The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-12-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

killed.
A PROMINENT painter aud artist, John
=. Lackie, committed suicide by cutting his
throat few nights ago at his home in Erie.
ia. Financial reverses We're supposed to
have been the cause.
WHILE skating recently Ave persons
were drowned by breaking through the ice
In London, Eng.
AT Madrid, Spain, portioff~af the
war Once burned to the ground few days
since. twenty persons We're injured, one
seriously. The library and part of the
archives were destroyed. The King was
present during the ire, and assisted in sub
DUNG the flames.
LIE death of Alexander Gardner.
who achieved national reputation during the
war by his Photographic work with the |
Army of the Potomac, occurred the other |
morning, In Washington. he was the origi- |
nator OF the National Reiief Association.
AT konigsberg, Germany, railway
collision occurred the other day. Two per- |
sons were killed and nine injured.
The other day Mrs. Collins, wife of |
prominent Bradford (Pa.) man, who had
been confined in the State Insane ASYLUM at
Buffalo. n. Y, was taken out on writ of
habeas corpus, aud it was stated that she
had never been insane. 1t was alleged
there was trickery in the manner of her
commitment
RECENTLY the Land Court decided
the test case affecting / 200 tenants in Coun-
ty Monaghan, Ireland. The decision was
in favor of the tenants.
A FEW days ago the Marquis of Lorne
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escort of soldiers was ordered TO accompany
his train over the Southern Pacific.
HARVEY IL. Wilcox, the oldest mem
Der of the New York Stock Exchange, died
few nights ago.
THE Delaware iron-mills at Philips
burg, N. j., have started up, after q sus-
pension of one month.
| SWEEEY's BANK, in existence in New
York City for twenty years, has closed its
| doors.
THE guard in lakewood Cemetery at
Richmond, Va, the other night arrested
two medical students and two colored men
in the act of opening grave. Four dead
bodies taken from the cemetery were found
at the Virginia Medical College.
The Duke of Seimoneta, President of
the Professionally Government after the
entry of the italian troops into Rome in 1870,
died few days ago.
EIGHT messengers of the American
Express Company on the route from Chi
cago to Winons, Mimi, have been dis
charged for dishonesty.
WILLIAM EDWARDS, a prisoner en-
route for the penitentiary at Moundsville,
W. Va, in charge Of the Sheriff OF Cabel
County, jumped from the train three miles
east of Zanesvile, o., a few nights ago
' and was killed.
e ALBERT PALMER, Democrat, has beer
elected Mayor of Boston, Mass, by ZOO
majority.
A FEW nights ago, Mexican named
q Lena, resident of Monies De Las Latas
n. NJ, while riding homeward, was stop
\ ped by young American and shot dead
= The highwayman rode off with the dea
mans horse and valuables.
r. THE failure of w. j. Pope & Co
Montreal lumber merchants, for 100000,
announced.
/ SEVEN men were killed and eleve
% others were wounded by the fall of an III
Is finished bridge on the Sunset Road in Tex
. recently.
4, Mr.. GLADSTONE on the 18th celebra
IL ed the fiftieth anniversary of his election
a member of the British House OF Con
ID mons.
= A FIRE DESTROYED the house OF Singh
h. ton James, on a plantation near Stoc'
a. | bridge Ga, few nights ago. Ihom
al | Knight and two children were burned
q. death. Knight was lying drunk in the hou
d. when the fire occurred.
POsTMAsTER-G HOWE n
ge it is said made arrangements for t
he manufacture OF two cent stamps on an e
tie tepsive scale.
r. TIE Western Nail Association at
a. recent meeting in Pittsburgh, Pa, report
ng trade good and the outlook encouraging.
a AT the age of eighty years Henry
Jankins. the oldest member of the l. O.
I'D F. in the West, died a few days ago at
nal home in Camden, Ind. He had been Pc
is master at Camden for seventeen years.
ent IT has been voted by the Old So1
oy- Church in Boston to pay 10 the family OF
ca deceased pastor, DIR. jacob III. Miami
ost s., 900 per annum for six years.
WITHIN the past few days sex
the earthquake shocks have occurred IN
VS.: SEVERAL of the most extensive
'6o; operative stores in Dublin, Ireland, :"
pn' destroyed by a recent ire.
the AN explosion few days ago IN Pr
Wv der magazine at Quay aquil, Central Ann
ca, killed sixty persons.
.sh- DURING the past year the recelpU
laws grain at Chicago were 100000 bus
liver less than the year previous. At Clncih
we're nearly 2,OC0,o 900 bushels greater.
here MORRIS 81 Co., of Briton Terry,
and VIZ nsor-is ot Ilanuenech, Eng, tin p
No makers, have failed. Liabilities, tloo'ooo
f140, 900, respectively.
two ROBERT L. STUART, the retired SUI
NOD refiner of New York, died few days
!, tlv at the age of seventy -four years.
that The paupers in the city work-h'
ched at Vienna, France, revolted Few oaVs
sc OF attacked the Warden and fired the pure
stion The military were called out to SUI
the revolt. Forty arrests had been mas
tho THE extensive depot and wharf
The gether with sixty ears and ten ioconi ),
,for. belonging to the Manhattan Beach nan
an, Comnany. at Bay Ridge, near Ne"
,atad CITY. were destroyed 10y fire lie"
'crat, ago. LOSE. fooV''
hlie- to death.
em ,,o A NEW paper, called The M00n'
pared entirely by the iuna,les con count
the Wards Island Asylum, New 1orA
ches- w, u ,ade its appearance. Df. Med
pro- s.ia there was plenty of talent in the as
said, - snnnIv matter.
than TN Directors of the Baltlmo
rder. 81. pa have re.e)ected john W. Oh
nder- 80 I,o..ost For tho twenty fifth cons
Use it :
g and 'ein. Hath ia announced of