Litchfield enquirer., 1856-05-15

to talk about his bein' ghost or crazy man.
l tell you he's alive as snakes tongue all
over, and a little venomouser. As for bein'
cracked in the BORE he talks it out jest as clean
! as his long gun where's been dom oil this work.
let you know, Jack come out Of Tory-batin',
| Injin ightin' gieneratioug and that's o blood
wher's hard to cool when it gets riz Them
stripes has sot his bristles up, and it'll take
some blood to slick 'em down again." 2.,i
Hinch heard Of this bold talk, and half mad
| dcned between rage and fear, made one more
desperate effort to get the remaider of his com
pany together They were now afraid to ride
singly; and those who were nearest neighbors
collected the night before under an escort Of
| their negroes and started for the rendezvous ut
the grocery, next morning, in groups of two or
three. Two Of them, named Davis and Nixon,
were riding in together, prying with great trepi-
dation behind every tree and into every clump
and thlcket they came across, large enough to
hide man. They had to pass small stream
which ran along the bottom of deep narrow.
gully, the banks of which were fringed along
| the top by bushes about six feet high. This
was within half mile of the town and as
| they had seen nothing yet to rouse their sus-
picions, they began to think they should get i'm
unmolested. While they stopped to let their
| horses drink for a moment, and were leaning
| over their necks, the animals suddenly raised
! their heads, snorting towards the top of the
bank. The men were startled too and looked
up. The dreaded enemy o grisly head and
| shoulders above the bushes, and the heavy rife
laid along their tops, bearing full with its dark
| tube into their faces The shudder which
| thrilled through the frame Of Nixon was pro-
| longed into the DEATH The muzzle pushed
| with ttame-and the wretched man pitched
head-foremost into the stream. Almost mme-
diately the frightened companion heard the
heavy thump of horses feet. Leaving his
comrade III the water--with upturned face, one
crushed eyeball, and the other glaring CLASSIFY
at the sky--Davis urged his horse against the
ascent and saw from the top of the bank, q
gaunt outline of a receding figure just losing it
self through the trees, among which the horse
was speeding with wonderful rapidly,
Davis galloped into town with the news on
his white lips. The Regulators scattered in in
conceivable dismay, and never got together
again. They shut themselves up ii their houses.
and for two weeks not one Of them dared to put
his eyes outside the door. Jack was now some
times for moment seen publicly, and was re-
gardcd with great curiosity and awe for, with
| oil he had already done, it was known his mis-
sion was not finished. Every body watched
with intense interest the progress Of the work,
especially the hunters, who began now to ex-
press their satisfaction openly. At last one 70 tho
the Regulators, poor scamp named White, who
was greatly addicted to drink, grew impatient
of abstinence and determined to risk Jacks RI
file rather than to do without liquor any longer.
He set off in covered wagon for the grocery,
to get him barrel, lying in the bottom of TIE
| wagon on some straw, which one of his negroes
draw Tho Erupr had haa,, ,Lto;..l
had nearly reached the entrance of lane which
led up to his house, on his return, without ever
| lifting his head so as to expose it, when tho
wagon run over large chunk of wood which
had been placed across the track Just where h,
ran close to thieket. The Jolt was so severe
us to roll the barrel over on to him. He for
got his prudence, and put his head out of the
cover to swear at the boy for his carclessness
The negro heard him say. "There he is M
last J" cutting short with the exclamation. n
torrent of oaths--when q rifle shot wlistied
from the thicket. His master fell back heavily
| in the wagon, and he saw tall, "hairy MANI
as he called him, stalking off through the woods
with gun on his shoulder. 1t was obserya.
BILE that White also, was SHOT tasoueh the ege.s
| A week after this, another of them named
Jarned, who had kept himself close prisoner
got up one morning at sunrise, and threw omen
the door of his house to let in the fresh air.
Stepping from behind large tree in the ward
stood forth the avenger with that long rifle lev
eled, and that cold eye fixed upon his face
waiting for a recognition-as he did IN every
casc--before he fred. The man at.emntedsto
step back-too Late ! The sun was in his ave
but winged with darkness and oblivion III
quick messenger burst shattering through nervs
and sense, and the seventh miserable victim,
fell heavily acrosS his own threshold - 80
| But by an inea zSous elaboration ofvenoean..
the most terrible torture Of all had been resevvg
ed for Hirch. His imagination became his nm
lie died throughit thousand deaths TJa
had been passed by, to see his comrades one ~,
one fall from around him, with the .consc;o,,sy'
ness, that the relentless hate and ,uarvefo,,s
skill which struck them down, was strnTno, w;tI
tenfold sterness against himself. One Ava
three, four, five, six, seven! He had countea
them all many times. They had an zone doyn
under his eye, and as each one ZEN. came Tia
question, shall it be my turn next? From fhs
certainty that it would come, there was No Is.
Gaping. He had put forth all malignant isroci-
ty OF cunning and brutal passions IN vain ana
as successfully he missed his minions 6nm ~
side, the dark circle grew narrower. and nal
rover, closing in terrible gloom about him IN
he stood almost single in the light AZ, 49,.
target for that pitiless aim, Az tie serv
where the bah should strike him was sl,se
marked by several instances and tba '.I