St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-01-03

deal of effort Gagged, strangled, shot
kicked, pounded and otherwise killed
four negroes who were engaged in thu
shooting affray of Christmas day. Thu
caging was legal. All the other step
were in violation of law and utterly
barbaric and heathenish in their man
ner and conduct. The men were in
Jail. There was no danger of their es1
Gaping. The cOroner's jury had held
them for the murder. They were NOT
out on bail or likely to he. No petit
jury in Mississippi would have acquit |
ted them on trial. They We're tickete
for the gallows with dead certaint,
even if every form of law was observed
But the tiger nursed by centuries q
slavery, violence, ignorance and race
passion was aroused. 1t ramped in thu
streets all day Saturday and was in
creased by accessions of mounted mel
from the whole countryside. The
mother of two of the men killed sent
the Catholic priest to plead for thu
laying aside of violence and that the
law might take its course, but without
effect. We will shorten the sickenins
recital. The Jail gates were battered
down. There was but one short ROPE
for four men, but IA community so poor
and GOd-forsaken that it is short O
rope does not stint the feast of blood.
Neither was there Il tree in the mean
street and the rope was thrown over L
high and half-ruined board fence.
catching in the cracks and prolOnging
the agony, humanity on both ends, one
impatiently strangling the other. The
same rope was passed along inside
where the second was hanged, also
10y dead weight of humans, or beasts in
human form, on the other end. The
third man, deputy revenue collector,
fought in his cell with all the missiles
| he could get. and was slammed Cei.
| locks were so good, but his fellow
prisoners held him up to a window,
whence from the outside bullets were
put through him squirming. Second
man by this time being dead, the rope
was passed through the cell. and what
was left of No. was hanged to the
bars by the aid of those inside and
those outside.
The cOrOnerS jury met Sunday and
found that all the parties came to then
death by unknown hands. We send
missionaries to France.
Five men, convicted of kukluXing
negroes, have come north i'll chains t.
serve two years in the Albany, IN. "
penitentiary as prisoners of the United
States. They are the men who were
convicted at Atlanta by District AttOr-
ney Speer. In the Cincinnati depot
they were interviewed and one of them
Marlborough, excused his conduct as
nothing to he ashamed of, One night
he was going home with the girls and
il young mulatto "brushed against the
girl SO he and his brother took him
into swamp and dressed him W
right smart, of course not on account
of politics, certainly not. Then on ac-
count of some threats, they went
around clicking niggers" by calling
rhem out of their cottages and it neces'
sary prying OFT the doors to get al
them. But even Mr.. Marlborough,
mind is impressed by the situation
When asked what they would have
done if they had got one man they
could not find he replied: "Well,
reckon we'd thrashed him good, w,
wouldn't II killed him, We never Kill
anybody, hut we dO lick il niger once
In while unless they walk the lin,
pretty straight. | don't think I'll lick
another one if ever get out. It's eX
pensive. See what I've got for it now.