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10 0e continued.


Hho killed Gen. Braddock ?-Tbe ladies' and
gentlemen of UnIontown he'd mountain cele-
bration on the 4th inst, at Fayette Springs
Among the proceedings, as reported in the Union
town Democrat, is the following anecdote:


"Fhe committee also presented an invitation
to tho rarty from Mr.. A. Stewart, to take tea
with him at Earl's, which being accepted in a few
minutes the parties we're united at the hotel
from whence they repaired to Braddock's grave
few hundred yards distant, where Mr. Stewart
pointed out the spot, and stdted some interesting
facts connected with his burial and disinterment.
Among other things, he stated he was present,
when boy, some 40 years ago, when the bones
of Gen. Braddock were d!sinterred by body of
men employed in repairing tho road. The spot,
he said, was pointed out at the time by one of
Braddock's soldiers, called by the mountuneers,
"Old whistling Tom Fosset." After digging a
few feet in the middle of Braddock's old road, on
the margin of stream bearing his name, they
struck his bones, when the old soldier sprang to
his feet, equipped usual with his rifle, toma.
hawk and hunting shirt, measuring in his mecca.
sins about six feet four, and addressed the COM
pany to this effect:


"There's Braddock's bones. I've often show
ed you where they were, and it was me that shot
him. Yes, gentlemen, say it was me that sho,
him. gave him the lead to save myself and the
rest of the army, and did save them. When
we were attacked by the enemy we could not see,
and when heard him call George Washington
"Virginia buckskin" for advisin' him to let us
" tree" when saw our men shot down by hun.
dreds in their tracks, was mad enough, but
when saw him strike my brother with his sword
for "trceing," could stand it no longer. So |
up and let him have i. just so, firing his rifle in.
to tree before linn, and wasn't right :" Wash.
ington then took command and told US to " "tree,"
and no sooner said than done. We then soon 81.
lenced the enemy. and made good our retreat.-
Here Braddock died, and hero we buried him in
the road and drove the baggage wagons over him,
10 hide his grave from the lnguns. lie was
great man and brave General, but he was a fool
among the Ingins. Only think of it i! fighting
the Ingns in the wood in I" solid column why
boys do you see the man mad, and that's Just
what killed him. was his doctor; and gave him
him his LAST DOSE" I" Old Tom the hunter,'
having thus concluded, shot off whistHng through
the woods as usual.''