The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-02-17
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and babe, of the Darnell vicinity
are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Rob Gun
uingham, and the two gentlemen
are doing some hunting in Numbe
Nine bottom.
| Mr.. Subj B. Rhodes and wife ar,
both very i'll of pneumonia at thei
home at Slough Landing. Dr. Jno
Alexander. OF this vile is attending
them.
Vlrgie Dublin, OF this place. ant
/ Luther Harris, of Lower Slough
spent a couple of days at the home
of Mrs. Meta Dublin.
Messrs. Luther Earris and Joe
Bell and the Misses Harris, Of
Lower Slough, and Miss Maude
Dublin, of this place, attended the
entertainment given by Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Osborn near Upton
vile Wednesday night.
Mr.. Will Armstrong has left our
village and is living near Bessie
anu Melvin Upton is occupying the
house he vacated.
w. J. Gates, the hustling gin man,
is now running corn mill in con-
nection with his gin. Saturday
was the first grinding day.
Mr.. Pink Ezell has removed his
family from the Lewis House at
Upper Slough to the boarding house
at Lower Slough.
Mr.. John Gholson, Of the firm of
Roy P. Gholson & Co., is now own
er of the S. B. Rhodes dwelling,
storehouse and warehouse at the
Upper Slough.
Miss Pearl Harris has just closed
another successful school at this
place. Miss Harris is one of the
very best instructors of the county
and beyond doubt is the best dis
ciplinarian.
U-Know is doing some clever
talking about what should and
what should not be done in the Leg
islature. In fact, U-Know is about
to pluck the laurels from the brow
of Father Barleycorn, who is, we
surmise, spending these long winter
evenings administering soothing
syrup to and rocking to sleep the
latest recruit to the Barleycorn
family.
The suit brought against the
Government by Ben f. Beckham for
damages caused by the murder of
his father, grandfather and other
members of the Beckham family in
Madrid Bend by Union soldiers
rom Island No. 10, is causing a
great sensation across the river at
Madrid. One Seth S. Barnes is
tearing his shirt and rending the
air. He declares that the murder
was not done by Union soldiers, but
by ruffians, marauders and bush
whackers belonging to neither army
and then he reviews the life history
of Gen. John Pope and says he
never commanded negro in uni
form and arms while he was in
command. AS to the atroclous
deed being committed by ruffians, /
heartily agree with Mr.. Barnes, for
no one but a ruffian would march at
the point of the bayonet and at the
of the gun men and women
whom they knew not, old and aged
men whose hair was white with the
frost OF many winters and little
children too small to apprehend
danger and who threw pebbles into
the water which was soon to re-
ceive their llfeless forms. These
rutfians did not only drive the Beck
hams from home, but marched them
at the bayonet's point to the mighty
Mississippi; not only this, but made
them walk out in the water and
then shot them dead. Were they
ruffians? Yes, Mr.. Barnes, they
were nefarious demons in human
torn and they we're Union soldiers
from Island No. 10, too, fort which
they had wrenched from the Con-
fcderates. There has never been
any doubt as to who did it, as the
negro soldiers who did it were ar
rested, and Union gunboats steamed |
down to the scene of the hellish |
deed and fred their heavy guns DER
the water and thus raised the dead |
bodies from their watery grave.
Would those boats have gone down
for that purpose if those people had
been murdered by bushwhackers