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[[quit?]] [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]], before the magistrate in the immediate neighborhood of his former employer, a place from which he has been ordered off from with threats.  He is afraid to go, and from that fear, he looses his money. 
No longer since than week before last a col.d [[colored]] man who had made a crop, on a plantation of a gentleman in an adjoining County, the owner of the land, was about, sending the last of the crop to market and selling it, fiving the freedman (as he said) little or no satisfaction as to his interest, the col.d [[colored]] man refuted the case to the asst. Commissioner of of the Freedman Bureau at this place, The freedman returned home, a few nights after he was shot , while setting by his own fireside in the presence of his family.  The are calld [[called]] on this morning by a freedman for a guard to go with him only three miles from this place to move his wife and children to this place, he having been forbid visiting the place, and they refuse to let his wife and children leave (such is his statement).
Yesterday a col.d [[colored]] woman appeared at the office of the Bureau for employment. She stated that she had just come in the city the night before. She had always lived in Edgefield S. Carolina. Her husband finding

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one [[?]] at the top