Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-08-13
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Massaered by Indians - The Expe.
rienee OF a Kentuekian in the Far

Tiemee Oi u fAemtucklau III the II 8F
West.
From the Louisville Courier-J Journal. 1Oth.l
Three of the passengers who arrived
by the mailboat from Cincinnati yester.
| day attracted no little attention. They
were very tall man and two children.
The man, beside being the talest among
| the passengers, was dressed in manner
well calculated to draw curious eyes to
his really well-proportioned figure. Ran
dom estimates put him at not less than
six and half feet high, and he wore an
odd-looking cap, which sported fully
developed squirrel tail, giving him an
effect not unlike that of the trappers who
| figure in the wild Indian romances of the
weekly papers of New York. His vest
and trowsers were of welworn buck
skin, and his coat was an old black gar.
ment that had seen all its best days. He
carried in his arms a child not more than
two years of age, and by his side was
little sweet. t.faced girl. His appearance
leading some of his more inquisitiye OBJ.
servers to question him, he told most
hesrt-rending story ofthe last few months
of his life.
He had emigrated with his wife and
child from one of the interior counties of
this State to the territory of Montana,
where he settled upon piece of land,
building himself cabin home, and pre-
pairing TO spend the remainder of his days
in that far-away region. There he lived
a long time unmolested. and there another
child was born unto the little family from
Kentucky. Their neighbors were few,
and lived long distances from them, but
they nevertheless felt little apprehension
Of the dangers incident to their new life.
One day the father left to go on hunt,
taking the little girl to a neighbor's, and
leaving his wife and the baby at home.
When he returned few days afterward
he found his wife dead upon the cabin
floor, near the cradle OF her infant child.
Her head had been crushed in by some
heavy weapon, and the scalping knife had
done its fearful work. The infant in the
cradle was alive and had not been mo-
Tested. Everything valuable, including
two or three rifles, had been taken away,
and q partially burned corner showed
that the Indians had attempted to fire the
building, but that the flames had sunk
and died away before they could con-
sumo any great portion of the cabin or
reach the helpless child in the cradle
After giving all proper attention to the
remains of / q wife, the Kentuckian, tax.
ing with him ais two children, set out to
return to bis native State. he walked
with them twenty miles before reaching
a point at which he could secure CEN
yeyanee. He vas inquiriug his way to
the Nashville depot on his arrival in
Louisville yesterday, and is believed 10
have left here by the afternoon train. A
gentleman Who heard his story was
about to offer him pecuniary assistance,
but this he abruptly declined, stating
that he had quite sufficient to take him
to his relatives, with whom he wished to
leave his children, that be might return
to the West and aveDge his murdered
wife. he passed along Fourth street on
bis way toward the depot, and many
wondering eyes followed him as be iostled
along the crowded way in his singular
garb, with his two children clinging to
bim aa il they feared theY knew not
What might Yet eome Of it all,