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

g. w. HOWELL, a we1l-known far
mer, was fatally injured by runaway horse,
near Wapakcneta, Ohio, on the Goth.
The corpse OF an unknown lad has
been having variety Of adventures In Penn
sylvania. The boy was killed by train at
Johnstown, and the body was identified
by citizenof Bristol as that of his son, and
tenderly laid to rest, an event soon followed
by the return of the wanderer from Bristol.
Reading Of the occurrence, an anxious
father In Sharon, named Seaburn, had the
remains disinterred, became thoroughly
satisfied that they were those of his son, and
buried them at Sharon August 20. The re-
appearance OF Eddie Seaburn, the other day,
caused the widest excitement among those
familiar with the circumstances Of the
double mistake.
HENRY WIENER. grocer at Caron-
delet, Mo-, made up his mind to die the
other day. He stabbed himself thirty times
Just below the heart, severed the main artery
In each arm, made twelve slashes behind the
right ear, cut a cash Of an inch on the crown
OF his head, and wounded himself in the
right wrist When the physicians had suffi-
GENTLY revived him, he DIR ank the contents
of q coal-oil lamp.
LIGHTNING killed five persons in
church at Concordia, Mexico, the other day,
and many others were seriously injured in
the scramble which ensued.
MICHAEL Foss, aged so, who had
been drinking too much, fell into the canal
at Akron, Ohio, on the 21st. and was
drowned.
A FARMER named Perry was decapi-
tated by train near Moline, Mich, on the
21st.
PATRICK DIVER, saloon-keeper in
New York City, was fatally shot by Charles
Warren, an acrobat, the other night. Dwyer
defeated Warren in game of pool forl $50.
Warren could not pay, and fight followed.
G. c. ROBERTS, of Boston, Mass, who
was arrested some time ago on suspicion of
having caused the death of Elisha Curtis,
and was honorably discharged when it APP
peared that Curtis died of heart diserse, has
brought suit against Assistant Medical Ex-
aminer George Stedman for $40, 900 DANA
ges, for falling to make an autopsy and file
q report in time.
CHARLES MATTHEWS, editor of the
Hornet, was shot four times and killed in
an affray with Col. S. W. Fordyce, Vice.
President of the St. Louis & Texas Narrow
Gauge Railroad, and Col. Rugg, one of the
proprietors of the Arlington Hotel, at Hot
Springs. Ark, on the 22d. 1t is not known
whether Fordyce or Rugg fired the fatal
shot. Rugg was wounded.
THE body of Augustus Green, we'll
known and wealthy Englishman, was found
in the woods near his late residence, in
Chesterfield County, Va, the other day. A
starving dog was guarding the remains.
Green is supposed to have wandered off in
a fit of delirium.
FL. BRADY, assistant Chief Engineer
of the San Francisco Fire Department, was
thrown from wagon and fatally injured
while speeding to a fire the other afternoon.
Mrs. PERKINS, wife of Baptist min
lister near La Cygne. Kans., died the other
day from the development and accumula-
ton of innumerable parasites inside the
head at the base of the nose.
M. DAVIS, postmaster at Athens, Ga,
and Randall Brown, another negro, got in
to political discussion the other night.
Davis settled the point by fatally stabbing
Brown in the abdomen.
Gus KNIGHT, negro, assaulted the
wife of Harmon Mcdaniel, a respected
farmer of jefferson County, Ga, the other
day. He was arrested soon after, confessed,
and was riddled with bullets by a party of
disguised men.
Mrs. DAVID HENNEssY, wife of a
prosperous farmer near Troy, N. Y, took a
a. ~ Do d,,r Of tom
ry insanity, on the 2lst, and died in about
five hours. She was fifty years of age, and
the mother of eight children.
The members of the mining stock
firm of James G. Sands & Co., of New York,
disappeared some days ago. Sands was
secretary of several mining companies, and
is said to have gone to Mexico. Two ladies
have lost $4,000 each by the collapse, and
several prominent lawyers are out about
200 each.
A DAUGHTER of William Smith
O'Brien visited Castle Garden, New York,
the other day, in search Of information as to
the treatment of immigrants on their arri-
val. She intends to establish a boarding
house for female emigrants in Liverpool.
SEVERAL passengers were killed and
many seriously injured by a collision Of
trains in the tunnel at Eighty-six street,
New York, on the 22d. Following are the
names of the dead so far as known: Sher-
man Adamson, of Mt. Vernon; Frederick
Stein, of New Rochelle; Miss J. Smith,
school teacher, of New York City; Eugene
Aubert, school teacher, of Mt. Vernon. 1t
is claimed that the accident was the result
of gross Encouragement.
Mrs. M. w. FoLGER, aged 80, fell or
jumped off Wabash train between Bement
and Monticello, ILL.,, the other morning, and
was fatally injured. She was on her way
from Hennepin to Little Rock, Ark. The
BODY was inferred in the Piatt County Poor
Farm.