The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-06-28
Saturday, June Is. 1870.
AN EVIL EYE.


and live stock, and when the third set came
there was a tragedy. Dan was in the Con
fedtrate ranks, up the valley, and his wife
and children were left in bad situation,
They had no food in the house when the
bunpry foragers demanded n meal, and not
n living thing had been left on the farm.
The woman, despairing and desperate,
made fierce personal attack on the men
who had entered her blouse, aud in tue
struggle gun was discharged, and the
heavy ounce ball killed two of her children
as they chung to her skirts. The foragers
were no better than thieves in this instance,
and had the official attempt to discover their
identity been rucceSsfu they would have
received punishment.
The woman left the murdered children
on the floor, and fed, with the others, up
the valley, aud her footsteps had scarcely
grown cold when the avenger of her great
wrongs appeared and demanded blood for
blood-and more. Dan Vernon was per-
mitted to leave the ranks to become a des-
troying angel The children were buried
under a cherry tree in the yard, by our
men, hut no hand wiped mp the dark and
terrible blood stains on the farm house
floor. The husband and father, painting
for vengeance, crept into the deserted house
three nights after the burial, AID dipping
his fingers into the undred blood, he swore
to rest not, but to kill and destroy as long
as life was left in him.
do no. know what Dan Vernon did
when he left his home to become Con-
federate soldier, but | do know that when
he returned to it as an aVenger, he had no
more mercy in him than tiger We heard
from him at once. A scouting. party riding
up the valley, lost its captain and two men
by successive shots from Henry rifle, and
the man who fired them escaped through
the woods. That night yidette was struck
from his horse and his throat cut. Next
day teamster was killed In one weeks
time Dan Vernon had killed thirteen men.
He left no wounded behind him. When he
fired, it was with dead aim, and the vic~
tim went down with scarcely cry from
his lips.
A refugee who came in, gave us such de
tails of Dan as We did not know, and when
it was known that he was bushwhacking,
our advanced scouts were detailed to hunt
him down. They pursued him in vain.
Knowing every acre of ground in the val
lev, he not only eluded pursuit. but many
of the men pursuing him never came back
to u.s. If their bodies were found, a bullet
hole was proof that Dan Vernon had added
another victim to his list In four weeks
he had scored thirty four Victims and fora
ging and scouting parties dreaded that one
man more than whole regiment of Early's
army He would murder a picket at one
point, during the night, and the next day
bushwhack troop ten miles away, and he
moved with the stealth of tiger. No man |
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