The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-05-12
"RIPPLING WAVES"
Letter From the Herald's Arkan saS
Correspondent.
Negro Incendiary Meets Swift De-
structiOn-Other Items
of Interest.
LuXoRA, ARK. MAY 9TH, 1899.

LUXoRA, ARK. May 4th, 1899
EDITOR LD:-What can be the
We have not received our last
weeks HERALD yet, and none but those
who appreciate its weekly visits as
we do, can feel the disappointment so
much. We can not possibly receive the
HERALD here before Sunday and rarely
ever before Tuesday, because only two
OF the Lee boats take the mail, and one
of them leaves Memphis Friday after
noon and the HERALD reaches that city
about midnight. The other steamer
usually leaves there Saturday and
passes this place Saturday night, but
we do not always get our paper on Sun
day. We are expecting to get it Satur-
day evenings, though, before the sum-
mer is over, as the railroad will be COM
pleted to Osceola in about six weeks,
and then it will not be much longer un-
til it will be finished to LuXora, the ter
minus, where the car shops will be
located. The surveyor passed through
two weeks ago, and left his stakes
within fifty feet of our backyard fence,
much to our regret. These people are
very jubilant over their new prospects,
as steam boat transportation is so slow,
and there is much annoyance expert
enced by it. The distance is ninety
miles by water to Memphis, and it
takes nearly three days to make the
round trip, but the railroad takes the
through cut and it will only be few
hours run. The train will make daily
trip each day, except Sunday, and the
fare will be one dollar less than boat
fare, which is five dollars for the round
trip. The accommodations on boat are
excellent, though, and it is much more
pleasant travelling than the cars, yet
far more dangerous III case of accident
The "John X. Speed" large Cincin-
natl steamer that was familiar to the
people here, sank in the Ohio river at
Louisville, KY, about month ago.
There were one hundred and nine pas
sengers on board, all of whom escaped.
This is the second time this boat has
sunk this year; the first being just this
side of New Orleans. 1t was easily
raised. Some of the LuXora merchants
had freight on it.
The Lee Steamer Company have late
ly purchased the fine steamer Ferd
Herold, which they had repainted, and
it made its first trip down last week. 1t
has steel hull, and the cost of con-
struction was $4,000. It once made the
trip from few miles this side of New
Orleans to st. Louis, with a hole
snagged in the outside of the hull. The
hull is constructed with separate com
partments.
The U. S. Gunboat Nashville, which
has been on the Mississippi the past
twelve days, passed here to-day on its
way to st. Louis, where it will remain
two or three days and then return to
the greater waters. 1t stayed at Mem
phis two days and nights, where the
officers and crew were royalty enter
tanned. Our people very much desired
tn haUn than Etnn tp-niU ht a
Luxora, so as to honor them with a
banquet, but it kept in midstream, and
seemed to glide along as smoothly as a
little skiff, and not sound nor ripple
were discernable, which is quite differ
ent to the boats we have been accus-
toned to, they making nearly as much
noise sometimes as the cars. 1t did not
look so large, either, as the largest pas
senger boats, although its hull was
fourteen feet under water, and that of
the passenger steamers rarely ever &c
more than six feet under when heavily
loaded. 1t will be remembered by the
reading public that the Nashville bears
the distinction of having fired the first
gun in our late war with Spain.
About two months ago large barn
belonging to Mr.. Wade Quinn was
burned, and beside a large lot of corn
and hay, twelve fine mules and two
valuable saddle horses perished, the
gates having been locked to prevent
their being ridden atnight. The people
were very much infuriated, for the dis
tressing screams of the burning ami
mails were pitiable indeed, and they
were determined to catch the incendi
ary. So two detectives were employ ed, "a
white and a colored one, and they were
not long locating the guilty party, 9
negro who had lived with Mr.. Quinn
last year. He confessed to the crime al
soon as arrested and said he did it be
cause Mr.. Quinn claimed he owed hin
SOS in settlement Christmas. He was
kept in Jail ten or twelve days, when q
mob of near fifty men assembled at the
Jail last Saturday night and took hin
from the sheriff and hung him to &
large walnut tree in the court yard In
Osceola. The sheriff heroically resisted
and never did give up the keys, bu
they knocked him about and bruised
him considerably, nearly breaking ont
of his arms; then bursted the Jail doors
and took the poor, trembling wretch q
his destruction. The damage done tn,
Jail is estimated at about 500. Will,
the barn was burning, one mule anC
horse kicked a plank off and came out
although the hole was so small that tht
skin was scraped off their backs almos
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/ ly burned, but recovered. The burned
stock were valued at 5000. Mr.. Quinn
went down to Memphis and bought tei
more, paying $l2j each. This is abou
the eighth barn burned here in tn,
/ past eighteen months, aud the peopl
think there is an organized band o
/ burners.
Two weeks ago a young traveiin.
/ sport by the name Of Roy Lambert, from
Illinois. was killed by a bar tender
/ Rich Perry, in one Of LuXOra's new a1
| ditiOns, a saloon. They were previous
/ ly good friends, as far as such men ar
/ capable OF being, but Lambert wa
drunk and raised the disturbance. Per
| ~ was tried and acquitted.
/ Doubtless many who read the clippin,
/ copied in the HERALD from an Osceol
paper some weeks ago, about the terri
4 BILE experience Of one Mrs. S1uthwoo
/ and q gentleman companion by bein
II n #Hm T..