Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-10-03
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS on
EVERYDAY LIFE.
queer Facts and Thrilling Adj
ventures Which Show That Truth
is Stranger Than Fiction.

report to no Official
i-%.xAs but are protected Inv
<> law from molestation.
They are the crows who
Hock INTO town as regularly as cold
weather comes, stay during the winter
and vanish in the spring. Each even.
ing, as the shadows fall, legions of
crows wing their way in seemingly
endless tight to the willow copses and
small clumps of cottonwood trees on the
banks of the Missouri, where thew
roost for the night. A favorite haunt is
at the bend of the river between Cut- on
and Florence Lakes, where the banks
shelter them from the northwest winds.
The all is thick with sable WINGS and
resonant with hoarse caws there after
sunset each night, as tile scnyenoers set.
tie down among the branches to dream
of back area lunches and carbon
spreads.
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co. saw enouen 81 slavery myself to
See me against 1t, said Captain 0. G.
this period of his career. "Tn several
instances [ saw slave children sold
whose veins contained so much of their
masters blood that their skins were
without tinge of the African color ex.
cept in the invariable stripe down the
spinal column. What do mean bv the
stripe down the spinal column Whv
l supposed YOU knew the presence II
African blood in any person no matte,
how slight the PROPORTION can he in.
stantly detected bv dark line alono
the spine. Even an octoroon. with com
plexion and features purely Caucasian
Invariably has this line of dark r. is .
never-faiiing proof of miyed blood
The mark is not ALWAYS black brt is
always considerably darker than tbe
rest of the surface Of the body since
you don't know that. perbops Won dom
know that negro child at it's birth Is
as light colored as a white one You
wouldn't notice any difference in tho
color at ALL In three or four bon1s
after birth the skin begins TO trrn darl
and in short time becomes as black n,
the child is destined to be durino il
ine
For some time past an old neort
named Tobias jackson. living nea,
Birmingham. Ala. has been procIaimine
himself as Daniel the Prophet. and do
ing all kinds of wild and oueer THINGS
The other day he persuaded three vounc
negro men that thew were representa-
tiyes of Sbadracb Mesback and Abed
nego, the three children of faith wbt
entered the fiery furnace. He claimed
that furnace, where iron is melted ant
cast into all kinds of forms. was the fur
mace of Nehuchadnezzor. and that the,
could pass through without the smell o
fire. Calling themselves the three chill
dren of Israel, under the influence O
their new prophet, the three young mel
deliberately entered the gate of the Gu
pula of the furnace, and rushed head
long, before they could be stopped. int,
the white heat of the melting iron
When they failed to come out Jackson
the propbet proclaimed that he say
them rising in the air with the smoke o
the furnace, attended by angels, an.
sald that they would revisit the eafti
again on the next SUNDAY.
WrrIuN a half-mile radius of Cit,
Hall. New York. no less than a dozeI
hip office and business buildings are
now IN process Of demolition to Civ,
woy 10 still bigger and bandsomer struc
tures r. saems os If there never was $,
mncb rebnildinn in New York. An,
r;oht here Is man,1factured one of til,
,,ec,,l;or;t;es az New York. There is S,
sonob ~ 4 ooinr on that within the las
dnzen Years q new industry has com,
~ he;nn There are nerbops. a scor,
81 Arms Who make n business Of tearins
90 =, s IA III hn;1d;nas and sellino m,
nu;,d;no n,ater;als fms obtained. On,
81 thasa firms viii contract to tear dow
The old building and leave the GROUND
clear in certain number OF days, pay
ing SO much for the privilege OF get'lhe
the old brick, timber and !. ron - AS s., sn9
work is done by contract ltls peliorme nee
with marvellous CELEBRITY and lever every YES YES
tige of the average SIX or seven STORY
building Is removed IN a week o. 80 al
ter operations are begun.
Nav oomos a Missouri catfish weigh
No" IT, ,sa,,nds rasnectobl,