The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1883-11-10 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

LAWLESSNESS IN AMERY:X.  The reports of crimes contained in the Ameriese rawspape a of • single day do rat make pleasant reading. The following incidents were all relort..f in the New York papers of October 23 last, and occurred ow one or other of the two days immediately preceding that date. "Joe" Holden, is while out hunting in Wilkeson Coundyi Ga., disoovercd amother negro butchering a bog lido/wing to a white man named Clay. Holden reportsd, the fact to Clay, who with Holden and two white now armed, with'. guns went to the hours' of the thief, but. failed to find him. His wife reneed to tell where be was and Clay knocked her down with a Math. of sugar cane. Tee party then left for their homers Two sons of the negro woman and one Cooper, an esetevkt, pursued Clay and his party with guns. frier taking them they fired, killing Holdi ii instatitly. 4 layreturned the fire, killing Cooper and nosing ho. two negro comps.nione.—Twomurders Were 4.14111111 i :ted in East Tennesse. Wesley Crouch,a roue table yimm-man of Russellville, was killed by two brothers nain, Woody while reinonstiating with them for being din.orderly in a dry goods store. At Johnson City, e, few milk above,Williani Carroll,while resi4ing arrest. by Marshall Hals,was shot and kited by the latter'. son, aged 22.—A. bloody tight occurred near M'Bese. Church, in Burke County, Gs. On Saturday after-• noon there-was a quer, el between two young went named Syms and lingers at the baseball grounda, when Syms cut Rogers in the hand. After church, next meaning the quarrel was renewed. Thomas H.. Syms and his sons Frank and Thomas were shot by T. B. Iro-ers, J. M. Rogers, and Warren Rogers, Rufus M'Nurrel and John T. Cox. Thomas H. Syros . , was shot five times and instantly killed. Frank and. Thomas Irina were mortally wounded, and John . F Rogers was shot in the face by one of his friends. The 1 Bytes family, it iv reported, were unarmed. All the • men are respectably connected and well-to-do farmers. Another account saye the Syma family were the aggressors and participated in the shooting. Both parties want-to the church armed, evidently for the purpose etsettling the difficulty.—At the circus at Nashville% Teas,. Robert Brierly shot and killed Robert Bates. Ten years ago Bates killed Briefly's brother, and served six years in a penitentiary for the crune.—A quarrel occurred at Fort White, Columbia, County Florida, between Beery S. Stringfellow and one Bailey, a negro. Stringfellow ordered Bailey out of his store. Stringfellow afterwards sought the negro, and called tuns . q out of a camp where ks was. Shortly afterwards slits wereheerd, and Stringfellow was found lying on the ground dead, pierced with buckshot. Barley f!, (I.—Charles M'Cartney was attacked on the street by James T. Fenwell and Frank 1.. Thompson, who were aggrieved by publications in M'Cartney.s newspaper. They used stones as weapons. M'Cartney drew his revolver and shot them both. Fenwell died next morning, and Thompson wae mortallywounded.—A terrible riot took place at a negro ball in Charleston, Vs. When the fight commenced the lights were blown out and the wens , w.lich ermued beggars description. Knives, razor; and pistils were used indiscriminately. Ides and. W 0111,116 were shot and stabbed, scene fatally. "Mow many victims there are," says . the- despatch.. "is as yet unknown, but two Lava died certainly and others are not expected to di live from one hour to another. One man, yet alive. has his face meshed sad his eyesight completely destro) ed. The- ringleader has been arrested, and the feeling is so high that his lynching may take place before morning. Two Mexicans, names unknown. went to a hope neer Gardner Col., where • , was in program, and, while sanding outside Bred sevetal shots into the holies, killing two Mexicans. one of whom was the owner of the hoots, end are other men, thee-the-was of • prominent citisen. •'"flo, sheriff with a. posse ain hot pursuit of the murderers, who, if samght, will 'probably be lysobile