Hillsboro recorder., 1888-05-24
SOUTHERN SPRAYS.
INTERESTING FACTS BRIEFED
FOR BUSY HUMANITY.

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MOVEMENTS IN RELIGIOUS, TEMPERANCE,
MASONIC AND SOCIAL cIRcLEs--FIREs,
AccipENTs-INDUsTRIAL PROGRESS.
AlHhamn. g
The Alabama Masonic grand lodge
laid the cornerstone Of Jefferson
county courthouse, at Birmingham, Thurs.
day. 49, kafse
The American Institute OF Mining En-
gineers, President w. B. Potter, Of st.
Louis, presiding, met in Birmingham on
Wednesday. About one hundred mem-
bers were present, and many Of them nc
companied by their wives. President
Potter said he had travelled from the At
lantic to the Pacific, and nowhere else
bad he found such inexhaustible mineral
resources as in North Alabama. !
Last October Editor G. II. johnson
Of the Birmingham Sunday Morning
Star, shot real estate agent and po.
liceman, slightly wounding both. He
was released on $4,000 bond. and on
Wednesday his case was called for trial
10 the criminal court. johnson had been
IN the courtroom all the forenoon, but at
recess he disappeared. When his case
was called he couldn't be found in the
city.
| At Ensley, sixmiles from Birmingham,
Terrell Darden, negro ex-conyict, was
shot dead, on Thursday, by Deputy
Sheriff Jack Pasco. Pasco arrested the
negro for burglary, and while reading
the warrant the officer was knocked
down by his priloner. who then started
to run. Pasco got up and started in
pursuit. The negro again turned on him,
and was then shot through the heart.
Darden had Just served out five years
sentence for burglary, and robbed store
at Pratt mines few days after he was
released.
A collision took place at Muscadin'
creek, on the Georgia Pacific road OF
Thursday. The Atlanta bound pasSen
ger train ran into west bound freigh
train which was leaving o side track
The freight engine was driven into a bo,
car, splitting il in half. The pilot 0
both engines were demolished, and tn
cab Of the passenger engine was torn of
The baggage car was smashed. The in
jured are: William Spinks, engineer O
passenger train, face bruised; B. ii. Fill
more, baggage master, lip cut and hi
bruised. A. B. Dunning, express messen
ger, nose smashed.
Georgia.
Augusta is to have a reformatory II
stitution forchildren. Sixty acres Of Ian
has been purchased for it.
Governor Gordon, on Thursday, pa
, doned J. N. A. Siringer, sentenced |
imprisonment for life for killing job
Goddis in Lumpkin county. .a
The State Grand Lodge Of the Knigh
Of Pythias met in Atlanta. The sire,
parade OF tho uniformed division WI
magnificent. Mayor Cooper welcome
J them in a speech, and Governor Gordo
, reviewed them. ....@. a
On MOI day night, fire broke out in Il
West & Edwards building on Pryl
street, Atlanta, and loss Of nearly $50
: 900 wss sustained. Balm & kirkpatrick
hardware; Mcdonald Bros, grocers; ar
/ Levi cohn, wholesale dealer In notioI
, were the principal sufferers.
!. On Sunday, mob Of several hundr,
young men rotten-egged the Salvstit
Army in Atlanta, and assaulted the ba
racks with rocks. Mayor Cooper b
ordered the police 20 protect the Arm
and will hold them 10 rigid accountabi
: ity II they do not, 80 he says.
At q large gathering on Thursday mig
j Of Mitchell Post, @. A. r., Of Atlant
i and their Northern friends, Prof. Thay
!. suggested, and IL was received with gre
favor, that memorial services for bo
Confpderates and Union soldiers shou
! be held on the same day.
u John W. Roberts employed on Il
J. tanks at Iceyilc, on the Cbattahooch
4 river. was walking along the State Ra
road. when he WIS struck by frcig
engine and cut into small pieces. n
: heart had been separated rs II by kni
= and was lying all alone upon crossti
4 Rev. q. II. Patillo died on wedne
J. day, at Ciarksville. after q lingering il
n / ness. ht WIS Well ku0Nu uuu BfeAt
4 beloved 10 Atlanta. At one time he "
the pastor Of 81. Paul's Methodist chur
in that city. lie was q prominent mel
Der Of the North Georgia conference I
d years. -Ea
}. Geo. II. Eddleman, q real-estate ma
;. and Thomas Gresham, the yardmast
!. Of the w. 4 A. Railroad, had dispu
: on "Wednesday in an Atlanta restauraI
y Eddlcman complained that his boo
d keeper belonged 10 too many secret
], cieties. and spoke unkindly Of tho
10 organizations. Gresham denounced hl
= rs liar, whereupOn Eddleman ASSAULT
" him with cane, following il up with
N pistol shot which took effect In Or,
!, hams stomach. The wounded man di
:, and Eddltman was jailed.
W virginia.
Of The diocesan council Of the Protests
Il Episcopal church Of the state, met
I. Staunton Wednesday. ....
q Frank May, working at saw m
i near Port Republic, was caught by q :
= which cut of his leg at the thigh, I
Y tered his aide and cut his bowels, IL
(. and lungs, and forced bis heart from
ef left 10 The rivht aide. lie lived fduTtl