Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1871 — Ku-Klux Outrages. [ARTICLE]

Ku-Klux Outrages.

reu-iviux are carrying things with a high hand in Cheatham County. On tho night of January 28, a company consisting of about twelve masked nun went to the house of Mr. John Davis, living some five miles from Kingston Spring, and demanded entrance. Mr. Davis refused, but, upon their promising not to hurt him, opened the door. Oscar Davis, son of the former, and Mr. Samuel Fin cy were the other male inmates of the house. The ruffians asked Finicy if he had not been a Federal soldier, |tnd upon his replying in the affirmative, they told him they had been looking for him for eight years; that he had shot one of them at Shiloh; that their ghostly comrade had just scratched out of h—l, where he had been for eight years, eating ‘‘dead Yankees.” They then took Finicy Into the woods, and asked him how ho preferred to die. He told them if he was to be murdered it made but little difference how. They made him stand at teu steps off, and fired three shots at him, none of which took effect. They then set upon and whipped him very severely. IV bile this was going on, another portion of the gang was whipping Mr. Davis, and the rest were whipping his son Oscar. On,, their way to Davis’ they took a colored man named Lewis Hannah ont of his house, and whipped him severely. AH the parties were enjoined not to give publicity to these outrages on penalty of being again visited. 1 ,' _ . ._ Mr. Finicy, who had been in the Union army, has lived some time lp Cheatham County, while Davis and his son have lately immigrated thither from Pennsylvania—2?iwhciUe (ft##.) Tribune*

An old farmer in the neighborhood of Porestville, Conn., who i 9 dubbed by the Hartford Counmi “acheerful idiot, was sledding wood the other morning. Having on a heavy load it stuck fast in crossing the track of tho Hartford, Providence & Fishkilt Railroad. 8o the old man unhitched his oxen and deliberately marched off home leaving the heavy load of green wood standing across the’ track, and making no effort to warn the passenger tram —due in a few moments —of its danger. The train came on. “Down brakes summed the whistle, and the train and it* passengers fortunately escaped injury; yet the locomotive struck the load- of -wood with sufficient force to knock it ana tho tied clear of the track.

The following it suggested as on epitaph for the Legislature that recently sine dkd at Indianapolis: Adicn, frail pony child, adieu) Mild Pity thy only friend— Thy life, a shame; thy work.fi blank, tsuicidc tliy tilting end. Parties in Stark county advertise through the Knox Ledger for j railroad ties to he used in the cou- j struction of the Plymouth, Kankakee «fc Pacific R K., through Marshall, Starke and Jasper counties.