The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-08-14
miscellaneous Items.

| Two men, named Veal and Waller
| were killed in an election row at Athens
KY.
| The United Staues Court at New Orleans
has enjoined the State Of Texas from col.
| Letting taxes from the Franklin Cattle
| Company.
A triple execution took place recently
| at Plaquemine, La, one of the victims be.
| ing woman.
| Two little boys aged ten and fourteen
sons of w. j. Brothers, a prominent citi.
zen of Collinsville, Ala, carelessly han.
died a gun a few days ago, and it was ac.
cidently discharged, the entire contents
Of both barrels entering the younger's
mouth and blowing the top of his head
off.
The people Of Quitman, Ga, are greatly
excited over the turning of the Allen
House into a college for colored girls.
Mrs. Allen, wife of the late owner, who is
an enthusiast for negro education, has
given the house for this purpose Rev.
John Pharr, colored, of Chicago, is in
charge.
Numbers of Mexicans are being broug ht
into Texas to pick cotton.
A colored man, ninety-sx years old,
carries the mail between Carthage, Ga.
and the depot, distance of about mile,
Chas. d. Morrow, mail carrier between
San Saba and Brady City, Tex, has been
arrested on charge of robbing the mails.
The first coffee ever produced in the
United States is said to have besn grown
by Mrs. Aizeroth near Manatee, Fla, in
1880. She has now twenty-fi five coffee
trees on her plantation. 8@
Daniel Amaker, of Orang eburg, s. c.,
was about to be beaten to death by me-
gro few days ago, when Mrs. Ainaker
appeared on the scene with a revolver
and shot the negro twice. 8s5s q
Gus Everett, the murderer of Crawford
Smith, at Sandersville Ga, has been
taken back from Florida, where he was
captured, and lodged in jail. There had
been feud between the two men.
u Abelardo Tigernia, notorious Mexican
desperado, who is charged with numerous
murders on both sides of The Rio Grande.
has been arrested, and is in Jail at Edin-
burg, Tex.
Reports covering the entire cotton belt
say that the pros poets for large crop are
better than they have been at the same
period for many years.
The prohibition bill has passed the
Georgia Senate by an Overwhelming ma
jority. This practically assures total
prohibition in the entire State.
Squire Bryan, of Oglethorpe, Ga,
has been adjudged a lunatic. He had at
tempted to cut his wife's throat. For this
he was put in the Pententiary. When he
got out he gouged out both his eyes. He
will now go to an asylum. ~ n
"a A riot reigned on the streets of Sand ers-
Vile, Ca, few days since, as Pomp
Braswell undertook to run the CITY He
whipped one woman, shot at another,
fired into three houses, breaking all the
wi ndow-glass, and shot at Constable
Ain sworth before he would submit to
arrest. ns!1sis A.a EiRT tshiiatA
~ As train on the Air Line Road in
North Carolina pas sed point sixty miles
South of Spartanburg, few days ago,
the second 'first-class coach and two
'sleepers were sentrolling down the em-
bankment.s j. j. Ransom, conductor, was
killed, and seven passengers were dam
gerously wounded. The accident was
ca used by a.rail turning over. The dead
conductor, Ran som, was one of the best
known railroad men il. the South.
Severe storms have been very prevail emit
The following is a notice posted in a
Post -office on the Georgia Pacific Rail-
road: "Notice-The males on the Ga Pac
arrived every day at 10s40 a m and 5:25 p
m unless the R R runs off the track or
old engine gifts out fix or the biler busts or
something else happens you no. Resp p,
M" II
IA colored church just Q ut of Quitman,
Ga, was destroyed by fire few nights
ago. The members were. prepa ring for a
big meeting and endeavoring to get rid
of the fieas. They put pine straw under
the church and set it on fire, thus getting
rid of both the church and the feas.