The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-06-03
OVER THE STATE.

| A man IN fon0ia county f0unu q
bag of money in the public road
containing 81, 000-more or less.
A man in Macon is raising opos-
sums for market, and the Macon
ians are talking of building ono
track or primordial railroad to con
meet their city with the depot.
Last Monday night car on the A
& C. Railroad was robbed of eight
or ten boxes of tobacco, and cask
of bacon which was thrown of near
Boyd's wood yard. The goods have
not been found, and the thieves are
still at large.
Several months ago a couple of
city lads caught country youth
in the city and with q little lamp
black they painted his rudder end. A
few days ago the grand jury found
a true bill against the city chaps,
who heard Of it and lit out for Chun-
ky. Hunger soon sent them back
home, where they are now awaiting
trial.
Batesville Blade On last Tues
day morning Gabriel Williams, col
ored, was knocked off the railroad at
Tallahatchie bridge, by the $50 mail
train, and died from the injuries re-
ceived. Gabe was runningonthe track
in front of the train, and. unfortu-
nately for him, over estimated his po-
wers of locomotion or moderated
the capacity of steam. His race is
run.
Me ridian Mercury: Arrosst have
been made in each of the newspaper
offices OF the city, except Bro. Ores
sctt's. In the Mercury, Jere Horn
was arrestsed for exhibiting deadly
weapons in the Homestead, J. j.
Shannon for censpiring with others
to get Jack Wyatt out of the reach of
the court, to-w wit, in Mexico (Camar-
go J in tho Gazette, the editor, F. T.
Cooper for exhibiting deadly wea-
pons.
Meridian Gazette: A man named
W. w. Trask was sho and killed at
Franklin last Tuesday by AMIR. Gray.
Trask had stolen horse at Corinth,
Miss, land was pursued by the Sheriff
and two men named Gray. They over
took him ut Franklin, and in an en-
counter the unfortunate man was
slain. Itappears.from papers found on
his person that he was from Massa
chusetts and that he had left his wife,
MIR. Gray was entirely justifiable,
and after an acquittal by the court,
he, his brother and the sheriff return
ed to their homes in Mississippi.
Vicksburg Herald: Master Blum,
brother of Charlie Blum, who keeps
a store on, the upper end of Capt.
John Willis, place, in Washington
county, was very painfully wou ndcd
the other day by gun shot. A
laborer on the place had boen ont
bear hunting, and on returning had
carelessIy lett his loaded gun on
the counter in the store, with the
hammer raised. Charlie Blum &C
cidently leaned back against the
gun, touching in some way the hair
trigger which discharged it; the
load passed through a quantity of
and inflicted a very pain
full wound in young Blum's arm. 1t
is feared the arm will have to be
amputated.
Kosciusko Star: We are informed
that on Monday last Mr.. Harmon
called Ellie Harmon
who lives about three miles from
Sails, this county, left his homo in
= most mysterious manner and has
not since been heard from. About
the time of his disappearance a
bottle of morphine, also, was missed
from the premises, a fact which leads
his friends to fear that he labored un-
der temporary,insanity and meditat-
ed suicide. 1t had been noticeable
for several days that he was very
much depressed in spirits, and seem
ed distressed about something, no.
body knew what. SO soon as he had
been absent sufficient time to excite
suspicion and apprehension, his
neighbors and friends, to the num-
Der of about fifty, collected together
and secured the woods, fields, &c.,
for miles around but up to last re-
ports had been unable to get any
clue to his fate, or to find any trace
of him. Mr.. Harmon was II good
citizen, and blessed with an affection
ate aud interesting family, consist
ing of wife aud three children
Fur their, sake, AS well as for the