The Canton times., 1902-01-24

enough milk to keep our baby rFom
perishing; and how i bought ten busb.
els of corn away down the river at $50
a bushel and gotsgood old Rowland
| Bryant to keep IL hid for me al his
home SIX miles from town, and once
week he took bushel to mil and had
Iit ground and brought it to town hid
underathe seat of his buggy; and how
The. scouts and outlaws robbed every.
body who had anything. and these out
laws were company of cavalry made
up of thieves and deserters from orr
own army; and of how had bale of
factory shirting hid out in the country
Tor two years, and as soon as we dared
1t was brought home and my.wife could
exchange few yards at time for po-
1atoes and chickens; and how about
these times the confederate detectives
arrested quartermaste in Selma for
big stealing and put him in jail, and he
was desperately scared and wanted to
get out and run away. and there wasn't
a lawyer in Selma. for Gen. Morgan
and Gen. Pettus and Dawson and all
the rest were in the army, and a friend
OF mine advised him to send for me
and he did, and / went down there in
an old buggy, for there was no railroad |
running then and interviewed him in |
jan and agreed to get him out for |
$4,000, and it was deposited with nv
TREND and did get him out on a ha beas
corpus and a straw bond. and he ran
away and is running yet, reckon, and
how little steamboat came up from
Noble with some blockade goods and
bought two pounds of opium for
$4,000 and fifty pair of cotton cards
on the leaf without backs or handles
for 500 pair, and that took the rest
OF the money, and the captain gave me
two pounds of coffee and as much
sugar, and put the opium in one side
OF little o.d rusty valise and the cards
IN the other side and returned home
and formed partnership with Bob
Hargrove, who had half box of cheap
tobacco, and We opened a store and
took in third partner, which was
my wife, who sent down two bolts of
the snirting, and we went to trading
for something to live on. We assessed !
the cards at 5000 pair and the opium
at $40 in gold for an ounce, and the
shirting at So yard. 1t was kind of
department. store. Bob clerked on one
side and onsthe other We didn't take
money for anything, foritI
got worse every day, but we exchanged {,
hings-and we sold the opium to the y
ew who needed it for gold they had il
lid away. Our store was sensation,
or it was the only one in town that had II
stock of goods. All the others were "a
mpty. In April. 1865, a company OF
came down in the night and !,
he next morningwe were all surprised / i,
0 see them. Mr.. Lincoln was killed "
wo days before. So it was rumored, =
MT we didn't believe it. DR.. King was
great big red-headed man and said !,
hat he pleased, so he rode up to the 81
ompany and said: "Cappen, is there w
ny truth in the report that ole Abe
incoln is dead?" The captain replied,
ruffiy: "Yes, sir; he is dead and bur- a a
d. We'll, | thought if he was dead -
was likely that they would bury
i'm" said King, and he put spurs to
is horse and galloped down the street
} tell us the news. The captain said
'terwards he came very near order
e the men to shoot him. W.
And so we talked over the old war
mes and the good lady and our other
rests listened and laughed and won
red until bed time.-Bill Arp, in Ate
nta Cons Stitntinn