Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1884 — Seven Young Touglhs. vs. a Guinee Nigger and a Good Cause. [ARTICLE]

Seven Young Touglhs. vs. a Guinee Nigger and a Good Cause.

A squad $ Hard cases, fjbm Somewhere ni tlie country, caple in to the Qolored Camp-meeting, on horse back, early Sunday morning, and stayed by it all day. They had lots of the devil, and, probably some whisky, in them, and were bound to make a disturbance. They annoyed the camp-meetiug ill many ways, during the day, and] in the evening, a lot of them who hail gone outside of the gate, eithey togo.down town for whisky, or for the express purpose of getting up a row, approached the gate keeper and demanded to be allowed to pass in without paying. This the keeper refused to do, and a whole squad of them at once attacked him. But the young ruffains soon found that they had caught a 'Tartar of the liveliest description. The gate keeper is a “Guinea nigger,” one of the kind who are proof against any tlpng less deadly than a two handed razor or a navy revolver, and who never know when they are whipped. After knocking down one man with his lantern, smashing that article, he “laid out” the other members of the gang, with his fist, as fast as they came in reach. The row was of short dotation, however, as a number of right minded white people, and others of the colored men, interfered in the interest of peace, aiid the hard bats got out of sight as soon as possible. Arittitn & Darner.