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

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 tie 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 bis doom, had managed to roll near
the hearth and set fire to the house, or
else it had caught accidentally from tho
wood that was left burning in the fire.
place.
Before the house was quito consumed,
the flames were qucnchcd by heavy
| rain, and next morning the charred logs
were rolled aside, aud the half.consumcd
body of old Kountz dragged out. The
hole in the drift floor of the hut being cx-
amined, showed that it led by short
ladder into kind of collar ten feet
square. Here, among other things, was
an old barrel, whose contents being
turned out OH the wet ground, proved to
be human bones, clepncd.picked and
white-the bones OF little children
among them three little skulls. The
men stood and looked ut 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.
n native OF Africa brought to the Louisi-
ana coast when full grown, the wretch
had retained his cannibal appetite, and
gratified it when he could at the risk of
his lito. Wading up the stream near
Rosie's house, he had come upon the
| child swinging i'll her grapevine swing
near the bank of the stream, and had de-
| coycd her Il little way where the bushes
were thicker with the promise of a red
bird, when suddenly he threw sack
over bcr head, stiflcd her cries, and ran
with her down the stream, which washed
away his tracks, till he reached the point
where the little rivulet empticd into tho
bayou, and where he put Rosie into his
boat, that WAS noored there, and carried
her to his hut. He several times at
tempted to make her eat, W ling to
fatten her as he would an opossum before
killing and eating her.
The dog Wolf, the chiid's faithful at
tcndant, who had followed close at the
abductor's heels, growing and threaten
ing an attack, Kountz had Knocked on
the head and sunk in the bayou with a
rock-wcight attached to his neck, and he
| had thrown the child's bonnet ut the foot
OF the double asl nearly nile before
reaching his cabin, remcmbe. ing to hive
seen the Texan standing there fishing
the day before, and knowing from his
negro confreres that Karlsc was Maline'a
| 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 t:avel and tho camping out, anu
liking well her new home. where, rs
,scder, Karlse soon achieved the tortun,
he had hoped for, and returned com
paratively rich man to more civilized
part Of the country, where Rosie in nov
growing up bright schoolgirl, with tn,
promise OF becoming the village belle.