| Transcribed by Norma Knotts Shaffer from microfilm
of the Calhoun Chronicle dated 8/21/1900.
Ye editor is slightly disfigured this week, having been run into, by
little Zack Stump, (about 240 pounder of stout build). His weapons
were not spiritual, but carnal, and mighty, by reason of the cowardly advantage
it was his despicable, miserable, dirty and fiendish disposition to take
and the manner of his, (The Moderator of the Mount Pisgah Baptist Association's)
attack was as follows: The writer walked into Wiant & Barr's store
to see John T. Gainer, a clerk, on a matter of business. In entering
we saw S.M. Scott, "Dick" Givens, A. H. Minney, Zack Stump, and others
and after having seen Gainer started to walk out and when in about five
or six feet of the door were was struck by someone, and the bystanders
say it was the moderator, (we do not know). To say the least we went
to sleep and have since felt like we had gone through a sausage grinder,
or some other species of dead meat chopper. But the second and only
thing we remember was getting a kick in the side, upon receipt of which
we caught hold of a leg on which was black pants, and tried to bite it,
but it got away too soon and then we struggled to our feet and saw Zack
Stump about six feet away with more the appearance to us of an African
gorilla than a man. He announced then there that he would kill us
if we put his name in the paper. So here goes Zack or T.R. Stump's
name. Prepare for a funeral, but the Administrator of our estate
will please see that none of our creditors are defrauded. What provocation
he had or what caused him to make the assault we do not know, unless it
was the complete fit of an unnamed shoe. After the assault he gave
us the instructions not to put his name in the paper and from this we would
infer that he took exception to something the last issue may have said.
And if this be true we would here take pleasure in repeating every word
of it, if we had the space. |
