DICKENSON COUNTY NEWSPAPER 1890-1900 submitted by Annette Damron, Robert Beverly, Rachel Vore and Louise Vanover Vore DEPUTY SHERIFF SHOT CLINTWOOD, VA., December 28 -(Special)- Deputy United States Marshall B. B. Colley, of this place, was seriously shot the night before Christmas at Farmer Yate�s, one mile above town. The shooting was done with a shotgun loaded with buckshot, sixteen of which entered Colley�s left hip. The shooting took place after night, and it is not positively known who committed the act; but one Jim Buckley was arrested on suspicion and lodged in jail. Suspicion also points to another man as the perpetrator of the crime. Colley is suffering intensely, and his recovery is thought to be a matter of uncertainty. I hear that Wilson Bryant, a young man who has figured into the outlawry of Cumberland mountain, was seriously if not fatally shot, near Osborne�s Gap, a notch in the mountain, a day or two since. I have heard none of the particulars of the affair. The gap is where the ruffians and outlaws from the borders of the two states gather. There had been several rude log cabins erected there, in which the took shelter; but about a year ago they were nearly all burnt. A DICKENSON SNAKE STORY DWALE, DICKENSON COUNTY, VA., June 21 -(special)- Tandy Fleming and Henry Moore, of this place, went a-fishing in Pound river the other day and had quite and adventure with a large snake. They got into a flat-boat and, floating near the middle of the stream, dropped their hooks into the water, and were patiently awaiting a nibble from a member of the finny tribe as ever did the old angler Izaak Walton, when they heard a �splash� in the water near the shore. Upon looking in that direction they saw a huge black snake swimming vigorously toward the boat. One of the men was seated in one end of the boat, and the other near the middle. His snakeship reached the vacant end of the boat, and crawled into it, where he very contentedly coiled himself, as if he meant to wait for the �catch�. These men, not liking their strange, would-be companion, one of them took his fishing-pole and began to punch him with it, when he showed fight by striking furiously at his assailant. After several trials the man succeeded in throwing him into the water, when he began to swim for shore. The man stoutly belabored him with his pole till he gave up the ghost. Deputy-Marshall B. B. Colley, who was shot some day since, is improving, and is in a fair way of recovering. The killing of Wells and Salyer on Caney Ridge on Christmas-Day is still being talked about a great deal, and the general impression seems to prevail that the killing was uncalled for. DICKENSON COUNTY �SON� MULLINS CAPTURED-A NARROW ESCAPE CLINTWOOD, VA., November 14 -(Special)- A day or two since the officers caught �Son� Mullins, who was sentenced to two years� imprisonment in the penitentiary, but escaped from jail here. They found him in a fodder-house, where he had taken up his night�s lodging, near his father�s on Lick Fork. He will be conveyed to the penitentiary in a few days. Emmett Fleming and Jake Mullins were hauling corn near this place on yesterday with a yoke of oxen, and while they were loading a large dead tree that stood near fell, killing one of the oxen. The boys had a narrow escape. Their wagon was smashed to pieced, as well as the yoke under which the oxen were working.