"TO BE SHOT AT NOOK" IZBrcmm ©0. UBcmk* world to be staring me in the face. joined by his wife. To them were born WOMAN A E W E E I Er. Aufderheide, Every possible effort had been made, two children, Henry and Edward. In every available influence pressed into the course of time Mr. Mortimer died, BomanticLife and Tragic Death of a GirlXsriner. A Tree Story of the W a S C.H.0HADBOUKK, service with the President, and he had O.K.BOM, when the care of the children fell The following account of the wreck pttsbur Chronical Telegraph. President! positively declined interfering with the Manufacturer ol wholly upon the mother. She grew of the Maggie Bailing last month and Never mind what my business was, ]udgment of the court-martial. The more and more a hater of her kind. Cor. Minn, and Centra Sirs. the heroic death of her girl skipper at lor how I was betrayed, and how I was chaplain corroborated- their sad information, It is said that dufing the four years ol Fire, Well Building' a Steeple- said he: war not a human being outside of her the Pebaloff Islands, Alaska, is related gathered in. Enough that they bagged NEW ULM, MINN. "Captain, you should prepare for two children ever crossed her doorstep. Brick, by the only survivor of the crew, a me 180 miles insido the enemy's The children inherited the death, for your life ends in a few man named Hine, who has iust arrived Aingfcand hustled me off to prison at es!2ecttonsaa£ all business perfamutg to ^smktin days." strange quality of their pai ents, and promptly attended to. a Fine Pressed Bric for at •Victoria, British Columbia: jJ'ort Henry? in Baltimore harbor, were regarded in the neighborhood Finally :t came. Shall I ever forget Individual Responsibitiy, as young Ishmaelites. that November morning 1863? Wberel was confronted with the charge The Maggie Dailing was a small ^ornamental froj*t§, *ga They had told me I should be taken It is about eight years ago that Ed -of being a spy. No matter that I had craft chartered by the Alaska Commercial SaSSI$500,000. 3N8 out att.9 o*elock the morning, would ward loaned his younger brother, Company for hunting seals on, when captured, my full uniform as Ha76 the best ol shipping facilities an& Henry, a small sum of money, which be allowed an officer's room in the Eagle Mill Co. near the Pebaloff Islands, which the I captain. No matter that at my will pay prompt attention to mail ordera barracks, where my parents, sisters the latter was slow about paying. company lease from the United States courtmartial trial their own officer and brothers would" meet me and One day Edward warned Henry that |j,«i he would kfll him before the sun went Government. The skipper of the little NEW ULM, MINNESOTA. spend my last few hours with me. who captured me testified that he did down if the money was not forthcoming. When taken out they had to seat Manufacturers of craft, Captain MacDonald, was an not take me in as a spy, and that Toward sunset as Henry was approaching me in the outer guard room a quarter ROLLER FLOTJB old seafaring man in Alaska waters. there was no work for a spy where he his home, fresh from the of an hour until my eyes became accustomed #5h.ell, His crew consisted of two hunters captured me. chase, he beheld his brother advancing to the piercing glare of sunshine. *%m& BY THE ?„&* and his daughter, who bore the pecular with an open knife. No matter I was found guilty, and Gradual Bednotion name of "Clam." She was if* Then they took me to the room "Have you got my money?" asked CREWES.MALTSTEH&B0TTLE1 thesentence was read to me "To be where 1 found father, mother, sisters, Edward. about 17, pretty, and as brave a girl ,?. a as a spy on the parade-ground System* brothers and a minister. It was "No," was Henry's response, as ever sailed. The sea had always of Fort Henry, between the hours of the quarters of an officer of the post, "Then prepare to die," shrieked Edward been her home—in fact, she wa3 born and very comfortably furnished. as he rushed forward. twelve A. M. and three o'clock p. M., NEW ULM, MINN. in a snug little cabin of the Dailing, This brewery is one of the larmet,establishment*^' Just outside—we could see them A bullet from Henry's rifle penetrated of tne kind In ihe Minnesota valley and is Btted* November 3d, 1863." and grew from a babe to a maiden through the window—stood a special Edward's forehead, and he fell up with all the modern