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TIIE SI'RIXGDALE NEWS.
•JNO. P. STAFFORD, K.Htor.
SPRINGDALE.
ARKANSAS.
Tones OF TIIE DAY.
Nows from Evorywhoro.
CONGRESSIONAL. TR< CEEPINCS. ■
Tn the Senate, on the 12th. the Tail 17 bill was
taken up. the pending (jurstion being the
amendment to admit “hoop and band iron"
(cotton ties, etr.> free of duty. Instead of taxing
it 2 10th percent, per pound additional,but after
the entire day was spent in the discussion, the
Senate adjourned without action on the pro
posed amendment .In the House, the River
and Harbor bill was reported and referred to
the committee of the whole House. The Sen
ate amendments to the Department of Agricul
ture bill were non-eoneurred in, and a confer
ence was ordered. The House then went into
committee of the whole on the Direct-Tax bill,
which, after several amendments had been of
fered and rejected, the committee rose and re
ported to the House. The bill was then passed
—yeas, ITS; nays, 93.
In the Senate, on the 13th. the day was chief
ly devoted to consideration of the Tariff bill.
The discussion was enlivent d by a passage be
tween Mr. Riddlebertrer and the pres'ding offi
cer. in which the Virginia Senator was threat
ened with arrest for disorderly conduct. After
a lengthy discussion of the Tariff bill, no :vcti- n
being reached, the Senate went into executive
session, and soon after adjourned until the
17th .In the House, in his opening prayer.
the Chaplain said; “Instruct the young men of
the universities ar.d colleges that the Lord hath
no delight in the legs of a man. but in a sound
bead, a wise heart, a pure life and a noble
character.” Several new bills were reported
and placed on the calendar. The Oklahoma
bill was then taken up, and occupied the re
ruu.nder of the session.
The Senate was r.ot in session oa the 14th.
In the Ih.use, Mr. Hooker, of Massachu
setts, ctroduceJ a concurrent resolution pro
viding for a holiday recess from Friday, Decent
ber 21, until Monday, January 7, which was re
ferred to the committor or. w..y* and means.
The Nicaraguan Cana; bill was then taken up.
but after an hour and a hs.f spent in a vain ef
fort to >e« ure a ..t; rutn up- r. a proposition tc
limit debate, the H use ;t> k a recess uut
half-past s-'ven . ' ek. when a brief *ess;on
held without results.
In the Senate, cn the RUi, t;.- u <
a coinage mint at p. r, C h. ur.d to furnish
arms to tie State of C-.-.g r.. a, :r tu\ :u.ly re
i Mr. R t •
tion to reorganize the Sei.ate after the 1st of
January, which called forth enter o! the
presiding officer's fairness and impart aiity.
The res Union was withdrawn. The Tariff
hull was then taken up> and occu
pied the remainder of the day's session.
Aiur a abort secret session, the Senate ad
juuri.ed.In the House, it was agreed to take
up the S, utli Dakota bill end make it a special
order for the IG.h and succeeding days until
<1 spo-edof. A bill incorporat ng the American
Horticultural Association was passed The
adjournment resolut on as orginaliv intro
cured was pissed. Furth* r effective legisla
tion was prevented by ttlihusteilug taut.es.
PERSONA I. AND POLITICAL.
Ox the l.'dh Lord Saekville left London
fur Paris. He intends to spend th* winter
on the Continent. He did not eaH at the
American Legation while in Lord >n.
Dr. Tanner, the forty-days’ faster, has
been in Paris some weeks. It is rumored
that he is engaged to the daughter of the
celebrated millionaire, Boursier.
The cable announces that Sir Arthur
Sullivan is in Berlin arranging the trans
lation for tlm production of the ‘‘Yeo
man of the Guard” in that <-ity.
It is said that Maxi me Outre y, former
ly Minister of France t<>the United States,
has retired to his villa at Cannes, with
Mme. Outrey, who is an American.
