Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-12-08
DYING JEFF DAVIS.
THE EXPERIENCES OF A TRAMP PRry,,.
FROM PlTrSBURG WITH HIN
BE Tells Of How Himself and a Couple o. l.....
knights Of the Rosd' Fell on to i5s P.a,p..
Of the Confederate President AID gr
They Were Treated There


freight train of the Fl. Wayne TOAD 4,
the lower yards in Allegheny, bound +.
the wild West. He did not pay hi. 49,
neither did he travel on free pass y
was stealing his way. Harry Wood.
tramp printer and reporter. Years o., /,
was a promising young man residjr, :
Altoona, he leading writer on ore of .
local papers and the author OF a bcol :
poems. He had happy home, vit o.,
children; but in en- evil hcur he h..,-
reckless; position deserted hin, b. 49,
vas broken up snd he became
In the few years that have pa.,ei.,
he left Altoona he has served q, 8 ,-i-...
in the United States army, Qu.un, Rt..
he became a wanderer upon thcesrf n
has tramped from Maine to tie g.f .-i
from Gotham to San FrancisCo e,v u.s..
even said that he has been in Ausrsi,
1.-THE wide world has been bis hon.
Before leaving on his western trsn,,.
day Woods told TO gang OF in,eree9
printers and newspapermen Of so er,,
fence in his travels through tle -s
three years ago that is particularly SPIN
pirate and interesting at this time .0re
kilograms to-day announce thai the i.r
Of the leader of the late Southern C0r't
eracy are numbered. Jefferson Day.
not expected to live through the weez.
Harry Woods accompanied by two ot.
er tramp printers named Billy Edmurl
son and Mike Mccullough were foasr,
it down the Mississippi valley. Leayr,
the river they branched Off aud landed a
Meridian, Mississippi, and then started %
Biloxi, near Beauvoir, the home Of I.s
Davis, which is true type OF the syc-a..
southern plantation home
The residence is located IN the centr
of the ground, the front facing toward
the bay and the rear toward the railroad
The wide hallway extends from door .
door, and the walls thereof are coye.e
with fine paintings Of scenery and ofpror.
inent men, while bric-a-brac and statue
greet you on all sides. The quarters "a
the servants, three in number, are 90 I'd
left and rear of the residence, and u
guests chambers are to the right A1
they are furnished with the best, while !
the buildings are surrounded with beseI
full tall trees, the limbs of which are coz.
cred and hanging pendant therefrom 3
the famous gray-cOlored moss so comU-
to the south, and which the natives pro-
claim, in their peculiar way, It's Si
for the eyes"
"Well, we landed at Beauvoir," sid
Woods, where there is nothing brs
small shanty, no doors in it, which III,
charity sake is yclept station 7. was
at - o'clock at night, and raining f0r al
that was in it. We(three Of h.ud. enter.
ed the shanty and found % our amaze
ment eight more knights o. the road en-
camped theTin. II was in the beginnn,
Of the southern rainy season, but the M.
tlemen of the road had managed O. i
an old tin pan and had built fire -.
from a portion Of the timber OF the shEl.
1t was very acceptable to us, you canM
assured. In the morning we decided
call upon Mr.. Davis and his family; '-l
is, the three typos. Mrs. Winnie Day
the "the Daughter Of tn C0ntederacy
had Just returned from France, havi-
received an Europen education, and
met US at the door. Three tramp phi
tiers. And shabby as shabby could be-
"'Good morning, Miss, said Edmgr
son, we
Just then Miss Winnie Davis, in all
and beauty Of southern hospA
ity, not apparently glancing at our c
tunes, said, Gentlemen, come and r
awhile and will call papa"
1--WE took seats in the hallway, 81
while admiring the pictures and the b-,I
a-brac, the tall gaunt figure of the a
president Of the late Confederacy emer, /
rom a side door entering from the din
room.
Gentlemen he remarked, we .-
Just at breakfast Come and Join us
1--WE joined, and we heartily en'og
he joining"
You are, northerners, | should iui,
rom your dialect, remarked Mr. DAVIS
Northern men,"
Yes, sir" was the reply, and then Oh
venerable man began to inquire All abo-
he north, its industries and lbs prospects,
lie seemed much interested. We We
equally so, in his brilliant and courte
After having partakeu
/ hearty and welcome breakfast, Is
Winnie played and sang several al
he piano, and she was at home th6%
In the evening Mr.. Davis escortet
.hree tramp printers, to the depot ban
is a ticket to Birmingham, Alabams
basket of lunch, and 50 in cash apiece.
81 next met him." concluded Nocs
at his plantation in Vicksburg, and %
signs Of failing health were easily disc11
able then. That was three years ago.
nave met worse people in the south 'l'
Jeff Davis
And striking one Of his listeners 80
friend for quarter. Harry Woods dA-
ed for Allegheny to mount the frcigl. h-
mead for the far west.