The Charlotte Democrat

A Desperate Shooting Affair.

The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser gives the following particulars of a desperate shooting affair at Perdido station, Baldwin county, in that State, on Monday last:

"Mr. Bryers, a justice of the peace, had a stock range in which the stock of his neighbors ran at will. For some cause he resolved to fence them off—leaving his stock off this open range to his only family by the name of Hadley and another by the name of Stewart, friends and relatives each of the other, became enraged at Bryers' conduct. On Monday the Hadleys and Stewarts, six in number, rode up to Bryers' residence and called him out. They were armed with double-barrelled shot-guns, but not dreaming that they meant to harm him, the old man and one of his boys went out to meet them. As these left their door the six men at the gate opened fire upon them, killing both. Another son of Bryers', who was in the house when the firing began, seized a shot-gun and rifle and ran into the yard. Meanwhile, however, the party at the gate had taken to cover and those of them whose weapons had not been discharged in the first onset, shot the third one, their shot taking effect in his side. But he held his ground bravely and with such effect that he succeeded in killing two of his assailants and wounding a third. The others fled."