The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-05-16

But in she main time the skeleton hit
want gone nowheres. Theposse Of citi.
zens in charge Of the case finally st. last
come to the conclusion that old Misses
Hasseitlne had caught tbs mortal re-
mAins Of q certain colored Individual
by the name OF julie Turna1, which he
had come up missin one night
ah0utthe time that Ben Chris Weaver's
ginhouse got burnt up mighty strange
and pecurious like.
Andy Lucas was plum certain that
cnct upon 4 time them bones had belt
julie Turner in the flesh, cause he had
one game leg which had been kicked by
a mule, and there was the scar on one
shin bone 81 the skeleton.
Old Misses Hasseltine couldn't say
what was what in regards to color, but
she knowed it was the skeleton Of 8
man. The old lady was % bad ratified
from the general shock till Iraley don't
think she knows anything for certain.
But at any rates, the skeleton was
turned over to the colored population
and they put in and had q big fu-
neral the next day over at PinetOp
church wherein there was some tall
weepiu and wailin and smashin 81
teeth. julie Turner'S swidder she was
there, and when the procession drlv
up with the skeleton she fell into 8
trance and didn't wake up no more till
some time that night.
The Revrent 1. ID. Butler. colored
Hong Meter Butlers as most everybody
calls him), made 9 few scattering re-
marks from the text: "There will 30
a mighty rattlin in this valley Of dry
bones.' He didn't preach nobodya
funeral for certain, but cut the serEnont
SO it would fit anybody's skeleton in q
loose. general way.
Then they sung a song and went out
aConfusionmeut" C~cnsounded.
But that want all that come to pass
ia the settlement last weeknot BY 1
whole t~remendius big lot
Al town man come through the sch
teunent ridin Of . wheel as he called il
and scatterin death and ruinatior
everywhere he went.
Old man Mart Mayo was goin Il
town IN his OK wagon when he met the
thing down there ia the old stage road
And bless gracious his oxen broke
loose and run away and split sever
dozen eggs, four bushels Of potatoes
eight po1lnts Of fresh butter and on
man. When old Mart recovered and
come back to his senses sufficient r.
seek that which was lost be found ths
remains Of his wagon three miles down
the road, and when he caught his oxeE
the next day they had hid Quit a cane
brake way over the Murder creek.
Old Misses Simpkins she was out
milking the COWS that mornin wher
the town man rid by on his wheel, and
about the next thing she knowed shi
didn't know anything at all scarcely
She rot to the bars ahead Of the storm
but there she tainted and fell over il
it, and when the cows had all passed
over and they picked the good old lad
up she was more dead than Twin. Tn,
doctors are still tendin on that case.
Little Bunk Weatherford was plowiI
in HIS new ground when the whee
man come whizzin by. and from thu
general signs Of destruction it il mi
private opinion that him and his mul'
both got slceered and run away. Thel
tore down IA panels Of new fenc'
comm out of the field, and Mise
Weatherford maintains till get tina
Bunk came to the house runnil
neck and neck with his mule.
On his return back late that evenii
tho town man stopped on at the Crua'
Roads TO let-the crowd see his wheel
Andy Lucas was there as usual, ans
tanked up on white ink to about 81,
J bits in the dollar. And nothin woull
do Andy but he must ride the s.duri
thing" So up he got and down b
went The "durn thing bucked, an,
when the natural-bOrn horse trade
! picked himself up he was eatin dirtanl
spittin blood at the same time.
But 1t would take more time and pc
thence than the law allows to write on
all the storms and troubles that comet
J pass in the settlement last week. So
will close for this time in the best q
health and spirits, hoping that this VII
find you enjoying the same genera
+ bleasins. RUFUs SANDERS.
SO Didn't nrlnd wAicaa.
! ~IIow much fur a photograph" b
quefied as he entered the room at u
z head Of the stairg.