Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-03-11
South ern News.

General Joshua l.. Chamberlain, president
of Bowdoin College, has been rendered the
management of one of the largest business
enterprises i'll Florida, and has accepted the
| offer.
| Pine Bluff (Ark.) special says: "Mrs.
McAffiee beat out her husbands brains with a
| gun barrel. She discovered him in adulter-
| GUS intercourse with his stepdaughter.
her child. Mrs. McAffee is now in Jail await
ing trial.
The Supreme Court of South Carolina
affiirmed the decision of the court below SEN
ncteing to death the four colored men - Bur-
ton, Dodson, Bates and Adams.
Henry Balzer, employed at Carnegie Bros.
rolling mill, at Plttsburg, Pa. while examining
an electric light machine, placed his hand on
one of the wires, and received a shock that
killed him instantly.
Advces stating that an investigation into
the condition of the two banks which recently
suspected at Macon, Mo-, reveals the fact that
no more than Is per cent. will be returned to
the deposltors, and that Macon county will
probably lose 100000. Public feeling against
the officers Of the bank is very strong.
Nearly enc thousand acres is the amount OF
land subscribed in Polk county to insure the
building of the South Florida Railroad to
Barlow, with such a railroad connection Bar
tow will be on the highway of prosperity.
Contracts have been given out for the Indian
river extension of the Tropical Railroad from
the junction to the Tropical, twelve miles
south of Ocala to Leesburg, Florida, which
point will be reached by May.
The steamboat BERTHE Claiborn was burned
to the waters's edge, at Whiting Lake Land
ng, Steel's Bayou, Miss. The cargo, con-
Issuing OF l66 bales of cotton and 800 sacks of
cottonseed, was totally destroyed. One
negro and three children were drowned.
Referring to the presence in South Carolina
OF several Mormon missionaries, the Column
bia Register suggests the temporary organi-
cation Of the kYllux khan for the benefit
of these apostles of bestal lust" The Reg
| lister declares that 1T is simply outrageous
that such creatures should be permitted to
disseminate their detestable' criminality in
South Carolina
The Faber Brothers, celebrated pencil
manufacturers, have established a colony of
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they have purchased off Cedar Keys, Florida.
1t is called Atsenna Island, and they have
put up saw-mills and machine shops, and
have their workmen engaged in cutting and
preparing the cedar wood for Fabers famous
cedar pencils. The colony is a fourishing
| one.
fire at Beauregard, Miss, destroyed ten
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$4,000; insurance small.
The grocery-store of Solomon Brothers, at
Savannah, Ga, was destroyed by fire. Loss,
100000 insurance, $4,000.
The first through car from San Francisco
TO New Orleans. without breaking bulk,
reached New Orleans via the Southern Pacific,
having been fourteen and a-half days on
route. The freight rate was $140 per hun
dred pounds.
The river continues to rise at Little Rock
Ark, at the rate of half an inch per hour
The whole Pastoral country is under water
Mosley's lake and river, fifty miles below,
have joined forces, and present the appear
rnce of an inland lake. Much destitution
exists among the inhabitants Of the ovehowed
territory. Unless assistance in the shape of
provisions is furnished, great suffering mu st
follow.
The wholesale dry goods house of Menken
Brothers has made an assignment. Their
liabilities are estimated at about half a million
dollars. The schedule of assets shows the
stock of goods in both wholesale and retail
departments valued at 1926 900, s11 900 in bills
eceivable, s95, 900 open accounts, $4,000 real
estate, making the total about $500 The
members of the firm say that the assignment
was made necessary on account of the strin-
gency of the money market in New York
The house was one of the leading dry goods
houses of Nc mphis.
Gcoseg growing is among the new industries
introduced into Texas. Recently a flock of
geese, numbering LOGO, shipped from Boone
county, Mo-, arrived at Gainesville where u