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Wednesday, October 28, 1868
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SUDDEN DEATH-Mr. D.Y. Grayson on Monday last, had a fit of appoplexy, in
Weil's store, from the effects of which he died in a few hours.

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In another column we publish the funeral oration delivered by Bro. Eugene
Tisdale, before Union fraternal Lodge No. 53, of Farmersville, on Saturday
the 18th inst., on the death of Col. Henry Regenburg. A better and more
suitable gentleman than brother Tisdale, could not have been selected as he
stands highest of all Masons in this section of the State in the order. His
oration shows that he was also fully competent in other respects to do
justice to the lamented deceased.

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Wednesday, November 11, 1868
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Trouble at Filhiol's
The following is as correct a statement of the trouble at the Filhiol box,
on the day of
election, as we have been able to get. Everything went on quietly and
nearly two hundred votes had been polled when the commissioners started to
dinner; on their return, they found that about thirty strange white men on
horseback, accompanied by one colored man, and fully armed, had arrived in
front of the polls. On reopening the polls, a colored man voted a
Republican ticket and the crowd of strangers being informed of it
immediately called on the colored man in their company, whom they called Bob
Stiff, to pitch into him. Stiff immediately knocked this colored man down
with a stick, but after he had been struck once or twice, the man succeeded
in making his escape. While this was going on a difficulty occurred between
another colored man and the strangers, who were about to kill him, when Mr.
P. Carrington interfered and saved his life at the risk of his own. Shortly
after this the party of strangers mounted their horses and rode down the
road; they had been absent but a short time, when some firing was heard in
the direction they had taken. On their return they stated that a colored
man named Culpepper, in Mr. Filhiol's field, had fired at them and that they
had killed him in consequence. In proof of this, they exhibited a stick in
which some shots were lodged. At night there was considerable apprehention
of difficulty among both races, but nothing serious occurred, excepting the
burning of a schoolhouse belonging to the colored people on the Bres
plantation and of the corn crib, with twelve hundred bushels of corn on the
Faust Plantation. A colored man whose name we have been unable to learn,
was shot in the mouth. That night about fifteen colored men came to town
for protection, which was extended to them by the Sheriff. On Wednesday
warrants were issued against a number of the men, who were said by the
colored men, to have been implicated in the difficulties of the night. On
Wednesday night, Sheriff Wisner and Mr. Dobson acting as his deputy, with
some cavalry, started down to arrest the accused whom they brought to town
on Thursday. The prisoners immediately gave bonds for their appearance for
trial on Friday. On that day the case was continued until Monday.
On Friday three of the principal witnesses in the difficulties of Tuesday
night, named Simon Peterson, Daniel Webster and Orphey Johnson, all colored
men, started down the river to go to their homes, and stopped on the Copley
Plantation for one of them to see his wife, when they were taken out of the
cabin by a party of eleven white men. Four of the white men took them to
the deadening (?) In the rear of the plantation and there told them to kneel
down and say their prayers as they would be killed. Instead of doing this
they broke and ran, when fire was opened on them by the whites, and Peterson
and Webster were killed, but Johnson came to town on Friday evening about
dark and his story created a great deal of indignation among all classes of
our community.
Mr. Duffel, who has charge of the Copley plantation, makes the following
statement as to what occurred prior to taking the men out of the cabins: The
white men came riding to his house furiously and stated that they had been
fired on by some negroes from the corner of the fence and that the negroes
had hid themselves in one of the cabins and unless they were brought out
immediately, they would burn up the quarters. Mr. Duffel went to search for
the negroes and found them hid in the loft of one of the cabins, a shot was
fired at him, said by the colored men to have been by accident, when he told
them they must come down or the cabin would be burned up with them in it.
The negroes then came out and were taken away by the four white men, as
stated by Johnson. The names of these four men are Pinckney Faust, Marion
Faust, Beaver and John Faulk.
Warrants were issued on Saturday for the arrest of the four accused and on
Sunday morning Sheriff Wisner started out with a posse for their arrest, but
did not succeed in finding any of them. The bodies of the two killed
colored men were found on Sunday afternoon by some colored men, together
with the dead bodies of their horses.
The case of the parties, arrested by Sheriff Wisner, was continued on
Monday until Thursday.

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Wednesday, December 9, 1868
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DIED.
In this place, on the afternoon of Thursday, the 3rd inst., of croup, after
a most distressing illness of four days, Ella Tucker, youngest daughter of
FRANK P. and GEORGIA T. STUBBS, aged one year, eight months and seven days.
"Thou wort so like a form of light
That Heaven benignly called thee hence,
Ere yet the world could breathe one blight
O'er thy sweet innocence.
And thou, that brighter home to bloom,
Art passed with all thy loveliness!"

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DIED
DIED at his residence in Caldwell parish, on Thursday, December 17th, of
Rheumatic Fever, Dr. PAUL BRES, aged 39 years.