The daily gazette., 1879-12-11
4 Blast From a Foe Horn


Atlanta CoustiLction.
A strange and picturesque story comes
to us from the mountains of Towns
county. The authority that we have at
present is the official report of the depu-
ty In charge of the squad which was iu-
teIested. II appears that a few nights
ago deputy marshal of Marshal Fitzsi-
mons's force, with seven assistant depu-
lies and eight guards, organized for
raid into Towns county. One of the OBJ
jstts Of the raid was to capture a man
by the name of Eerrony, who was re-
ported to be moonshiner and the !eade
Of band of men ofga oized for the pur
pose of defying the revenue Off els and
pi otecling the hidden stills of the noun.
tain branches.
The raiding party moved along quiet
ly, and by nighttall was in the neiohbor-
ho)d Of Berrony's house. They waited
until the family had gone to sleep, and
then surrounded the house aud closed 10
on the uususpeci'ug family. Berrony,
though surprised while asleep, sprang
from his bed and fed away in his night
clothes. D.spite this light wea" he was
oveitaken by the deputies and over
powered and tied.
In the meantime his family had
awakened and came 10 the door 10 more
or less confusion. While the deputies
were engaged with the prisoner and the
people at the door, daughte: of the
prisoner, about 1S years Of age, slipped
uut OF the back doc d essed only in the
garment in which she had been sleep
ing, and made for the mountain side
with the fleetness Of young antelope.
She carried in her right hand fox horn
and fled through the night like an ap.
partition. A deputy starred in pursuit Of
the fleeing g-ri, but his boots and clothes
encumbeI ed him and she, tripping over
the sleep flowers with bare feet, soou
reached the top of the hill. Once there,
she TUNED, and, like a new Roderick
Dhu, she gave one blast upon her bugle
no, n. 1t was "well nigh worth thou
sand men," for as the echoes of the horn
died away in the valleys of the night,
armed men gather ed silently but swiftly
to The call Of the light y-clad but stout
hearted bugler.
AS rapidly as possible the deputy had
hi: prisoners dressed, and, forming his
men into close order, moved of toward
bis wagons He and his men wece fol
lowed by the family of the prisoner
which wes constantly reenfor rced by the
arrival Of mountainers, aroused and an-
gTy. BY the time the deputies had gone
"a mile the threatening force behind had
grown to twenty-five men, aud thing:
looked squalIv. When they reached
long, narrow defiie,the deputy in charge
found that there wcs a large force o.
| men in 1 .ont of him, and that each sid,
of the defile VT helo bv sharp-shootin Of
mounta' nee.s, who were hidden in th'
woods. Tne force in his rear was press
ed closer on him, aud he chilled a hal
and began to look into THINGS. He fount
his situation desperate. He could turl
no way without encounteriug an armet
squad, and he felt that o fight in tn
dark could promise nothing but blood
parley. The mountaineers demanded
the release Of Berrony. who is said t.
have been their leader. The deputy a
first protested sanj rciusel, but he 800
, found that there we're fifty inen oppose
To him with the advantages of position
The men agreed that certf'n discovere,
stills Should be given up, but they woul
not listen to Berrony being taken away
}. At length the deputy surrendered hin
and he Joined his friends in the wood,
rhe deputies had two other prisoner
aud attempted to get away with then
$. As they were marching along throug
n, the dark, some one whispered to one
~ the deputies: "Come this way" He SUI
posed that it was one of his feIlew dep
lies and moved in the direction indie;
ted. Suddenly he was knocked dow
and bundled up and pitched into fenC
corner. The deputies discovering hi
capture, halted again and held nttl
. council of war.
They were afraid to fire on the moor
sinners because they supposed the mis-
sing deputy was in their power. An
. Il. n
them for fear of hitting the prisoner
The two squads confronted each otht
quietly in tho dark woods for awhIl
when the deputies silently but In goo
. order withdrew and hurried out O
" Towns county. The carried off their tw
prisoners, but left Berrony behi nd. Th
Is the report in sub ,tance as made by th
deputy to Marshal Fitzsimons.. Th
marshal is not in the city at present, br
take steps TO have the arrest of the def
= ant mountaineer made over again, an
. made so that it will stick. Mr.. Ro bi nso
the deputy marshal who was in charp
of the raidlng party, has reached tt
city, and gives full account of the a
fair. He says that is impossible TO owe
estimate the defiance with which th
mountaineers met the officers. He sa,
that Berrony Is a Frenchman of braver
and ability and shrewdness, and that
has determined following that ful
understands the situation. When the
lie arrested Berrony he said ~ have tw
stills, and there they are. I've. been ru
ming them for ten years and l defy yC
to take them"
r When his friends began to gather
/, the woods and darkness he would ca
out to them, "There's only twelve
them here, but they're armed to u
teeth. Don't attack them until the re-
of the boys comer'
"Robinson turned and said to hin
"The first shot they fire on us I'll ki
10 you."
;" He replied :" Kill and be d--d. If yo
hurt me there won't be man of you g
out of these hills alive" He then we
on and SID: "If you don't hurt IN
they won't hurt you'll"
When an attack seemed imminent,o ,ol
of the depu es said to Berrony: "Thro
up your hat and tell them not to shoot
Berrony laughed and said: "If thre
up my hat they'd shoot sure"
q He talked with his ambrshed frien,
with the utmost free 1om and noDch
lance, and seemed to be jolly over Il
crowd of them that was gatherin
After he bad been released, he TUNED
Shepherd. one of the deputy collector
and s,,d: "Shepherd, l want to wa
:, you now that it you come over the
meuntsins aRP'n you are dead mani
Mr.. Robinson says that the organic
ton seemed 10 be perfect, and tn
,e tina mOuntai neevs sank out of view iii