The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1876-12-07

sense, and 60 beloved that the youth
all delighted in obedience.
As some of them came In that
morning, they seemed alarmed and
told the master they had seen In
dams on their way to school. But
Mr. Brown was not timid or nervous
and after making few inquiries, de
cided that childish fears had unduly
magnifed harmless objects along
the path. Such ramors were fire.
quent on tho frontier. Indians be
ing reported when none we're near.
Fear and fancy are fruitful factors
Of false alarms everywhere.
But after the usual prayer, hardly
had tho little school entered upon
tho studies Of the morning, ere q
shadow fell across the threshold
Two wolfsh looking old Indians
stood Mt the door, and behind them
o younger one Just grown to man.
hood. Immediately, Mr.. Brown
stepped to tho dosr, and in implor-
ing tones said Men, for mercy's
sake, spare these children Kill me,
torture me. If you will, but spare the
children y To this tho old Indian
grunted Ugh and turning to the
young savage, said IN the Indian
tongue, 'Tuhuesh que,oezansug
(meaning the children shall be kill
ed). Instantly the young one spraug
through tho door and fercely attack
cd the master with wooden maui,
the only defence being made with
his hands. In moment the poor
masters hands were broken and
helpless, and few derce blows on
tho head stretched him dying on the
floor. In tho meantime the children
were dreadfully frightened and ran
screaming about the room, but the
old Indians stood in tho door pre-
venting escape. As soon as Mr.
Brown was slain, the furious savage
rushed among the innocents. Some
of them resisted vainly for a moment
somo dropped on their little knees
and with clasped hands prayed for
their lives. But the Indian heart
knows no pity. One by one they
were struck down until only Archie
MCollough remained. He h q Il
crswlod behind somo wilted boughs
Of trees, wbclra few days before had
been placed in the great open fire
place, from which half concealment
no saw the terrible slaughter.
When tho master and ten Of the chill
dren thus lay dead OF dying, the
monster went around from one to
another, tearing off their scalps.
Who could portray poor little Ar
chies feelings as he saw the gray
hairs Of his teacher. the riuglets Of
the two Ruths aud tho locks of all
the rest theartlessly torn away When
eighty-nine years old ho declared
that the whole scene of shrieks. en-
treaties, blows and blooi, was more
distinct and vivid in his memory
than anything else in all the past.
Tho Indians were about leaving
the school house without discover
ing Archie when something attract.
ed their attention to him. Perhaps
tho bushes behind which he was
screened saved his life At any rate
when the savage rushed at him and
dealt him q fearful blow, it only
stonned and felled him to the floor
That was the last he knew.
Some hours after, when the alarm
spread aud the people came to the
schoolhouse, they found little Archie
alive, although scalped. He was
moaning and crawling blindly about
his dead mates running his fingers
over their faces as il to distinguish
one from the other. Poor lad the
first he knew conciously was many
weeks after, whom nature and nur-
sing had commenced his RESTORATION.
But through long life he never for
got. His mind was never quito
right again. Hardly night ever
passed that his dreams were not
shaped in part by this event, and his
old age revived both bis memory and
his horror of the terrible scene.
Three days after the massacre, the
whole country gathered to the fune-
raj obsequies They were held in
the grove adjacent to tho log school
house. Ten mothers and one wife
were first mornners seven or eight
fathers were next and nearly fifty
brothers aud sisters gathered around
the little coffins. At the beginning
of tho funeral all went orderly
enough but the clergyman had on
" proceeded a few. minutes ere the
grief became uncomfortable, and for
two pitiful hours kindred and neigh
bors fillod the summer air witt. the
sounds Of sorrow. Sentinelling the
scene at safe distance was d ring
OF armed men to prevent q possible
surprise form tho cruel savsgesl who
would relish an opportunity to turn
funeral into slaughter. When
the bleeding hearts Of - multi ktude
would permit, the bearers cam . for
ward aud one by one bore the
TO their graves, which BY RENE
the door Of tho school house
been made on the very spot OF
death When all were decenth
away and their mounds lovi
rounded the door was closed
the beloved master lsft with hi
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