Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-29
A Strange Story.

In 1913 chestnut tree, quite 800
years old, was blown down on the banks
of little creek near the church called
"South Carolina within q mile Of the
village of Yorkville, i'll P1ckens county,
Ala, and about seventeen miles south
east of Columbus, Miss. Beneath the
roots of the chestnut tree were found
pair of brass scales for Weighing, with
the brass weights having Spanish in
scriptions and numerals on them. Two
thIee-pound cannon-shot were found
with the scales. The soil beneath the
tree was very dry, drained as it was by
the little stream hard by, and these
relics of the Spanish adventurer were
well preserved. But it does not follow
beoaueo these portable ARTICLES were
found at that spot that De Soto visited
it. He had little use for scales, aud
may have left them at some distant
place of encampment, or lost them in
some battle, and curious red man, as
signing little value to the treasure
trove," left it when he drank on the
bank OF the stream. Indians had no
wagons or wagon ways, and yet when
Eastern Mississippi was first settled by
the white people in 1880, and while the
Choctaws still owned and occupied the
country, there was a broad, deep wagon
road following the course of the river
some distance and deeply cut in the
hillsides and into the rivers banks. It
crossed the river at the mounds, ten
or twelve miles below Columbus, on
Buffers plantation, of which [ have
spoken. The Choctaws said that this
road was carved out by white men, who
marched across the country, fighting
and killing, long before their recollec-
ton. If this be the tradition, as 1
heard il stated long ago, there can be
little doubt that De Soto made the
road and crossed the Tombigbee at the
place indicated by the Spanish scales
and weights, and the old highway was
certainly made by no race of modern
Indians. But, il this be true, it does
not follow that De Soto spent tie win
ter preceding this passage OF the Mis-
sissippi in the vicinity of Columbus or
at Tupelo.-NeaO York Herald.
A Col0red Brothers. Philosophy.
Hammer, dat was pow'ful sa1mon we
hearn Brudder Wilkerson disclose f'om
de pulpit las Sunday. De tex' was dis:
Shall we know each odder dar2" but
Use kinder mixed in my 'pinion bout
de 'clusion dat ne cum ter-dat We
would. All l got ter say is dis: Use
been er gwine wild you TO Brudder
Wiikerson's meetin' 'ouse, an a payiH'
as I go, now gwine on fo' long yeahs,
an l amt got 'quainted wild mon 10 or
five O. de congregashun yi5, an all 1
got ter say is dat, 'cordin' ter Brudder
Wilkerson's ideer, if dey's as long git
TIM 'quainted wild one 'nudder "ober
dar' as dey is in Diet ar congregation
O his'n all I got ter say is, Dat dey'd
better begin to interdoosin' one 'nudder
wen dey're young, or dey won't know
each odder ober dar." Hill be sober
dar " jes' as It's down hyar-de upper
crus' won't nix wild de common trash,
an turn dar noses UP at one 'nndder
ies' de same as dey do in dat meetin'
'ouse. Eff dey don't know one 'nudder
down hyar, dey won't know one 'nudder
" ober dar," an Brudder Wilkerson
knowed he WIZ givin' dat ar congre-
gashun "taffy an peanuts wen he wuz
a disco'sin' f'om de pulpit.