New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-10-11
JACKSON AND BOONE.
MEMENTOS OF FRONTIER LIFE IN TEN
NESSEE.

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lFRoM ~ occ,;soSAL CORRESPONDENTS OF rnE TRIBUNE.
JoNE>BoRo, Tenn, Oct. S.-This quaint
little town nesting among the hills East Tennessee
oldest ia state and once the seat OF the
Territorial Government. It settled in l770 aud Is
now the county seat OF Washington County, which was
then part OF North Carolina and extended rs far west
the Mississippi River. In the logs OF an old STABLE
still standing in the middle Of the town. Is To he seen a
remnant of tbs Did Court House In which during the hs
yeats OF the present century Andrew Jackson SAT ia
residing Judge aud other loss noted celebrities appeared
as counsel FOR the cuerprisus pioneers Tho present
temple Of Justice moro protentods hut some or the
rr.t records the county still preserved IN H.
looking the NASTY volumes to-day TRIBUNE GOT
respondent upon the following remarkable record
which IL reproduced word for word The d0cNct from
which II IA taken extended from February 10, l7sS 10
February I79S the date Of this particular case being
February - 1890. Il shows with what great severity
horse thieves were treated by the Intrepid pioneers
STATE Oh NORTH CAROLINA Who by me Jury are
JomS WILSON 2SnJ JAMES FuLs,u.( Of holse stealing.
Beng called to and asked what they had To say
why sentence agreeable to law should not DC P1'seu
upon them say nothing. IL ,, ,r,,r nm,
II ordered that the said John wilson an
James Ftsap confined the publck Tor tho space VI
nopr That each OF tncm have 0Oth Their ears nsieu
the plOry severed rDni Their meals lh"t lucy
receive the pnbhck whipping lost thrV -niu9 "snS
upon telr bare backs wei iau on ana an.S e,o
letter II and on their len chcek with the letter l. ana
shcrln OF Washington county put th' 5ch'tHOo
into execution between the hours oI IL ana tDS IeI
nO"u
Along the margin Of the docket Is significantly written
scntencs execits:" such Jrc tkcrs were always
obnoxious to Tenn esseas and less than twenty years
ago horse stealing was capita offence III ths STATE
The sae dockets later years bear the mol" signature
OF Andrew jackson, presiding judge, in more p!'ees
than one In the part OF the past century he was
admitted to tho practice Of the law In washington
County and "A few years later elevated to Judge
ship The memory OF Old Hickory is Sill Areen IN
tho minds of tho older residents or JOncsboro' ana they
delight to uarrute "reminiscences Of the Intrepid WARRIOR
tradition sho Wing at the same time the enarkluo
courage and true democracy or the man Is ~ follows;
Russell Ielu probably the hrst white child born IN what
is now the STATE Tennessee, grew up to DO great
Indian II ,htor and "A very desperate man Along IN
IsU2 he made protraced excursion into the Indian
country and returning found new occupant OF the
crnde nc his resde which the length Of his absence led
him to believe had claims on his paternity The ds-
eoyery naturally incensed him and IN ht OF anger he
brutay cut OF the chlds rcnarkng "a he dld go
want To be able to distinguish the brat from my lesitl
mate children" This barDarty greatly ncenseh the
sober minded people OF the new settlement ana wheu
court assembled an indictment found against him
for manning the child. Bean dotted the sheriff. anu
proolaiming that he would be tnkcn alive en-
trenched himself among the chinquapin bushes on
Greene Hill, which rises At the south Vi Tue o"n' lao