The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1885-05-23


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saeHpad anInlufai
The cfiitendeH trial ~ Tayl1ryIils Eyt
resulted iu hans iufvi lea htiaE fm &C.
gutiai and twi iaf imprisonment Tom
CFltteniun, iua grandson 1f tho celebrated
John J t'fItandea e charged wllh muf
defIng l,asa Mesti,y, oli1rei man, at
Anchorage. about ivn years ago
Misa Martha bthhak, m attractive Young
LADY living with her parents near Hose
ill, Va, had quarrel With her lover 4
few nights ago, about midnight, she tied a
ieayy Stone about her meek inmp'd IN
Cllnch River and was drowned. Her body
was recovered The next day
In the woods near Dixie Station, on the
East Tennessee, Virginia q Georgia Rail.
way the body of Sclpo Atchisbn, coiorcd,
was found few days ago rddlei with
huckshot, Recently Atchlson'a son, James
outraged white woman near the Same
place James was pursued by white men,
who failed TO find him. sctpio was terri.
bly, cnraged nj the white men aud threat
acd to kill them. lIo went to the houscsof
some white people and sald "This IL
| your day, but tomorrow ia mine. | will
\ got your scnlps" These threats are be.
| licved 10 have been the cause OF his death.
| His son will 10 lynched, II caught.
Eustis, Fla, boasts Of Gve.yenr -old
century plant which is about 70 bloom.
Though the melon crop IN South Georgia
Is late II is none the less promising. Tho
acreage Is not as great as last year.
A happy colorcd youth Of Georgia char
ucterlzed picnic as chicken iixln's an
flour doln's."
"Ellas Josephusn aud "Marine Aida
Diana" were the names two colorcd in-
fants received recently at baptism In
Georgia.
"Dalsy simmons" the daughter Of =
proud and wealthy North Carolina FAM
lily, killed herself in bagnio in Savannah,
Ca, n few days ago.
George James and Theodore Bnnh were
killed and several others injured n few
days since by boiler explosion at Gray.
son, Ky.
Twenty-Five years ago n gentleman In
Upson County, Ga, buried 5000 half-dol-
lars In silver, where II remained until n
few days ago when It was oxhumel and
put into circulation.
Two citizens OF Quitman, Ga, while on
n fishing tour In tho lower part OF tho
county, were twice arrested for trnmps.
Corn planting has boen completed in the
southwestern counties OF Virginia. The
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A Titusvllle Ella. man has an orange
growing on an orange bud that was sol
only eight weeks ago.
An onterprlsing Creole wrItcr OF New
Orleans Is said 10 have had three hundred
; articles rejected before one'was published
Alabama physicians say that pneumonia
Is worse now In that State than ever be
fore In their experience-a period Of thirt!
or forty years.
John Hall, engaged in bee culture a
Resaca, Ga., was stung TO death fey
days ago by an angry swarm OF Doe
which he was trying to hive.
: J.W. Cartright was sent 20 Now Orlean
TO make some collections for the Austl
(Tex.) Statesman. He got the money bu
nobody seems 10 know wherc he Is now.
: Some excitement exists at Graysyille
: Ca, over the discovery OF silver deposit
In Ca,oosa County. Some rich specimen
Q nre on exhibition.
i James Mcdaniel and L. a. Potter wcr
y sent 70 tho Texas Ponitcntiary Tor llfefC
robblng stage.
r Six members OF tho Riddle family, {
i Rockingham. N. c. we're poisoned recent
ly by eating lady peas. They we're throw
o into violent spasms and soon became de
n lirlous Fortunately a physician was
Y hand, and saved their lives.
A now Post-oillc, In Swalne COUNTY
'e North Carolina, has been named Mallen
Bosom.
IS Mount Clark aud Miss stratton WEI
eloping recently Ia Pike County, k9r
i lucky, whom the brother OF the lady i
j. terfered, aud both men were fatal
- wounded.
On the plantation Of slsde Morgan, no
\ Vienna, Gu, a few days ago, tsnn
named Jones left two chidren locked I
OF I'm the house while father aud mother we
~ at work, The cabin burned down Al
~ only the charsd skeletons Of tho childr
were found.
Lookout Mountain has been leased to /
lverymen Of Chattanooga, Tenn. Az
r. a dozen years Of Niagara hack fares, I
nt people will want 10 make the mountain
National Park.
ID Henry Etherlige, convicted In Jot
th County, Ca, Of tho murder OF Tom Clel
Is. mons has been sentenced TO hang Ju
ile 10Th. Clemmous was ON the way 10 mar
I'd Etherldge's former sweetheart whse
was shot dead.
4. In Jones County, Ca, few days sin
at Henry Allen, who returned from pray
he meeting one night and set fire TO bis e
on ployer's house on the way, "jnst 20
y. the white folks dance" was sent TO Pc
al. tentlsry for life
Wild turkeys are very plentiful In p
"A lions OF Texas, and the hs,iin1 cCu
4. Ns,ss, In speaking on the subject,
marks: "As there is no law against k
ing them, we say to the nj mrods BIZ
AWAY, and II You kill an extra on9 or ~
- remember that we like turkey, too.
", y" There is a family Of negroes living
~ Judge Gwynn's place, about ten mi
east Of Tallahassee, Fla, who subs
10 almost entirely on rabbits A boy an'
re- dog are kept tusy hunting, while
remainder Of the family works the ci
Of 10 furnish the bread and clothes.
The New Orleans Pieagaas,of May
ma Il printed on paper made Of new ma
on. rlal-bagasse, the crushed refuse Of
stalks Of THE sugar -cana. The pape
bv flne and soft, with almost a silk like 9
the face
Texas claims q population Of 2,s0,Vt
,-y Thomas Green, a negro thief, was :
and killed al Memphis, Tenn, few nig
"a "a ago by Police Officer Thomas Jack.
~ Green was in the act Of stealing bal
eotton when fired upon by the pol
"a man.
Reports from various points In Virgi
-, along the Blue Ridge Mountains, vi
~ forts. fires have been burning for th !
two weeks, show that several dwell
have been destroyed. The house Of ]
,us Hswlsin., q farmer Of farewell Cou
70 caught FIRE at night The inmates
mas rowly escaped, except one child,
years old, which perishei.
ted In . dzht at negro festival At Geo
dis town, KY, 0eorEs strahsn was killed
Noses Caton was executed at Morgsnf