Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-08-01
Western and Southern States.


James G Withers, age seventy seven years,
committed suicide at Nashville, Tenn, by
taking strychnine. He said he wanted to die.
His father and a brother were suicides.
1t is believed that there is danger of an at
tack from British America upon the army by
1000 OF Sitting Bulls hostile Indians. Sitting
Bull himself is reported to be peacefully in
clined but is urged on to hostilities by his
chiefs. The immediate cause of offence is said
to be the recent preparations made by Gen
eral Miles to patrol the border more thor
oughly.
late dispatch to Cincinnati paper from
Memphis saws: Throughout all of last night
and to-day steady streams OF people have been
moving by every street, avenue and railway
from the impending fever affection now threat
ening the plague-stricken city. 1t is stated chat
1000 departed by the Louisville road alone,
their baggage piled in high tiers extending
from Main to Second street on the company's
platform To-day vehicles of every imagina-
BILE description have lined the highways, car
rying people, baggage, household effects and
camp equipage to the country. Within forty
eight hours the only remaining inhabitants
will be poverty stricken people unable Tor lack
OF means to leave, negroes and white men
occupying places which imperatively demand
lllSlI DIoStuCO' lnC pOOE ulttDlo W RO away
outnumber those who remained last year. 1t
will be impossible to reduce the population be-
low 10000. All property owners and nearly all
leading officials have gone or are going away.
Some twenty of our heaviest merchants are
moving their stocks to st. Louis and Cincin-
natl, there to reopen and continue business
until November. A dull dreary and lonesome
time is in prospect for all who remain. Many
business houses closed last night, and will not
reopen until cold weather SETS in" Another
Memphis dispatch of the same date says that
business is about suspended, and nearly all
persons OF means have quilted the city with
their families. The leading daily papers an
nounced that during the epidemic they would
publish hali-sheets-the yellow fever dress OF
last year.
Mrs Rhinehart and her daughter, Miss
Heriker, were drowned in the Sangamon
river, at Decatur, Ill. The young lady was
to have been married, but her aflianced failed
to appear, and in fit of desperation she
started for the river, followed by her mother,
She plunged in, and as Mrs. Rhinehart was at
tempting to save her both were drowned.
Others of the bridal party narrowly escaped
the same fate.
IA desperate stabbing and shooting ARRAY,
growing out OF disputed land boundary, &C.
Cured recently about ten miles from Opelou-
sas, La, between John and Leonard Hornsby,
father and son, and Lewis and Alexander
Childs, brothers. The last-named was in
stantly killed by shot from a pistol in the
hands of John Hornsby, who was himself IA
tally stabbed by his victim.
Two boilers in the Central Pacific Railroad
shops at Sacramento, Cal, exploded stimuli
taneously, blowing the fireman to pieces and
damaging property to the extent of $4,000.
A dispatch from Bismarck, Dakota, srys
General Miles has had lively fight with In
dams on Milk Creek Run. Fifteen Indians
were killed and three soldiers wounded.
The strange sight to Virginians OF a colored
lawyer defending a white man was witnessed
in the police court of Richmond the other
day. Robert Peel Brooks, colored lawyer,
appeared as the counsel OF white shoemaker
named John Dunnvant, who was charged with