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The Negroes On The War Path

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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
July
Year
1871
Copyright
Public Domain
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Augusta, July 3. On Saturday laat twenty-five iirmed ■ went to the plantation of Angus Reed, about twelve miles below Augusta. on Hu; Savannah River. Arriving at Eteed's the party fired, killing Thomas A. ly wounding Reed and lis wife. After disarming Reed, the legioea returned to l'.nil J'. Hammoad'e ilace, where a dcuty sheriff attompted :d aríest thepi, bút without suocess, aa !ny refused to disarna. The negroes, ir, promised to u" to liken aud stand feriad. Onaof the partios implicated rae arrested bero thisevening. His story WBsthatHeed and Lowc attempted to tliustisc a negro íor stealiag from them !l 1 foRnet occasion, but tlie nogro es:aped, and retoxned witli as armed :.. whii (lul Un' Bhooting.by wa,y oí retaliaion. The alliir cauros a great deal of UUr;lsÍIieS3. Tho various rumora wbich have lioen ciroulated conoerning the Bafety of the mal Library of Paris are Batisfaotorily disposed of by a oorrespondent of the New York Trünm, who bas visited the buildings and made tho nocesaary inquirios. Strango to say tho commune did not digturb any of Ulo treasures of the librarías, but oontented themselvet witb ougting the otiicials and leaving the book accounts untouohed. A Look Annr.vn THE Wn-: :.o.- Latcst and beat suthority givestibe ]oiulation oi the globo at 1,360,200,000: In Ami 72,800,000; in Europe, 287,000,000 ; in Asia, 798,600,000 in África, 188,000,000; in Australia and Polynesia, 3,800,000. These people speak abont 3,600 diterer languagef , and aro out up into 1,000 roliious secte. A s)iroi:il froin Kcokulc says a terrible rain ertonn, accompanied with hail, pro vailed over the entire center of Iowa on Saturday iii:;!it and Snsday, doisg great damage totne growing crops, espeoially ■a '■" ut. A severe storm prevailed in toaba and vicinity, extending :is f:ir west as Cheyenne. Át Pino Bluffs, Wyoming, hun-es wore blown down. About thrco hundréd soldiers will bo irged from tho Department of tio Platte ander tho recent ordor reducing tho anny to thirty thousand.

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Michigan Argus