St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1896-05-23
.E.rth to Earth, Dust to Dsst."


want gone nowheres. The posse Of citt-
xens in charge of the case finally Mt last
come to the conclusion that old Misses
Hasseltine had caught the mortal re-
mains of q certain col0red individual
by the name Of julie Turner, which he
had come up missin one night last year.
about the time that Ben Chris Weaver'x
ginhouse got burnt up mighty strange
and pecnrious like.
Andy Lucas was plum certain that
cnct upon u time them bones had helt
julie Turner In the flesh, cnuse he had
one game leg which had been kicked by
q mule, and there was the scar on ono
chin 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
man. The old lady was 10 bad ratified
from the general shock till raley don't
think she knows anything for certain.
But. Mt any rates, the skeleton was
turned over to the colored population,
and they put in and had . big fu-
neral the next day over ut Pinetop
church wherein there was some tall
weepin and wailin and smashin OF
teeth. julie Turner'S widier she was
there, 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 Revrent L. M. Butler. colored
(Long Meter Butler. M most everybody
calls him), made u few scattering re-
marks from the text: ''There will be
q mighty rattlin in this valley of dry
bones" He didn't preach nobody a
funeral for certain. but cut the sermont
SO it would fit anybody's skeleton in
loose, general way.
Then they sung q song and went out
.Coafusionnent" Coafoundsd.
But that want all that come to pass
In the settlement last week-not by .
whole tremendous big lot.
A town man come through the set
| Element ridin of wheel az he called it
and scatterin death and ruinatior
everywhere he went.
Old man uart Mayo was goin t.
town in his OK wagon when he met tn
thing down there in the old stage road
And bless gracious his oxen broke
loose and run away and split sever
dozen eggs. four bushels OF potatoes
eight ponnts of fresh butter and ont
man. When old Mart recovered 9n<
come buck to his senses sufficient II
seek that which was lost he found tl,'
~ ~. ...nr -. <kroo. vn310n 0uysH
the road, and when he caught his oxei
the next day they had hid out in q cane
brake way over the Murder creek.
Old Misses Simpkins she was ont
milking the cows that mornin whei
the town man rid by on his wheel. ant
about the next thing she knowed SHIT
didn't know anything at all scarcely
She got 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 ladl
up she WIS more dead than ivin. Th'
doctors are still tendin ON that case.
Little Bunk Weatherford was plowi1
In his new ground when the whee
man come whizzin by, and from thu
general signs OF OBSTRUCTION IL - ~!
private opinion that him and his mul'
both got skeered and run away. They
tore down II panels of new fenc'
comm out Of the field. and Mise'
Weatherford maintains till yet tha
Bunk came to the house runnil
neck and neck with his mule.
On his return hack late that evenil
tho town man stopped on ut the Cros
Roads to let the crowd see his wheel
Andy Lucas WAS there as usual, ant
tanked up on "whitc ink" to about 81,
bits in the dollar. And nothin wOuls
do Andy but he must ride the ''durl
thing" So up he got and down h
went. The "1urn thing bucked, an,
when the na.ural-born horse trade
picked himself up he was eatin dirt ant
spittin blood at the same time.
But it would take more time and pa
ticnce than the law allows to write ou
oil the storms and troubles that come 4
pass in the settlement last week. So
will close for this time in the best .
health and spirits. hoping that this viii
find you enjoying the same genera
blessins. RUFUs SANDERS.