The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-03-26

with general officer or Colonel Al their
head. and by these she was taken n
charge and conveyed toward the coas,
while her kidnapers rode off in an on
posite direction. Nota word was said
70 give her any information as 10 wha,
was 10 follow. The chief officer proved
to be Colonel Jean Baptiste San Miguel.
Military Commander in the Eastern
District Of Chihuahua. He engaged N
conversation with the young girl, and
paid desperate court on the spot, an
nouncing 10 her in conclusion. that he
was determined 10 make her his wife.
She, Of course. declined the honor, and
with spirit demanded to be released
from captivity and returned 10 her home.
The Colonel smiled rs he remarked that
she was over four hundred miles from
her residence, and then Miss Jackson
realized that she was in the power Of
men Of whose character and intentions
she knew nothing. She thcreupon de-
termincd never To consent 10 this OBJ
jectionable union, and TO take the first
opportunity of escaping.
The close scrutiny 10 which she had
been subjected was somewhat SLACK
ened, and one dark night, finding the
espionage not SO close rs usual, she
managed TO evade the guard at the
camp. and made her way 10 the saualid
hut Of Indians. whose language She
could talk, and who consented a. be-
friend her. She learned from them
that she was then within a hundre d
miles Of the Gulf Of Mexico, and the
I..f fs...l4 Ia. -.
and there she found protection for sew
eral weeks. In the meantime the fish
ermen from the locality came in win
boats, and in one Of these she set out 10
sen TO intercept steamer on the way
10 New Orleans or Galveston, but 10
no purpose. After more than month
of suffering and torture on one ~ these
trips out in the frail craft on the gulf, a
sail ship was signaled, and Miss Jackson
was kindly taken aboard and cared for.
II proved tc be the brig Lydia, 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 2Sd of August
Miss Jackson applied 10 the American
Consul for assistance, and he insisted
upon her making the Consulate her
home until he could provide means for
her return TO the United States. He
laid the facts as related 10 him before
the State Department, but nothing con-
corning Miss jackson had been pre-
scented 10 the attention II the authori-
ties. While preparing 10 20 aboard the
next steamer for New YORK, the heroine
Of this story was taken down with gel
low fever, and remained for long time
seriously i'll and convalescent. The
Consul afterward furnished her with
money and passage on the mail steam
err, and on the 18th Of December she
started for New York. The steamer
put into Charleston Harb0r for coal,
and, in anticipation Of its remaining
some time, Miss Jackson went up into
the city. Unfortunately. she got left.
and had 10 seek assistance among en-
tire strangers. Realizing her deplora-
BILE situation, she hired out as servant
in family, remaining for about eight
months on a salary which was barely
sufficient 10 clothe her. She gradually
made her way from one city 10 another,
consuming year from the time she left
Charleston before she arrived in Rich
mond, Va. She did not know the way
home. and all 70 whom she told her
story laughed at the recital But she
was persevering and saving All Of the
time. and never allowed herself 10 be-
come downcast. At Richmond she
worked for Mr.. Iverson,
wealthy tobacconist, who became in
tcrested in her story last fall.
and personally set about asccrtaining
the truth Of Ii. lie 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. Be
coming 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 ut some
point on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Railroad, he having been notified that
she Is en- route home. Her 9th ~ broth
or and har runfhar ara now Head --