The Daily Dispatch: August 3, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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Patriotic liberality.

--Mr. Jacob Wabb, living near Ross's Mills, who is sixty-eight years old, and his wife is sixty-five years of age, together plant, hoe and pick out, with their own hands, (having not a single servant or assistant, neither have they a plow or a horse,) two bales of cotton per annum, gave at the meeting at Rosa's Mills, on last Monday, the whole of their crop for the support of the Southern Confederacy. The Commissioner, Judge L. E. Houston, remonstrated with him, and positively refused to take it, advising him to give only one-half, when he declared he would give the whole of it, stating that he was a soldier under Jackson during the war 1812; that during that time he was three days without anything to eat, and he knew what it was to be a soldier, and further remarking, ‘"I will take my chances for something to eat, and will give everything I have to feed the soldiers."’--Aberdeen (Miss.) Conservative.