improvements. Keg and bottle beer fnrnishedto any parr of the city em-r aboard the schooner. Many a night In answer to my request that if they detail of twelve men,selected as the unwilling dead. A terrible scene of excitement shorft aotlce. My bottlebeer Is especially adapts^' must kill me, tor the sake of honor to executors of the sentenced man. followed. Henry refused to bearrested, she relieved her father at the wheel and for family ase. Country brewers and others that box malt w1»tad give me the death of a soldier, they and took refuge in the wild haunts Telling me I should have until the took her "trick" like a man, \X to their baterest to place tbelt orders wltb graciously changed the papers to read last minute before three o'clock, but of Cherokee. Vigilance finally relaxed Captain MacDonald died about six me. «J1 orders by null will receive my prompt a —"To be shot to death with musketry excuse was made for the murder, and •tnttesu then would have to go, the colonel months ago and"Ciam" took command AUG. SCHEIE on the parade-ground, etc. by degrees Henry ventured to appear locked the door and left me with my of the schooner and continued again. But the change which had friends. Somehow I suppose I did not fully the seal fishery with an enthusiasm John Hauenstein, come over him produced a greater They had secured the privilege of comprehend or adequately appreciate that surprised even the oldest hunters. Obtained, and all PATENT MLiilUJmii at. sensation than the killing of Edwai spending these last few hours with me. mv situation, for I did not teel then, She was recognized as "Captain teuded to for HOI) Fit ATE FEES Our office Mortimer. He explained that on the BREWER I knew, to comfort and console, perhaps jfEgM more than I do now, that death Clam," and the sailors were obliged opposite the S pMtent Office, and we can ob» night after he had killed his brother tiun Patents in less lime than those remote from to strengthen me for the fearful Tfas to be my next deal. Nor had I at to acknowledge her right to the title. WASHIS&70N. Send MODEL, DRAWING o* he found it impossible to sleep. Just ordeal through which I had to pass. all contemplated that result all There was very rough weather in PHOTO of Invention. We adrise as to patentability as he would begin to doze off his brother But I had to comfort and console free of charge and we mate NO CMAJtOS tlrough the trial. Only the last day and the Behring Sea on December 10, and would appear at his side, and with UNLESS PATENT IS SECURED them. blfore that sentence was read to me I the Maggie Dailing was put about on For circular, advice, terms and references tat an expression of exquisite pleasure he MALTSTER My father was broken down. It hid been creating merriment by askii% tne homeward tack and headed for actual clients in your own State County, City oi would slowly pluck, one by one, the Town, write to must be a horrid strain on a father's puzzling or irrelevant questions the Pebalof Islands. While running hairs from his head and face. For feelings to sit and look at his son, in of the Judge Advocate, telling jokes for harbor a sea boarded the frail three monhths this refined torture Opposite Pattnt Office, Woihmgton, It tt the prime of manhood, and count off daring the recesses of tiie court, in craft and carried Henry Jackson, one Our brewery is fully equipped and able to fir continued, when the visits were stopped, the few intervening minutes of that Bingham Bros. dijrers manners creating fun to draw of the crew, overboard. "Clam" ail orders. and not a single hair was left boy's remaining life. mirth for myself out of that barren stood bravely at the wheel while Hine, Mr. F. Grebe has charge of the bottliag.estab» Henry's body. The pores of the skin Brothers and sisters could only rock, "military justice." Only the the only remaining sailor, tried in lishment. opened wider, and with every breath gaze at me in speechless misery, appalled Hew Ulm, Minn. day before the President of the Court vain to keep control of the craft. the hundreds of pores would act in by the gloomy shadow of death vtial, the colonel, of the regiment, About midnight she was driven upon DEALERS IN sympathy, so that on the warmest that was then casting about me. J-4-jlve of whose officers composed my a lee shore, where she was firmly day the victim would feel freezing cold. R. Ffefferle* I had to become consoler and