The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-10-15


county, John Brown. Press dispatches state
that the blacks, to the number of 800, armed
and equipped, were marching upon the town,
when the whites went out and attacked them,
and a running fight was kept up for three or
four miles. Several negroes and one white
man were wounded. At last accounts both par
ties were arming and organizing and it is
feared there will be more bloodshed.
Some weeks ago Joseph Crews, prominent
Republican politician, and an opponent OF Gov.
Chamberlain was killed by unknown assassns
in South Carolina Several colored men now
come forward with affidavits duplicating Gov.
Chamberlain and State Treasurer Cardozo in
the murder. The friends OF the latter repel the
charge, and denounce the atlantis az perjurers
and conspirators
DIR. Sears, the general agent Of the Peabody
educational fund, reports that the public
schools of the South are constantly improving
in character and in number.
difficulty occurred last week in Charleston,
Tallahatchie county, Miss, between a colored
man named Blackwell, the Sheriff, Acorn and
other officials of the county. Blackwell was
and was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Stewart.
After being arrested, Blackwell shot George
Wall, white man, dead, and was then pursued
by tire Sheriff and hemmed up in a back room
Of a grocery store and shot by the Sheriff and
assistant some fifteen or twenty times and NOR
tally wounded.
The colored people of Georgia held a conven-
ton at Augusta last week, and appointed an
Emigration Bureau to gather information OF
the best localities inside the State of Georgia
for negroes in the late insurrecGonary counties
to emigrate to- An address was adopted stating
that the negroes are not given their rights in
Georgia, colored men are not allowed to sit on
juries, and do not receive the protection of the
courts.
Judge Robert j. Mckinney, for many years
one of the Judges Of the Supreme Court Of
Tennessee, and one of the most eminent jurists
in that State, is dead.
Advices from Friar's Point, Miss, report no
more fighting, but everything unsettled and
the agricultural interest paralyzed. The ne
groes there threaten to hang Brown, the Sher
i'll, and Smith, the candidate for Chancery
Clerk, if they return, for having caused the
disturbance. Reports from other parts of the
State show great Generalization among the la
borers, and great danger Of large portion of
the cotton crop being lost for want Of hands to
pick it.
An indscriminste shooting occurred one day
last week in the streets of Grenda, Miss, be-
tween Sheriff Franck and his son on the one
side, aud State Senator Price and his son-in-
law on the other, during which some fifteen
shots were fired, but no one was hurt All the
parties were Republicans, but belonged to diff
ferent factions.
A frightful suicide occurred at Baltimore
few days ago. An unknown young man threw
himself from the top Of the Washington mon
ument TO the ground below, distance of
$50 feet OF course he was instantly killed,
being crushed to a shapeless mass Of flesh and
bones.
A dispatch from Washington says: THE
Acknowledgement is in daily receipt of advices
from Mississippi Gov. Ames is averse to
arming the citizens of the State for their own
protection. for the reason that it would pro-
duce a great excitment. Everything is report
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