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Hemp Doings

The Ranchero [Corpus Christi, TX], September 8, 1860

On the 16th of August, a notorious horse thief, named Robert Tucker, was hung at Poluxy Springs, Johnson county.

The Vigilance Committee of Henderson sentenced a negro woman, concerned in burning that town, to be hung on the 26th ult.

A man named Morrison was hung in the suburbs of Gilmer, for inciting negroes in Wood, Titus and Hopkins counties, to insurrection.

Three abolitionists, named Templeton, Hensley and Kirk, were hung in Gainesville, Cook county. These men implicated fifteen other men belonging to the abolition conspiracy.

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