The Hartford herald., 1875-03-17
Saturday, March I3.

Saturday, March I3.
Cameron comfy, Texas, is crunching
new potatoes.
San Antonis, Texas, was freezing Its
own ice last week. .- .t''l 90
The Dallas (Texas) Commercial says
that the gentleman who eloped from that
place a short time ago with another mar
ried lady, has returned to the arms of his
first love.
The discovery ofgold and silver around
the sleepy old town of Newburyport,
Mass, has increased the value of land
from s. per acre to $1,000 per acre.
A colored man in Shreveport, La, fred
at the thief who was stealing his corn,
and, when he went to see the effect Of his
shot, he found his respected father-in-law
curled up near the corn-crib.
Last night at Sauk Center, Mimi, a
stable, belonging to the Sank Center
House, was burned, together with thir-
teen horses, eleven Of which belonged to
farmers and teamsters.
Pinchback speaks very freely Of what
be will do in case of his being rejected
again. He proposes to appeal TO his own
race, and to tell them they have been sold
aud betrayed in the house Of their pre-
tended friends.
A special dispatch from Sioux City,
Iowa, to the Chicago Times says many
strangers have arrived to join Gordon's
Black Hills expedition, which is to start
April 5. The Indications are that there
will be over q thousand men ready by
that time.
A difficulty occurred at Marshall, Mo-,
last Saturday between Thos. Doak and
J. #. Waddill, in which Doak fred sever
al shots at Waddill, missing him, but
mortally wounding John Morrison and a
young boy, whose name is not given.
Doak was arrested.
Miss Sallie Combs, who was living with
her uncle and auntin Union, Tennm CON-
mitted suicide Saturday morning by hang
ing herself Temporary insanity is
thought to be the cause. She was a
daughter of VIM. Combs, who, some years
since, wss run over by the freight train
near Vauce,s tank and killed. The man
ner in which be was killed gave his
daughter great trouble Of mind. Some
think she has never been rightly at her
self since
1t is stated Mr.. Coburn, of Indiana
famous for bis recent exploits in the out
rage business, was a disappointed appli.
cant for a foreign mission, but was beaten
by the army influence, and is now 90 much
worked up by his failure that there il
danger of his becoming disloyal and join.
ing the Democracy.
A special dispatch says a desperate
named Hall took negro into saloon Al
Waverly, Mo-. kept by man named
Bool, and attempted to place him on ar
equality with white men under the civil,
Eghts law. The bar keeper protested
Hall insisted. The bar,keeper ther
chased the negro out of the saloon with 6
revolver. Another negro named Bel
then interferred. and the bar,keeper sho
him dead.
. A lady living about six miles east o
Sweetwater, Tenn. some two weeks sine,
gave birth to three healthy girls, weigh
ing respectively seven, six and foul
pounds, seventeen in all, all of whom VI
to this writing are doing WE'LL She is {
member of a respectable family, and il
now living with second husband, havin,
lost her first one during the war. She il
the mother of two children by her frs
husband, and four by her second husband
THE four having been born at tive
J births.
One Logan, alias Hickey, was killed a
the stage stand next to Tuling. Texas, oil
the San Antonia road, by man nameC
Williams. Hogan had abused William
and his wife on several occasions, and re-
turning on Saturday to the house to q
through the same programme, William
warned Hogan if he did not desist anC
leave the premises, he would kill him il
five minutes. Hogan spent the five MN
utes in cursing Williams and his wife
at the end of which time Williams sho
him in the breast with twelve buckshot
killing him instantly.
A boiler in Nelson & Shortridge's saw
mill, six miles north of RushvIlle, Ind.
exploded yesterday morning with terrii,
violence. killing Alfred Joyce, the engi
neer, and Oscar Hinchman, a boy twelv,
: years old, and injuring severely Jane
Hlnchman, Jerry Widener, and Georg
} Kimball. The boiler was blown into
number of pieces, and in all directions
One piece struck a log house, two hun
dred yards distant, nearly demolishing it
, The mill was not running at the time
Nelson was filing saw, when the engi
: neer, boy about eighteen years old, toll
him to hurry as the steam was gettin,
too high. The explosion followed almos
. Immediately, blowing the engineer abou
sixty feet, but only slightly injuring Mel
son.
: Miss Allie Lou, daughter of Mr.. S. A
} Atkinson, Of New York city, had been o.
a visit to her relative, Mr. A. Atkinson
: OF Madison, Ga. for the last four months
, Her visit South was for the purpose of re