The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1870-12-23
NEW NORTH WEST,
BEER LODGE CITY, FRIDAY, DEC. "a.

DEER Lodge CITY, FRIDAY, DEC. "a
Yessde:ta0f Thirteen Years.
The Bru.ssey Assassinasion- Ms Caxsa,
seAich Lei to TAen-HSstory Of Long
AID Bloody fsud i" Aisstssiept and
zezas.
Prom tho Memphis Avalanche
The following dispatch appeared In the
AeslsneAG:
jackson, Niss.- Gcncyul w. r. Brsnt.
ley was assossinatcd this morning ct
O'Clock, about half . mile outside the town
# Winona, Carroll county. twenty-five
buekshet struck him. Seecral pcrsons saw
The smoke Of the gun, but the perpctrator
Of the awful decd wa not discovered,
though tracked for some distance In cane.
brake. It will be remembered that his
bnother, tho Mayor of Winons, Wa assa:-
sinatcd some time ago, while sitting with
Conner, member Of the Legislature and q
relative of the Drantleys. was killed at WI
mona Ia difficulty growing out OF tho Of.
fair. General Brsntley makes tho third
victim"
Such statement % tho above would nat.
urally create some curiosity a. to
THE CAUSE or THE TERRIBLE AF1AIR
An Aeolanchs reporter has been enabled
70 obtain information in regard TO an old
Ssud In which the Bmutlsy family were con.
ccrned, and which may probably throw
some light on these latter Transactions In
the year 1857, In the town Of Gonzales, the
county scat of . County of the same name
in Texas, there resided Doctor Brsnt.
ley, brother G the gentleman recently
klled near Winona, who WAS engaged in
merchandising. Tho Monroe brothers-
John, Barney and william lived In the
mme town, and wero also engaged in
''kecping store" The parties named were
oil In good circumstances. Il appears that
TINE MONROE BROTHERS
Employed - clerks two young men, David
and William Balzcll. One Of the Balsells,
on account of alleged impotence, whip.
ped Buford, slave of DR.. Brantley. Bu,
ford was known - 'Bufe," and was con-
sidered In those days ''smart Niger" al.
though . grand rascal" The day after
the whipping DR.: Brantley attacked the
Balsclls, and was killed by David, who
was aftcrward arrested and hailed out of
custody by his employer, the Aonrocs A
short time after DR.. Brantley's death Neal
Mccoy, noted desperado from MISSISSIPPI
pi, who had been sent by tho friends Of
Branlley. appeared upon the scene The
Doctor was native Of that State, and had
cmigrsted 70 Texas but few years before
his death. Mccoy had boon reading In
Gonzales but few days, when
A DIFFICULTY
Occurred between him and the Balzcll
brothers In the Lining-room Of TIE 0syoos
House, In which Dave was killed, and VIII
liam knocked scnsclcss with slungshot
He sftcrward recovered, however, and may
now be living for aught w know. So fer,
there had been but two lives lost. Mccoy
vas arrested and gave bail Now the feud
sot warmer and warme< The Monroe
bsothers espoused the cause of tho Balsslls,
end, In consequence, were opposed 10 the
friends q ~ Drantleys. There waS hard
" man In the county Of Gonzales who
had not at one dn,c or another taken sideA
0oms wese killed and Others wounded.
Among those who wc,s desperately wound.
Cd on the Brantley side our informant n.
members the name Of but one, Mt. Davis,
from Choctsw county, Mississippl. He
received the contents Of gun loaded with
buckshot through his left side, but, strange
70 ssy, recovered. The surviving Bslsell
va momentarily expecting an attack. He
made himself
-. a WALKING ARGEMAL.
in those days Western Texas was rather
Wild country; the law was but imperfectly
enforcsd, and every one considered ''self
preservation the first law of nature" 4
Bsansley ma. and Monroe man were dead.
" enemie& They met to engage In .
hlbody safay. Thus stood affairs q the
breaking out Of the war in 1851. The ID.
hcrcnts of the respective parties won't into
the southern srmy, Transferred to tho Mi.
aissipr. In the year 1858 = young planter,
named Green, was killed at the Boasmm
House, Jackson Miss; By Arnold Brsntley,
. brothss Of D.. Draniley, and tho same
man who was Mayor. ot Wypops ,at the
.ims AZ his death few wecks ago. Tho
ahais, y was supposed, grow out Of
,nr,,, 4 GAMBLING oCRAP4, .-.-.- J
But Il may possibly have besn connected
With the feud which originsted in TexaA
Thus y win be seen that the late affair In
lie netghborlood Of WynonA can In smsas
ure DO aocoupted foe. A. last accounts,
tyo yean ago, William Baissll Wa living.
Ha.vp Amcmbcr Of The Teptb Mississippi
cavalry regiment and passed safely through
the war. He proved himselfa gallant sol.
dicl. and Il ~ NOT thought that Il alive he
woan b guilty 81 assass inatlon. His life,
Il b nd, after the death sf d.. Dmntlcy,
was diseIpated one He apparently cared
but little Tor m existence, and rcsoftcd 70
drink. He was : pstivc of Virginia I
PxkArTY yoR OrHHr1a LsrrERs AD.
naSsaED 70 AxoTu8A-MAny people zee.
me letifda adYeetiaad asa In iha hal,lf nf