THE ROMENTIC CAREER OF A PENNSYLVANIA BOY.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1214, 5 June 1885, Page 4

THE ROMENTIC CAREER OF A PENNSYLVANIA BOY.

Nearly forty years ago, in South Huntington township, Westmoreland (Pa), lived John Hinton # He was an orphan hoy, rude and uneducated, and had wandered there from the neighborhood of Musontown, Payette County. With no known relatives, he was kicked about from one family to another till manhood. Knitting then in the regular army, he served in the Florida war. At its close he helped to escort the Oherokees beyond the Mississippi. From Indian Territorv he went to New Orleans and shipped as a comm n sailor on a vessel bound for the Fast Indies. At the city of Madias, on the western shores of the Envoi Bengal, he deserted, and enlisted in a British regiment. He served many years, and during the memorable Sepoy rebellion was noted for his daring bravery At his discharge he was presented with a gold medal by the Governor-General himself. He is next heard of travelling in a carravan fiom Delhi westward across the Indus Eiver, through Afghanistan and Persia, to Turkey and hack. In time, from tradi g, he became immensely wealthy, and was the owner of five carravans, containing Over 13,000 horses and camels, and fifty elephants In ! 861 he visited Cabul, the capital of Afghanistan, for copper, great quantities of which are there mined and smelted. His magnificent retinue attracted the at tention of the A meer, and he was invite i to an audience—an honor never before received by a Christian. A present of 100 of his best horses and a three-tusked elepha tmade hi Ameer his eternal friend. W heir yearly it was followed by similar presents, besides camels and merchandise. John Hinton had themonoply of trade from the summits of the Hindoo Koosh Mountains to the confines of Belochis4an, and in real power was second only to the Ameer himself. About 1870 he was made military commander f the district of Herat, a d ir. 1876 suppressed a local rebellion to the great satisfacion ol his sovereign. Trained in the arts of war among the 'savages of Noith America and among the superstitious Natives of India, 'where he became thoroughly familiar 'with British soldiers and resources, together with his years of service as 4he idolised commander of the Mohammedan tribal armies of Afghanistan, to tens of thousands of halt-civilised men, he is today the •-a'-lest soldier of Asia Desperate ifrora a knowledge ot the studied ‘diplomatic chicanery of the represent '-tatives of the Empress of India,with 'whom from fear, of treachery he refuses to treat, as we 1 as the Ameer, bribed “with millions of Russian roubles, he trill lead the armies of the followers ■of the Prophet to victory or to death. • • Frank Leslie’s Paper.’