The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-01-27


ly Springs, Miss. Monday last, for the
small sum of 1880. The purchaser was
Mr.. w. A Roberts. This was the cheap
est property ever sold in that town, hav-
ing cost originally about Sl5. 1900.
A difficulty occurred at a party given by
Mr.. Brooker, in Benton county, Miss, on
Monday last, between Jesse Smith, OF
Salisbury, Tenn and William Walker,
in which the latter was stabbed in the
abdomen. from the effects of which he
soon thereafter died. Smith pinned cots
ton cloth to the coat of Walker, which
offended Walker, and was the cause of
the difficulty. Smith was arrested, and
after trial before w. H. Redfearn, Esq
was sent to jail.
George Carter (colored,) Tho lives at
Oakburg, yesterday, was eating his din
ner and drinking buttermilk from an iron
stone china cup. Just then he heard a
disturbance among the fowls in the yard
He rushed ont, cup in hand, and saw a
large hawk flying off with chicken in
his claws. Without moments hesita-
ton, he threw the cup at the hawk and
hit him on the head, bringing him to the
ground, stunned. Before he recovered
George had bis foot on his head, and his
hawkship was dead in few moments.
A very singular case occurred at the
tie-makers camp, some five miles from
Denison, Texas. One of the tie-makers
was sick with pneumonia, and last Sat-
urday "a very cold day. died, as was sup
posed. One of the comrades came to
Denison and purchased a coffin. During
his absence some of the party had taken
the body out of the hut and placed it on
a board, and it remained there all night.
Sunday morning, when they went to place
the supposed corpse in the coffin, to their
utter establishment it was sitting up on
the board. He was taken into the house
and warmed up, and on Monday was inn
proving.
A negro woman named Whey Conner
committed suicide yesterday morning at
Smokeyville by cutting her throat with a
razor Her family had for some time
been in terribly destitute circumstances,
her husband was dangerously i'll with
pneumonia. aud none of them had eaten
a particle OF food for three days. She had
become perfecly desperate, and declared a
short time before the fatal act that she
didn't intend to live if she had to live
that way" 1t is such a rare thing for a
negro to commit suicide that one can form
some faint idea of the condition of things
that forced this woman to her terrible
resolution.
There is a we'll in Sandersville, Ga,
which seems to have no bottom, and to
be supplied with an inexhaustible stream
of water. Repeated attempts have been
made to draw all the water out, but after
hours OF hard labor by number Of hands,
using ten gallon buckets, the amount of
water in the well appeared to be quite as
great as when the drawing commenced.
At one time keg of the dimension de-
scribed accidentally fell into the we'll
The usual means "a drag) was used to
fish" it out, but no trace of the keg could
be found. Some people believe that a
large creek Ito use their own language)
flows at the bottom OF this well.
ExCounty Treasurer Humbert was tried
Thursday at Orangeburg, S. c., on charges
of official misconduct, and was found gull
ty and sentenced TO one years imprison-
ment in the penitentiary and a fine OF
1000. The ten indictments against
Humbert and School Commissioner Nc
Kinley for forgery, lie over until the next
term. Humbert having changed front,
no evidence can now be had against ex-
Governor Moses, and the game appears
to be to make Humbert the scapegoat,
while Moses and Andrews escape Judge
Reed, however, says that he is determin-
ed TO get to the bottom of this stealage
business.
On Sunday night, shortly after eating
supper, DIR. Sessions, Mrs. Sessions, and
two or three children, at Union Springs,
Ala, were sick, and all affected the same
way. There was sickness at the stomach,
vomiting, faintness, and in Mrs. Sessions
case, very great prostration, with symp-
toms of tetanus. The doctor was lead to
suspect poison. Upon investigation smok-
ing tobacco was discovered mixed with
the sugar used on the supper table.
Mr. Lawrence Barrett passed through
Mobile, with his full company, on Sum
day night last On Monday night he
opened at the Varieties Theater, New Or
leans, in his unequaled PRESERVATION OF Rich
elieu, when a feeling incident mot on the
bill" occurred. The grand old Cardinal
returns the sword to Francois with the
words
"Take away the sword, States can be saved
without it."
No sooner had Mr.. Bar-ett's grand voice
rolled out the sentiment than the perfect
patness to the situation struck the house.
The seats were all filled with the "ban-
ditti," and with one spontaneous impulse
every hand in the house Joined in loud,
long and enthusiastic applause. The gen.
tleman who described the scene to us de-
clares that IN all his experience in New
Orleans, he never heard such kingly
round of approval. 1t rose and fell;
swelled into thunder and died away, only
to rise again. The splendid interpreta-
ton of the lines by the greatest of elocu-
tionists struck cord in the Southern
heart; and it was full three minutes before
he could proceed. During that time the
Cardinal Duke sat in his red chair; and
he WAS not afraid"
On last Friday difficulty occurred in
Meridian, Miss, between w. w. CHS
holm, sheriff of Kemper county. and Chan
cellor billiard. of Gainsville, Ala, in which
Judge billiard received severe, though
it is believed not a fatal wound, from a
pistol fired by Judge Chisholm. Though
Chisholm and billiard never met, there
has been great deal of enmity and hard
feeling between them for several years.
1t grew out ofthe killing of Hal. Dawson,
nephew of Judge billiard. Dawson
was shot about three years since by a
man named Davis, and also by Gilmer, at
Scooba, and billiard, in a publication, re-
Elected severely on the conduct of CHS
holm as sheriff in reference to the prose-
cution.