The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-03-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A young Ir,1 III New Havcn cancelled
three months board bal the oihw dsy. BY
marrying his iondltdy.
An ex-oounts treasurer in Michigan. BE-
,ng eichty-fivc tn ousand dollars short ~
his accounts, committed suicide ens day
last woak.
an organ-grindcr was run over by
runaway horse ATTACHED TO a wagon. In
East Broadway, v. z, the cther day, and
his neck was broxcc causing instant death.
I OF twcnty-si1 Thousand eight hundred
and forty Welshinen who live in Liverpool.
twcnty-three thousand thres hundred and
eighteen are church-gocrs.
The recent great collapse in mining
stocks, in California, roachod such de-
structive figure that the shrinkage 81
values, in three weeks, is said TO have
been over ninety seven millions Of dollars.
A fagman on the Baltimore and Potomac
railroad, while attending q switch at Dorio
Station, .he other day. slipped on tho Joe.
fell under passing train. ard was crusho1
and mangled to death.
Mrs. William Plunts Of Albany ssps-
rated from her husband after only two
weeks of wedlock because no snored SO loud
ly that she could not sloep. Verdict
served him right.
The Duchess de Mciina- Coli Is said t.
possess a pearl necklace which is fnnily
heirloom. 1t is composed of twelve OF
fourteen strings of large and beautiful
pearls, and is valued at 100000. When
she wears it. the upper string fits around
her throat, while the lower falls below hor
waist
A train on tho Albany and Susqueh1n-
nah railroad was lately thrown from the
track, near Binghamtan, By brokeu rail.
The palace car WAS thrown thirty feet and
smashed, but fortunately the passengers
escaped without serious injury.
Some Of the settlers Of the Cape Of Gooi
hope have gone extensively into ostrich
raising. The birds feed on grass like cat
tie, and require but little care. They are
dangerous, however, and ill-temporcd, and
sometimes attack and hurt their owners
.evcrely.
Two robbers were rhot near Mooresville,
in Licking county, Ohio, one night lately.
by a farmer and poddlcr who was stay.
ing at his house. One of the robbers wus
killed on the spot the other, who was
wounded. died next day. He was tho
farmers brother-in-lsw.
A girl only sixteen years old was arrest
cd few days since in Boston, for having
raised" a certificate of railroad stock from
one share to sixty The apparent value Of
the certificate WAS increased from SOS 10
StoS0, and $1,000 was obtained on it before
the fraud Was disYovered. -se-z-~-
On Saturday % ist week a mar who
was hunting on the summit of Brush Noun
tain, four miles from Altoona, Pa, fired at
and killed another hunter. whom he mis-
took for deer. The homicide gave him.
self up to the authoriti,s, and was cxonsr-
ated by the verdict of coroner's jury.
There is a man under sentence Ct death
in Paris France, who cannot be executed
because there is technicality of French
law which forbids the carrying cut Of an
execution until the real name Of the cul-
prit is known, and this mans name is .
secret which tho authorities have time far
been unable to find out.
There was an explosion OF GAS in
street sewer. at Boston, one day recently,
which occurred whiletwo men we're examin.
ing the pipes with lighted matches. 4
hole, twenty by fifty feet, was made in the
street, ard the men, who wero thrown
considerable distance. were SC badly in.
iured that their recovery is doubtful.
Not long since, at S,hoharic, N. T.,
mouse crept into n beehive TO steal honey,
9ut was caught in the act. and stllng to
Ieath by ths irate bees. His decayinr
body becoming offensive, and the bees not
being able to remove it, they set at work
and sealed it up Theoretically in a wax en-
vclope, SO that not tho least oior could es-
capo.
The superintendent Of silver mine In
Nevada, who Lad cbscondcd with a large
amount belonging TO his employers. was
followed, and his remains we're found after
shrec dsys's pursuit. II was supposed he
had fallen victim to grizzly. or some
othor wild animal. The remains were
identified by knife and revolver Wing
near them.
On "Wednesday night q list wcok, q
man WIS caught in the 70. "a fastening a
,,oss.t;e ON the trestle-work over h-,. -.
Bottom, on the Mssissippiand Tennesssse p
r. He confessed that he had reecnsAy thsowl
q train from the track near the sanso place.
and said he expected the train to bo dashed
to pieces this time, his intention being TO
rol, the passengers.
The mangled remains OF man were
found three yearu einco in the south branch
Of the Chicago river. but there was no clue
10 the murderer. On Friday night of last
w,sk, young man living in Chicago, made
a sworn statement that his father had
eSapped that man to pieces put the re-
maine in barrel, and thrown them into
the river; and upon that affidavit the faith
er was arrested for the murder.
Two miners, trade unionists on strike
were tried at Carlisle Assizes the other day
for cutting the rope If the cage used Tor
descending the shaft Of coal mine. They
were acquitted of the more serious chargo
of intent 20 kill the men at work. Who
wei uid have had to descend by the cage, and
sentenced fer injary to the machinery to
twelve months imprisonment.
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