The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-07-31

| foreigners TO this country IN the steer
age of the vessels; and when the emf
grants had no money to pay their pas
sage, the captains, on arriving at port,
would sell the time Of the emigrant, for
a certain number Of months or years,
to the highest bidder, the emigrant
being accessory to the arrangement.
Some of these emigrants turned out
well, others decidedly otherwise.
About this time Captain Tissue, one of
the quartet of old soldiers mentioned,
was in Baltimore, and, as he was in,
or about TO go into the army, he looked
about for likely fellow to put ON his
farm while he was in the service of his
country. The Captain was German
himself, and probably his wife was,
also, of German extraction at least,
and he naturally preferred one of that
nationality. So he found German
who seemed To suit, and he brought
him home with him. The Captain
then owned and lived on the farm now
known as the Sullivan farm in Elk
Lick township, afterwards owned by
Judge Blacks grandfather, and upon
which the Judge was born The writer
does not make this last statement as a
positive fact, only as his impression,
for the two or three hypercritical cor
respondents of Somerset paper will
be sure to be after him if he makes a
mistake, even if the compositor did
make him say stakefeets," when he
manifestly meant ''shakeguts;" albeit
the writer is ''modest, rery modest
man."
The Captain went away to the war,
leaving the German on the farm with
his family, consisting Of his wife and
two little boys. The German did well
enough for a time he was attentive TO
his duties, kind to the children, re-
spectful and polite to his mistress a
good farm hand and gardener, and the
Captains wife congratulated herself
and the Captain on the excellent choice
he had made, as she then supposed.
After awhile, though, he became some
what independent, and began TO as
sumo an authority over things that did
not accord with Mrs. Tissues ideas of
what was proper. He also showed
more or less insolence to her, and final
/ ly, the presumption is, he made an in
sulting proposal to her, which she, in
her righteous Indignation, spurned,
and ordered him TO leave the place.
He went away, but was not gone long
until he came back, and found Mrs.
Tissue churning, with her little boys
present. The bloodthirsty German,
smarting from the rebuke she had giv-
en- him, seized the axe from the wood
pile, and slipping up behind her,
Drained her, killing her instantly.
! Somewhat Mortified at what he had
done, he cut her body in pieces with
placed the dismembered body under
meath, and set the building on fire.
He then took the two little boys, and
some provisions, and threatening them
with instant death if they cried, or at
tempted to run away, went to the barn,
and stayed there, hid in the hay with
the boys several days. Word was got
ten TO Capt. Tissue, who was in East
ern Pennsylvania, in some way, and he
came home. The wonder is the Capt.
did not visit dire punishment OF him
then; but, probably, he thought of a re-
finement of punishment to follow, more
in keeping with the dastardly crime.
So, after getting his affairs in rs good
shape as possible, he started 10 Bedford
with the murderer, on his way To the
army, to place him in Jail there. They
travelled by easy stages that is, not far
in day, and at night the Captain COM
PEELED the murderer TO sleep on flax
hackle every night. Anyone who has
readily understand what kind of bed
the fellow had. He was placed in jail
at Bedford of course, this being long be-
fore Somerset county was formed-but
he was never tried for his crime. He
died soon after his confinement, almost
literally devoured by vermin. After
the war Capt. Tissue removed from
Elk Lick to Turkeyfoot, and purchas-
ed the farm on which Confluence now
stands. Newton Tissue is his grand
son, and son of Isaac Tissue, who was
one of several children of Capt. Tissue 5
second marriage.
Capt. Tissue lived to be an old man,
respected by all who knew him and,
as said before, often fought his battles
over with his companions in arms.
The horrors through which the little
boys passed, together with their en-
forced imprisonment in the barn sc
long with the German, obliterated
nearly the last spark ofintelligent com
prehension from their minds, and they
remained, ever after, but little bettel
than idiots, and they were 50 whe1
they died. Capt. Tissue was II fine
large, portly, good-looking man, as
also were the other three; and, if al
his company consisted of such men
they certainly presented a fine appear
ance.
These men all lived to see, at least
the beginning of the dawn of the grea
prosperity with which their beloved
country is blessed, for the independ
ence of which they froze, and starved
and marched, barefoot, over thorns an'
briers, and frozen ground without mur
mur or complaint, fighting an almos
hopeless battle, mere infant agains
a giant, SO to speak; but the fruitioI
, of their hope was correspondingly great
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