The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-08-21
SOUTHERN 0LEANINGs.

hanged by a mob In Randolph County,
Georgia few days ago, and his body
riddled with bullets. 1s H
Chattanooga, Tenn, continues to boom.
The tax aggregate of the city shows
total assessment of nearly So, SOC, 900, an
increase of 5000. 900 in twelve months,
Notwithstanding $20o,000 reduction in
iron n-work assessments. r
Infiamed by jealousy, Michael J. Kaclin,
dairyman Of louisville. KY, murdered
his pretty young wife ailfew days ago in
the presence of their dnfant child, by
cutting her throat and then committed
suicide.
Archie Brunner, living near Gordon,
Ala, who, three years ago committed a
homicide, for which he never was ar
rested, was assass mated on his farm
few nights ago, by an unknown person.
Kelly Bonnett, well-known billiardist
died at Atlanta, Co., few days ago. An
hour before his death needle which had
entered his body while an infant thirty
years ago forced its way out of his shoul-
der.
A handsome block of BUILDINGS at Frank.
fort, KY, valued at $4,000 burned few
days ago. Ed McGougle, bricklayer,
was crushed and killed beneath falling
wall
A negress named Anna Davenport
Killed the child of another negress at
Nashville, Tenn, a few nights ago, by
FORCING 1t to swallow concentrated lye
during its mothers absence at a ball
Governor Bate of Tennessee has ap.
pointed Hon. Mart s. Cockrill to repre-
sent the cattle interests and Captain Jas.
Franklin to represent the horse interests
of the State, with w. P. Webster and Jas.
T. johnson, respectively, as alternates. to
the National Cattle and Horse Growers
Convention in st. Louis in November
next.
An Albany (Ga.) woman who took 1t
into her head to destroy every photograph
of herself sent nearlyIa Thousand miles for
the last one.
The stock of the Nashville (Tenn.) Sad
dlery Company was injured by fire few
nights ago to the extent Of $4,000; fully
covered by insurance
A "lawn" party at Franklin, KY. "a few
evenings since ended in murder, the vic
tim being man named Whitesides, who
was shot and killed by Huse Edwards in
quarrel about girl. .#
John Scott, bookkeeper for the Shelton
Touring mills at Chattanooga, Tenn, had
his throat cut on the principal business
street of the city few nights ago. No
trace of his assassin can be found.
Fire destroyed the Haywood White Sui.
phur Springs Hotel, at Waynesville, N.
G., few days ego, causing loss of $780,
600. All the guests, 200 in number, es-
capped with their effects.
A dispute arose few days since be-
tween Dawson Smith, head sawyer at
Jackson's mill, near Irwinton, Ga, and
Fleming Ring, the, negro help. Smith
pulled out his derringer, and shot Ring
dead. He then fed.
In the case of Abram Hensley on trial
recently in Madison County, N. c., on
a charge of murder, the jury found a YER
dict of murder in the first degree, and
Hensley was sentenced to hang Octo-
ber I'd.
Thomas Beauchamp, Of Atlanta, Ga,
has brought suit for $40. 900 damages
against the city for injuries sustained
from fireworks during the recent visit of
Hon. Samuel J. r andall to that city.
A party of picnickers. overtaken by a
lightning storm near Greensboro, Ca, a
few days ago, took refuge in ten
ant house. The house was struck by
lightning, the fluid passing through in
vertical direction, killing dog und er
1t. Miss Henrietta Knebrough was struck
and fatally injured.
John McLain, one of the most prominent
citizens in Damascus, Ga, while in one of
the stores of that place few days ago,
and while it was crowded with customers,
drew his revolver from his pocket and
emptied four chambers into his own body
and fell dead.
At Bankston, Ga, where no liquor ia
sold, Bill Walker and Lawrence Mann
found secreted jug few days ago.
They quarreled for its possession, when
Walker broke it over Mann's head, giving
him death wound.
Angel Vale was bitten on the face by q
common SPIDER at Laredo, Tex, a few
nights ago, and died from the effects the
next morning. His face was horribly
swollen, and when medical aid was sum.
inoned it was 800 late to render him as
sistance.
The Georgia State Agricultural Society
in session at Marietta, recently, resolved
to appoint three commissioners to attend
the American exhibit in London in 1885
Arrangements are progressing to hav,
the States resources represented.
The South Carolina papers are discuss
ing the increase of crimes and violence il
that State, and they find an explanation
of it in the tolerance with which homi
eide is treated by public opinion and th
lack of severity in the Judges on tn
bench.
l. ]. Green, living near Pottsboro, Tex.
gave his four-year- old child dose o
morphine a few days ago through mis-
take for quinine. A physician was sen
for, but the child died in twenty. minutes
w. II. Jones and his son have been ar
raigned and lodged in Jail charged witt
the murder on the Sd of April last, twelv
miles west of Ashville, N. c., of j. H
Joyce and three other members of tn
family, then burning the house and the re
mains. The murder created intense ex
element at the time, but no clue to th
perpetrators was discovered until recent
| ly, although the detectives have bee
busily at work.
The body of A. Dewall, Houston (Tex.
painter, who left a note addressed to hi
wife, threatening suicide, was found float
ing in the bayou at that place in ba
| state of decomposition. He was a mem
ber Of the Knights of Honor, aud was in
| sured in that organization for $4,000.
Cotton pickers will be in demand.
Near Straitsville, North Carolina a fe,
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