Mrs. Mackay. wife of the American
millionaire, is in London.
Colonel James F. Casey, who married
a Miss Dent, sister of President Grant's
wife, was reported dying, on the night of
the 16th, at his home in Georgetown. D. C.
It transpires that Herr Blnmenthal. who
was arrested in Paris, on the pith, on sus
picion of being a German spy. is a M or
in the German Landwher. He had leased
a ' haiet in company with a supposed 1 . >v
(but who was really a German cadet,. and
Inal taken photographs of the various
!erts. his apparatus being concealed in a
perambulator.
On the IT;h ex-Senator lVariier Miller,
r>f N* w York, was on the ti • r of the S n
ute chamber for th“ lirst time since the
election, and hold quite a levee. In
response to queries about the Cabinet, he
said: ”1 know nothing about any thing.”
Lev. John F. Hooper, pastor of st.
P.. d’s Li'T'irmed Church at JJorrisania, N.
V., ha- been - tspeuded from th* mi dstry.
l ie suspension was on account of tip* re
lent decision of a California court grant
ing Hooper's wife a divorce on aocn-uut A
cruel and inhuman treaturmt.
While i t: h'L way to Keene. X, K..
Nathaniel J. Bradley, a well-known archi
tect of Boston, died on a railr- a l train,
:>u the 17th.
The President litis approved the p.ot
making a deficiency appropriation for the
•outiug**nt expenses of the House of Rep
resentatives.
Baron J< mini, of,St. IVinrsburg, a frh-nd
and trusted adviser of the Czar, and n
strong Paa-Slavist, i~ d *ad.
On the 17th the great English ship
builder and M*‘m' * r of Parliament * u
Govau, Sir William Pearce, Bart., died in
London.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland
went to Philadelphia, on the 17th. to be
the guest of Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Wood, at
Gt rmantown. Or. the isth s’u. dined with
Mr. and Mr -. George W. Childs.
Rev. Dr. B. C'osta, rector of the Church
of St. John the Evangelist. New York,
l as denounced the Sunday newspaper as
•‘the modern arti-Christ.”
A letter ha« been written by tlmCJueeu
r»f Spain to M. lit* J,e«seps expressing
sympathy with him in Iris troubles over
:he Panama Canal *<*h«me.
( os the* 17th John Bright, the great En
glish statesman, suffer 1 another relapse.
Un ttie 17th John C. Whittier, the von r
xble jw,et, celebrated his eighty-first birth
day at his winter home. Oak Knoll, near
Danvers. Mass., receiving in a quiet and
unostentatious way his friends and in igh
Lors. Me is in fair health.
A cabled ram ‘■ays th* Saltan of Zanzi
bar has returned to liis eantal. H- ha
been directing certain religious > *eriiicial
ceremoui -s. wL.vh are de-.u.. d to d< feat
uti schemes ot
white me
i
Ix an interview General Boulanger paid
that General Sheridan was hi-; ideal V a
cavalry General. H*> also spoke enthusi
astically of Generals Sherman and Mc
Dowell. and of the memories of his trip to
the United States in D-l,
General Boi'Lanubr pays that Imis not
plotting war, or a coup d’ eta:. Ho pees
corruption in the Chamber of Deputies
and trouble in the Senate. The former he
would dissolve and the latter abolish.
Half of France, he says, is at his bark in
the movement to revise the Freneh Con
stitution.
General Bovlanorb condemn* the
I French Government for allowing people
to think the Panama canal was sure of
official patronage, and now turning it-:
baek upon the enterprise.
On the 17th James C. Morford, of Balti
more, aged ninety-four, the last of the
“old defenders,” who replied th< British
attack on Baltimore in 1M4, died in that
city.
CRIMES AM) CASUALTIES.
It is reported tliat during target prac
tice or. board a French iron-clad in the
Uni? of Juan, recently, a gun exploded
and killed an officer and five men.
