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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-03-02
OUR JACKSON LETTER
oUh CORRESPONDENT TALKS ABoUr
MATTERS OF INTEREST.
Aho Adams Anti-Lynching Bill Attracts
Astention---Scnator Kiger Under Fire of
9uestions---Jackson Entertains National
Editorial Association,

changes that Senator Adams is at times
troubled with serious doubts as to it's
paternity, the Adams anti-lynching biu
has been reported favorably by the SEN
ate judiciary committee to which it
was referred. This is not the original
anti-lynching bill introduced by the
senator, which was in line with the
suggestions contained in the inaugura
message of Gov. Longino, and which
provided that the heirs of the lynchers
might recover fixed sum in damages
against the county, and also that the
sheriff's Office should become vacant
when prisoner was taken from his
custody and lynohed. That bill, on the
suggestion Of various members of the
committee, he Withdrew and introduced
. substitute, which is the bill now fav-
ersbly reported by the Judiciary COM
mittes. But his substitute was DOOM
Cd to undergo certain emasculation
before it ran the gauntlet OF the COM
mittee. In the substitute bill he in
troduced, that portion of the original
bill which authorized the heirs of the
lynchee to bring suit against the coun
ty for $4,000, in case of death, and
$4,000 in case of mutilation, was
changed 80 as to permit the heirs to
bring suit against the persons implicat-
ed In the lynching and fixing mini
mum sum to be recovered in such suits
OF $4,000 In case of death and $500 in
case Of multilation or other like seri-
ous injuries As the common law now
stands the heirs of such man have q
right to bring such suits, and Senator
Adams sole idea in fxng the mini
mum that might be recovered was to
prevent the return of merely nominal
vsrdiots where the jury found against
the defendants and with whom their
sympathies were usually enlisted At
ter good deal OF general discussion
even this section was stricken from the
substitute, and the heirs are now left to
their old recourse at common law,
which will, Of course, prove unavail
ins, as ususal. The substitute bill also
modified that portion of the original
bill which declared the Office of sheriff
ipso facto and go instanti vacant when
Q prisoner was taken from his custody
and lynched by a mob The new bill
authorizes an investigation into all the
facts Of the case, when such thing
happens, and the governor has the right
TO remove the officer in case negligence,
cowsrdice or incompetency Is shown.
The present bill also provides for the
speedy assembling of the court in cases
Of criminal assault and other heinous
offenses, 30 that trial may be had at
once. Senator Adams expects his bill
70 be called up In the senate by We'd
nesday at the latest and is confident
that the bill will pass in Its present
shape.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-03-02
Denies knowledge of appointment.

Memphis, Tenn. - General Luke
White has returned to Memphis from
Cincinnati. With reference to his
proposed appointment to place on
the Philippine commission General
Wright said that he had no knowl-
edge of such appointment being un-
der the consideration of the presi-
dent.
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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1900-02-10
plrH AND POINT.

Il h wonderful how many differc06
ways there are of being miserable
Atchison Globe.
The swell of the ocean makes people
sick and some of the swells one en-
counters on land have a similar effect.
Chicago Daily News.
at does seem wicked for Grace's
hair to come out So" whats wicked
about it?'' "Why, it's falling from
Grace."-Philadelph Bulletin.
Teacher ow, if boy smites you
on the right cheek, what are you to
do?" Johnny-''Why, just give it to
'imwivm left, o. course, mum."-Ally
Sloper.
The Automobile-"Get out of the
way there, you old stiff! You're a has
been.' The Horse-'Perhaps. But
will you please tell me from what part
of your anatomy they cut the porter
house steaks ?"-Omaha World-Herald.
Why He Liked Him.-"Do you know.
there's something about that friend
of yours that / like" said the fellow
who never refused treat. "Yes,
guess it's his money replied the
friend, whose eyes were wide open.-
Yonkers Statesman.
Our Country Relatives.-Student-
"Heat expands and cold contracts"
Professor-"Correct. Give an exam
ple." Student-"During the summer
the affections of city people for their
country relatives expand, and in win
ter they contract. Ohio State Jour
nal.
No More Books.-Mr. Snaggs-"My
dear, has Mrs. Penn returned that
book we lent her a month ago?" Mrs.
Snaggs--"No; must ask her for it."
swell, hereafter we lend her nothing
but the cat" "Why?" s'The cat will
come back."-Pittsburgh Chronicle.
Telegraph.
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'PoSSUM TALKS.
zeb White Tells About Mountain Ghost
BY M. QUAD.
(copyrigh,ed)

