The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-13
PEACE REIGNS.
All's Quiet in Crittenden County.
That Threatened Negro Outbreak
Did Not Come OF.
A Thing That Was Not To Be In
definitely Postponed.
Leading Negroes Ordered to Leave
Crittenden County.
The Clerk of the Circuit Court
Forced to Resign.
The Clerk of tho Circuit Court
Forced to Resign.
No Further Trouble or Danger Ap.
pretended by Citizens.
The Governor OF Arkansas Refuses to
- Interfere Because He is Not No
tilted Through oficial
Channels.

Affairs in Crittenden county came to q
crisis sooner than was expected. When
The APPEAL reporter left Marion Wednes-
day afternoon, everything was quiet. Court
was in session, and there was nothing 10
indicate that the whites were preparing TO
assume the aggressive. Such was the case,
however. Toward nightfall secret meet
ing was held by the latter, and after its ad-
journment detachment Of armed men
went 10 Charlottesville, from which point
telegrams had been received couched in
the following terms: ave are in distress.
Attack apprehended. Send as many men as
you can spare" Similar kilograms were sent
10 Wynn station and Crowley's station, and
met with prompt response in the persons
Of twenty men from each place armed TO
the teeth. Search was made for York
Byers, a saloon keeper, and a turbulent
character, but he could nowhere be found.
All night armed men patrolled the streets
and stood watch over picket fires, but no
enemy appeared. As soon as the day had
well set in and the negroes were apprised
Of what occurred, they took TO the woods,
men, women and children, in the widest
alarm, and remained there. Up to a late
hour last night, as will appear by the sub
joined dispatches, nothing had occurred at
Charlottesville in the way Of hostile de-
monstmtion on the part Of the negroes.
In the meantime other scenes were
iSanspiring at Marion, ARK.
About so'clock in the morning armed
hosemcn began 10 arrive in small squads
and singly, and by 10 O'Clock fully fifty
men, armed with
WINCHESTER RIFLES AND SHOT GUNS,
had assembled in the village. Court was
in session, and David Ferguson, the clerk,
was engaged in the discharge Of his usual
duties. when he was waited upon 10y del
cgation Of citizens, who demanded his res
ienation. lie saw from their manner that
Il would not be well TO oppose their de
mand, and he accordingly resigned, and
Yesterday afternoon was escorted TO the
train, in company with other suspects" !"
and ordered never 10 return TO Cntton-
den county. After their interview with
Ferguson, posse OF citizens ar
rested the following named negroes,
loaded them in q wagon, and under
escorted Of ten horsemen sent them TO the
ferry opposite Memphis J. L. Fleming,
editor OF the Headlight aud deputy circuit
court clerk; I'll Fleming, a cook; DIR. n. j..
stith, a physician; w. B. Ferguson, Of
Bowling Green, KY, who happened to be
In Marion visiting his brother; Fred H.
Hunt, an assistant deputy clerk; X. l..
Rhodes, printer; Lewis Brown, music
teacher; Henry Biby, deputy assessor Ty-
son Nelms, laborcr, and j. ii. Ramsey,
employed as an assistant In the clerks Of.
Gcc, and supposed TO have written
THE THREATENING ANONYMOUS LETTERS
mentioned in yesterdays APrEAL. The
white citizens Of Marion claim 10 be in
possession Of proof that thoy cmanaied
from the clerks office, and were inspired
BY County County Judge Lewis, Clerk
Ferguson, and his deputy, J. /. Fleming.
Later In the day the following ne.
grocs were arrested aud ordered to leave
the county instantly, which they did, most
Of them coming by the train that leaves
Marion for Memphis at $50 o'clock p. IN.
In the number were Dave Ferguson, as
before stated; George Smith, railroad sec
ton hand J. II. Rocks, county assessor
Wash Dcayer, constable; J. u. Law
renee a preacher at the Rising sun lap,
tist church; Jim Thompson, Bill Giddcu
and Mac Brown, laborcnL All
THIS WAS DoSE 20 QUIETLY
that Judge Reddick, Of the circuit court,
had no knowledge Of what had occurred
until Fcrguson's resignation was handed
TO him. lie Immediately appointed an
elderly gentleman named Vance as tenn
porary clerk, ordered the sheriff 10 incrcas,
the number Of his deputies and instructed
the grand jury 10 investigate the trouble
and indict all guilty parties. Court wa
was thorcupon adjourned until Monday ic
give the new clcrkan opportunity 10 pre-
pare the records Of the court for business
As far a. Is known not a hair Of a ncgro'l
head was injured and no violence rcsorted
10 by the whites throughout the eniirC
proceedings Up TO a late hour last nigh
all was quiet and serene and no iurlhcI
trouble apprchendcd.
TIE SITUATION ~ cGAwroRDsyiLtH
Is thus described by The APPEALS specia
correspondent
tpecial Dispatch 10 The Appeal.
CRAwroRDsviLLE, Ark, July IL, pm
The town Is very quiet today. Consid
cradle excitement prevailed last night
there being about 100 white men here al
night armed. The scene Of action Is a
Marion. The oolorcd people are yer
much excited In this district, aud ncarl
all the women, men aud children hav
taken 10 the woods. We DO no, anticipa,