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Show The. Mississippi Race Troubles Memphis, Tenu., 11. The fob : lowing account of the origin of the riots at Rolling Fork, in Issaquera county, Miss., has been obtained:! On Saturday night, November 27th, ' a party of negroes had assembled at the village and were drinking and carousing. One of them pushed a youth named Laird, whom he met in the street, to one side, using rough language at the same time. The youth responded with a pocket! knife, inflicting a scalp wound on the ! negro, and then fled to a store for safety. The remaining negroes became very much exasperated and vowed vengeance, and to prevent this a warrant was obtained for the youth, charging him with assault with intent to kill; but before it could 1n (j.-rv.t tho nroo. In-olro inlo tlx. store and " beat young Laird severely with an iron .bar, and finally one of them shot him in the thigh. At the report of the pistol the negroes ran, but the whites had begun to assemble, and fearing a general riot, pursued them and captured ten of them, and taking them 10 the village placed them in the storehouse and put a guard over them. During the night one of the guard not upon duty came out on the porch with a gun ou his shoulder, and was ordered away by the sentinel on duty. As he turned his gun, which was cocked, it struck against a window and was discharged. The negro prisoners, thinking they were being fired upon, stampeded and the guard commenced an indiscriminate firing, wounding two of their own men and two of the negroes, all slightly, but tho prisoners escaped that way. On Sunday the most intense excitement prevailed there, as it was learned that Noah Porker and Arthur Brooks, two notorious negroes, were trying to organize the negroes for an assault, and the whites were organized under Reverend Mr. Ball, a Baptist, who arrested Brooks and Parker, and in the attempt of the negroes to rescue them the rencontre reported last night occurred. |