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it having been proved at the trial that Dewberry was the guilty party. Dewberry, however, left the County, taking the Southbound train at Bethel Station, stating that he was going to Texas.

Mr. Jesse A. Brown, in charge of Henry, Weakley, Benton and Carroll Counties, report that everything is moving on quietly in his district. The colored people are taking great interest in the question of schools for their children and subscriptions are being started to build a church and school house for them at Paris Tenn.

No outrages have been reported to him during the past month.

Mr. Fielding Hurst in charge of the Counties of McNairy and Hardin, states that the freedpeople as a general thing are a doing well, yet there are a great many who are very poor, who have lately come to his district for protection, and request that more rations be sent to him for gratuitous distribution.

A building used as a church by the colored people in Hardin County was burned by a party of roughs on the 2d day of June. It appears that an elderly gentleman by the name of Alred had been the habit for the last three months of preaching to the colored people on the Sabbath, and after church, having a sunday