wells np
and runs off In a steady stream of nature s
medication. The air Is Adi of health, the
mountain pines giving their resinous balm
with every exhalation. Thera to sire nothin
contact with the rusged cliffs, mid tonic to the
waters, and rest and amusement In the place
and its lurroundingi. It leaves little to be
wished for.
Bockautl* riT.r U ono ot tho branches of
tho Cumberland, and run* throufh the ootor
nanoot the Cumberland mountain,. Like
tboComborUnd rtrerIthucut,channel for
on tho upper CtunberUnd, where It run.
throurh tho mountain* from Point Bnnuide
to tho toll, ibout forty mile, abotro-the rap
cut by th* river U a sheer drecent ruyin, from
two to three hundred fret In height through
which the water foam* and iwlrlo with u
iwtfr, strong moody current broken here and
User, by long rapid, foul to eoal bergw
mid alrooet Incurable by th* ort ot
nun. But the Rockcastle river tutu through
inltn and more variable (tone. It il a much
shorter river than the Cumberland; humor*
frequently email creek, nml brauchc. running
Into it. it Is inturrmertfme.meraocoeulnn
of rapid, and pool*, foniablo alnuat aujalura
weighed twen iy-fls , o'or thirty pound,. We h,d
• beautiful light of It for kbont half *n
tween daylight and ntn rtae which endeu m my
losing my lioad and allowing lilm to Steak
tlret my polo and afterward, my line add (thus
recap* tne. It was tbe moat exciting atrnggl*
I over had with a fish, though I felt like hiring
the bootman to kick me for getting tho buck
ague when I had a dear pool, a mcck'a real
which have fallen down Into tho water bay*
narrowed the channel until In placoa you can
atep across It. There la considerable full la
the dlafouce, and the water come, between th*
rock, with terrific force, at time, becoming
absolutely white, u It foams and ldssea through
its narrow boundaries. Next to the arcade*,
this la the moat romantic part of the scenery
along Bock Caatla.
The hotel here la sltnated about five mllea
from where the rivor enter, the Cumberland,
and between here and the mouth the scenery
la absolutely grand. Everywhere Iho peculiar
characteristic, of it are presented in the most
perfect way imaginable. But this place, In th*
variety and sublimity ot Ita acenety, ia the
acme of It all. And Just at this aetuon it ia tha
gayest place in the mountain,.
The pool of water I have spoken of before la
jiutin front of the hotel, anil from tho long
piazza you can shoot a marblo into It. Just
now it la lower than I ever raw It, and one can
almost wade acrou the river. From tho riffle
below tho house the wator deepen, gradually
until nearly two hundred yardt can be wadea
up stream. Every afternoon between five and
•even tho river is full of bathers—llttlo chil
dren with tlielr parents, young maidens with
their lovers, old men with more adlpooity than
will suffer them to sink, und tho aforesaid
widows, who are never left, bnt disport their
good shapes to excellent advantage In tho door
water and always manage to get the most *H-
gtblo men to teach them how to awlm. Did '
you over know a widow who
could swim? I nover did. I
have seen maidens who could discount
Undine, but alter thoy becamo widow, they
forgot all their natatorial wisdom for the
deeper knowledge of how to snare a man.
Bleared widows! Tliky know the run; » four
little screams, a tow convulsive gasps, around,
plump, luscious form repootng In the arms ol
an old baldhcad, while (he soft arms grasp him
with pbystcrical confidence, and tho deed la
dons, aha has accomplished her uelsrloua pun-
pore, the old rooster la captured, and tho other
hens—or nthor the ahy pullcta—wonder how
she did it.
So you ace here we have the delights and
the reductions of tbe aeashore and the moun
tains combined. Who shall wonder that w*
hive It, and who shall wonder that I, with all
tho memories of a much loved place about me,
th* sweet sights and scene, which allure be
fore me, cannot write to you ot glorious old
Bon Hardin? FxLCon.
Over-Stimulated Women.
Ftom the Xew York Te ojrsm.
• • Mrs. James P. Scott's death from
a dose of chloral has been dlsctuaed In tho parlor o<
nuny a country menslon and summer hotel. Tha
profoundcst regret lies not only been explo red, bat
more than one fashionable woman has said to bar-
self: “May not her tit* be miner* Dosensofaoefo.
ty women of this city dally use chloral and hyper
dermic Injections. A lady in a position to know
whereof she rpcskimld lait eight t > s friend: “lam
acquainted with several women whose legs am
frightfully punctured with tbs point of the hyper
dermic needle.
Chloral is an anodyne, I know, bnt on people ot
nervous and Impulsive temperament Its tint effects
are inspiriting and exciting, U qnlckene their
mental focultlee and powers of enjoyment. I have
a friend who, when a girl of IS lint entering society,
kept a decanter or sherry in ter bed-room, fib*
dmi-k of It every night before appearing In compa
ny. The wine gave lustre to her eyre and color to
her cheeks. In time the sherry gave pfaue to bran
dy. fib* It a young woman of naturally brilliant
wit, but now. If she la deprived of a etimulant ovary
few hours, she Is one of the moit unhappy and stu
pid creatures It is poortbls to luuglna.”
An Opinion Cheerfully Ginn. .
From their relation to society, tho clergyman
of a growing denomination, tho minister of m
congregation, tho pastor ot s flock, naturally
feel great sympathy tor tha afflicted, lienee,
when the truly pious priest finds a certain rant.
> no humbug, bat dor* afford genuine, re.
relief, ho does not healut* to give to tho
world an honest opinion ot It.
Tbe following 1* from ono ot tha moat faith
ful missionaries over sent to Blam:
“Dus. Stsxst a Faun: I cheerfully gtv*
you my name as n reference for Inquirers as to
the merits of the Compound Oxygen Treat
ment. After having been so greatly benefittod
by the use of this Treatment, I should deem it
an act of tho deepest Ingratitude to withhold
my name from u remedy which is so effectual
in healing and removing tha pains, dfo-aaaa,
and infirmities which oar follow creature* are
suffering or ore liable to. With tho deepeeS
gratitune for all you kind neat. I remain you
nue Oxygen friend. “J. H. CHajcnun,
'CamdIS, N. J..573Lima street,29th October.
18M."
A Trestle, on Compound Oxygr n, contain.
Ing a history ot th. dhcovery and mode of so-
tion of this remarkable curative sgent, and a
large record of surprising cures in consump
tion. catarrh, neuralgia, bronchitis, i«hmi,
etc., and a wide range ot diseases will bo sent
free. Adducts Dus. Staekkt a Faux, 129,
Arch street, lliUa.'.clplila, Pa. _
Dr. W. J. Tucker.
Bead card ot Dr. Tucker In another column