ahead. About every two minits the
ghost would utter that cry. Some
times il would seem to be mead Of us,
and sometimes behind, and though we
stuck to our kegs, everybody was
skeert half 10 death. / shouldn't be
ashamed to say that we throwed away
the whisky and run fur our lives, fur
was never so badly upset, but we
stuck it out till all the kegs was safe.
Then we had talk and determined to
move the still"
And you continued to hear the
voice?"
Right along, sub. 1t wasn't like no
human bein', nor yit like an animal,
and nobody could rightly say from
which direction it came. reckon the
only reason that kept us together was
fear. Each man had feelin' that if
he got away from the crowd that aw-
full thing would grab him and take his
life. 1t took from about eight o'clock
in the evenin' till mighty nigh day
break to git the kegs safe away and
move the still two miles, and all this
time that ghost was wanderin' up and
down and utterin' them quare noises.
After the first alarm them revenoo fell
lers went into hidin' and wasn't heard
of agin, but we knew they was still in
the woods. When we was all through
I started for home, and daylight was
eatin' up the fog as opened the cabin
door. Lynn on the outside Of the bed
and sound asleep was my ole woman.
On the bed beside her was sheet so
damp you could wiring water out Of 1t,
and her shoes and clothes was in the
same fix. AFTER leetle woke her up
and says:
"'Mebbe yo've bin walkin' in yo'r
sleep and fell into the branch?'
"'Mebbe hev,' says she as she sits
up and stares at me and can hardly
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One evening, when night had fallen
dark and grim over the peaks of the
Cumberland, and had brought with it
such strange stiffness that one could
hear the opening of the chestnut
burrs and the fall of the nuts on the
shriveled leaves below, / asked the old
'possum hunter if he had never met
with anything weird and mysterious
up there on the rugged slopes.
"Yes, I've met up with some quare
things in my time" he replied after a
minute, land I've always sorter reck-
oned that a ghost or speerit once
helped me out o. powerful tight
place."
Being pressed for the story, he
stirred up the logs on the fire, lighted
his pipe and continued:
II reckon have told yo' why went
INTO moonshine whisky. 1t was the
same way with all the rest. We could
turn our CON into money that way,
and in no other. Nobody ever did
make any money at it, and every man
ooOut StiAi AuAA Tic IiSh VI DciH Scht
off to state prison most any day in the
week. did a heap thinkin' befo' l
went into the bizness. The ole woman
was agin it from the start, and many a
night she woke me up as she cried
out:
Sch White, I've bin dreamin' that
them revenoo feIlers had cotched yo'
and sent yo' to the penitentiary fur
two y'ars!'
"Bimeby," continued the old man, II
decided to go into it. We had to pack
the still 10 miles over the hills on our
backs, and we had only jest got 10
maxim moonshine when the woods
was full o. revenoo fellers s'archin' fur
the plant. 1t was in that ravine over
to the west, with the big dead tree
standin' sentinel, and though they run
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speak loud fur hoarseness.

