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

Arch. McCaleb. in Williamson county,
Tenn. Some Of the bones of the slele>
ton persisted when exposed TO the air.
Riley White, convicted at the last term
of the District Court at Corsicana, Texas,
of the murder of Tom Tomson, will be
hanged to-day.
On Friday last, two negro men, named
Jake Hartman and Wesley Mclean, " ere
hung at Clayton, Barbour county. Ala,
having been convicted of the crime OF
murder in the first degree, at the last
term Of the circuit court. The parties
murdered were negroes, and for little il
any rrovocalion. They confessed their
crime and took occasion to say that so
many men had escaped punishment for
crime, that they thought they would get
off also.
A few days since a man died in the city
aims house. of Richmond, Va, aged fifty
two, leaving eight hundred dollars in
money. and other property, the money
heing on deposit in New York. Being a
British subject, the British consul took
charge of his effects. when he discovered
that he had left a will in which he nomi-
ted a citizen Of Richmond a co-executor
with three other gentlemen of New York
After making requests to his aunt and sis
tiers in England aud ireland, in his will,
made in New York, September, 1870. he,
by codicil, made in Richmond, in May,
1874, says "And do hereby direct my
executors, before carrying into execution
any of the requests made in my said will,
to pay to the following insurance COM
panies of London, England, to-wit: To
the Atlas Fire and Life Assurance Com
pany, el00, to the Sun Insurance Com
panv, el00; to the Phoenix Insurance
Company el00, to reimburse them for
money received by me in Liverpool, Eng
land, in the year 1919, from the said in
surance companies, paid by them to me,
to which believe | was not strictly enti>
tied"
A respectable colored family in Angus
ia, Ga have owed a section in the color
ed cemetery during the past thirty years,
and have buried in it several of their
relatives A few days since they were as.
tonished and filled with Indignation upon
discovering that a stranger had been in-
tered in the section. They Immediately
set to work to discover who was the tres>
passer, and after diligent inquiry ascer-
tanned the following: 1t seems that GER
tain Bob Mosley was indebted to another
Fifteenth Amendment whose name we did
not learn. and by reason of his impecuni-
osity was unable to liquidate the same.
Knowing that his creditor was in search
of a suitable spot in the colored cemetery
to bury deceased relative, he went to
IL. I'll l.
dead in the section referred to above, pro-
vided the debt due by the said Bob was
Immediately cancelled. A bargain was
at once made Bob got his receipt, and
the dead stranger was buried in the Sec
ton to which the aforesaid Bob had not a
shadow of right or title.
Later information brings out several
new facts connected with the quadruple
tragedy at Laconia Circle, Ark, in which
the brothers Buck and Harris were killed.
Avis Buck threw and held down one OF
the HAIRLESS, and sought to make HIM
tell who shot Hale Buck several weeks
before, but disclaimed any intention to
shoot or stab Harris. The latter refused
to reveal the name. Charles Buck had a
double-barreled shotgun, and declared
no one SuOulu luleTleTS peINGSu us DTOlH-
er and Harris. Esq. Smith, who, it is
said. was intoxicated, attempted to wrest
the gun from Charles Buck. 1t was &C.
cidenlally discharged, and the contents
lodged in Harris brother, quiet specta-
tor, who fell dead. Just then some one
shot Charles fatally, through the win
dow. Avis ran TO him, when the Harris
he had struggled with drew a pistol aud
shot him. He in turn drew his pistol
and fired at Harris, killing him instantly.
Both the HAIRLESS lay dead on the floor,
and both the Bucks we're wounded But
Avis got Charles on horseback, and was
mounting himself, when another man
fired several times, infiicting five more
wounds. Though MORALLY injured, Chas
held Avis behind him, and rode to Shep-
herds, four miles away Charles died
that night; Avis survived till the next
afternoon. lie was universally liked in
the neighborhood, being held in the high
est esteem, and his death is generally la
mented.