Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1874 — The Outrages in Sumter County, Ala. [ARTICLE]

The Outrages in Sumter County, Ala.

WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 7. Atty.-Gen. Williams has received from official sources, which he considers entirely trustworthy, the following statement as to the difficulties in Sumter County, Ala.: The white people have an organization throughout the county known as the White League. They are determined that the negroes shall not vote at 'the coming election unless they vote with the League. To effect this, everything is done to intimidate the black people. The two most active Republicans in the county —Billings (white) and Ives (colored) —have been assassinated since the Ist of August. These murders have had a very great effect upon the colored people. To keep up the fear among the blacks the whites get together almost every day and night ana* no & the roads in squads of from thirty to, fifty men, armed with shot-guns.pretending that the negroes are arming and gathering to attack the white people, which is not the case. There have been no parties of negroes of any strength together.

—A good use for the frames of old umbrellas, sunshades or parasols: Just open them, strip off the silk, sharpen thAßandles to a point, and, thrusting them open in the ground, let them serve as trellises for vines. Last summer we girls had a lovely sweet-pea vine growing over mother’s old parasol frame, and a balloon vine trained over father’s castaway umbrella. They wpre lovely.— St. Nicholas. -■ » « » —At a school near Wallsend, Newcastle, England, the master asked a class of boys the meaning of the word “ appetite,” when, after a short pause, one little boy said: “I know, sir. When I’m eatin’l’m’appy, and when I’m done I’m ight.” —The railways get about |8 000,000 a yaarfor transporting mail matter,