Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-08-24
Arkansas.


LITTLE Rock, Aug. 1s.-Last Nor
r day a farmer named Saunders, living nea
r Wittsburg, Arkansas, was working in
!, field and his wife went to take his dinner
leaving a daughter, aged Is, at home
Returning an hour afterward, the daughtel
was missing. Search was instituted, but
no trace was discovered until next morn,
ing, when one of the ~neighbors, who had
joined In the search, found her lying in a
brush, some sixty yards from the house,
with her throat cut from ear to ear, and
her body bearing unmistakable signs of
having been outraged. The whole neigh
borhood was soon aroused, and search for
the murderer began, but up to latest ac-
counts no clue could be found. A negro
living near was arrested on suspicion. but
was subsequently discharged.
New York.
NEW YORK, Aug. 21.-A. 7. Stewart
is recovering from his dangerous illness.
A special from Long Branch says :
About nine this morning DIR. 81. T.
H~elmbold attempted to commit suicide.
| He borrowed q double barrel shot gun
hired a carriage with a colored driver, and
started out on the Ocean Avenue towards
Seabright to shoot meadow larks. Below
the Arlington House he got out of the car
riage, placed the gun under his chin and
fired, but being a small man the effort to
pull the trigger caused his hand to move,
and his face only was injured. In des-
p~eration he repeated the experiment with
the same result. The driver, who in the |
meantime bad rushed to him, caught him,
fainting and bleeding, in his arm and
brought him to the Arcade Hotel, from
whence he was taken home"
About fifty suits commenced to-day
against the Staten Island Ferry Company
for damages occasioned by the Westfeld
explosion.
Helmbold telegraphs while out cunning
morning our gun went off accidentally.
He was not injured.
Georgia.
ATLANTA, Aug. IS.-Information has
just been received here of a terrible tragedy
which had taken place in Macon County.
A young man named Evereaux
shot and killed his step-father, it is sup
posed, at the instigation of his mother. ,
who has been arrested as accessory. Ev-
sreaux fled after committing the crime.
Kentucky.
LOUISVILLE, Aug. ia fendish .
murder, accompanied by circumstances of ,
he most horrible atrocity, has come to
light in the southern part of the state.
LAST Saturday a little girl, age 10 years,
laughter of Thomas Bennett, living near 4
fulton Station, on the Paducah and Gulf i
Railroad. was missing from her home.
was made for her in vain. Anegro
Tho had been working for Bennett since
war was suspected and arrested, but
Becoming frightened. he con-
essed that he had ATTEMPTED to commit
ape on the child, but not succeeding he
rst choked her to death and then accom- d,
his nefarious purpose with the aid /!
f a knife, after which he threw the body
ito a pond. At last accounts the fend A
as in the custody of the citizens, but is
lynched by this time. u,
LOUISVILLE, Aug. ia fight occur "
d at Crab Orchard, Kentucky, Wednes-
~ evening, between George Dallinger s.
ID Wade Kennedy, in which one shot Bl
fred, but the parties were separated
Ithout serious injury. Last night two 81
of Kennedy, one named George ~.
est, met Dallinger at the Harden House, Ii
Crab Orchard, and a fight ensued, re-
lvers being used freely. Dallinger was 3;
wounded and instantly died.
ank Smith, a spectator received two
DTS and was instantly killed, and Best f,
s severely wounded. The fight was the thi
suit of an old feud. va
Aug. 21.-The complete {
;urns, except six counties, makes Leslie's Civ
jority $4,000 and the other Democratic -
ldidates $4,000. u
- 7.
Aug. 1S.-Some five weeks n
at Burlington, Iowa, Mrs. John Il
rrott was found dead in her kitchen guutt
b a gun laying by her side, and evidence the
t the bullet had been discharged in her for,
nth. 1t was supposed she had commit for
suicide. Soon after her death it be- a., n
to be whispered about that she did not idel
e her OWL life, from the fact that she Cha
never limited of any such intent, and fore
her, from the fact that another woman and
installed mistress of his household. con
sse facts coming to the authorities, they Thi
PARROT arrested for the murder of
wife, and he now awaits his examina- al
in Jail. 4
New Jersey. L
N. j., Aug, 49, Tim
maskad huroI,rc anfaroJ Al 800. "