The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-09-26


spent four days last week watch
iug the effect Of the wind The ycgc
table kingdom seems 10 squrm a.
much from an east wind touch a:
the animal, and its blight may be
noticed in the dropping Of stems anc
the withcr Of leaves. \ six weeks
drought has been upon US and thcr
came this wind from the east to cal
the climax of the farmers disappoint
mcnt>. The old steers draw them
selves up in knot behind some place
Of shelter and eat but little of tho
food they seem SO much to need
Horses drive dull against this wind
and cows fall short in milk. The
birds refuse to sing. watched close
for four days and not song of birds
did | hcar-not even the chirp of ii
sparrow. There is only one bird that
seems disposed to be fussy when the
wind is from the cast. The owl, the
wind seems to effect him somewhat as
it docs man. His 'who-who" and
who who's is as common at night
as the east wind blows as the old
mans growls are in the day. There
is no old man can stand the touch Of
humor, and as for the old women.
Jerusalem. would no more try to
get up smile at the breakfast table
on mornings when the wind is from
the cast than | would try to take
wings and fly. 1t is Il powerful good
time to find out all the mean things
an old woman has laid up against you,
and that is not good.
But we have to take these winds as
they come, be they good or be they
evil, until science has invented some
means to overcome the bad effects.
Thc first step toward such an end
would be to get the gentlemen of sta
tistical turn to keep account oc the
proportion of evil that comes from an
east winds blowing. The old-timc
printers used to tell ne that they
could tell when the paper was going
to be filled with crimc-thcy asserted
that there was the most Of this when
the wind was from the cast. One of
them vowed to me that Lincoln and
Garficld were killed under the inhu-
cncc OF an east wind. a man Of my
own county assures me that he has
made it his business to study the
crimes Of DeKalb, in connection with
this wind, for the past fifty or sixty
years. He began taking points upon
this line at the time of the Grahamc
murder. Grahame was killed at Stone
Mountain by one Of his own slaves.
This slave was hired out to hotel in
Atlanta. He performed all his usual
work, retired to bed, but during the
night he slipped out from the hotel,
footed it all the way to the mountain
sixteen miles-killcd his master and
returned to his bed at the hotel in
Atlanta without creating the single
'blunder to cause suspicion. He did
make the mistake of telling about the
murder before it wna known hv my
on. else il the city and this was the
]. clcw that led to his discovery. Tie
was hanged near Decatur before the
war and claimed that the east wind
I blew terribly the night he committed
/, the deed, and was still blowing in the
morning when he made the blunder Of
telling about the murder before the
arrival of the Georgia railroad train.
4 man by the name Of jolly is serv-
ing a life sentence in the Georgia
IpcnitenSiary from our county for
crime committed soon after the var.
This man murdered young woman by
the name of Norris. Miss Norris was
living with jolly at the time as help
to Mrs. Jolly. It had come time for
the young woman to return to her
home in some distant county and all
the arrangements were made to this
end. Her trunk was packed on the
day before the day appointed for her
leaving On the morning of her de-
parturc they had started before day.
Jolly had her and her trunk in his
wagon and they drove facing an east
wind. AS they drove the wind blew
and the mans desire to murder the
girl came upon him. Before they had
proceeded mile the wind had worked
MIN up to the point and he murdered
che girl. He buried her in a field
near by, burned her trunk and there
was no suspicion Of the crime having
been committed. The people here in
our county thought the girl had just
returned to her home and 80 the mat
ter rested for number Of years. II
the meantime jolly had moved away