Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1885 — WORK FOR JUDGE LYNCH. [ARTICLE]

WORK FOR JUDGE LYNCH.

Grave Tinies at the Capitol. —i Austin, Texas.—Not a night lias pass ed this week withput the commisiou ot from one to tnree bruglaries. attended with several attenqpjs to outrage. About nrdnight last night two uegros oroke into the servant’s room of G'ol. J . H. Pope and assaulted two pretty Swede domestics The ruffians fired one shot which narrowly rhissed the face of nue of the girls, and then seizing her inflected severe bodily injuries. They were prevented from accomplishing their diabolical purpose by the appearance of atlorney-General Templeton, when they tied in the dark. I Subsequently one of the girls returned; to her room- and had scarcely entered Ibefore the scouudiels assaulted her the second time and shot her in the back, inflecting a wound which will probably proye fatal. The whole Swedish population is aroused, and has raised a reward of S2OO for the arrest ot the perpetrators of the infam > ous deed. > The servant girl of Oour ty Attorney Morris, who was aoscit from home, was assaulted last night, but her cries brought a gentleman to her relief and the assailants flhd. Mr. Dudley Wooten’s residence was visited for the like purpose, but the servant girl saved herself at the point of a revolver. Negro ruffians also visited the h-me of Col Rutherford, but the alarm was given and they retreated. These continued outrages have aroused the indignation of the white population, and a vigilance committee Is talked of If the guilty parses are discovered there is hardly a doubt that several lynchings will follow. The entire town is iu arms and trouble between the whites and negroes is feared. It is believed that the latter are making a systematic effort to run all white domestics out of the city, although a dumber of colored servants have suf sered. Seaious consequences are i nevi table, unless the outrages cease. ■rw -mrn—l-> uMwn— _. , c , . Frederick Zard, Sr., died Tuesday last at the residence of his son, near Marlboro, in this county, aged about 94 years. He was found dead by the person who entered the room with his breakfast.