The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1868-05-01
NO. 49,.
Radical Reconstru ctiou.

Radical Reconstrn ctioM.
We give few items to illustrate the re.
suits Of the recons,ructioa policy Of the rad.
icsl rump Congress:
One OF the County Commissioners ele:.
ted in Nashville. TENNESSEE, Iss, Saturday,
$ negro.
Ina fight between two ne groes in Holmes
County, Tennessee, one Of lhem YVES liter
ally cut in two by the other.
The Jackson. louisiana, Parish Flag saws
10 plsntstioo, one OF the best in the Parish.
lately cold at sherif's sale Tor S3S cents per
acre. cash.
Almost every Southern negro would like
TO have as many eyes as Argus to see things
to steal and as msny hands as Briareus 10
steal them with. So Gays the LouisyiI.e
Journal.
There 10 no negro slavery now in the
Sothern States. but vast smoun, of white
slavery. Il 10 Quite time for all dece nt men
to declare themselves sbolitionis,s.
The scrip ueed by the Florida Convention
is not very valuable. The members hove
TO pay one hundred doilsrs Of the stuff for
bottle tf whisky, and single drinks are twen-
|ty dollsrs.
On Thursday night OF last week negro
in Marion, Alabama. went to church where
bis wife was in attendance. called her to the
door, and blew her brains out with a pistol.
Cause, jesIousy. Negro was arrested.
Though negro slavery is abolished in the
South. negro whipping sill goes on there.
A negro member Of the Georgia Senate
wss whipped the other dsy BY smother ne.
gro tremendously.
The Nashville Banner says: The me-
groes in the tenth district ale making the
hen.roosfs and pig sites lively o'nigh,s. Gu.
Of senty. one shos,s belonging to Mr.. Horace
Scales, nine were found missing a few morn
ings since. The watcb.dogs ure all being
poisoned. and there is no security wha,eyer
for property.
John Maya negro peniientisry convict
from Butler County, employed on the Selma.
Rome and Dalton Rsilrosd, cboked one OF
the guards 10 death, seised his srma and &c.
capped. He wss pursued to swamp. where,
refusing 10 surrender. he wss Killed By the
cub inspector, j. B. Smith. Tho pusrd,s
name was ]. B. Soider.
Mr.. Randolph, editor Of the Tuscaloosa
Monitor. recently had difficulty with q ne.
gro, end IN The sffray cut the negro with a
knife. For this offense. General Shepperd
committed. him TO the military prison: with.
out benefit Of bail. there to remain until die.
charged BY military commission.
The Virgins Convention sdjourred at
midnight. on last Friday night. after the
adjournment speeches were made, snf
Messrs. Smesd and Allen. leading radicals,
predicted i.s defeat, and said il would be de-.
served. The former opposed it on the ground
Of i's alleged fraudulent character on hom-
stead exemption laws, and the latter because
1t placed the white men under the negro.
The negroes who Termed the procession
that marched through the streets Of New
OrIesns, on Sunday Of lsst week, were not
satisfied with being allowed free passsge.
but committed many sc's Of violence. They
played havoc with the wares Of tho fruit
dealer, bundled very roughly several girls.
and beat poiceufs, who tried 10 srres. the
offenders. They were all dressed in uni.
'orm. In their mad career they pushed a
little daughter Of United States, officer in a
gutter hurting her very badly. Only two
Of them were arrested.