Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1867-01-31
Progress OF fhs ssrtefsp Ncrorm-
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a DREADFUL AhaNthA hA'--f w Nl'NNH7
pnst regular bands Of negroes, living
IN Mound CITY and vicinity, have been
IN tho habit o. making frequent thicv-
ing excursions among the farmers i'm.
mcdiatcly across in Kentucky. Their
principal object of attack seemed TO
be hogs, which they were in the habit
of killing, dressing and bringing them
either here or taking them 70 Mound
City to sell These piratical excur-
sions became so frequent that the far
mers finally determined to organize
for self protection. A company was
formed and measures taken to catch
the scoundrels. A few nights ago the
company were out on the qm Ulpe,
when two of the farmers who were in
advance of the company overhauled
eight black rascals, all loaded down
heavily with fresbly-killed pork, with
which they were making thoir way
as fast as they could towards the riv-
err, Just above Cash Island. The two
men called out to the negroes to halt,
and the darkeys emboldened by their
superior numbers, answered the de-
mand with a volley from their rifles
and shot-guns, with which each one
was armed. The whites escaped un-
injured and returned the fire. At this
iuncturc the entire company Of whites
arrived upon the spot, and fired upon
the thieves, killing every ono ofthems.
The dead hogs wero identified as be-
longing to some of the farmers pres
ent, and the dead thieves were recog-
nized as belonging to Mound City
and vicinity. Their friends were
notified and went over and buried the
unfortunates.- Cairo (IH) Democrat
JoHN BRowN's Soul MARCHING OK.
We car scarcely take up paper
that has not some startling crime to
divulgo Murder, rape, arson, burg
larry, robbery, are of daily occurrence
We have on single day an account
of "a highway robbery and murderin
Minnesota" "a terrible outrage, cars
thrown off the track down an en-
bankment forty feet, and the passen-
gers robbed by a masked band Of rob
bers, in Kentucky" "Body of miss
ing man found in North River-sup-
posed murder" Burglary at Olean,
Y. Y, and s25, 900 stolen from bank
ing house." ARREST of three burglars
in Cincinnati, and escape ofoEe, ""Vi-
olation of grave in Buffalo, the body
of young lady stolen" "Scven thous-
and dollars worth Of goods stolen in
Cincinnati, the thieves arrested, "Ed-
ward Manley arrested in Philadelphia,
implicated with shooting Cyrus Park
err "a row among the negroes Of
Philadelphia, five captured" "The
trial Of Mcclure, in Philadelphia, for
murder, &c" These are gleanings Of
a day. Enough TO show the adyant-
age Of having horse thief for a saint,
a theater for the gate Of Heaven, and
play actors for angels.
An awful tragedy was enacted in
Auburn, Maine, last week Two old
ladies, named Kinsley and Caswell,
respectively sixty and seventy years
of age, were found murdered in their
own house, about two miles from
town, at a place called Young's Cor
ner. 1t is supposed that the deed was
committed either on Wednesday or
Thursday night, during the storm.
The two ladies lived alone in the house.
A man by the name Of johnson has
been arrested on suspicion, and is now
in Auburn Jail.
Miss Christrinc Kit, of Dayton,
Ohio, aged about eighteen years, liv-
ing on Oak street. was brutally mur-
dered on the 1lth inst, during the
temporary absence of her mother,
by some unknown person. Bloody
tracks were found in the snow out
side OF the house, and marks of blood
were also upon the fence. No clue to
the pcrpetrator Of this horrid deed
has yet been obtained.
A check for $4,000, purporting to
have been drawn by Jay Cooke q Co,
was presented to the Fourth National
Bank in New York on Monday, but
was Immediately pronounced a for
gerry, and the person who presented
Il, an Irish boy, but recently arrived
in this country, was detained He
says it was handed to him by a man
to take to the bank, and HISTORY s
believed.
Arthur Williams, his wife and two
were murdered near Rome,
Georgia, by two freedmen, who have
been arrested. One of them confess
es that after wounding Mrs. Williams,
he ravished her. His accomplice
killed the father and daughter with
axes. Their object was money, but
they found none.
An extraordinary elopament took
place from the reighborhood Of Dan
villc, Va, a day or two since. A gay
and festive youth, of the tender age
of sixty summers, ran off with dull
cinea of twenty. The man left be-
hind him wife and large number
of children.
The sheriff of Texas county, Miss
ouri, on the 9th, tried TO arrest a par
ty Of six, for whom he held warrants.
They resisted his posse, killing two
and wounding three of them. One Of
the rosistants was tho radical eandi-
date for assessor.
Owing TO the state Of the markets,
most of the mills in Lawrence, Mass,
will reduce operations from ten to
twenty-five per cent, on February let,
which viii be the means of throwing
several hundred operatives out OF en-
ployment.
Five negroes were taken from the