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THE MEEKLY CONSTITbTIGN: ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1837.
READS LIKE FICTION.
Thrilling Tale by an Heir to a
Fortune.
INVEIGLED INTO AN OHIO MADHOUSE
Cincinnati, September 27. —About a mile
from Oxford, ()., stands a large brick building,
known hr the Oxford Retreat, a private insti
tution for the treatment of insanity. The su
perintendent of the retreat is Dr. George F.
Cook. Dr. (’ook has filled that position for
upwards of two years. For some little time
back there have been rumors running around
Oxford reflecting rather seriously upon the
management of the institution. One of the
most prominent and startling of these was to
the effect that a young man from the south, of
large means, bad been kidnapped into the re
sort and was being detained there illegally and
against his will through the conspiracy of
friends on tlie outside, who wanted him out of
the way in order that they might the more
readily possess themselves of his fortune.
This rumor was investigated. The young
man referred to was found. He had been re
leased from the rttn-at Thursday evening un
der peculiar circumstances. His name is
Samuel L. Doan. He is a small, slight, boy
ish-looking young fellow of 22, bright, apt and
intelligent, and told his story in a very straight
forward and impressive manner.
“My father,“baid he, “was Estis Doan, of
Memphis, Tenn., one of the largest cotton
merchants of that section of the south. Ho
die<l two years ag O . n,% left a large property,
and his will, while making ample provisions
for my mother and the other children, showed
some little favoritism tome.
“Although I was the wildest one in the
family, I was always my father’s favorite
child. The favoriteism shown in my direction
by the will aroused the iealousy of certain
other members of the family, and this, in the
light of the facts and circumstances, is the
secret of my recent involuntary incarceration.
I traveled about the <‘ountry, and looked upon
wine when it was red. Along in July last I
made up my niipd to bra< e up. Our family
physician, who was cognizant of this inten
tion. Suggested the Retreat at Oxford, 0., as a
good p!;u.«- for inc to go to. I determined to
enter the Retreat. 1 accordingly arrived in
Oxford on July 28th lust, and entered it at
once. The terms are SH) a week. When I
ent' ied J was thriibt into what is called (he
‘back ward,’ among the insane and epileptic
patients, w here the inmates ate constantly in
charge of k<*vp<«rs and are under lock and key.
This is Jmrdly what I had expected, but I
thought perhaps it would he the best thing
after all, as it would bo impassible for me to
get out to get anything to drink, and the
bracing-up process would be expedited. I re
mained an iincomjdaining imnateof that ward
for three wet ks. At the end of that time, feel
ing satisfied that 1 had got the whisky out of
inc, 1 requested Dr, Cook to transfer me to
other and bettor quarter* and accord me some
privileges.
A 'No, air,’.said Dr. f’ook, very gruffly and
emphaiicnily : 'you’ll stay just where you are.’
I was astounded. I had gone there as I’d go
to any hotel or watering place, prepared to
pay my way, ami expecting such treatment
ami orivih-goh its 1 desired.
“Then,” said 1. “1 leave the institution.”
“ ‘Not much.' E.ti<l Dr. Cook, ‘1 am going to
keep you here.’
I was horror .stricken. Iliad entered there
of my own free will. 1 was of age. and had
not been committed there. I was <lumbfouml
<•<l. Not only did (-00 k give me the intelli
gence that 1 was to remain in the institution
whether or no an inmate of a ward occupied
by lunatics, imbeciles, epileptics and other un
desirable companions, but he imparted the ad
ditional information that all letters 1 wrote
were to be handed to him unsealed, to be read
and censored before bring mailed. When I
entered the institution 1 had a book of blank
check* ou tho Slate National Bunk of Mum
phis. Tho second night I was there this hook
was taken from my pocket. A <lnv later Cook
presented one of the blank checks to me and
requested me to sign. 1 refubtsl to append my
signature until he had filled it out. lie final
ly Ailed it out for S(K) for four weeks’ board.
Thon I signetl
“Finally 1 succeedeil in smuggling a letter
out, through an am-udant. to 51 r. Nuhon W.
Perry, of Oxford, of whom I had heard. Mr.
Perry smuggled an answerback, and through
tlii.i clandestine corn : pondencc I succeeded in
laying before Mr. Furry a true statement of my
ease He consulted a lawyer, Mr. Palmer
Smith. Cook sent word to Mr. Smith that he
had belter have nothing to do with tho matter.
