Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-16

Eugene Catchings and Bill Payne were
hanged at Kaufman, Texas, on! the Sd, for
the murder of John Love, near Terrell, in
Kaufman County, on the 18th Of May last.
Catchings was the son of q Mississippi
planter, and was only % years Of age.
Payne was a mulatto, aged about %, born
and raised in Illinois. John Love, for
whose murder they were hanged, was an in
dustrious gardener from Pennsylvania, IS
years old. Robbery was the incentive for
the crime.
A party of negroes broke into residence
near Aiken, S. c., on the night Of the I'd,
and murdered Mr.. Hanslam and his
nephew, named Postman. After robbing
the premises the murderers fired the dwell
ing.
Francis Thompson, the notorious negro,
who for years figured as woman and i'm
posed on the Congressional Committee in
connection with the Memphis riots in 1866,
died in the hospital at Memphis on the Sd.
A special dispatch to the st. Paul Pioneer
Press, dated Camp in the field on the yell
lowstone, Oct 27, via Bismarck, Nov. 4,
says: Gen. Miles, commanding the troops
on the Yellowstone, after fighting, defeat
ing and pursuing Sitting-Bull and the con-
federated tribes under him, this day ac-
cepted the surrender of 400 lodges of In
dians belonging to the Cheyenne Agency,
these tribes surrendering five OF their prin-
cipal chiefs as hostages and guarantee Of
their faithful compliance with the terms Of
the surrender. These bands are to 60 at
once to the Agency, where, upon their ar
rival, they are to submit to the require
ments of the Government. The Indians
held as hostages left this evening for St.
Paul under charge of strong guards.
A serious accident occurred to the east
ward-bound train on the Memphis and Lit
tie Rock Railroad, near Edmond son, on the
night of the 4th, caused by the forward
truck on the sleeping-car dropping down,
throwing the car over a trestle, and pulling
the next car offwith it. Francis Moore, of
Bledsoe's Landing, Ark, was killed, and
an infant child of j. T. Eggleston, of Mis-
sissippi, was fatally injured. Two other
passengers were severely, and about 10
slightly, wounded.
BY a collision between two locomotives on
the Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington
Railroad, near Pewee Valley Station, on
the 4th, Ganther, engineer, and Brashear,
fireman, were killed, and the express mes
senger and another fireman were badly in
jured.
A freight and passenger train on the Ohio
and Mississippi Railroad collided near
Shoals, Ind, on the 4th, killing the engi-
neer, Scott, and the fireman, Keifer. Sew
eral passengers were slightly injured.
About 80 Sioux Indians, under charge Of
commissioners, passed through Omaha, on
the Sd, en- route for the Indian Territory,
on tour of inspection.
E. j. Peck, formerly President of the
Terre Haute and indianapolis Railroad,
died at his residence in indianapolis on the
9Th.
The Paris (Ky.) Branch of the Northern
Bank was destroyed by fire on the 9th.
The money and other valuables were unin-
jured.
Micajah T. Bailey, one of the oldest pro-
vision brokers of Cincinnati, died on the
9th, two hours after taking dose of cyanide
of potassium, which had been substituted
for prussiate potassium by the druggist in
preparing a prescription for the deceased.
Mr.. Bailey was 72 years of age, and father
of David FL. Bailey, at present United
States Consul at Hong Kong.
Alderman boarding house at Little Rock,
Ark, was burned on the morning of the
9Th, and two men named Patrick Shea and
John Cooney, stone cutters, perished in the
flames.
An attempt was made on the night of the
7th to despoil the grave of ex-President
Lincoln, at Springfield, ILL.,, it is supposed
with the intention of carrying off the body
and secreting it, with the expectation of
securing large reward for its restitution.
Fortunately the nefarious plot was discover
ed by Mr.. Robt. Lincoln some days previous
to the attempt to put it into execution, and
on the night designated Capt. Elmer Wash
burne and force of officers concealed
themselves in the vicinity OF the grave for