Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-30
STORIES OF
KENTUCKY LIFE
Serious charee Against Her.

serious Charqe AgalnSt her.
About ten years ago l witnessed an
unusual occurrence in the circuit court
room at London, Ky. Judge Robert
Boyd was the presiding justice. One
morning, shortly after court had
opened, Andrew Jackson. the foreman
of the grand jury, appeared before the
ju' sc in charge of a woman. who. he
stated. had refused to testify before
the grand jury.
The judge. with a very polite bow,
said to the woman Madam. it is your
duty to tell anything you may know
about any violations of the law in this
county, except. of course, such as may
have taken place in your immediate
family. 1t would be very disagree eable
to me to have to punish you in any
way, and l trust that you will go at
once and answer the questions that
may be asked you by the foreman of
the grand jury"
"I'll be burned If do" she said with
a whitening look of scorn.
Mr.. Clerk, enter a fine of so against
this woman" said the court. Now.
madam, you go and testify to this jury
at once"
you go to hi, you burned old
fool" the woman retorted.
Mr.. Sheriff, take her to JAIL" roar
ed the Judge
And hain't already in Jail for SELL
ing whisky, and brought out of jail
to testify" said she, and with an in
imitable toss of her head she passed
out of the court room.
Being very fonU of the Judge, and
quite intimate with him, I arose and
saio to him. as If / had not fully
gathered what had been going on:
May inquire of your honor what the
lady is charged with?"
Il don't know, sir, but I think she
is charged with dynamite" replied the
court with look of evaporation.
Mullins Famous Speech.
Many years ago, in a certain coun-
ty bordering upon the Kentucky river.
there lived a unique character by the
name of Mullins. He was elected to
the legislature, and after his election
went down to Frankfort on a boat
called the Blue Wing" which at that
time piled between Frankfort and
points south and southeast.
After having served a term in the
legislature, to his great edifcation. he
returned to his home and undertook
to give to his admiring constituents an
account of his stewardship. While not
as eloquent as Clay. nor yet as erudite
or elegant as Webster, he possessed a
full-chested, sonorous-voiced. Muscular
oratory, which made him famous for
miles around. Court day arrived. He
mounted the stand. and, among other
things, said:
"Feller Citizens: When you elected
me to the legislator / wished that I
mout have had the tallest pine tree
that grows in the mountaings so that
] mout strip the limbs from the same
and make II into an enormous pen, and
dip 1t into an enormous river and
write acrost the clouds, God bless the
people of ---- county
"Arter you elected me I went down
to Frankfort on the Blue Wing and as
we wendell our winding sinuousities,
the birdlets, the batlets, the froglets
and the owlets flew often their secret
hidin' places and cried out to me in
loud voices, Sail on, Mullins, thou
proud defender of thy country's liber-
ties
when I retched Frankfort went up
into the legislative hall and there 1
spied many purity perlicues on the cell
ing. When matters of small impor-
tance were before the body 1 lay like
a bull pup a-basldn' in the sunshine,
with a blue-bottIed fly a-ticklin' of his
nose; but when smatters of great i'm
portance come, up riz from my seat.
and, like the Numidian lion of the
desert, shook the ldew-drops from my
name and 1 give three shrill shrieks for
liberty"