The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1893-01-07
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS.

MISSISSIPPI, MATTERS.
4 Loag.llaired Sensation.
HOLLY SPRlHas, Dec. so.-Holly
Springs hes sensation with hsir eight
feet long. 1t has been near town ever
since the yellow fever epidemic Of 1878,
but the sensational developments have
Just become known. H.,
Nancy Harrison, 60-year.old saddle.
colored negro woman, has hair eight
feet long, according to the yardstick by
which II WAS measured yesterday in the
presence Of thoroughly reputable spec'
tators Of this place. Nancy says thst
soon after she recovered from tho fever
in 1878 she had three dreams hand-run.
ming, In each Of which she saw brown
woman with three hair plaits, Just ~
she wears hers now. About = year later,
~ she sat alone, she heard 4 voice say.
'You are the woman who il to wear this
hair" To which she replied, "Yss,
God, / ID the woman" From that time
her hair began to grow rapidly and to
turn white. . i.}...
Three years ago she again heard tho
mysterious voice say: "You shall see
your hair again in that hand, black -
BEFORE" and from that time 1t began
turning black again. When frat talk
ing about her she talked in laughing
way, but when telling Of the spirit
voices her manner changed TO the
familiar way so common to negroes IN
speaking Of the supernatural.
She ultivates small farm on the edge
Of town and works in the field herself.
She Ia never sick and never has tho
headache. Her hair Is very kinky.
Rrooks story's Escape.
JACKSON, Dec. 27.-The escape late
last night from the State prison Of the
notorious express robber. Brooks Story
has been the sensation Of the day.
Some two weeks ago Story was do
tected in an effort to tunnel out of the
prison walls. He was then put in irons
and placed in solitary confinement.
Last night he effected his escape by
, digging through his cell wall into the
prison yard with case knife. The de-
bris had been concealed from day to day
under his bed. He used file with
, which to make saw out Of the knife
and with that sawed his iron shackes
off. Once in the prison yard he used
two-inch csst-iron gas pipe, which ne
rested against the brick wall, ano
climbed on top Of tho same. He ther
visited one q the guards towers, broke
, the door in, gots breech-loading shot
> gun and a number of loaded shells, ane
. with knotted rope made fast to pos
: descended to the outside.
Story was convicted in the Holme'
County Circuit Court, May 10, 1892, o
;, robbing the express agent at Durant
!, and received sentence Of ten years.
| Brooks Story Is a brother Of Eugene
r Story, the murderer Of D. P. Klien
4 fielder, hanged in Holmes County, Jun'
= 8, 1891, and, who, some months befor'
Q that, while a fugative from justice, sho
J and killed Marshal Stout, Of Aberdeen
= who had gone to Louisiana, where De
? tective jackson had spotted him. II
q effect his arrest.
i Brooks Story is in the neighborhoo'
t OF 80 years Of age, . blonde Of spar
build, but fieshy from confinement. an
has = CHASTITY scar on one Of his thighs
!. It is believed that he will not be cap
y tured this time alive. Rewards ar
being offered for his recspture.
Il Miscellaneous.
y W. w. BEARMAN, business manage
of the Farmers Mercantile Company q
q Durant, died suddenly last week Q
9 heart failure. He was = hightone
Is gentleman, and one Of the best-knoY
II knights Of Pythiss in the State.
~ A REIGN Of terror exists in Kempe
County, and every citizen who had any
. thing to do with hanging old man To
r bert and bringing Tom and Walter To
70 bert to justice are In hourly dread
their lives.
:. WEssoN 10 to have two banks. Th
a incorporators Of each are capitalists an
T. men Of large business experience, bsin
,r well.known in commercial circles. Th
+ banks will be known - The Bank
n Wesson and The Citizens Bank Of We
- son. - w
!. THE Baptist congregation Of Jaokso
~ last week held their last service in th
Il old church which has served them sine
70 the founding Of Jackson, and will o
" cupy their new church building, whic
IN 10 about completed.
y, 70 The Masonic fraternity Of Natch'
= last week took formal possession Of the
u new temple, when the annual banqp'
al and installation Of officers took plac
The building has just been complets