Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-10-08
BIG HUSH MONEY.
The Large Amount Paid a GeOr.
gia Woman by Governor
Murray.
Salt Lake Tribuns.l

Salt Lake Tribuns.l
Governor Murray tells a laughable
story Of his experiences in the Georgia
March to the Sea, which is worth re-
peating:
Speaking Of the famous march
through Georgia." said the Governor,
II never shall forget the amount of
money it cost us to keep an old woman
from crying herself to death. Of
course we were obliged to subsist off
the country as we went along, and we
naturally took about the best in sight.
One day we took possession of a
chicken rancho kept by an old lady
who stood at the front gate with a
broom and threatened to lick all of
Sherman's forces if they did not move
on. Now chickens we're considered
as officers meat, and as we were
internally hungry we went for these
old hens pretty lively. When
she saw that her favorite fowls
were being caught and killed she
keeled right over and began to cry:
Presently she began to scream, and
finally you could hear that woman's
wells clear to Atlanta. | sent the
surgeons in to quiet her, but they
failed, and then all the officers took
turns, but the more attention paid her
the more she howled. then got pref
ty nervous over the Internal noise, be-
cause the whole army would hear it,
and they might suppose somebody was
torturing the woman. Finally Sher.
man rode up and asked what was it all
about, and when we told him he said:
Give her a bushel of Confederate
bonds for her hens, and see if that
won't stop her. Acting on this hint.
l proceeded to business. We hao
captured a Confederate train the day
before with 100000 of Confederate
money, and | hunted up the train a
once. The money was worth aboui
two cents on the dollar. Well, ]
stuffed about half a million dollars il
an old carpet-sack and marched int,
the house.
Madam said I, opening the sack
.fIll give you $4,000 to quit thi
noise 1t was as still as death in
minute, and then her face expande,
in a broad smile. l laid the package
|, of money on the table and ! never say
such a delighted woman. The efeC
| pleased me, and | continued: Gen
eral Sherman presents his compli
/ ments and 500, 000.' 1 never in m
life saw such a pleased old woman
? and | wound up by dumping the cor
tents ofthe sack right down on Ii
floor, and telling her that when
came to contributions to distresse
females | could be outdone by no ma
living.
: "She invited the officers TO supp,
and she cooked every chicken on Il
ranch and set out cider as free as vi
ter. We we're having a pretty goC
time, when a long, lank old coon can
in, and she said it was her husbanl
Pretty soon his eye fell on the none
Sarah said he, where in Il
h blazes did you get all this dernC
i truck?'
vi "A present from Gen. Sherman
n said she.
"Tain't worth a continental Ger
they're kindlin' fires with it down
If New Orleans
l. The old woman rose up, her face
white as your shirt-front, and her e
IS wasn't pleasant to meet.
80 you are the blk that gave l
is this, are you" she called out, rGac
l. ipg for the old broom.
d 1.-THE entire mess rose and start,
lie from that house. We never hea
Dr. any more of her, and there isn't
~ man ofthe crowd who would me
lie that old woman for all that Confedt
ate money, ifit would bring one hu
Y, dred cents on the dollar at the Trei
at ury Department, Washington"
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