adjudicators, asked to talk a little wedged between two reefs. When He retired to a room in his mother's strained every nerve, called forth with me in private, as between man shestruckthe mainmast fell and Hine, house, and persistently refused to let every power to smile. I would* not and man. becoming entangled in the rigging, the light of the sun shine on him. He permit the trembling man of God to "Of course." went overboard with it. Clinging to says that he is punished as was Caw Sealer in offer prayer, knowing that his words LATH, SHINGLES, DOORS, "Captain," said he, "I greatly fear floating debris he succeeded in reaching of old. would fall npou those loving ears as Groceries, the shore after hours of terrible you do not properly appreciate your SASH A^B BLINIk death wails, as clods falling on my present situation." exposure in the freezing water. coffin. I drew them, by everything "Well, Colonel, I know of no man The following morning the wreck was Lime, Cement and Coal. Th First African Diamonds. CANNED, DRIED & GREEK interestiugthat I could think of.tocontemplata more favorably situated to realize it. sighted and a boat's crew put off to In 1867 a trader named O'Reilly anything put my impending FRUITS Why do yoa say so?,' save the heroic little skipper. As they was passing through Barkly, a smal doom. "Because, sir, your life is at stake approached the doomed vessel it was As I would about succeed the little village on the banks of the Vaal river, Lowest jvrices always. in this trial." noticed that thp foremast had also Flo-ur and Feed* clock on the mantle would strike, or where he sleptat thehouse of a Dutchman "Well?" fallen on the deck and was extending a footstep on the stair outside, or named Van Niekirk, and saw the ^Well, you'll be found guilty, most over the stern. They called loudly for Opposite Railroad Depot, some movement on the Garrison children playing with a bright sparkling assuredly, of the charge."" "Clam," but no answer came. Two of STOXE,"WOODEN AN© W I O W KEWULM, Wins. urns would recall them with a sigh to the pebble. The stone struck him as "Well?" the boat's crew managed to reach the horrid present. vusrsj being something curious, and he begged "you'll be sentenced to die." W ULM, deck of the lfttle craft,where they were The little clock on the mantle "Well?" it from Van Niekirk, who did not horror-stricken to find the lifeless form Fr. Vogelpohl seemed to me in these intervals to "And you'll be hanged or shot' like to take it from the children, but of poor "Clam" still hanging to the tick as loudly as the clatter of a mill. And here you have been spending the eventually parted with it for the snm wheel, where she had been crushed to It struck the half-hours as well as leisure hours of the court trying your of £5. He also told O'Reilly that he death by the falling spar. The body Merchant Tailor, the full stroke, and it seemed to me life, in frivolous jesting and mirth. As had seen several of those kind of pebbles of the brave girl captain was taken its little whir would buzz and the tiny a fellow-man, it grieves me to see you on shore to Oonalaska, where it was Minn. St, New Ulm, Minn. in the hands of native chiefs, who hammer strike every five minutes. so carlessly playing at so terrible a buried beside that of her father in the kept them for charms. O'Reilly, some Manufactcrer of and Dealer ia~ Ten' Half-past! Eleven! And a half! Is prepared to supply the people of brink as you stand on." little graveyard weeks afterwards, turned up in Grahamtown, Twelve! Half! One! New Ulm and vicinity with the best of "Colonel," was the reply, "I thank and showed the stone to CIGAKS, Heavens! How it ticked off the you for your interest. If we are national clothing at the lowest prizes. Only Mr. GalpinandDr. Atherstone. They Daniel Webster's Oxen. seconds, galloped the minutes and enemies, you speak as a man and a both declared it to be a diamond oi first clas3 work turned out, TOBACCOS, startled our pained ears with those Providence Journal. soldier. But let me say this," (now I the first water, and it was afterward fleeting half-hours! cannot explain what inbuced me to Of oxen Mr. Webster was always sold to Sir Philip Wodehouse, the PIPES We were seated around the room, make following foolish, speeech but fond, and was as good a judge o* H. HANSCHEN, governor of the colony, for the sum close to each other as we could get. bubbled