The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1884-12-20
SOUTHERN aLEAHIEos.


~ Virginia, afa making arrangements 10
erect monument H. The msmafy N ~,
usofge .. Hives, who vas candidate fof
Congress ~ ibs late election, and dled
during The canvass.
Lodge No ID, order N the Rlks, consist.
Ing oi tume nfiy msmhsfs, vas Installed
At New Orleans few days aso ty Esalied
huler Thomas w kesna, 4 pfand ban.
qnat followed In honor of NJ. keone
william l.awa0n a railroad clerk IN the
Galveston, Houston & Han Antonio Hail.
road general freight office at Houston, Tex,
shot and mortally wounded John Living.
ston, transfer agent, few days ago. the
result u nm old feud. Livingston fingered
few hours aud died. Lawson had not
been captured.
A man from Mobile, Ala, hns gone 10
Maine 10 pass tho winter.
A company Of Scotch capitalists have
recently Invested s2OO,OOO In mining lands
In white County, Georgia,
Interesting dog races took place AZ Cam
ton, Miss, a fcw days ago, for tho Ma
tonal American Kennel Club stakes
saloon at Laredo, Tex, recently re-
ceivcd turtle, measuring two and half
by six and a half feet and weighing so
pounds.
A Florida paper estimates that In the
past sixteen years the Republican party
In tho South has stolen i,IS5,OOO,OOO
chickens.
A Louisiana negro man attempted TO
shoulder five bundles Of cotton ties at once
the other day. lie succeeded In getting
them nearly up, staggered and fell dead
from over-excrtion.
New Orleans papers say that dozens Of
small, low.priced restaurants are being
opened all over that city, and that at many
of them a "very decent and filling meal
can be had for twenty-five cents"
All OF the cotton factories Of Columbus,
Ga, are running full time except one. The
plaid mills arc full OF orders and the busi-
ness outlook Is bright.
John 7. Martin was shot and killed by
regulators at Farmers Station, KY, n few
days ago. The victim was desperate fel-
low and had killed one or two people.
Lafe Gnmm0ns and James Dayine were
quarrelng at Bedford, KY, few days
ago, when son of the latter shot Gam
mons through the head, killing him in
stantly. W. 7. Gammons, father Of the
murdered man, then stabbed Davine twice
with a pocket-knife, inilcting scrious
wounds.
At Thompson's Station, Tenn, few
IaUa luH. ~ 4 D.uaall
and j. II. Morris, had trinlng quarrel,
when without warning tho latter fred
two shots into Russell, who died in ten
minutes.
Mr.. J. NJ. Hill, one Of tho most prominent
men OF Memphis, Tenn, was stopped on
the street few evenings since and robbed
of $3.50. The theft was committed by three
young men.
A man named Watson, confined IN the
now stone Jail at Denison, Tx, charged
with horso-stenling, and who was chained
in his cell, escaped fcw nights ago by
first breaking through lock, then dig
ging through brick partition and thence
removing some bricks from the chimney
and climbing ON to tho Roof, from whonce
he let himself TO tho ground by rope
made Of blankets.
/ Rod Preston, up till within short time
a Deputy Sheriff for Dallas County, Tex,
sold horse in Dallas few days ago.
Subsequently MIR. Mort Cole swore out
warrant charging Preston with horse
stealing, aud recovered tho animal from
the purchaser. Preston fled the country.
a shoemaker ut Wytheville, Va, few
days ago wrote presidcnt-elect Cleveland,
asking for his measure for pair Of boots
for the Inauguration. Governor Cleveland
replied In Il polite noto, enclosing n TWEEN.
/ ty-dollar bill for the boots. The shoemaker
returned the money, but the Governor in
sisted on paying and sent the money back,
adding he would wear the boots on innu-
guratlon day.
The Texas State Eclectic Medical Asso.
citation met in Dallas few days ago with
Iis members present, and adopted resolu-
tions protesting against legislation dis
eliminating In favor Of any one school Of
medicine, aud demanding representation
In the Medical Department Of the State
University.
A woman named Shelley went racing
into Franklin, Tenn, few days ago on
horseback, pursued by her husband on
mule. She declared to the crowd that shs
wanted n divorce because Of cruel and in-
human treatment, upon which Skclley,
who had come up by that time, began ~
beat her, In an attempt 10 arrest him u
police officer wns fatally ont. Skelley ls
believed 10 be insane.
John Sullivan, recently from Kansas,
was killed at Clrsicana, Tex, a few days
ago by tho cars Of the Houston a Texas
Central Railroad crushing him TO death, at
the Union depot, in the presence Of hi,
wife, his son and his daughter.
The recent discovery Of gold aud silver
near Spring Place, Ca, few miles south
Of Chattanooga, has created considerable
excitement In that region, aud miners are
iocking In from all directions Gold and
silver has been found In paying quantities
at several points In that vicinity, and
shafts are being sunk aud placer miner,
are digging day and night. One Of the
richest finds was on the farm OF q
blacksmith named Henry. He has been
In INDECENT circumstances. A few days
ago, while prubbing bis little patch Of
land, he saw something glitter in the sand
and on investigation found IL little nu Z.
get Of gold. He gave no publicity TO his
discovery, but associated some friends
with him and began to sink a shaft. A
ilne vein Of silver was struck, containing
fifteen per cent gold, and the ore assays
$40 10 so per ton. Tbs blacksmith q day
or two since refused $1,000 for the mine.
Senator Wade Hampton IL reelected.
The Dallas (Tex.l Times felt constrained
to make this little explanation recently,
IN account Of a conspicuous absence
from IL pages Of the poultry exhibitions
that have lately been 20 popular In Texas
ave are opposed 10 making a chicken.
ro0st Of the Times, but We are cnthusiaa.
tic all the same.
The Mayor Of New Orleans wrote 10 the
Governor Of Louisiana that the City Coun.
I'll had failed 10 appropriate money &c
prosecute offenders against the laws.
Governor McEnery thereupon offered re-.
ward Of 100 for the conviction Of the A..
sa-sin Of A. 7. Murphy.
Texas has the greatest school fund ol
any State In the Union.
The farm known a. ''sprlngield,- Igl
acres, In Fairfax County, virginia,
originally q part Of the Mount vern. q
,s,ste, was recently sold for the apparent.