Named Entity Results, James Gentry

to evade the claim from which in a few weary months he would be finally released. Meanwhile occurred his first opportunity to see the world. In March, 1828, James Gentry, for whom he had been at work, had fitted out a boat with a stock of grain and meat for a trading expedition to New Orleans, and placed his son Allen in charge they could relate of the voyage was the encounter with a party of marauding negroes at the plantation of Madame Duchesne, a few miles below Baton Rouge. Abe and Gentry, having tied up for the night, were fast asleep on their boat when aroused by the arrival of a crowd of negroes bent on plunder. They set to work with clubs, andland groaned under the weight of a long neglected incumbrance and, like many of his neighbors, he was ready for another change. Having disposed of his land to James Gentry, and his grain and stock to young David Turnham, he loaded his household effects into a wagon drawn by two yoke of oxen, and in March, 1830, started for Illino

ing past the Lincoln farm; and perhaps two or three years afterward another from Rockport to Bloomington, crossing the former. This gave rise to Gentryville. James Gentry entered the land at the crossroads. Gideon Romine opened a small store, and their joint efforts succeeded in getting a post-office established, from which then the melee, but succeeded in driving the negroes from the boat, and then cut cable, weighed anchor, and left. This commercial enterprise was set on foot by Mr. Gentry, the founder of Gentryville. The affair shows us that Abraham had gained an enviable standing in the village as a man of honesty, skill, and judgment-one who cadvanced. His handwriting, his arithmetic, and his general intelligence were so good that he had occasionally been employed to help in the Gentryville store, and Gentry thus knew by personal test that he was entirely capable of assisting his son Allen in the trading expedition to New Orleans. For Abraham, on the other hand, it w

Singular --A Tooth Emb in a Tongue. On Saturday last a most remarkable operation was performed upon the tongue of a young man named James Gentry, formerly news dealer in this city, and well known to our citizens. About four months since young Gentry was wounded in the face and mouth, but with the exception of a slight impediment in his speech, which he attributed to losing some of his teeth, thought he had recovered. For the past two weeks, however, he has been suffering much with pain Gentry was wounded in the face and mouth, but with the exception of a slight impediment in his speech, which he attributed to losing some of his teeth, thought he had recovered. For the past two weeks, however, he has been suffering much with pain in the middle of his tongue, and was desirous that an operation should be performed upon it; but until Saturday he was unable to find any one who was willing to undertake the operation. By examination the physician discovered some hard substance in the centre of the tongue, which proved to be a very large eye tooth. When extracted it exhibited every appearance of health and vitality, and attached to the foot of it were two distinct ships of flesh, resembling the nerves which are generally foun