The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1892-03-16
1 STRANGE, WEIRD STORY.
ruE SUPERSTITION OF AN OLD CO.
LUMBUS DARKEY.

crave at his front door. That's the
.,,.-1v adornment Buck Fuller, who lives
=, nnper Fourth avenue in this city, has
IN -6a walk directly between his front
.,,ra and the doorsteps
s-9nce story is told about this grave
~. those who claim to know Caleb or
.R1e},, Fuller, as he is Familiarity call
ed,
Ills that he believes that our Savior's
b,dv lies beneath the mound, and that
Ia viii arise from it in the last day of
judgment.
The crave itself is a queer looking
h,ao Of stones and earth, decorated with
HIT. Of broken glass, CHM ware, etc.
A. the head, next his door, stands
.,r7rs granite headstone about two feet
bioh. About the center gigantic pair
of STAG antlers lie, and leaning between
the prongs is an old thermometer about
two feet lOng-oAe of the advertising
variety. with the bulb broken, probably
from over heat during one of Bucks
ebnllitions of temper, for his neighbors
saw he GETS mighty hot" when he fan
cies they are meddling with his affairs
His neighbors say that he has been
keeping this grave as zealously guarded
as he has his wife and children for many
wears. and that he does not permit them
to leave the premises at all. One thing
sure. he keeps the grave neat and clean
as apin.
\ reporter of the Enquirer-Sun, hear
Ing of the peculiar superstition of this
individual and the existence of the
crave visited the place and had colo.
GUY with the old man. Buck is a black
negro of medium size, and doubtful age.
From his own statement of incidents
connected with the early history Of Co
lum6us, he must be near a hundred
Yeas Of age, though he don't look to be
forty. He says he was a grown man
when the Indians We're here, and remem-
0els when there were but three houses
in the city, but strange to say, he can't
exactly remember George Washington,
and never heard of that gentleman's repu-
tltion for Jruthfulness.
He IS a crank, but says he is good at
telling the truth himself He says the
negroes have all tried to break him up.
but they could do it, and if they didn't
mind how they fooled with him the
Lord would ''strike the breath outen 'em
in second" He says many strange
things have occurred since he has been
living at his present place.
Use got up many a mornin'," said
he, and seed more an a hundred snakes
with blood drippin' from their mouths
hanging in my trees, and the ground jest
covered with ground puppies, scorpions,
and all sorts Of yarmintS. The groun' in
my front yard has been pizened three or
hour feet deep by them nasty stinkin'
conjurin' niggers, but by the help of the
Lord l Sc wiped EN- all out. The Lord
Is shore wild me, an when axes him
night to do anything, he does it in a sec.
ond
Sc been living at this place long
ume' and built that (the grave} when l
hTst moved here. I didn't put anything
IN IT, but the Lord did. Whatever is in
tneIe He put it there l don't ike to
talk about that, because it ain nobodv's
business but mine.
Buck was some what reticent on first
acquaintance, but finally grew talkative
Oh all subjects except the one upon which
desired to interview him.
lie IS evidently down on trusts and mo-
nopoIes, for be says the Lord at the
proper time will send lightning down to
s'''3e the Standard Oil Company's place,
"V'I ms own, and when He does. there
Is gong to be great "confagration."
nose HYIng around him tell many sto-
Ir u sucks doings and sayings.
Whenever it storms. even AT nioht ba
5elS On the sidewalks and marches back
G ,I' loF,n' with his right arm elevated
"'|i' above his head, invoking Divine
p p,@"' upon the heads of his enemies.
4 H''H does not hinder him, and when a
Ioa ' ol tightening lights up the scene,
on- .4.9 oe seen, with face uplifted, arms
oo aos,Is'ched' and fairly shouting his
'" n, to the raging elements:
Now lightningn'
a NO" thunder9' he shrieks, and when
-s peal which always follows the flash
m,n1,' BUCK leaps with glee, that his
snbd,, ''9 ore obeyed. When the storm