On the evening of the l'Jth the jewelry
store of Smith French, at Wabash, In l..
was burglarized to the extent of >l,*u
while the proprietor was absent taking
tea.
On the 14th the jury in the oa.se of James
Stone, the negro jockey, on trial in Brook
lyn for the murder of a Coney Island bar
tender. named Henry Miller, in a bar
room fight last summer, failed to agree
upon a verdict.
On the 14th the trestle work on the in
side of the stand-pipe being erected in
connection with the water works at Ste
vens’ Point, Wi«„ fell, killing four men
' and severely wounding two others.
On the night of the 13 th an overland
train was wrecked near Encinitas, thirty
miles north of San Diego, Cal., by the
spreading of the rails. Every car but the
sleeper left the track and rolled down a
steep embankment. All hands escaped
; injury except Express Messenger White
head. who had one of his ribs broken.
On the night of the 14th Mrs. Hall, of
Roekport, N. V.. was suffocated by smoke
from a fire which originated in a saloon
in the building in which she was a tenant.
On the morning of the 14th the foundry
and engine house of the Moorehead Manu
facturing Company, on, Second avenue,
Pittsburgh, Pa., was destroyed by fire.
Loss, if-U.d fully insured. Tic- fire is
supposed to have been caused by a nat
ural-gas leak.
Ox the night of the lath a daring train
r dibery occurred near Duck Hill, Miss.
Two masked robbers pi(>Td up an Illinois
Central train, and semmed $3,000 from the
express car. A passenger named Charles
Hughes, of Jackson, Tenu., who attacked
to robbers with a Wit. -heater rifle, was
shot by them and killed.
Advices from South Africa say that the
King of Swaziland recently caused the
massacre of his Premier and six chiefs
and their people. They were supposed to
be concerned in a plot to dethrone him In
favor of his brother.
Storms raged, between thr- l".ih and
17th. ui the Department of Pyrenecs
Orientales, Franco, flooding villages and
causing wrecks and loss of life.
On the 15th, two boys, aged eleven and
fifteen, sous of Mr. Herbert, a st orekeeper
at Ferrypoint, Out., while skating, broke
through the ice and were drowned.
At Hinsdale, Cattaraugus County, N.
Y., on the night of tin l-'th. Harvey Lub
bington, age 1 fifteen, threw a chair at
hi« father, fracturing the old man’s skull
and causing death. The boy was ar
rested.
Alfred Dpenweg. book-keeper for
Rauermeister A B ;seh, at Tew Haute,
Ind.. lias absconded. The firm do not
know where he has gone, or how much
they are out, but -ay the books have been
doctored for a long time.
Ox the 17th a through freight on the
Erie railroad hr ike in two while pas.-mg
Friendship, N. Y. About three miles fur
ther on the second section overtook the
fir-t and caused a -crious wreck, several
cars being derailed ami the tracks block
ed, No ime was hurt.
On the pith the British steamer Jasper,
from Workington for Ola-gow, foundered
oft tue Wigtown coast. Her crew, num
1 ering eleven persons, were drowned.
On the 17th Olaf P. Olsen, charged with
the killing of Mrs. Xclse Lindman. at
St. Paul. Mi’. for >!>n. which -he had
tu a bank in L;s nan.", was found guilt v
of murder in the fir.-t degree. His will bo
rtie first hanging in St. Paul sin< • k>s.
MIsCKl.LANKOUS.
A sr.AKi'H 11- the cells and persons of
the prisoner. in tlicTen:; -ssceState pri — >. 1
at Nashville, a few (lays revealed a
whole arsenal of small arms uml other
appliances, which it is believed, would
t oon have been used again t the guards iu
a gmoral br>- dc for liberty.
It i< reported that gross frauds in the1
count of the vote for mayor of San Fran- ;
cisco, at the reeent election, are being un- j
earthed by the recount demanded by the]
defeated anti-Chinese candidate.
