The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1885-02-28
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ss.lsssses ecuid bs fendefsi shs vas
burned ~ dsssh.
sheshaa's warehouse In Rafanla, Ala,
vss bafaed . fsv days agb with I 80 bales
Of cotton. Fothlng vas sayel. The loss
10 fully sioo,mJ. The Insurance was not
stated, bot ls supposed 10 le fall
Commercial travelling men appointed
coi imittse " make extensive arrange.
m'nts for celebrating their day, February
10Th, AZ tho New Orleans Exposition
Grounds, when they meet Ia Natlonal
Convention
General btlth Boiling was arrested In
Petersburg, Va, a few days since on mr..
rival from Richmond, charged with being
about 10 engage In duel The name NJ
the person with whom General Boiling was
10 tight was not made known. General
Boiling gave $1,000 bonds 10 keep the peace
three months. General Boiling Is POST
master Of Petersburg.
Arthur Lloyd, charged with tho murder
d man named Ogle, was sentenced
few days ago to forty years In tho Penl.
tsntiary at Anson Court.house, the county
seat OF Jones County. lIe has been
taken to Colorado City for confinement,
Jones County being new aud not properly
supplied with jail facilities
A sensation as been created at At.
lanta, Ca, by the announcement that
bam w. Small, the Unknown journal.
ist, and author OF "Old Sir character
sketches, has abandoned the world and
gone into training for the ministry in the
Protestant Episcopal Church. Small was
Secretary Of the late ex President Au-
drew johnson, and later held that posi-.
tion under Commissioner Mccormick In
the Paris Exposition. He founded the
Houston (Tex.) Daily Age, and is we'll
known in every city Of the Union as
versatile correspondent.
Frank Boyd, negro at Colorado City,
Tex, wounded a woman a few days ago
and then killed himself.
Mobile Is boastlng OF watermelon that
has just ripened In the open air.
Peanut farmers In North Carolina com.
plain that present prices do not pay for
the cost Of raising, and they threaten to
try some other crop.
"Gold," says Georgia editor, sis found
In thirty-slx counties in this State, silver
In three, diamonds In twenty-six, and
whisky In all OF them, and the last gets
away with all the rest"
The steamers Ida Darragh and City Of
Helena, with full cargoes, and the wharf
boats were burned at Memphis, Tenn, a
few days ago, the losses aggrcgating $780,.
900.
Emory Speer has been confirmed a,
Judge for tho Southern District OF Georgia,
the vote In the Senate standing 20 10 %.
While John Bramlett was out hunting
with party near Tallulah, Ca, fcw
days ago, he was accidentally shot and
killed.
The steamer Silver Star was sunk In
Stone River, near Charleston, y. c., few
days since. All the passengers were land
Cd In safety. The steamer will probably be
raised.
Franklin J. Moses, x-Governor Of South
Carolina, on being sentenced 10 six months
In the Boston House Of Correction, argued
that the petty nature OF his crime showed
that his mind had given way under his
troubles.
A Georgia lover recently walkcl up tc
his sweetheart while she was busy over q
washtub at a spring near the house, pro-
posed marriage and was accepted. They
Immediately adjourned TO neighboring
house, and the nuptial knot was tied.
A Richmond, Va, judi 80 fined n refrac'
tory lawyer several times for contempt o
court, and whom the lawyer made n hna
settlement Of his fines IL was found thai
the Court owed him 8. 70, supposed to b.
the balance due on small game Of draw
jndulged in the night before.
A gold watch was found recently In a hol
low stump Ia Camden,l 8. q. II had beer
hidden there when Sherman's straggler,
passed through that place twenty year
ago.
The Post-offlce at Brooklyn, Miss, wal
broken into and robed fcw nights ago
The burglars drilled tho safe, but upor
opening IL found only six dollers' worti
Of stamps.
Judge Pannlnz, County Judge Of Elliot,
County. Kentucky, while crossing a brIdg,
over the Little SANDY River, few dayl
ago. was run over by passenger train O,
the che.apeake a Ohio Road and instant
Iy tIlled.
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