The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-09-10
SOUTHWESTERN KINDS ITEMS.
CHAPEL HILL, September Sth, 1879.
otton crops a little below an average
BY WHITE OAK.

CHAPEL HILL, September Sth, 1879.
Cotton crops a little below an average.
Politics waxing pretty warm; our artillery on
the 18th at Chapel Hill, silenced some of the
best guns of the Geenbackers, discomfiting
others, and braking the backbone of the party
in Southwestern Kinds. Greenbackers are
looking gloomy and forlorn, their ranks are be-
ing deserted every day.
September came in with high winds, and rain
in torrents, too much rain for cotton; crop
damaged at least thirty per cent will be much
shorter than estimated for weeks ago; cotton
picking commenced about the 25th of August,
now under full head way ; crop is fully two
weeks earlier than last year; some cotton sold
from this neighborhood, at prices varying from
l013 TO 12L cents per pound.
The Greenbackers of this Beat held their
Convention on the Both ult, at Dry Grove, to
nominate Beat officers The meeting call
ed to order, when John D. Parsons was request
ed to take the chair. The meeting COM
posed of nineteen Democrats and eleven Green
hackers, eight whites, and three colored The
Convention nominated Sam Young (whitel for
Magistrate, sore head Democrat, who has been
for the past four years expecting a nomination
by the Democratic party, This all the
business transacted by the Convention, after
which, Capt w. A. Montgomery, addressed the
meeting in one of his weakest efforts. In the
midst of his speech he was stopped, and mo-
ton made and carried, that Democrats or any
other PERSONS not affiliating with the Green
hackers must keep their mouths shut; at this
juncture Mr.. W. D. Carmichael, our nominee
for the lower banch of the Legislature, left the
house, followed by all the Democrats except
two. After Capt. Montgomery concluded his
speech, A. W. Burnet an incipient-limb of the
law, followed in a boisterous and senseless
harangue to the eleven Greenbackers.
Mr.. G. d. England, strong Democrat, and a
quiet and harmless citizen, came near being
assassinated on his way home, the night after
the Greenback Beat Convention at Dry Grove.
The parties who attempted the assassination
were DIR. f. W. Crum and the notorious charae-
ter Bill Miller. Crum and Miller, both Green.
hackers, waylaid Mr.. England who was alone
except three colored men, and when he had
reached about half the distance to his home
was attacked by DIR. Crum with loaded stuck,
dealing him heavy blows over the head and
body. England being unarmed made an effort to
escape and was fired on by Miller with a pistol
when he made his escape from his horse into
thicket near by secreting himself. Miller pur-
sued him pistol in hand into the thicket TO
complete the work they had so fendishly
commenced, but did not succeed in finding him.
After this both Crum and Miller left The col
ored men who were in company with Mr..
England went to the house of Mr.. Archie Par
sons about one mile distant and procured the
assistance of Mr. Parsons and lights, returned
and succeeded in finding Mr.. England, taking
him TO Mr.. Parsons house, washed and dressed
his wounds and carried him home to his family.
TINS Is looked upon one OF the most high
handed Outrages that has ever been perpetrated
in this community. Mr.. England is at loss to
imagine why it was that Crum and Miller were
so intent on taking his life, as he never had an
unpleasant word with either of the parties.