The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1872-05-25
VOLUME l5. NUMBER 10


than any man In il. I've seen him
lick four Greascrs In eleven minutes
myself. II n thing wanted regula.
ting be- wasn't q man 10 20 browsing
around after somebody TO do it. but
he would pranee in and regulate 4.
himself. lie warn't Catholic but
il didn't make no difference about
that when II came down to what
mans rights was-and so, whea
some roughs jumped the Catholic
boneyard aud started in to stake out
town lots in it, he went for 'em
Aud he cleaned 'em, too! ! was
there, and seen il myself
"That was very well, indeed---at
least the impulse was--whether the
act was strictly defensible or not.
Had deceased any religious convic.
t,onsi That is to say, did he feel
q dependence upon or acknowledge
allegiance to higher powerf"
More reflection.
~ reckon you have stumped me
again, pard. Could you say it over
once more, and say 1t slow y
-" Well, to simplify it somewhat,
was he, or rather had he been, con.
nected with any organization seques-
tered from secular concerns and de.
voted to self-sacrifce in the interests
OF morahtyp
L" An down but nine--set EN- up
on the other alley, pard.'
"What did | understand you to
sayl"
"Why, you're most too many for
me, you know. When you get in
with your left, | hunt grass every
time. Every time You draw you
fill; but | don't seem to have any
luck. Let's have a new deal"
How! Begin again!'
"That's it.
"Very well. Was he u good man,
and"
There--I see that don't put up
another CHIP till | look at my hand,
A good man, say your He was tho
best man that ever--pard, You would
have dotted on that man. Hc could
lam any galoot Of his inches in
America. It was him that put
down the riot last election before it
got start, and everybody said that
he was the only man that could have
done It. He waltzcd in with .
trumpet in one hand and spanner
with the other. lie sent fourteen
men home on shuttor IN less than
three minutes. He had that riot all
broke up and prevented nice before
anybody got a chance to strike .
blow. lie was always for peace, and
he would have peace--he could not
stand disturbances. Pard, he was
great loss to the town. 1t would
please the boys II you could chip in
something to do him justice. Here
once, like when the Micks got to
throwing stones through the Meth.
odist'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 applyp And they didn't.
| lie was the bnlliest man in tho noun
tains, pard he could run faster, hit
harder, jump higher, and hold more
tangle-foot whisky without spilling
than any man in seventeen counties.
Put that in, pard; it'll please tho
boys more than anything you could
say. And you can say, pard, that
he never shook his mother"
"Never shook his motherl"
"That's it--any OF the boys will
tell you So"
"WeIl, but why should he shake
herr"
"That's what | say--but some
people does"
"Not people Of any reputeY'
" Well, some that averages pretty
$3.50"
"In my opinion, man that
would offer personal violence to his
mother ought to-"
"Cheese it, pard; you've banked
your ball clean outside the ring,
What 1 was drivin' at was that be
never Mrowed off on his mother
don't you sce7 No, indeedy. He
gave her house to live in, and town
lots and plenty Of money; and he
looked after her and took care 81
her all the time; and, when she wa,
down with the smallpox, In
damned If he didn't sit up nights ant
nuss her himself! Beg your pardon
J for saying it, but it bopped out tot
quick for yours truly. You'v'
: treated me like a gentleman, and
amt the man to hurt your feeling
: intentional. I think you're white
/ think you're square man. ! lik
, you, and Ill lick any man that don't
I'll lick him till he can't tell himsel
J. from a last years corpse! Put
thcre!" Another frantic handshak
. and exit.
Q The obsequies were all that 9TH
J, boys" could desire. Such a marv'
Y OF funeral pomp had never been see
: in Virginia. The plumed hears
: the iirge- breathing brass-bands, Il
. closed marts Of business. the flag
Q dropping at half-mast, the long plot
6 ding procession Of uniformed seer,
Z societies, military battalions and fl
i companies, draped engines, carriagt
q Of officials and citizens in vehicle
2 and on foot, attracted spectators I
Il the sidewalks, roofs and windo ~
8 and, for years afterward, the degre