The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-03-12
SOUTHERN alEANIMes.

portion of Lafayette Parish, Louis lama,
was .assassinated in his bed a few nights
ago. fz getfs ~
Miss Mary Holbrook, q beautiful young
lady ofSBuchanan, Ga, was burned to
death few nights ago. While she was
standing in front of the Fireplace her
clothing caught fire. and before help came
In answer to her screams she was literally
roasted nlive. eYf tfa s8G
The North Carolina Legisl ature has in
creased the annual appropriation, for the
University of North Carolina $4,000 in
view OF establishing the Institution on
higher plane. The faculty will be greatly
increased. Permanent chairs Of science
will be provided for.
Ex-Judge John Elliott, Of Mobile, Ala,
died a few nights ago, aged fifty five
years. He was distinguished lawyer of
that State. He served in the Seventh
Louisiana under Stonewall Jackson, and
rose to. the rank of Captain, being cap
tured in the battle Of the Wilderness.
Under the Reconstruction laws he was
first Judge of the Mobile Judicial Circuit.
After his term he resumed his law prac-
tice.
Governor Ireland of Texas commute d
the death sentence pas sed on Jesse Jack
| son, who was to have been executed at
Houston on the 9th, to imprisonment for
life. His Excellency's action was brought
| about by the Recommendation of the Judge
who tried the prisoner and certificate by
medical experts that the condemned
was born idiot and not responsible for
his acts.
William Pittman, charged with forgery,
escaped second time from the Hickman
County jail at Columbus, KY, few nights
ago. He broke his cell door from its
hinges and let himself down from the jail
window by blanket. He was heard of
at his brothers., nine miles in the country,
but had not been recapturod.
The offices of the Denton County Clerk
and one of the court rooms at Denton,
Tex, were broken into a few nights ago
and twenty criminal indictments and
five appearance bonds stolen. Much ex-
citement was occasioned, as the bonded
prisoners can now flee from trial and the
bondsmen feel secure. alt 81,
Peter Franklin (colored) J, while s landing
beside the track of the Southwestern Rail-
road, near Georgetown, Ala, few days
ago, was fired at by an unknown party on
a passing freight train, one shot taLing
effect in the knee, which brought him to
the ground, when he crawled Off into the
woods. He has no idea of who the would
be murderer was.
The encampment of all the Grand Army
Posts of Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama,
met at Chattanooga, Tenn, last week, be-
ing the first assembly of the Posts in the
South. There was good attendance.
Resolutions were adopted urging the pas
sage of the Mexican pension bill; the re-
tirement of General Grant; giving ex-
ISUnion soldiers who were conscripted into
Confederate service leave to join the
Posts. The ele ction of officers resulted
in the reelection of Colonel Ed. s. Jones,
of Nashville, as Department Commander,
and the officers were publicly installed.
In the Texas Senate bill has been in
troduced to prohibit the hiring of sailors
OF foreign vessels in Texas ports to labor
on the wharves beyond their ships tackle
M. G. Smith, lawyer of Marlin, Tex,
and candidate for County Attorney OF
Falls County at the last election, since his
defeat has been drinking very hard. A
few days since he was attacked with de-
lirium tremens, and imagined that he saw
snakes and all other horrible things. He
escaped from his friends and could not be
found for some time, when he was discov-
cred almost dead in a we'll, into which he
had fallen. His condition was critical.
and he was not expected to live.
An effort is being made in the Texas
Legislature to incorporate in the school
lava provision permitting women who
pay taxes to vote on the question of levy.
ing special county school taxes.
During the preliminary examination OF
A. M. McBowling at Mt. Sterling, KY, a
few days ago, on the charge of abducting
Miss Scott and killing Officer Gill, two at
tempts were made by Gill's brother to
shoot McBowling, but the vigilance OF the
court officers prevented him.
Mrs. Cynthia Griffin, of Waycross, Ga.
is the mother of twenty-six children, ali
of whom she reared to manhood and
womanhood. aMe
The residence Of Charles Schultz, at
Monroe, La, was entirely destroyed by
fire few nights ago. Loss, $1,000; in
sured.
A gas war at Savannah, Ga, has result
ed in reduction of the price of the article
to fifty cents per 1000 feet. ai
Israel Brown, colored, postmaster at
Hardeeyille, s. c., arrested recently
charged with falsifying his returns to in
crease his commissions, was discharged. >
A norther visited portion of Texas re.
Gently, and cattle were reported diving
rapidly. Numerous failures among stook-
growers are looked for:~>
Strawberries are selling in Jacksony lille.
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