Bellows Falls Times

The Chicago Tribune says that Prof. O. B. Mitchell, the astronomer, narrowly escaped lynching while riding in the cars through Jackson, Miss., having exasperated a drunken Southerner by saying that he thought Lincoln would do no injustice to the South. When the train halted at Jackson the Southerner jumped to the platform and shouted to the crowd about the station ; " There's a d-d Abolitionist on the train! Lynch him! Lynch him!" Instantly, at least fifty men jumped on and commenced a search for the offensive specimen of Northern opinion; but before the professor could be pointed out, the conductor seeing the danger, pulled his bell cord and the cars moved off, and with them the professor with a whole skin.