Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-12-18
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ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
The Trouble in Mississippi.

n son Of G.. F. Nicholson, q prominent farm
err of Kemper county, was driving along the
road when be met a negro desperate driv-
ing in the opposite direction. Young Mich
olson's vehicle by accident came in collision
with that of the negro, who kept in the
middle of the road as if determined to drive
the boy out. The negro cursed the youth,
when old Mr.. Nicholson appeared and inter
fered. The negro thereupon drew a revo!v.
er, but instead Of firing closed with Nichol
toll. The negro then fed. The following
day Mr.. Nicholson told his friends of the
negro's assault, and on Saturday it was de
termined to organize a posse and arrest the
marauder. Information OF this determine
ton of the whites reached the negroes IL
some way. 1t is said that two white mel
gathered a party OF negroes together 6
church Sunday night, and after heranguins
them organized a force OF Ten of them to re.
sist any attempt to arrest Maury or an at
tack on his house. These whites are known
to the people of Wanaiak, but their name
cannot be learned. Ii is the settled determ
ina.ion to lynch them when found, and the
people argue that when they are hanged ii
will be the proper time 10 make their names
known. The negro force raised by the two
white mon went to Maury's house when the
church meeting adjourned and concealed
themselves in the smoke house and cotton
houses. Very soon after this the posse Of
white men came up the road and halted in
front of Maur, 8 house. Four ofthem walk
ed uD to the house but found it deserted
They Their went to the smoke house, where
they found three negroes These men were
questioned as to Maury's whereabouts, but
they pretended they could not tell where
he could be found. The whites were try ing
to gain some information from them when II
man on the outside shouted Here is Mau
~. Suppose you come and arrest him"
The whites rushed 10 a body from the build
lag, and 90 they emerged were met with u
volley from eight or ten muskets and shot
guns. VIM. Vaughn was seriously wound
| Gu NY DuShsuOb III tuC bIV uiiD, Cbe NuH
shoulders, and another man whose name
the whites will not reveal received Il slig t
wound in the hand. This volley came from
the cotton house and was promptly return
ed by the whites, but the negroes being
behind stout plank walls, received no injury
The whites soon discovered that they we're
fighting at a great disadvantage aud NOV
cd around to the north eide OF the structure.
Here they received another volley resulting
in The instant death of Henry Maury and
The wcunding OF his brother j. F. Maury in
the arm near the elbow. The whites now
drew of and the firing ceased temporarily.
Notwithstanding their losses. however, the
posse determined to make another attack
on the cotton house, approaching this time
from the south side. As they came up to
the building, they received a third yolley,
the negroes apparently awaiting the order
to fire as they had done in the two previous
instances. At the third yolley Seth Cobb
received twenty-five buckshot in the breast
and stomach, tearing the entire front part Of
his body away. John Daw, another of the
whites, was probably MORALLY wounded by
a pistol ball in the groin. The whites again
drew CT for consultation, when it was decid.
ed that another attack on the building with
their reduced forco would DO useless and
they determined to wait for daylight and
reinforcemenis. While they were consult
ing the negroes rushed from the cotton
houses to Maury's residence in a body and
proceeded to fortify that building, and b
whites went back to Wanalak. Yesterday
morning another force of fifty men was rails
ed and proceeded to Maury . residence. The
place was found entirely deserted even the
bedding and furniture having been remov-
ed. The whites burned the buildings on the
place, together with those on the farm ad
Joining, and secured the woods for the Ms
eroee, but could find no trace of them. |
was impossible 10 fad the negroes within
five miles of tho scene of the trouble. White
people from the adjoining towns poured in
TO Wahslak all day aud joined in the search,
but, az none OF the negroes exc pit Maury
was known, they accomplished nothing. 90
negro was seen lurking in the woods and
was fired upon by q party OF whites, but he
instantly disappeared. When the posse from
Meridian, under command of Captain
Thomas Jamison, reached Wonalak, they
were told that their services were no. re-
quired. They say the whites throughout
Kemper county are very sore and think
more trouble will occur. II ia certain that
il any of the negroes who fired on the whites
are caught they will be killed at once. The
feeling, however, is now against the two
white men who ere said to have organized
the negroes. Not a single negro is known
to have received any injury. Two white
men, besides tho,e alre,dy reported, were
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