The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1884-02-16
West and South.

to., WOODEN dealers at Now York, for
$4,000.
West and South.
A MIL has passed the Texas Legislature
making II a misdemeanor 10 fence lands
not owned or loased, or TO herd stock on
the same.
ArrEa q struggle of several weeks, the
Democratic caucus at Frankfort, KY, on
the evening OF the 9th nominated Joseph
Q. s. Blackburn for United States Senator
on the sevcnty-third ballot.
AT Lincoln, ILL.,, %. A. Carpenter, charged
with the murder OF Fora Burns, on the 18th
secured change of venue 10 Menard
County, and the case was announced 10
comm nee March next at Petersburg.
In the Ohio House ON the 9th tho McCon.
nellsvillc ordinance, which empowered In.
corporated villages to decide whether liq.
boundaries, was repealed.
ADvroEs OF the 9th stated thatvigilantes
on tho Upper Elkhorn River, In Nebraska,
had within tho past few days hanged eleven
horse-thieves.
WILLIAM MoRRIsos's two daughters,
aged seven and eleven years, residing In
Pocahontas County, w. Va, were burned
to death few nights ago by the destruc.
tion Of their home by FIRE. Morrison, his
wife and four other children escaped.
The Kansas Republican State Commit.
toe has issued call for q State conven.
tion at Topeka April 20 to elect delegates
to tho National Convention TO 10 held In
Chicago.
The largest livestock corporation In the
world was formed In Texas recently by the
consolidation Of the Millican and Contincn.
tal Cattle Companies, with property valued
at s5,00o,000. A Scotch syndicate has pur.
chased the ranch property Of six Texans
for S2,500,000.
NEAR Port Gibson, Miss, construction
train was overturned the other day, and
fourteen men were injured. one fatally and
ihrse dangerously.
INDIAN inhabitants Of Ommittan, neal
0axeca, Tex, rebelled ON the 9th against
the whites and burned tho business houses
and murdered seven chief merchants. They
dragged the bodies through tho strcsts
plundered stores and spread terror through
out the place.
On the 9th the Texas Legislature ad
journed sine die.
WHILE Mrs. William wollom, who 70
sided near the Howard furnace at Ports
mouth, o., was holding n gallon ofpowdeI
on her lap the other day Il ignited, and I
terrible explosion occurred. Tho woman
and her child were killed, two other chil
dren wcre injured, and the house wal
blown TO atoms.
GREAT destruction Of property and th,
loss OF some lives has been caused BY
foods In tho Oaio River, AMI on the
Ith Allegheny City, Pa. was inundated
mills and factories had suspended
operations, and all the railroads bu
one had stopped running trains
Thousands OF persons were homeless. The
loss Of property was estimated at 5000,
0o). one-third Of the city OF Wheeling, w
Va, was submerged, sl,5oo.o0o worth o
property destroyed, and seven thousand
.pcople driven from their homes Within
a radius OF fifteen miles twenty thousans
people were homeless. Al Cincinnati th'
river marked sixty.two feet above Low
water mark. aud business was completed,
suspended in the lower part Of the city
At numerous other points on the river 70
port. Of great damage were prevalent
A SOLDIER and bis sweetheart were 70
Gently married by Rev. W. @. Lane, o
Halifax, N. G., without license, and ate
few days the bridegroom deserted hi
wife because the union was illegal. Tn
Clergyman has been ordered 70 pay apen
atty Of two hundred dollars.
MARTIN HEsDRIcKs tcolored) while rob
bing the house Of Samuel Norman, nea
chillicothc, o., tho other night was sho
dead by the proprietor.
A LocKroRr tN. W merchant named I
G. Walls. aged sixty.hve years. INST wit
reverses and emiratsd 70 Texas 70 n
trieve his fortune. He poisoned himsel
at Dallas few days ago, after havin
subsisted for some time on one meal pc
day.
MARoARxr 0DossxLI, q young woma'
while shooting at rats at Cumberland
sa,,s a' : rs NV a c'r.,,. ~ ~ '4' -"
n a.. T.-.. ! .. r.,. p..a H.
Richard Nelson tcoloredl, proprietor Z
tho Galveston (Tex.) Spectator, vas ejecte
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