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Life At The South

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
December
Year
1841
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

The Concord Inlelligencer.(Loui;iina) gives the subjoined accoiuit of an nffray which rccently took place n ihat ncighborhootl: "On the afternoon of ilie 8th uit. Mr. E. G. ColHngsworth, ihc overseer of Marcngu plantaiion, in this parish, was ö'aielfy aSiu'.toJ by (hrec ruuaway oogroo.-, ■ .--.. - s--...-.., - ■■■ tlic men and thft woman l'ne properly ol Dr. Gustine, the other man belongjng to a Mr. Clark. The negross jnmped uponMr. Collingswoi'lh while in the field; and had iie not been. a strong, alhletic man he would have been murdered on the epot. - The contest was principaily between Mr. C. ad boy of Gustine; the olher two negroes having run away at the limo that Collingsworth coliured Gustine's boy. It scems, thut after a struggle between these two, the negro gol free from the grasp of Mr. C , andseized a shot gun near by. - This was a. critical moment oflifo and tleaih; Mr. C. wrested the gun from the negro, and as quick as flash ïhey were -clenched - tlie negro was strong, and in the struggle for power, Collingsworth was thrown upon the ground and nenrly choked to dealh. In this siluation, he fel', for a pocket knife. and having succeeded in opening if, by the aid of one hand, he drove the blade fast and fierco into the back of the negro until he surrendered as o dead subject. The negro is dangecousl.y ill, and but littlo hopo iá entertáiued of bis recovery."