The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-07-27
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and who arrived in the city yesterday
morning, after collins to bury the dead.
we learn that q fatal and bloody row oc.
ourred at the election precinct of Sleepy
Hollow, Barnwen County, 8. c., on
Thursday. The occasion was the cleo.
ton of township officers rs-Sefeotmen.
Surveyor, Clerk and Constable. The
conservatives of the township had nomi-
mated and earnestly pressed the claims
of candidates from their party in oppo-
sition to the white nominees of the ne.
gro and scalawag combination for these
several positions. The canvass had en-
listed the warmest feelings of the rival
parties, although, up to the declaration
OF the election, no rupture had occurred.
From the particulars furnished us. the
difficulty seems to have had its origin
and progress as follows: When the votes
were counted, and it was found that the
radical nominees were elected, Elmore
Tyler, an enthusiastic conservative, who
had been thoroughly enlisted in the sue
cess of his ticket, exclaimed: "Boys,
we're beat; 1 don't blame you, colored
people; blame you, white scalawags. "
A. T. Woodward, brother of the clerk
elect, Pickens Woodward, who holds the
position of clerk in the store of Mr.. w.
8. Royal, in this city, was present, and
demanded a retraction Of Tyler's de-
claration, so far as it applied to his
brother: At this jIncture, Pickens
| Woodward drew his pistol, when he was
approached by John III. Holland, who
wrested the weapon from his possession.
A. +. Woodward then drew his pistol.
which ne discharged at Holland, the bali
taking effect in the stomach of the Int
ter. The wounded man staggered off q
few feet and fell to the earth, mortally
wounded. he was afterwards removed
to the house of s.. N. Green, about $50
yards from the locality where he was
shot. He fingered, in great suffering,
until about ~ o'clock at night, when he
expired, and his lifeless body was for
warded to his family yesterday morning.
The fight then became general. when
VIM. j. Woodward, father Of Piokens and
A. r, whipped out large pocket-knife.
and began an indiscriminate assault upon
those who were identified with the con-
servative party. Attacking Wyatt TYLER.
he inflicted a severe stab on the back
part of the neck of thatgentleman. James
Tyler, nephew of Wyatt Tyler, and his
brother Joseph, also received slight
wounds from the knife in the hands of
Woodward, the former in the side and
the latter in the breast. With his thirst
Tor blood not yet satiated, and deter
mined to lnfiict all the damage which he
possibly could with the deadly weapon in
his hand, Woodward set upon Frank Nj.
Green, end inflicted q severe wound in
his side.
AT this juncture, the father Of Green.
John 3. Green, ST., who was one of the
conservative candidates for selectmen.
observing the danger to which his son
was exposed, closed in with Woodward,
whom he succeeded in telling to the
ground. While Green was pinninp
Woodward to the earth, A. P. Wood
ward discharged two shots from his pis-
tol. which took effect in the left side of
Green, causing immediate death. Young
Woodward also fired upon Frank Nj.
Green, wounding him in the left hand.
From the effect of this wound Green fell.
when his antagonist fired at him again.
but missed his aim.
Two pistol shots, fired by parties un-
known, took effect in the back of A. P.
Woodward, producing wounds which, it
is thought, must prove fatal. All the
parties implicated in this affair we're
white, the negroes present taking no
part in the fight on either side, but
scampered off like rats from sinking
ship. Indeed, SO averse were they to
having ga place in the picture near the
flashing of the guns" that it was with
some difficulty they were persuaded to
lend their assistance in the removal of
the dead and wounded.
We are advised that the Woodwards
have not heretofore been classed with
the radical element, and that the affair
turned upon an issue of a local oharac-
ter, as to the best means to defeat the
negroes, who had previously nominated
candidates Of their own color. Mr.. A.
P. Woodward, of Augusta, whom we
mentioned as clerk in the employ of
MIR. W.. s. Royal, is represented, by
those who know him best, as q high
toned young man, having no afinities
with scalawaggery.
Augusta Constitutionalist.
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