The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1883-07-14
West and South.

west and South.
Tnr endowment fund Of Vanderbilt Uni.
tional 100000 from W. H. vanderbiIt re.
Gently, making the total amount he has
given the institution s51.0Oo.
IN Baltimore few days ago Enoch
Pratt gave deed Of the Pratt Free Library
TO that city, aud, bc'ides. drew check for
sHsl,353.Wi, which would be IN, o.,.d In city
funds for the benefit Of the institution.
TnE four Commissioners and Clerk Of
Grand County, Colorado, for unknown rea.
sons, were shot by masked mon on tho 9TH,
two being killed instantly and two others
bslng mdrtally wounded.
TBs Democrats OF tho First District Of
Al'''ama have elected James F. JDass as
Conei,ssman
AZ mas oesa decided by the Chicago Typo.
graphical unio' 10 postpone its recent dc.
mand Tor an Increase In .pay 10 printers
until October !, at which time n motion 90
reconsider the resolution for an advance
will he disposed Of.
JAMES and John George, two brothers,
were drowned In the river at Chicago ON
the 4th.
The Missouri Supreme Court has ,e.
clared constitutional the Downing Hieh.
License bill, which fixes the price OF
licenses at one thousand dollars, and 40.
pllcable TO st. Louis.
THE venerable Archbishop John Baptist
Purcell, Of Cincinnati. died on the ith, and
Bishop Pinkney, Of the Episcopal Diocese
OF Maryland, died at Cockeysville, Nd,
aged seventy.threc.
THE INDEPENDENTS held State Conven.
ton at jackson, Miss, ON the ith, and
adopted platform declaring for free
ballot and fair count; legislative super.
vision Of railroads, ana the election of
Judges by the people. No ticket was nom.
mated.
AT skipwith, Miss, few days aso cIti.
zens hanged to a tree and then riasled
with lead negro named Martin Jones,
who had confessed participation In the
murder Of Mrs. Ambacher.
JUDGE HaU0HS, Of jefferson, Tex,
while returning recently from a night
session OF court, was shot through the
Atoh W hN IfrtHNus
ArRE recently destroyed two blocks Of
business structures, mostly frame, at Gads.
den, Ala entailing loss Of 10000.
In the suburbs Of Cincinnati an express
train while running very rapidly the other
day 10 make up lost time, struck farm.
er's wagon and killed six persons, vizi
Henry Krackc, Mrs. Henry Krackc, and
four chiidrcn-John, aged ten; Annie six.
teen; Maggie, thirteen, and Lizzie. seven.
A NATIONAL CosvESTior Of Anti.Mo
nopolists met IN Chicago on tho ith and
organized by electing John J. Henry, Of
New York, President. Nineteen States
were represented by two hundred and fifty
delegates. Denis Kearney and Stephen A.
Maybell, the California representatives,
were excluded.
Tue Legislature OF Georgia met at At.
lanta on the 4th.
The jury In the libel-suit Of y. J. Leh.
mann against tho Chicago Herald on the
ID gave tho plaintiff verdict for $4,000.
AT four o'clock on the morning Of the %
Mrs. Kirkland, OF Massillon, o., nrose 10
prepare for n railway trip, and as she
threw open q window she was shot dead by
q burglar.
The National Anti. Monopoly Convention.
ut 10. closing session In Chicago on the 9TH,
elected John y. Henry, Of Brooklyn. N. Y,
permanent President. The platform
adopted pronounces all corporations sub
ject to the control Of the States or the Fed
erai Government; demands an investiga.
tion by Congress Of the cost Of railways
and transportation, urges the establish
ment Of postal telegraph, postal savings
banks, graduated income tax, and ths
amendment Of tho Patent laws; oppose.
the issue Of currency by banks; favor,
paying of the National bonds In lawful
money; denounces the tariff as being
wholly In the interest OF monopolies, and
pledges the members OF the organization
not 70 enter into any afilliation with thu
Republican or Democratic parties.
A BorLER in J. =. Kelly's saw.mill. q
Huntsville, Tex. exploded few days ago
killing four mon instantly, and ssverel,
woundIng four or iive others.
AT Evansville, MINI. twcnty-six build
ings were destroyed by FIRE the other even
ing, entailing loss Of $4,000.
TuE firm Of whitcomb a Kendall, Chi
cago provision merchants, has failed 70
$4,000.
woop's Opera House was destroyed b.
nre at 81. Paul, MINI, few nights ago.
ON the bth eleven convict soldiers, de-
tined for the military prison st Fort Less
enworth, escaped from the guard.houss q
Fort Omaha by tunneiing the structurs
Three Of the fugitives were recaptured.
The Shaw locomotive, In trial Of spec
on the 9Th between Milwaukee and Chicags
made q record OF sirty.nve miles an houi
The Democratic State Convention 9
/ Minnesota will be held al b. Paul on th
ID Of August.
, on the sth two ships arrivcd'st Pensocol'
Fla, from Vera Cruz, with yellow fever 0
board.
In South Chicago on the 9Th steam va
accidentally turned into boiler at u
rolling.mill which was being cleaned
John Hero and John Holngren, scsidin
, them 70 death.
; AHEAvr thunder and raIn-storm visits
the region around Petersburg. Va, u
. other night, many structures being striis
, by lightning and orchards damaged
! A syeRo named John Cone was hang
] st Houston, Tex. on the 9th, for Grimm
assault upon white girl.
\ A NOS st Mound City, Ill, on the Mig
. Of the ssh lynchsd Nelson Howard, who
Gently killed John Kane, bridge contra
n Tor on the Wabash Road.
/. TnE Health Board Of Pensacola, Fls-. b
. issued an order ths. yellow fever infect
vessels arriving shall remain st auarsnsi'
until frost comes. ai
o TnR other day James Napier, . neEr
!. became Jealous Of his wife a Hsmpto
}. Ca, beat her fatally. and then hanged hli
10 self.
ON the esh the Red River Valley was 81
4 suRssfnx from drought Minnesota a
y south>rn Dskota he'd b>sn MESSED with 9
4 pious rains. Ths wheat crop In that :
y iioa VS. estimated "a ninety.foar per cen
Il Of en- svsrags yield. Corn vssfnilJ tsf
n ws>ks later than usual
ExsGv on Ne morning Of Ne - Y
u bsrt vess arrived of Mobile bsf wa
:. ths Grew save four d1wn wi'h yslla
8 isvur. ns Inflated erafi csue from W
Cru.