Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-06-30

A DISPATCH from Raleigh, N. c., to the
| most rabid of bloody shirt waving papers
| describes a race outrage of such remark
| able character that the story Is worthy of
attention as a specimen OF reckless ro-
| mancing. II is TO the effect that six hun
| dred negroes who left New Hanover
county, n. c., for Arkansas, time not
stated, have returned. "rbey make aiIi-
davit as to their treatment there, and their
story is a horrible one" They had been
promised good wages, but were sold for
five thousand dollars to n contractor,
whose name is not mentioned, by
a man named Williams, whose ability to
make so interesting bargain is not ex-
planned. This sale seems TO have been a
curious one, for the story goes on that the
negroes were then offered fny cents a day
and that their personal effects were seized
and revolvcrs drawn upon them TO force
them to terms. Some were put In horse
stables and outhouses and others were en-
tirely without shelter, but all we're guarded
like criminals. Escaping in some upex-
planned way these noble six hundred were
halter by armed and mounted men
VINO demanded where they were
going and by what authority Hero
no tale stops abruptly without ex-
planning how many cavalry stopped the
march with those awful questions, or how
the army Of "oxodusters, the dispatch
calls them, managed to escape TO their old
Carolina homes. The whole tale Is evil
IDENTIFY gotten up in its curious shape by
some enterprising Southern correspondent
well impressed with the hunger of some
Northern journals for stories of outrage
upon negroes. II Is probable that some
contractor may have tried to profit by the
"exoduster movement OF some ignorant
blacks by securing their labor at u very low
rate. Fifty cents day is not an unknown
rate for labor In some parts OF the
South. Tho sale and the effort to com
pei six hundred able bodied Aneri-
can citizens to accept terms at the
rovolver's muzzle would be too extraya-
giant to pass Ia comic opera II may we'll
be imagined that such an army of
tramps was carefully guarded and
watched by tho anxious farmers
of the country through which they
passed, and If they were only once halted
| aud questioned by armed and mounted
men, 1t is gratifying evidence of the tran
guilty of that section. If six hundred
negro oxodusters, or tramps of any race
should suddenly appear In this county il
Is very probable that they would be i'm
peratively questioned by armed if not
mounted mon, for weapons for defense
| and horses for light are essential TO the
art of discourse under such circumstances
THE drowning of boy In the Conestoga
seems to be regular every summer event,
and II is remarkable that the accident of
Sunday, like several others of the kind,
took place in tho presence of number of
people who knew how TO swim. Those
who attempted to rescue the boy evi-
IDENTIFY strained every nerve In the
effort, but il is little strange
that there were not moro rescu-
ers among the crowd of boy swim
mers in that noighborhood. Probably
they did not know that by holding the
struggling lad properly his weight would
tell very little against them, and his
| motion would help TO keep him afloat. In
seizing drowning person the loft arm
should he passed under his arm from the
rear and across his chest, 80 that when
the rescuer swims away with him tho
victim will be pulled backwards and cannot
clutch or impede the motions of the
| swimmer, while his face will be kept well
out of water. There have been SO many
accidents nj the place where this occurred
| that it would seem advisable to hang u life
| pfesgrypr there for futur pnprppnplas