The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-07-26

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his action in the matters above referred to.
Or that Of any Judge of his ability in any
matter. But feel free to say, nevertheless,
mat am honestly of opinion that he acted
with more zeal than discretion in this one
Instance, and would have accomplished
much more good had ho followed up Red
mond less closely and the revenue officers
more SO. To do him justice, no xever, he
did order the recently reported investigation,
and would no doubt make good use of it if
opportunity were presented. TO return to
Redmond, L have promised to end his
story with this letter, and though l hope
no one nf hy readers have wearied of him
as yet, shall try to keep nv word.
FALSE ALARM.
Feeling really i'll from the effects of
fatigue, as have said before, I was COM
PEELED to close my second interview with
htsgIttlc before midnight, when he again
accompanied, me to the house of our mu.
tual friend, my host There bade him
goodnight, and went to bed, while he and
my host took blankets and walked off to
sleep in the woods quickly fell into an
uneasy seml.conscious state, from which
was startled an hour later by the subducd
voice OF our kind young hostess whispering
to my companion, Mr.. Fields, to "get up'
please, and strike a light the Revenues
areaii around the housev' The frightened
witc'&as clad in her night.drcss only, and
seemed beside herscl If with anxiety and
alarm. 81 have heard some one walking
in the yard" she said, ':and they always
come about this time of nightv Mr..
Fields arose and striking q match chow
hard they were to find y went to the win
dow and called, "Who is there ?" a voice
answered, a whispered consultation followed,
and at last my companion came back and
whispered to me that not the Revenues but
the prisoner they had captured the day be.
fore was without l congratulated him in
my heart on his escape, aud Mrs.-rum-
mayed around and got him supper. did
notscc him, but my ho.tess and NV com.
panlon told me they never saw man eat
So much IN their respective lives. Then
he pushed on over the hills and far away
to home from which he had been taken
the morning before, and where, no doubt.
ne was welcomed as one risen from the dead
1t was the old story of captors, sdazings,t ID
sudden dash for lihAgkfns8 bullets
adedged, asatasserd6es ol!c l1If11a
Redmond-pay, how the whole neigf gfbcr.'
hood rejoiceds over the fact,of his escape
next morning Psccapi, but couldn't
help II could you had you been in my
REpMoND's BENEvoLENcE. X
Redmond breakfasted with us next morn.
ing, and our, hostess waited upon us and
could not do enough for him. The simple
hearted women of the mountains all admire
IT they do not love him, and neither his
name nor his presence have any terrors for
them. Why it was only last year, say they,
that he Paid off the taxes which were hang.
ing over the heads Of am afraid to state
how many poor families, and took his paw,
when he got auy, 10 "chips and whetstonesi
and other like yaluables, among which WINS
a veteran ram, which one old lady forced
upon hin, and which he enyer saw after
the yof transfer .It tprsfssrsd nor yard
to ms, 1t seemed aud he never won't back
for it. Aud Besides all this, did he not ride
i've consesatise days working for Hamp-
ION during the last campaign, and on cleo
sion day did he not hitch up his own wagon
and team and send eight or ten old men
who couldn't walk, and who hadn't voted
tor years, all the way from their homes to
the poll at Eastatoe, where he dare not 90
himself! And, outlaw as he is, is he not
now supporting his three sisters, who have
no other dependence, and one of whom has
been cripple for eleven years? Certainly
he has done and he is doing all these things,
as every body hercabouts will tell YOU.
OTHER GOOD DEEDS.
1t was not so very long ago that poor
man, whose oxen and four sheep which he
had taken to market were levied on for
taxes at Pickens Courthouse, met "the
Major" in the road and asked for help and
got it. 1t was small sum, only Sc rs, but
it was very large sum to the poor farmer
and to the despised Samaritan, but it was
given freely, and has never been returned
or asked for. No, the money was neither
stolen on the highway nor was it the re.
turn of any unlawful sale; it was the price
of produce grown on the outlaws farm by
hard labor, and which farm and home he
dares not visit except at night and at long
intervals, at the risk of his life. "The
Revenues have been there after him yery
often" said one, Revenue himself, to me
to-day.
~How REDMOND TOLD HIS TALE.
have made another depression I find,
but do not think l need apologize for it,
Not SO much of good has ever been said