Thk Dakota Farmers’Alliance, recently
in session tit Jamestown, passed a resolu- i
lion recommending the adoption of a 1 >.v
prohibiting the manufacture and sale of
intoxicating liquors in the Territory. They
also recommended the adoption of the
Australian >y>t ax of voting.
Up to the 14th five applicants had already
appeared for appointment as Judge of tin* i
Federal Court forth- district of Florida,
made vacant by the death of Judge
Thomas Settle, less than two weeks ag ..
A dispatch from Sydney, N. S. V., says
that copious and much-needed rains have
fallen in the colonies of Victoria and New
South Wales.
Ox the 14th the French Government in
troduced a bill in the Chamber of Depu
ties providing for a postponement for i
three months of the payment of the l*an i
mu Canal Company’s liabilities, including
interest and the redemption of bonds.
Thk Supreme Court of Rhode Island ha
decided that a bicycle is a vehicle.
It is reported that the Vermillion A
Grand Marais Iron Company, with a cap- 1
lital of sd.oXVXp), L i been organised at
Duluth, Minn. It is .id ro be a consoli
dation of the interests **: a large number
of owners of iron lands on the Vermillion
and Mesaba : inge, and will control from
lit,(XX) to 15,< a ere
On (he 13th th-* famous stallion Volun
teer. the sire of St. Julienanu other noted
trotters, died at the Walnut Grove farm,
in Orange County, N. Y. He was thirty
four years of age.
A <'ali. has been issued hr the Cojnjt
troler of the Currency for reports of the
condition of National banks at the close
of business on December 12.
Thf. Radicals and Liberals scored a
great victory, the Progressionists being
totally defeated, in the primary election
i which has just been held throughout
Servia.
Several Union Pacific switchmen have
refused to work in the transfer yards at
Omaha. Neb., on account of small-pox in
the vicinity.
Considerable excitement was caused
at (ficus Falls, N. Y.. over the disis.veryof
silver-bearing ledges in the town. Claims
are being filed rapidly.
On the lfith the Frank Adams Woolen
mills, at Pittsfield, Mass., resumed work
on full time.
On the lath the steamer City of Berlin
arrived at Liverpool, forty-three hours
overdue, after a terrible voyage. Two
days after leaving New York she had to
stop eight hours ou account of one of her
cylinders being disabled,
i On the loth the first game of base hall
played in Australia between the All
Americas and tii" C’hicagos was contested
I at Sydney, N. S. W., and was witnessed l-v
nearly ten.,thousand persons. It resulted
in a score of 5 to a in favor of the All
Am o icas.
The announcement is made that a depu
tation of fighting Figuifr notables waited
upon the Sultan of Morocco, at Fez.lately,
and announced their defeat, with heavy
loss, by the French. They urgently asked
ft>r rcinf'irocments.
It is reported that further discoveries
of gold have been made in Wales, show
ing an average yield of six ounces to tho
ton.
I The Attorney-General of Iowa lias be
gun twenty-four -nits in the District
I Court of Scott County upon information
tiled by Davenport merchant' against the
i Rock Island railway, for alleged viola
tion of the State law fixing a maximum
i schedule. The penalty for each violation
is S.'i.lKH.
It i- re; orP d tliat a contagions form of
sore thr •at—it may he called diphtheria
—lias bro'cf out. among tic Mexican chil
dren of Bernalillo County. N. M.. and that
go less th ui two hundred ib-atiis have oc
curred in til" pa-T few Weeks*.
< *n tlm 1 Tti; the Alabama Methodist con
ference, in session at Mobile, adjourned,
after adopting a re; rt looking to the es
tablishment of a society for the support of
superannuated preachers of tl; - < inb r
ence. ,
The Secr- tary of tic Interior rejected
the claim >■ the State of Michigan to a
tract of la 1 in the Upper I'm io-al i.
Home thirteen hundred acres a: direi U/
involved, wi.i; • more than ore million
acre;.- are imp.- vy affect* 1.