up and was spoken"): them as could anywhere be found. of £500. It weighed about twentyone Cor. Minnesota and Centre Father on one side, of me, mother c'Colonel, you or I may die before He knew all his own by name, kept carats. The news spread, on the other, a hand clasped by each, streets. Contractor and Builder, night, we do not know, but in so far track of their ages and peculiarities, but it was not believed at as the little monitor on the mantel as the result of your court's finding, I and frequently wrote home from the NEW ULM, MINN. first, and it was 1869 before any broke the gathering stillness with its shall be alive when you and your national capital directing such and metal voice, crying the half-hour gone. number of people were at Barkly, twelve officers are dead aud forgotten'" Jno. NeumanJh such a yoke to be sold and replaced Special attention given to mason Pneil, and Cong-Gong digging away in Just then a step sounded without, He left me in disgust, and I don't by others in order to keep his stock a hand touched the knob, the key the river bed, removing enormous work in the city and country. blame him. always at the best. On his return turned in the lock the door was bounders, and finding diamonds in But such was my feeling. I did not from Washington they were among New Ulm, Minn. Dealer GOODS,,ni thrown open, and the Colonel stood fairly large quantities among the most "feel it my bones," as the slang DRY the fiist objects of his thought, and looking upon us. beautiful pebbles and garnets, agates, The North Star Lung and Throat Balsam goes, that death was so near. sometimes, after entering the house Instinctively I jumped to my feet, as The colonel, and the entire twelve and carnehans the presence of garnets is a sure cure for coughs and colds. Hats, Caps, Motions, and greeting the members of his family, father and mother sprang to my side, being almost a guarantee of the proximity composing the court, died before I was he would, without sitting down, Groceries," Provisional a hand upon each shoulder. of the diamond. In 1869 was exchanged—"'shot to death in charge go out to the barn to see those dumb How rapidly thought does its office H. Budolphi, Crockery and Glassware, at Cold Harbor. I live to write the found the first large diamond, called members of his larger family, going in such emergencies! occurrence twenty-five years after the the Star of South Africa. It was pearshaped, Green, Dried and Canned from one to the other, patting and My thought was, "Their dining hour conversation. and weighed 83 1-2 carats in stroking their faces, and ieeding them Fruits, etc, etc. approaches, and these officers wish to „It may or may not be true that the rough. Messrs, Lilienfeld Brothers, from his hands. Equally fond was he MANUFACTURER or ft DEALER I N get through this unpleasant duty before B^?hen the grim monster singles out his of Hope Town, purchased it for £11,000. of showing them to his guests. On Boots and Shoos! dinner." I will always take farm product in exchange victim he sends him in some way a They were afterward offered one occasion, as he stood thus with a for goods, sad pay the highest market pricefor asi For a minute—it seemed eternity, spiritual premonition that he is going £40,000 for it in Port Elizabeth by a friend, feeding them with ears of corn, kinds of paper rags. and that the little clock had ceased to to let fly from death's quiver the fatal syndicate of merchants, but thmkinp his son Fletcher amused himself by tell the time—we stood, the Colonel Minn, 3d N. strs., ^New Ulm, Minn. dart. Be that as it may, I had no it was worth quite £100,000 refused la eon&ectloa with my store I hn-»e a flrat-clasa playing with the dog, "My son," said and myself, silent, gazing sternly at piemomtion of death. to sell it and evenually sold it to Hunt saloon furnished with a splendid billiard tab]a a«$ Mr. Webster, "You do not seem to each other. Not when they stood me up to hear A large assortment of men's sad my easterners will always find good liquors aaa) &Roskellfor £20,000, who in their care much for this. For my part I He evidently expected me to speak. my sentence and to answer, nor afterwards boys' boots and shoes, and ladies' and Cigars, and erery forenoon a splendid laaesw turn sold it to Lord Dudley, and like it. I would rather be here than But I did not—would not. in the cool contemplation my children's shoes constantly