The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-07-29
West and South.

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A STRIKE for an advance in wages was par
ticipated in on the Sd by over 750brickmakers
in Denver, Col, the strikers going from yard
to yard and compelling other workmen to
stop.
A NEGRO girl named Mary Booth, aged
fourteen years, has been recently convicted of
numbering two persons by poison, in Surrey
County, Virginia, and sentenced to be hanged
In November.
AT Camden, s. c., on the 4th L. W. R
Blair, prominent Greenbacker of that State,
was shot dead by Captain Halle, because the
former called the latter liar.
AN Ohio River steamboat called the Scioto,
loaded with excursionists from Wellsville,
West Va, collided with the towboat John Lo-
mas, opposite Mingo Junction, o., at ten
O'Clock on the evening of the 4th, owing to
misunderstanding as to signals. Within
three minutes the steamer sank in fifteen feet
of water Over twenty persons were reported
drowned.
A BREAK occurred in the Madison levee on
the Mississippi River, eighteen miles above
st. Louis, on the Sd, OVERLOOKING twenty
thousand acres of farming land in Madison
County, and floating away the stacked wheat.
JACOB WAGNER, of Cincinnati, few days
ago shot his wife Teresa, and then put a bull
let through his head. No cause was known
for the tragedy.
THE country about nine miles east of Usage
Mission, Kan, was visited by tornado a few
| evenings ago. The town of Beulah, in Craw
ford County, suffered badly, and a number Of
houses and barns we're blown down. Girard,
in the same county, suffered considerably.
No lives we're lost.
TuY Darpoorats of North CaroIipa hall haf r
State Convention at Raleigh on the 5th and
nominated Risdon L Bennett for Congress
man-at-Large. The resolutions adopted de-
| mand free and fair expression of the popu-
| lar vote at the ballot-box; favor immediate
repeal of the Internal Revenue system; de-
| nounce the present Tariff laws as unequal,
| unjust and vicious; favor such revision of
the tariff as will produce a revenue sufficient
for economical support of the Government;
| an immediate repeal of all laws imposing a
direct tax for the support OF the Government
of the United States; favor education of all
classes; declare that the question of prohibit
ton is not, and never has been, party ques-
ton in North Carolina, and was never indorsed
| by the Democratic party.
Two SISTERS named Emma and Sallie Lee
were fatally burned at Lincoln, Neb., few
days ago, their clothes being fired by a lamp,
| over which they were heating curling-tongs.
THE military authorities at Fort Randall,
| Dakota, on the 5th received applications from
| citizens for protection against anticipated
| Indian outrages.
THE Republicans of Arkansas have nomi-
| mated Colonel D. w. Slack for Governor.
Among the resolutions adopted was one de
nouncing the reputation of the State bonds.
A FEW days ago Charles Colvig, chief of
scouts at San Carlos agency, and four Indians
were ambushed by a small band of renegades.
Colvig and three men were killed.
| AT st. Johns, Arizona, on the 9th nine
Mormon cowboys baoke loose and brought on
battle in which two men were killed Two
of the raiders were arrested.
THE Rail,ody Age, after q careful investiga-
tion, states that work has been In progress
this year on 179 roads, and that 4, 800 miles Of
main track have been laid, none of which were
in New England. There are now upward of
100000 miles of railway In the United States.
THE Republicans of the Twentieth Ohio
District on the 9th renominated A. 8. Nc
Clure for Congress.
| ACCORDING to an announcement of Cap
| tain Payne large colony viii enter Indian
| Territory on the Goth. He seems to think
that the invasion will be countenanced by
| Secretary Teller.
THE Democrats of the Fourth District of
| North Carolina ON the 9th renomtnated
| William r. Cox for Congress. a
A LIBEL suit for $25, 600 has been instituted
| by Edwin Cowles, of Cleveland, against
Bishop Gilmour. on account of letter pub
| lished referring to the invalid daughter of
the editor.
THE Republicans of the Seventh District of
on ha fad I'm
for Congress.
SEVERAL vessels were recently chartered at
Chicago to load with corn to Buffalo at one
half cent per bushel.
j. B. MILES was on the 9th nominated for
Congress by the Republicans OF the First Dis
trict of Arkansas.
In their State Convention on the 9Th the
Alabama Republicans Endorsed the Greenback
nominee for Governor, j. L Sheffield
AT meeting in Cleveland on the 9th the
incorporators of the Garfield Monument As
ISOLATION selected Board of Trustees, who
organized by electing Governor Foster Presi-
dent, and ex-President Hayes ana Governor
Cornell Vice-Presidents. The contributions
up to date were $120, 900.
REV. ROSWELL FOSTER has been nominated
for Congress by the Greenbackers of the
Third Iowa District.
REPORTS on the 7th from the wheat harvest
ing in Kansas indicated that the crop would
prove to be the largest In the history of the
State, the average yield being estimated at
2O.69 bushels per acre, and the total product
80, 263,7 I'll bushels. Corn was thriving, but
backward
A BoY.of thirteen years, named GUY Smith,
residing at Kirkwood, Mo-, shot and killed
his father the other day because be got pun
ished for fighting with bis brother.
IT was stated on the 7th that the loss of
life by the sinking of the steamer scioto, on
the Ohio River, would certainly exceed one
hundred. It was also stated that whisky was
the cause of the collision, some of the officers
Of theScioto being almost helpless frog IN
toxication at the time