The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-08-22
The Greatest Marksman Yet-The Feats
Of Adam Goldie, of Missouri.

81.
In Shannon county, Mo-, lives man who
is greater adept with the rifle and has per-
formed more real and marvellous feats OF
craftsmanship than ever those with which
DR.. Carver has of late been astonishing the
world. The name of this wonderful handler
OF the rifle is Adam Goldie. He is about
thirty eight years OF age, and pays OCCASION
al visits TO st. Louis. A Post reporter visited
him at his hotel yesterday.
Adam Goldie is y man in the prime of life,
about five feet eleven inches in height, and
with most wonderful physique. He has /.
frank, open countenance, with large, bright
blue eyes, which have.a peculiar appearance.
They are restless and ever in motion, and
there is peculiar sort of twitching action
perceptble Which almost conveys the i'm
preston that his vision must be detective
His light brown hair hangs in long, flowing
locks, and a Icing, flowing beard covers his
chest.
Some of the feats which he has performed
seem impossible. He has broken two nun
dred and ninety-ni glass balls out Of three
hundred in twelve minutes with forty four
calibre Winchester rifle. He can break one
hundred glass balls five times out of six,
without miss, in three minutes. These
feats are unparalleled, and surpass DR.. Car
ver's wonderful shooting. A seemingly IN
credible feat that he performs is as follows j:
A saltwater bottle is thrown into the air in
certain manner. and before it falls Goldle
will send bullet down the neck of the bot
tie and make hole in the DO tom. There
are other feats that he performs with bottles.
At fifty yards distance bottle is placed on
forked tong, and Goldie will send six bull
lets in rapid succession down the neck and
through the bottom, only perforating the
latter in one place.
At long distance the marvellous marksman
performs just as marvellous feats.
At one thousand yards he will hit the CEN
tire OF the bulls eye, and then send six bull
lets, one after the other, hitting the very in
dent made by the first. A potato thrown
in the air Goldie will perforate with six bull
let-holes before it reaches the ground. Per-
haps the most astonishing feat is the break
ing of two balls at once. This is done in
the folio wing manner Two balls are thrown
crosswise, and as they pass each other on
their course, with quick, unerring aim and
lightning rapidity, Goldic will speed bullet
through BOTH Another feat is the placing
| in position of an inch strip Of tin about three
inches long, at thirty feet distance, and per
| foratlng it from top to bottom with thirty six
| holes. all exactly in the centre of the strip,
| and all at even distances apart. Goldie says
he does not know whe We his wonderful skill
| comes from. He never handled a rifle I'M
| til he was eighteen years old, and to him i
| seems like instinct. He would take aim ant
| fire with unerring accuracy, and his wonder
full feats soon acquired for him marvellou
reputation among his neighbors.
Some five years ago. Goldie left his natv'
county of Shannon, where he is engaged ii
cattle raising for Northwestern Texas, wher
he passed two years, and there one of tn
most exciting incidents of his career hap
pened. His fame as a marksman among tn
Texans soon became notorious. In the vi
cinity of Goldie's rancho lived one William
Darrell, or, as he was more lamilarl
termed, Bloody Bill. This Bloody Bill wa
noted ruffian and desperado-a rockies
} daredevil. His feats in workmanship wer
likewise astounding, and probably 10 ma
in the Lone Star State excelled him in hand
ling the rifle. Bloody Bill had been engage
in many deeds of daring, and was nearl
always mixed up in some row or squabbit
He had already killed three men, and n
numerous acts of ruffianisn had made hi
the terror Of the frontier. Few cared
cross his path, as his dangerous .ch racte
and dexterty with rifle were well know
Goldie had met Bill on several occasion
but had never been involved with any dill
Guilty with him. Knowing his turbulent d
position. he always sought to avoid MIN. q