Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1849-11-22

"Yonder comes Nose Howard he will pfe-
tect you, pa" remarked Mary, Hills eldest
r daughter, lovely girl Of fifteen, who wa iobe
married the next day to the youth then approach-
J ing.
! Hill and Howard departed Lucy with tears
| and Mary blushing, both called out as they eli,
ct lie gool care Of him, Nose, and be sure p
bring him back tonight"
4" Never fear" answered the youth, with
laugh; " Hill will never die till kill him"
Then he will live forever" retorted Mary,
laughing also,
AS soon as the friends reached the village,
Hill began to drink deeply aad manifested more
than ordinary anxiety for combat insulting Cyl
cry body That crossed his path and all te
youths entreaties failed to pacify him. Atl4sl
.ha ! tsneradr s----.-s TINT he would cltesfY. q
couft hnrIse, uEr4 rrIrrFrvyt,iy as.s.fs'rss SA
furious Countenance, aud threat as to his pur-
pose, judge, lawyers. jury ard spectators, m ds
n general rush for the toor. One old drunken
man alone did not run as fast as Hill wished, and
he spnng on the imbccile wretch, and commen-
ccd beating him numerically
Howard then caught h6l Of his future father.
IN law, l,las. who was never to BEL ana attempt
cd to pull him away
With eyes, red, and glazing like a mad dog,
Hill instantly turned upon his friend, and with a
single blow, fell him to the floor, then following
IA tho rinlnpt he InonoI unoV tIn p,rtI, nj
began feroclous battery. Tnvain Howard en-.
deavorcd to escape, crying in tones of bescech-
ing horror, for Gods sake cease, Hill don't
you know me? Your friend, Nose Remember
Mary" Hills anger only increased, I'LL finally,
= he threw his hand to his belt, and cutched a
pistol. At that moment Towards blood Boiled
and he resolved 10 f ht for lis life. He was Of
as powerful a frame as the other, the only per-
sou IN all Arkansas to be compared with the des-
perado in physical strength.
Howard graspe the barrel of the pistol as
Hill cooked it, and the weapon exploded in their
hands without injury, Once more they clonch-
ed, and the most dreadful struggle cnsuel ever
witnessed in the West. The advantage shifted
from one side to the other for the space of FIVE
minutes, till both were bathcd in streams ofiheir
own blood. Even the hystanders, looking on
through the windows of the log court .,nse,
were struck with wonder and awe At length,
while wrlhng and twisting, like :wo raging SER
penis, the handle oflIls bowie knife unho't of
previously, protruded from beneath his hunting
shirt. Both saw it at the same time aid both
attempted TO grasp it. Howard succeeded; and
as quick az Lightning he drew the keen blade
from its scabbard, and sheathed it to the hit in
the bosom Of Mary's father.
The dream is fulfilled !" exclaimed ITiH.
wiki sAric or Strange sweetness, mat ,e,..- 49,
on his features, even after he was corpse
He then sank down, and expired without even a
groan.
Howard gazed on him there, as he lay, with
that singular smile 90 his face, and his glazed
eyes open. And then awaking with a start, as
if from some horrible vision of the night, the poor
untnppy youth fell holhoag on the body of his
friend, crying in tones that melted many q har-
denod spectator into tears" Great God what
have done" lie kissed the clamy lips oil the
dead; wet his checks with tears of unavailing
sorrow; esSayed to staunch the bloody wound
E with his handkershiel; and then apparently sat
1 lstied that all was over, sprang upon his feet with
n shout, Or more properly scream" Firewe'I
4 Mary, your father is gone, aud am going with
4 HIM." and turning the point If the CORY knife
towards his own breast, would have plunged
, 1t into his heart, had not he been prevented hv
the by ISLANDERS, who had now crowced into the
room.
The same evening Nose Howard disappeared
and was heard of no more for nearly two years
when horse trader brought back word that ht
had seen him in San Antonio, Texas.
When the shocking news reached Ili!l's ia mi
ly, the beautiful Mary burst into a wild laugh
She is now in the Asylum for the Insane, at Nnu
Orleans.
= Had we been nlitng tale of romance, VIC
would have paused with the prnreeiins ppgn
but literal truth con,pels US to record unothe
fact equally Characteristic, both as to the chle
actors and the backwoods theatre Of the mar
- tragedy.
-, 1t will be remembered thqt the fallen despera
do had epJoined it on his son to STAY the slayer
his father, on the day he should arrive at 10
:. Without any such charge, vengence would hav
been considered by that boy, as a sacred duty
for on the frontiers. the widows of the slam teac
vengence to their children, aud occasionally ex
ecute it themselves
NJ Accordingly, Bill Hill praclicel with his faith
h ers gun every day for two successive years, an
~ this even before he had any rumor as to the pac
N of Towards refuge. He then learned TIN, his 70
70 was in Texas, and two months before he was !
he set out to hunt him up
10 AT the end of four months Bill Hill cam
. back, and banking up the double. barrels in the
= old buck-horn rack, answered his mothers Ell
i quiring look" Mother, Nose is dead | let hl
have both loads. Though he cried before dor
- it, and afterwards, too; he looked SO miserabl
., pale and bony as a skeleton"
- Poor Nose ~ said the mother weeping C. bl
1t could not be helped The son of such
,s. brave man as Nixon Curry must never be Gale
wv a coward, and besides it was your fathers o
ne der.
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re Legislature of Vermont, 1949.
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