The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-10-09
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rrr PEOPLE OF WATER NALhHi
TuE RFALFACTs OF THE CASE
To the American I,ro,,r
w.rRR VALLEY, Miss, sept. - 81 80
issue OF the 5th inst, there oe Gtnbe- DemD-
,arvieIy between a st. LOUIS Hiop S'.inL
W. ~ r,,orter and one Mr.. Alfred II. oPinN'
- 80 ~ Inc here several weeks since a. a
ranartsr for the New 1ork neI ~ IL.
NJ Spiuk: son reaching NateI a.
III, a station about twenty mn hoi
M,' = vas Informed by the teie2ral het
- the oneratOr was 20 pusheu WIN "a =.
hnsiness chat he would not be aoIe 70 49, IN
~n-cfal- For that reason "A reI'olto, -. =, p
New York Times ana sIopPSeo thot
Wa.er Valley The hotel pIVtHWJ W., ,,o,I
MACE saluted US a. follows w mere a. -.
taiiows fromr From New 10TH, ~
sWeII Won can stop here to-nlghl, ou. II !
tind out i'm the morning that you am - "a,
NV York I'll put bullet throuS"
you. urDirigatrd
s,i.oIoo1 as i shown by Mr.. Spink own
words i'm mis- second report from thls PIaev
:, tbc New York Herald, in which ne sayS
Il was never treated with greater no. a.
inv anywhere This people th0 0S. I'll
trass,-d have not forgotten those lueI lcet
mos which prom pt them 10 the perform uCe
nf everything calculated 10 make stra,!S.
feel AT home" or language 70 0ll"o ~ y
and this report he took particular pans ,s, ~
SHOW TO many OF our citlzehS' az a. me
time reiterating sentiments such a. Wy =,
aLove All this. however, was uo!e ~ q
conctliatory manner, for he had III n'9 ~
reports told an outrageous IaiseHo'" "0'"'
The fare in this country n. ,,.,
Nov for the third falsehood he say : !
Three davs ago Kenny Lees a cliilth oil
Water Valley, died of yellow FEVER lheIe'
and not a soul in town would help bury the
corpse "a falsehood) John Becton''
Master Mechanic of the Jackson Ioute-
volunteered to do the work, calling on cltl
1sns RI as.isr. without receiving any re-
-nouse fAnytber falsehoOd.) Seeing ina
10 could nor get assistance, Mr.. Becton en-
tered the house where the deiu oouy ldy
and placing the body in the cohh' nc car
ried the buden on his shouIder out 10 81
WAGON he had i'm attendance. "A sun
greater falsehood) Upon IL he conveyed
ne dead BODY from there TO the cemetery,
where he alone and unaided buried it in the
grave" 4 worse ialsehoud stlll.)
Such a coneatenation OF ungrounded ana
Infamous falsehoods could not nave Deeh
fabricated by any other than this fellow
Alfred b Sphinx. who was made TO swallow
his false statements while here, but VINO
belches them forth in distant city, thereby
slandering a people who had thought hin "A
gentleman and treated him as one, ana OF
whose hospitality lie bad partaken' lie
himself says he left here for Grenada (hls
first and last visit 10 that place. on FRIDAY
morning. That was the day on WhIch MI
Lees died and was buried; consequently ne
could have known nothing about the burial.
Permit us to say Mr.. Lees was perfect
gentleman. beloved by AL who knew hlm'
and skillful, faithful ~ trusted engineer.
When he was taken sick he was brought To
the home of Mrs. |. Powell, OF tins place.
where he had been boarding. Ole OF our
best physicians was called to see him, ana
attended him until lis death. During his
sickness DR.. Warren Stone, Of New orleans,
was sent for Superintendent X n. Calquo-
houn kindly furnishing a special train TO
bring HING and came up and consulted with
his attending physician. Mrs. Powell, who
had the yellow fever. nurSed him like a
mother, aud Mr.. Felix Zucarello, machin-
list from Nashville, Tenn, stayed with him
day and night and car Il for him like
brother, and he it was when he died, placed
him in his coffin and sadly followed him to
his final resting place, whilst Messrs. VIM.
and j. +. Becton, John Kinley, j. j..
O'Rourke and others, did al they could tor
him. Mr.. j. +. Bectou. master mechanic Of
the Chicago, st. Louis IL New Orleans rail-
road, had known the father OF Mr.. Lees
long aud intimately, having at one time
served an apprenticeship under him. When
the son OF his old friend died he it was,
therefore, who wentI to the Mayor of our
town and asked permission to superlntend
the burial OF the corpse. Permission being
given he procured the coffin and assisted in
having it carried to the house, where Mr..
ZucarellO and some others had the remains
enclosed and conveyed TO the cemetery and
decently inferred in the Bccton family bury
ing ground. Though he died of an infec-
tious disease, many were the friends who
mourned and sym pathzed and offered their
services to do anything they could.
Such are the true facts, testified to by the
signature OF some Of the parties who were
participants in the sad affair. We feel that
this much is due the relatives aud to the
memory OF our departed friend, Mr.. Kinney
Lees.
DR. II. A. CANT,
j. Il BECToN,
Master Mechanic &. st. J.. d n. o. II. II.