Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1885-11-26
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ty, Tennessee, and who has evaded arrest
for the past sixteen months, was captured
few days since after a desperate fight
between his friends and Marshal's posse.
Ben Now was recently sentenced at AL
exandria, La, to Imprisonment for life for
the murder of Alfred Boone, whom he beat
to death with club and mutilated in
shocking manner.
Ohio capitalists have discovered on the
farm of j. Graves, in Franklin County,
Tennessee, gold quartz which yields $500 to
the ton. They have also found very
valuable vein of coal, and are arranging to
bore for oil.
The seventh annual State Fair of the
North Carolina Industrial Association
(coloredD was held at Raleigh last week,
Governor Scales being present at the OPEN
ing and delivering an address.
The Tri-State Medical Association of
Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee held
its annual session in Nashville, Tenn, last
week. Owing to illness, President T. K.
Powell, of Danceyville, Tenn, was absent.
Many valuable papers were read.
At Edgefield, s. c., in the Culbreath
lynching case, an indictm ent with seven
counts, charging murder and the abetting
of murder against thirty three prisoners,
was submitted to the jury.
Ford and Murphy, who were sentenced
to be hanged at New Orleans on the 18th
have been granted a respite for thirty
lays by the Governor.
Citizens of Ell Paso, Texas, have agreed
to give $4,000 to an English syndicate
toward the erection of smelter worth
$3.50, 900. Vast quantities of ore are con-
stantly passing through the city from
Mexico.
At Fannin, Texas, a few days ago lad
of thirteen years, named Valentine San
ford, killed his mother with rife. He
confesses having intended to murder his
father, sell the plantation, and organize a
band of stage-robbers.
Judge Thomas H. Ford, of New Orleans,
has confessed that it was he who shot A.
H. Murphy in December last, and not his
brother, Pat H. Ford, who is now under
sentence of death for the crime.
An attempt was made q few nights ago
to assassinate J. T. Henry, a prom
inent merchant near Springfield, Tenn,
some unknown person firing at him from
behind fence.
Theodore Hines, Harry Forbes and AL
bert Chickering,aged respectively fourteen,
sixteen and twelve years, were arrested at
Louisville, KY, a few days ago charged
with arson and horse stealing. They
intended to start West and establish road
agency business.
Sam Robinson, negro, who has been
living honestly and industriously near
Dawson, Tex, for the past eight years,
and managed to buy a small farm, to mar
ry and raise small family, was arrested
few days ago, and proves to be convict
named James Music, who escaped from
the State Penitentiary eight years ago,
having served nearly year and a half of
term of twelve years, to which he was
sentenced in 1875 for manslaughter.
distillery and fifty -four barrels of
brandy, belonging to N. A. Warren, in
Giles County, Tenn, were seized by United
States officers few days ago for violation
of the revenue laws.
The editor of the Louisville (Ky.) Euen-
ing Times proposes that, inasmuch as the
Northern efforts to erect q monument to
General Grant promise to prove abortive,
the "Johnny Rebs," whom he only con-
quered to befriend and protect, put their
hands in their pockets and erect pile to
the old hero's memory themselves.
A negro named Noah Cherry was lynch,
ed in Princess Anne, County, Virginia, a
few days ago for an assault on little
girl.
ALI. Little, the Breathitt County (Ky.)
desperate, was sentenced at Louisville to
sixteen years Imprisonment for forgery.
w. T. Massey, Mayor of Lincolnton, N.
c., a former Missourian, has been indicted
for arson.
Forty persons were poisoned at Chatta.
nooga, Tenn, few days since by drinking
polluted well-water.
More than half of the 30,0O0,000 acres of
public school lands in Texas have been
used by cattlemen without paying cent
for the privilege.
A Memphis girl recently whipped he,
prospective father-in law for trying to in
duce his son to break etf the match, That
young man has pretty dubious future be-
fore him.
Post-office Inspectors in Chattanooga,
Tenn, have effected the capture of win R.
jackson, the defaulting assistant Postmas-
ter of Ameriques, Ga. He was captured at
Los Angeles, Cal.
The United States Government got judg-
ment at jackson, Miss, against Dennis
Scarborough for $4,000 for cutting timber
on Government land.
Major jefferson Peak deceased, of Dal
las, Tex, devised half block of ground to
the First Christian Church of Dallas, on
condition that no church built on it or out
of its proceeds should ever have instru.
mental music in it.
The eighteen-year- daughter of War
rem livery, an industrious colored farmer,
| who lives four miles north of Vicksburg,
Miss, left home alone few nights ago for
the purpose of attending q festival. In at
tempting to cross .Chickasaw Bayou, by
some misstep she fell in the bog and quick
sand, where she was found at midnight
dead, having suffocated in the mud.
A recent public baptizing at Dorrstown,
Tenn, was the immediate cause of zoo
people coming together at that place. Rev.
John Gillim and family were en- route Ia
the baptism, and were in barouche, when
DIR. A. C. Bryant drove up from behind.
Bryant's horse ran into Gillim's barouche,
Both vehicles were upset, throwing the
women, men and children out upon the
road, and all of them, seven in number
were more or less seriously injured.
The Chattanooga furnace is in full blast
In an alteration with stranger named
Roy, at Louisville, KY, a few days ago
N. A. Storm was fatally injured by being
struck with q gun in the hands of Roy
The gun was also accidentally discharged
and Thomas Mutham Storms, his father-in.