kept on about twelve years ago it could have in the Senate. I find it better company." At length he slowlv drew from his isolation and silent dungeon afforded All goods purchased of me will be dollTered |fe« hand. Custom work sod repairing been seen in a tiara of Lady Dudley's Everyone remembers how, pocket a slip of paper, and saying, any part of the city free of cost. not when the officer oi the day, on promptly attended to. which was exhibited at the South only a week before his death, he had "Captain, I have just received this eOnnesota Street, Kow TJIn, Mlws^, that eventful execution morning, read Kensington museum. Then Mr. them driven up into the lane before telegram." read, while we gazed upon Meat Market* to me in my dungeon the day's programe, Spalding found his diamond weighing the house in order that he might see him in strained listening earnestness— THE A«D and delineated my doom at CHICAGO 287 carats, slightly off-colored. Thousands them for the last time. Such glimpses "The execution of the sentence in the the hands of twelve detailed soldiers. as these are worth whqle volumes in case of Captain William F. Gordon i3 now flocked to the river diggings He found me whistling as I paced my RTHESTERI M. EPPLE, Prop'r. revealing to us the real character of postponed until further orders. By and prosperity began in all directions. narrow cell thatmormng,andexclaimin NEW ULAf.MINN* order of the President." the man. MOTHBSOTA ST. surprise. Not one of us spoke. -^"Good God, Captain! what kind of "You can stay with your friends a man are you?'" a E the Game Memories Whic Failed at rpir nnderslgaed desirestoinform the peoptoat, until 3. Then you go back to your I New Ulm and vicinity chat he ban rj-est»6li«bv "Oh, I don't know skin and bone, Critical Moments. Frank Wilkeson's "Recollections o. ed Us meat market and is now preanared to WSB cell," he said, closed the door and left flesh and sinews, bloo and bile. on Ms aid customers and friends with only ifta a Private:" One day some men of the us hurriedly. Washington letter to the Nashville American. best fresh sad cured meats, saoeaget, lard and «w\ Why?" RAILWAY. Fortieth New York infantry came to srythlng usually kept in a first-class market Tb*» Father drew a long, trembling sigh "Why' Don't you know you are to 5Jrt",£,5!*J&et.*rlc0 w^»» paid for FATCATi, and sank slowly to the floor, where the battery to gamble. I took a hand be shot to-day? Outside here are Penetrates the Centres of Population VLB, HIDM, WOOL, ETC. Franklin Pierce and Vvilliam Henry in the game of seven-up for $1 a corner mother had already fallen. Their twelve men detailed to send you into in II E S Harrison had miserable memories. support gone, the sudden, unlookad and $5 on a rubber. We spread ft eternity. You'll never see another ILLINOIS, IOWA, It is said that on one occasion a member for lifting of the cloud of death, the blanket on the ground behind the TIVOLI morning! And you are whistling!" WISCONSIN, of the former's cabinet presented, rush of relief from the horrid nightmare earthworks and squatted around it. "Well, why not whistle as long as caused a quick revulsion of feeling his daughter to him. A moment after My partner, a Fortieth New York possible, and cry when you cannot MICHIGAN, that made me limp as a rag, weak an attache of the English diplomatic soldier, was a heavy-jawed,light-haired, faugh?" MINNESOTA. as a dying babe, and I, too, sank between corps requested an introduction to the blue-eyed lad of nineteen, an AND» Hence I may not be able to tell you DAKOTA, my parents. BREWERY Albany boy, played well, and fought just how a man feels who stares death lady. The minister said something I did calmly in the face, for maybe I did well, too. He was a wit, and when in NEBRASKA and Pierce turned, looked at her, offered not hear, brothers and sisters knelt not comprehend my situation. the humor would make a whole regiment h'*s hand and stammered an apology ... %r WYOMINU. around us, and I heard the preacher But I was sentenced to death that of sick men laugh. We were a while he asked her name. She was pouring out a prayer of gratitude that O S. SCHMUCKEB, jl fully comprehended when they few dollars winners.and he was graphically completely confused and the officer, the dark shadow of death had passed Its TRAIN SERVICEiscaretaJIj =^n£trched me, handcuffed, between two and humorously describing the who