Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-03-11
Life In Cuba.

The following story Of terrible out,
RACES is given by Cuban correspondent
Of the Herald The governor and mill
tary commander Of 6agua In 0rande
passed night at the Vigilancia planta-
ton, distart some eight leagues from
Sagua. He was on the march at the
head OF some one hundred men. While
he slept at his ease Miguel Rodriguez,
his second in command, with twenty five
picked men, approached store called
the Alacran, which was situated at the
boundary Of the plantation, and belong
ed TO q Spanish mountaineer named
Jose OWES, captain OF the rural guards.
OWES, who had at his orders seventy
Ave men, mostly Cubans, we'll armed
and provided with about 10, 900 rounds
Of ammunition, Joined Rodrigues with
this force, probably in accordance with
previous agreement between both
chiefs, passed over to the insurgents.
On the following morning the governor,
in front OF his one hupdred mon, direct
ed his steps TO the railroad depot when
the train returned from Sagua Ia Grande,
where he learned what passed in the
Alcran store while he slept the night be-
fore in the Vigilancia plantation. At
hearing it the governor grimaced and
walked about as if he had been bitten
by scorpion, and at once returned to
the plantation to chastise the laborers
there for want OF watchfulness, of which,
without doubt, if any were culpable
they must have been he and his soldiers.
He called the white man in charge of
the cattle on sugar plantation and
ordered him to be chsstised in the usual
manner practiced at the plantations on
the island. The poor man was thrown
face down and kept firmly to the earth
by four negroes, one at each foot and
hand, and received twenty Ave lashes on
the hips with whip that tears and
lacerates the skin OF the victim at each
blow. With such cruel punishment the
infuriated governor threatened the fore
man of the same plantation because he
did not notify tho authorities of what
had taken place between OWES and
when creole volunteer
presented himself, a man of fifty five
years of age, who asked him relief from
service for the period of three days to
attend the funeral Of his daughter, who
had Just died. The furious governor
replied that he would relieve him for
ever from the service, and ordered him
to be shot for not having reported what
had happened on the previous night at
the Alacranes store. A few brief mo.
ments afterward the afflicted father and
soldier had been shot. Such
is the conduct of the military governor
of Sagua la Grande in that district.
San Juan de los Remedies was COM
handed by Major Herrera, of the troops
stationed there, belonging to q flying
column which discovered in the midst
If wood quite a number of huts that
we're inhabited by women belonging to
he insurgents. They were all made
prisoners, and had their hair shorn off.
After this Major Herrera compelled
hem to disrobe themselves, and, nude
IS ut the hour of their birth, he obliged
he poor creatures to walk at the head of
he column of soldiers. With those un.
ortunate women Herrera made his tri-
lmphal entry into the town OF Remedies.
III of tho populace q losed the doors of
heir houses, so that they might not wit
less this sad, repugnant spectacle !; but
he bad Herrera continued his triumphal
aarch with his captives until he shut
hem up in a galley, without doubt to
them for the crime of
oving the independence and the liberty
+ Cuba.