Greencastle Star, Greencastle, Putnam County, 29 January 1881 — Page 1
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ttome Curious Stories of lairky this fiTorite resting stone, and u bilo getFinds of f^rerious ^Meful* ting his wind he earoloss!^ and unconFrom tbs Omaht Republican. . sciously peeked away at the boulder
That rich mines aro often discovored with his P ick - A piece of rock flew off j n ,„ Justice Kiggitt’s cffice, pursued by
by accident, history, both ancient and *” d revealed to him the surprising truth tw0 0 ,|.ers wuh shot-guns, and breath-
“('oiijurrd.'* The Mtrait|(e<tt True Tale Ever F incastle, \ a., January 21.—To-day Told In a !Vew«>paper.
a colored man, Pb-asaDt Walker, rushed
[Philadelphia Pros.)
One of the most remarkable stories ev-
modern verities. Numerous instances
Ithathewas sitting on a rich chunk of lessly appealed to the officer for protec-; er told in a newspaper is that of Miss
observation,
science, so long as the
one. In such cases it would
it is even better to be born
ofthis kind have come under my own l uar,/ - 1,0 at once P roccude(1 «P‘he ! tion. An examination disclosed an unThis is said to be luck or: and ^ ound tko * cd S° and was full preccdented amount of superstition ■find” is a good °f S°'d , ‘ ri d brought him much wealth, among the negroes of the place. Willie! of Phillip L. Frenau, seem that We arc told that once upon a time a Wilson and his son, the two negroes who American writer, who edited a newspaper
I11. l v than young ®an left the home of his child- were pursuing Walker, swore that they m this city during the latter pait of the with Indians side by side with her bus y 1,1,* ..... .. ... . ,.. . 11 11 2- n,. ..f i.nnri KCourrd the xilatiS im horsehorL a
Mary llamtnell. a young woman twentyone years of ago, who is a grand daughter
the well-known
feully juradvllli*. Mis. Sarah Kay arrived in Buffalo, the
other day, from I.eadville, on her way to New York, whither she goes for the purpose of locating her daughter, Cora in a school, and arranging for the future care ofa little Mexican giri whom she had in charge. Mrs. Kay has a history which if published, would read like a romanee. •She has dug in mines, fought in wars
” V -- - , ' hood hade farewell to his weeping moth- meant to shoot him
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or not twenty
peace.
i Wilson stated his cause of enmity. He dated the first trouble back •several
on sight, whereon | Iasi century,
keen the
‘ who own a small farm and reside at Winfield, I.. 1. A year and a half ago they
rented a portion of their
dwelling to a woman about
Miss llammell is one of
the Justice bound them over to keep the two sisters, the eldest being a widow, hunting many days for a quartz ledge, 1 sw ‘' c *^ , ‘ art ’ ,nd wcntou ^ into the wilds 1 tired in his search, and threw down "'‘ s ‘ t0 bacoino a miner. Iho 1 pick and shovel in disgust, and look up trai b , m |1 goes that ho at length struck u
his rifle, and sauntered forth for game. ' u,n ' n S camp and, being inexperienced months, and said one evening his wife Mrs. Caroline C. Allen, Fortune favored him; his luck camo sud-’ ^ 8 'Sb‘cd a veteran for advice as to the was sitting in her house, when four of tifty-five years old,w ho came there high
denly to him, as it were. He shota doer best place todig. Seeing his visitor was the women of the neighborhood eamo in j ly recommeaded, with letters represent-; possession of a forlunethat pays her an which in its death struggle fell over the 4 tenderfoot dressed in store clothes, ; gtid paid a brief visit. In going away Sal-, ing her to Vie engaged in philanthropic la income of $30,1X10 a year, rocks and rolled down the mountain side*, ‘be old man in the kindness of his big lie Johnson, one of them, took Mrs., bors, and who pretended to have a son, A reporter paid her a call as she vat in When the hunter reached his game he: 1 “’* 11 ' answertd 'Young man, go up on Wilson'shand and held it qnite a long ' the Kev. Mr. Charles Allen, in this city a Central palace car waiting for the Main
ini-^bc hillside in the shade of yonder green j time. As soon as the party left, Mrs M rs. A lien soon came to bo the ruling | to start. He found her occupying a seat
hand, scoured the plans on horseback as a scout, and became an expert in the business; helped found the City of Leadville, being the first white woman who ever dared venture there, mapped out rolds, built houses, took in washing from the Leadviile miners, and is to-day in
