The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-27
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SOUTH AMI "E@aIs
From the Mississippi jetties the lates
report is that the south pass jetty channe
has now a depth of twenty-five and one
fourth feet, and that the bar does not builC
up in advance of the construction of the jet
ties, as WAS thought probable.
The Eckconec, Ga, Baptist association
have deferred the matter of dealing with
members who have joined the grange until
next year, in order TO give the members time
! TO withdraw from the grange.
The following obituary notice in the
Savannah News tells the story OF the terrible
fatality OF the epidemic in that city: Died,
in this city, of the prevailing epidemic, yell
low fever, August %, Edward Lee, aged 9
years and 10 months. September Is, ina
Florence, aged 13 years and months. Sep
tember 10, Mary Lillian, aged 4 years and 9
months, beloved children Of EdTgtd w. and
Mary A. Drummond. Also, on the 27th of
September, their father, E. w. Drummond,
in the thirty-ninth year of his age, leaving
broken-hearted wife and one son to mourn
their less.
At Beaver, Utah, on the 10th, Judge
for participation in the Mountain Meadow
massacre, nineteen years age. In doing SO
he called attention to the atrocity of the
crime, the inability heretofore of the author
tiles to procure evidence. The conspiracy
to murder was so widespread that Lee was
finally offered up as a sacrifice to popular
Indignation; but others equally guilty might
hereafter expect punishment. The prisoner
having the right under the laws of the terri.
tory to choose death by hanging, shooting Or
beheading, and having chosen to be shot,
was sentenced to be shot to death January
26, 1877.
The Texas legislature appropriated |
s., 900 not for Gerry's portait of Lee, as has |
gone the rounds of the press, but for two |
pictures one of which is that of "Lee at the
historical painting and not a
portrait.
The Howard association has dis
patch from DR.. J. B. Bruins, of Brunswick,
ia, saying that the epidemic there may be
at amend.
While riding home on q canon that
Iad been used at a celebration hear Angus
a, Ga, John T. Perdue was jostled off and
lad his head crushed by wheel, and Peter
received severe bruises Mr.. Per
lue was the husband of Jennie Woodbine,"
he Georgia poetess.
The old courthouse in Rappahan-
lock, Va, in which John Walter, Robert
Ware, John Shackleford and James Green
wood were in 1774 arraigned for preaching
he gospel contrary to the law OF the colony,
las been purchased, and is to be converted
nto Baptist house of worship.
The mayor of Brunswick telegraphs : {
Thanks to our generous friends throughout {
he union, we announce that we think We {
ave enough supplies and money to carry
s through the epidemic"
Griffin (Ga.) News: Corn in the ear
as sold yesterday on our streets at fifty
ents per bushel. Such thing has not oc- ,,
ur-ed before IN the month OF October in =
rifiin since the war. Some OF the corn was :
lade on corn at $3.50. That's where the !
Ike comes in. How many of these, sellers 7
1T BUY back their corn at three psices be- q
ire anothe er-crop comes in and then cuss Q
ard times? o
Many lives were lost by the burning 1
the SlcdluDOdb COutuCIu DGIAcs ZAluOLS |
lose known to be lost are VIM. Van Phul,
r.. Drose, Miss Fannie O'Conner, an1 an :,
her lady, all of Baton Rouge; Mr.. Frank, +
Port Hudson: Mr.. Langum, also Frank, 5
a employe, and the steward and his crew. 1t v
supposed that nearly all of those who were i
eeping in the after-part of the boat were 1
Irned to death, as after the fire had once o
1t fairly under way it was almost impOssi- l l
lie to get at the bow of the boat, the only 4
ay of escape to the shore. The cargo con- .
sted of from 500 to 500 bales of cotton. =
he boat was new, and valued at $45, 900 and a
sured for $4,000, mostly in New Orleans h
,mpanies. Mr.. L. Herbert, the pilot, held &
e bow of the boat against the bank until Ii
l who could had escaped; he then leaped a
ON the piIot-house to the lower deck and 81
as severely injured.