Mr. Smith sent back word that tho ca.se, as it
presented itself to him, appealed to humanity,
and that he would sift it to the bottom. In
order to satisfy Mr. Smith that 1 was a
responsible party. I sent him word to telo
graph tho State National bank of Memphis as
to whether there was an account there to my
creditor not. Mr. Smith had the Second Na
tional bank of that place telegraph the Stalo
National bank of Memphis to that effect. The
answer came hwk that there was money there
to my credit, but that a guardian had enjoined
tho lumk not to nay it over to me, This was a
new surprise, ft was tho first intimation 1
had that 1 had a g)Mudiau. It was another
Conclusive demonstration of the existence of a
oolddblooded. etmftglracy. 1 immediately
wtoCc, and Rmuggh’a out the letter,
to tiio piobatfi ■judgfc 'of Shelby County,
Tenn., (inquiring wludhvt there ln<d been a
guardian app<»‘mted for me. This reply was
received:
Mrnhus, Tenn., \hM D, i.ss7-Mr. a mud
IkMii, Oxford, O. Dj..ui f-u. Your eoinmuuica*
lion of the IGlh Install!, tu» handed me by Judge J.
8. Galloway. Ju reply,woti’d that no one lias
Ixs n ;<pp noted as your guardian in this court. Res
pectfhlly, ’ P .1. QrioLV, Clerk.
By Diomas 7. Ckknmuaw. Deput).
“L pun the receipt of (his letter Mr. Perry
and Mr. Smith commitnh aled as to its c-on
tents with the State National batik. In a day
or two the answer unme back that imvstiga
tion on the part ol the bank had developed
the fact that It hmi been imposed upon, and
that the guard Inn story was all a hoax ; that 1
had no guardian, and the money to my credit
there was at my disposal. Finally, the fore
part of tiiis week. Mr. Smith determint'd to
bring the matter to iui immediate issue by
taking out corpus pa|>ers for my re
lease. It happened that Dr Cook, who had
an inkling as to what, was in contemplation,
approached Mr. Smith ami brought up the
subject of the proposed habeas corpus pro
ceedings, and attempted to dissuade him
from suuli a course, telling him that such a
proceeding would prove futile. Hi he had com
mitment papers for my detention.
“’What is tho character of the papers’?'
asked Mr. Smith. “Il’s a bill of lunacy, ’ was
tho reply.
“The following day, on Tuesday last. Mr.
Smith called at tho Retreat. The doctor pro
duced tho |>a|>ers. Instead of being a bill of
lunacy, the pa|»ers were a guaranies' signed by
relatives c»f minu in Te.nnessev to se* 11 te him,
Cook # from any damages (hat might result in
case that I brought an action against him for
illegal detention This document left no fur
ther doubt about the whole ass air being a eon
tipiracy planned by relatives of mine and par
ticipated in by Cook. He wont next day to
Hamilton, howevei, and filed the in tition in
habeas corpus. Tho judge at Hamilton ad
vised him. liefero having the pa)n»rs issued
upon, to return to tho Retreat, to make a
funnal demand on I ah»K for my release. If the
demand was not acceiMied to a deputy sheriff
was to La* sent on to serve the pajx'rs and take
me out of the institution by prmvss of law.” 1
Mr. Smith accordingly returned to Oxford
and made the formal demand. Cook finally
agreed to release lb*ll on the condition that
he would not to pn«vcuted for kidnaping. 1
This Pvnv refused to do, but Cook released |
Ikuin. Tno mayor and other preminvnt citi- |
lens of Oxford have the matter now in charge
and v ill prosecute Cook. Public sympathy Is
with Duau.
The Widow*• Daughter*
From the Detroit Free Tress,
Tn tho winter of InH while a portion of my
regiment, the New York Twenty t»-h c avalry, waa
at PIOHMUit Valley, Md . to obtain a remount, wunl
was received by the )<o»l conijnauder thnt a confed
erate scout named Wm. Baxter, but whoa, sknown
to us as Billy Bowlegs, was on a vlFit to his moth
er. who h\ vd beta uen the Putomat at that point and
avWs<stn Virginia ctU 4Eatontown. Theron -e
anumU r of Colonel Kane’s ’ bucktalh ‘ scouting
fur the federal* and making Pleasant Valley their
h.*«M.bjUarter*, ami as 1 had detailed on ?ev» ral
ocoaiions for etcout service, and had made a good
record, Ism instructed u» a-lei't five men and * rues
the rhe* and Hvvre '‘Billy dvad or alive Toe ia« t
U*Ai be waa al home was utdy cauiUuhvd, and the
loctition of thefann house was ’ aown to two of tlie
men who accompanied me. \\ wcr.. fc rr.el acr.;-s
the rolonutc one eveningat dusk just where the lon.x
highway bridge had been burned, and then we Lad
a walk of about eleven mi e to make.
