The morning call., 1894-12-26
RIFLES READY.
Militia Sent to the
Race War.
PEACE Is PROMISED.
Seven Men Killed During
the Feud.
DETAILS OF THE UPRISING.
Negroes Banded to Exterminate
the Whites,
WHO ORGANIZE FOR PROJECTION
Fugitives Cornered in the Swamps
and Murderer Pixies Mistress
Held as Hostage.
WHO ORGANIZE FOR PROJECTION

QUITMAN, Ca, Dec. 25.-Martial law was
likely to be the order of the day Christmas
IN Brooks County. La response to te E.
grams from prominent citizens expressing
the necessity OF having soldiers on the
SPOT to prevent bloOdshed. the Valdosta
Videttes were ordered at once to this place.
They arrived tonight. The Waycross
Rifles are under arms and other companies
Will probably be ordered to the scene at
once should their presence be deemed ne
cess sary.
Details of the terrible state of affairs
growing out of the murders of T. n. Nal
den and Joseph Isom. which were un 1b-
tainable yesterday. are being brought to
light. In their desperation the good, sub
stantial people of the Marion district took
the law in their own hands and falling to
ind the negro. Waverly Pike, who mur-
dered Mr.. IsOm, they have taken the lives
of several of those who aided the murderer
in making his escape. Last night 800 men
were around Red Bay swamps, where it is
supposed Pike is in hiding. 1t is the hope
of the conservative people Of the county
that there Will be no further bloodsheo,
but the coming of the military may have
an opposite effect, as the whites who are
under arms claim that it means protection
to the negroes, while the white people
here have been unable to secure them
selves from negro deSperadoes.
The call for the troops came from the
Sheriff, who found he could not accom-
plish anything without the aid of the
militia.
The killing of Maiden. to which the
hnlRSalt. nur6orS of ri tad
most brutal one. Maiden was a con
stable and went into one of the turpentine
camps, which abound In this section. Two
brothers named Jeffreth. desperadoes, set
upon Maiden and shot him to death.
Maiden was an old Confederate soldier
and belonged to a prominent family. His
murder created widespread excitement,
and posse SET out after the murdeTers.
There was talk of lynching, but wiser
counsel prevailed and the Jeffreths were
captured and jailed.
Prominent am ng the posse that caught
the Jeffreth boys were Joseph Isom and
his brother-in-law, Henry TIllman. who is
kin to the late Governor and now Senator
from South Carolina. These gentlemen
were warm and PERSISTENT in the chase
and thus incurred the enmity of the
negroes of the section. The Jeffreth boys
were gamblers and idlers. and yet they
were respected by the negroes of the
vicinity. Their arrest caused the negroes
who knew them to form a band, and that
band made Waverly Pike its leader. Pike
was, like the Jeffreth negroes, an idler
and worthless character, and LED that sec
ton of the negro settlement of the
country. like Bob Brewer did at Jessup
FIVE years ago to-day.
The band, under Pixies leadership.
pledged themselves to take revenge upon
every one who had hand in the arrest of |
the Jeffreth brothers. Of this there is no |
doubt. Mccall. the negro who was Pixies !
lieutenant, and who is in jail for killing |
Isom, so declared in al open and free con.
fession. The band of negroes. after Sc
lecting officers, subscribed to a promise
that every one that was instrumental in
capturing the Jeffreth brothers should die
Each member declared that he would deal
out death to any one Of the party on the
first opportunity. To the organization
was given the names of men who were
wanted to be dealt with particularly. That
is the way McCalps confession goes. and |
among the list were the names of Isom
and Illlman. The negroes kept their
counsel well and nothing was done to in
dicate that the mark of death hung over
the dozen or so of people of the county
after the death of Isom when Mccall told
the story.
The killing of Isom last Thursday was
according to the Mccall story, the first
chapter of what was to be a regular
slaughter. The details of that have been
, in
body had been taken home Judge f. w. /
Tillman and Henry Tillman. his brother
In-law, organized for the search for the
murderers There were four negroes in
the party, two named Herring, Mccall,
W ho has confessed, and Pike, who is still !
at large. Mccall and the Herrings were
caught the first night and jailed. Then the |
search for Pike. the murderer. began in
earnest. It was kept up, but he could not |
be found that evening. Friday Mccall ac-
knowledged that be was present and told
OF the pledge that the negroes of that sec
ton had made to deal out death to every |
one who had a hand in the arrest of the
Jeffreth brothers.
The statement created a great deal of
feeling In the county and when 1t reached
the house of Isom and the TillmaDs, IL
feeling that had not man ifested
Itself before. 1t was then that the whites
would have taken revenge if they could
have found some one upon whom TO get it,
The efforts to capture Pike were re-
doubled and people came from Colquitt,
worth and other counties around. armed
Tor the search. No threats were made.
however. by the searchers until Saturday.
when it was learned that about thirty ne
groes. armed, had cOngregated about thirty
niles from where Isom's body was to be
buried that evening and that they were
here to protect Pike if he were found.
1t was given out among the whites, too,
md that bv a negro that Pile was In hid |