Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-07-26

~ZAS
HENDRICKS SAT UP ALL oNE NIGHT
READING II PAPERS.
against the action or tie GTrector anu
went out with the others.
The whole town wa now in a fer
ment of excitement, and that night
Mr.. Matlocl1 began to take measures
to have his gold transferred.
The next day IN event occurred
which is unprecedented in the history
Of strikes. In order to understand it
in its extraordinary details, it is neces-
sary to explain the topography of ST,
Mary's,
The town is built on the first and
second Of SIC natural terraces and Gov
e. in Il scattered way an area of per-
haYs three square miles 70 the south
west and overlooking The town is
what looks lS,e a portion of a third
and larger terrace, but which is the
1evcl OF q long stretch OF tableland
that extends south and west with a
steady fall for fifteen or twenty miles.
1t IS a poor and sparsely inhabited
country covered with scrub oak and
gum trees and nswer in many re-
spects to the southwestern land Of
Kentucky which Is still called the
.Barrens." There are few roads and
these are very bad, All local travel
skirting his region follows the
Clark river on the line of the Paducah
railway. It is not at all inaccessible
from St. Mary's. 1t is simply uninvit-
ing. About a mile ont there is an old
lo.,-, r%,-1;,rr 1,1c J:11N, ~ tho ~,,,,,
trees and brush near the one road. It
was built ten years before by a man
who manufactured potash and tannin
from the oak stuInps and is said to
have done quite a business there in a
drudging way. About six weeks be-
fore the troubles broke out at St.
,NTary's the place was hired from an old
negro into whose possession it had
fallen by a man who gave out that he
was going 10 fit it up for the m~anufac-
tture Of emery paper, a great deal of
which was used at st. Mary's and ma
tterial for which had been found in a
tcrude state somewhere in the neigh
iborhood. He had been receiving his
: stock of machinery and implements
over the Paducah road.
.; On the morning to which reference
has been made, ST. Mary's was in a
very demoralized condition. The news
had gone out over the country and
hundreds of strangers had poured in
across the Ohio and from Louisville
land Cairo. 1t was expected Ivy every
body that d collision would take place
between the worlznen and the colony
(which the English company had
planted on the bank of the river. The
sheriff of the county had arrived. but
the governor had declined to interfere
iat the present state Of affairs.
= Such was the condition of matters
when at nine o'clock, to the astonish.
tment of everybody, a regiment of in.
fantry, enc thousand strong, In full
marching order and armed with maya.
zine guns, made its appearance at the
edge of the town on the Paducah rail.
road, and came down the main street
as far as the bank in fine order, pre-
coded by a drum corps of four pieces.
The establishment and excitement at
this sudden invasion were increased ten
fold by the banner which spread out tc
the morning breeze, and which had
Inscribed on it legfbly: First Battal-
ion American W~orkingmen. No Tyr
! IIIA VI AAAol1Sf' AtO NC Va Nap4
ital."
Where the regiment had come from,
how far it had marched or what
were it's intentions, no one knew. But
it did o take long for the rumor tc
form and fly that it was a working
mans regiment, AID would not take
i the side Of the employers.
When it had reached the little
$1,000. --l1-1 ~ Io~I- c%0Ol - ,-or
drawn up. A skirmish line was
thrown out, pickets stationed and the
crowd forced back.
The colonel and his staff then wen
into the bank. The disposition Of The
men in the street was such that access
to the bank was impossible, and as the
doorway was on a level with the stree
it was impossible for the crowd to see
what was going on, save that there
was a constant huctuation in the
ranks of the men.
The regiment stood there quite TIVE
hours and a half. In the meantime
there was great commotion at th'
company's works. The sheriff set of
in a carriage with Mr.. NIatlock, fol
lowed by half a score of deputies t.
reach the bank, bat were stopped b,
the pickets. The officer protested an,
threatened, but in vain. When aske,
if the governor had sent them, the
soldiers replied: "You must talk t.
the colonel, but you cannot pass tn
lines at present"
"If the colonel desires to protect tn
bank, he will confer with me- sal
Mr.. Matlock.
81 don't know what his orders ire
said the soldier. Better wait till h
calls on you at the works"
The sheriff, in high dudgeon, the
rushed to the telegraph office. 1t is a
hour before he gets an answer fror
the governor at Lexington and it is
,"Have not authorized use of troops
do you mean?"
Then followed several of the absurd
est of dispatches.
"No mistake, > says the sheriff. s'Res
iment, one thousand strong, arme
with repeating rifles"
Impossible" says the governo
,'tYour fears or your condition hs
made you wild, There is not such
Eregimenta1 formation in the state.
Iyo1 cannot preserve the peace wi
:tsend the Louisville Lightguards-
ninety-four men. The law must I
upheld"
Then Matlock corrpborated. tn
sheriff.
Regiment of armed men in posses
sion of the bank. Must have the pre-
= lection of the state at once. The shel
iff is hc1rlees.a