Although “Billy Bowlegs’’ was a’e r .css man and
a handy shot, we didn't t gure that it would i e <1
live men t» < aptnre him. Ihe • ount:y betiv• en the
river and Un ontown was then overrun with bush
whackers and gnerri Has, and we anticipated more
or los trout le with them.
The scout had been twice captured by the feder
al®, and he was described to us as of slender build,
medium bight, fair complexion and dark eyes.
Enough was known about his nerve to know that
he would not be taxen alive if he had any show to
fight, and therefore os we approachd the house
about midnight from across a 1 eld wo were anxious
ly wondering how we should get at him. If we
knocked at the door he would be alarmed and
have time to arm hlmsclL If we b?uk? ft in we
might and probably should find him in bed. It was
a still, dear night, rather cold, and we hung about
for half an hour before adopting apian. Then we
decided to break in the <’o -rs. Two of us went to
the front and two to the back door, while the fifth
man stood ready to rec eive the scout in case he
dropped from ft second-story window supposed lobe
fn his IxJdroom. We crept softly up, and at a signal
both doom were burst . No, they weren’tl
Neither of them gave an inch under the pressure,
and in response to the efforts we made a woman’s
voice called oat:
“Who is it, and what’s wanted?”
“Open the doer, or ve 11 b:Oak it dov n.”
“Wait one minute!”
She struck a light, and we heard her moving
about, and in a couple of minutes the front door
was opened and a gray-haired woxtaa of forty-five
stood there, with ft candle In her hand.
“Union soldi* .a, eh? Come right in,” she said,
smiling ss if glad to see üb.
I posted three of the men around the bouse and
entered with the other, and as soon as 11 us Inside
I said:
“Madam, we have come for your son. We know
he is heie. We shall take him dead or alive.”
“Oh, you have come for Billy, Lave you!” ex
claimed a girl about 18 years of age, who came run
ning down stairs at that moment. “Excuse me,
gentlemen, for not being fully dressed, but you sec
you didn’t send us any word.”
She laughed In a merry way, while the mother
smiled good naturedly. Sue had on a neat fitting
calico dress, a ribbon at her throat, and except that
her hair looked ’‘tumbled” she looked as well pre
pared as if she expected our coming.
“Yes, Jennie, they want Billy,” said the mother
as she placed the candle on a stand.
“And we are lound to take him, dead or alive I”
I added in ft loud voice, inspecting the scout was
within hearing.
“Oh, how sorry !” laughed the girl. “If brother
Billy 1a l only known you were coming! But he
didn’t, you see, and so he went away at dark. He’ll
never forgive himself—never !“
“We must search tlie house,” I said.
“Ob, certainly. Mummy, you light another can
dle and I’ll show the gentlemen around. Perhaps
the ‘•lgbt of Billy’s old clothes will do ‘cm good.”
t Well, sir, we hunted that house from attic to cellar
and till we found was an old .suit of Billy’s clothes.
The scout had skipped and the best I could do was
to apologize to mother and daughter, accept a mid
night lumffiedn at the hands of the latter, and take
hcTaic'k track for the river. I'll own up, too, I was
' dead goftc” on Jennie before I left, and that 1 said
to her, nsT squeezed her hand at parting:
"Wi en thd war isover I’m coming to ask you to
be my wife.”
•'And—and- I’ll say- say y e-s?” she whispered in
my ear.
V. o got back t> the ferry soon astir daylight and
tlc.emt t * union former living neighbor to the
widow. When he hur l uhi.twe had been up to
he ft’-ked:
"Was the wM«C alone?”
“No;! cr daughter Jennie was there.'’
“Daurliter Jennie! Describe her.”
‘Mood looking girl of medium I eight, black eyes
and hair, an 1 a sweet talker. I'm going back to
mairy her al’wr the war is over.”
‘Tet y< u a la in you don't! T1 a' ar’ gal Jennie
was nobody else bit that ar’ scout, Billy Bowlegs!
He Jist jumped into some of bls mammy’s clothes,
and you pig heads couldn't see tl rough it!”
He was right. I met Billy in Ifoip *r’s Ferry after
the war and I e wanted to know 1:1 had taken out
the mairiuge license jc 1 .
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that coated tongue or bad ta*t« in the mouth
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You must decide this week whether or not
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decide wrong! Strain a point and come. It
w ill be tho bust investment you ever made.
