Richland beacon., 1885-08-08
General News.


The Charlton and blind staggers
continue to rage in St. Mary parish,
The Texas Pacific train ran over
three men near Dallas last Saturday
night.
The coal miners at work forty
miles north of Chattanooga are out
on strike.
The weather is warm and showery
in ST. Mary parish and the crops
look thrifty.
The test of natural gas discovered
at the Pratt mines in albania hes
been success.
The Commercial Bank of Suffolk,
va, suspended last Saturday. The
deposits were 100000.
A man named Lotion is on trial at
Monticello, Miss, on the charge OF
numbering his brother.
A large party of Iberia excursinists
visited Franklin last Friday. They
had a fine time among their Frank
lin friends.
The body Of an unknown white
boy was found floating in the Ala
bama river, last Saturday, near Sell
ma.
Large quantities of peaches are
being shipped in refrigerator cars
from Crystal Springs, Miss, to
Chicago.
Several young men, accused at
Atlanta of attempting to rob pay
car, have been discharged for want
Of evidence.
A man at work on the suspension
bridge at Nashville fell distance OF
ninety feet into the river. He was
almost instatly killed.
Gov. Pattison presided over a
meeting in Philadelphia last week
to raise $1,000 to build a chapel for
the University Of Virginia.
A wind and rain storm visited
Duck Hill, Miss, last Saturday that
sent the thermometer down from 9S
to II degrees.
The Mississippi Valley Railroad
surveyors are in Clinton laying OIL
the ground for the proposed track
and depot in the heart of that time.
Gov. Perry, of Florida, has refus-
ell to sign warrants for q larger sum
than was appropriated by the Legs
lature to defray the expenses OF the
constitutional Convention.
The negro, Henry Jackson, who
murdered II. A. Britton recently at
Minden was transferred last Satur-
day to the Shreveport Jail fer safe
keeping. A mob was talked OF.
A man named W. T. French fell
from train on the L., n. o. Il l..
Railroad at Vicksburg last Saturday
and one of his legs was so badly
crushed that amputation was noces-
sary. -,
A terrible storm of rain and wind
passed over North Greek, near Helc-
In, Ark, last Saturday, uprootlng
trees, levelins houses, fences, etc,
doing considerable damage.
The dry weather and intense heat
had begun to injure the cotton crop
around Pine Bluff, Ark, but a for
tunate and very welcome rain fell
there last Saturday evening greatly
relieving the crops and making the
air more toleraLle to humanity.
Two little boys at Chattanooga,
Tenn, last Saturday, were handling a
gun, when the weapon was dis
charged accidentally The contents
struck one of them in the mouth
tearing away the top OF his head
killing him instantly.
Two young men, Morgan Nc
LauShlin and John Cumberland
accused of wrecking train on the
Il. p, route recently have been con
victcd and sentenced to five years IL
the Stale penetentiary. THIS is the
maximum penalty for the offense
charged.
A school teacher at Horse Shoe
Cave, Ky, has sued nineteen proml.
nent citizens of the place for S25 .OOl
damages on account of an alleged
conspiracy to drive him away from
the place, A masked party had pre-
yiously visited his premises and ht
had shot and killed three of them.
The pail bearers for Grant have
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