The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-06-07

right. There will be kerridge 70
you; and whatever you want, yo,
just 'scape out aud we'll tend to it
| We've got a shebang fixed up for yol
TO stand behind in No. rs house, an,
don't you bc afraid. Just 20 in ant
tcOt your horn, if you don't sell a clam
Put Buck through as bully as you can
pard, for anybody that knOw'd him
will tell you that he was one of The
4 whitest men that WAS ever in the
mines. You can't draw it too strong
He never could stand it to see thing,
going wrong. He's done more to make
this town peaceable than any man in
it. I've seen him lick four Greasers in
eleven minutes, myself. If a thing
wanted regulating, he wasn't maH
! to go browsing around after somebody
to do it, but he would prance in and
regulate it himself. He warn't q
Catholic; but it didn't make no diff
ference about that when it came down
to what 4 mans right was-and so
when some roughs jumpted the Catho.
lie bOneyard aud started in 10 stake
out town lots in it, he went for 'em
And he cleaned 'em, too! l was there,
and seen it myself"
"rhat was very well, indeetl-at
least the impulse was-whether the act
was strictly defensible or not. Had
deceased any religious convictions
That is to say, did Ire feel a dependence
or acknowledge allegiance to higher
pOwerw
More reflection.
81 rekcon you have stumped me
again, pard. Could you say it over
once more, and say it slow ?" "Well,
to simplify somewhat, was he, or rather
had he been, connected with any or
gauizatiOn seIuestered from secular
concerns and devoted to self-Sacrifice
in the interests of mOrality?"
''All down but ninc-set 'em up OH
the other alley, pard."
''What did 1 understand you to
say?,
"Why, you're most too many for me
you know. When you get in with
your left, L hunt grass every time.
Every time you draw your fill; but L
don't seem to have any luck. Let's
have Il new deal"
allow. Begin again?n
"That's it,"
every well. Was he good man,
and
'.There-I see that; don't put up
another chip till | look at my hand.
a good man, say IS you? Pard, it amt
no name for j.. He was the best man
that ever-pard, you would have dotted
on that man. He could lam any gOloot
of his inches in America. 1t was him
that put down the riot last election
before it got a start. and everybody
said that he was the only man that
could have done ii. He WaltZed in
with 4 trumpet in one hand and a
spanner in the other. He sent four
teen men home on shutter in less
than three minutes. He had that riot
all broke up and prevented nice before
anybody ever got a chance to strike a
blow. He was always for peace, and
he would have pcace-he could not
stand disturbance Pard, he was a
great loss TO The town. 1t would please
The boys if you could just chip in some
thing that would do him justice. Here
once, like when the Micks got to
throwing stones through the Metho-
dist's Sunday school windows, Buck
Fanshaw, all of his own notion, shut
up his saloon and took a couple of six
shooters and mounted guard over the
Sunday school. Says he, 'No Irish
need applyv And they didn't. He
was the bulliest man in the mountains,
pard he could run faster, jump higher,
hit harder, and hold more tangle foot
whisky without spilling than ANY man
in seventeen counties. Put that in,
pard; it'll please the boys more than
anything you can say about him. And
you can say, pard, that he never shook
his mothcr.,'
"Never shook his mOther?
"That's it-auy of the boys will tell
you 500
"Wcll, but why should he shake
her?"
"That's what L say-but somePeople
does"
Not people of any repute?"
"Well, some that averages pretty So
So"
an my opinion, man that would
offer personal violence to his mother
ought to"
"ChFese it, pard; you've banked
your bali clean outside The string.
What / was drivin' at was that he
never thrOwedOff on his mother-dOn't
you see? No, indecdy. He gave her
a house TO live in, and town lots and
plenty of money !; he looked after her
and took care of her all the time; and
when she was down with the small
pox, Pm damned if he didn't sit up
nights and nuss her himself! Beg your
pardon for saying it, but it hOppcd out
too soon for yours truly. You've treat
ed me like a gentleman, and L amt
the man to hurt your feelings inten-
tional. | think you're white. | like
you, and I'll lick any man that don't.
I'll lick him till he can't tell himself
from a last years corpse Put it there.
Another fraternal hand-shake and
exit.
The obsequies were all that ''lhe
boys" could desire. Such Il marvel OF
funeral pomp had never been seen in
Virginia. The plumed hearse, the
dTge-breathing brass bands, the closed
marts of business, the flags dropping at
half-mast, the long, plodding procession
of uniformed secret societies, military
battalions and fire companies, draped
engines, carriages Of officials and citi-
zens in vehicles and OH foot, attracted
multitudes Of spectators to the side
walks, roofs and windows; and, fol
years afterward, the degree of grandeur
attained by any civic display i'll Nir-
ginia WAS determined by comparison
with Buck EaushaW'S funeral.