The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-17
BATTLE OF THE AMAZONS.

Tragic Feats of a Beroi.e-A Female Pitched
Battle-sanRuinary Results Of jealousy.
The Nashville Union of Saturday last tells the
following extraordinary story
One of the most sanguiDary deeds growing out
of jealousy, and one of the highest exhibitions
OF female courage we have seen any account
of for many day, occurred a few days since
near the East Tennessee line in the edge of
North Carolina, bordering on Blount county.
The account which we abbreviate from the seve-
raj reports seems miraculous. The parties repre-
sented are creditable and respectable.
1t appears that the wife of James Davenport
became jealous of young girl named Kate
jackson, represented as being quite handsome
and lovable. Quarrels aud contentious were
fierce and frequent between the two ladies.
On the day of the fatal collision it appears
that Miss Kate jackson, in company with her
married sister, Mrs. DeArmand, passed the
residence of the Davenport family. AS soon as
the sisters were discovered on the road the
Davenports, six in number, comprising the
mother, three daughters, two of them grown,
and two sons, the eldest about eighteen years
old, rallied in force, and set out in vigorous
pursuit of the defenseless sisters. The trail was
continued until the sisters had nearly reached
the Tennessee line. Here the Davenport
brothers, by movement, strategeticaly tlanked
them and presented front armed with sticks
and stones. This caused Kate and her sister
first TO halt, and then to attempt TO retrace their
steps. But upon attempting to retreat they
were confronted by Mrs. Davenport aud her
three daughters similarly armed, who demanded
y.
intended to kill Kate. Instead of obeying this
militia order, Mrs. DeArmand made preparations
to defend her sister. Young Davenport the
elder son, seeing this opposition to his order at
0ncc let go stone at her, which took effect on
her head, breaking her skull, and prostrating
her lifeless on the ground.
The heroic Kate was thus at the onset of the
engagement, left to defend herself. She rallied
and maintained her line by indiscriminateIy
hurting upon the attacking party such fnty
missiles as came opportune to her. One of these
shots took immediate effect upon the elder
Davenport boy, Sitting one side of his face
open, and placing him hors de combat. Turn
ing her attention then to the maternal head of
the Davenport family, she directed stone
against her head, that inflicted severe wound
and laid her sprawling on the field. This accom-
plished, the brave girl slowly fell back to posi-
ton where she could supply herself with neces-
sary ammunition. .' n.
This point obtained, and being still besieged,
she again di discharged a shot, and another OF the
Davenport boys wilted. Then the Davenport
girls rallied and made desperate charge upon
her with clubs and stones inficting serious
wounds, but not succeeding in getting her down.
just at this crisis Kate, hard pressed as she was,
defend herself, extricated from her pocket a
small pen-knife measuring about six inches in
the blade, and commenced an indiscriminate and
very wild and general cutting and slashing at
the combined Davenport girls surrounding her.
The result of this fearful frenzy on the part of
Kate was seriously detrimental to the well-beipg
of the Davenport females. Two of them re-
ceived serious slashes from the weapon she
welded one of them dropping on the field from
loss of blood let flooding from the knife, and the
other SO seriously disabled as to be a fit subject
for hospital practice.
This unexpected result contributed materially
to the withdrawal of the remaining Davenport
| besieging party, who quietly removed their dis
! abled from the field, leaving the heroic Kate
| master of the situation. The casualties sus-
| tanned in this engagement only amount to the
| death of Mrs. DeArmand, with the probability
| that the elder Miss Davenport will also die, and
| Davenport family. Kate jackson was less in
| jured than any one engaged in the fight, and
was able to carry her dead sister home after the
| battle closed.