Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-02-23
OLD TIME C%ELEBRITIEsA
An Interesting Sketch Of Some Jones.
bOrO Antiques.

VIC suppose uhut DdNlu nuyhoo, biahu
father of Ex-Gov. Taylor, would take
the cake" He was a man of strong,
rugged intellect, blunt and outspoken
and might well have been called old
Rough and Ready"
From Shelby T. Shipley we have the
following which occurred when he was
quite a young man: Mr.. Shipley had
Just been elected constable here in the
town district and was rather a timid
young man lacked that hardening
and toughening that comes to all good
collectors with years of practical expe-
rience. In order to start him in bust
ness Cannon & Vance, merchants here
at that time, gave him a lot of notes
and accounts for collection, and among
the lot were some six or eight notes on
David Haynes-a man with whom he
was unacquainted. One day he noticed
Maj, Willett talking with an old like
gentleman on the street, and after they
were through Shipley said:
major Willett, what old gentleman
was that you were talking tor"
Willet replied: THAT was the said
David Haynes"
Shipley Immediately went over to
him and said;
ltNI,, u,u-oo JLal:o,
"Yes sir SO they say" replied
Haynes.
"Well, Mr.. Haynes, Cannon &
Vance have given me some notes for
collection, and l find that l have some
on you"
Then Haynes began. sand who in
the hell are your"
The new constable made out to reply
very meekly: "My name is Shipley."
Then Haynes began again: "Whatl
Another striker Good God! What
is this world a coming to? 1t was first
Barley, then Willett, and now it's
Shipley-all bounding after me! And
it has gotten 10 as l come in sight of
your town of a morning, when l am
away up yonder by Enoch Browns and
look down on main street, the first man
l see is Dan1 Barley with them
damned old sadd1ebags on his shoulder
craning that old long neck, and asking
every man he meets if he has seen any
thing of David Haynesin town today ~
Shipley answered the old man very
kindly and asked him when he would
be in town again. Haynes replied:
"Well, l don't know. I am almost
ready to swear that l will never come
back again until J~onesboro will swear
that she is honest and will give Lees
burg for security"
Daniel Barley was one of the old
time citizens of this place and lived
just out of town where j. N. Barley
now lives. He was a hustler when ii
came to collecting old debts. So when
he tackled Davie Haynes, who was a
hustler in standing men off when they
attempted to make a debt off of him,
it was rather a game of Greek meeting
Greek
Haynes used to say that as he was
riding into town of a morning the mer-
chants would be standingin their store
doors and would speak to him very pc
litely, Good morning, Mr.. Haynes
and he in turn would speak to each one
of them, and as he rode on up the street
he would hear one merchant call to
his clerk in the counting room: "Charge
Davie Haynes with 10 10 of coffee
while another would call out to his
clerk: "Charge Davie Haynes with q
bolt of domestic" And 80 the old man
claimed that if he just rode along the
: street and spoke to the merchants they
would charge him with something on
their books At last he "shook the dust
off of his feet as a witness against the
!. place." and did not come back any
more for many years.
Mr.. Haynes was engaged in the iroI
; business and also farmed quite exten
sively. One day he went out into the
field where he had a number of handl
at work, and as everything was no
moving on in the apple pie order" h
desired. he called to one of his men t.
, come and help him up on that higl
stump. The man said, why, wha
> do you want to get up on that stuml
!, for, Mr.. H%aynesY" Uncle Davie re
piled, why, sir, l want to cuss, and
: can t do the subject justice a standing
on the ground"
' E. l.. Mathes was another type of tn
East Tennesseean. He was born nea
Washington College in 1889, and livet
: a long life of some rs years in that i'm
/, mediate vicinity. He was a soldier il
the war of 1912. He was an elder il
Salem Church, a trustee in Washington
College and a Justice of the Peace il
the McAlister district, from early man
' hood to the time of his death. He wal
i. also an emancipationist and aided
number of negroes to emigrate to Ii
IBERIA. He was also a Wing of the
Henry Clay type-and there were, per
haps, but two others in this county
that were as strong Wings as he-Wm,
G. Brownlow and DR.. B%ovell-and the
Squire never let an opportunity slip
without giving the Democrats a slap.
Some time along in the ''forties, "there
was a good old colporteur in this coun,
tv INV tho mama IF Jobp Smith q uraot