The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-10-30
inofensive negroes living near 1.Johnr
sonyille. in Mercer County, and beat

inofensive negroes living near ohnrs
sonyille. in Mercer County, and heat
. an old man named David Bergan.-
Bcrgan ran away to Jacksonville, when
Donovan followed him, beat him over
the head with q 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 being too feeble to get out OF the
sway. In March last, a negro man, ?
1 named Anderson Haekley, was arrested
IN Mercer County and thrown into jail,
when one DR.. John Witherspoon balled
him out on condition that the negro
would make written contract to work
for him his lifetime, which the negro
, did. In May, 1867, o mob broke open.
Z the Jail at ,Nicholasville, and shot and !
killed a negro prisoner. They then
went out three miles into the country,
where poor, innocent negro, who had
been shot by white man in the hip,
was lying wounded, took him out, and
hung him. q bns p II .aa.i(,g
In Boone County, party Of citizens
attacked Jordan inneN a quiet, indus u.s.
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. ga M u taL <
In Grant County, Vim. Sleet, Eliza
Jleet, Jesse Best, Edward Alexander,
Mary Alexander, and Carter Rorst,
were beaten in 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, gashes nearly six
inches long being cut in his body and
filled with salt SAllsof the 'above-nam-
ed persons are reported as quiet, indus
trious black people. s.. 80, l....5 !
Jacob Rile, a 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 in making his escape. He and his
family were compelled toalleave. the
county. 49, -,-
Q Harrison Grissag5s, a colored man; resi-
ding in Boone County, was taken from
his bed in the night and beat for nearly
an hour with Mhite-thorn sticks, many
of the thorns breaking off in his body,
head and face. He was compelled to
leave the county. - ssIs 1g-71.
A 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 colored
soldier, was robbed of $50 and beaten
by his former master.
,Clarissee Burdett, the wife Of a col
ored soldier, was whipped by her for
mer master until she was insensible.
%, 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
inoffensiye freedman, and the owner
of forty acres of land, was taken from
his house by some white men, who so
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 Macket and roasted the soles
| 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 a
quiet and good man, and after robbing
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 fiends. 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 white man, who wanted it for SIS
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
| ofthel State, law, and brought him be.
fore magistrate, who fined Tandy S.
and gave the pistol as a present to the
| white man for having informed on
Tandy. Another white man "bought .
/ a pistolin the same way of Armstead
/ Towles, an Industrious and well-to-do
colored citizen. sssEf
/ The son of a wealthy citizen Of
Fayette County, KY, shot a negro dead
with a revolver, because he wanted tc
see if he could hit him. The murdere,
was never tried. In the same way
| Jack Sparrow, pooAtolored man, was
1 shot dead while walking in the street in
! Lexington, Ky.
| At Danville, KY, Levey Towbridge
4 met poor, lame negro on the street
and took from him his cane, when he
hobbled into a store, and Towbridge
/ followed him, and, without any provo
! Hcation whatever, shot him dead