The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-03-19


When Gen Early maxi his great raid on
Washington was s,Outins between his al
vance ami the city, ami WAS captured within
the city limits twenty-fOur hours before his
ba,tI,-iags APPEARED in sight. was dr,~SsNt
in citizsn's clothes. pretendel u h deaf AMI
dumb, ami claimed 10 have teen driven out of
Rhhnloni. becauss bad written threatening
IFttrrs Ia jefferson Davis
mad ts,en inside thu Notifications for half
a day, AMI WAS slowly walking out, when
couple Of young men, both II whom were con
silerally the wors' for liquor, halted M AMI
wanted To tight h.si pencil AMI block
Of paIer with me, and Wrote.
Il am deaf and dumb
That made ~ difference with them lnt-i,
they declared that it would ls a novel plca 10
lick a deaf ami dumb nan, and one Of them
gave mo IA cUir on the ear.
In thu. DAYS | weighed lt.l pound, AMI
la. th,' nuIS'k' Of IL prih' tighter. tried IL
get away from them without further trouble,
hut WHEN they seemed determined TO have
row gave them al they wanted, and wasn't
many minute about il. y crowd Of soldiers
aH,l ej,l.L,n, objected, the provost guard
tarur u. end the p,ult WAS rs | hal antici-
Iat l. luI, arrested AMI carried oil IL q
guard u,4i> the II ia" young men, who
aftcrNari turned uut IA L. p,llt.,l 70 "A mem
br of the ,iltantt, followed nlc to the office Of
thr provost nrt,hal AMI rharcSl mo with l.-
nls spy. ~ n"r s.ml e. entertain q
doubt that VA, bat and dumb, rs claimed,
AMI my examination MAS carried ON IN writ
mS. Was asA,Sl my name, age, when born
ami hun.rSl ether questions, AMI then
searched. Tn 3 tnunl nothing IN mo Of u
eliminating Eaturr, AMI ! REASONED that
would be detained until aft,r the excitement
bad passed AMI tn.n turned lpn>''
NEARLY innuWN oFt MS GUARD.
Aitcr is.ln- ietalncd ,hrr days an officer
entered NY quarters one morning ami saIl
To- me:
Well, dummy, you can pack up AMI get
cat
The minute heard his step outside | WIS
On my guard. hut he spoke in such natural
tone tiG,, came near giving myself away
IA tur,r different a'eii,lon, during the war
played the part OF deaf ami dumb man, and
till yen il takyr all the nerve AMI presence
of mind "A man can call up. / sat facing
I kut tNDl ANU. VIM i'aiiiiiiN "'i''Ns 'iht''
| 10 mo>cmcnt H., cam closer Ia mc AMI
said:
"Conc, pack pp Your traps, you nre to hc
turned bose"
| Hooked him straight in the ryes without
/ vinking. am. after II lat louk OF chagrin
| stuln over hi, face and he niotioned for M" Ia
/ follow him lie took mo to thu provost mar
/ >hal, office, AMI was il>h'red into a private
room where the marshal AMI three or four
| other officials were seated. On the way u
| the office, as we crossed Il wide street thc oili
GER suddenly exclaimed:
"rherc'S runaway horsc-look out
II hadn't been expecting some such thln2
On his part must have betrayed myself A.
gave no sign, continuing on with my head
down, I heard him growing;
They think they've got II sucker, but they'll
find out their mistake
entered the Office, knowing that every
trick would bc resorted to 10 break me down
and my nerve, were braccd rs il to charge 4
battery of artillery, was left standing by
the door for moment, when one Of the oili
cials looked up AMI quietly said;
Take STAT, sir, ami wei attend to- SoI it
u moment.
male No move, hut looked around Tia,
room i'll stupid sort Of way. was lookinl
mt of the window on Ia roof when The SAM
official said.
"You may come forward and take Thu
chair
| stood like a stone, AMI h. rose up, cam,
over to me, AMI led me To chair at tho table
When ! was seated one of tho others 10
marked:
"Write your name, age AMI last place o
residence on spo paper
THE SHARpEsr TRICK AT LAST.
That was trick number three, and it iaic,
as the others hal done. BY AMI by the mar
shal wrote on slip Of paper;
"Who are you, amt where from"
Iwrote in reply, II am Charles Jones, %
Richmond.
"But you arr Union man suggested On
Of the officers aloud
saw his lips mo>e but he got no sign iron
me- The examination continued in this mar
nor for full hour the men using every art
flee To trap mo- hut they failed to score a sin
gle point ! knew they would reserve IA
sharte,t trick to the last, AMI was therefor
nertpl up for it. At length the marsha
pushed back in his chnr, pointed his finger n
nv breast aud nngrIly exclaimed
"Whrrr ill that Confederate button com
from
1t was another failure Then ho turned I
hts companions aud SAID
N,cntl,ul'il its no ,isr. Tho man Is -"
tanly ,l'ai ami dumb AMI ID fool IL
sids,'
~, hay, wasted our time replied n ~,
onl fl. not only what he claims 10 |.
but uit H. OF great service to Us. Id hav
III, officer taxi him over to the secretary &
war
Il gu - will, all the officer, and he ran
a holl and heard the door ulDn Then
turned to me, carclt,ssIy as you please, an
sand:
"tiJ with TIA" plh 'cr y
II was their last shot. never inovI
music until IN. uiii IT approached and Jlac'
hl- hand on a.. ! was taken back - u
guard hri- hpt II prisoner for anothe
weak. ana "a u th, iisgustsd mar ,hal TUNE
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