Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1854-06-08
FAYETTEVILLE, TDN THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1854.

: Washington, and was heard Of i
more.
i A long period elapsed without an.
+ further incident resulting from tn
Fayetteville war, aud men bad al
most forgotten It's horroTs- Ballan'
the Shelleys had become popula
chiefs in Texas, with immense cot
ton firms and vast Influence. Oh
the 5th Of July. l849, about tel
years after the Sabbath yf murders
they were returning lIome with {
friend from a barbecue given to Gen
Houston, at the town Of Crockett,
the day before. Ii was sunset when
they reached the right bank Of the
/ Trinity, and they waited a few min
ptes for the ierfyman to row across
from the q opposite side.
Suddenly an extraordinary ap-
'parition emerged from the tangled
cane, aud confronted theInat the wa
ters edgel
It was halfnaked figure, with
long beard and hair, that did not seem
to have been shorn for adozen years;
the face bronzed; the hagsard, blood
shot eyes blazing with wild celiriobs
light, and The whole appearance de-
noting the madness Of iinmeasura-
bic despair And yet the strange
being Was thoroughly armed, his
hand grasped shotgun. double
barrelled and of huge calibre, while
his large leathern belt held Deringers
aud revoIverS to the extent Of thirty
rounds.
He spoke. and bis tones were shrill /
and piercing as the cry Of some bird /
Of prey.
Williams, see that you wear
your old weapons! 1t is Welt +
He said The truth; the comrades
we're amply provided with pistols and
Knives.
what want you with u.s. ex-
laimed Ball, sapposing the intruder
y be some wandering maniac i
I want to fight, and | mean to
ght you all three, replied the stran
er. /,
In the do,il's name, who are your
ried Bill Shelley, as an appalling
lemory flashed across his soul. II
i am the wild man Of the woods, /,
bo was Albert Willis! slirlelzed the !
ranger; and the three guilty com III
ides started as if they had been 1,
ruclI by thunderbolt. HI
Bill recovered first. Hi
"You have every advantage, j
ancing at the others shot gun, l,
th both its hammers at full cock. ],
Willis rejoined m6prnfully : h
4 killed your brother All, and i,
1ulter, and Leeper, and Sanders, in
fair fight, and SO | will kill you h
/? he shouted with a hoarse ehucHle, j,
he tossed his gun into the river tb
d drew Colt s patent murderer. Il,
There followed deafening roar, io
d Ball dropped to the earth a as
rpse. Then came another, like a d
uble explosion OF lightning. and ar
e younger Shb blley went to his Il
ig home. The n two awful deto- j.
tions burst at once-WiIiis and q,
elley both fred at once, and both
ling at the same instant, but still 70,
t dead bleeding, almost expiring, Of
sir hatred, nevertheless, seem i'm :,
'rtal. Mastering all their dying
ergies, with glaring eyeballs and :
ashing teeth, they erawled like -
D. mangled snakes till they met, :" -
! each buried his bowie knife up
the hilt in the others bosom, ~
Such was the final conscq uences m pI
the Sabbath of Murders, the =
battle of the Fayetteville war ~
a WoNDEREuL MEMORY. We are sal
Iuain.ed with a y0uGg man, aclerk Jec
this city, who once commit tied to the
mory in single evening whole Pe
e Of the New York Journal Of po'
nmerce, and repeated the same cle
h great exactness. Ia the com TO
y Of a number Of literary young del
n he delied any. one present TO re- we
i line Of poetry from any stand Ian
work the next line Of which he
Id not recite and give the name The
.he author, Some hundred quo, pal
ions were made, and in each in mi
nee the right author was named mc
1.-The connecting lines given. pri
e power of retention In this per- to
IS memory was Rost' remarkable, AM
the above named facts abundantly spt