Bring your wife and children. Got up a club
of subscribers and cotne along. You will see
more than you ever saw. It costs but a trifle,
and you will make a mistake if you don’t come
and see it.
Carter’s Little Liver Pills may well be term
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A SIGN THAT WORKED BOTH WAYS
From the Merchant Traveler.
“I'm not the least superstitious,” said a lady
in the street to her escort, “hut there is one sign
that Ivo never known to fail. If I see the new
muon otvr my left shoulder l‘m just ns sure to have
Ia l luck ns can bo, and If I see it over my right
Shoubler, I always have good luck.”
“That is very remarkable.”
“Isn’t H? Now ho't month I -aw the moon over
my left • h mlder, and the \c?y next day I went out
riding on Dolly and she threw me. Wasnt that
aw Ail luck?”
"it wiw Indeed. Did you ever know it to work the
other way?”
“Certainly 1 have. I saw the moon over my right
shoulder this nth, nn 1 the other day u hen I was
o.d dr.ving an 1 the horse overturned the carriage I
didn teven get hurt, although 1 might have been
kille<l. Oh, I m sure it never failx”
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A year of travel wouldn't learn
you or interest you as much as
three days at the Piedmont exposi
tion. October loth to 22d.
The Outcast.
She ‘d-Knl in the mldM of the jeering crowd
With IVaturee dark with scoru.
And cyt's defiantly, boldly preud,
And skirts bedraggled and torn.
And some women prayed.and M»nw women frowned
Aud loosed their heads with a Jerk :
And s »me men pitied, but more turned round
And laughed at their handiwork.
Alike to both praver ami jeer,
With vlenclusi hands, alone
t»hc sfinxl, with neither moan not tear,
mute as a sculptured st one.
When, through the tn light’s falling mist,
A child that could aree!y stand
Caniv forth, and ou hot clenched fist
lie p a< cd Ins tiny hand.
The fires first lit by heartless men,
By thoughtful wonuu tkunod.
Were quenched ; for the floodgates openedthgn
At the touch ufa baby’s hand.
—Time* of Australia*
What They are <»ood For.
BniNDKKLH'g I'iEi.M Are the beat medicine
known.
First—They are purely vegetable, iu fact a
medicated food.
Second The same dose always pred tires the
same effect,—other purgatives require in*
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Third - They purify the blood.
Fouith—They invigorate the digestion and
cleanse the stomach and bowels.
Fifth—They stimulate the liver and carry
off vitiated bile and other depraved seervtious.
Tho first two or three tell tho story.
The skin becomes clear; the eye bright; the
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STORIES jOFJHE WAR.
A Yankee Trick That Didn't
Pan Out.
BEN PAGETT’S GUN SWAP.
For The Constitution,
In the fall of '63, when we were drinking
bud water and r ating pool beef at the foot of
Lookoutuiountaiii, waiting for Sherman to get
ready to “roust” us from Chattanooga, our
picket duty was pretty heavy, which was occa
sionally relieved by au amusing incident, one
of which I propose to relate.
Our brigade (Pettus’s) was detailed for duty
on the mountain, that being the point where
au attack from the enemy would likely be
made.
We had a strong lino of pickets stationed
about one hundred yards from tho bank of a
creek, and the yankee pickets were similarly
posted on the opposite side, the two lines being
but two orthree hundred yards apart—a pretty
distance for sharp-shooting, and the boys prac
ticed this amusement to perfection, so much
so that it was not an unfrequent mishap for
some poor fellow on one side or the other to
receive a final discharge.
Occasionally the opposing pickets would get
quite sociable, and meet on their resp<u:tive
sides of the small stream and have a friendly
chat, joke each other, swap tobacco, coffee,
etc., until nearly "relief” time, when they
would skin back to their posts and perhaps take
a crack at each other before they could get
under cover.
Ben Padgett, of the —th Alabama regiment,
was a little wirey fellow, weighing not over
one hundred and twenty pounds, but carrying
at least a ton of pure grit in his gizzard—a
splendid soldier, who would unhesitatingly
fight a regiment of cyclones, and who had made
many a blue-coat wish ho had remained at
home, if a ‘‘stiff” could be considered, capable
of wishing anything.
Ben conceived the idea one day while on
duty that he would make an effort to get away
with his yankee “paid” on the opposite side of
the creek.
And he did!
He did for a fact!
1 Io had an old army musket that would yank
ahull into the ground rather than hit a barn
at a hundred yards’ distance. With this old
fusee ho couldn’t even make liis antagonist
dm k his head under cover of the rock behind
which he was stationed, while more than once
he came very near being “rubbed out” by the
ininuie balls of his opponents.
