The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-01-05

same stuff as Kentucky colonels. Two
of them had an argument as TO John
D. Rockefeller's fitness for heaven,
deciding the matter with shotguns.
The finding seems o have been
averse to the future chances of the oil
magnate, as the churchman who up
held him got two charges of buck
shot in his breast.
June brought news from Des
Moines that some highwaymen had
returned to James Morgan, their vic
tim of the night before, three teeth
they had "unintentionally" knocked
out They thoughtfully suggested
plate-setting.
In Germany, too, the year opened
oddly. One Schmeid had had carved
upon his deceased wife's tombstone
some frigid words to the effect that
she had died of INSCRIPTIONS treat
ment, whereupon libel suits followed,
and the widower went to jail for IA
days.
In Manila, Pedro Conception, ad-
f1ittedly the meanest man in the is
lands, stole his mother-in-laws
tombstone and pawned it, and down
in Greensboro, KY, certain Mr.. J.
O. Haynes, has advertised space on
the back of the monumental stone
which marks his fathers last resting
place.
An actual sale of burial memorials
was held in September in Breslau
A ring Of undertakers had been
formed to bear prices, but a spccu
lative outsider insisted on playing
bull and the local troops had to be
called in to quiet the resultant hard
feeling.
Just Love
A Chicago woman who had prayed
for a husband IS fruitless years be-
fore plaster saint, presumably inter
ested in such matters, Disguised at
last, threw the idol from the window
That did the business. When the
man with the broken head opened his
eyes it was to gaze into those OF the
unwilling spinster, then playing nurse
and the wedding followed.
One lover has cabled his proposal
to New York from Buenos Ayres,
and another. over in London, took
advantage Of his dentists trade to
sent in heart-deep proposition neatly
lat ut 81 Of \
teeth Both won out
At Lynchbrlrg, Md, were married
a couple who had found a new use
for old love letters. The high con
tracing parties knelt upon white sat
in pillows stuffed to cracking with
their amatory epistles.
Letters Of another sort have figured
in the news Of the twelve months, for
Elisha HAYES, of Stoughton, Mass,
has received Gin his ninety-thrid year,
one written to him in the Civil War
by his BOY, then at the front while
another missive, mailed in Boston in
1888, never reached its object in
Granville, N. Y, till last September
Up in Biddeford(Me) an honesl
farmer had dream reminding him
that lie owed a neighbor a dollar.
Both had forgotten it, but, having
figured that the loan was Of 26 years
standing, it was formally closed up.
Donald Burns, keeper Of the bird
house in the New York Zoo, took a
sefpent's tooth from his right thumb
That was last October, but the orig
mai bite, which had presented the
man with the sharp little memento,
bore date of 1887 and was inflicted on
the left foreinger
Laws Lighter Side.
a London magistrate has dis
charged a man and his wife charged
with conspiracy on the ground that
they were legally one person, and one
person could not conspire.
\ Chicago physician was found
s1jlty of robbery, inasmuch as he
had diagnosed a certain case in a way
aftcrward proved wrong. The jury
regarded his fee as distinctly obtained
under false pretenses and the III. D.
had to give back $IIo.
In the same state. down at Bloom
ington, Cap Ijams has sued the
estate of dead friend for 10000. al |
legi7g his services were worth that, |
since for three years before the death |
OF the deceased lie had told him funny
stories every day. Public opinion
seems 70 be that any man who could
DO that sort Of thing SO long, ana
himself survive, is worth whatever he
asks
Auother glimpse of legal methods
has cotse across from Alsace The
mayor d the town was caught pick
ing the pockets Of prisoner, and was
sent up for month.
r3s and a3s.
Wilmington has produced the
champion IS story Francis E. Davis,
18th 3 letters in bis name, was ar