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

THE 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, colored, and used by him as
sort of hotel for the accommodation of
colorcd people. Hurrying into the room he
found a mulatto woman, named Maria Crea-
sey, hailinS from Boston, Mass. with an
enormous cash in her throat, aud literally
bathed 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
ance of DR.. 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 strangest 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 Smith6eld, Johnston county, in
this State, and that she had started on
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 banished reason,
and fearing that herself and child were to
be murdered separately, tried first 10 kill
the girl with n broken lamp and then cut
her throat with the pieces of sharp glass
No other explanation can be fou I'D for her
attempt at selfdestruction. 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
Smith6eld Saturday morning. On his arri.
val here he found Maria exceedingly nerv.
Gus, and laboring under considerable abcr-
ration Of mind, but he finally succeeded in
calming her nerves, and convincing her that
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.
setts, 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 selfpcsscssion
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 Smithfeld, but
has spent most of her life in Boston
GolasJoro (N. CO. Messenger, 6M.
TAMMANY IN SOUTH CARoLINA-We
had hoped that the wrangling for Office and
tho disscnsion in the Democracy of this
State would be confined to Charleston,
where personal ambition, backed by parti-
sanship, has hopelcssly divided the white
Democrats, so that the city is sure to be
remanded 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 suffrages; 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 Abbeville, which, if copied from the
mo nj fpsfo of Tohn X ollay would not hove