The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-21
For Northern Critics.

The lynching of the Colored fiend
Goolsby, at Valdosta in this state, on
Wednesday morning, will serve as a
text from which pharisaical and hypo-
critical northern newspapers will en-
deavor to preach sermon to the south
upon its lawlessness.
BY way of instituting a comparison be-
tween the record of the south and of those
states Of the north from which the most
vehement denunciation will come, sup
pose we take casual glance over the
newspaper files for a week. Here are
some of the things the files show:
On Sept. ~, at HaZleton, Pa. MUIR
derous conspiracy was discovered by the
coal and iron police at No. 5 Lattimer.
The aim of the conspiracy was to kill a
whole village by poisoning the water in a
well which was the chief source of sup
ply of the village. Five wome were
nearly killed from drinking the water.
On Sept. ID, at Akron, O., two men and
woman attacked and maltreated Mrs
George Wohlhueter. They bound her
and sprinkled coal oil over her house and
set it on fire, leaving her to be burned
alive. Timely discovery by neighbors
saved her life. The dispatch bearing
this news concludes: There may be
a lynching if several parties now look
ing for the negroes are successful in
their Search 1t is worth while to note
the race of the miscreants.
On the same date, al Connellsville, Pa,
Frank Morris white boy Is years old.
killed his employer, Bernard Toker. a
German, attempted to kill Mrs. Toker.
wounded man who happened to be in
his way as he ran away, and fed to the
mountains.
On Sept. IA 1.-The people" OF Frontier.
Mich, tarred and feathered the pastor of
their church, the Rev Charles Clancy.
Besides torturing him in other wags, they
rolled him down hill in a barrel in which
nails We're driven. His only fault was
that his style did not suit 1.-THE people. ~
On Sept. 10, in Somerset county, New
Jersey near Stoutsburg, May Sheppard,
aged 10 years, was seized while on her
way to school and assaulted. 4 negro
was at once arrested, Notwithstanding
the child said white man had assaulted
her, and there was imminent danger of a
lynching. The negro was fortunately
able to prove an alibi Over 200 men
secured the woods searching for the per-
petrator of the assault, with the avowed
purpose of lynching him IF he is
captured SOON" said one dispatch, "a
lynching will probably follow, as the
people are greatly eXcitedover the crime. -
Another dispatch said: IF he is caught
nothing can prevent a lynching."
On Sept. II, at Yardley, Pa, Mrs. Mary
Cook was assaulted and outraged by a
negro named Israel Brown. Brown
escaped into the woods or lynching
would have followed Hunting posses
were after him at last accounts.
On the same date, at Taglikanic, n. Y,
Myron Coons attempted to assault his
sister-inlaw Failing, he killed her baby.
The neighbors started to lynch him, but
he got ahead of them by hanging himself
TO rafter.
On Sept. IS, at Rogers City, Mich, the
9-year-old daughter of a Thomas Mayen-
ski, was assaulted, in the presence Of her
younger brother, by aSoung Englishman.
The assailant was identified by the girl
and her brother. A posse started to take
him to Jail, but it IS believed he was
/ lynched in the woods.
These facts are not reviewed for the
purpose Of eXcusing the Valdosta affair,
or breaking the weight Of the condemna-
ton that lynching deserves, but merely
for the purpose of calling the attention of
northern pharisees 10 the fact that they
have no reason TO thank God that they
are better than anybody else. for they are
not.
The Official report of Florida's exports
for the year 1898 shows the total TO be
NIB O69, an increase Of about S5. OO0. 900
over the year previous. OF the total. the
phosphate shipments constituted nearly
one-fourth. Lumber ali timber were
the articles following pnosphatcs in i'm
porJauce These figures do not include
agricultural and horticultural products.
II they were added the total would ap
proNimate s4O,UOJyOO, it is thought.