The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-08-31 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

RACE FEUD IN GEORGIA. True, this is not always the case, as a great number A thousand negroes have risen in arms in society, make Marienbad their suinnur qua ers, Macintosh County, United States, to resist the of Austrians, especially members of Vienna Ceourt because certain well-known Austrian nobles live near. execution of sheriff's warrants for the arrest of some Prince Albert of Schleswig - Holstein i-, cery , negroes charged with murder. The sheriff's posse Ilaa popular in his Darmstadt garrison, and i- ,Iso a I forced the resisting coloured men to surrender one of favourite with his Imperial Coll Sin, Kaiser W illionn, the accused. The first Militia Regiment of Savannah who finds him a pleasant companion. II is Highness and a number of armed whites have been sent to has an inexhaustible fund of anecdote, and is always , quell the aegroes. good-tempered, however untoward circumstances , The New York correspondent of the Globe says: may he; and this. to a somewhat irritable man I Orders have been sent to the Governor of Georgia . like the German Emperor, is a virtue that cannot I promptly to put down the feud between the whites I be too highly prized. It must also be said that his I and negroes in _Mackintosh County, and offering to Majesty is invariably kind to those who are related , supply instanter a body of regulars to assist "the tohim and have their homes in Germany. To State militia. No reliable reports are to band as to I Prince Albert's sister, the Princess Aribert of the origin of this mimic civil war. The telegrams 1 Anhalt, he is kindness itself; and when she first receivi7d here are obviously biassed against the , married he placed his carriages and many other negroes. Over a thousand of coloured men, well possessions at her dispcsal. Both he and the armed, it is said, are assembled at Darien, about Empress have done all in their power to make her rifty-four miles only from Savannah, in defence of life in their capital as happy as possible. two negroes, who were concerned in the murder The Prince goes to Marienbad. The place fills at of a Sheriff's officer. The whites in Georgia and once, and becomes the right place to go to. • the neighbouring States are only too eager to give Contrexeville teaches much the same lesson. It their assistance to this racial feud, which can only was hardly heard of before Lord Salisbury "dia. end in the slaughter of the negroes, unless they I covered" it. Now would-be visitors are being sent disperse without . ghting. The latest news mentions empty away. The biggest fold will not hold all that the negroes had sent in to the Sheriff of the the sheep. . county an offer to surrender the men charged with 1 1 A great deal of nonsense has been written about murder, and a request that, pending deliberations the decision in Walter v. Lane, whereby it was of the local authorities, there should be no attack made by the militia u held the other day that the employer of a reporter upon the bands who had joined , to report a speech has copyright in the report; but in protecting them. ! I fail wholly to understand how there can have been _—_...........-- . I two opinions on the matter. Yet the vain scribes ' have been saying that to give copyright in the report of a speech is to rob the speaker! PThy ? The copyright given is not in the speech it all, but in the report of the speech—perhaps it would not be too much to say in a version of it—if only these stupid persons could see the difference.  A checking cycling fatality is reported from Annsborough. Co. Down. It appears a rural postman named Mathew Moore was cycling home from Castlewellan.when h, lost control of his machine on a steep incline, and applyin.g the brake with too much force he was shot over the handle-bar, and literally ploughed the ground with his head.  On Saturday morning th- Market Drayton Fire Brigade were SUMlllOlllvd lf afire at Longslow, on the pr mires of Mr 'Thomas Hudson, one of the leading farmers in Shropshire, five large ricks of bay and clover, with two Dutch barns full of this year's grain, being involved. The flames were confined to the hay and clover ricks, but it was not Until quite late in the cranks that they were cow oletelv subdued.