6 THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. AMERICAN ROMANCE. OUR GREAT CIVIL WAR WAS flfLL OF IT. rwrf of Qtintrlt nd nil Mefl-fT 117 That Recalled the Dark Ages Gaveer of Wantoa Kllllnc-Inflnenoe of a Mother. , HE romance of our prvat civil war la rot yt proptrly appreci ated. Some nite heuco the histori an nnd writor of fiction will find It a lulno of atlvon hire and romiiuca The "Ago of Chiv alry In Europe was not morv full of darliiff exploits und Moody Khh1. The hii.rry of Uie noted Kuerrillu, Qarko yuautrvll, one of the trauKit and mont singular ntrore of our civil war. Is nu Instance to the point. Quantrell was born in Canal Dorcr, Ohio, In 1837. Hl aged mother, now In her aeventy-flfth year, la allll llvlns there. Quantrell' father was a quiet, eatlmaMe man. who wan a teacher and principal of Union coIIckp. Young Qoantrell praduated from t'nlon col lejre at the nee of sixteen, and for a While taught school hlmaelf. Qnantrell had not yet passed his twentieth Wrthday when he made his appearance In i'aola, Kan in the spring of 1S57. After many adven tnres, he attached himsolf to a small band of daring spirits in Lawrence, Kan., who were ever ready to aid the M ill mmmmm Running Down Pickets. afwrpe of fugitive slaves from Mis souri, and to give protection to the ftee colored people who In consider able numbers had moved from the ad jacent States into Kansas. He was actuated by no worthy motive, how ever. He did it to cloak his connec tion wit i a Kind of Mlssourlans who were kidnapping the free colored peo ple of Kansas and running them into Arkansas, where they sold them Into slavery. The 'band had many Moody adventures, and finally, in an attack an the house of Morgan Walker, a wealthy farmer, all of Hie baud ex cept Quantrell were shot dead. On the breaking out of the civil war Qnantrell turned np In Missouri at the head of a small band of maraud ers. One of their deeds was the mur der of two Missouri, father and son, which led to the dispersion of the band. At Blue Springs, Mo.. In May. 1801, his famous baud of guerrillas was or ganized, nud its sudden and merciless raids soon became the terror of the Kansas border. Quautrell's Kind was mode up entirely of volunteers, the most of thorn bring young farmers from the Missouri boarder counties, nd it nlso included a number of Ken tncklans and Arkansans. Each mem ber was armed with rttle and revolver, the later being the favorite weapon. No oaths were taken and no vouchers required to secure membership. "Can yon shoot to kill?' was the only ques tion asked of each new volunteer. At nrst Quantrell spared the lives of the prisoners taken In the raids, but this clemency was short lived. Qnantreirs command ovr his reck less and lawless followers was com plete. He seldom divulged his plans until the moment for execution came, and tauirut his men that their first duty was to follow where he led. The adventures of this lawless band would fill a volume. In the summer of 18f!3, at a time when the borders of Kansas and Mis souri was almost denuded of Union troops, Quantrell prepared for his long contemplated raid on Lawrence, nit tht did not end the work of slaughter. Kvery man or loy who appeared on the street was ahot dead. The glints of the Eldrldge hotel were saved by Qtiantrell's order at the request of Itolnrt S. Stevens, a lawyer to whom he was Indebted for some former net of kindness. This, however, was the only net of mercy shown. Three huudred buildings were fired and every business placo In the town sucked and plundered. Quan trell ended the Lawrence raid with a loss of but seven men. The number of his victims, unarmed men and hoys, was 2S(J. In defending the outrage afterward, Quantrell said: "I wanted to kill Jim Lane, who lived there, nnd ns I hadn't the honor of his acquaint nneo, I killed every man I could see to shoot nt" Rut Kansas was not to escape with out another visit from Quantrell and his terrible band. Early In Oetoler. IStfl, six weeks after the Lawrence massacre. (Jen. Blunt, with his staff, band, clerks and an escort of the Third Wisconsin Cavalry, the party numbering In nil l.