The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-23
THROUGH THE SOUTH
The Weeks Doings in the Sunny soush
Land.
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Alabama,

Alabama.
A special dispatch from Flint, Morgan
county, says that republican agents from
Indiana have been in that section for several
days employing negroes to go to Evansville
and other points in the hoosier state. The
special gives the names of about twenty ne
groes who were sent to Evansville today, and
says their names and descriptions have also
been forwarded to prominent democrats in
Evansville Several men from Indiana are
now in north Alabama engaging negro voters,
and large number of them will be shipped
north. 1t is said the negroes are given trans
portation to and from Indiana and paid one
dollar per day. They are also promised work
and good wages If they prefer to remain north
It is understood that the majority of them will
be sent to Evansville and Indianapolis.
"Shut up, old man, you're off your base I'm
preacher today" This language was ad-
dressed to Rev. J. 7. Radcliff, Baptist min
lister in Shelby county, as he announced his
text last Sunday morning. The speaker was
David Harrellson, q member of the church.
who had suddenly become crazed on the sub
5ect of religion. With knife in one hand and
Bible in the other, Harrelson then marched
up and down the aisle and preached sermon
Parson Radcliff tried to leave the house and
Harrellson sprang upon him and beat him Sc
verely: While the fight was going on the con-
gregatlon escaped from the church. Harrell-
son then wandered around through the neigh
borhood for three days with his knife in one
hand and his Bible in the other, preaching to
every one he met and defying arrest. Yester-
day he was captured, and today was taken to
the insane asylum at Tuscaloosa.
A remarkable and long contest of a will
has just been ended in q most unexpected
manner in Winston county. Twelve
years ago Charles FL. Baker was known as the
fichest man in Winston. He owned several
large plantations and store, from which he
supplied the small farmers for miles around.
He discounted notes and in other ways accu-
mulated large fortune, considerable portion
of which was cash. Baker was then living
with his second wife and two children, also
three sons by a former wife.
In the summer of 1878 Baker went to Mem
phis, Tenn, where he always sold his cotton
end did his banking. When the yellow fever
broke out in Memphis he was caught there,
and could not return home on account of the
rigid quarantine regulations After the fever
had been raging several weeks, Bakers name
one day appeared among thelist of new cases
and soon afterward the family heard that he
was dead.
Then his widow fled for probate a will which
left her and her children the principal part of
Bakers fortune, and made her administrator
without bond. Bakers sons by his first mar
riage contested the will, and ten years of Bit
ter and expensive litigation followed the final
result being that the widow and her children
secured the bulk of what property the lawyers
had left them. The three sons Immediately
secured an injunction restraining Mrs. Baker
from taking charge OF the property, claimin.
1aissV Viloy NJ scOuIeu evidence OF a lat9f Will
4he day after the injunction was served
Charles III. Baker himself, now q very old
man, appeared at the old homestead and claim
ed his fortune.
1t seems he did not die of yellow fever, but
after he recovered. after several weeks, his
reason was gone and the past was blank to
him. He had drifted here and there as a COM
mon tramp, finally turning up in Buenas
Ayres, South America, where he was taken
to hospital and under the care of Spanish
physician, recovered his reason. He then
worked his way to New Orleans as common
sailor, and after many hardships, reached his
home. He confirms the claims of his sons that
he had made a later will, in which he made an
equal division of his property among his wife
and five children.