The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 13, 1888, Page 6

A TENNESSEE FEUD. Upia ker Patched The mountaineer of Tennessee isa combination. He is igno } curious rant, but courteous ned, sharp; poverty poor, but opel ed; suspicious scorning any unfi is shiftless, but virtuous; mos Lys a sinner, as the word goes, y 1 ing to some of the comun: with a grip more tenacious Christian's. I have cake and possum, eaten his and hunted with him; studied him from all sides, and yet he is as much an cni the day I first saw him. One evening, after climb in the mountains Athens, I came upon a the road. I said everything after 12 is “evening” in the South. It was about 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Aman sat on a log at the door smoking and whit- tling, three children were playing slept before rude fire-place, walked hard day's beyond alog cabin near evening, because about, and a woman sat on the door sill with elbows on her knees and her face in her hands. As I came near the man looke 1 up and said: “Howdy, stranger?” The woman slowly lifted a face the color of a sunflower, gazed at me for half a minute, and then added: “Howdy?” The children sat down on the in a bashful way, each z finger, and after the father pocketed his knife, knocked the his pipe, he continued: “Make yerself right to hum, s ger. sucking ashes from u- Children, bring the gourd, and you, Jen, hunt up a bite to eat.” I explained that all IT asked was 2 drink of water and some information about the route, but he with considerable energy: spoke up “You must stop with us to-night. There’s no other place for ten miles whar they are fixed to take you in.” T demurred and he insisted, and I finally sat beside him. We had searcely begun a conversation, when the woman looked up and drawled: vel be “What?” “Better “Why?” “Cause Robinson ‘s coming.” git yer gun. The man rose up, passed the wo- man, and next moment came out with ariflein his hands. He stood on the log and looked down the road, and as I cast my eyes in rection I saw a man leave and take toa tree. “Yes, that’s Robinson,” muttered my host. “Stranger, you'd better squat! Children, lay low! Jen, look out for yourself!” Isat down on the ground beside the log, while the children took cover on the other side. The woman never moved. “Who is Robinson, and what does he want?” I finally asked. “Lives down on the creek, and wants to shoot me,” was the calm reply. “He's gittin’ yer range, Hi,” re- marked, rather than exclaimed, the woman. Next moment a bullet whistled over my head, and the report of Robinson’s rifle came to our ears. “He couldn't hit a barn at the end of his gun.” muttered Hi, who stood with rifle ready to raise to his face. There was a long silence, and then he stepped down and said: “Guess we'd better go in, stranger. Robinson's an onery skunk, and is probably creepin’ up on us for a clusser shot. Jist don’t mind us, but make yerself to hum.” The door had not been shut to after us as we entered the cabin when a bullet struckit. This arous- ed the spirit of the woman and she exclaimed: “There, Hi Skivens. didn’t I allus | say Robinson was a coward?” “Yes, you allus did.” the road “And vou hev got to wipe him out. “Yes, Ihev. Tain’t no use puttin in the hand of a husband who is ear- H We take att | it for granted. saysthe Boston Globe, this thing very long?” E asked, as I! j that the young man who is courting | up with him no mosh.” “Have you and Robinson been sat down. “"Bout three years.” “It’s what they call a feud. the name, I guess is it? “That's ee Sm EE a a his ere eS have on him twice if my gun ha a st woul quae ike to see the Re c b throug 1 1 uttere “Goin to s queried tl woman, us she over to he husband “In cou not Stranger. sorry for this muss. That onery Robinson has took advan f your bein’ here to raise a furse. Don't blame it on to me.” I excused him and asked him for the origin of the feud. He could not give me a clear reason, and after ten minutes’ argument he consented to let me go out and talk with Rob- inson. I opened the door, waved the only white cloth the woman could find in the went out. tree across the road. soon after behind a house, and Robinson was “Howdy, stranger?” he queried, as EZcame up. ‘Has Eh ed? When I told him t I had out to act as a peacemaker he laugh- ed the idea to seorn. “Didn't he tell a full of fellers at Ath put me on surrender- come whole barre 20TH s that he could howled. And what else?” “Didn't he chewer, call and make fun of my in?” I went back out: “Didn't he brag of how he could out-jump me?” “What else?” “Didn't he say we the war?” I went b: settled down Th as darkness upat the and talk matters ever, be ing ranteed protects When we entered Hi sat on the ¢ of th bed, rifle in 1. r glared at each other that di- a8 Tal lillies-of-the-v er the G i to have a quicher heart-beat. Rok- inson finally placed hi in a corner, went over to Hi with extend- ed hand, and said: “We've bin onery long know you kin out-wrassle me.” “Yes, we've bin replied Hi. “I allus could out-jump me.” “And I chewed sassatrax.” “And we run off durin’ the war.” That settled it. The wife set about getting supper, and it wasn't ten minutes before Robinson was trotting one of the children on his knee and saying: “Mighty pert youngster, Hi. Seems to take arter both of ye. Wife hevin’ any chills this summe And the pioneer. whose rifle was at half cock and only two feet away, replied: “Purty fair, child. as they run No, Jen isn’t chillin’ any this season. Say. Jim. let’s fix fur a hunt to- morrer. I got track of a b’ar yestere day up yere a piece.” And they went off together in the morning before I was up.