The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-01-20
Tuesday, Jan. 10.

Gen. ". A. Austin, ofStevenson, Ala,
died last week, from typhoid pneumonia.
Hon. Garnett Mcmillan, of Habersham,
Ga, the member elect from the Ninth
District, died yesterday morning of con-
sumption. Col c. T. Goode, of Americas
died night before last of congestion of the
brain. ------------- ---------
The negroes arrested in Lee county
Miss, for the murder and burning Of the
Borum family have been turned loose,
there being no evidence adduced to fasten
the crime upon them.
On the 3Ist of December, a negro wo
man, named Seymore Puttamore, died al
the poor house, Blakely, Ala, at the ad-
vanced age of ITO years. She was not in the
Revolution, nor acquainted with Wash
ington, but she was present at the we'd
ding dinner of President Madison.
Bob Smith, who is reported to have
three wives, and has killed eight men,
finished his career Of crime by killing Dr.
Cooley, of Fostervill, Anderson county
Texas. He was on trial before justice
of the peace at Fosterville, and under
guard of three men. On last Friday
night, Sth inst, about 10 o'clock, the
guard was overpowerei, and Smith
course of crime ended by his being sus-
pended to rafter.
A hostile meeting, in which few
drops of blood was spilled, occurred in
Dalton, Ga, last Saturday One man
with an emigrant wagon, which contained
his wife and several nearly frozen chill
dren, stopped his team to whip his wife;
another man, passing by at the time, re.
belled at the whipping, when both men
pitched into each other. The last we saw
ofthe party, the would-be wife-whipper
with his arms listened, was calling for O
marshal to preserve the sanctity of his
domestic relations.
A fatal row occurred in Adams grocery
near Cochran's Mills, Marshall county
Tenn, Wednesday afternoon. Richmond
Rambo and man namod Edmunson, had
been playing cards in blacksmith shop,
and some misunderstanding arose about
the game. They subsequently went to
Adams grocery, where the quarrel Gull
minated in deadly contest. Both men
drew their pistols and fred almost stimuli
taneously. This was followed by scuf.
file or sort of hand-to-hand fight, in which
Edmunson was MORALLY stabbed by Joby
Rambo, a brother of Richmond He
lived only a short time after the cutting
took place. The jury of inquest, in ex-
aiming his body, found also that the
ball from Richmond Rambo's pistol had
entered his breast. Richmond was taken
into custody, but Joby made his escape,
and at lat accounts had not been cap
tured.
John A. Chumbley was killed at the
Battle creek mines, Tenn, Thursday eve
ming, between half-past two and three
o'clock. He went out hunting with a
shotgun, and nothing being seen of him
during the evening, was missed at night;
as he was night guard over the prison
ers there, and failing to report for duty,
search was instituted by party of neigh
bors and guards, who found him about
nine o'clock at night. He was dead, and
his clothes was entirely burned to a crisp.
There was a CHASTITY wound, where the
whole load of shot had entered the head
under the left ear. The corpse lay on its
back, and the powder flask and ramrod
were laying off few feet from the body.
1t is supposed he was loading the gun,
as the gun had only load of powder in
one barrel. The other had been dis
charged. The body was found about two
miles from the mines, on the bank of the
river.