Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-03-06
SOUTHERN NEWS GlEANlNGS.

sailed them with stones and sticks and ran |
them out of the neghborhood, one of them |
receiving severe wounds
ARCHIE, thirteen-year old son Of Mrs r |
Lackey, fell from freight train while
stealing ride at Newmarket, Tenn, and
was crushed to death.
AT the sixth annual commencement ex-
ercises of the Memphis Hospital Medical
College, there were thirty eight graduates
SENATOR HARRIS introduced bill to in
crease the limit Of the appropriation for
erection of a public building at Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, to $25O, 700.
WM. WEATHERFoRp lost his life in Rock
wood mines near Chattanooga, Tenn, by
fall Of slate crushing him.
GEORGE j. WILLIAMS, of Nicholas County,
". Va, who served year and quarter
in jail for mail-robbing and pension
frauds, being in bad health, has been re-
leased from Jail and banished forever from
the State by order Of U. S. District Judge
jackson.
A REAL romance was unraveled at Chat
tanooga, Tenn, on the Goth, in which there
are three characters-a mother and two
sons The former lives at Louisville and
her name is Mrs Brown One son, Henry,
is cothier in Chattanooga. The second
son, Charles, is planter in Louisiana.
Twenty-eight years ago this family Of
Browns lived in Cincinnati. The husband
and father was then living, and the sons
y,t Il, Il
Charles pretty severely and the lad, then
nineteen years old, ran away from home.
That was in 1858. He never wrote home to
his kindred nor returned. Years afterward
the boys father died, and the mother, with
her son Henry, removed to Louisville, The
war came on, and in the strife which laid
waste the South, Charles was supposed TO
have been killed, and his mother and remain
ing brother mourned him for dead Years
passed Henry married, raised family and
moved to Chattanooga, where he opened q
clothing house, About two weeks
ago lady from Atlanta, while
passing his store, thought she recog-
nized in him the features Of Charles Brown,
whom she had known as u boy in Cincin-
natl, and whom she accidentally met in
Southern Louisiana fifteen years ago She
approached Mr.. Brown and asked if his
name was not Charles Brown. He answered
| her it was not, but that dead brother OF
| his bore that name. She then explained
| that Charles was not dead. but living on a
/ plantation in Louisiana, where he was q
wealthy planter and had large family
! tN;a hrpt ha
was alive, and Immediately telegraphed
him. He received reply from Charles
that he would come to Chattanooga I'M
medately. The news was sent to friend
at Louisville and broken to the aged
mother. Charles arrived in Chattanooga
on the 26th, and there is great rejoicing by
the united brothers. The mother had not
yet arrived.
A REPORT is current that syndicate of
New York and Boston capitalists have op-
tions on all the coal fields between Knox.
vile, Tenn, and Emory Gap, except
two mines, and now control over G00Oi
acres of coal lands. They contemplate
building railroad from the Cincinnati
Southernrairoad to tap the Knoxville and
onlO ut NllDlOH.
A FIRE in the Rusk Tex penitentiarv
few days ago, did $4,000 damage. The
convicts worked manfully in aiding to
subdue the flames, and made no effort tc
escape.
PNEUMONIA has become epidemic at Bled
son, on the Chesapeake " Nashville rail
road, north Of Gallatin, Tenn.
AT the recent session of the National
Editorial Association, held at Cincinnati
c. H. Jones, Of Florida, was elected presi
dent.
THE City Council OF Nashville, Tenn.
passed on its first reading the bill givny
the Cumberland Natural Gas Company tn
exclusive right for twenty years to supply
natural gas for heating purposes. New
York, Pittsburgh and Wheeling, W Va,
capitalists are interested in the enterprise
together with home capitalists, and ever,
confidence is expressed that gas will b
found in abundance
AT Red Hill, near Parkersburg, ". Va
n fire broke out the other morning IN tn
residence of Mr.. John Waller. The houst
Il fine, large frame, with most of the furn
ture, was destroyed, entailing an uninsure
loss of $1,000 Mrs. Ed. Waller and newl
born infant we're with difficulty rescued b
Mr. Ed. Waller, who, in doing SO, was tel
rible burned about the face, head, hand
and body. His life is considered in DANCE
from internal burning Mr. John Waller
an aged man, seemed cra2ed by the sigh
and was taken out only by main fore,
Mr.. Ed. Waller is still in precarious cor
dition.
TnE other evening, while two juvenil
toughs were shooting at a mark Il short III
tance from Parkersburg, W. Va, Anthon
McNicholas shot and almost instantl
+ killed his companion, Hugh pendley, age
: seventeen. They had been shooting SON
time when McNicholas raised his weapon
) u self operating S2-calber revolver, to h
. head. Supposing all the cartridges to /
-. discharged 1t went of striking Pendle
. behind the left ear, with the above resul
McNicholaS was arrested, but discharge
!. ON the indingo of verdict of accident;
shooting by the coroner's jury,
A THOROUGH investigation is being mac
:, on the convict farms in Tallapoosa Coui
ty, Ala, and much suffering exists, OWN
= to insufficient clothing and cruel treatmer
of the convicts by contractors. Durin
the recent cold spell many Of them had Il
Q shoes and stockings and were terribly fros
, bitten. This matter is creating great e!
. element throughout the State, and a fu
: and thorough investigation is now bein
made.
THE other morning Frank Bauarle, viii
standing on scaffold at the new lai
Montgomery, Ala, accidentally slippe
and fell to the ground, distance of fort
feet, receiving serious If not fatal injurie
Medical assistance was procured aud b
thigh was found broken and it is feared
is injured internally.
Tur Southern negroes have great 10,
I for high sounding titles. There has r
Gently been organized in Norfolk, Va, q
order, the euphonious title Of which
"The Union State Grand Tabernacle of Il
Imperial Order Of Gallileon Fishermen" :"
CYRus W.LAMBERT, a Fort Worth (Texa
/ banker, was killed in the chase by b
, horse falling and rolling upon him.
JAMES H. McCoY, charged with the mu
der of United States Marshal W. b. Kelle
, in December last, was captured in Cher
kee County after desperate resistance al
was taken to Atlanta, Ga. James Wyli