The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-24
The audience amounted almost to mad,

moment as her tears flowed faster and
faster-tiH men wept and sobbed like
children.
He closed by a strong exhortation to
the jury, and throu h them to the
bystanders the panel, after they should
bring a verdict for the plaintiff not to
offer violence to the defendant, however
richly he might deserve it--in other
works, not to lynch the william, but to
leave his punishment to God. This was
the most arGful trick of all, and was cal
culated to insure vengeance.
The jury returned verdict of $50, 600,
and the night afterward Hopkins was
taken out of his bed by the lynchers and
beaten almost to death. As the court
adjourned, the stranger said: 'John
Taylor will preach here at early candle
light"
He did preach, and the house was
crowded. We have listened to Clay,
anything in the form of sublime words
even approximating TO the eloquence of
John Taylor, massive as mountain and
wildly rushing SIS a cataract of fire.
GEN. Pixies ACCoUET.
The story, said Gen Pike, as he blew
the smoke from a hundred-dollar meer-
schaum, has been going the rounds of the
press for twenty-five years So far as it
relates to me, it is emphatically not true.
In the first place l was never in Clarks-
vile, Texas, until the year 1862, during
the war with the, confederacy, and then
was engaged in business quite different
from that which usually engages the at
tentiOn of q lawyer. Chester Y. Ashley
was never in Clarksville, Texas, nor were
Ashley and myself ever engaged in 8
cause with Sargent S. Prentiss. Lastly,
[ never prosecuted a woman in my life,
and the dramatic colorIng to the scenes
in the courthouse, giving such brilliant
hues TO the eloquence of the unknown
defender of prosecuted innocence, is
wholly evolved from the imagination of
the stOry's original writer.
AN ARKANSAS GENIUS.
About the year 1887, Alfred A. AIRING.
ton came from Missouri to the north
western part of Arkansas, and there
settled. He had been preacher in the
state he left, but after reaching Arkansas
studied law, and soon became noted for
the brilliancy of his imagination and the
success which attended his practice in
| the courts. With the taste of the poet,
and much dramatic power, he won cele-
brity as reporter of trails that owed all
their brilliance and interest to the spark
ling fancy and gorgeous word painting OF
the writer. MI fetigit sed non OyndVn u
indeed, and to such extent did he carry
| his ornamentation that, under the simple
trial for the larceny of barrel of whisky
! distilled on the Arkansas river would be
| transformed to glowing and picturesque
romance of the spOiGngo of whole vintage!
of the purple Falernian in Arcadia, anf
Of the utter distressing of ATgtve nymph
by horned and hirsute satyrs. AmonJ
his most famous productions is the imagi
native report of trial in Conway county
Arkansas, where John Taylor and s
| beautiful Indian virgin are the centra
figures; "The Cane Hill Tragedy" 8
fanciful but powerfully-written account
of the doings of the regulators of Cane
! Hill, in the same state, and of Judge
! Lynch's judicial operations at that
| locality; and a novel, once deservedly
popular but now forgotten and unread
The Regulators of the Tanaha"
At CHICAGO AT LAST.
! Arrington's life was successful but
eventful. Leaving Arkansas he went tn
| Brownsville, Tex, and then dritted to
| Chicago, where he became the leading
| lawyer at that bar, and died in that city
Eve or six years ago. Judge Arlington
and the title was legitimate--left a
widow, now in one of the government
departments in this city, a lady of much
grace of person and many charms OF
mind.
JOHN TAYLOR APPEARS.
1t was about the same epoch when
Judge Arlington arrived in Arkansas
that there came from Alabama to Little
Rock a man made nationally famous by
the imaginative pen of Arlington, and
! locally still more celebrated by his OWL
eccentricities and genius, John Taylor
Morbid and misanthrOpic, envious oi
other men attaining a success which he
disdained to accept, with an intellect
broad enough to solve the most coInpre-
hensive problems, yet narrow to the
verge of obstinate ignorance, cordially
cOntemning the frivOlities ofsOciety, and
avoiding, yet burning to enjoy them, he
was cORgeTies of paradoxes, an insolublt
enigma, the study of which was at once
a fascinating and q disgusting pursuit
Tall, thin and meagre in person, swarthy
visaged, a galvanized cadaver whose
veins were filed with woTmwoOd and
gall, a malignant scowl the natural and
constant expression of his face, with 9
strange, peculiar habit of always pro
| tTuding his tongue from his lips; he
LOOKED AND MOVED LIKE SNAKE.
The touch of his hand was clammy and
as cold as the skin of a moccasiD, and
inspired equal disgust. He was said to bt
married, but few men saw his wife none
ever became acquainted with her. HI
lived alone with her, Stunned the society
of men, had no friends, and avoided
the Ishmael of the country, and the
most persistent and successful stirrer-uI
of litigation that ever practiced before al
Arkansas court. AS an attorney he was
respected for his intimate acquaintance
with the principles of law, and valued
for his ready familiarity with its prece
dents. His command OF language was
unTivaled It was a musical instrument
Obedient to his every touch, and he
played upon it with mastery skill. Hil
voice was exceedingly rich, sweet and
sympathetic, and its capacity to influence
q Jury extraordinary. Ne man ever
exceIled him in his command OF the vitu
5erative and sarcastic, in which he was
bitter, scathiDg and absolutely merciless
while in pathetic eloquence he could
melt the most obduTate, seemingly with
out object, and certainly without effort
| Yet be was not, strictly speaking, ar
orator.
ALMOST, BUT NOT QUITE.
This singular man had been politi
clan of some emineDee in Alabama (; IN
fact, at one time. was nearly successful
rival OF William r. King for seat in
the United States senate frozfi that state
A vague story sas occasionally family
told about Little Rock that he had bssE
disappointed in love, but no maa, look
iag in his serpeEt face and meeting hi
ae0wling sneer, ever felt disposed II
solicit his confidence. He was
THE GENIUS OF THE SHEER.
Human viztue, truth, honesty, femal
chastity sad nodesty were alike the OBJ