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T CO.,YORK,D7AY.Dollars,3TATE.ujj. Secretary, i FOUR PER lly Balauces, IAL DEPOS-rny be made ,[ ONE MIL* among over nany gentle* acial expeTillable to de-ie Company capital stock CO., receive* auta.anclper-whole or In a WITHOUT all daily bl-country can Ration with convenience m % 783ssR. R.ation. More *e employed, ? entire track111 be flulsh-ROADCOM-of the right timber and ; the line offJ2,SOO acres In alternate t. This Is an *3 a son roe oft of United mounting to le, according mounted on » built. The mortgage aaPEAfK IX TKXXEHSKK.How Frank lUnir’s Friends Amuw Themsekes in Maurj and William-iou Counties.[From the Nashville Fress, Atag. 7 ]The Ku Klux being now properly or.anized and drilled, aU(^ having their work marked out for them, are unusually busy in Maury and Williamson counties. Tho outrages perpetrated during the past week in Williamson county alone would fill two columns if briefly recited. There are now not less than tl.roe hundred refugees in town wlio have been compelled to fly from their homes, a great number of them having left wives and families, and crops which they .made this year, behind them.The outrages have . ecome immensely numerous within the past week. In some counties the Klan are determined that none shall vote except Conservatives, and that, if possible, do colored man shall remain among them beyond this fall.Last night a colored man named Walker Wilson limped into our office with his heel shot off. a fugitive from Williamson county. He was workiug on the farm of Harrick and Tom Wilson, he says, five miles beyond Brentwood, aDd on Tuesday evening at about quitting time, while five of them were picking peas in a field, they were attacked by a squad of fifteen or twenty Ku Klux, draped iu white, with red caps. Pistols were fired arnoDg the working negroes; they started away from their work; the Ku Klux pursued them, firing all the time. Two of the working men were killed, one of them being a cousin of Walker Wilson, our informant. A pistol-shot caught Walker in the heel and took it off. They scattered in the woods, the oDly means left them to save themselves.Another man, who has been in the city four weeks, got a letter from his , wife, whom he was compelled to leave at Springfield, eayiog that the Ku-Klux arc worse than ever, and cau-tinning him Tint tn rohirn* that ah a wn*
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New Albany Daily Commercial
New Albany, Indiana, US
Thu, Aug 13, 1868
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