Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1845-05-31

veral persons al my sons house uist'nc'iy hea'u
two reports. Ihe parties were so close together |
that the whole load (the first one in my opinion)
entered his forehead without touching his hat,
in a circle not exec ding two inches in diameter,
crushing the skull and lodging in.thc brain The !
second load must have passed over his head as he
fell as there are marks on the fence where seve.
raj shot struck it, just behind where he stood.
Johnson. filled with horror at the scere. mount.
ed his horse and started to'look for help just as
he did so he heard O'Blcnnis call him, and look
ing back, saw him standing near or over the bo-
dy of my son, and heard him say something a
bout his being armed 1t was more than an hour
before Judge Black and Mr. Hopkins reached the
place. accompanied by Mr. Johnson In the
meantime a neighbor was accidentally passing,
and saw man lying on his face by the road side
with horse grazing near him. He snpposcs II
must have been ten or fifteen minutes after the
deed was done. He Immediately dismounted
and on ascertanng it was my son turned him on
his back his pulse was still beating he groan-
ed several times and died Whether he was rem
dered insensble at the moment he was shot, or
was suffering the agonies of death all this time,
God only knows"
O'Dlenns was subsequently arrested, and Gen.
Combs concludes his touching account with this
language
.My sons body is deposited temporarily in a
neighbor's graveyard. | shall bring it home
with me and bury him by the side of his mother
The sod on which his head lay when he died, is
still saturated and red with blood | shall dig it
up and place it at the head Of his grave in Ken
lucky If he had been boisterous, forward boy,
| do not think my heart would have been sore
, ly bruised, but he was mild and retiring in
his manner, as he was brave and high-toned in
his feelings and principles"
| The funeral of Young Combs took place al
! Lexington, the 22d ult., and was attended by
large number of persons. The Observer has a
| touching notice of the last sad ceremony
"He who, but few months since left his pa
! rental home full ofhope and happiness and with
/ bright prospects in the future, was brought back
to it by an afflicted father maugled corpse
not killed upon the battle field. bat shot down
upon the public highway, by one almost cid e
nough to be his father-his nearest neighbor =
| ana VINO odght To nave been ms frlenu ana pio
tector, instead of his assassin. Oh it was cru
el for one so young and noble hearted to be thu
buchered in distant land, with no friend or re
lative of his boyhood near him. Yet even il
that land of strangers, so manly had been hi
bearing, so upright his conduct and character
that one universal burst of indignation and hor
ror followed the footsteps OF his cowardly slaye
and tears Of heartfelt sympathy fell from al
, eyes upon his bloody grave. We have rarel
seen upon similar occasion so largo multitrd
as filled the house and streets adjacent to il
while the funeral service was performed by tn
Rev. Mr.. Matthews Nor have we ever lister
ed TO more appropriate and touching discours
and prayer. The same Reverend gentleman wa
. at the bedside of a dying mother and it'll
more than a year since, in the same place, d.
livered funeral discourse, commemorative
: her high character fortitudr and piety, prem;
: turely, she was hurried to the tomb. All pa
I ties and classes, then, as now, united in tcstif'
: ing their love aud regard for the deceased al
n in sympathizing with the afflicted family rnd r.
: latives."