had seen the first introduction, NEW ULM, MINNESOTA by, leaving the light of life. «'v^3ards arranged to meet requirements .m with arms at "charge" and baynonets brigadier of regulars running against was at a loss for words. The situation Pure beer sold in quantities to suit th»?, My sentence of death was commuted local travel, as well AS to- furnish fixed, back to theprison andinetead was exceedingly unpleasant. a swamp in the Wilderness, and the purchaser. Special attention paid to the, to imprisonment and labor during of my former 12 by 12 cell, bar thtt most attractive Routes At a reception at the White House. mythical conversation between the bottling of beer. -rf the war. T^d and bolted HIP in an underground, through travel between important Harrison was the centre of a coterie gray haired commander and tne second But it was life! dark, dank dungeon three feet by ten, of beautiful women and courtly men, lieutenant, just out of West TRADE CENTRES.^ with a tub occupying two feet of that .. TIEHE W EM-'yi exchanging the civilities of the hour Point, as the old soldier asked if there sparse space, significantly suggestive Stranjre Hallucination of a Ma and in high feather with himself and was anything in the new books about Its EQUIPMENT oi Day and that I was to stay right there until the who Murdere his Brother the world. A tall gentleman, wearing getting a brigade across a swamp, was CITYJLANING Parlor Cars, Dining and JPa/ac# .day and hour. side whiskers, with aquiline features, delicious. As we laughed the handsome Clayton, Ga., Dispatch to Louisville Courier-Journal.^. Sleeping Cars is without rival. The sentence was fully realized during clad in the mode of the miniature lad fell face down into the /^4 the sunless days and no darker Its ROAD-BED is perfection, ol court which surrounds a president, blanket and began to vomit blood. UANDTACTUSEf ^y^ky-V nights of the week that followed. Btone-baliasted Steel. There lives in Cherokee county, just approached him, extending his hand. We grabbed him,turned him dver,tore The post chaplain's was the only The NORTHWESTERN is the DOORS, WINDOW SASBTtA across the North Carolina line from The group parted before the visitor, up his shirt and saw where a ball had hunx«.n voice I heard for weeks, who with a calm dignity advanced. favorite route tor the Commercial here, a man who is looked upon as entered his side.cutting gash instead and his only once, for my levity £, VENETIAN BLINDS* "General, I greet and congratulate Traveler, the Tourist and the Seelo having the affliction of Cain. He believes of a hole. The wounded, soldier did shocked him so much that he gave me you" the stranger said. "I do not era after New Homes in the Golden himself that providence has not speak. The blood rushed out of up as an irredeemable reprobate. MOULDINGS AND FRAMES^ know you, sir," replied Harrison. "I Northwest, his mouth, his eyes glazed, his jaw thus marked him, and in consequence He offered a prayer for me, was your chief of staff, sir, during the Detailed information cheerfully dropped—he was dead. A chance ball however, I courteously kneeling courts the nicht andjiever, appears in Planing, turning and*all' Indian wars," responded the intruder furnished by had struck the tire of one oft he wheels '^yrith him on the same stone the light of day. as he majestically confronted his C. W. H. HEIDEMAN, AgrentT work with rib-saw promptly of the No. 1 gun and glanced forward fi&oorz "But he never came again. rich"3 In 1844 a Virginia pianler whilom chieftain. and neatly e&ecuted* and killed the delightful comrade. He told me—what my occasionally sought the wilds of Cherokee county, I a moment the President recognized Kc-wULB.Mlam. His death ended the game. We put Allowed letters from my friends had North Carolina, whither he took his his old comrade in arms. Though his body alongside of a couple of other J. M. WHITMAN^ H. C. WICKER, too plainly informed me—that there family and a retinue of slaves. jHe apologies for his forgetfulness were All w«rk gosnwtMC Bate* raaaaf^ dead men and buried the three that 5 was no hope of escape from the fate was adverse to the advent of strangers, profuse, yet, it is said, his aid never General Managerfvl| Traffic Manager night. that seemed to them and the outside la his hatred of intrusion he was fully forget the slight. ZELL£R,.ri*V E. P. WILSON, Gen'l Passenger Agent. %5T ""W iB Wu Mi