The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-09-24

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claimed, will look at the girls in passing,
ana the girls, It is said, will wave q q
handkerchief now aud then. The trouble
10, who is to blame. It is said the fac.
ulties are not agreed about the origin Of
these little episodes. "
The suggestion the writer has to make
Is, that kindly relations aud friendly in.
tercourse between the faculties, helping
each other, without watching to detect
a fault, each conceding u the other
good intentions, will dissipate the ten.
dency to social frivollies between the
young people. | trust | will be par.
doned for saying the faculties of these
two great institutions can't afr,rl to
stand before the public disturbed in the
slightest degree over little episodes--the
on''of-place but friendly social recognI
lions OF the youngsters. The country
will say, and say rightly. that united
and friendly action by the faculties will
suppress, almost instantly, social irrey
ularities among the scholars. If thi.
now slight friction grows into unkind
relations between these two schools. in
which the whole country is 80 much in
terested, the blame will rest upon tn,
faculties, and the public will put thu
responsibility on the faculty making ex
actions on the other without Offering IN,
hand Of friendship. The remedy /.
friendship and united action between
the faculties. The two schools are I,
blessing to each other. Emulation In.
built up both Anything but friendly
intercourse between the faculties will BE-
regarded as almost criminal BY the pub.
lie In fact, the cause of disturbance is
nothing in the world but natural Incl.
dent Of LIES phases--it would occur
anywhere among the most innocent and
refined young people; it ought to be &C.
ceptcd by the two faculties rs part and
parcel Of life's duties, without disturb
ing in the slightest degree either the
faculties or the patrons. The whole pub.
lie being interested, and at present only
a rising speck of war appearing above
the horizon, but tingcd with n bcllig-
erent lining, | take the liberty, in great
kindness, to make these suggestions.
This old, and ut present almost crimi.
nal!y quiet town, has been the thcater
of strong men, n good deal of romance,
with some Of the most striking drama
appearing on the stage Of Tennessee life.
The most dramatic, as we'll as the most
lasting, of all the historic episodes IN
the l,istory Of this old town was the
killing of Tom Taul and the trial Of Ru.
fus X. Anderson as the murderer. This
trial took place in 1929. Nothing ever
occurred in Tennessee, in the criminal
annals, 50 essentially dramatic, and at
the same time so far reaching in its So
cial and political bearing. The killing
took place Sc years ago, and the trial So
years ago. but the social and political
arrangements which they brought sill
linger here.
Rufus X. Anderson was the son of
Col. VIM =. Anderson, a halt:brother
Of the late Gen. Patton Anderson. The
Andersons, at that time, were the most
wealthy as well as the most aristocratic
family, perhaps in the State. Col. An.
derson had settled in the county about
1896, as u surveyor, and a partner of
Gen. jackson in locating lands. At
that early day the grants of land were
registered in the counties, and the books
show that immense quantities of land
were entered by, and granted to Col.
Anderson and to him and Gen. Jackson
jointly. Anderson grew to be quite
rich and lived in magnificent style, us
did many of his neighbors, mostly rich
who had come to this then
lovely new country.
Col. Anderson had two beautiful
finely educated and in every
way accomplished aud refined. One Of
them married the distinguished lawyer,
james Campbell, who then lived in this
county, but afterwards went to Nash.
vile, man of great reputation asa law.
yer and unblcmished life, but who com.
mitted suicide in this county, at the
Springs, about 1917. The
other and younger daughter, perhaps
the most beautiful woman in Tennessee
at the time, married Thomas =. Taul.
Taul was the son of distin-
guished Keutuckian, Col. Micah Taul,
who had been q Colonel in the war Of
1912 and q member Of Congress from
Kentucky, but voted for the compensa.
ton bill Of 1915, giving members of
Congress $1,000 . year, by which he,
with every single man who voted for the
bill, except Mr.. Clay, lost his POPULAR.
ty. Col. Micah Tanl was so com pletely
broken down as public man in Ken.
lucky. though man Of very great abil-
ity, by voting to give members Of Con-
gress the enormous salary Of 81 800,
that he chose to leave the State rather
than live q whole lifetime under the
scorn and frowns of an honest people,
who had once been his friends but now
him as having betrayed his
trust. 1t is said that not u single man
from any State who voted for this
odious 81 500 salary bill was returned
except Mr.. Clay, who always claimed
that he recovered by telling the anec-
dote to his backwoods constituents
about the trusted rifle that snapped on
ly once. Coming to tennessee, Col.
raul at once took rank among the first
lawyers of the State, and his family &C.
cupied a high rank socially. Col. Taul
was the most brilliant young lawyer in
Tennessee at that time; his fame was
spreading as u lawyer of great tact and
ma An orator who miyht equal the i'm.