Ben was disgusted with this one-sided con
test .and, laying his old gun down, ho sang out:
“•‘’ay, yank, less quit this foolishness and
rest, awhile.”
“Good as pork and beans!” returned tho
yankee. “I'm afraid I mout knock yer chunk
out and make another confederate widder i f I
shoot at yer a?in.”
“.So'ml,” taunted Ben. “I could er plugged
you in the right eye'a hour ago if I’d bin a.
mind ter.”
“Whew!” whistled the yankee. “I'll bet
yon mout shoot at Lookout mountain all day
and yer couldn’t hit narry part of it, 'less you
pinted yer old gun upwards aud let the bullet
fall on it.”
“Maybe I couldn’t,” retorted Ben; “but my
'pinion is that I've got a durn sight better gun
than yourn.”
“What sort is it?”
"A Spencer rifle,” answered Ben.
“Cum down to the creek and less swap,”
proposed the yankee.
“Less unload our guns fust,” suggested Ben.
“That's bizness—here goes;” and, pointing
their pieces in the air. they w ere soon rendered
harmless for the time being.
Marching to their respective banks of the
stream, they seated themselves and proceeded
to have a cozy chat, seemingly forgetful of past
differences.
"When arc you fellers goin’ to let up and
stop tlii Masted war?” questioned Ben.
"Win uold Jeff Davis hollers ‘cuuff’ and
calls off his dogs,” was the answer.
“Then you’il be fightin’ us when the other
country freezes over!” was Ben’s indignant
reply.
“Oh, hang the war! Less talk about some
thin’ else.”
“I'm willin'.”
“What sort of a gun did you say you had?”
“Spencer.”
“Spencer nothin’! I'll bet it was at the
battle of Bunker Hill.”
“Makes no difference; it suits me powerful
well.”
“How’ll you swap?”
“ Even.”
Ben kept his gun concealed as well as ho
could.
“It's a trade. Bitch yourn over and I’ll
pitch mine.”
“Not any to Imrt I won’t. We’ll both pitch
at once,” was Ben's cautious suggestion.
Acting on this proposal, they both rose to
their feet, and at the words “here she comes,”
Ben's gun went sailing to the opposite side;
but the yankee only made a feint to throw his
and held to it, at the same time seizing Beu’s,
with the cool remark:
“Good mornin’, Johnnie! Duz yer ole
’oman know yer out in the cool?”
Hero was the tallest kind of a fix.
Ben was too utterly transfixed to speak or
move, neither of winch ho did for fully five
minutes, while his triumphant enemy lav
down and rolled on the ground with uncon
trollable glee.
"Ding the luck!” said Bon. seeming to think
that was about as appropriate as anything ho
say could under the circumstances.
"You'll git glory fore Monday es yon don’t
git back to yer hidin’ place at once,” gravely
threatened the yankee, as he deliberately pro
ceeded to load his gun.
The cunning yank had him on a string, but
Hen was too good a soldier to quail or to beg
his enemy for mercy or his gun, so he thought
he would try a ruse—for he knew he must have
that gun before the relief officer came around
or he would inevitably be court-martialed and
made a target of the next day.
Assuming an air of utter indifference, he
bantezingly remarked to his enemy:
"Oh. Irani the gun! I'm tired totin'it anj - -
how. I’ll bet yon iny gun agin yourn lean
beat you swiiumin'.”
“Es you've got any gun I don't know wha
you carry it,” laughed the yankee.
“Shore enough! But less strip off and go in
a wa-shin' anyhow.”
* ‘Good I”
And hastily throwing off their garments,
thev were soon floundering in the water.
"Now,” said Ben. banteringly. “less try our
speed up to that rock”—about twenty steps dis
tant.
"Here goes!”
And both plunged forward with all their
strength toward the designated point.
Ben purposely let the yankee take tho lead,
while he splashed and puffed in the rear as
though he was doing hie clean best to overtake
him.
Suddenly he whirled, and. like a dart,
gained the side of the creek where the weapons
lay. Seizing both pieces, he sprang to the
opposite side before the yankeeknew what w as
the matter.
“Say, yank, how’d yon leave the old 'oman
and children?” sneered Ben, feeling that it
was his time to crow.
“Sold, by thunder!” acknowledged tho dis
comfited blue-coat iv» he ruefully crawled out
on his side of the creek.
“Now.” sain Ben, "es yon don’t double
quick back to your post I'll make a w idder of
you. ’
After teasing him a few minutes Ben pitched
his old musket nt him and quietly walked off
with hia tine Minnie Title, which he made do
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