The adventures of these bandits
would make a volume of thrilling in
terest. Their escapes have been at
times almost incredible. Last fall a
party of twenty-three soldiers were at I
a spot called Wiregrass Landing, and
as they looked up the narrow channel
of the Lumber River they saw IHenry
Berry Lowery paddling a small flat
bottomed scow, his belt of arms un
buckeled and thrown in the bottow of
the boat. Instantly the whole party
opened fire, when Lowery, with the
agility of a terrapin, threw himselfin- I
to the water on the remote side of the
scow, tilted it up like a floating par
apet, and reaching inside successfully
for his weapons, aimed and fired as t
cooly as if he was at the head of his
band on solid ground. In this losi- t
tion lie actually wounded two of the t
men and put the whole posse to flight.
Our artist gives a graphic sketch of 1
this exciting scene.
