Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-10-03
IUMBIA CO.. Pa, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER B. 1866.
NEW SERIES VOL. l. NO. 80.

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wolves had climbed the roof and were look
ing down upon us.
[ fired my fowling piece-our last charge
of powder. This drove them away, and the
dead body of one fell through the aperture,
and into the hut. This, however, procured
us but short respite; the brutes knew the
way; the sun was now high in the heavens,
and the fre-brand was now useless.
Soon another and fercer lot succeeded
those we had driven away, and we had now
no more powder or shot to drive them back.
Clubbing our guns, we struck furiously at
them, all the time shouting loudly Several
fell wounded and incapable of injury into
the hut, but others at once took their places
The furious monsters, ravenous with hun
ger, which the horses and their comrades
they had deyoured but seemed to whet,
glared down upon us from the roof, bowling
necessarily, and waiting the moment to
spring.
At last one great brute set the example,
and crouching for an instant, sprang right at
Fritz, at the same time giving terrible yell
Fortunately old Fritz was enabled to spring
on one side, and the moment the wolf land
ed he dashed out his brains with the gun he
welded.
Hardly was this accomplished, than anoth-
er and another leaped down, and those were
followed by still more, which all our efforts
could not keep back. Furiously we fought
with the desperation of despair, for we had
almost given up hope. Several times felt
the fangs of the wolves in my flesh; but by
almost superhuman exertions freed myself,
and laying about me right and left, sent the
shaggy brutes sprawling under the terrible
force of my blows.
Invain; as fast as they fell others came
leaping down, and the hut was now alive
with the wild, savage beasts. With a short
prayer, and nerved with a fierce determine
ton, l threw myself in their midst, and Civ
ing my strength to one last desperate effort,
| created fearful havoc among the crowded
mass.
The cry was still they come. Weary, faint
and despairing, staggered, and was about
to fall PROSTATE on the ground among the
horrible sea Of glaring eyes, white teeth and
red throats which surrounded me, when
loud shout from outside, followed by rapid
and sustained discharge of firearms, gave
me fresh strength, and once again nerved
my arm.
At this moment wolf, leaping from the
aperture, aIghted on my shoulders, and en-
deavored to fix his horrid fangs in my throat.
[ tore him away and flung him on the en-
bers of the fire, regardless of dreadful
bite | received in the hand.
The sparks few in all directions, and the
darkness of the hut was illuminated by
fame of light as the fire blazcd up The
wolves were steadied by this for a mo-
ment, and in that moment [ noticed with
joy that no more were on the roof.
Another shout outside, and still closer
discharge, informed us that friends were
near. Shouting words of encouragement to
Fritz, who was terribly torn by the teeth of
the brutes, | again attacked them with my
little remaining strength. Fritz, too, nobly
seconded me, and in half a minute our re-
naming enemies were killed or disabled.
Scarcely had the glaring eyes of the last
disappeared, under furious blow from the
butt-cnd of my gun, than, utterly worn out
by the tremendous exertion of the last ten
minutes, bleeding from half dozen places
where the wolves had torn my flesh, nature
gave way, and fell forward on pile of our
dead enemies and tainted.
The next moment the door was burst open,
and our friends from the chateau, who had
come to the rescue, rushed in, and raising
the apparently lifeless forms Of myself and
Fritz, bore US out into the air, where, laid
on the cold snow, we soon recovered con-
sciousness, and found that we were saved.
Thus ended our adventure; but asSuredly,
were l to live TO be as old as Methusaleh, l
shall never forget our night with the wolves
GOSSIP AND SLANDER.- have known
a country society which withered away all to
nothing under the dry rot of gossip only
Friendships once firm as granite dissolved to
jelly and then ran to water, only because of
this love that promised future as endur-
ing as Heaven and as stable as truth, evap-
GRATED into morning mist that turned to a
days long tears, only because of this and
a husband and his young wife, straining at
the hated lase which in the beginning had
been the golden bondage of God-blessed
love, salt mournfully by the side of grave
where all their joy buried because of this
We have seen faith transformed to doubt,
hope give place to grim despair, and charity
take on itself the feature of black malevo-
lence, all because of words of scandal, and
the magic mutterings of gossip. Great
crimes work great wrongs, and the deeper
tragedies of human life springs from its lar
GER nassinns but yUnefnl and most NOLAN