The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-10-17


peace. 1t would have been SO easy for her
to make me happy, or at least conterted.
If could remain alive my life should be
vowed exclusively to vengeance on her.
But am going to my rest. Be she ac-
cursed with my last breath % Such were
the last words scrawled on this extraordi-
nary document by an obviously dying
hand.
TIE FRUITS OF RADICAL LIEs.-On
Thursday evening of last week, at about 8
o'clock, as Dr. Geo. l.. Kirby, leading
physician OF this town, was going from his
office to his residence, he heard cries of dis
tress and calls for assistance, proceeding
from the large twostory house owned by
Bryant Capps, colorcd, and used by him as
a sort of hotel for the accommodation of
colorcd people. Hurrying into the room he
found q mulatto woman, named Maria Crea-
sey, hailing from Boston, Mass. with an
enormous cash in her throat, and literally
bathcd in blood, which was still flowing pro-
fusely from the wound which had nearly
severed the jugular vein. Hastily applying
pressure to stop the blood, he sent for the
necessary appliances, and, with the assist
anco of DIR. w. Ii. Moore, soon had the
bleeding entirely stopped, Notwithstanding
the resistance of tho woman, who Insisted
on tearing open the wound, to prevent which
it became necessary to tie her hands behind
her, and the physicians now express the
opinion that without further violence on her
part she will recover.
The strangcst part of this attempted sui
eide is yet to be told. 1t seems she is a
resident of Boston. Mass, but her mother
is living at Smithfeld, Johnston county, in
this State, and that she had started on a
visit there, being accompanied by her daugh-
ter, child about IA years old There is
every reason to believe that her mind was
affected doubtless impressed with the lies
which are scattered wholesale throughout
the North, of violence and murder in the
South, and by the time she reached Colds
boro, fear had. completely bani>hcd reason,
and fearing that herself and child were to
be murdered separately, tried first to kill
the girl with n broken lamp and then cut
her throat with the pieces Of sharp glass.
No other explanation can be found for her
attempt at sclfdcstruction. The injuries to
her girl are not serious.
Marshall Avora, the brother-in-law Of
Maria, who is an industrious blacksmith at
Smithfeld, arrived here Friday evening,
and carried both the mother and girl to
Smithfcld Saturday morning. On his arri.
val here he found Maria exceedingly ncrv-
Gus, and laboring under considerable ablr-
ration of mind, but he finally succeeded i'll
calming her nerves. and convincing her that
she and the child were perfectly safe, and
that no harm was meant them; that the
colored people are as safe here, if not more
so than they can possibly be in MassaChu.
sctts, and that all she had heard and read
about the burning, whipping and killing
of negroes by the Southern whites" were
lies manufactured to order for political pur.
poses.
Maria, after regaining her sclfpcsscssion
seemed to remember all that had occurred
She says it appeared to her that the ku. klux
had completely surrounded her and the girl
and were trying to kill both !; that she first
locked for her scissors, with which she in.
tended to sever the jugular vein, but could
not find them, and that then she attempted
to end her own existence by means Of the
broken glass Maria is the daughter o!
Angelina Ennis, living at Smithfcld but
has spent most of her life in Boston
GohlsJoro (N. O. Messenger, GM.
TAMMANY IN SoUTH CARoLINA-Wc
had hoped that the wranging for Office and
the dsscnsion in the Democracy Of this
State would be confined to Charleston,
where personal ambition, backed by parti-
sanship, has hopclcssly divided the white
Democrats, so that the city is sure to be
rcmandcd back to Radical rule, or, what is
worse, renegade Democrats supported by
the worst class of Radicals. If the people
were wise they would support no man who
pushed himself upon their suflragcs; aud
no patriotic citizen will press his personal
claims to Office when he sees in his action
evil to the State Now We hear voice
from Abbcvillc, which, if copied from the
manifesto of John Kelley, would not have
sounded more like the rule and ruin policy
Of Tammany in New York. The Abbcvillc
Press and Bunmcr. generally conservative
and sensible, as well aS able. declares before
hand that the Abbevillc Democracy will