The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-05-09
Southern News.

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Mobile county.
A letter from Alabama reports fearful
mortality among the negroes. They have
scattered the small pox through town and
country, and are dying rapidly.
The Convention called to consider the
propriety Of organizing . separate State
Government for East Tennessee, met At
Knoxville on the Sd inst.
The discovery Of petroleum in Western
Louisiana attracts much attention. A COM
pany has been formed for perfectiug and
bringing it to market. The coal-beds Of
Arkansas above are being worked.
Montgomery (Ala.) papers received con-
tain accounts Of suffering and destitution in
various counties of the State. As many as
800 women have been seen at one time
around the Court House on days when ra-
tons were expected, having walked from
Is to 20 miles; and within 40 miles Of
Montgomery there are 700 destitute in ac.
tual want of food to sustain life.
A fearful riot occurred in Memphis on
the LIST, continuing until the night Of the I'd
occasioned by an alteration between 9
white man and a negro whose wagons came
into collision. The police assisted the
white man, and the negroes came to the
rescue Of their colored brother. The affair
soon reached formidable dimensions, and
firearms were freely used. Some twelve
negroes were killed, and three or four white
men, before the former were put down. Or
the night Of the I'd, about thirty houses oc.
curpied by coiored people, and oil the
school houses of South Memphis, were pull.
ed down or burned. Order has since been
restored.
The New Orleans Crescent Of the goth
says: A desperate duel was fought on We'd
nesday, in the neighborhood Of the city,
between an ex-Confederate and q Federal
officer. The weapons were pistols, and at
the first FIRE the Federal received the bullet
Of his antagonist through both lungs, caus-
. dangerous and probably fatal wound.
The ex-Confederate was shot through both
legs, below the knee, the tibia of the right
leg being broken. We believe the quarrel
arose from politics. 1t is rumored about
town that three more duels were to have
been fought yesterday afternoon, and three
more this morning"
Last fall, . negro woman, with FIVE child
rem from six months to six years Of age,
and Ler mother (who was blind, deaf, and
dCmb) came to the farm Of Mr.. Welch, in
Pontotoc county, Miss, and engaged to
work. About three weeks ago Mr.. WEIGH
found her missing from the plantation, when
he instituted search and found the stair
door which led up into dark, narrow room
of her house heavily barricaded and lock-
ed. After some difficulty he orened the
door with an axe, and discovered the old
woman and two children lying against the
door, dead from starvation. Another child
was at the head Of the stairs, dead also.
The other two were just alive, but one OF
them has since died the other, it is thought,
cannot survive. The missing woman was
found three miles from Jackson, Miesissip-
pi, with a negro man who had been seen
strolling around Mr.. Welch's plantation
with her. Her reason for her inhuman &C.
lion was. that she did not like to work 30
hard to support the old woman and the
;. brafN" She'was carried back to Pontotoc
county to be tried.
Incidents and Accidents.
The new residence Of Henry Vorwig, at
Clifton, near Cincinnati, was destroyed by
Ere on the 4th. Loss, $4,000. Supposed
work Of an incendiary.
A fire At Grand Rapids, Mich, on the LIST,
destroyed the Union Hotel and four stores,
with their contents. Total loss, $lO0, 900.
Insured for $4,000.
Asa circus was passing through West
vile, Conn, last week, horse, on seeing
the elephants, stared at them wildly for an
instant, and then gave leap into the air
and fell dead.
A child in New Jefferson. Iowa, was fat
ally poisoned, few days ago, by chewing
pieces Of an enamelled paper collar. Death
ensued in two hours. and the body turned
purple Immediately after.
A resident Of Racine, Wis, named Weth-
erly, went out walking with two of his chill
dren one morning last week, and the three
have mysteriously disappeared. tits thought
there is foul play in the matter, as he was
known TO have some $500 10 his possession.
An old lady, aged Il years, named Olive
Richardson, was burned to death near Fred
Ind. 1t appears that the old
lady lived alone, and her dress caught FIRE
while cooking, and no assistance being near
she was burned to crisp before the facts
became known.
The Usage Iow0n states that the wife and
three daughters Of D. s. ssyles, living in
jenkins township, ate, on the 23d ult, what
they supposed to be artichoke, but which
proved to be wild parsnip,--a deadly poison.
One Of the girls died soon sfterward. The
other parties are expected to recover.
Two negro girls, sisters. named Caroline
and Susan Brown, residing 10 Cooper coun-
ty, Mo, quarrelled one day last week about
which should get dinner The matter was
decided against Susan's doing SO, by Caro-
line striking her with an axe, and killing
her. Caroline 10 in Jail at Boonville.
A drunken German in Brooklyn q few
evenings since, went to sleep on the
:" mother EARTH" with his hand lying across
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