found it lying on the outcrop of an im- - - — — — r—-j — , menso galena ledge, which he soon aftor ,ree an( l dig, and fortune will smile. The iVilson’s arm began swelling, and by , spirit of the establishment, and at once ( acing her daughter Cora, and around sold fora good Tound sum —(igurcs not youth did not ‘•tumble” to the sarcasm night the swelling had reached the ahoul-; assumed a complete control over the 1 her was piled numeiona bundles oflug-
t of the experienced man hut went forth 1 der. This was followed by fearful '"in the early days of California a p 00 r wi, b W t0 ‘b 0 sbade of the great tree burninga in her head, and iho swore
prospector sadly out of luck, was return
as directed dug and found a fortune in
wig to his eamp*after night when he was |than an hour. But this is a lie-
assailed by a vicious dog. Having no
Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, Backache, Soreness of the Chest, Gout, Quinsy, Sore Throat, Swellings and Sprains, Burns and Scalds, Genera! Bodily
Pains,
Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted weapon wiib which to stand oil his eneFeet and Ears, and all other my, ho felt around in the dark and laid Pains and Aches. hold of the first thing he could catch V. sure, Hhupif an i cheap Enema! which watt a hcafty rot:k. 1 ho dog had A trial rnuita but the ; sloped of C ou<se, ai.d the man kept the
stone in his hand until he was safe in his own cabin. In the morning he saw some thing bright on his missile of war and on closer examination ho found that the iroek was full of gold. He returned and j found the ledge from which the quartz boulder had floated sold it for a large
Prmnition
• - a no
Kerned)’ __
trifling nQtUy of 50 Ontl- and er« r> one enfferini; %rith pain can hate cheap and proof ol it*
etaiina.
Direction* in Eleven l.angt:a;;• , *. FObD BY ALL DEDOQIisTS AND DEALEBS
IN MEDICINE.
A. VOGELER A CO.. RaltimorCf Mil., U» H. A,
every word of it. 1 have hoard the same old story told as having happened in the lead mines of Wisconsin, in the gold miles of California, Montana, Colorado, the Black Hills, and Nevada and now I am only waiting to have some fellow spin it to me and locate the scene in Idaho, and forbearance will then and there
cease.
she had a bullet in her eye. Then her
\ .Han I'riKns He mg Drat and II ii in It for Tour Years.
2.—Four years ago
,. i . .t ,, . naiiv id, »•«,«■■ about forty vears of amount ot money returned to the btates, , , . , . , , . . . r • , , . age, made his appearance in the neighbor-
bought a farm, married, and raised ai, , . ~
, r ■, * t-.u hood of Guthrie, this county, and ever
large family of children. , . , .
... i . ■ since that time, until Thursday morning. About four years ago a poor hut in J
Rr.nioet', January
j Harry Tell, ^ uf-p maito h
younger sister, Miss Hammell. A quarrel gage. Bhe expressed herself as glad to with the elder sister led to Mrs. Allen’s grant an interview, and pleasantly said.
j _.. y expulsion from the house, and her arrest “Sit down there by Cora and I will talk fingers became useless, and she had to j and sentence, on conviction, to jail for six with you." Cora is a handsome girl of take to her bed. weeks for assault. At the end ofthis about seventeen summers, and as she asSeveral of the leading white doctors | time she made her appearance again, sentod to tho proposition the reporter were called, and all saw that the woman ! however, asserted her old influence over did not deliberate, but readily took a seat
was suffering very much; but they could Miss llammell, and compelled to go away j by her side. -
do nothing for her. Her husband then with her, notwithstanding the protests of | Mrs. Kay commenced by saying, with a went to a neighboring county, and bto'i j ’.he cider sister. This was the last heard hearty laugh: "Now I'm not joing to tell Henry Henderson, of Koanoake, a fa- of her until Friday, when she was dis-iyou how old I am, for I may’want »o get mous “conjure doctor,” to look at his covered confined in a little room, the | married again when I get to Now York.”
wife. “She’s done been conjured,” said ■ doors of which had been nailed up, six tho doctor. The husband then asked 1 by ten feet, in an old mansion at Fiushtho conjurer to sit down. It seems that I mg, L. I. Her sister had tnado every eftbo four women present at tho com- I fort to find her, hut in vain. When found mcnciment of the trouble were then in ' she was barefooted, had on only three
and was so weak from
the room, and tho doctor, looking at > filty garments,
them, said be must decline to sit down,, hunger that sb-- could scarcely stand, as there were four devils in tho room, j She had been imprisoned in this place,
dustrious prospector In this county had t , .. , . , . .
