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Show Negro I t'tiiiit t lttl 1'Aict!. Tev., July 5,- It was l.arned here today that there lias leen serious trouble ut 'a negro settlement on Ite.l river, iu this comily, eighteen mile from here. A few days nun two negroes n. lined Hums, w hile hunting In the col-ton col-ton lields, were lired upon by unknown parties mid seriously wounded. A night or two later a negro named Samp-sou Samp-sou was taken from hi house nod whipped tiiimerelitilly. 'The coiuiiiii-nlty coiuiiiii-nlty I- rife with rumors, mid negroes living there are in cotisianl dread of being culled nut and shot or whipped. Whilo nothing delinile call In' learned of the trouble. It is belle ml lhat they were I ho result of a factional quarrel among tho tiegmcs themselves. |