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A Negro Worse-thief hung by A Vigilance Committee. Columbus, Ind., September 22, 1872. Last night, the 21st, at about 10 o’clock, a party in charge of Isaiah Loggins, a colored man,whom they had arrested yesterday morning, at Bloomington,Ind., under the charge of horse-stealing, in Orange county, were met on the road leading from Orleans to Mitchell, about midway between the two places, by a band of the Southern Indiana Vigilance Committee. The negro was taken from them and changed to the body of a leaning tree near the roadside. The guards in charge of the negro, numbering four, were surrounded by the hanging party, some thirty five in number, were dragged from their horses and, under pains of breath, ordered to keep quiet, while the negro was seized and taken to the nearest tree, the guards stand ing within sixty feet, powerless to render any assistance or avert his doom. The only words the negro spoke were “what does this mean?” The vigilants were well organized and did their work with great promptness, and are supposed to have been the same parties that were engaged in the hanging of Tungate and Pickard, some months ago at Lost River Bridge. An inquest was held this morn ing, and the verdict of death at the hands of persons unknown rendered. The darkness of the night and the disguises worn, preclude the possi bility of anyone being recognized. Loggins was a vicious negro, noted for many petty thefts, and no doubt was guilty of stealing the horse for which he was hanged, but that such an extreme measure should be ap plied in so summary a manner,does not meet with approval by many of our best citizens. He leaves a di vorced wife and two children. “Mr. Brown is an eloquent and entertaining speaker,and his reasons why Democrats should not support Greeley are incontrovertible and un answerable. We sincrely wish that every Democrat in the county lad heard them.” Families should lay in calomel now. Everybody is “bilious,” and calomel will salivate the bile for you. A dose of calomel is worth a dozen quack doctors. It will clear our bowels, rot your teeth and bents and dissolve what little fibrine your blood contains. By all means take plenty. It is cheap. After the first of October no stamps will be required on instru ments now required by law to be stamped, except bank checks, drafts and orders. The epitaph which was to have been written on Daniel's political tombstone, has been changed. Ac cording to latest odvions if new reads—he sought the lit rank woul hack on the finith.
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Bloomington Progress
Bloomington, Indiana, US
Wed, Sep 25, 1872
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