The Gern.au Plantation Company of
Zanzibar has decided to remove its plant
and >t n to 1 i ri aeo.
(In the 17th tin French man-of-war De
staing arrival at Zanzibar.
Un the 1 Tt It strikes were report'd from
several points on the line of tin- Mexican
National railroad, owing to the non-pay
ment "f wage-:.
On the 17th Panama canal shares were
quoted at to franca and 7*> continue:, on the
French bourse.
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.
In the Senate, on the l"'h. mu eh time
was devoted to the discussion of the ques
tion as to whether to hold evenins? ses
sions. The Tariff hill was then taken up,
and occupied tin* remainder of the open
session, during which three pages of the
bill were considered in detail. A short
secret session was held for the considera
tion of executive business, and the Senate,
at .Too p. in., adjourned.In the House,
Mr. Henderson made a motion to increase
the clerical force of the Civil-Service
Commission, which gave rise to a long po
litical debate, in which the State of In
diana came in for a full share of atten
tion. The. reading of the bill was con
cluded. .and the committee having risen,
the bill was passed.
Thk bi-centenarv of the sieg.- of Lon
donderry, Ireland, was celebrated in
London, on the lsth, with great enthu
siasm.
Thk civil-service stores in London were
nearly all destroyed by fire on the lsth.
The damage is estimated at £40.'"M.
A DK.vsE fne prevailed throughout En
gland on the lstjj. The Queen was delayed
for two hours while on her way from
Windsor to Osborne.
Frank Miller, aged twenty-nine, and
single, went to a creek about a mile from
Wilmot, O., on the 17th. removed his
clothing, tied his hands and feet with a
rope and drowned himself. The cause is
unknown.
Thrke men wi re horribly burned by
molten metal in an explosion at the Edgar
Thomson Steel-works in Pittsburgh, l*a.,
on the lsth. They will probably die.
Two freight trains on the Nickel-Plate
railroad collided at Ft. Wayne, Iml.. on
the 1 Nth, causing damage to the amount
of $10,000.
The Loudon Ihnhj.S' irs regards the de
feat of the Liberal candidate at Colches
ter a- serious, and expresses the opin
ion that it will check the tide of victory
lately flowing.
> Two p< nous narrowly escaped lynching
in Paris, on the l-th. for spreading false
rumors concerning the affairs of the Pan
ama Canal Company.
The steam flouring mills of Jones &
Cheney, at Hournt-ville, n., were burned
on the lsth. Loss. soO.iamj; no insurance.
Incendiarism is suspected.
The Portland <N. Y.) Indurated Fiber
Company absorbed its strongest rival,
the lAickport Indurated Fiber Company,
on the 17th. The combination will re-or
ganize its the United Fiber Company, with
u capital of s.'iou.ooo.
1\. M. Ham., it nephew of Senator <\d
quitt, of (ieorgia, recently appointed
Government inspector of surveys at Den
ver, Col., was arrested in that city, on the
lsth, for selling railroad passes and ••beat
ing" hotels out of board bills.
In con-equenoe, it is -aid, of business
troubles. Morris Jacobs, a New York City
tailor, forty-seven years of age, shot
himself is. t It * - head, on the lsth, and died
immediately after.
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS
Governor Hughes on t lie KiliHMlimml
Qualification Issue.
Governor Hughe-, who was interviewed
recently on the educational qualification
issue, said: “I am not in favor of an edu
cational qualification for suffrage. Many
who have no education are better citi
; zeus, have more sense and have acquired
j more knowledge from observation and
| experience than others who have some
i education. We can not now .go back on
the untrammeled right of suffrage without
1 reaction. Let the people be educated,
but not restricted in tin* exercise of the
right to vote because not educated. There
is much practical, valuable knowledge ob
tained from what is usually denominated
education. I do not believe the people of
the United States will vote for or submit
to an educational qualification of suffrage,
and the tendency would be to aristocracy
and class distinction, inimical to the
genius and spirit of our free institutions.’
