We learn from the Morristown, Tennessee Gazette of the 13th inst. that during last week while Rev. Henry C. NEAL was on his way from Morgantown to Axley’s Chapel in Blount county to fill an appointment to preach, he was waylaid, knocked from his horse, taken to the woods, stripped and most cruelly beaten by a party of men who told him they had no personal ill feeling against him, but that they did not intend to allow any minister of the Methodist Church South to reach in that county.

The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 22 Feb. 1868, Page 2. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.