The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-10-19
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No. 38.pa

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broke open the Jail, beat the sick rand
wounded man to. death, then cut his q.
throat, and threw him into the creek.
Next day he lay nearly all day expos
ed to the public gaze, horrible sight
to look upon. Some white hends IN
Marion County cut a negroes ears of,
and another, near Cornishville, KY,
had his ears slit. Some white men
hung two negroes near Danville, and
one near Lebanon, Ky. Dr. jerry
Donovan went to the cabins Of some
inofensive negroes living near John,
sonville, in Mercer County, and beat
an old man named David Bergan.---s
Bergan ran away to Johnsonville, when
Donovan followed him, beat him over
the head with pistol until he broke
the pistol in pieces, and then, mounting
his horse, drove the old creature before.
him three miles to Dreshell's farm. He
repeatedly rode up to the old man and
kicked him in the back, the poor. crea
ture heing too feeble to get out of the .
way. In March last. a negro man,
named Anderson Hackley, was arrested
in Mercer County and thrown into Jail,
when one DR.. Johp Witherspoon bailed
him out on condition that the negro
would make written contract to worl.
for him his lifetime, which the negro
did. In May, 1867, mob broke open
the Jail at Nicholasville, and shot and
killed negro prisoner. They then
went out three miles into the country,
where a poor, innocent negro, who had
been shot by white man in the, hip,
was lying wounded, took hlm out, andt
hung him.
In Boone County, party of citizens
attacked Jordan Finney, quiet, indus.
trious negro, drove him off, and des-
troyed him house and furniture Two
daughters of Finney were driven out
of the county because their husbands
were soldiers in the Union army,
None Of the Finney family were allow
ed to remain in the county of Boone
Their prosecutors were returned rebel
soldiers.
In Grant County, VIM. Sleet, Eliza
.Jleet, Jesse Best, Edward Alexander,
Mary Alexander, and Garter Rorst,
were beaten i'll a most cruel and inhu-
man manner, their property destroyed,
and they forbidden to return home, on
pain of death. Carter Rorst was most
terribly punished, gasiles nearly six
inches long being cut in his body and
filled with salt. All of the above-nau,-
ed persons are reported as quiet, indus.
trious black people. ......[ -. .,n.l..,..,
Jacob Rile, colored soldier, who
was living with his former master, was
taken out Of his house by band of
armed men, who then bnrned the house.
While they were burning the house, he
ran away, but was shot through the
side iu making his escape He and hi;
family. were compelled to leave. the
county. 49,. r.
Harrison Griggs, colored man, resi-
ding in Boone County, was taken from.
his bed in the night and beat for nearly
an hour with white-thorn sticks, MANY
Of the thorns breaking off in his body,
head and face. He was compelled to
leave the county. .s..-....
negro man, formerly the slave of
Mr.. Peter Baily of Woodford County,
Ky, was Knocked down and savagely
beaten because he did not pay over TO
his former master all Of his wages.
Reuben Atkins, discharged colorcd
soldier, was robbed of $50 and beaten \
by his former master.
Clarissee Burdett, the wife of col
ored soldier, was whipped by her for
mer master until she was insensiblc.
Charity Smith. the wife of colored !.
soldier, was stripped naked by her
former owner, who then tied her hands,
and feet as far apart as possible, when
he took cow-hide and whipped her,
until she was insensible; then he, or
dered her to be washed down. with salt
water. Joseph Rails, an humble and
inotfensive freedman, and the owner
of forty acres of land, was taken from
his house by some white men, who 50
mutilated and abused him that his
bowels protruded, and he died in great !
agony. The same gang, after Killing
Rails, took an old black man BY the,
name of Mackct and roasted the soIes
of his feet before the fire, after which
they put out one Of his eyes. The same
night they went to the house OF a color
ed preacher named Burns, who was
quiet and good man, and after robbino
his house, ravished his wife. in his
presence, and then shot him in the head.
Two other colored persons were horri- ?
bly, treated, and one shot by these in.
human fends. Two of the perpetrators
of these outrages were arrested by an.
officer of the Freedmen's Bureau, but
while they were being removed for
trial Judge Apperson Of Montgomery.
County, KY, took their bodies from
the officer by writ of habeas corpus,
and set them at liberty. -;
Lewis Tandy, colored man living
in Lexington, offered a pistol for sale
to a white man, who wanted it for So
but the pistol being worth more than.
double that amount, Tandy declined to
to sell, when the white man had him
arrested for carrying arms in violation
of the State law, and brought, him be-
fore magistrate, who fined Tandy S5,3a
and gave the pistol as a present to the
white man for having informed on
Tandy. Another white man "bought y p
a pistol in the same way of Armsteadl
Towles, an Industrious and well-to-do
colored citizen. s.,,.. fg
The son of wealthy citizen of
Favefta Ctounfv Kv shot.a nao,ro doad