[the misfortune (or good fortune) to lose ' 1 an y person as <Mr iear< nm tfm j c t nc di c i nt . s . The effect
At this all four fled, nnd the doctor ! without a spark of fire,
Kneeled down and prayod. and applied
has boon considered deaf and dumb,
least, if any person has
It was an old bay horse, and ^ ef ” r0 t ^ lI ®_° ! for frcrn her arrn " nd breast
I
and with only a
loaf of bread for food furnished every three davs since the middle of November.
.. ~«.-4 b.,^wijrxsiT
l' l '| IS ! HM „ r if,, rrr W n>‘* cd int0 th,! 8t0r0 ofMr - J * mo8 !fromthattimo6hehegantoimprovorapitreatedbyMr8.Allen,whodurinBaUthat I e mas cr pro.-pec c or q a 1 ' i Tincher, in Guthrie, and commenced Lj, A doren negro witnesses corrobo- time had kept her a prisoner, who had rr:. v a3ne ° . 'IrobahTv ,alkin *> mueht0 the sur P risoof lhmt Ren ’I rated this ramarkahle story, and swore compelled her to surrender to her a Vank u i r an m was wen »( p . t i enian ji 0 Mr. Tinchor that ho t 0 have seen the lizard and ground pup book representing a deposit of $4lX), am
, because the bunch gi ass was far and few ^ his doafnegs ftmJ dumbness ^ husband then .ecus- who had even forced her to sign a paper >n<o a fortune. &c. She owna buildings .between. At «ny rate the pr«*pocto, for a ccsUin purp08e| and h . ving , ccoin . • Johnson of having conjured his conveying to her (Mrs. Allen) the prop-(in Leadville that rent for $2,000. month. ; desired to move camp hut could not do ( whM h<) . ntcndcd hc woM h(?re- S . w.-kor'ertv which she fMiss H.mmell) owned, Her career has been a peculiarly so without the ass-.sunce0fh. s hay com-1 * furtslk 1|ke othcr ppop)e . „ c bM ^ bUb^e was jointly with her widowed siator. Tho : eventful and excting one that would
waysboen looked upon as a queer and. enablc(J con j uro Mr8> u-jlson, and so indignities and outrages to which she
Then she wi-nt on to say that she came from the North of Ireland to New York City when she was firiee;i and married a book-keeper named Joseph Ordway. Her husband a year later, and ihe wot to Leavenworth, Kan., *roni then<’ r ‘ to Denver, and finally m IhTli to Leadviile In Denver sho married a minor r.au.ed Frank Kay, hut he died soon a Ter. She told how in Leadviile she braved the dangers and storms of winters before there were buildings there te inhabit howCora had to bo kept wrapped up in heavy blankets to keep her from freezing while she pursued her task of building a hut; how, when the place become settled she saw tho land sho had taken up turn
panion. He must needs And him. was at last successful and while return-i {ing with the truant hc noticed tho b au ! ' of a mountain rain sticking in the rocks. {Stopping to examine it he saw rich-look-ing quartz scattered about, and following' it up, hc hit upon what is now the noted
-the longest and richest |
career has been a
one that
bear a more extended notice than can
eccentric sort of an individual, and will' W i| S on determined to kill him. had ocen subjected make a startling talc, well be given in a single issue of a daily now be regarded with more curiosity; T h c nffair has caused the wildest con- but tho most surprising part of it is the paper. . he grew eleqnent as she related than ever. ; storn.tion among the negroes, and Walk- j meekness with which the young woman her adventures, and her eyes sparkled as
erisan outcast among them. No one J submitted to her wrongs, and suggests will dare to associate with him, and all ; the fact, which is borne out by b'-r own
A Futher’s Uritfiiliiy.
