New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-12-08
GOSSIP AT THE CAPITAL.
THE STORY OF A SOUTHERN FEUp.
" CALL ME THINE owN'-soME RENlNlSO'-''
Cos OF SENATOR VOORHEES,
SERVICE REFORM RAMpANr-HE
/. ESCAPED PROM MAINE

CES OF SENAIOh
SERVICE REFORM BAMPANr-HE
ESCAPED FROM MAINE.
Washington. Dec 7.-stroiling aio"s Hamilton. OF
day or two ago. mot Colonel JONES " r.markable
Jackson. Miss survivor OF the mus encounter
tragedy and tho most desperate peISS" civ inches
OF our time Hamilton Is baiciN Nv "a -, eurprlsIng
IN height hut very cOmpacty DUH nv" man at
IL - 49, ., lie Is not a quarIelh"H H
~ IT. ON The contrary devoted 10 me pa =, -.
- -, making Besides fhat be j. "e''iS, - ~" y"
oui,e afty years OF age and si''o ~ nahus
90 or 1870 of conspicuousP domeS A. H.
cno two or three years ago ho"' -
th;t;on Marty which. in Mississippi ., -. ,aan,,oa,
npi',O" ,r-o, NJ n II be not practically "ertcai
pos" prtist Church. undertook to launch a
da nj special and peculiar Vlolehcc' Ihey
." .hro,,ph their newspapers, and having IN TINS
80 ond nv pulpit illumination dashed puoic scn'l-
w., into eomethIng very like fury, they bore down
an the Legislature in great NUMBERS.
caI,nel Hamilton was at that time member Of
,ho mississippi Senate. straIsh-out, old-faShioned
ncmocrat in his political and an Episcopaian III MS
,c,,ciors uractcc Being strong man, popular
man and legislator of force and Influence, he was
naturally the object OF the Prohibition efforts, nrst D!
persuason and Importantly, aftorwaid by h'es's a"'
denunclation. Among the means employed W oocr'o
Colonel Hamilton or, falling that, to destroy lis III
auence by detraction and aspersion. was paper
issued in Jackson and edited by young man named
Roderick Gambrell. The paper was an organ OF the
movcment and IT'S editor the son or bapus'
prcachcr who figured I'm tho vanguard OF the CRUSADE.
For ,vceks this naper rceked with abuse OF Colonel
Hamilton aspersing his character, attacking his hoho
denoncng his motives and his acts, uitii INC maj
very home was rendered miserable anc MS irlenus
began TO wonder whether he had not ennurou i"oio
than enough ,
Al last the tragedy eliminated, but under such
circumstances OF mystery as lent II s"hnse am
fearful horror One night about 10 o'clock, imme-
diately after the arrival of the sou'hbouhu "'n' y,
the Illinois Central Railroad, Colonel hahh'on s'a'o'
romeward from the depot IN a hack, which had Deen
sent TO meet him. The proper Hes hai mic
or more to the cast and 1t Is the genera custom VI
residents to cover the distance In 'eETie. ua''
bre had arrived by the train, but had ieit inc uepo'
Immediately on foot, and those VINO were hilscrins
about the platform and who knew the parues uousn'
there was no danger Of collision, al least mat hgh'
4 few hundred feet from the depot, going toward
town there is a bridge and the loiierers a. tho
station heard UamIton's hack lattlIng over the re-
sounding wooden structure they turned WIN s's"S
of relief to dispeise to theiI homes suuuc'n! no"
occr shot ring out from the direction OF the bridge
The hack was heard to stop, and there was SOUND
a. of some one jumping from 1t. Ihcn aho'hrr eno'
and another, and then the hack started OH al
,ur,ous maze thc terrified driver lashng his horses
10 the top Of their speed. We're the antagonists seP
arated! No: the firing began again. ana lor IL"
momcnts assumed the magnitude almost of iusla'e'
And now other and still moro dreadful SOUNDS "cIc
hcard-the sounds Of furious men Locked III uea'i-
struggle beating and tearing at each others throaS
and faces like two madmen.
Scores of people had by this time Sathercd Du'
none dared 20 TOO near. They hung appalled, Oh
the outer rim of the darkness which envel0ed thal
awful tragedy. Not until those piercing cries ha'
faded into silence and the last groan had oied away
did listeners find courage TO appiuach, Only ~ n"
Gambrcll lying uead and Hamilton deau 'oo' a. u''y
houcbt living across tho corpse They were drcnchcl
I'm each others blood both bore frightfnl guhshoi
wounds, and they had torn ami bca'en each other
With horrible fury until insensbity overlook thcni'
II was a strange trala trial without witnesses To
tho fact Nobody knew the details except tho one
survivor who lay for weeks lowering between INC
and death.