The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-07-29

store, her husband being depot
agent, assisted by Mr.. Thos Stan
phil. They have a nice depot
here which was withheld for some
reason for long while. There
is also hotel conducted by w. A.
Mann. We spent the night at the
pleasant home of DIR. Y. S. Stan
phil Mrs. Stanphill showed us
cabbage snake she had taken out
of cabbage head some time pre-
viously. 1t was dead and dried up
but looked very much like a snake.
Mrs. S. said it had the actions of
a snake when alive and had
stripe down its backbo ne like the
real thing. We never did like
Icabbages anyway. A singing
school, well attended, was in pro-
gress here.
Next morning we started on our
return trip. Soon after passing
through Belmont we came upon
our friend, ]. H. Clark, formerly
county surveyor, ploughing the
last burrows in some very fine cot
ton by the roadside. We stopped
few minutes to talk and enroll
his name for copy of the VI
DErTE and Commercial Inciden-
tally | asked him if that was not
the scene of the tory fight, Oct. 20,
1868, and he said it was; that most
of the fighting took place very
near where he was blowing and
| between that and his brother w.
Us place. Our readers will re-
member that we have published
an account of this fight in the Vi
DETTE twice, the last. about three
years ago. 1t occurred between
two regiments of Confederates,
commanded by Gen. S. w. Fer
guson and one regiment of North
Alabama (Federa) cavalry COM
manded by Col Spencer. The
latter had two Howitzers with
which they opened upon upon the
! Confederates about the time the
column of the latter reached the
place where New Valley church
now stands. The latter halted,
dismounted, formed, charged and
routed the Federal tories twice,
the last time the tories broke and
fled through the woods south of
the road and most of them made
their escape down Redbud creek,
but the two Howitzers and about
80 prisoners fell into the hands of
the Confederates and they left
about 9 dead on the field. These
were buried near where they fell
but were afterwards exhumed, car
ried to Corinth and placed in the
national cemetery. Two Confed-
crates were killed who were car
ried to Fulton and buried
Leaving Mr.. Clark we drove on
leisurely toward Iuka, reaching
the home of Mr.. j. S. Gurley, who
now lives on the Gable place about
the dinner hour. Here we accept
ed kind invitation made by Mr.
Tom and remained till after din
ner. Notwithstanding that he is
living on borrowed time, Mr.. Cur
| ley made a regular hand in the
field. He said he did not intend
to do so, but showers made the
| grass grow SO fast that he felt
constrained to join forces in the
fight to save the crop. After din
mel we came on to Iuka, barely
missing heavy shower of rain
which fell just ahead,
In regard to crops in the terri
tory through which we travelled
we found great diversity. In one
field we would find a promising
prospect while in the adjoining
one it looked like a failure. Still
upon the whole we were pleased
to find the prospect SO good; it was
certainly better than expected.
But the farmers have had an I'M
usually hard struggle to save their
! crops from destruction. Had it
not been for their energy and per-