The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-10-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

capped from the asylum at Staunton, Va,
the other day, and we're killed by q train.
BEN GOoDsoN, aged As, and Rebeeca,
his daughter, were Killed by lightning. at
Bryant Ind. during recent storm. Isaac
saunders was Frustrated. but he will prob
ably recover.
HALF Of the village of Grand Meadow,
Minn.s has been fred by tramps. Business
Is entirely suspended there till the insurance
ad1usters make their investigation.
GEORGE DEvERs, a farmer near
White Sulphur, KY, was fatally shot by
Marshal G. A. Cole, Of Georgetown, the
other night. George and his brother were
under the influence, and attacked the Mar
shall when he ordered them to subside.
RIVAL base-ballers batted each other
at bordentown, N. j., The other afternoon.
Several were seriously injured and others
were locked Up.
Two policemen had little practice
In New York station-house on the 18th.
Officer Henderson, who had been drinking,
pounded Officer Hogan with a club and
tried to finish him with the contents Of
revolver.
Ross, the railway ticket sharp, failed
to appear at Independence, Mo-, FORGETTING
his bond.
The body of Samuel Voght, Ger
man laborer, was found in the river at Ham,
ilton, Ohio, the other day, with bullet
hole in the head. When last seen alive he
had 81. 900 in his pockets, and was about to
return to the fatherland. OF course the
money was gone.
A RUMOR got afoat at Chattanooga
that the Taylor brothers, who murdered
Sheriff Cate and his deputy, had been placed
in the Jail, the other night, and a crowd of
fiye thousand persons gathered and de-
manded the prisoners, for whose capture
rewards of $4,000 had been offered. A
committee of five was allowed to enter the
Jail and see that the Taylors were not there.
ROBERT r. BISHOP is the Republican
nominee for Governor Of Massachusetts.
WHILE E. g. Vincent, of Waterville,
Me-, was mapping under tree in Brooklyn,
N. Y, the other day, hungry goat came
along and chewed up $165 in greenbacks
protruding from pocket.
DUPLICATE letters from Rangoon,
one dispatched by way of the Suez Canal
and the other via San Francisco, reached a
New York clergyman In the same mail.
THE seats of circus exhibiting at
Mount Airy, North Carolina, fell the other
day, carrying down fifteen hundred people,
of whom fifty were seriously injured.
ALFRED ROGERS, of Philadelphia,
transfer clerk of the Insurance Company of
North America, is said to have obtained
$25. 900 by raising certificates Of stock and
borrowing money upon them, wasting the
proceeds in mining-stock speculations.
TWENTY miners were killed by an ex-
plosion of fire. damp in Germany.
In the Circuit Court at Detroit, Mich,
the other day. in presence of one hundred
members Of the bar, the assistant prosecut-
ing attorney read petition for the disbar-
ring Of Charles r. Ford on charges of mis-
demeanor, attempting to pass forged notes,
| malpractice, and bad character generally
he once served three years In State Prison.
Judge Jennison gave him three weeks to
answer the charges.
THE triennial meeting of the Supreme
Court for the Northern Masonic Jurisdic-
ton of the United States convened at Bos.
ton on the 10Th, H. L. Palmer, of Milwau-
kee, Sovereign Grand Master, delivering
the annual address.
THE Sovereign Grand Lodge. 1. .. O..
F., at Baltimore, Nd, elected the following
officers for the ensuing two years: Erie j.
Leach, of Iowa, Grand Sire; Henry f. Carr,
of Maryland, Deputy Grand Sire; Theodore
O. Ross, of New Jersey. Grand Secretary !;
Joshua Warrant, of Maryland, Grand Treas
| urer.
Mrs. j. E. GooDRICH, of Union City,
Pa, was knocked down by a train, while
| trying to cross the track the other day, and
| lived but few hours.
WALTER DUNN and r. U. Wilson, of
| Sebewa, Mich, exchanged shots the other
day. Wilson was wounded In three places,
| and will not live long. Dunn escaped with
a shattered hand.
EIGHT HUNDRED pounds of powder
in mill at Santa Cruz. CAL, exploded on
the 10Th. R. Tufts lost his life and all the
| windows round about were broken.
THE Merchants and Pacific hotels
Red Cliff, Colo, and thirteen other build
ings burned the other night.
A COAL TRAIN on the North and West
Branch Railway went through trestle near
| Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the Goth. Half a dozen
miners were seriously hurt.
SARAH ELsToNE, of Woodstock, On
tario, kindled a fire the other day and stood
| over 1t until she was fatally burned.
The President has appointed James
G. Reed. H. B. Fry and Henry Blackstone
to examine the Northern Pacific Railroad.
THERE was a grand smash on the
New Haven & Northampton Railway, near
| Greenfield, Mass, on the 10Th. Conductor
| Phillips, Brakeman Curtis and Fireman Eg-
| glestein were killed; Conductor E. j. Hes.
ley, Engineer Geo. Washburn and Engineer
Hamilton were seriously injured. Two To-
comotives and lot Of freight cars were de-
molished.
A CAUCUS of the Republicans of the
Oregon Legislature nominated John III
| Mitchell for United States Senator. The
Democrats have selected Judge P. P. Prime
THE Connecticut Republicans have
placed Gen. w. II. Buckley at the head o.
their ticket.
THE Nebraska Republicans have
nominated j. w. Dawes for Governor.
A BRAKEMAN named Cooper wa.
placed under $500 bonds by COMMISSIONS
Mccormick at Dallas. Texas, the other day
charged with violating the civil rights bill
in refusing to allow q coiored woman to ride
in ladies' car.
THE boiler of the ferry steamer Rich.
ellen exploded at Lachine, Ontario, Sept.
81, and killed Pierre Duquette, pilot; Jas
Richardson and Perselliut Amyot, OF Cha
teauguay, farmers. Duquette, son of th'
pilot, is supposed to have been blown over
board. Several passengers were severely
| scalded.
GEORGE TERHUNE, formerly conduc
tor, and VIM. Russell, train dispatcher. OF
the Central Railroad of Iowa, have been i'm
prisoned at Keokuk on charge Of counter
feiting. The dies and lot Of spurious coli
were found in Terhune's possession. 1t i
thought that others are implicated.