Newahk, O., Jan. 24 —Intelligence of a
most atrocious
fly from him whon he approaches, dread-
kamshorn M.ne-tnc longest anur.cmsi^ atrocioU8 an ,j jnhuman cfimc
silver ledge that we know of. The d.s-! rc#ch#d lhe ci , y t0 . njght , John Cummins, iDR tho t0,Tiblc art wh,ch th,, y bolievt - trict was named Bay Horse, as it should' a fanncr of well . to . do c i rcum8Unce6 IiT . him to possess. The Mayor of the town
■ ’ ' ’ .-‘.2 J I -2.1 1
will be petitioned by many of tho colored citizens of the town to make Walker leave the place. It is feared that Walker will be waylaid and murdered by some
have been and is the richest silver dis- 1 . ...... . . , ,, , ... mg near Amsterdam, in this countv, for trict in the Salmon River county. ; „ • i i / i • i ., i some misdeed of his seven-year-old son, I knew a man once who followed m,D-, tookth0 , )oy t0 (he bnrn and ntjlodhi8 ;
! mi? and t ) , r ° S l . PC 1 ft ‘ ng for a 0 tongue fast to the end of a heavy stick f , years. He had been all through Uh-! of wood ^ lhcn tic(] the 0 , hcrend of of the incensed negroes.
foriiift, Colorado, and Monuna, and had tl . r a a i » i . • ———
. ’ . , the stick fast to tho manner, and idmini*
prospected twenty-l.ve years ,o Georgia, terod a wost cruel beatjng t0 tho boy 1 * « ruel Slopmoll.er. j before coming West. He wns not much , %nd Jeft h . m jn tb&t condilion for ovcr Ft. Waynk, Im>„ Jan. 23 —A terrible on digging deep holes but he would go Thjs occurred on Siitu . affair occurred about five miles from this round hunting for shallow diggings sol ovon . n _ n(1 tMg mnrmn? thnhov wg8 city . • ^ . , ,
story, that the is weak-minded, if not actually an imbecile. Two years ago, however, before she had fallen into the power if Mrs- Allen, she is said to havo been more than ordinarily intelligent. Altogether tho story is one of the strangest true tales ever told in a newspaper, and
“I saw my old man once sit on a horse and shoot seven Indians without stopping, And I'vo done something like it mysoli. Young man,'she added, with a quiet twinkle in her eye, I've shot more Indians than you’ve got fingers and toes. You wouldn't think, to look at roe, would you, that I've gone out on tho
newspapers tell many strange true tales. |-nountnin side, up to my waist in snow
1 and staked cut the streets oi I.eadville' The “Last Man” has died, the same be-, But it s ’’
ing Dr. John K. V.tt.cr, of Cincinnati. In ^a.d .he d.dn t know how long she mz while tho cholera was raging in would stay in New \ o,k. Her properly
others ;io Leadviile was attended to by agents.
unting lor st.ai.ow a.ggings so. ven5i)g ond thfs niorn)ng tho bo cuy. A Mrs. Parker, wife of a well-to-1 Cincinnati, Dr. Yattier and six iho boys would stake him. RCnt sc ^ 00 | as ugua ] jjjp j oac | ier on do fanner named Oliver Parker, whipped | formed themselves into a society, agree
a. a.— u j—ua__ ' .nr* mrrut nnrn a vear. eDioy s dinner! aw *J long as she fedt disposed.
YTT A T’ TT S lon 8 as tho b °y s woula ,,8take ” h,,,, 'lsent to’school asusual. The teacher on do rnr,ner natned , - M,ver r, * rl<or ’ wr,, PP ofl ! W A A WA A 109 Ho was getting worn out prospcctins; scvora , occ , sions lricd t0 forco tho lad t0 and_be.tbor_fourteen-yc.r-oW daughter, ^ ^ ™ et “ nC0
a year, enjoy
FINE JEWELRY,
3 n. o c ik: s
SILVERWARE.
