| Show A Battle of the Coons been received at Columbia Intelligence has C or bloody riot at a negro umbia S a York at Zion Church camp meeting and last week caused by whisky County city and town negroes rivalry between had declared the darkies The country should not attend their meet town men airs and the latter mind put on ings would teach the coun boasted that they in etiquette Each try COOnS a lesson with whisky and well supplied party was revolvers are knives and cheap razors majority of the negroeS considered by a their outfit The part of a necessary when the town meeting bad just begun church and hose reached the contingent The conflict at once began tilities and at its conclusion raged for over nn hour three men died and clusion there were less seriously wounded twenty more or closed of course without The meeting and the woods were full of benediction scampering in every frightened direction negroes The country negroes retained possession of the field |
