The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-05-27
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

anu LOT several years publisher of the Jour-
nat OF that place. He became pecuniarily
embarrassed, and resorted to whisky and
OPIUM, a separation from his wife hurrying
him on to destruction.
BY premature explosion of a dy-
Mantle blast in Gould's tunnel, near Steu-
penville, Ohio, on the 9th, David Crockett
was killed and two others were seriously in
jured.
ANOTHER cyclone has been DESTROY
ing life and property in various places. At
McA.lister, Indian Territory, eight men
were killed outright and many wounded.
some OF them fatally. The lightning was
eontinuous,and so vivid as to render it light
as day for over an hour. At Mound CITY,
Kans., the greatest damage was sustained
by the Christian Church. The steeple was
landed on one corner of the parsonage, COM
pletely demolishing it. Near Lakefiels.
Minn., school-house was lifted up and
scattered over the prairie. 1t was occupied
by teacher and eleven pupils, who were
all mole or less bruised. The storm camein
the form of a funnel-shaped cloud, which
bounded along the prairie and passed into
Heron Lake, sucking up water to the height
Of 100 feet. Missouri and Illinois were also
visited, but no very serious losses are re-
ported.
GEORGE OTTO TREvELYAN has been
appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland.
A DISPATCH from Ripon, Wis, SAYS
gravel train of three flat cars, caboose and
engine was thrown off the track at Woods
Crossing, on the Berlin Division of the St.
Paul Road, May 8. Three men were slight
ly injured. A COW on the track was the
cause. Passenger trains were DELAYED sew
eral hours.
WILEY LINDEMILL, a negro, and his
wife, white woman, were tried for mis-
cegenation at Dallas, Texas, on the 9th The
woman was fined $500 and the man 800, and
they were committed to the county convict
farm to work out the fine. At the rate al
lowed them he will have to remain almost a
year, and the woman over four years.
C. III. HUDSON, owner of saw-mill
at La Grange, Ind, met with fatal acct
dent on the 9th. A board caught in the
teeth of large circular saw, which was
running very rapidly, and was thrown with
terrible force, striking Hudson in the stom-
ach.
JOHN KEMP, molder at the Novelty
1OHd1 was
burned on the 9th, stream of molten metal
falling on his head and shoulders. He will
probably die.
FRANK B. AMEs, aged 80, a promi-
nent ship-owner Of Bangor, Me-, shot and
killed his wife in New York boarding
house, on the 9th, and then killed himself.
DIR. HI. r. PALMER'S International
Music School begins June %, at Meadville
Pa, and continues four weeks.
A TRAIN on the Fort Wayne, Muncie
& Chicago Road was derailed near Meta
mora, Ind, on the 10th. The express car
and one passenger coach went down forty
feet and were badly wrecked. Milton, the
express messenger, was fatally injured, and
a number of others were seriously hurt.
A STRANGE disease is carrying off
horses in Wabash County, Ind. 1t is sup
posed to be an affection of the kidneys, and
death generally results within twenty flour
hours after the disease takes hold. If atten-
tion is given before the animals fall down
they are in most cases saved.
Two young girls, daughters of John
Larn, of Hatfield, Mimi, were drowned by
the capsizing of boat in which they were
crossing Rock River, May IL.
SEVERAL inches of snow fell in North
ern WISCONSIN on the 10th
MISS MAY GoRMAN, of Cleveland, O.,
a passenger on the Harvey, while the vessel
was off Sturgeon Bay, Wis.,, on the 10th,
committed suicide by shooting herself with
a revolver.
Our of the Cameron-Santa Fe scrip
T. r. Kershaw was taken to Yankton, Da-
kota, from Sioux Falls at the instance of
VIM. A. Burke, government detective, I'M
der charge of completely In manufacturing
the scrip. On examination the case was dis
missed, and Kershaw instituted an action
against Burke for malicious prosecution and
false imprisonment, placing damages at
$40 900.
THE differences between the Cleveland
(Ohio) Rolling Mill Company and employ
ees have eliminated in lockout. All the
company's works are shut down and be-
tween three and four thousand men are
idle. Part of the force announced that they
would quit and an order was issued to close
the other works until all hands were ready
to return. 1t was thought possible this
course would induce the men to resume,
but they manifest determination to stay
out.
MAJOR HENRY HADDOCK, of Pitt
County, n. c., created disturbance at the
residence of his brother William, the other
night, and was ordered to leave. William
had to eject his brother, and there was a
fight outside. Tom Haddock, IA years old,
saw that his father was getting the worst Of
it and killed the Major with shotgun. The
boy then coolly put the weapon down, and,
raising his father from the ground, said: ST
wasn't agoing to stand by and see you beat,
father, il he was my uncle"
JOSEPH MEININGER, a prominent
German architect of Sabetha, Kan, COM
mitted suicide the other day by shooting
himself twice in the head with a revolver.
He had lived apart from his wife for some
time. The act was deliberate, as he made
a will the day before, with proviso that
his wife should not participate in the prop
erty, placing it in trust for his four chill
dren.
E. w. KINGsLAND, Treasurer of the
Provident Institution for Savings, Jersey
City. n. j., shot himself by accident or de-
sign in the trustees room of the bank, on
the 18th. The officials believe the funds to
be intact and made public statement to
that effect, but the bank was surrounded by
anxious depositors. The wound was not
considered mortal.
LEE HANLEY was killed and two 9TH
err BOYS were seriously hurt in Vicksburg.
Miss, May IL. They were pulling an old
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