Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-31
A MAN IN A CAVE.
Wild Scenes ArOH1ad Pleasant HilI--Strange
Freaks iii the Night.
[Talbatton, Ca, New Era.

FreoicS t1 the Night.
Talbatton, Ga, New Era.
Some months ago we published the state
ment that man had been frightened from
a cave in the mountains near Pleasant Hill
in this county by party of chestnut hunt
ers. 1t now turns out that the man has
never left his retreat in the mountain fast
ness and that he still remains and perhaps
has a companion. This being the current
report about the neighborhood, two of our
farmer friends up there determined to
make search for the refuge some two weeks
since, and arming themselves they set out
one evening near sunset to find the hiding
place of the man. They looked over and
around the mountains and had almost
given up the search when all at once they
stumbled upon neatly constructed booth
made of brush in a dense growth of
mountain trees, and on going in they
found the abode of tae man, but nobody
was at home, yet the bed upon which the
occupant of the booth was wont to lay
presented to the adverturers a startling
degree of warmth when they felt of it, as
if the msn had just left. Our friends
silently stole away and said nothing, but
they determined to try again. So on last
Friday week, after finishing their work,
and as the frightening shadows told that
it was near the shank Of the evening, they
again hied 'em away, this time making a
bee line for the hiding place OF ''ye man
in the cave" and both of them armed to
the teeth. When they reached the foot of
the mountain old Sol had gone and hid his
face behind the western horizon and the
chirp of the cricket and croak of the
frog 'tolled the kneIl of parting day."
Stealthily and continuously our friends
crept up the mountains rugged side, get
ting closer and closer TO the home of the
outlaw and having, as they thought, almost
within their grasp the body of the crimi-
nal and in their minds was the giddy view
of a big reward for his capture, when all
of sudden there came a sound from q
clump of bushes just above them on the
mountain steep. It was an awful sound
and grated on the evening zephyrs as
does the grunt of the razor back
SOW on Sthe ear of the village
belle, and the sound contained a
terrible word. The word ''Halt" came in
sepulchraI tones, and it was followed by
the click of a pistol and the clack of gun.
Instead of halting, our friends came to q
quick movement-right about, face, march!
and such a skeedadling was never before
IN this country. Nothing stood in their
way, and down the mountain side they
rolled, tumbled and slid. And when they
retreated The hating party opened fire on
their rear, and at least half dozen shots
were fired at them, and one of the retreat
ers says that all that saved him was that the
parties doing the shooting were above him,
and the shots were consequently too high.
The poor fellows were not at all frightened,
but considered that prudence was the
better part of vglor," and they got home
just as soon as possible. They state tn 1t
there were certainly two or more persons
who fired on them, and pistols and gun
shots were heard in the same place a few
evenings ago. Our friends have not been
back TO the place since, and we doubt If
they do go again. These renegades OF re-
fugees in the mountains are supposed to
be prisoners who are hiding out. They
should be looked after and captured.