speak loud fur hoarseness. is the
whisky all safeg
".All safe
"'And did yo' move the still?
Moved it two miles,
"'Then git yo'rself bite to eat and
femme sleep till noon, fur thar was
quare noises about last night and I
didn't git wink o. sleep"
sand it was Mrs. White who played
the ghost?"
"Can't say" replied Zeb with smile.
81 never dun axed her, and she never
dun told me-"
"And what did the revenue men have
to say about it?''
'Nuthin' 'tall--not to me. AS soon as
daylight come they headed fur Knox
vile, and we didn't see no mo- of 'em
fur months. They give out that
ghost rolled six of 'em over cliff and
hit the rest of the gang with stones and
clubs, and none of 'em wouldn't come
back fur love or money"
swell, it was a smart trick on the
part of Mrs. White"
| "Yes, rayt2er peart, reckon-ray.
ther-peart. That is, il II was her."
"But it must have been her."
"Cant say as it was, though it took
most quart of coon's lie to git that
hoarseness out o. her throat arter-
wards"
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John Mccormick, a farmer who re-
sides across the river from Clinton,
Ia, in Illinois. is the owner of a tur-
key gobbler which is probably the
largest that has ever been raised in
the United States. This monster tow
ers into the air five feet and weighs
65 pounds. 1t looks more like an os-
trich than q turkey. Its legs at the
feet are an inch and half in diane
ter, while close to the body they
are the size of an ordinary mans arm,
at the elbow. The birds wings
measure seven feet from tip to tip.
The turkey is two years old and never
wauders away from home, as is usu-
ally the habit of turkeys. The bird
is of the bronze breed, and Mr.. Nc
Cormick says he has been offered
large sums for the monster fowl, but
has no desire to sell ii.
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us mighty clus they couldn't find it.
They was so watchful, however, that
we couldn't git any of the stuff out to
make sale, and there came time
when had 80 kegs of good con whis-
Ky hid away in the bresh and ready
to 60 over the trail. Then the boss of
the reyenoo fellers stops yere at the
cabin one day fur a drink of water
and says:
'sZeb White, yo'ye got a still, and
yo've got whisky on hand. We hain't
found the spot yit, but I've sent fur
two mo- men, and we ar goin' to stay
right yere fur the next ten Vars. l
amt wishin' yo' any bad luck, but if
don't hev yo' in Albany in less than
three months, then I'll resign my
place and go to huntin' rabbits!'
"That sort O. talk upset the ole
woman and rayther skeered me-" said
Zeb, ''and made up my mind I'd hev
to move that still and git the kegs
outer the way as quick as possible. l
sent word around, and one AFTERNOON
about 90 men gathered in the thicket
jest beyand the creek. We talked
things over and agreed that sunthin'
must be done, but at TIE same time it
was takin' big chances. When night
come down it was Jest SIGH a night as
this, only white fog riz up and made
everything look quare and strange.
AFTER shutdown, when that fog spread
all over the mounting, yo' jest couldn't
help thinkin' of speerits ard ghosts.
We couldn't say how it would affect
them revenoo fellers, but we got down
to the still about eight o'clock in the
evenin' and every one of us was feel
in trembly. 1t wasn't so powerful
dark, but that white fog lay every
where like a shroud fur the dead, and
it was so still that the fall of dead
twig gave yo' sort o. SILVER. hadn't
said nuthin' to the ole woman. but /
reckon she suspicioned what was up.
We went at them kegs fust. Each
man was to carry one TO- miles, and
we knowed them reyenoo men would
be hidin' on the trail if they was
abroad at ALL
swell, how did you come outf" i
asked as the old man paused.
at was quare. suh-mighty quare.
We was moyin' along the trail like so
many ghosts, when We heard sunthin'
wall out like q woman in distress. The
wall was drawn out, like. and it ended
up in sort O. hugh Lawd, sub, but
the hull crowd of us turned as cold as
ice and felt our ha'r standin' up. Snme
was fur runnin' away. and some fur
goin' back, but as we stood thar with
our hearts thumpin' we heard the rev
enoo men crawlin' away through The
bresh and sayin' 10 each other that q
ghost was wauderin' sbout. That
hea.tered NJ no . bit and we went
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LEES ARROW WOUND.
An Unknown Incident of the Geuer-
ais Participation I'm Indian
Fights I'm Texas.

