Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1909-08-05
DISTRESSED OVER
DAVIS ILLNESS
Senate Messengers IndispO>ure Caus-
q Daniel and Others TO Be
Very Sorry

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D day of May, 1865. And ri-ht at tnls
Z moment. ID man should go intl
3 Jim little home and Indicate even
: s'ieht belief in the story that Fresi-
dent Davis was IN female attire Wher
- captured, 10 Isl safe N4-rr tnAt u uu
would manage 20 SIT up in oet ano de-
< nOunce as false and malicious th'
D. story circulated Tor time oy the enc
s m.es OF Mr.. Davis
l. Jim has kept N close touch viii
r the Davis iamlll- Ars. Jeuersol
= Davis and Miss Winnie used 90 writ,
2 Co. HIM frequently. and he attenle,
.t the funeral or each or them Whei
s. the remains of President Davis Wcr
t'A oNlt III AN AN4' AAttANttA -AA -At~e- ---l
, in 1888 Jim" drove the hearSe whlcl
bore them 70 beautiful HOLLYWOOD
Cemetery, and In the vast CONGO nrs
n there was no s2dcer heart than ina
Is which beat within the loyal bosom %
~ Jim" has always looked on South
~ ern people as peculiarly his own, an
~ every special friend OF the Davis ram
+ ily as has friend also. The enemies q
hr. Davis Jim hated with A cordia
n ity not entirely consistent with the x
G. ligious professions OF the old serNan
General Nelson A Niles. VINO pi
shackles on President Davis while ~
ie- latter was prisoner az Fort MOI
&C roe after the war, wanted 20 Talk VII
be Jim some years $50 and sent -
80 him 20 come 10 see him at the W,
= Department. Jim was indlgnal
81 that the lieutenant general or The arm
should think ne would nave soci
2" intercourse with MS old master $ Va
den. and ne refused 10 accept the 3
,ts vitatiOn. II was repeated. out the
- negro stuck out 90 the end. and ne "
as die without having yielded 70 the $
20 licitations OF General Miles. VINO pro
w ably had q curiosity 10 -iear 1T
talk OF the personality or tTeSloe
in Davis who was the generals prison
- Tor SO long a time
- Jim has a handsome cane rhl
"a was presented 10 MN oy Al: DaN
IN Jim does not carry IL oIten' out u
ne said that when he mas gone oacA
aid his old home IN c.ortn Carollna lis q
always carried II tie = lS 50