The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1868-01-01
The Mau and Brother

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THE oaEEoHEE DIFFICULTY AGAIN
a8 TnEtuN1oN 'LEAGuB' STILL RAMPANT
y UNITED STATES TRoors SENT TO
SETTLE THE TROUBLE. ....,
Information was received yesterday
from the Middleton planters on the
Ogoechee, that the negro Union League
was still causing trouble there. Tie
complaint was lodged with Col. Maurice
Maloney who decided to take measures
to put stop to the disorderly proceed
ings.
1t appears that Mr. Middleton, whose
plantation Is on the Bryan county side
has been working the Elliot plantation.
in Chatham county. He brought over
Lands from Bryan county to do his
work, which lncenscd the negroes in
the neighborhood, and these imported
freedmen have been threatened and
compelled to leave. The arrest Of
Cuthbert, the ringleader Of the party
last week, has produced no good results
and the Bryan county negroes fear for
their lives. i
The teachings Of the black dema~
gogue, Bradley, are producing their le.
gitima,e results. The League quotes
Bradley as its authority, and refuses to
allow any negroes to work in the
neighborhood, save those who belong
there.
AS the result Of this trouble might be,
violence and b!oodshed, Captain Cooks
with a detachment Of soldiers, left for
the Ogeechee last evening, to put a
stop to the difficulty, and to let the
League know that in assuming to
control the labor it is abrogating unto
itself rights (which no white man is
bound TO respect" and that these things
must end. Arrests will be made if nee
essary, and all necdlul measures instltu-
ted to restore order and vindicate the
rights OF the planlcr-,SutannaA Re-
publican.
: An AWFUL TRAGEDy.-O Sunday
December Slh. very early in the morn
ing an act was pcrpetratel olethc road
leading from Conrlland to Tuscaloosa,
ut the house Of DR.. DeGrahcnreid, abont
thirty miles from Cour,land, by wlnch
DR.. DeGraflenrcid, Mr.. and Mrs. Noah
lost their lives. A Mr. Briggs, a Meth
odist preacher, who had been at one
time confined in the lunatc asylum at
Tuscaloosa, was staying at DR.. De.
Graffenreids. early that morning the
Doctor and Mr.. Briggs were sitting by
the fire, and Mr.. Briggs was abusin :
his wife, from whom he had been sepa-
rated, when DR.. Dec. told him he
ought not to abuse his wife so; where.
upon Briggs picked up n half made axe
handle and struck DR.. DEG. on tho head
telling him to the floor. lie then
struck him again, killing him instantly.
Mr.. Noah, who is an old man, rushed
IN to help DR.. DEG, and he was killed
with the SANE. weapon. Mrs. Noah
hearing the noise, went into the room,
and Briggs killed her in the same man.
ner. a little boy, who was in the
room, saved his life by getting under the
bed. He says that after Briggs had
killed all these. he went around and
struck them each heavy blow on the
head. After he had satisfied himself
that they were dead, lie took pair Of
shoes belonging to Mrs. Noah, and left
the house in his stocking feet, making
his way across the field. He has since
been seen IN Millville. 1uscunIt1
(AM,) Times.
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TRUTH IN BRIEF. Anybody can
soil the reputation OF m individual,
however pure and chaste, by uttcring a
suspicion which his enemies will believe,
and his friends never hear Of A puff
of idle wind can take up million Of the
seeds Of the thistle, and do work OF
mischief which the husbandman must
labor long and hard - undo, the floating
particles being too ,ri0ng TO be seen
and too light to be stopped. Such are
the seeds OF slander, so easily sown so
difficult to be gathered up and yet so
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