II mas OIte0 Deen nOl1ceQ t1dt Wnen-
ever Gen. Fitzhugh Lee visits the white
house he stops to have chat with Capt.
Loeffier, who stands guard at the presi-
dents private Office and the cabinet
room. This is generally attributed to
Lees pleasant way of treating every
one, but it has another origin.
Before the civil war Lee was lieu
tenant in the old Second cavalry, after
ward reorganized as the Fifth. Loeffler
was trooper in this regiment and later
a non-commissioned officer. His COM
pany was one of the two which were
engaged in sharp fight with the Kiowa
and Comanche Indians in the Cim-
maron country in Texas in 1889. The
Indians had taken refuge in a narrow
canyon which could be entered only
from one end, and there had thrown up
a fertilization of logs from behind
which they poured hot fire into the
troops. The character of the canyon
was such that the horses of the cavalry
were useless and they were left outside
the men advancing on foot. Only few
of the Indians had firearms, the rest
using bows and arrows. Had the In
dams been as well armed as they have
been in later wars, the loss of the whites
would have been very large; as it was
only four or five soldiers were killed,
though the Indian loss amounted to
nearly so.
A charge was made upon the log fort,
and Lee. who was dashing officer and
wonderful favorite with his men, was
the first one to scale the breastwork.
The arrows were whizzing all about
him, and one struck him in the breast,
inflicting very ugly wound. AS he fell,
the confusion was so great about hi,n
that the arrow was pulled out of his
flesh and thrown to the ground among
other arrows, whole and broken, so that
no one could tell afterward whether
the head had remained in the wound
or been drawn out with the stick. 1t
was impossible, therefore, to say how
seriously he had been hurt, and he was
carried at once to the rear where a
litter was improvised of saplings and
boughs. He was laid upon this, which
was swung between two horses, and
thus he,was carried back to the wagon
train, distance of more than $50 miles
through a rough country. Probing
showed that the head of the arrow had
fortunately been drawn out, and in due
time good nursing put the lieutenant on
his feet again.
This is an incident in Lees career
which is apparently known to very few.
1t is of interest, also, that the old Sec.
ond cavalry had for its colonel Albert
Sidney Johnston and for is lieutenant
colonel Robert +. Lee, and that Hardee,
of tactics" fame, and George II. Thorn
as were two of its majors. The captain
of the company in which Fitzhugh Lee
was first lieutenant was Kirby Smith.
Loeffler served with credit in the union
army during the civil war, was given his
white house detail by President Grant,
and was appointed by President Nc
Kinley as military storekeeper' in the
regular army, with the rank of captain.
Boston Transcript.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1900-02-10

In 1870 an ordinary shell when 1t
burst broke into from 10 to 80 pieces.
To-day it bursts into 240. Shrapnel
fire in 1870 scattered only 81 death
dealing missiles. Now it seatters 34c.
A bomb weighing about 20 pounds 30
years ago would have burst into AZ
fragments. To-day, when il is charged
with peroxilene. il breaks up into 1900
pieces, each of which is hurled with
much greater velocity than the larger
Jumps which were scattered by q gun
powder explosion.-Chicago Democrat
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1900-02-10

