The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-04-21
Friday, April Is.

The negro who murdered the Rev. ]. c.
Miller in Union county, 8. c., Oh Sstur-
day last, before he committed the fatal
deed, told him that he did not wish to
kill him on his horse, and requested him
to dismount, which he did, and received
the two discharges in his body.
A young man named Fred. Branden
burg was found dying from starvation and
exhaustion under pile of lumber, in San
Francisco, early yesterday morning. He
stated, before his death, that he crawled
under the lumber nine days ago, and 9th
er lumber was piled around, stopping
egress, He was son Of Matthias Bran
denburg, No. 6 st. Charles place, Phila,
delphia, snd was aged about Is. u.
Yesterday morning boy named Frank
Kelly leaped from q wagon on Poplar
street, Memphis, in order to stop the
horses, which were running away. The
affrighted team was stopped at the TOLL
gate, and several persons who witnessed
the leap from the wagon, proceeded to the
spot where the boy was lying. They
were panied to find that he was dead, his
neck having been broken by the fall.
Five human skulls were found in acaye
on the road leading from Gadsden, Ala.
TO Col. B. B. Whorton's one day last
week, three Of which were brought to
town Saturday and left at the drug store
of Stephens a Liddell. Some physicians
say they are the skulls OF white persons.
there is no telling how long they have
been in the cave, nor how they came to
be there. Some suggest that they are
the remains Of victims Of Murrell.L
The editor Of the Townsville. Tenn,
Times, has been shown well developed
banana grown under peculiar circumstan-
ces. Mrs. Col. Seward, had some bana>
mas banked up during the winter, and up
on being brought to light this week. it
was found that one of them had budded,
growing in much the same manner as if
the plant had been exposed to the open
air. The leaves, fruit and flowers were
all well developed. This may prove in.
feresting to gardeners, and those who are
growing semi-tropical fruits. and we allude
to it for their benefit as well as for the
rarity of the growth. T.. ....
Monday noon, Peter .Koden, aged 70
years, went to the house OF his son, Fred
Koden, eight miles down the island from
Galveston, Texas, and assaulted his
(Peter's) wife. Fred tried to protect his
mother from his fathers violence, when
the old man. blind with rage, seized
vegetable knife and stabbed his son in the
abdomen, just over the left lobe of his
liver An officer was sent for, and the
old man was arrested after a brief strug-
gle. Fred. was taken to the Galveston
hospital, where be Lies in q very precari-
GUS condition. ,--. ~- .... ..'..,... ..u
Mr.. Bridges, prominent merchant of
Jasper, Tenn, is afflicted with peculiar
and terrible disease Of the stomach. on az
count of which he cannot neither eat nor
drink anything. Food of any kind. or
water. when taken upon the stomach, is
Immediately thrown up, accompanied by
blood and matter. A prominent physi-
clan Of Nashville has been called torwait
upon him, under whose direction neither
food nor drink is taken into the stomach,
and life is sustained by the injection of
food and stimulants. Life under such
circumstances would, it seems, be more
terrible than death. b.. b..