The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-02-03
EEWS OF THE WEEK..
wednesday. January 81.


Andrew johnson wac elected 10 the U
= Senate yesterday by the Tennessee Leg
islatnre.
A fire in the upper story of the Nav
Department buildings. yesterday after
s'oon, WAS the sensation at Washington.
The coroner's jury returned verdict o
willful murder against Christopher Ma
lonr, who stabbed and killed James Kee
gan AZ Chicago Saturday night
The suit Of Theodore Tilton against Hen
nv Ward Beecher, for posching on hi
marital preserves. is dragging its SLOW
length through the Brooklyn city court.
Antonio Vacaro, an Italian saloon keep
er Of Vicksburc, Miss, was found dead il
his doorway Sunday morning, having
been murdered the previous night, it i.
supposed by some negroes who were seer
in his saloon at a late hour. and it was
Known that he had about $1,000 on his
person.
Tom johnson, colored, who was to have
been hung next Friday, at Montgomery,
Ala for murder, has had his sentence
committed to imprisonment for life.
The wife and eight children OF Pierre
Dulude, Canadian farmer, persisted in
the flames of his house, which was de-
stroyed by fire yesterday in Baucherville,
province Of Quebec
The Texas papers TEEN with fatal cases
Of freezing that occurred during the late
spell.
Thomas Footmau, alias Pbinizee, at
Savannah, Ga, robbed a man on Thurs
day at 10 o'clock; Friday at III oclock he
was indicted by the grand jury; at II o.
clock he plead guilty; and at half past ~
he was happy in the knowledge that his
appropriating disposition had brought
him twelve years in the penitentiary.
A marriage extraordinary took place
at Jasper, Tenn, the other day, which
was q regular wedding of December to
May. The bridegroom, Mr.. Martin, had
attained his 10th year, while the bride
was q girl of only Is. To add to the
charms of the little, modest maiden, the
three-score and sixteen gave his bride
$1,000 as a marriage gift.
About l o'clock yesterday afternoon,
at Memphis Tenn, Col. F. A. Tyler, while
sitting in the Ledger editorial room, was
shot through the left thigh. The cause
of the shooting was the accidental dis
charge Of derringer pistol, which he car
ried in his pants pocket
Capt. R. F. King, the Secretary of the
Virginia terra Gotta and porcelain works,
died very suddenly at the Virginia Hotel.
Staunton, on Tuesday afternoon last. He
arrived in town on Sunday night, and on
Monday he was discovered to be i'll. Every
attention was shown him by the officials
of the hotel, and Dr. Henkel was sent for,
but all was unavailing, congestion Of the
brain having set in, and he expired Tues
day at $50 o'clock. Capt. King was q
son of Maj. Gen. George Arthur King, Of
the English army, and was himself adju-
tant of II. B. NJ. 18th regiment of foot
prince Albert's own) in which capacity
he took gallant part in quelling the mu>
tiny of Nena Sahib in 1859. He was thir-
ty-four years Of age, a native Of India,
where his father was serving at the time
of his birth, and was a grandson of the
Countess of Mountcashel, and cousin OF
Lord Viscount Lorton. He came 10 this
country in march, 1873, in company with
Mr.. L. A. Kerans and others, landing in
Baltimore, and not long after took POI
sition in the Terra Gotta Company.
In the dusk of Wednesday evening Of
last week a wagon drove out of Staunton,
Va, with five or six men, none Of whom
had any ill-feeling against the other, and
this morning one of them is in his grave,
one is in jail as his slayer, and another, a
boy, is in the cell with him as an accesso-
~. 1t is what is called an every day quar-
rel, or, still better, an any-day quarrel
The parties were Michael Livick, aged II
a small farmer; George Fur, a one-armed
ex-Confederate soldier, also a small farm
er, and Furr's son, boy of about Is years
They all resided at Christians Creek, and
Livick and Furr. had been hauling ice
with what is called spike" team, that
10 Livick owned one horse and Furr the
other horse and the wagon. The quarre
came about just as such quarrels come
along with people of their station. The
boy put into a conversation between hi
father, who was driving, and a traveller
on the road. Livick reproved him witt
the old saw about children being seer
and not heard" An impudent answe
from the boy, threat to thrash, the an
swer By the father that he would die be
fore any man should thrash his boy. tn,
taunt from Livick that a man whipped
him last year and the father didn't die 70
him, then dismounting by the father wit
was riding one of the horses, rocks throw
and a scuffie in which thrown heavily
then a cessation, the passing Of the lie, I
rock passed into the fathers hand by tn
boy, and the final blow-all just the wa.
such quarrels 90. Livick alter the blow
mounted the horse and upon reaching
home dismounted and uDhitched him.
Thursday morning he walked TO neigh
boris, complained of q pain in his head
went back home, became insensible, an
Sunday died The frontal bone was bro
ken for an inch and half, and hole wa
made into the brain in which large spin
ter of the skull was imbedded.
His Honor. Mayor League, Of Mem
phis, wss so jubilant at the election of An
drew Johnson to the United States S5ns
torsbip yesterday that, in the excess G
his JOY, he went 10 the station-house, n
leased all the prisoners confined for bein
drunk, owing to inpecuniesity, and the
treated the attaches TO a flowing bowl c
'hot Irish" The released want the LIE:
islature to elect Senator every week
the future.
Thursday, January rs.
An attack was made on the house of d.