St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1893-04-29

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on arriving at their destination,
about three miles out in the piney
wOCds. ut Mrs. C.'s house, she
found that she hal taken one Of
Mrs. NJ. HIS daughters instead Of
her own. In the meantime Mrs.
N. II. took refuge in her stable.
When the excitement was over she
emerged from her hiding place,
ami missing her daughter . search
was made for her without success,
but it was thought she was in the
woods with the others. Mr.. Il.
W.. seeing one Of his daughters
had been left in the debris, picked
her up and began making his way to
the woods. As he plodded on,
night overlook him and rain set in,
making it verv disagreable travel
ing, with the arms and feet Of his
daughter dragging through the tall
broom sedge grass. To add to his
discomfort he lost his way, and it
was about midnight before he reach
ed his destination. All was peace
and auiet the rest Of the night.
In q day or two AIRS. NJ. HIS
daughter was brought back to her,
which made matters all right again.
Shortly after this one of the small
boats, think it was the A., steam
ed up the river. passed the village,
and while there shot two bombs in
to the town. Both must have been
well ranged, for the first struck the
water in front of the landing, now
belonging to the steamer New Ca
melia; it raised and struck the
water again in front OF fathers
house, about 30 feet from the bank
lifting again it went block further
and buried itself under the roots
Of large live oak tree. It was
afterwards dug up and opened, and
the powder and musket balls taken
out by Mr.. f.. r. Had it deviated
q fraction higher, it would have
went crashing through the center Of
A. j. Ms house. However, they
must have known their mistake, for
there came another, whizzing up in
the air. passing over our heads,
and exploding just at the top Of the
trees and over 4. J. Ms house,
leaving fragments of shell in all
directions, but did no harm. 1t
was by opening these bombs that
the boys got powder and shot with
which they went hunting on the
sly. They made shot from the
musket balls, and al lead that
could be had, IN this way: A small
tin box half filled with water, then
. piece of wire sitter Was placed on
tie box, and the lead on the sitter,
and lightwood splinters placed ON
top and ignited, when the lead
would melt and drip down in the
water. thus making fine shot.
Large shot were made by hammer
ing the balls down into square bars
the size Of the shot wanted, then
cut into small cubes, which were
rolled on = piece Of iron plate with
. common smoothing iron, making
them round. The boys would go
hunting on the Lake and elsewhere,
taking care to keep . sharp lookout
for the Yankee gunboats.
While two boys were hunting at |
the Lake they spied the AZ about . |
mile away. They became alarmed
and started up the river, as fast as
they could pull, hoping to reach |
the village ahead, but the AZ steam
ed up to shout 200 yards of them. |
They began to get scared for true,
but one of them observed the fact |
that by hard rowing they could
turn the point Of the river in time to
hide from view at least for . moment.
and this would give them an Opp0r-
tunity to throw their guns over
board unperceived, which they did.
This relieved them of their fear. rs
they had no arms to cause their
arrest. But one Of the guns SEEM
ed to have the rebel In its stock.
Tor it would not sink, and could
be seen floating, about two inches
above the water.
SMALL BOY.
TO BIZ CONTINUED.