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meant her no bodily harm, but their mr.
pose in spiriting her away from home sba
could not divine. The horseback ionrY
ney continued from day to dav, until
they finally reached a mountainous dis.
trict, and then for the first time Miss
Jackson noticed that the men escortinor
her were becoming nervous about some
thing, holding whispered conversations
stopping to closely inspect the roads and
the country, and by their manner giving
token of great concern. She concluded
as night drew on some two weeks after
she was taken from her home, that thew
were lost; but she had hardly framed the
thought before up rode body of Mexi-
can soldiers with general officer or
Colonel at their head, and by these She
was taken in charge and conveyed to-
ward the coast, while her kidnapers rode
off in another direction. Not word was
said to give her any information as to
what was to follow The chief officer
proved to be Colonel Jean Baptiste San
Miguel, Military Commander in the east
ern district of Chihuahua. He engaged
in conversation with the young girl, and
paid desperate court on the spot, an
nouncing to her, in conclusion, that he
was determined to make her his wife
She, of course, declined the honor, and
with spirit demanded to be released from
captivity and returned to her home. The
Colonel smiled as he remarked that she
was over four hundred miles from her
residence, and then Miss Jackson real
lied that she was in the power of men of
whose character and intentions she knew
nothing. She thereupon determined
never to consent to this Objectionable
union, and to take the first opportunity
of escaping.
The close scrutiny to which she had
been subjected was somewhat slack
ened, and one dark night, finding the
espionage not so close as usual, she
managed to evade the guard at the
camp, and made her way to the squalid
hut of Indians, whose language she
could talk, and who consented to be-
friend her. She learned from them
that she was then within hundred
miles of the Gulf of Mexico, and the
Indians took her to the shores in secrecy,
and there she found protection for sever
al weeks. In the meantime the fisher
men from the locality came in with
boats, and in one of these she set out to
sea to intercept a steamer on the wavto
New Orleans or Galveston, but to no
purpose. After more than a month of
suffering and torture on one of these
trips out in the frail craft on the Gulf.
sail-ship was signaled, and Miss jack
son was kindly taken aboard and cared
fnt / 70 l,a h. IL. I :.
from Boston, then bound for Havana.
Storms arose, the ship was damaged
and delayed, and had to run into a
small port to make repairs, eventually
reaching Havana on the 23d of August.
Miss Jackson applied to the American
Consul at Havana for assistance, and
he insisted upon her making the Con-
sulate her home until he could provide
means for her return to the United
States. He laid the facts as related to
him before the State Department, but
nothing concerning Miss Jackson had
been presented to the attention of the
authorities. While preparing to 90
| aboard the next steamer for New York,
the heroine of this story was taken down
with yellow fever, and remained for q
long time seriously i'll and convalescent.
The Consul afterward furnished hez with
money and passage on the mail steamer,
and on the 18th of December she started
for New York. The steamer nut into
Charleston Harbor for coal, and, in an
ticipation of its remaining some time,
Miss jackson went up into the city. I'm
fortunately, she got left, and had to seek
assistance among entire strangers. Re-
alizing her deplorable situation she hired
out as a servant in family, remaining
for about eight months on salary which
was barely sufficient to clothe her. She
gradually made her way from one city
to another, consuming year from the
time she left Charleston before she
arrived in Richmond, Va. She did not
know the way home, and all to whom
she told her story laughed at the recital.
But she was persevering, and saving all
the time, and never allowed herself to
| become downcast. At Richmond she
worked for Mr. Iverson, a wealthy to-
bacconist, who became interested in her
story last fall, and personally set about
ascertaining the truth of it. He visited
Washington, and learned what had been
forwarded from the Consul at Havana,
and then put himself in correspondence
with Mr.. Jackson, Annie's father, in
Texas. Becoming satisfied that all was
right, he assisted her to proceed home,
and happier woman was never known
than she as she went through Quincy,
and drew nearer her destination. She
will be met by one of her brothers at
some point on the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas Railroad, he having been notified
that she is en- route home. Her other
brother and her mother are now dead
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