Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1874-04-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
SOUTH.


LAWNS, the Vicksburger local who
.rIod Calkin, has been acquitted.
The entire loss by the explosion ol
a. Crescent City will foot up nearly three
tpudred thousand.
ras Matlock, the Red creek murderer
"a, been sentenced to be hanged on the 2Gtl
A Msy at Little Rock.
Jesse James, an old and prominent
a,,oo Of Saline county, Ark, was accidently
,hot and killed on Saturday last while out
hunting.
Iobn Franklin, a colored waiter at
As Worsham house, Memphis, was fatally
s,bbed on the 28th, by Sam Fidnay, the
seward Fidnay has not yet been arrested.
At Vicksburg, on the 9th, Thomas
r,Hp, an OK policeman, attacked J. W. La
,ps local editor OF the Vicksburser cutting
MIN in the neck with a knife. LAWNS then
bc Calkin twice, killing him instantly.
Thomas D. Grundy, sheriff of Nc
Cncken county, Ky, has instituted suit against
ma Louisville Commercial for damages of
HOOO. The Commercial stated that Grundy
s intoxicated while taking batch Of pris-
nsr to the penitentiary.
The officers of the Belle Lee report
ast the river below Napoleon is higher than
Ner known. About 25 miles of the Chicot
md Pine Bluff railroad have been swept away
No further breaks are reported. The White
Wupry adjacent to Chicot, Arkansas, and
BHysr, Mississippi, are under water. No
r.at damage is apprehended.
Col. Robert ]. Miller, a prominent
iTer Of Yicksburg, was shot and fatally
T,unded there by W. II Spears, also lawyer,
uho drove up to Millers Office in carriage
md sent the driver up for him. Just then
Miller came down street, and Spears called to
hn, When Miller approached the carriage,
Spears fired, hitting him in the forehead Mil
g FELL and Spears fired four other shots into
hb1dy. Spears was taken to Jail amid great
a.tement and threats Of violence.
". A. Simpson, gate-keeper of the
tennessee State Grange, announces the fact
al according to the latest report, March 4th,
d the secretary Of the National Grange, there
Ne iorty.nne oranges in East Tennessee, as
follows Bradley, 12; Marion, 8 Blount, / !;
Polk, 2; Bledsoe, Roane, / Greene, 4 /;
Sullivan, 2 Washington, s. Sewer, 2; Ham
ten /; Hawkins, 8; Jefferson, Il Knox, 8
london, 3. Total, 40.
AspecaI from Helena, Ark. says the
SE.bOst Crescent City from New Orleans for
s. Louis with tow Of five freight barges,
neiuel barge and trading boat laden with
thirteen tons Of sugar, blew up at the foot of
NM.e2nma island, ten miles below Memphis.
Every part Of the boat was blown into atoms
md she sunk in three minutes. The barges
we're all consumed by fire The following is
Ii't Of the lost Capt. James Dawson,
Nate Henry Gessler Pilot John A Strauder
md wife, Pilot ..Wm. Mundy, Watchman Dan
Sie cabin-boy unknown, three colored fire.
uH Wounded; George Van Hainten, pilot
ig dslocated Patrick Bacon, second engi-
l'tf bruised VIM. Dunn, second cook, scald-
~ Peter Hall, proprietor Of trading boat
Al! bruised his family all saved The
%'ner Phil Allen arrived at the scene few
a'nents after the explosion and rendered as
4''nce The Cres cnt City is owned by the
A''i'slppI Valley transportation company.
'N1ed at $4,000. Jno. 0strander and wife
'lo we're lost, leave six children, who arc in
Louis His wife had accompanied him on