, 1879-05-10
How and WHY Fairfax Has Been
Driven Ont Of the Parish--Ths
Killing Of Peck.
Comments OF Decent White Hen on the
AfEair---The Injury It Has
Caused tho Parish.
Camps by the Riverside--1gnor-
ance and Credulity OF
the En1igrants.

ern extremity OF this parsll by land tt, wagon;
md, notwithstanding tho bard nau1e II bears,
no sign Of disorder or unthrift has anywhere ap-
peatcd. For quiet, peaceful life and happy
old age Waterproof might not be tho most de-
strabio town IN the world to live in, but until
renchlng hero saw md heard nothing to inlI-
catu that shooting mcu WINS jayorite pnstimc.
Lcnvlng Davis Bend Island In q skill, and
geing tWo niles west and south, l came to Ast,-
wood. Thence, by the kindness Of n friend, l
was carried ten miles south to Newell Town, or,
as 1t is universally called here, Hall Town.
Then tho sympathics Of tho butcher uere or-
listed on my behalf, and for a consideration lie
took ME up with hin, to st. Joseph, twcuty
miles distant. St. Joseph Is
THE cousrr.sEAr.
md many OF the best 1Nwyers In tho parish live
there. They trnrel ctrct,tt through four parishes
twice year uNd know each other we'll. A com
pauy OF them werc collected NEAR tho Court
House, nnd many were the stories they told,
nil tending to show the travcsty Of Justice pro-
duccd In trials by negro jurIcs. Onc mar, re-
lated with grcat glce how Capt. Tom Furrar
Ind cleared ncgro accused Of killing lis wife,
and held to answer tho charge Of mauslaughter,
By arguing that tho killing of q wonsn was
womanslaughlcr, not mansluuChtcr; nnd hence
TINT acicudant was not properly Indicted. All
other time Capt. Tom was appointed by the
Court to defend a criminal without money. Tie
Captain had been appointed before during tile
eamo circuit, unt felt Tint hu was being bu,lly
used By tho Court, wfo was not specially friend
II to bin, mil wished to gtrc him good deal
ol this unthnnklul worx. Tie case wus that Of
4 woman accused Of stealing pot. Capt. Ton,
made as much uf defense rs II It hni
hecn d murder trial. lie exhausted the
| .1'.,,. ,,,'' % NJ, ~ ~ "1e
very particular ABOUT 1ae 1ur;. "bcn the Judge
bcggcd MIN TO mnKe hastc nc argued the point,
speaking Ut his duties 10 hs clients md his pro-
no,r,,, h,a ,,ront,,- .no.,,, r., ...s. 49,, ' -.
uehan u.o ep'.,nr sl'see'' no 9"'c ue ue-
1e"oan1 soc.l h"c e'la'"s'cF as sue hha ncvor
possessed before. slte Nus ustonfsllcd NIL
md forward In hcr rb,ir. nm, n ,nn,,, ,7on,,,
~. ~ 80 s.a' "'N' ~ ".ua ~, uecpts.
"s tnc hesto.h uo III ea'"p,tneeths Inc ba''i't
her to koup still. Tie Captaiu stoppcd and
lookeo nrouud STORMY md sntd. :. f,novc hor
aim. A. no,,tfr law, ,t,, ai,a,, :, ~ .,.'
sn,.'. =, az ,a,n'.,. ,'e T., s ve, .,,, w. 70 l'o
looked up NJ this susp!stously, intending to
tlnu the old lawyer for cuntc,np,, II he wero
autzziur: hut rurrar krpt his Iucc well enoo,hrd
,ioxn a,a, no.h,,. ,saa ,,au. ~. ,, s'"s"ea w.,
aown' a1l,, no'ni's "as .'onc' lie uret day
case about the pot, and cleared his client, Int he
1,as ucvcr ancc 1crr on,volr, rh =, cn,,,,s.1 to,
49, n.o ,'I, ,%"n upto'.''s" ~ soauscl 'ot
4" 'np'eun'ous ae1ch''ah1'
Az tsRAELlTB WITHOUT GUILE.
Capt. Farrar onrn beat IN 1sracIjtc who han |,
rood ,usn 1,erorc n ncrrn ,urv hy a c,,,tn,,,,
tra,, a.-s.,,., n,'s . !a'y ~ '"ol"'s"l
tiou, ,'et'ptu'e' ihe ipfa'''a" y! 'ta Jury was
an old eolorcu preacher. ln tho mEat Of Its
argument, Gait. rnsrur sropped suddenly, bor-
royed from tIlis foreman Ills 1orpc, hross,rIbhc1
s,ar,,,,.. ,,,,, u ~, Vs. n',l,
npeesae'cs. "'t ta'he"inp1ess''s4f ~! ulo b'oie'
turning to the passac" i'll John, Io rcad tho
text In which Jesus, on sccinE Nehemiah {?),
said, .Bc,,oia M 1sEaeltte III whom thrro IL M
I,u,lc,u n.Ic.,s h,ti ham ,.,t,i,,r ~, ,',', I
.',.,. ,,t. ass,,. ,,s, a 49," ;, "1"n .,, W "'a
aoM" .n's e''tt" tn'F'y tears' haia rnffaf' "n11d
Nehemiah was the first Jcw llc had seen Of
whom lo could hcncstl: tay, .l3eh}IA mn lgra-
elite In whun tlcrria nm ruiir, r.,, ,t,,r'v t,n,
,rr, c,n h nrr isr.n,,,"s ~ .,n. n.", y. n". ,,,
a s,,s v.u , w. "oo u ll.1 ku nt .a's
II not, what contlicncs can you hayo in tho
stories plaintiff lus been telling trrcl" As tho
luwvor srid ,htv ,I,c oid ,,,,r,. 1,s.,,,. ~
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