Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1879 — An Africanized Irishman. [ARTICLE]

An Africanized Irishman.

McCarthy, the recently captured chief of the Umzuzi tribe, a tributary of the great Gwazi people, was a draper’s clerk iu Limerick in the year of the Fenian rising. He had a relative, a constable of police, who warned him that his name was on the Castle books, and that if he wanted to preserve his liberty he had better leave the country. McCarthy fled to the South African diamond fields, where he prospered, making two profitable investments in London. He also contributed some readable sketches to the London Globe. Somehow or other he picked up with the natives, and being of a bold, adventurous disposition, and already reduced to a half savage state by his occupation, he ended by joining the Umzuzis. When the chief of that tribe died, MoCarthy was elected to the position, w’hich he secured by killing, in single combat, half a dozen pretenders. He made an effort to introduce Christianity.. but failed. He has a white wife, daughter of a rich Boer, who eloped with him some time ago. The lady’s father would be glad to receive his. sbn-in-law, but the Irish kaffir re fused to desert his adopted people. It is feared it will go hard with him on court martial for McCarthy, as a combination of Fenian and Zulu, can hardly enlist the friendly admiration of his captors.