The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-12-07

When within quarter of mile OF the
house, they saw that it was on fire. AS
they drew nearer, they saw the flames
bursting from the roof, and catching the
old live oak and the long festoons of
moss that waved in the wind like gar
lands of fire. Either the African, know
ing his doom, had managed to roll near
the hearth and set fire to the house, or
else it had caught accidentally from the
wood that was left burning in the fire.
place.
Before the house was quite consumed,
the flames were quenched by heavy
rain, and next morning the charred logs
were rolled aside, and the half-consuned
body of old Kountz dragged out. The
hole in the dirt-foor of the hut being c1-
amined, showed that it led by short
ladder into kind of cellar ten feet
square. Here, among other things, was
an old barrel, whose contents being
turned out on the wet ground, proved to
be human bones, cleaned-picked and
white-the bones of little children
among them three little skulls. The
men stood and looked at them in speech
less horror, and the father of Pierre
Verne turned livid and staggered against
tree. The bones were buried, but the
remains of the black conjuror were
thrown out to feed the dogs and vultures.
A native Of Africa brought to the Louisi-
ana coast when full grown, the wretch
had retained his cannibal appetite, and
gratifed it when he could at the risk of
his life. Wading up the stream near
Rosie's house, he had come upon the
child swinging in her grapevine swing
near the bank of the stream, and had de-
coyed her little way where the bushes
were thicker with the promise of red
bird, when suddenly he threw sack
over her head, stifed her cries, and ran
with her down the stream, which washed
away his tracks, till he reached the point
where the little rivulet einptied into the
bayou, and where he put Rosie into his
boat, that WAS moored there, and carried
her to his hut. He several times at
tempted to make her eat, wishing to
fatten her as he would an opossum before
killing and eating her.
The dog Wolf, the child's faithful at
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abductor's heels, growing and threaten
ing an attack, Kountz had knocked on
the head and sunk in the bayou with a
rock-weight attached to his neck, and he
had thrown the child's bonnet at the foot
of the double ash nearly mile before
reaching his cabin, remembering to have
seen the Texan standing there fishing
the day before, and knowing from bis
negro confreres that Karlsc. was Maline's
lover, whom she had refused because she
did no wish to desert her little sister.
That nights good work, the saving OF
the child, the clasp OF her little arms
about his neck had made Rosie so dear
to her delivercr that he would have left
her no sooner than Maline would, and
when the girl went with him as his wife
to the Indian Territory, they were
accompanied by Jules and Rosie, and the
child was the life of the party, enjoying
the travel and the camping out, and
liking well her new home. where, as a
trader, Karlse soon achieved the fortune
he had hoped for, and returned q com:
paratively rich man to more civilized
part of the country, where Rosie is now
growing up bright schoolgirl, with the
promise of becoming the village belle.