Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-02-22
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I RALtlcH, Feb. l6.e "A most diabolica!
outage occurred Acre about three miles
FROM tAs city. on the Greenyills and
Columbia Railroad. As the regular pas
senger train which leh,this city yester-
day for Greenville, near Smith Branch.
at Ex-G,ibble, the engineer observed a
man walking on the trestle-work, armed
with double -barreled shotgun. When
the train came up with him he stepped
off the track and, deliberately drawing
his gun to his shoulder. discharged both
barrels at the engineer and fireman in
rapid snccession.
The engineer, who hal no idea the
william was in earnest when he lcvelled
the gun at him. stood and received the
contents Of the gun full in the face, not
even moving his head within the carriage
in rear of the engine. Both his eyes
were destroyed, and the buckshot with
which the gun was loaded are said to
have penetrated the brain. Both the fire
man were also badly wounded The train
was at once stopped and reversed, and
as it put back toward the city the assas,
sin stood eoolly reloading his gun, but
did not make any other attempt to fire.
The employees on the train being un-
armed, made no attempt, to arrest the
villain. The engineer will die and the
fireman is badly wounded, The out
rage created the most intense excitement
among the passengers. A sheriff posse
was at once despatched to the scene. and
succeeded in arrcs,ing man named
Hornsby as the alleged assassin! li9"f
THE KUKLux ExPLXIN THE CAUSE OF
THEIR DoINGs.
The following Kuklux document was
left on the person of the jailer, who was
tied half mile from the Jail by the
masked horsemen. while they took out
the ten negroes in Union county to lynch
them on Tuesday night last: -
Taken by habeas corpus. in silence and
in secresy. Thought has been working,
and the benignant efficiency of conceal
ment speaks for itself. Once again have
we been forced by force to use force
Justice was lame, and she had to lean
upon us Information having been OBJ
tanned that doubling Thomas, the Judge
the inferior Of nothing, the superior of
nothing. and of consequence the equal Of
nothing. who has neither eye to see the
scars Of oppression, nor ear to hear the
cause. Of humanity, even though be
wears the Judicial silk-had ordered
some guilty prisoners from here to the
city of Columbia. and of injustice and
prejudice for an unfair trial of life. thus
cutching at the wheelspckes Of destiny,
then this thing was created and project
ed, otherwise it never would have been.
We yield to the inevitable and mex
orable and act this the best. "J.et not
thy right hand know what thy left hand
dseth is our motto. We want peace:
but this cannot be till justice returns
We want and will have justice; bnt this
cannot be till the bloody fight of free
dom lie fought. Until then the Moloch
iniquity will have his his rights. even if
the marshal Of justice must have his mar
tyr.
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Governor Scott has advised the ap
pointment of a Legislative committee of
three, without regard to party, to visit
the President and represent to him the
condition of affairs in this State, and re.
quest sufficient force of troops to protect
life and property and to enforce the civil
law. -' 'H-' ".'1-.s .f ..-- t'
Another case Of lynching is looked
for in York county. where number of
negro murderers are confined in Jill.