The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-09
ALL QUIET AT STOCKTON.
THE SITUATION NOT AS SERIOUS
as IT WAS THOUGHT TO BE.


The Trouble Averted by the Determ-
ination OF the Citizens to Quen Any
Disturbance-The Albany Express
Train Held at Valdosta to Take Up
/ the Military-The Citizens Posse
No Trouble at DUPONT.
The rumors of a race riot at Stockton. in
Chnch county, seem to have been exagger-
gerated. Passengers who came in on the AL
bany express yesterday morning, reported
everything quiet there, and they hardly
think the gravity OF the case was sufficient
TO warrant the call on Valid sta for help.
Capt. Macon, engineer of the Albany ex-
press, said that he held the train at Val
dosta forty minutes Saturday night to
await an answer to the telegram of the
ValdOsta Guards to Gov. Gordon asking for
permission to go to Stockton under arms.
and, as no reply had been received up to
tnat time, the company did not go, but
| about thirty citizens armed with Spencer
rlles and shotguns went up. The distance
from Naldosta to Stockton is but twenty
miles, but it was deemed prudent to run
tne train carefully for fear some of the
bridges or track had been tempered with,
NO TROUBLE VISIBLE.
When the train reached Stockton the ex-
cttement had subsidized. A small number of
colored people of both sexes were standing
by the store, and they promptly dispersed
when ordered TO do so.
The cutting of colored man by white
man was what caused the incipient riot.
and 1t was learned last night that the
wounded mans injuries are not fatal. The
refusal TO give up the white man to the
excited negroes caused grave apprehension
for awhile, but when the negroes saw that
stern measures would be used if they at
tempted any overt act, they soon quieted
down.
DR.. Stegall of Townsville, who was a
passenger on the Albony train, said that
there IS no danger of conflict between the
races at Stockton, and if there should be
he thinks the whites would be abundantlv
able to suppress any lawlessness on the part
OF the negroes and help could soon be OBJ
tanned from Valdosta.
THE PEOPLE MEANT BUSINESS.
The citizens who went over to Stockton
meant business, and would have acted
promptly II there had been any belligerency
on the part of the blacks. A gentleman
who was on the train with them going over
TO Stockton, told last night how the Val
dosta boys said that they did not know one
negro from another at Stockton, and if
they found them threatening the lives and
property OF the whites they would open an
lndlscrlmlnate fire on the mob, believing
that 1t was the only way to put down such
gatherings for its influence on the future
peace of the community.
Assistant Master of TRANSFORMATION
Hutchens, of the Savannah Florida and
Western, said last night that possibly some
Tears were entertained of an outbreak
when the negroes for whom warrants have
been issued were arrested, but the trans
portaUlon department had received nothing
ABOUT any more developments, and he was
satisfied that nothing will come out of it,
lt was reported last night that DUPONT was
the scene OF bloody riot, but the report
was unfounded. When the Dupont dis
patcher made his transfer to the Savannah
office he reported all quiet there. The
Savannah railroad officials are in direct
and constant communication with the
stations where the trouble is reported.
THE VILLAGE OF STOCKTON.
The village of Stockton is station on the
Western division of the Savannah. Florida
and Western railway. on the Allapaha
river, in Clinch county, 139 miles from Sa-
Vannah, and has population of about 800
and as 1t is quite shipping point for cot.
ton, lumber and naval stores, SATURDAYS
always bringing crowd of colored turpen
tine hands and mill employees into the viii
lage. The station is connected bv teIe-
graph line with the main Office of the Sa-
vannah, Florida and Western railway in
this city, and had there been any real dan
ger, special trains could have conveved
armed forces from this end of the line and
from the western end. Ali accounts YES
terday and last night report everything
quiet, and no indication of any further
trouble.