The gale., 1888-03-24
DYKES DoINGs.
SOUTHERN PARAGRAPHS OF AN'
TEREST TO OUR READERs
The Events Off Week In Our Own Country
New Enterprises, &c., &c.

Col. f.. B. Cash died at his home in
Chesterfield county, S. c., of apoplexy.
His death was announced some days ago,
but he rallied and lived on for some time.
One of the out-buildings of the Will
hanson County Tenn, poor-house was
burned, and William Johnson and Dora
Shannon, colored inmates, perished in the
flames.
The bridge over the Peedee river on
the Wilmington, Columbia 81 Augusta
Railroad has been rebuilt, and trains by
way of the Atlantic Coast line have re-
sumed regular schedules on that road.
Thomas c. O'Ncal, of Rutland, VT,
employed at the marble works in Mari
eta, Ca, while under the influence of liq-
uor wandered on to the railroad track OF
the w. & A. Railroad and was killed.
Messrs. Isaac Leisy and ID. S. White
head, of Cleveland, Ohio, are in Augusta,
Ga, prospecting for big brewery. Mr..
Leisy is the president of the largest
brewery company in Cleveland, and he
wants Southern annex.
The steamer Waurita was launched at
Palatka, Fla She will leave for Day
tonia, down the st. Johns to its mouth,
thence towed down the coast to Nous
quito inlet and the entrance to Halifax
river. She will run between Daytonia
and Rocklcdgc in connection with the
st. Johns and Halifax (the White) rail
road.
! Four days ago, he wife of Aleck
johnson, a farmer, IN Sumter county, S. G.,
gave birth to q child, and it was sup
posed that it was the only one, but the
following day Mrs. johnson became the
mother Of a second baby, and two days
after, still another. The three babies
were in healthy condition, and they
and their mother arc all doing well.
i A sleeping car on the limited express
on the Alabama Great Southern Railroad
was ditched near Fort Payne, Ala, and
badly damaged, involving a loss OF sew
eral thousand dollars. The trucks struck
a broken rail while the train was running
at the rate of forty miles an hour, and
The coach was turned entirely over. s.
u. Waldridge, of Lexington, KY, and
G. A. French, of New Orleans, La, were
badly hurt.
At Scotland Neck, N. c., there was an
explosion of boiler in Gardner & Has
sells machine shop. There were only
two men in the shop, Henderson Purse.
fireman, and John Scott, both colored.
Purse had his leg broken, and will prob
ably die. Scott was badly scalded. The
boiler was blown nearly out of sight. 1t
fell back and crushed through the roof
of the shop and lodged on the second
floor.
The United States Rolling Stock Com
pany have taken charge of the works at
Admission, Ala, and have orders already
for more than fifteen hundred cars to be
made as soon as possible. Twenty-Five
per cent. of the Admission subscription OF
$3.50, 900 was paid over, and Mr.. Hege-
nosch, the president of the company,
stated at the meeting that he had per
fected arrangements for another indus
trial enterprise to be run in connection
with their present immense plant to work
about five hundred additional hands.
A collision occurred at the junction OF
the Laurens & Newbcrry and the Port
Royal & Western Carolina Railroads at
Laurens, S. c., between an engine OF the
way-freight, running from Laurens to
Newberry, and an engine Of the Green
vile Railroad. Engineer w. H. Ham
mond, of the Laurens & Newberry freight,
had just arrived at the depot and started
out to shift his train. just as Ham
mond's engine was crossing the Green
vile track the Greenville engine struck it
fearful blow, which demolished both
engines.
Will Bendley, a minor, was run over
and killed by train on the Kansas City
Railroad, near Birmingham, Ala.
Bendley and John Terry, a young man
from the same county, were walking
along the track of the Pratt mines rail
road, where it runs parallel with the
Kansas City road. They heard the train
approaching from around curve, and
| thinking it was on the Pratt mines road,
they stepped over to the other track,
| twenty PAGES in front of the engine.
Bendley was instantly killed and Terry
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