( men, was march ing toward Fort Smith. Ark. When near Raxter Springs. Kan., close to the borders of the Indian territory, he was met by a body of cavalry, whose members were dressed In Federal tiniform and carried the Union flag. There was n force of Union soldiers stationed not far away In Missouri, and at Raxter Springs were qnartrr ed two squadrons of the Third Wis consin Cavalry and two companies of colored infantry, ell under the com mand of Major J, R, Fond, now the well-know livrure manager. Gen. Blunt supposed that the advancing force was a portion of Pond's com mand, and rode towards It with one of his aides. He had gone but a few yards when he discovered that the strangers were Qunntrcll and his men. As he galloped back toward his com mand the guerrillas opened fire upon it. Rlunt's escort, surprised and un prepared, could offer no effectual re sistance. One hundred and ten of them were slain, all but ten of them being shot after they were taken pris oners. Gen. Blunt, his aide, and thirty of his men were the only em's who succeeded In making their escape. After the slaughter nt Raxter Springs the pursuit of Qnantrell be came so hot that he relinquished his leadership, and his band split up Into Independent squads led by his vari ous lieutenants. Then he joined the command of Gen. Sterling Price, and when the latter retreated from h!s Missouri campaign in the fall of isu Quantrell and his party went with the army. Price crossed the Arkansas n few miles east of Fort Gibson in the In dian territory, but being a man of humane impulse as well as a brave soldier soon gave Quantrell to under stand that he preferred that the guer rilla and his party should quit the army. Quantrell quickly acted upon his hint, and cutting loose from Trice campaigned for a time In Southern Arkansas and Eastern Texas. None of the Confederate commanders would recognize him, and he Anally moved eastward across Arkansas. He now resolved to make his way to Kentucky, nnd from there to Mary land, where, as ho afterward stated. Chm-Rlnd Into Lawrence. the most Moody and ruthless chapter it the history of the war. On the alght of August 11), 1S03, at his camp n Black water cret-k, near Columbus, Mo., he collected hU followers to the .nimliers of 'J 7 4 and, briefly explain ug his designs, rode towards tho Kau-sa-s brd. r. The U..ss of tho guerillas closely resomblni the Federal uniforms, and to the farmers who they encountered is they advanced, the leaders said hat their followers were recruit for ho Ninth Kuusa.i Cavalry. The Fed ral OaNi.lry, under Col. Plumb, re vived In! '..nnmlon, but was unable to verUike Quantrell. When the guer lllius en:, red Lawrence, some eighty if them scattered nlwmt the streets of ho town, but the main luidy under Quantrell rode straight for the camp if the unarmed white recruits, whera iiiO men were sleeping, happily un. -Hisciou.-- of Impending death. A losperato tjght ensued. Every one of .Uo roti'Liu wa iluully liut down, Escnp.- of Quantrell. ho intended to surrender with Lee or again engage In guerrilla warfare. He dressed his men in the Federal uni forms stolen from the bodies of the Union soldiers nt Raxter Springs, nnd. successfully eluding the Union posts in Arkansas, reached the Mississippi In safety. After trying various points he final ly effected the passage of the rlviT, fifteen miles above Memphis, on New Year's day, lMfi5. Once within the Federal lines, Quantrell represented himself as a Federal ollieer on spe cial scouting duty, and drew rations and supplies at tho several Union posts through which ho passed. His band crossed Tennessee Into Kentucky nnd passed through Big Creek, Cov ington, Paris and other places on thKr way to the mountains of southwestern Kentucky. Stopping one night at a country ho tel Quantrell, after supper saw his men to bed and ordered them not to leave their rooms unless he called them. However, some of them . dis obeyed this order and went to the bar room for whiskey. Here they fell In with a group of Federal officers. Guer rillas and soldiers drank deeply, nnd finally fell to quarrelling. Pistols were drawn, and in the fight 'that followed several of the officers were shot dead. This untimely encounter served to reveal the ideutlty of Quantrell and his men, and the guerrilla leader saw that their only safety lay in flight The guerrillas hastily mounted their horses, and by hard riding eluded tho pursuing enemy nnd reached the mountains. Rut Federal cavalry under Major Briagewater ana Cant, Tlrrell, drove them from one hiding place to another, nnd tho forces of the latter finally brought them to hay ou May 10, ISCj, near Taylorsvllle, iy. Here Qnantrell made his last stand nnd fought his last tight. Two of his followers were killed and ono wound ed; the rest escaped, scattering in all directions, and In the end uiakin their way back to Missouri as best they could. Quantrell himself was mortally wounded. He was shot through the shoulder Tilade, tho ball striking his spine nnd paralyzing him. Two days after the fight he was taken to the 17. S. military hospital in Louisville, where he died on June 0. Ho was burled in St. John's cemetery, Louis ville, and when they went to dress him for the grave they found fifty j marks on his bixly made by bullets ami saner. I In his final momenta his better nn ture returned, and iu the lust words. 