The bee., 1883-08-11
MR.. LIE NANCE'S TRUNK.

HIS CELEBRATED SPEECHES LOST
THREE YEARS PREPARING THE
PHILIPIcs-EvEN REFUSED A ST.
400 POSITION TO SERVE Hist y
RACE--THE INDIGNATION MEET
ING LAST WEEK-THE FRAGMENTS
OF HIS SPEECHES TO BE PRE-
SERVED.
For some time a gentleman by the
name of Mr.. LIE Nance has been going
around town and visiting churches
and entertainments in very eccentric
manner. Some time ago he notified
this office that he expected to leave the
city to visit five governors of different
States to the effect that he had pre-
pared several speeches in the interest
Of the colored race that he was anxious
to read TO the governors whom he
would visit. Mr.. LIE Nance, sure
enough. left town a few days ago, and
on his return he reports that the rail
road company opened his trunk and
robbed him of some very valuable
speeches. He called a meeting at the
18th Street Presbyterian Church last
week for the purpose Of explaining all
about that lost(?l trunk and those
celebrated speeches. A goodly num-
Der assembled
AT THE CHURCH
and listened with great interest while
Mr.. LIE Nance was explaining those
speeches and that trunk. A few lines
from his speech will enable the readers
of the BEE to judge the nature of the
speeches lost by the gentleman.
The meeting was called to order, and
Mr.. LIE Nance said:
Gentlemen and fellow-citizepS of my
association, you have assembled here
for the purpose of giving vent to your
august feeling over the loss of trunk
and valuable papers of one of your fel-
low-citizens. Gentlemen, just before
| left the depot, or about the time |
was getting my trunk checked, | told
the baggage-maSter that my trunk con-
tanned valuable papers that had been
working on for three years. l refused
to accept position worth three thou
sand dollars per year. And why? Be
cause want to. serve my race. Great
applause and cheers
At this juncture, Mr.. Price asked
Bro. Nance if it were possible t. hire
some one to take the fragments of his
great speeches and put them together?
Ii SO, he would offer a resolution to
that effect.
Mr.. Nance continued:
Now, gentlemen, had engagements
to read my speeches to five different
goyernorS-such speeches that no hu-
man mind could put together again.
While Mr.. LIE Nance was talking, a
crowd got into a corner and decided to
pass the following resolution, but as
some one said they would be arrested
for libel, it would be unwise to accuse
the railroad company of stealing
trunks:
THE RESOLUTION.
Resoyced. That Hon. .(?) lie Nance,
the social and political crank, has met
with great loss by some one entering
his trunk unknown and taking there
from speeches on tariff, the retrogres-
sion and progress of the colored race in
America,
ReSotCed Further, That the loss of
that trunk is loss to the colored race
Of the world. That those speeches
therein contained valuable information
that caDnot be gathered again. That
said speeches caused Mr.. LIE Nance
three years to do, and we, the said COM
mittee, recommend that a petition be
sent to Congress. That this social and
political crank is of great value to the
country, and in the name of 10000
600 people We demand the railroad
company to account for Mr.. LIE Nance's
trunk.
Signed, JosEPHUs SPRING,
JOHN FALL,
BILL WINTER,