Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1872-07-11

most varied and startling costumes. Th,
parade was kept up for two or thre,
hours and then all disappeared as suddenly
and mysteriously as they came. Every
body says the Horribles were a success
and hopes they will visit us again mex
Fourth of July,
AS the sun rose toward the meridian
cheerful, welldressed people came throng.
ing into the streets. The business houses
generally were closed, and at half past
nine o'clock the procession formed on
Walnut street and moving down Sixth
passed up Market and out to the picnic
grounds, where the day was spent, by
those participating, in a most agreeable
manner.
At high noon, meridian time,' thirty
seven guns were fired by Capt. Cooks
battery in honor of the thirty-seyen States
of the Union. As the evening wore on
the pic nicers came home In a dusty and
dilapidated condition, and about night
fall news spread though the city that
THE CoLoRED PICNIC
which went down the Alabama and Chat
tanooga railroad had got into ga hornets
nest" of huge dimensions. A Herald
reporter interviewed quite a number of
intelligent coiored men who were present
at the scene of the difficulty and although
details the following seem to be in SUBJ
stance the facts:
A picnic party got up by Isaac Charl-
ton and others left the A. & G. depot in
this city at 8 o'clock a.. m. in a special
train for Aliens Springs fin ALBANIA
AZ miles out on the A. & G. road. The
party arrived at their destination about
10 o'clock and at once proceeded out a
quarter of a mile to a grove surrounding
the Springs. Here was an enclosure in
which the picnic was held and for the use
of which the party paid Nh. Allen ten
dollars. When the party came upon the
ground they found thirteen men awaiting
them armed with rifles, shot guns and
muskets and they learned that other guns
were stacked in an old house near by.
The men were rough looking mountain
boosters and a number of them carried
heavy green clubs in addition to their
guns. They did not offer to interfere at
first but took part in the dancing and
loitered around. After a while they dis
turbed the dancing and used very unbe-
coming language. In the afternoon six
more white men came In. A colored man
of the vicinity was employed by the in
truders to sell whisky in the woods near
by, some of the leaders of the colored party
went out and demonstrated, which excited
considerable feeling but without bringing
in a collision at the time. About two
o'clock the picnic party broke up and
a larger part had gone to the train when
a dispute arose and a white man threw a
club at one of the party and struck Squire
A. j. Flowers. Another colored man
demonstrated when he was surrounded by
the white party The blacks attempted
his rescue when a shot was fred by some
one. This was a signal for the use of
weapons on~both sides and the firing be-
came general. The whites were driven
back to the woods, but soon rallied and
firing briskly with their guns the blacks
fed to the train. A white man named
John Smith interposed in favor of the
blacks to stop the fuss and was shot though
the breast by one of the white mon. 1t is
said that Smith in his time killed three
Kuklux, and was an object of particular
hatred to the intruders. Six colored men
were shot, viz: Charley BARLEY, in the
back Alfred Read, in the leg: Hinton
Alexander, in the leg; Charley Wooden
in the arm Albert Lee, in the leg; and
Henry Preston, in the arm. Fitch Earl
was shot in the hand as the train moved
off. BARLEY may die. Three of the
whites are said to haye been wounded.
Mr.. Allen, the proprietor, tried very
hard to prevent any disturbance during
the day, for which he deserves much cred
it. A part of the firing was promiscuous
among men and women. One colorsd
woman, it is said, had a ribbon shot off of
her hat.
There is some little difference of opin:
ion as to where the blame for the melee
rests, but the most unanimous report is
that the white party were at fault. They
are reported to have said that the id
Dutchman once came down there and they
came near cleaning them out, and now the
ringers had come and they would make
a sure thing of them. As no white per-
sons composed the picnic party We are not
able to give any different version from the
other side, should there be one.