MisrollaiHMMiH Items.
Arrangements have been completed for
tlio establishment in Little R6ck of a
mammoth furniture company. The prin
cipal stockholders in the enterprise are,
at present, citizens of (frand Rapids,
Mich. The enterprise will be inaugurated
goon after the holidays. A strong effort
is being made by Michigan people who
are interested in Arkansas timber lands,
together with local capitalists, to estab
lish in this State some half-dozen furni
tured factories now operating at Northern
points.
The people of Newport live under a local
option law. A petition tiled in the County
Court a year ago was found by the County
Court not to have a majority of the adults
within the three-mile limit. In conse
quence thereof no licenses were granted.
The ease was appealed to the Circuit
Court, where it has been pending until a
few days since, when the decision of the
County Court was sustained, and Newport
is dry for another year.
The Ro ml of Trustees of the State Uni
versity held a session recently. Messrs.
Av**ra. Keezee, Welch and Fishbaek were
present, with <Joveruor Hughes and Sec
retary Cravens. Two members were ab
sent, Mitchell and Taylor. The board
closed up the year’s business, made out
i their biannual report to the Governor and
recommended that the Governor a-k the
Legislature for an appropriation aggre
gating '14n.00o for the necessary . xp.-nsea
and improvements for tin „* \t two -. ear*.
They also recommended that the law which
is now in force preventing girl- from Ic
ing appointed as beneficiaries ,>t tin- uni
versity. and receiving the benefits of an
education a this State institution,be re
I Peal- h
•J. K. Reeves, aged nineteen y. nr- , -h-d
himself through t&c heart at Little Rock,
a few flights ug .. IL \y is cl -p -n lent over
1 family troubles. j
Thomas Watts, of Snlidiur It - k. Inde.
pendencc* County, was killed at Newport,
a few days :y_ro, l»y a run aw cy tc an.
Lehuid' hardware and furniture -tore
at Texarkana was destroy,-d h . tire, a few
mornings since-. M >-t of th>- goo is were
burned. The stock is estimated at sTa.ono;
, loss, ij'J.'ijHHJ; insurance on -tuck and
j building, >■_>.-),(«i!i.
Tiie Miller County grand • try f. and a
j bill of indictment against LI s cr. who
shot and killed Dr. B-idhr recently, of
t murder in the first degr» -. and he'was
remanded to jail without bail.
I The Pre sident has denied the applica
tions for pardon in tin- ea-• ■ of Hmiry C.
Anders ui. eon.acted in this State nf viola
tion of pension laws and >.-ut*-!i<-.- ! in Au
gust. 1"T. t-i five* years’ impri-onnient at
j Little Lock penitentiary.
A suit has heen begun in the Circuit
: Court at Little Lock by Charle- F. M ertiu
<V Co., cotton buyers, against tie St.
Louis, Ir ui Mountain <v Southern Rail
road Company for sxo.ono. h t- another
brg «nit gl owing out of Hte great Nove m
ber cot ton fire- in 1 v'7. and as similar suits
have been compromised, it i- possible
that this ease will be settled in a like
| manner.
Advices from Huntsville. < ’! -q.-r C-em
ty. report the- death o* W. H. < u ej], who
was shot by J. F. Rash,am. of Kingston.
The murderer has not yet \„.,.n captured.
The biggest failure of the season in this
State took place a few day- ago. when it
was announced that the Lincoln mills and
stock farm, located in Lincoln Couutv,
had made an assignment for the benefit
of their creditors. The liabilities are un
known. 1 he assets are estimated at - P to,
0°°- st. Louis. Memphis and l.nth- Rn k
parties are among the* preferred creditors.
VV. L, Brock, th - robb*-r ,,*' tic c.itton
R>*lt train at German, four miles ..ast of
Little Rock, about twelve mouths ago.
was found guilty and sentenced to three
ynr- in the penitentiary. No motion was
made for a new trial and tin* sentence
stands good. The w'ife of tie d f -ndu.nt
with a child but one month old was in tin*
court-room at the time* of the sent< nee
and was extremely affected and wept
piteously when the judge pronounce,! the
sentence which was to deprive her of a,
husband and her children of a father.
