The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-16
CITY NEWS.
"Majah" Afford and His Checkered Ex-
periences.--A Collapsed Coon.
The WOman's Temperance Meetiag.--
Miss Wizards Address.
That False Alarm of Fire.-.AbOut the
Dead Man.
Other Interesting Local Matters
"Mnlah" Afford,

The name of Majah" Afford has appeared
in our local columns before, and some ac-
count of the crime of which he is accused
at Gainesville has been given. The Ma
iah, " like all great men, has q history, and
like some of the greatest men now in Texas,
his history is to some extent interviewer
with that of the Federal army in Texas i'm
mediately after the war, and the early days
of reconstruction in the state, The "Ma-
jsh" was one of the reconstructors.
His first appearance in. our state,
was at Miilican, on the Houston & Texas
Central railroad. He was connected with
the provost marshal's Office in some way
as chief adviser for the titled incumbent of
said office, perhaps; or as chief detective, it
may have been. AT any rate the "Maiah"
was very self-important, and decidedly in
clined to let the white trash know that he
was the "Maiah." One day in Millican a
gentleman called for u drink ina saloon and
about the time he ordered his drink the
"Majahn brushed against him, as he took
his stand at the counter, and called for a
drink also. In a twinkling the gentleman
in question jumped upon the counter
and kicked the "Majah" in his
immaculate and truly loyal" mouth-a
feat in dentistry which deprived the "Na-
iah" of all his front teeth, Those who re-
member the "Majah" in this city will call
TO mind that he was toothess save n few
molars. The "Maiab" never amassed
filthy lucre sufficient to have his lost in
cisors replaced, even by black walnut set.
He had influence sufficient, however, with
the provost marshal's department to stir up
q mighty tempest. The provost marshal
went hopping over Millican worse than a
turkey ON a hot griddle. He had out hrs
armed hosts of infantry and cav
airy, and there was mounting in
hot haste OF barbed steeds, -" and
the placing OF sentinels and pickets here
and there, while u patrol with fixed bayo-
nets and double-shotted guns" as
they are called on shipboard, hunted
all over town for the man who
had kicked the sacred person of the
''Maiah." But it was all in vain. The
kicker was never discovered and the "Ma-
jah" nurSed his sore mouth without the
opportunity to vent his spleen. After pro-
vost marshals and marshal law and federal
bayonets had ceased to exist in Texas, the
"Maiah' was again heard OF up around
this city. A change had come over
the spirit of his dream. He was
no longer the devotee Of republicanism and
of reconstruction. He and the late John c..
Conner had turned over to the democratic
party and the country was safe He and
the aforesaid John c., now lamented,
stumped north TeXas-indeed John G. went
TO congress from this district. The
"MGjah" then luxuriated under the classic
appellaton of Jupiter The "Majah"
and John c., or in other word. Jupiter
Tonans and Apollo Belvidere, hobnobbed
with the Bourbon democracy of north and
east Texas, and drank straight liquor
with 'em out of the same gourd. They
were both good union men and ex-federal
soldiers but being converted, both
preached and imbibed the simon.pure
Bourbon article-that is to cay, they ran
with the hare and held with the hounds,
especially the former
Having won honor and renown, and made
q few dollars in the role of democrat done
in charcoal, the "Majah' retired from the
hastings and sought for glory and ducats as a
professor of the terpschorean art. OF his
career here in that line no mention need
bemade, as everybody in Dallas is familiar
with IL,