Middletown transcript., 1874-08-22
Items of General News.

Serious rioting is now reported in George
town, S. c. The colorcd people have Il
large majority in the county, but they arc
divided into factions, led respectively by
Bowley and Jones, colored members of
the Legislature, who seek to control the
county politics. On Wednesday last, IA
Bowley meeting was broken up by the
Jones faction and a colored bystandcr was
severely wounded in the melee Messen-
gers were sent out during the night and
the Jones party received reinforcements
from the country During Thursday
some of them attempted to kill Bowley.
and the friends of the latter retaliated by
attacking the house of Jones on Thursday
night. In this attack there was some sharp
firing, and Jones and several others were
slightly wounded. On Friday, the Jones
men attacked the house of Bowley, who,
to save his life, surrendered to the Sheriff
and was placed in Jail. The excitement
continued on Saturday, the town being
full of armed men though no collision on
that day is reported The whites had no
part in the riot, but wero fearful .lest
some careless word or act should cause an
attack on them, which they have no means
of meeting"
AT Augusta, Ga, on Saturday evening
Captain A. F. Butler, local agent of the
South Carolina Railroad, was getting off
street car with his wife, when he found
the platform and steps obstructed by two
colored brothers, named Gabriel and
Michael Murrell. Butler pushed one of
them with his hand and told him to get
up. AT this Gabriel pushed Mrs. Butler
back, and Michael pulled out pistol and
shot Captain Butler in the temple, infct-
ing wound of which he died before mid
night. The Murrels were arrested and
lodged in Jail. When the death of Cap
tain Butler was announced, they We're
taken from the Jail by several hundred
armed men and subjected to mob trial.
A jury was improvised, and the sworn
testimony of an eyewitness to the murder
was taken, the Gu prits protesting their in
nocence the while. After three hours
investigation Gabriel was taken back to
Jail, and Michael was shot dead on the
parade ground at three o'clock Sunday
morning
| -ANoihEh OuIkAGE IN i.
Last Sunday morning, at o'clock,
three negroes entered the residence of
Mrs. Burnley, at Brookhaven, Miss, and
choking her and her daughter, violated
the person of Mrs. Burnley, after which
they forced her to give up what money she
had and then plundered the house, taking
away large trunk filed with clothing,
jewelry, &c. One of the negroes has been
captured, bat the others are still at large
Great excitement prevails concerning the
outrage,
Right Rev. Henry John Whiteh ouse,
Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Illinois,
died Monday morning in Chicago, aged
72. He had been Bishop of Illinois for
twenty years. Dr. Whitehouse was an
eloquent preacher, and was noted as the
leader of the Ritualists in this country.
Congressman Elliott (col. announces
himself as candidate for the Legislature
from Aiken county, S. c. He gives up
an actual salary of So, 900 year in Wash
ington for a nominal salary of 5000 year
in South Carolina. "Pickings" is the
equivalent
A hearse, drawn by two horses, follow
ed by few servants, was all the ceremony
attending the funeral of Baron Ansem
Rothschild. The wealth Of the deceased
banker is estimated at 5000, 900, 900.
At recent sale in Zeiglersvlle, Berks
county, a wagon was sold that had been
standing long enough in one place to per-
NIT a walnut tree about Eve inches in
diameter to grow through the bed of the
wagon,
1t is reported from Fort Sully that 1000
hostile Indians attacked General Custer
expedition, on the 18th inst and were re-
pulsed with heavy loss also. that Custer
lost 80 in killed and wounded
The agricultural works of S. Westing
house & Co., in Schenectady, were burned
on Monday night. Loss. about $40, 900
Fifty men are thrown out of employment
, by this fire.
Grasshoppers have literally devoured
everything in northern and Southwestern
Kansas and Nebraska The corn crer
throughout this region is totally destroy
ed.
5 Dispatches from various points in Louis.
lana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas ant
f Tennessee report that the corn and cotton
are suffering from continued droughts.
Postmaster General Jewell is expected
to arrive this week, but it is supposed tha
he will not assume the duties of his Office
before the lst of September
/ Returns from Ohio indicate that tn,
new Constitution has been defeated. The
: majority against 1t is variously estimated
0 from &c, 900 to $4,000.
1t is stated that the daily papers in New
York receive annually nearly $4,000, ,00(
for advertising,
The death was announced recently, a
: Leeds, England, of the mother Of Rev
: Robert Collyer, of Chicago.