The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1883-01-06
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tensive plans for enlargement have been de
termined on, and they will be eommensurzl
with the amount Of increased stock takeI
II was proposed to add new picker room
to enlarge the cloth room building, AMI q
addition made to the main building. Anoth
or hundred horse power engine would b
needed, and about $50 operatives In a
would be required.
The City Council of Louisville, Ky.
the other night formally impeached Cit
Auditor Phil Hinkle, Assistant Fire Chic
George w. Levi, and two OF the City Hal
officials are under Indictment for frauds Il
the Assessors and Tax Collectors Offices
The managers appoin ed TO conduct the i'm
peachment reported articles to the Board o
Aldermen.
Diphtheria was creating some alarm
In Austin, Tex, few DAYS ago.
1t was said few days ago that tn.
cotton receipts at GreenyilIe, Tex, had av.
eraged two hundred bales daily for some
weeks.
! Ribbon cane in Van Zandt County
Tex, made 80 gallons OF strip to the acre
this season, 1t Is said, and those who raised
cane have found ready sale for the strip al
fifty cents gallon.
j. M. Sturtevant, Superintendent OF
the Tennessee Blind School for thirty years.
and we'll known as instructor of the blind
died at Nashville, Tenn, q few nights ago
from paralysis.
A man in Warren County, Ky, re-
Gently climbed a tree to shake down an
opossum that his dogs had freed. A rotten
limb caused his sudden descent, and before
the dogs learned that he was not the 'pos-
sum he was badly chewed up.
J. w. Graham, of Kemper County,
Mississippi, this season raised on q little
over one acre of ground four hundred BUSH
els OF sweet potatoes, which, valued at fifty
cents bushel. amounted to 500.
General Henry r. jackson, President
Of the Sesqui-Centennial General Committee
or Savannah, Ga.,. recently issued an adj.
dress to the people Of Georgia inviting them
to join the citizens OF Savannah in ceIebrat.
Ing the 105th anniversary of the landing Of
Gen. James 0glethorpe and his English
colonists.
There is q girl in Holmes County.
Mississippi, who is half white and half
oiack. Her nose, ears, eyes, and parts of
The chin are white and the rest of her face
black. Her hands are small and shspely
like those Of a white woman. The girl 4,
twelve years old, and # is said the white ia
spreading. Her mother, pure negro, has
four other children. all of whom are black.
MIR. Trotter, of Gulf Hammock. Levy
County, Fla, recently in one week killed
nve bears and Mr.. Ely panther seven and
a half feet long.
The Coleman Fulton Pasture Com
pany of Rockport, Tex, the other day filed
in the office of the Secretary of State a reso-
tuition increasing the capital stock from
$4,000 to S1,590,0O0. The Merino Ranch
Company, capital stock S10O, 900, also fled a
charter; obj ct, to raise merino sheep, with
principal business office at Weatherford.
Officer Laughlin and George Port
wood had a difficulty in Lawrsnceburg, An.
ierson County, KY, the other night when /
zach shot the other In the breast. Laughlin /
vas Killed outright and Pertwood died a |
hort time afterward.
Bent Elan, a wealthy farmer, but
awless man, who has been in q hundred
rolls the past few years, and whose fines in
nat time would buy good plantation, got
nto an alteration at Dallas, Tex, recently
'lth Henry Daniels about a payment for
ONE drinks, and stabbed him to death.
lam escaped.
b ID. Sanders, resident of Arkansas.
'as arrested in Dallas, Tex, few DAYS ago
n suspicion Of being a train -robber. Con.
ealed about his person were found eight
lstols, two pair of brass-knuckles, and a
rye bowfe-knife.
Longview, Tex, has a pillow factory
hich can turn out 100 plows daily.
Eighteen hundred acres of land ten
lies south OF Tallahassee, Fla, belonging
the estate OF the late John ID. Branch
ere sold at probate sale the other dav at
10 per acre.
The colony of Russian refugees in
iddlesex County, Va, composed of eighty
'ople, has been prosperous from it's start,
veral months ago, and will next year be {
disappearing. The colonists. who are j
i'd to make good citizens, will soon be I
med BY another large party. Y
Ross R. Winans, of Baltimore. recent. n
completed the finest residence in the n
uthern States. 66x75 feet, five stories n
gh, at cost of IS 10000.
The other night some white men went
the house Of negro named Gray, living
Hawkins County, Tenn, for the purpose
whipping him. charging him with steal. 10
: hogs. They demanded admittance. "
Itch was denied. They fired on Gray,s ~
'fn, and the fire was returned. In the L
tile Gray was mortslly wounded and had o
ce died. His step-son had a thigh broken su
A Tim I
It In the head, and was said to be 10
rtally wounded. Another white man. =
ned Orrick, was also wounded :"
". L. Shaw, deserter from the req
r army, surrendered himself to a civil "
GER at Charleston, the other day. Shaw I'd
erted from Camp Omaha. and being I'M re
, to obtain employment he became dis. tn
lraged and gave himself up. an
'ol. Samuel Hamblin, of Hot Springs. all
=. was the other day appointed by the on
rotary of the Interior Superintendent Of te,
Springs Reservation.
is reported that at Columbus. ley
W days ago son of Capt. Stafford was
and that friends of Stafford had hung
shooter.
anita Claus has gone. ~,
t Fort Worth, Tex, q man named ms
enee Weight, stepped into cigar store w
BY Mrs. Lizzie Swim, the other dav. y.
chased cigar and lit it. He then
he'd the match to some fireworks and . At
raj explosion occurred, which set the WI
70 on nre, consuming 1t and one adioin- eXl
A number of people were in the build. ito
but all escaped except Mrs. Swim, who
burned to death.
hotel-keeper of Hogansvine, Ga,
recently introduced to a young lady. No
osed, and was married to her, all in
anne day.
visionary Ridge, near Chattanooga. n
l., is becoming great peach orchard. ars
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