The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-04-15

| insurance about Slou,U lotal loss 5oo0,-
900. The fire was incendiary, and it Is
thought powder was exploded in the base
ment of the building, where the flames were
| first discovered.
w. Il. LONG, alias Charles Crimson, a
tramp charged with stealing a horse and as
saulting gifllhree years old was taken from
| jail al kokomo, Ind, April 4th. by party
of disguised men who strung him up on
bridge. He denied his crime to the last.
| The only request he made was that he be al
| lowed TO sing song, which was granted.
He sang, "See that My Graves Kept Green"
| After finishing he said he hoped he would
meet his father and mother in heaven. He
gave his name as Richard Long and said he
/ resided in Franklin. Efforts were made by
! w. f. Vail, Rev. NJ. McCune and Others TO
! prevent the mob from taking the law in their
| own hands, but they were greeted by
| shouts OF derision from the crowd that had
| gathered.
A BOY named McGrary was killed by
a freight train at South Bend, Ind, the
other day. He missed his footing while at
tempting TO get a ride, and the wheels of
! fourteen cars mangled his BODY in shock
ing manner.
CHARLES JEWELL, living near Ber-
wick, Warren County, H., was killed by the
accidental discharge Of gun which he was
handling, a few days ago. He was SO years
| old, graduate of Monmouth College and
much respected. lie leaves a wife in very
poor health and five children.
THE murder of Arthur Herbert, an
Irish Justice Of the Peace, has been followed
by the stabbing of eleven lambs on his prop
erty. A sister of Thomas Powell O'Comor
has been sent to Jail for advising tenants in
Roscommon not to pay rents.
JOHN TEETs, living near Mount
Clemens, Mich, was killed by playful
horse the other day. The animal jerked a
halter with force sufficient to di>locate the
young mans neck.
A. Il. FRAME, a telegraph operator at
Belpre, Ohio, was killed by a Baltimore &
Ohio train, April 3, while walking on the
Petersburg bridge.
AUGUST KOHNE, a young German re-
siding in Chicago, killed himself with bull
let the other day because his love had not
! been returned.
SOME months ago package contain
ing IS, 900 was lost at Grayling, Mich, while
in charge OF the express company. A few
days ago u. ID. Price, poor railroad labor
er, bought a house and branched out in
other directions so to excite suspicion.
Detectives visited the house and found I'M
der clapboard almost Sc 200. Upon being
confronted with those facts Price owned up
and said he noticed the package accidentally
drop while being transferred at the station.
He kicked it under the platform and after
ward secured it. He says he burned nine
800 bills, for fear they might lead to his de-
lection.
JOHN BAELIs has been jailed at St.
shorter than old man Bender, the Labette
County (Kans.) fiend.
CHARLES MCGUIRE shot and instant
ly killed Minnie Lapham, at the residence
of her father, three miles south of Wame-
go, Pottawatomie County, Hans, the other
day. He then placed the revolver to his
head, fired ball through his own brain,
and fell unconscious upon the body of his
victim. Mcclure is described as an edu-
Gated Sco Gilman, well connected, but con-
sidered little eccentric. The young lady,
to whom he had been paying some atten-
ton, was in her seventeenth year.
AN express messenger on Fort
| Wayne train recently heard strange noises
| from large box billed to Philadelphia.
When he pried off the top out stepped an
old man named Jerry McAuley, who had
! been shipped from Chicago in the most
| economical manner. The express matter
remains in the hands of the officials at Del
! phos, o.
| ST. XAvIER's CATHOLIC CHURCH,
one of the largest and finest in Cincinnati.
was totally destroyed by fire the other day.
THE steamer Bella Mac, one of the
best tow boats on the Upper Mississippi,
was demolished by the explosion of her
| boiler, near La Crosse, Wis.,, April Z. She
| had crew of seventeen men, and not one
among the entire number escaped without
injury, while six were killed outright. How
the accident happened is mere conjecture,
! for among the survivors who were rescued
| by the citizens OF Brownsville, and who
were afterward carried to La Crosse by the
| steamer Toll, which had been sent to the
scene, not one could give any positive state
| ment, further than that there was a sudden
explosion, subsequent horrors of burned
and scalded victims, cries of those who
were hurled overheard for help from the
waters, and the scenes always incident to
such disasters. Frank Mcintyre, Swift
Bell, John Nolan, w. McCaumish, Charles
Martin and George MeCaumish were killed,
and ten or twelve persons we're burned and
| bruised.
| A TORNADO in Southwestern Kansas,
few days ago, carried death and destruc-
ton over wide area and played some sin
gular pranks with numberless objects in its
path. Moving north from Raymond, it
Frustrated telegraph poles and unroofed
barns and dwellings. The buildings on the
farm OF j. M. Profit were badly racked
and splendid orchard ruined. The house
of S. Wilson was demolished, and Mrs.
Wilson, just on the point of confinement,
was killed, and young lady, daughter
OF G.. Parker, a neighbour. was badly
injured, probably fatally. The build
ings on the farms of d. Mcfarland and
Geo. w. Lawmon were also destroyed. The
extensive buildings covering the sorghum
machinery of j. n. Mayberry were leyeled
to the ground. A large barn on the farm of
T. j. Weis was blown away, but seven head
of horses were left in their stalls uninjured
In the town of Chase, twenty buildings
were demolished and cars were blown from
the track. Mr.. Read, hotel-keeper, was
killed, his wife was fatally injured. and other
| lives were lost Mrs. Henry Muscott was
seriously injured, and her babe was snatched
| from her arms by the wind and carried some
distance away. A tin can was blown into
and almost through plank in the platform
surrounding the depot, and a tub full of