Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-15
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANlNGa.

ber of rolling logs getting beyond control
and passing over him.
THE freight handlers in the Mobile and
| Ohio yards at Mobile, struck for twenty
five cents per hour after c p. m, and were
on the 9th discharged. Substitutes were
found, and freight is moving as usual.
The Grand Army of the Department Of
the Potomac will this year, for the first
time decorate the graves Of the three
Thousand Union soldiers in the cemetery at
Alexandria, Va.
AT Chattanooga Tenn, J, W. Cox medo
a murderous assault on Theodore Goebell
with butchers cleaver, splitting his head.
Goebell is in a precarious condition.
! GEORGE HEssRICH, aged fifty who has for
several years been working as a barber in
several shops at Memphis, Tenn, has by
the death of his uncle fallen heir to an
estate in Brazil valued at s5,0000O0 Hess
rich is German and came to Memphis
| from Elmira, n. Y, where he has five chill
dren living. A son of his, who kept a bar
| ber shop in Memphis, has left with his
| father to assume a new role which the
wealth he has acquired will enable him to
| do.
THE Supreme Court of Appeals Of Wiz.
| ginia rendered a decision in the case of T.
j, Cluverius convicted in the Hastings
| Court of Richmond, Of the murder ON
! March 13 1885, of Fannie Lillian Madison
| The case is Dotoriously known as the resefs
vor murder mystery. The judgment OF
the lower court is fully sustained, the
eight bills Of exceptions filed by the pris.
oner's counsel being elaborately discussed
and successively overruled. Counsel filed
n motion for a rehearng.
RICHARD WALLER, colored attempted an
assault upon a schoolgirl at Farmville,
Va, a few days ago and that night was
taken from Jail and hanged by mob
| DURING the past ten years over ten mill
lion shad, artifcially hatched, have been
placed in the rivers of Georgia.
A NEGRO, aged nineteen, was lynched
| near Camden S. c., the other night for an
assault on an aged lady
JONES HOLLAND laid down and fell asleep
on top of freight car which was standing
on a side-track on the Baltimore and Ohio,
at Wheeling, W. Va, rolled off, and falling
head downward, was instantly killed.
! DEPUTY U. S. MARSHAL SPRINGsroy,
while on moonshine raid few miles
from ParkersbUrg, W. Va, stopped at
Burning Springs over night. Before re-
firing he quenched his thirst at drug
store, and when he awoke in the morning
found that some one had stolen all of his
clothes except a shirt collar and sock, q
roll of money, between fifty and one hun
dred dollars, a handsome gold watch and
chain, some valuable papers and other ar
ticles
ELIJAH YoCSGBLOOD, of Coffee County,
Ga, is famous hunter He is sixty-fve
years old, and claims to have killed 991
deer. Some years ago aligators devoured
three of his dogs which had swum in the
lakes after deer. Youngblood swore ven-
geance against alligators, and has since
killed Isl of these creatures,
A DOC belonging to a resident of Carters-
hole. Shell of rev -Kernels "afdvhtA -cvaf-
ceal himself near by. When rat comes to
eat the corn the dog kills it.
A PLANTER living near Dawson Ga, has
a novel plan for killing crows. He catches
The cries of the captive crow attract
other crows to it and they are then easily
shot.
| POLK MARTIN, who has a wife and six
children, has been visiting the family Of .
man named johnson on Brushy creek, near
Madder Hill, Sumner County, Tenn. In
the johnson family are two grown girls, to
one of whom he paid particular attention
on his visits. The other morning Martin
went over to Johnson's and took his shotgun
with him He was met at the door by the
girl, when he leveled his gun and shot her
through the heart, killing her instantly.
Her mother and sister rushed to the door,
when the gun was successfully leveled at
each. Both were seriously but not fatally
injured Martin then shot himself, falling
across the doorway, where he died in few
minutes The girl accused him of being
the father of her unborn child
JANE, FERGUSON, a moulder, of Nash
Vile Tenn, while very drunk fell back
ward from the baluster of house on South
Cherry street, where he was visiting No
one saw him fall but some little children.
He was found fifteen minutes later dead on
the ground ten feet below the baluster.
His neck was broken.
: Cor. s. /. FREMONT, Government Super
intendent of construction at Memphis, was
found dead in his room at Mrs Fitzer's on
Union street, early the other morning. He
,, was last seen alive late the evening before
= when he was leaving the custom-h house
I From all appearances he drorpped dead
!. from heart disease.
r A WOMAN of Americus Ga, heard pig
!, squealng near the edge of pond. She
i found that a large turtle had seized the
pig and was trying to drag it into th'
water. A gentleman was called and thu
turtle was captured. 1t weighed forty
. eight pounds.
A THOMAS HOWARD, of st. Louis, is going
5 to build mammoth pipe factory at Chat
: anooga. Tenn, with capacity OF 200 tom
' day and employing 600 to 1900 hands.
Tue last slave was sold in Virginia in the
n spring of lsi5 for 100 cabbage plants.
BlRMIxGnAM Ala, expects to get fire.
6 delivery system of mail soon,
CUT worms are doing a great deal
! damage Ill CoTH Htlus Hedi -'ooh'his
Tenn.
= JoHN Hicks, of Kentucky, eightysi
years old, has served thirty-six in the peni
tentiary.
. THE directors of the Eagle and Phoeni,
"a cotton manufacturing companies, OF &c
,f lumbus, Ga. increased the wages OF thei
employees ten per cent.
SOME of the business men of Selma, Ala
70 held meeting and will take steps to try I
o get Congress to donate $4,000 for a publ
l. building.
Q MARION COUNTY, ALA, sent sixteen pri
+, oners to Huntsville during federal cour
/ They were all wildcat distillers" and rev
10 nue. violators.
a NEAR Pulaski, Tenn, the double team {
n j. W. Hill becoming frightened, ran ava,
a throwing out Mr. and Mrs. Hill, smashin
l. the buggy and running over Ed. McCleI
II mock, who was riding on mule, and xii
ing him. Mr. and Mrs. Hill were badly Gu
aud bruised
Is THE sum of sl3, 900 has been subscribed
1t jackson, Ca, toward the Georgia Midlan
70 railroad
u A NEGRO at Hamilton, Ga, nearly die
10 from slight bite on the hand Inflicted b
III n dog