Negro Stampede

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Last Sunday night 7 negroes made their escape from the neighborhood of Millersburg in this county.  Three of them were men, three were women and one a child.  They belonged to Wm. McMiller, Edmund Martin, Abram Moore and Mrs. Taylor.  They hitched a pair of horses to a splendid family carriage recently purchased by Mr. McMiller, and, with a white man to drive them, rode off toward the Ohio river in style.  They were seen passing through the North Fork toll gate about 3 o'clock on Monday morning.  They left the carriage near Washington and made their way on foot to the river, just above east Maysville.  Here they attempted to cross in a skiff, which upset and all but three three men were drowned.

They were discovered clinging to the skiff on Monday morning, and were rescued and lodged in safe keeping in Maysville.

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from the Covington Journal of December 29, 1855, reprinting an article from the Paris Flag.