Arkansas is again acknowledge d by the
bighe-t horticultural authority to he the
seedling ground of the Pnit**d Smtes for
apple-. At the meeting of the Illinois
Fiat* Horticultural Society, reeentlv held
in Alton, s,-celling apple- were made a
subject of special consideration. There* i
were exhibits from Illinois, Kentucky,
Missouri and Arkansas, and after a most !
thorough examination the honor of -bow
ing the greatest number ami best varieties
of that class was conceded to Arkansas,
which State had already won tin* highest
uwaid- at New Orleans, at Boston ami at
Riverside, <’al.
Petitions to the State Legislature are
being circulated iu several counties, .-ek
ing that a law be enacted reducing the
prevent high and unjust rates of" toll
charged on the wagon and foot-ways uf
railroad bridges in Arkansas.
1 he Governor ha- is-m d eoinmutati*
to (.’ha-. Johnson amt Scott Booker,
twenty-two d iys each in consideratioi
good behavior while confined in the j„.
tentiary. Th - former was sent up tr
Jefferson Pounty for one year for lut
! tt tutd eireeny, and the latter wa
from Howard County for the -umeieu
of time for grand larceny.
Legislators are brushing up.
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RACE TROUBLES.
Serious Trouble ;if Wuholuk, Mis*.,Tuv i|v
i"U Loss of I.Uo—A Muss of Con ttictas*
Keports of Wlmt Ilus Happened, ivitli
Strong 1’robubilil ies of More Bloodshed
Before Ouiet is Hestored.
M ahalak, Miss., Dec. IT.—There was a
terrible riot last night tit this place, and
to-day twelve white mm and one huudred
and fifty negroes lie dead as a result. For
a long time there has been much ill-feel
ing between the whites and blacks at this ~
place, aggravated by the impertinence of
the latter, and yesterday the two elements
became involved in the quarrel which
ended in the great loss of life. The
facts. as far as they can be
ascertained, are as follows: A negro and
a white mau became engaged in a quarrel
and the negro was killed. This was the
excuse for the assault, and immediately a
black horde swept down upon the whites,
who were greatly outnumbered. Know
ing it was a fight to the death, the whites
prepared to receive their black as
sailants, and when the battle was
ended it was found that twelve while
men and over 1.T0 negroes had been killed
Terrible as this slaughter is, it is quit©
probable the end is not yet. The Gov
ernor was at once telegraphed to for as
sistance, and troops were immediately
sent to the scene of the trouble. A spe
cial train bearing the State troops i- now
on the way here from Meridan. In ihe
meantime it i- known that th** ne
groes are being reinforced and the
whites are preparing for an onslaught.
The troops are expected ut any moment, as
this place is only forty-eight miles
north of Meridian. The negroes at this
place have been very restless, and have
made themselves very obnoxious for a
month past, and the attack was undoubt
edly premeditated. While it is possible
the slaughter of the blacks m;■*•/ touch
them a lesson, it is quite probable more
trouble will follow, and the arrival of
the troops is anxiously awaited.
The excitement is so great that it
is impossible to secure reliable infor: - r
ation regarding the origin of tin- difii
ctilfy.
Hater. It 1- that th“ e::a t
number of nogroe? killed i- iiukumv::.
All the whites iu tile place were, it i<
stud, slaughtered. The special train fr- tu
Meridian has not yet arrived, but it b> nr-'
thirty brave and desperate white nien
and more will he taken on en route, an<l
ljiore bloodshed is almost certain to fol
low.
( mi flirting Krport*.
Mkiui.ian, Miss., Dec. 1'.- Reports fr.mi
the scene or thr- riot are conflicting. It is
now stated that no negroes wery kilh 1.