—M. Quad in Detroit Free Press. powerful onery,” 7 knowed you Batlard’s Horhound Syrup 1s the best remedy for Consumption. Coughs, Colds and all Throat and Chest troubles. Every bottle is guaranteed. Itis the best for children. remedy A Hint to Husbands. Were one to propound the query where a lovely flower looks loveliest, the answer in nine cases out of ten would probably be that a dower is | fairest in the hands or on the breast | Tony Pastor's of a pretty girl. And the respond- { | | ent would be right enough too. And | building is in ruins | yet there is one place where many on Rourtoanthi siest looks as usual. | like still better to see it—and that is | The damage is not less than $ | rying it home to his wife. | will patronize the flow: though he deny himself al dnt | ee he| was to ¢ into ‘nuff, I | sad havoc. | the democratic hosts now president- {making at St. Louis, is wrecked. | been for some time. He is greatly theater is wrecked | hterested in current events, political r stands even show that they will s« on be tive years since : s taken from n id char a crime that I : bab. tertv wa with 1 unborn, This is ie season a posies. They are so cheap that the poorest 1 God is my witness. ey Oh | is the nent put | ou me, and in my feeble health how lto endure. Thope the ad: punishn how unjust can afford to buy some little nosegay We trust that the f! every day. pwer | har stands will be well patronized this I can exclaim, | year. | t rty! Iwill send you} aa a a clipy from an Globe I Gold and Silver Prices. of a suicide similar to that of El Yesterday bar silver fell in the t to the lowest price of the An ounce of silver dlid (ST will you ers es the same in| lclose with regards ends marke ? Twill present century. can now be pure snchicine | including ased for yourself and family. cts. ). Saventeen years a Yours respect four ounces of silver could be got for Jousx T. Lear a sovereign (3 Now the sover PROWNED HERSEL} | eign will buy arly six ounces. Not . y | ae ij = aap ae : - Keokuk. Iowa, May A special | withstand ne Tall in the vaiue of |, = : arial {from Memphis. Mo.. states that silver its i od | = aes ‘ : Maggie Krouse, a middle-aged, un- to increase at the saine ; E z mi t woman, residing six miles | annual pli f cold h > deereas- annual supplies of gold have decreas ce g i ae PL 2 , |south west of this place, comnuitted | ed. Early in the present tury the suicide Sunday morning by drown- il productio ing herself in a weil. 0,000 ou thea 2 . an invalid for over a year, and her | ornia discoveries the ‘ nee ee : : , il! health is supposed to have pre- ‘a , | duced despondeney. While the mem- ‘i ‘ | bers of the housche ye ee Was u a fast sue crept ir rat] b then below £20,000, s = ; | the well and threw herself in. i 300 ‘ : acts : Merit Wins. \ ler S20 000900) 4. ann ne as ree re | the supply varied £10.560.001 e iwith ¢ Tate ! all th 1 ee times as great » The ac of silver, | | best oa Glndstone’s Votes : t Gladstone's first oratorical quaci- | desire to Sis : feation is his admirable voice. It money | . aie f EE ICUN Glir eee is not 2 Joua voice, or One of great the sake of reinstating 1 E g é . E volume, but pure. clear, vibrating, Peal elvis 3 auaturally depreciated : oe = | . . E and as silvery as Belial’s. Without ; article like silver can not be encour- | -, a i fan ae acl < + the shentest effort or strain oO. 1€ | aged.—London Daily News. = i speaker, it reaches the ear of the re- jarred New York, 6.—About 6:30 | the music of his tones, and though o'clock this morning a tire broke out hs spoke for hours together, the in Tony theatre on East Fourteenth street. The fire June Data Pastor's A ; z bell-like in their cadence as the first. rapid headway and three alarms It is said that a foreigner who heard SHEERS SSS OES The fire is in the} hm one night declared that, until Tammany hall building and adjoins} then, he had never regarded the the Academy of Music. which at one English as a musical language; but time was seriously threatened by the | yyy he was convincedithntatievone flames. By dint of hard work, how- OE he ever, the firemen succeeded in pre- tongues. venting this, and at $:45 a. m. fire was got under contro}. : closing sentences were as. clear gained most melodious of living Somebody once said that the | yy. Gladstone was the only man in the house who could talk in italics. Both Tammany Hall and Tony “The saying,” adds Mr. Justin Me- Pastor's theater were wrecked. The | Gythy. was odd. but oa aie tire broke out in the scene room of the less, appropriate and expressive. | the theater in the Tammany build- Gladstone’ conidl ty the (sheitest ing. The firemen found the flames modulation of his TOCA give all the burning fiercely in the middle of the ‘ 5 3 enphasis of italics, of small print, or big building and reaching t nS ‘ oward lige print, or any other effect he the roof with mighty strides. It was night desire, in his spoken words.” not until after a full hour of desper- —Jewish Messenger. ate struggle that the fire was under es, | control. Jefferson Davis 80 Years Old. | The additional danger that came| New Orleans, June 4.—At Beau- from the proximity of the Academy wir yesterday Jefferson Davis cele- | of Musie was successfully met and | brated the 80th anniversary of his fire kept within the walls of the|brthday. The mails brought many Tammany building. There it wrought litters of congratulation from old fiends, and many substantial re- nembrances were also received. Mr. | Davis is in better health than he has | The big hall, so lately deserted by also. md social, and is particularly con- | cerned in the outcome of the St. | | Hours convention. | 50.000, Syrup of Figs, ctured only by the Cal ifornia | The whole inside of the big | Only the front perhaps more. | This month Lord Wolseley w unveil in London a statue to the) n newspaper correspondents who died in the war of the Soudan. What will my noble lord do for the memory of “Chinese” Gordon? 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