Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-21
a QUEER CASE.
An Alleged Black Hitler Amuses a Re-
porter with Half Hour of
Erratic. Gossip.

Chicago Post, 18th: "Wlsu su....l,5,,
would invite me to take a chew of tobacco. ="
A reporter of the Post was walking leis-
urely along Washington street last evening,
helping himself to a morsel of the savory
weed, when the above remark greeted his
ear. He looked up to see a medium sized,
heavily built travel stained man; horny
handed, with brickdust on his shoulders; a
heavily bearded face, and a genially-twink-
ling eye peering out from under the brim of a
time-worn hat.
The chew desired was proffered and ac-
cepted.
You might mistake me for beggar.
am not. l asked for the tobacco merely for
fun. You will find me a man of intelligence
and education. You think so. Thank ZEE.
Yes, sir, my names Charles Stuart. No re-
lation to the unfortunate queen, but still a
[? How old do you think l am? Forty!
No, sir, am ffty-six. Don't look like it
know. That's because | am always happy,
have good spirits, love my wife and children,
and know they love me. Yes, sir, love my
family. Every man cannot say that with
the same hearty sincerity can. Now, you
see, Just got. In this morning from the Black
Hills. There were four thousand departures
from there at the same time. | am on my
way home to Detroit, where | have nice
little home and some property. Don't Judge
me by these clothes. A fellow that has
roughed it for five years in the west forgets
the fit of genteel attire. My son is prom
Using young lawyer in Detroit. Gave him a
good education. Did the same with my
Judge Lathrop's son. Oh, you
that Black Hills country is a
fraud, In so much as it is made to figure as a
gold field. That scheme to get folks out
there was another such sell as the old Pixies
Peak excitement. But it is one of the grand
est farming countries in the world. You can
get gold enough by the cultivation of the
ground, but not by digging the bowels of the
old mother soil. 1t is terrible to see the ag-
ony on the faces of many who get out there
only to find that they have been sold But,
Lord, | could work. | represent hard, honest
industry, which always has and always ex-
poets to get its bread from the sweat of its
brow. But everybody is not that way, and
they have to pull out and go. | am not broke,
though, mind you"
And Mr.. Stuart went down into his pocket
and drew forth a paper, containing an IN
known quantity of money.
"No, I've got twenty-five hundred dollars
with me, and couple of revolvers to protect
It, l saw Long John to-day. Bless you,
knew him twenty-five years ago. when it
walked along yonder with new coat on his
back, for fear he would have been robbed
Great fellow, that Long John. He used to
say Lynch law was the only thing to run
new town. From all l can hear, you need
Judge Lynch here now. Why, knew old
Storey when he was running his Detroit pa
per. | used to write for him then. | wrote
those Ferns from Across the Water for
which + amy Fern got credit. l gave them
to her. Why, bless her, she and | were
great friends. | have travelled some in my
day. | was with Livingstone in Africa: and
helped him in his search along the White
Nile. have been as happy with nothing
but breech-clout around me as any king.
scorched on the burning plains of Arabia and
froze on the Alps; have held high carnival IN
Japan and eaten rice with the Chinese. |
fought IN the army and was with Grant at
Vicksburg. have roamed the plains with
outlaws, greasers and Indians. Have been
almost every place where any one civilized
man has been. And now | come back to my
home, not having seen my wife in FIVE years,
to pronounce the Black Hills scheme fra1d.
Good day, young man. If ever you come to
Detroit ask for Charles Stuart, he will re-
member Won -