Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-02-13
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANlNGS.

became alarmed and search party was
organized and at 3 o'ciock next morning
his body was found frozen stiff in the
woods. He had slipped and fallen and his
gun was discharged, almost obliterating all
signs Of his face.
CHARLES PAYNE, workman at Snod-
grass saw-mill, Chattanooga, Tenn, was
walking up the log tramway leading from
he river to the mill, when the wire rops
drawing the carriage in front Of him broke,
the carriage ran backward, struck Pay ne
and Knocked him over the tramway, dis
tance of thirty feet He struck a beam
with his head, crushing the jaw, face and
breaking his arms.
ScoREs of colored people are leaving
North Carolina for the cotton-fields OF Mis-
sissppi, much against the wishes OF tho
white citizens Of that State.
JoHy MANN. on horseback, attempted to
cross the Western and Atlantic Railroad
few miles south of Chattanooga, Tenn,
when the train killed the horse. Mann
miraculously escaped unh urt
The thermometer registered 25 degrees
below zero on the morning Of the 5th at
StauntOn, Va.
REWARDS to the extent Of $4,000 have
been offered by the State OF Tennessee for
the capture of fugitives from justice during
the past five years.
| The Superior Court at Baltimore de-
cded the ten libel suits brought by certain
employees Of the post-office against the
| Latolische TOlkszeituRg, German re-
| ligious newspaper of the city, wherein they,
| claimed damages aggregating $5oUco In
| favor of defendant.
| PARTICULARS of crime committed on
the Roy place, seven miles south of roress
! City, Ark have been received at Llttld
! Rock. A negro named johnson recently
! married q mulatto woman, who had llttle
! four-year-oid daughter. The child he CON
sidered 70 be in the way and deliberately
| held her in front of an open fireplace until
| life was extinct The officers OF that
county are in pursuit Of the inhuman mon.
ster, and it is safe to say if he is captured
be will be lynched.
JAMES SPENCE. treasurer of Milton
County, Ga, disappeared from home the
other night and was found several hours
later hanging from rope thrown over one
of the ioists of his barn. Life was not yet
extinct. but all efforts to resuscitate him
failed and he died in the morning. 1t IS
said that he was driven to the act Ivy tho
discovery that his sons had been tampering
with the funds !
THE Wells Carriage works at Montgom-
erv. Ala. burned a few days ago. L. ).
Hort on. of Richmond Ind, perished in the
flames.
AT Creenville s. C., few nights ago,
fire destroyed the stores and stocks OF Il.
RothSchild r. g. Mcpherson, Mullane g
Co. and NJ E. Rossenthal Sons Loss,
$4,000 insurance, $4,000
JP. BULLOCK, merchant and postmaster
at Arbloe, Crawford County, Ark, was
found dead in his bed the other morning
his skull having been crushed with all axe.
Jerry Bswell, his brother-in-law, with
whom lie had a difficulty two weeks before,
, had murdered him while asleep, and fled
across the line into the Chocktaw Nation
NEAR Tribadoux, La, James Baptlsta
and Mary Dupe stood at the marriage altar
ready to assume the vow which would unite
their lives. Suddenly the lights were eN-
tincuished screams of pain We're heard,
: and when the room was again lighted the
T Groom Law on the floor with three fatal
wounds in his back He had been stabbed
t by Kesiah Collins his former mistress, who
! escaped
THE movement to erect tabernacle in
e Chattanooga, Tenn, is being rapidly pushed
Z forward. A committee will confer with Rev.
! D L. Moody n1 the requirements of such
5 a building and steps will be at once taken.
J 1t is proposed to erect brick structure with
a seating capacity of 5OoOto 6,om.
ACCORDING to the Chicago Tunes on.
+ quarter of the live stock of the United
, States is owned and fed in the South, The
u | South has S6NO.0O1 600 invested in milct
i cows. oxen, other cattle, sheep, hogs, horses
!, and mules The South owns one-thiid o
the milch cows. oxen. other cattle snd
: hogs of the country, or fully her proper
!. ton according to population. One-quartei
I. of the sheep of the country are kept in th'
y South. when ten years ago the proportion
! was only one-seventh. The negroes owl
q very little live stock, unless dogs are in
{ cluded under this stock.
n T,,r otb,r ,,orui,e, -bree of tho coIored
,,i.,,,o,., fi,,od in tho f,rittenden Coun,,
:; iail at Marion. Ark knocked the negr
q ;ou,r 5o,., and ,roda ,beir escane Th
d sailor soon recovered himself and seizin,
VI o. shr.,,,,,, firod NJ, the running prisoner.
L do.,,o,.ota,,. u.o,,rdi,, Charles Anderson
,rh. ,,.o, oricl,I,. ,ocontnrod A moss
"a started in pursuit of the others, and the,
le were soon caught and returned to thei
II prison home. Anderson, who was shot, wa
Ia charged with larceny. The other two ar
Of to be tried for murder.
y Tur other night three men ATTEMPTED I
IN hr,rlar,a ,be store of : Hamby. at Gle
q. a. uui '"' tre 49, ."e 'gg'e ry'. " aa,aa.a5 y
N Mary, Tenn. They were detected b
Handy, and twenty shots We're exchange
between the store keeper and the burglar
but no one was wounded, Handy and
posse followed the burglars next mornin
,e TO Knoxville Junction. on the Cinclnna
nd Southern road. They were commandett
TX surrender and when they refused the poss
1g fired, killing two of the burglars lnstantl
v. The third escaped Nothing was found q
on the persons oi the ueao men 'na' "ou
es lead 10 thelr lnoehtiflcauoh'