Spectacles, Gold Pens
Hold Headed Canes,
j <»“ of luck and when on the 24th day of, ||pcak an<J nt , a( . ti by threats, drew from ^ bat _ sb “ r{rtCts thP 1 ""^berdied Iho'vacancy wa? not filled, j *hout one hundred ar.d forty pounds, and
Jdy 18;i4, he camped on a tributary of above particulars This so Prickly Pear Creek, in northern Mon- . a , 4 , . . . . .
aroused the tracnor that he camo to this
! city, this erening and swore out a
tana, he said to his three companions,:
j “Let’s sink a hole on this har; iF.‘he nt for Curaming , om . gt and Constablo ; last chance; if we r.n-t find it bor ® *,’i’ 8 y lor bag departed for
, father,
whipping a short time alter.
ISHIPLEI’S!
Nothin, but 1’irft elasn uooif, sold,
i -i<‘ Uncpt Itetulator ever brought to Indinoa 1 .pribij "P llilll.
hm arrived nnd will horeufti-r be tho
standard time ol'Putnani
County,
. . . i laviorr.as ueuaileu mr ima uiuiv oi » davit that he believed tho cl.ilii came to
don t Know where next to prospect.” EtC ! ^ bc y 0ut ’8 ,jr mc,nbfcrf5 ‘^ e pxrty put H j the hole to bed rock, the diggings wore
named Last Chance, and two years later g HEI qyvillk Iki.,,
the old man threw away his too!3, and tim0 after dinner to-day mr. - 0 -
wenthomo to fieorgia with a joyful 0 f \v 8S bington townehip, this coun- evidently made with a stove poker, and anniverenty alone, his last companion heart and $100,C'JO in clean gold dust,; ty attempted suicide by shooting. Haw- : which probably caused death. having been buried a short time previous j hut not until he had seen the city of a witness in a case nowon trial Sherifl Cosgrove on Saturday arrested Nothing sadder can be imagined that sol-
Helena, the metropolis of Montana,; bcI . e( and on j ar t Saturday gave in his | the entiro family. They waived exami-
was going to try and during her rctnniuing
Tho body of the child was exhumed I hut tho absentee’# plate and chair were j •. rugged and chipper. As she hade the
by Coroner Gaffney by the demand of placed at tho table, as usual, at the next reporter good day sho remarked that she
her uncle, Cyrus Fike, who made an afti- anniversary. A bottle of wine, secured j whs happy, and this brute of a dav ' t ,bat be believed the child came to in a casket, was laid away, to be drank by make others sc
j her death by means of cruel blows ad-- the "Last Man” as ho sat solitary at the ’ J' e » r8 -
, ministered by her stepmother. The body itahle, in the presence of the six empty! .4 Perjured YY'ttne*». ! was found to be one mass of welts and 1 chairs and upturned plates of his comJan. 24.—A short! bruises (rom head to foot, the principal'radcs who had crossed over tho dark
Mr. Geo. Haw- wound being a large welt on the head. ’ ' "
nver. In D-55 Dr. Yattier celebrated the
evidence. After leaving the stand he nation until Monday, and were lodged in
had!jail. Tho neighbors all agree that the
itarv meal ol tho “Last Man,” nnd as he quaffed the memorial bottle, mellowed j with ago, ho doubtless felt the viewless!
Krill Tstair Transfers.
Anna Malkins to Wm.Girtoa, 150 satis
in Washington tp., for $5,110»
Jane Rudisil to Surrilda Huffman, lot No. 11^, pt. No. *55 0. I’. Grecncastle, $1 Francis M. Ghormley to James Ed-
wards, lot No. 20, Koachdale, for $05.
Robert T. Bridges et'al. to Henry C. Darcall, 70 aTes in Monroe tp. for
1 Only lust Augusta prospector in the j to j d 8eTera l persons that what he hadljad- The neighbors all agrea that tne 1 $7 7(t.> Lower Wood River country met with an sw . orn to was not ttu°. The Judge b.v-j child had been whipped and beaten daily presence of his companions around him., j [ n y G1 ' W f W
over since Mrs. Parker married her father. Bach succeeding year Dr. V.ttfcr, true to ^ ^ ^ - 4 ^* ,M •" “ -vr•• » r »r*“
give their evidence against her. ( the awful presence ui >u« j ackson , (- or || j-y Saturday evening deceased’s brother j »nd went ‘brough ^the^ ^"^y crreim.ny , I)#vjd ( , hafJd to Kdwin „ „ jddle |anH
in Jackson tp. for $275.
