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cyclone.
The Illinois Central Road has completed
branch of forty miles from Jackson,
Miss, to Yazoo City, and will soon run
regular trains.
The colt Farondale. entered for the
Louisville Derby, ran away few days
ago and fell, fatally injuring his jockey.
w. w. Taylor committed suicide at
Gainesville, Tex, a few nights ago by taking
morphine. Family trouble is supposed to
have been the cause.
One Friedman, a Russian Jew peddler,
was fatally stabbed at Nashville, Tenn, by
an unknown person few nights ago.
Tensas and Concordia Parishes, L.,
though badly overlooked, will probably
be able to raise a cotton crop. The
water is slowly draining off.
The Executive Committee of the Re-
publican Wing Party of Georgia has is
sued call for convention to meet
May /, for the mination of State officers
and Presidential electors.
A few days since Charles Sanders, a
colored young man Of Fort Worth, Tex,
went home, took pistol from his pocket
and remarked to his sister as he sat down:
"Would you like to see me kill MYSELF"
She told him: mo, put it away" He put
the pistol TO his forehead and sent ball
through his brain, dying almost instantly.
Stephen Moore, a Wichita Falls (Tex.)
cattle man, was killed few days ago by
Ben Shanklin. The killer escaped. He is
| described as five feet nine inches high,
light complexion, blue eyes and sandy mus
ta"he, Moore was rich and formerly re-
| sided at Dallas. A reward of IL, 900 is or
fered for the capture of Shanklin.
Captain ALI. G. luther, of Memphis,
Tenn, has been missing for several days.
The gentleman is widely known, and has a
wife and four children in Memphis. Cap
tain luther was Adjutant.G General under
General James C. Veatch, who commanded
the Federal forces in Memphis during 1864.
| He afterwards marched to the sea with
Sherman, and was a popular officer in the
army.
1t is stated that there are six hundred
luna'ics at present in the Texas jails.
Hampton, Va, boasts the oldest church
in the country-St. Johns, which was built
in 1884.
Goat men are very successful near
Uvalde, Tex, most of them raising 100 per
cent
The business quarter of Monroe, La, has
been entirely destroyed by fire.
A sign-board, marked ''SiX miles to Mont.
gomery, Ala" was found in the mountains
after the recent tornado, go miles from
Montgomery.
1t is said that number of the negroes
who recently went to Arkansas from
Anderson County, South Carolina, are
dissatisfied, and are trying to get money
to get back home.
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Courthouse, and Center, in the same State
be begun at once.
In the San Antonio (Tex.) City Council
recently resolution was adopted to dc
away with the charter and organize the
City government under the State law.
In Marion County, South Carolina, hun.
dreds of persons are said to be in danger
of starvation. In no year since the wal
has there been such scarcity of food.
George Dunaway, of Randolph County,
Georgia, had IA fretful child. He attempted
to whip it recently, whereupon his wife
drew a pistol and killed him.
The Kentucky House of Representatives
has passed a bill prohibiting b cyclists
from using the public roads of most of the
counties in that State.
JHlheS a. beitIul TIelBul
agent of the Galveston, Harrisburg q San
Antonio Railroad, died at Sherman, Tex.
q few days ago. He was one of the oldest
railroad men in Texas.
Ten indictments have been returned al
Louisville, KY, against d. X. Ma, on fol-
fraudulent hypothecation of warehouse re
csipts.
Bill Epps, a desperate, who has been op
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wood, of the Sam Bass gang, were jailed a
Gainesville few days ago.
Dowse, whose five children were muir
dered i'll his home near Waynesbcro, Ga.
some weeks ago, confesses the or me ant
pleads emotional insanity.
John Bush (cOlOred), the murderer Wit
was to have been hung at Lexington, Ky.
on the 10Th, was granted new trial by thu
Court of Appeals which will probably
? come up in May.
VIM. Todd was shot and mortally wound
ed at Speedwell, Madison County, KY,
few days ago by man named Conway.
+ Thomas Shields, confined in Jail at Char
lotte, N. c., under sentence of death for tn,
murder of Joseph G. Sitton, with the ai'
of outside friends cut hole through tn
q wall and escaped few nights ago, but wa
subsequently recaptured.
Two negroes namsd Willis Moore an
!. Henry Jackson, from Madison or .s
Miss, while going to Vicksburg iron
Delta in a skiff a few days ago, were over
a taken by a storm and upset Moore clun
to the skiff and was rescued by anothe
colored man from the landing. Jackson
4. managed to get upon an empty coal fiat
lying in the edge of the willows, but wa
, blown off by the terrible wind and nothin
, has been seen of his body since.
: few nights ago while Claude Patterson
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