Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-08-30
Oxford Eagle.
THURSDAY, AUG. 8" 1855.
I'D Lynch or Not to lynch.

pears Just now to be all the
The church festival, the
sacred concert, the soiree
musicale, tho grave donation
and the hilarious yarn social
seem to be suffering an eclipse.
Lynching bees are out pros
pecting for victims in almost
every State in the Union and on
every day ia the week. This,
OF course, is but one Of those
popular crazes which sweep All.
nually, like a tidle wave, over
the Nation. 1t may die out as
suddenly rs tie fifteen puzzel.
II the wrong man is unavoidably
lynched at one Of these playful
necktie socials, it is seldom dis
covered, At least not III time
to do the man any good. Tile
principal in the affair generally
keeps still about it, and the 9th.
ers are unanimously reticent
about the the matter. Hanging
by law is fast becoming the OK
ception. The rule is to lynch,
With the large floating class
of murderers, horse thieves
otc., the various vigilance com
lnittees ure Kept unusually busy
ut this season of the year. The
crop Is Of that peculiarly votavy
character which il continually
ripening for the harvest. The
dead and sapless telegraph pole
Of the far West bears strange
fruit at times, while the um
brageous shade of the gnarled
and crooked live oak shelters
the pulseless clay which. after
life's fitful5 fever, stretches we'll.
The latest lynching episode
which has come to our ear or
ears, occurred recently on the
scientific frontier Of Texas.
Kosciusko DaIryInple was a
hard character, with o repnta.
ton as big as a court house. but
not SO symmetrical, perhaps,
and at times he was looked
upon with longing, avaricious
eyes by the vigilantes. One day
they nabbed him under suspici-
Gus circumstances, aud uttering
with one voice: snow is the
accepted time.v hurried him out
OF town to q neighoring grove
for the purpose of helping him
over the gravelly bed Of the
shining river of light. On this
involuntary trip toward eternity,
kosky earnestly and eagerly
protested his innocence of the
express crime charged ID the
rude Indictment, and when the
party arrived at the grove and
took q breathing spell, Kosky
got his second wind and con
inenced to harangne the multi.
tude with all the vehemence of
Mark Anthony over the corpse
Of Caesar, If not with that dis
tinguished Romans eloquence
and address:
Gentlemen he said, "I'm a
hard cltizen.r
"The point is we'll taken,n
said the chairman Of tho com.
inittee, 'sbut tell us something
new.n
"Yes, Pm tough. You know
all about me, | suppose; know
my record and have got me
down pretty middlin' fine r.
"We are on to you, Kosky,
this time for a fact"
"Yes, gentlemen, you've got
me at a disadvantage. Pm a
bad man from away back, but
just want to remove one stain
from my reputation. / want to
say Just one word before I'm
swung up, and it isn't that I'm
q goin' to glory aud to play OF
All organette. 1t isn't one las
word to my poor old mother
for she has been dead these
twenty years ; God bless her
It isn't to confess and tell thu
Young men to let whisky alon,
and never learn the differences
between the nine spot and tn,
lady card. No. gentlemen, non.
of these things ag'tate me nov
At this supreme moment of m.
life. But Whit I want to know
gentlemen, is this. They say
stole Gabe RunnePs horse"
That's why you are going L
do for me now, ! supposef
THAT'S about hit.v
IAN right, gentlemen. Do any