Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-31


ly treated, given care, medicine an
medical attention.
Much is detailed BY Pollard calcu
lated to create a sympathy and othe
false impressions which VIC do not in
tend to notice.
TODD AT BRINKLEY.
Ten days olapse. Rev. Todd conc
to Brinkley, having rusticated som.
eight miles therefrom, bringing hi
brother, a cripple from childhood, il
a dying condition. Shortly after ar
irving Rev. Todd purchases from tn
a~pOthecary store half an ounce o
opium and %retires to his room. A
they were en- route to Little Rock
where a married sister lives, and a
whose house the cripple desired Z
breathe his last, the proprietor of th,
Brinkley Hotel was requested to hav,
them awakened at train time, some.
where about the hour of II pm. Ii
approaching Brinkley from the east
coming to Little Rock, there is ,
twenty mile tangent oyerground, not
differing twenty feet in elevation tn,
headlight of a locomotive is seen
thirty minutes before arrival. The
light being seen, and the train OF
schedule hour nearly arrived, the pro
prietor went with a eOlored porter and
lamp to get the cripple down, and
with his brother, the Rev. Todd, to
have them in readiness on the plat
form; the Rev. Todd came down
into the hall, and, as the eolored por-
ter testiies, acted wild and strangely.
and slipped out at the back
door when none were noticing and
went none knew where. In his posi-
ton in the hall he could see no mask
ers, as the front hall door had been
locked all day and the key in the pro-
prietOrs pocket. The proprietor, the
colOred porter, the strangers and
cripple Todd himself saw no masked
men, although cripple Todd was on
the platform. About dusk the apoth-
eeary called upon the Rev. Todd and
testi6es that Todd acted like a crazy
man. Was it the opium? If he ran
from masked men he alone saw them
Of all men on earth, as they existed
only in his Imagination. The evidence
universally denies the existence of a
bad state of feeling toward these men ,
the existence of a threat or the shadow
of a disposition on the part of the
citizens Of Brinkley for these two
harmless clergymen teaching the col
ored people the elements Of Chris
tianity.' Gangs OF masked men -
are creatures of your correspondent
pencil as much as of poor Todd's dis
ordered brain, the dose of eredulity
being in proportion to his dose of
opium.
STARVED TO DEATH.
The proprietor and the porter, with
lamp, looked in vain for the fleeing
parson, and, vexed with the unex-
pected conduct, the proprietor ex-
pressed himself as outraged by the
conduct of a man deserving his sick
and crippled brother, thus leaving
him upon the mercy of strangers.
The cripple was properly cared for,
his wants being supplied by sympa-
thizing strangers.
Rev. Mr.. Todd went into a dense
wilderner Of lakes, bayous and cane.
uDinhabited was lost, l suppose, and
at the end Of seven days had jour
neyed only ten miles. Are you, then,
surprised that the mar died? With.
out a single morsel of food for seven
days. | have given you a plain state
ment of facts, Invested of any desire
Of being accessory to a martyr scheme
and with a fellow-feeling of the deep
est sympathy for the poor. suffering
wanderer. Your Look Here!" edi.
torial abounded in expressions of
=" brutes, brutality and pertinent
or, rather, Observation-Disclosures
And as you have made them you shall
be answered. You have made the
unauthorized aud sweeping assertion
that it is resolved by the brutes Of
Brinkley, hat no minister of the
gospel who carries the Word Of God
to the colOred people shall be allowed
to stay there.
The colored people have been
preached to and are preached to have
a church built for them by one of your
sO-called brutes, the same brute
donating the ground. ol rs
a colOred man and brother kindly
consented to make the collections Of
his brother communicates for the
payment of constructing the house OF
worship, and, having su. ceeded well.
departed on a foreign mission, his
whereabouts not being known, and
one Of the brutes feels himself a
martyr to a certain extent.
QUESTIONS ANSWERED.
You ask, Is there no decent.
Christian public opinionin Arkansas
1t you mean to ask if our people are
a God-fearing, law-abiding aud Sab
bath-keeping people, rendering unto
all peOple-Jews and Gentiles, black
and white-equal religious freedom
and federation, we answer you YES
verify. We answer your first question
last because it Was the keenest cut
and a premeditated stab" Who i,
governor of Arkansas ?" We viii
presume this was feigned ignorance
and may have been in keeping with al.
the rest. W, r. Miller was elected o
three contestants as the governor O
this State. He has never been charged
with a dereliction of duty in this o.
any other case. People are as free ant
untrammeled in the discharge of ever
duty, social, religious or political. al
they are in New York or any otheI
State. The governor instituted &
thorough examination of this cas-,
through his private secretary and thu
coroners jury, and promptly arrested
the marshal of Brinkley, who is nov
under bonds awaiting the action of tn,
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