I'tit that twelve -A bite nil’: lost their lives.
A special tr .;n left here at 1 p. m..bearing
troops for the scene of the trouble.
l)own from ,\ ii.ImoIi I»\
New Orleans. Dee. Is. —A special tu the
7 •</■ •!, . trotll West I’oint, Miss., da** d
the IT;;:, says: N eg ad- In
tt. •ruiui: of a horrible tragedy enacted
• ist night at tin- village of WVmdak,
Miss., forty miles south of West Point, on
the Mobile \ < into railroad. Four wl it
iin*n were killed outright, and < i_rht
wounded, three mortally. Tic- particulars
>f the shooting an* given as follows:
s* me two months ago a white farmer liv
ing a few miles from Wahalik, h>st hm
gin-house, together with eight or
ten bales of cotton, by a f re
which was evidently the work >f
incendiaries. Su-pi< ion pointed to t ■. o
negroes living in the vicinity with whom
the farmer had had some trouble. Suffi
"ient evidence having been secured, an
• fticer last night attempted to arrest o;.<*
f tin- negroes. The negro resisted, ami
succeeded in making his es< ape after hal -
ing brutally assaulted the officer. The
wl ites m the i.eigh! orhood then organic 1
to capture the io-gro, and proceeded to
ward the fellow’s house, with tin* int* : -
ti"ii of arresting him. Before reaching
ih** house, how.-yer, thev wi-rc fire 1 on
from ambush by fifty well-armed m-gr
and every white man in the jmrty a e
'hot down. The horror-stricken pe-e.-le
have telegraphed for aid. Seveiity-ti.*
a: :::< d me:, left Meridian. M : - -..if - m<*r; -
ng for the scene of the tragedy, ami We-1
Point will furnish more.
More ( onflicl ing Reports.
Nkw ORLEANS, Itee. is.—A special to
the Pico;/imc from Macon. Miss.. -ays Cm
people th'*rc are greatly cxeit*-d over tlm
Kemper County ra-’e troubles. The names
of the white im a known to have he-a
killed are: If nry Maury, Cobb, Vang >
ind W. B. Hate. There were thr* '- p
four others whose names arc not h-arm !.
Han-lived in Noxubee County, near th-*
Kemper line. Ft is said that no negroes
were killed. Toni Nicholson is tin- name
of one of the whites wounded. He was
shot in the body, and one of his arms are.
broken. Several ot’mr white- are
wounded, but no negroes.
Twenty young ill'-:: have gone from Ma
con, and nearly every town in Fa-tern
Mis-issippi i- -ending aid to the whites of
K-unper County. It i- reported that tb*
blacks arc well-armed ami assembled in
a large body, apparently prepared for
serious fighting. The trouble is said to
have originated in the murder of a white
boy by two negro im n about seven miles
froru \\ ahalak. The reports, however,
are conflicting.
\ I’rtilialily Correct statement of tint \ '
fair.
New Out.PANS, Dec. is.—a Columbia
'Miss.) special to the /Vcuyi/Jo -av-':
Persona arriving from Ariesia bring par
ticulars of the fighting near Wahabi k.
On Friday a negro and a white hoy <|uar
relcd, and when tin* white boy’s father
tried to separate them, the negro attacked
and beat the white man. The latter sworo
out a warrant for the negro's arrest, and
on Saturday Co.nstatde Seth Cobb went to
the negro’s house to execute it, but was
attacked and beaten by a number of ne
groes, The constable summoned a poss
of twelve men and went again on Sunday*
to arTe.-t the negro. Tin* posse were fired
upon from ambush and five killed out
right and others wounded, some serious
ly. The news spread rapidly and the ue
groes were strongly reinforced.
\ I' 11 a 1 < Iillislon.
Concord, N. IP, Dec. ]s,—it is reported
that two locoriiotivt have collided oil til
Concord railroad near Bow. One mam
named William -, i- reported killed, and
another b.- dly ii.uired.
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