The Opelousas courier., 1896-04-25
earth to Earth, Dust to Dust"

Rut in the main time the skeleton hit
want gone nowheres. The posse OF cltl-
zens in charge of the case finally at last
come to the conclusion that old Misses
Uasscltine had caught the mortal re-
mains of Il certain colored Individual
by the name Of julie Turner, which he
had co,ne UP miss;li one night last year.
about the time that Ben Chris Viewers
G:uhouse got burnt up mighty strange
and pecnrious like.
Andy Lucas was plum certain that
ci,ct upon IL time them bones had iiet'
julie Turner in the flesh, cause he had
one game leg which had been kicked by
a mule, and there vas the scar on one
shin bone Of the skeleton.
Old Misses Hasseltinc couldn't say
what was what in regards to color, but
she knowed it was the skeleton of q
mih. The old lady was so bad ratified
from the general shock till raley don't
think she knows anything for certain.
But, at any rates, Tie skeleton was
turned over to the colored population,
and they put in and had a big fu-
neral The next day over 1t pinetop
church wherein there was some tall
weepin and wailin and smashin OF
teeth. julie Turner's "iddnr she wcs
ttait, and when the procession driv
up with the skeleton she fell into a
trance and didn't wake up no more till
some time that night.
The l,evrent l.. NJ. Butler, colorea
(tong Meter Butler, rs most everybody
rails t:iihj. ii,ade a few scattering re-
marks from the text: There will be
q mighty rattlin in this valley of dry
bones" lie didn't preach nobody's
funeral for certain, but cut the sermont
SO it would fit rnybudy's skeleton in a
loose, general way.
Then they sung a song and went out
"Confusionment" COMPOUNDED.
But that want all that come to pass
In the settlement last week-not by a
whole ttetne;llius big ut.
\ town man come through the set
tlement ridin of a wheel as he called it,
and scatterin death and ruinatlon
everywhere he went.
Cid man Mart Mayo was goin to
town in his OK wagon when he met the
thing down there in the old stage road.
And bless gracious his oxen broke
loose and run away and split seven
dozen eggs, four bushels OF potatoes.
eight POINTS Of fresh butter and one
man. When old Mart recovered and
come back to his senses sufficient to
seek that which was lost he found the
remains of his wagon three miles down
the road, ard when he caught his oxen
the next day they had hid out in a canc
brake way over the Murder creek.
Old Misses Sinpkips she was eut
milking the cows that morhin when
the town man rid by on his wheel, and
about the next thing she knowed she
didn't know anything at all scarcely.
She got to the bars ahead of the storm,
but there she tainted and fell over i'll
it, and when the COWS had all passed
o ap s,. sn aa fh mor plefs 4 { thaRR q li91h olo l 9Gs
doctors are still tendin on that case.
Little Bunk Wcatherford was p!owin4
i'll his new ground when the wheel
man whizzin by, and from the
generals signs of destruction it is my
private opinion that him and his mule
both got sl;eered and III away. They
tore down IA panels of new fence
comm out of the field, and Misses
Weatherford maintains till yet that
Bunk came to the house runnin
and neck with his mule.
On his return back late that evenin
town man stopped off at the Cross
to let the crowd see his wheel.
Andy Lucas was there as usual, and
up on white ink" to about six
bits in the dollar. And nothin would
do Andy but he must ride the "durn
So up he got and down he |
went. The "durn thing" bucked, and
the n~atural-born horse trader
himself up he was eatin dirt and
blood at the same time.
But it would take more time and pa
.ience than the law allows to write out
Ill the storms and troubles that come to
BASS in the settlement last week. So ]
Will close for this time in the best OF
and spirits, hoping that this will
ind you enjoying the same general
RUFUS SANDERS.
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