The Daily Phoenix

Death of a Colored Legislator.
B. F. Randolph, a colored preacher, who claims to represent the District of Orangeburg in the Legislature, was on an electioneering tour through the up-country, and came to his death by violence at Cokesbury, in Abbeville District, on Friday afternoon. Randolph passed over the Greenville Railroad on Wednesday, and made himself obnoxious to many of the passengers by his violent expressions and threats, but was not molested. He delivered an address at Abbeville Court House the next day, we believe. On Friday morning, he took the cars for Anderson, and on arriving at Cokesbury, entered the up train, deposited his carpet-bag and shawl on a seat, and then returned to the platform, when he was fired upon by three unknown persons, shot through the head and instantly killed. The body was brought down yesterday, in charge of the express messenger, and will be forwarded to Orangeburg, by this morning's train, we presume. This affair is regretted by the order-loving portion of the community, and every effort will, doubtless, be made to discover the murderers. Randolph was a persistent advocate of the social equality idea. The country is in a very excitable condition, and incendiary expressions only tend to feed the flame. Let a moderate course be pursued by all parties.