The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-01-27
nsWSsQE InE WEEK.
Wcsiuessl january 70.


Yesterday. at Washin. ton City, White
law Reid, the editor Of the New York
Tribune, after tpstit ing before chc..Ways
and Means committee, in the Pacific Mail
matter, was arrested at the instance OF
Boss shepherd on charge of libel.
Extensive preparations are making al
Memphis for the celebration of Mardi Gras,
which falls ON the 9th of February this
year.
W. II Aspinwall the great New York
ship owner and fnancier. died last night.
All Europe is lrming, with prospect for
general war in the near future
Germany is going to prohibit the impor>
tation Of American potatoes into that
country.
Serious alarm was felt in Ro ne yester-
DAY for the health Of the Pope.
About three hundred convicts revolted
yesterday afternoon at the Missouri peni-
Tertiary, hut the uprising was squelched
without bloodshed.
The National Hotel of Louisglle took
its customary tip up the spout yester-
dav.
Six hundred persons have visited the
Natural Bridge within the last six months,
ehcu OF NuOn paiu Que uOliaT LOT viewing
this wonder OF nature.
Some thieves entered the bedroom Of
Mrs Campbell and Miss Harriet Camp
bell, of Sumter, S. c., while the ladies
were sleeping. and carried away Sarato-
ga trunk weighing 300 pounds.
In a carload of horses and mules which
arrived in Richmond, Va, yesterday
morning from Baltimore by the Richmond,
Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad,
three fine horses and a mule were found
trampled to~death by their fellow-sufferers
in the over crowded car.
Senator Brownlow voted the Democrat
ic ticket at the Knoxville, Tenn. election
yesterday.
On Thursday morninga discharged COL
ored soldier, by the name of Alex. Brown,
murdered colored girl, with whom he
was living, on the Cibilo, three quarters of
a mile below Selma, Texas. The murder
ed woman was stabbed in the neck and
arm, and almost disemboweled. Death
followed almost Immediately, the weapon
used being butcher-knife over foot long,
which was completely covered with blood.
The motive is supposed to be jealousy
The murderer gave himself up to the au-
thorities
Yesterday morning early, while VIM.
Heath was blasting rock at McMillan's
Station, Tenn, a piece about the size of
his fist struck him in the forehead, and al
most instantly killed him.
Thursday a man named Diekerson was
killed, and W. Ii. Keys, late compromise
candidate for the House of Representa-
tives, MORALLY wounded. at Houma, La.
Keys and Dickerson, the latter man who
had been canvassing the parish for the for
mer during the campaign, entered bill
lizard saloon 10 Houma for the purpose of
playing a game of billiards. 1t appears
that Keys credit was not very good, and
the keeper of the saloon insisted upon hav-
ing some security that he should be paid,
and Keys accordingly placed in his hands
a revolver, to be redeemed at the conclu-
sion of the game by payment of the usual
charge for the use of the table. When
Dickerson and Keys were done playing,
the latter wanted his revolver back, al
though be did not have money enough TO
pay his bill, but promised to pay at an
other time. This promise was not good
enough for the saloon keeper, and he de-
clsred his intention of either getting his
q. money or keeping Keys pistol Accord
ingly Keys and Dickerson attempted to
forcibly obtain possession of it. In the
melee, as before stated, Dickerson was
killed and Keys MORALLY wounded The
latter was a colored man and a member
of the Legislature of 1873.