The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-03-31
Tuesday. March 30.

Among the animal curiosities recently
brought to light in Murfreesboro, Tenn
is horse with moustache.
A negro man was found dead Sunday
morning near subterranean still-house
in Sumner county, Tenn, having been
shot several times, and his head cut near
ly off.
Thursday morning party of Kickapoo
Indians raided the town OF Guerrero, Tex
as, and carried off all the horses and pro-
visions they could find. A party of forty
men are in pursuit, led by man who was
some twenty years captive among the
Indians.
Alonzo Arp, a Young man but recently
married, lost his life at the lockwood
coal mines, East Tenn, one day last week,
under the following circumstances. He
was engaged in some duty near the mouth
of the mines, when the bank caved in, bu>
rying him beneath the earth and rock
Lie was totally extinct when the body
was exhumed. He had commenced work
at the mines only the day before.
Little Mollie, daughter ofJohn Ball, re-
siding in Hawkins county, Tenn, was
shot and killed in the following manner,
last Thursday: She-aged only two years
and brother of four, we're playing with
a pistol, which they had found in an old
trunk, and in attempting to replace it,
caught the hammer on the edge of the
trunk, causing it to discharge, the bullet
taking effect in Mollie's cheek, and rang
ing upTa ard, killed her almost instantly.
Instructions will he Immediately issued
through the War Department to the Gem
eral commanding in Texas, to take such
measures as may be possible to deal sum-
marily with the Mexican raiders. Those
best conversant with affairs apprehend
that general border war will encue, in
which event the invasion of Mexico by our
armed citizens is not among the improba-
bilities.
Bench warrants were issued by the
Todd Circuit Court, now in session at Elk
ton, KY, on Tuesday evening last, against
ten of the Fairview gang of Kuklux The
sheriff, with a large posse, left Elkton at
midnight. and returned Friday night with
only one prisoner. All the rest had abb
seconded. The county is much excited as
the conspiracy develops. The Kuklux ar
rested is the tallest man in Todd county.
Four negroes broke Jail at Elkton Friday
night. A guard of three citizens was over
the Jail, but they were sound asleep.
The Asheville IN. CO. Pioneer tells the
following story OF corpse and coffin: Du-
ring the recent high water negro woman
died on the premises of Mr. Green Allen,
on Wolf creek, two miles above the sta
ton. The next day she was to have been
buried, and the relatives and friends as
sembled for that purpose After the fu-
neral services at the house. the body was
placed in a two-horse wagon, and those
akin to her also got in the vehicle to ac>
company the remains to the burial-spot,
which was on the opposite side of the
swollen creek. In attempting to ford the
stream, the horses stalled, and the parties
in the wagon were in imminent danger of
being drowned by the rapidly-rising wa
ter. They were finally rescued, but no
sooner was the wagon-bed relieved of their
weight than it fioated off the running gear,
and the coffin and its contents
were hurried along toward the roaring and
seething waters of the French Broad
All efforts to recover it were aborlive, and
the case containing the cold and pulseless
voyager passed rapidly out of sight. 1t
was found several days afterward among
some driftwood, near Leadvale bridge,
thirty miles from where the accident oc-
Cured; and strange to narrate, not one
drop of water had penetrated the narrow
confines Of the insentient sleeper.