1 it is said, that fell from his lips an 1 they grew cold la death were tho uam jlof his mother. "v. DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION. Headquarters Democratic State Central Committee, 16 South Market Square, If arrishuro, May a i, 1894. To the Democratic Elec. tors of J'erttuiylvanta : In accotdance with the resolution passed at a meeting of the Demo cratic state executive committee at its conference on April 16, 1894, Ii hereby give notice that the Democrats, by their duly chosen repteucntalives, j will meet in state convention, in 1 Harrisburg, 00 Wednesday, June 27, 1804, at ten o'clock a. m for the purpose of placing in nomination can didates for the offices ot Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Representatives-at-large in Congress, (two to be nom inated) Auditor General and Secre tary ol Internal Affairs, an for the transaction of such other business as may be presented. In accordance with rule 6, section 1, unanimously approved by the State convention, September 19, 1893, the representation shall consist of repre sentative delegates, one for each one thousand votes cast at the last preced ing Presidential election, or for a fraction ot such vote amounting to five hundred or more, in the respect ive representative districts, provided that each representative district shall have at least one delegate. The rep resentation in the coming State con vention, based on the Presidential vote of 1892, is' as follows, to wit : I.rcnrutng 8 . 3 Adams. 4 AlU'ithftiy 1st District ml . n . a Hid " 4th " Mil " ft ll " S 7th " mu " Armstrong 4 Heaver IWMovd 4 Beri;s 1st District ami " U niulr Brailtord 4 Hueks H Butler 4 Cambria " imn.'i'ou 1 t'urlinu 4 Centre S Cluster f Clarion 4 Cli'iirttelil Clinton Columbia 3 Craw ford 8 Cumberland 5 unuphln lsi insinct Snd " 4 Peluware 6 a Erb 1st District 4 and " 8 Fayette 8 Forest 1 Frank In 0 Fulton 1 Greene 4 Huntingdon a Indiana 2 Jefferson S Juniata i Lackawanna 1st District 2nd " 8 8rd " 1 4th " 3 Lancaster 1st District 8 2nd " 2 3rd " !S I.awtence 2 ixoanon 9 Mi'lveuu.. ....... .ncreer Mltllln , Monroe . Montgomery Montour Northampton ortlniuibcrland. Jvrrv Blillii.l-lplila 1st District. ... 2nd LelilttU Luzerne 1st District.. 2nd ' Jtrd ' 4tn " Mil " 6lU " Jti 4tn a Mil ' 1 tu 2 Ttli " 1 Xtll 1 nth 1 icth " 2 1 it 11 ' 1 12tli ' 2 nui 1 inn 2 nm " 4 itn " 4 irtn " 2 IMll " T wh 4 scth " 2 21st .1 22nd " T lUrd " 8 241 U " 5 2.M11 " 5 2ntli " 2 art 11 " 6 tu ' 4 Pike . 1 Potter . 2 Schuylkill 1st District. 2 2nd " 8 3rd " 8 4th " It Snydpr 2 Somerset. 2 Sullivan 1 SusqueUanna. 3 Tloira 8 Vnlon 2 Vpnango 8 Warren 3 Washington 7 Wayne...."! 8 Westmoreland. ... 11 Wyoming a York 13 Total 454 Special notice is directed to rule 6, section concerning contests : " Every person desiring to contest the seat of a Delegate shall be required to give notice, in writing, of such in dention, together with the grounds of contest, to the Chairman of the Demo cratic State Central Committee and to the person whose seat he desires to contest, within ten days of the date upon which the election was held," &c. James A. Stranahan, Chairman Democratic State Central Committee Oliver R. Snyder. Secretary Democratic State Central Committee, n nil! how far a dolltr will go In the buying of Men', and Boyt SPRINd CLOTHES. Our ready Caah secured cloth at lest than the cost of making, ana everynoay snows now ur wagee were last winter. You get the benefit of other people's misfortunes. Flows I Cosh 'FlaatesI 'CLOVER SEED, TIMOTHY SEED, AGRICULTURAL SALT, ID. -W. KITCHE1T, KENTUCKY TICK BITES. The bite of Kentucky ticks is some times fatal. Mr. F. A. Tabor was bitten by a tick with very peculiar and nearly fatal results. He was sitting in a drug store when he felt a stinging sensation under his clothes, and, upon its increasing to acute pair, he retired to investigate the cause and found a tick with its head imbedded in the flesh. He removed the intruder, but the venomous little insect had left us poison and with the velocity of the circulation it was disseminated through his svstem. His nose was the first member affected. It became a fiery red streaked with orfght green, and swelled rapidly until it reached the size of a large tumbler. His eyes were angrily inflamed and emitted an intense heat. His face was quickly swollen and fiercely convulsed with most ex cruciating pain. Tetrible convulsions seized his body and he was writhing in agony that seemed to forebode the death struggle when a physician ar rived, ani with much difficulty re lieved his sufferings. After a short while he recovered sufficiently to go home, but he was very weak and showed plainly in his haggard face and extreme nervousness the effects of his violent sickness. The tick was an ordinary dog tick, but for virulence of its poison it surpasses any of its kind ever heard of. Atlanta Con stitution. N. B To successfully remove ticks of all kinds from the flesh take a hot iron or a lighted cigar and warm thein up from the rear. 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