South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-08-15
HATELkEGENCERs.
Soutmep

S0ssttlep
SATURDAY, AUGUST Is, 1885.
The Cincinnati Wing Of the eth ult.
contains the following paragraph:
Gambling and Murder.-A most
disgraceful & shocking scene occurred
at Covington, Ky. yesterday afternoon.
A white man by the name of Hutchin.
son was playing cards with negro, in
the presence of a large number ofper-
sons, and another white man by the
name of John Pierce was betting with
Hutchinson on the gene. A quarrel
ensued and Pierce struck Hutchinson
severe blow on the neck which kill
ed him instantly. So much for gam-
bling on Sunday with negro.
And the same paper of the next day
gives the following additional item, grow
ing out of the above transaction:
We understand thar mob 10 Gov.
ington pulled down The house on Suns
day evening where the disgraceful
scene gambling and murder occurred,
of which we gave an account yester-
day.
From the Maysville (Ky.) Eagle, July 80.
1t will be seen, by the following letter
that young man formerly of Maysville
and the son of our respected fellow citi-
zen, Mr.. THOMAS vi. BOWMAN, has be-
come the victim of the excitement in
Mississippi. Ofhis guilt or innocence,
we have no means of determining, farth-
or than his reservations of innocence
disclosed in the following extracts from
letter to his wife, which has been han
ded to US for publication
LIVINGSTON, 18th Jolly, 1885.
II write to inform you that this is the
lastyou may ever expect TO receive or
hear from me. am doomed to die on
tomorrow, at 12 o'clock, on charge of
having been concerned ia negro insur-
ruction in this State, among many other
that can meet my God innocently. By
the false accusation of both black and
white, and some particularly who have
come forward and sworn falsely to my
prejudice, have been condemned un-
Justly by their oaths. Now must
close by saying. before my great Maker
ard Judge, that | 60 into his presence as
innocent of this charge as when l was
born. ! feel perfectly reconciled when
the hour comes, both to face my accuse
er and my Eternal Judge. y must
bid you final farewell, hoping that the
God of the widow and fatherless will
give you grace to bear this most awful
sentence. 4 And now, may the Lord
be with you henceforth and forever. .
Farewell ! farewell
s'P. S. was arrested on Friday, the
Sd, tried to, day, the 18th, and Tomorrow
The excitement is SO great
we are not tried by regular jury, but
by committee of planters appointed for
the purpose, who have not time to wait
ON any person for evidence. There are
now seven or eight prisoners to be tried
Immediately, and they are bringing in
others continually. There is one to be
executed with me. Negroes are hung
on the plantations. Two white men pre-
cedsd me-"
1t is added in another hand writing
"Seen by the Committee"
eznszz
WAsHINGToN, August 7.
TEE FIRST FRUIT.--A circumstance OF
! shocking character, and what was with
in a second of time of resulting in the
preparation of most bloody tragedy,
occurred in this city two nights ago,
which, viewing it as one of the effects Of
the fanatical spirit of the day, and one Of
the immediate fruits of the incendiary
publications with which this city and the
whole slave-holdng portion of the coun-
try have been lately inundated, we have
concluded it to be our duty to make pub
lie. On Tuesday night last, an attempt
| was made on the life of Mrs. THORNTON,
of this city, 1.-THE much respected widow
fthe late DR.. THORNTON, Superinten>
dent of the Patent Office, by a young
Negro man, her slave, which, from the
expressions he used, was evidently Undue
ed by reading the infammatory publica-
tons referred TO above. About half past
one O'Clock, in the dead of the night, Mrs.
Us chamber, in which slept herself, her
aged mother, and woman servant, was
entered by the Negro, who had obtained
access to it by forcing the outer door
He approached the bed of Mrs. t. with
4 an upltted axe. She was, fortunately
wakened by his step, and still more for
tunately the negro woman, the mother oil
the man, was also awake. AS he ap-
preached the bed of her mistress, the lat
Ter sprung up, seized and held him, while
Mrs. t. escaped from the room, rushed
TO the door Of the next house, the resi-
| dence of DIR. HUNT, whom she reused
by her cries. On reaching the entry o.