In bavaria each family on Easter
ss----.-ay BRING 20 the church ward-fire
a walnut branch. which. after being
partially burned, is carried home to be
laid on the hearth during tempests n
protection against lightning.
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ut is your. intention" said the mind
reader, as he gazed into the mans
eyes, ITO call me an impostor at the
conclusion of this seance, and, on that
plea, go away without paying me-"
Thus 1t was he gained . reputation
a. mind reader. when, a. . matter
of fact, he was only good judge 1t
human nstuys.-chicago Post
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so years ago, but are they at all like
that to-day?" the Brooklyn girl asked
with great curiosity.
"They are just the same in 1899 as
1899, Hildegrade. told you about my
sister just now. Two months before
she wSs married, we had big reunion
at Christmas, and while we were at the
table, my brother-in-law rose and pro-
posed toast to the bride-elect. Annie
Lee turned such a vivid scarlet that
every eye was fixed on her, and before
she could speak, she burst into a pas
sion of tears and left the room. Eliza
was engaged to a number of men, and
I'm afraid she never broke off with poor
Frank Joyce at all. He came on from
Kentucky to see her, aud while he was
on the way, mother was taken very i'll,
and insisted that Eliza should be mar
ried at once by her bedside. There was
no reason why she shouldn't, as the
wedding was set for two weeks off, and
the cards all engraved; SO Jim war sent
for post-haste, and they were married
about four o'clock, the 18th of last
June. In the meantime, Frank. who
never dreamed of such thing, and
thought he was engaged to her himself,
arrived at the house. and sent word up
to let her know he had come. L don't
know what message the servant gave
him. but he declares she said Miss Liza
say she's sorry, sab, but she's gittin'
married right now. Take q seat in the
parlo- and she'll be down in few min
ufes.' was bridesmaid last month for
girl who was engaged to three nice
young men from different towns. One
day they met by chance at her house.
and while they were waiting for her 10
come down, No. said:
Gentlemen, I think ought to tell
| you that have the first right here, for
II am engaged to the young lady
NO. sprang up and sssid, You are
mistaken. I an engaged 70 her myseif:.'
"whezsupoa. No : said. With ealn
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There are now over 100000 words IN
the English language acknowledged by
the beat authorities. or about 7o,cG0
more thaa In the German, rrer.hs
snauiEh and Italian c7iph'Eed.
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him and talked to Mr.. Heights all the
evening.
HiIdegarde presented Cadsby as my
fiance," and they sat on the sofa to-
gether, using each others Christian
names with every breath. Mr.. Black,
''from hnme," showed no surprise at
anything, but certain young woman,
who was earnestly discussing with
Mrs. Heights the question OF fiounces
on the bridesmaids skirts, saw by
some strange intuition through the
back of her head that his eyebrows
went up the fraction of an inch, and
there was peculiar something in his
tone when he said good night.
81 think you were awfully rude to
yonr friend, Lucy Miss Heights said.
when the front door slammed. "You
don't know him very well, / guess,
do you? Wasn't she snippy, Cad?"
lawfully, Hide; I'D hate to see you
treat me that way" the fiance said,
sentimentaily.
"Oh, but we're engaged, you see, and
thSt olC ouiN II fSuuSs Hdt y Tue JILL
ference, Cad"
In a few days Miss Lucy Grey
matched herself away from all the
notes. telephone messages, cups and
saucers, and went back to her south
ern home. 4 week later she wrote to
her friend:
Dear Hildegarde: You will be surprised
to hear am to be married on the 18th of
this month to MI Black, whom have been
engaged TO since / was a schoolgirl. I'm
afraid there have been other lovers here
and there, but he was always first and
best. and when you saw him in Brooklyn
he had come on to arrange for the wedding.
The reason I chose the particular time for
my visit to you was that wanted to get
my trepsseau in New York, and some time 3
was so afraid you would suspect. had
two or three dreadful rights when you
|;eame In unexpectedly and va5 looking
fat my purchases, xcu wiz zee thsn al
when you eouis,''
IN. y. Sun.
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THE STOPPING OF THE CLOCK.
Surprising falls the instantaneous calm,
The sudden silence in my chamber small.
], starting, lift my head in half alarm
The clock has stopped-that's all.
The clock has stopped! Yet why have 50
found
An instant feeling, almost like dismay?
Why note its silence sooner than its sound?
For It has licked all day.
So many lives besides my own go on,
And such companionship unheeded keep
Companionship scarce recognized till gone.
And lost In sudden sleep.
And so the blessings Heaven daily grants
Are In their very commences forgot;
We little heed what answereth our wants.
Until it answers not.
A strangeness falleth on familiar ways,
As II some pulse were gone beyond re-
CALI
Something unthought Of. linked with all
our days
Some clock has stopped-teat's all.
&C. H. Coomer, In Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-09-14
OUT FOR BRYAN.
Republican Editor at Ashtabula
Says That He Will Support
the Democratic Ticket.

Columbus, Sept 12.-Secretary Craw-
ford of the Democratic state commit
tee has received letter from l.. II.
Benjamin, Of Ashtabula, making the
announcement that the latter would
come out for Bryan.
Mr.. Benjamin publishes the Ashtabula
Daily Times, and expects to begin on
September 20 the publication of daily
at Conneaut. He says he has always
been Republican, but he Is now for
Bryan and so is his paper. Mr.. Benja-
min claims that he has been showing UP
official crookedness in his county, and
says those affected say he Is Democrat
now because it pays him better to be
one.
Four years ago he prepared many
articles in the interest of Mckinley
and was urged by some to go on the
stump, but they now say, he continues
that 1 am crank, mugwump, lunatic
traitor, etc. 1t does beat all how some
folks hate the truth"