The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-02-06
OUR JAMES COUyTYLETTER.
Circuit COurt-The SheriGCase
Convict for "ArOund the
mOuntaIn"-a Phenomenon.

printer Jan. II, 1879. j simply wish
to correct that by assuring your read
ers that the revival, &C., therein mem
toned as occurring in 0oltewah, were
not of the 18th century but actually of
the 10th.
-TlIe meetings were continued three
weeks with an enrolment of thirty or
more conversions Since that event
circuit court has been held with a dis
position of cases as given in the alb
stract send you with this. OF these
cases the most interesting was that of
John w. Watkins VS.. S. J. Lewis, be-
ing the suit brought by Watkins as a
candidate atthe last election for Sher-
in, and charging Lewis and his friends
with Intimidation, fraud and force"
at the polls, whereby he, Watkins lost
the election. He further charged ir
his pleadings that Lewis was a default
er to the State and county Treasury, as
Tax Collector in ES74-5, thus incapaci-
tating him from holding office. The
attorneys for plaintiff were McNabb,
Edwards and Cook; for defendant,
Shepherd and Parker, An elaborate
recital pro and con was made by the at
torneys respectively, and some anu
sing features of the case developed.
While the defense argued that "a
drowning man would catch at straws,"
that Watkins WAS a kind of chronic
candidate for the Office of sheriff, hav-
ing "run" seven different times and
been defeated, the prosecution brought
out all the oversights and misgivings
of Mr.. Lewis. In brief the charges of
intimidation, fraud and force" against
Lewis, were not sustained, while that
of d~efalcation vas sustained, from
which Shepherd and Parker appeal to
the Supreme Court.
During the progress of our revival
the colorcd brethren were holding a
festival b. II of the vacant houses In
town, and were intruded upon by sew
eral railroad graYel-train negroes, who
stopped off to have a good time" and
''bust up de niggah festibull." Among
the crowd was one Charles Brown, a
mulatto of great muscular strength,
standing six feet without cOgs. He
sOOu made himself "master Of the stu
alton" by dealing heavy blows and
making threats to kill. or capture all
who came within reach of his mighty
arm. He was arrested by Parson Nap
per, colored, on the following morning
and bound over to court on Il charge of
'assault with intent to kill" tried and
sentenced to three years 'REEtund the
mountain" .
Your readers will perhaps be inter-
ested in an ccount of a phenomenon
20 be seen in this commuAity, pertain
ing toa photograph taken by nature,
of "A deceased old lady, who resided in
this community for many years. Nam
cy Mcdonald, who was a very reSpec-
table old lady who lived for many
years in a spacious, old-fashioned, two
story frame dwelling South of 0olte-
wah. She died last November, and
had been for slany years III invalid,
confined Ia. her room, and for the most
part "bcd ridden" She occupied the
northwest room of the lower story, her
bed standing in the northwest corner,
facing a common sized window in the
northwest corner, left of the fireplace.
On, the west side of the room there
is an old fashioned window with Sx10
lights, having side lighta 3x10. Her
bed, sometimes, was drawn in front of
this window where she could get a
view of the road and feed her imagina-
lions upon the lingering rays of the
setting sun. sShe has doubtless set for
hours perhaps meditating how "many
and many a deeting age hath faded
since the primal morn of time; and ST.
lently the slowly j~ourneying years all
rcdolent of countless ages, pass"
Since her death it was noticed by some
one passing that a very correct likeness
ofthe old lady was on one of the panes
Of glass of this west window, and upon
closer inspection that it resembled a
front view as though looking out upon
the road. PersonsS residing in the
house at this time had not noticed il,
as nothing uncommon can be seen
from the inside. News Of the singular
picture soon spread and since the dis
covery visitor of all shades of philo-
sophical research, numbering hun
dreds, have witnessed it. Those who
knew Mrs. Med. best, her physician,
DIR. Roddy, her nelghbors, Esq. Rogan
and others all testify to the resem-
blance.
No one has attempted n solution of
the mystery, though several theories
are proposed. Tho glaes In both win
dows Of this room are, as viewed from
the outside, apparently covered with
II blueish tinge, or substance, making
the picture resemble a very poor da-
guerreotype of the old fashioned kind
or a poorly taken negative. This pic
ture is upon one of the Sx10 glasses,
the facehlling 1t. If it is the work of
nature, then nature has in her
archives some hidden patent for her