confessed that on their way to school he of dining. T hough not ordinarily ri 0 ard struck her on the head with a club and ed as a sentimental man, it is said that the
The statement is not I rocurrt ‘ nco
of each solemn celebration
unexpected streak of luck that astonish- )n g beard of this had Hawkina subpeena ed him. While on his way across from cd that hc m i ght g 0 hack. on tho stand Bellevue to ‘ roy ( oflon the pack on his and ma i(c the statement, there. Deputy horse became loose, and in order tonI-l Shen(r j araeg McGill had him in charge, just it he dismounted. While rcarrang- and as { b ev neared the Court House ing it 1m saw something at his foot that galo ] Ia ^ kirm drow ft . <ma ll revolver
j rescmhled r^rh silver Boat. ’ He traceil; b is pocket, placed it at tho side of oaused her death. *
it up tot.ic ledge, which was only :i his head and discharged it. Tho ball believed by any one, as it is thought he told upon him, and that ho grew to dread short '.stance away, and found that he j onttr(!< j t b 0 gca i p j us t a bove and back of j is frightened into making it. There is no it worse than ho dreaded death. The had one of the best "prospects’in Wood i the r ; g b tear, struck the skull, glanced' evidence that her father has beaten her, solemn feast will be celebrated no more.,
R-.ver. He located the original and two and ou t a hout an inch from but simply allowed his wife to have her!The "Last Man” has joined his eompan-, 04 ” "
1 extensions, and the best ore in the vein wbt ,j. 0 ^ entered. Dr. \V. F. Green | own way in abusing his first wife's chil- i ons -—Indianapolis Review. Recently d rt'ssed the wound, which is not a serious dren. who was a sister to Fike, who or-' ' J '
Ahhio Howard was driven from home ' lsbi ‘ ocd
in Pendor County, S. C., with her baby
Martha Goodalo to Charles Goodalc. land in Grecncastle tp. for $1,4*>0. James S. Kcc to Samuel Lloyd, 19 acres in Clinton township for $2 000.
Vosburg to James Taylor K. Lnl Grecncastle for
assays up into the'thousands, ueccniiy dressed tbc wound, wincn is noi a serious ■ —. ,
hc sold out fora snug little fortune. „ no Hawkina was laboring under th< der 1 ttie examination. Ahhio Howard was driven lYom home;
- - ... land ;n Jefferson
t” Joseph C. Nichols.
On a mountain trail in California there d L .| lls ion that he had been arrested fot . aml Marion tps., for i used to be a big boulder which furnisb- perjury, and prefert-ed death to punish-j An Ohio paper proposes to number in her arms Sho wandered ten miles ’ ed a favorite resting placo for tired foot- men f. He is near forty years old, and i'h 0 honrf ' of a d# y and night consecu-; that day, and at night was permitud by a'. A. h. Key to Samuel Lloyd, 25 acres men. Thousands of men had sat on that, |,ns a family of three children lively from 1 to 24, or from midnight to farmer to sleep on tho Imre floor of an in 1 Bnton tp., for $800. stone and rested their weaiy limbs. In midnight, thus doing away with a. si. outhouse, but hc would give her nothing . fact it was of so peculiar shape that it < amp Meeting John Allen, the chap- and r. u. in railway time tables and else- to eat, and drove her away in the morn- .o' 0 *.,,. "VYimi * seemed to (it every one who tried it. ,, *' n ‘he Maino House of Ropresenta- where. 1 ho advocate of tho proposed ing. On the second evening she stagger- inducing the Legislature ' t.>^ Y *1 ^ ^ With long usage it had worn cs smooth lives prayed that God would make the new method says that there is no more ed into a bouse where a religious meet- and will endeavor only (o substitui^ as ivory, and was greasy with frequent ' now Governor as wiso as a serpent and reason tor having two 12 ©’clocks in one ! ing was being held, and begged the w or- *omc easier means of death for hanging 'contact with miners’ clothing. One day as harmless as a dove.” Tho Goveancr ( day than there is for two twolvo-nule ' shippers to pray for her. She had killed in i r° rphino mi 8ht he used 1 an old prospector squatted himself upon 1 thinks there was sarcasm in’that prayer, posts rn a twenty-four mile railroad. her child, being unable to feed it. ptoce of the noose. r, '' ccomn,end ,u in