The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-05-30

Y Carolina, where, gaining her freedom
she had since remained, and. thirty wear
having PASSED, had made the long jour
rIney back to the old place to see hel
old kinsfolk the Piatis aud the Canbys
What all emptiness she must have found
for, after all, the dispersed slave-musis
has left n mournful vacuum in the South
4 visited East Bend twenty years ago
and know something of the difference
No one has SO well expressed that differ
ence, as far as l can remember, as my
friend Harvey at the close of his charm.
ing Southern story, published last year
in the Atlantic allow lie Won the
Pretty Widow"
DIR. Candy, i have said, removed to
Madison not long after the birth of his
son Richard. But the latter often re-
turned during his boyhood, visiting and
remaining at his grandiather's house, at
tending school perhaps for brief periods
with his young kinsman in the country.
At one of these visits little incident
took place, which will venture to relate
as perhaps illustrative of the possible
fire that lay concealed in his maturer
life behind the uDdemonstrative and
cold exterior which has been widely re-
marked upon since his death. as charac-
teristic of his intercourse with strangers
lie was, am told, as boy,
serious and of religious turn, never
under any circumstances using what is
called profane language, except in the
phrase which will appear, which at least
is not among the oaths forbidden i'm the
len commandments, | believe. 1t was
in 1892. the great cholera season. that
Young Candy was visiting his grand
ather Piatts, when the latter's house
was undergoing some repairs. He and
III uncle, three weeks his senior, who
we're always together there, occupied
he same apartment and bed. The room,
which was i'll an attic story, was also the
'lcepping apartment Of house painter
employed at the time, who had a whole
orne fear of the cholera. This unhappy
nan had one day fortified himself with
'ariOus cholera prcventives and reme-
lies. all of which before retireing at
light he left upon windOwsill of the
'oOm. Among the rest was a paper
cayenne pepcr. lie was well
Islccp when Richard and his young un-
lie each then boy Of fourteen came
II TO go to bed. Something unusual
vas in the window the moon shown
lpOn it. The older boy took up the pa
'cr containing the capsicun. and put I
ing ii into his nose, gave it al inquisi-
i've snuff.
Once was enough, but he had passed it
D young Candy before he felt it distinct
i. perhaps. Anyhow Richard also lift
4 the paper and snutied the pepper. At
nee he broke out empha,ically, attri-
uting the malice Of the accident to the
'ceping house painter.
by Ia Ill. we will put him out OF the
Instantly they seized upon the sleep
ig man and pulled him. struggling
wake, yelling and shouting for help, TO-
ard the window, and seemed likely to
lccced, which would have been bad for
&c painter, for the window-sill was up
ard of thirty feet from the ground.
ut the noise and outcry soon brought
p the young soldiers grand father. who,
)ming in. asked what was the matter.
"By h-ll! we are going to pitch him
ut of the Window was the still fierce I
ld impetuOus answer of the boy.
The grandfather restored order, how
yer, soon, and doubtless the bewildered
iimter was at last made to understand
hat this worse attack than the cholera
self meant. II
Other anecdotes might be related, but !
prhaps it is hardly worth while, of this I
)uthtul period at the old Kentucky
,me. After ten or twelve years resi- .
,ncc at Madison, DR.. Candy removed
Crawfordsville, where, at the age Of |
xtecn, Richard was graduated from
'abash College and went to West Point.
fter entering the army his visits to his !
rthplacc were not very frequent. He .
arried, about the year 1889, Miss LOU !
! Hawkins. of Charlottesville, who ac- !
him through the Florida cam !.
ign, and was with him wherever he
rs afterward placed. in whatever wild !.
)ntier station. She remained, how
err, with one Of her aunts at East Bend y
ring his service in Mexico. OF both Z
sband and wife all their relatives Q
hatever differences exist among them a
Ives) speak, have observed, with one G
ice Of praise and affection. =
This might not seem strange, perhaps, y
the circumstances were otherwise; il.
+ instance, the Ohio river had not be-
me twelve years ago something more y
mn material barrier. But it did be. v
me something more. 1t was often a
viding line between families and
ends. Long before this General Can
8 brothers aud sistcrs( their father DIV.
3 about twenty years ago at Craw- 7
rdsville, where he had been Land Re-
ivcr, and through friendly confidencel :,
others had been unfortunate HIMSELF Il,
come to make their home at East =
nd, where they resided until toward !,
. close of the rebellion, when, with +