Hillsboro recorder., 1888-04-12
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pIi"s-Suicides--Ii Religious, Temperance
4 q and social AIatters.ISFtH W. VS 3'BsYis1
The Augusta, Ga. exposition will be
open from October 10, to December 10.
| William Porter, a young farmer of Co.
lumbia, Tenn, ficomrnitted suicide, by
taking morphine Iagsvss1o noiIlt~t47
The dry-goods house Of John Gilgan &
Co., of NASHVILLE, Tenn, has assigned for
the benefit of their crcditors.I sT5 ng iaE
Fifteen persons have left Oconee
County, s. c., for i Utah, and Mormon
missionaries" are making many converts.
Gross, the Raleigh, N. c. bank pres.
ident and forger, has confessed, and
says Cashier White is blameless in the af.
fair. @ as1 eaa
Out of 1,20O applications for Confed-s
crate soldier pensions in North Carolina,
nearly one-third were rejected for irregu-
larities or fraud. .e.- .ss, RIA. .ssss., a.1s,r
Augusta, Ga, has inaugurated cook
ing class among the fashionable young
ladies, and it promises to develop into
delightful craze. h.. l. .a.4t ss9 }s4
The steamer, Gen. Ii. d. Rucker,
which left Memphis, Tenn, for st. Louis,
burned near Mount Pleasant, Mo. She
was valued at $4,000.
John Hawkins, assistant postmaster at
| Newbcrry, s. c., and $500 disappeared,
End Mrs. Herbert, the postmistress is on
his trail, which leads to Florida. .s.vs
Judge Sharp, of Lexington, KY, has
been appointed state treasurer by Gov
ernor Buckner, to succeed defaulting
Treasurer Tate. The nomination was
confirmed by the Senate. f.. r. .. *.+5s
Jesse Hall, agent of the Comanche and
Wichita Indians, in Indian Territory, has
been indicted by the grand jury of the
northern Texas district, on the charge OF
embezzling $14, 900 belonging to the
United States government. r:4
There is remarkable outbreak of mea-
sles at the town of Manchester, in Cum
berland county, N. G. The population
consists almost entirely Of factory opera.
tives, as some large cotton mills are To-
Gated there. Nearly every operative is
sick, some dangerously so, and all the
mills have been forced to shut down.
! Eight prisoners confined in the Miller
county jail, at Texarkana, Texas, with
augers, furnished them from the outside,
bored through the walls Of the Jail, max.
ing their escape. The greater number
were confined for forgery aud burglary.
Bloodhounds have been placed upon the
trail Of the fleeing parties. 3D..
Henry Rosenburg, millionaire banker
of Galveston. Texas, in communication
to the board OF school trustees, donated
| $40, 900 for the immediate erection Of a
substantial public school building, for
the education Of white children exclus-
lively. Mr.. Rosenburg Is native Of
Switzerland
The stockholders Of the Market street
bridge, over the Tennessee river, at Chat
tanooga, Tenn, have arranged to begin
work on that structure soon, and IL is to
be completed inside of ten months. The
bridge win cost 100000. Il will have
a iilteen-foot span in the center, and will
be built by the Decatur Bridge Company,
of Decatur, Ala. As
J. II. Renneker, lumber merchant Of
Charleston, S. C., assigned and il Is
stated that liabilities were $50, 900 and AZ.
sets $40, 900. II now turns out that liabili'
, ! tieswill reach perhaps $40, 600. Rennekei
was doing business with J.AC. Rigby,
owner of two lumber mills in the coun'
try. Rigby flooded the town with ne
gotiablc notes at thirty sixty and ninety
days, indorsed by Renneker. 81. Fl.
The United States man.of-war Rich
mond, the flagship OF Rear Admiral Luce
commanding the North Atlantic squad
ron. while seeking anchorage at Key
West col';ied with the Swedish barb
Lima. Tbs flagship had considerable
| damage done TO her bow aud quarter
! deck falling, Cwhile the bark lost her iib
! boom and bowsprit, )but may be PATCHED
up in time to take part in the Pcnsaeol'
. sham-fght. :*e.7t@ t5+..
: The board Of trustees Of the University
j of Tennessee, by unanimous. vote elected
/ Prof. Lannon Scribner, at present chic
Of the bureau Of mycology IN the Depart
L mcnt cf Agriculture at Washington, p
r C., to the chair of botany .nnd horticul
ture In the University Of Tennessee also
botapist 10 the agricultural cxpcrimcn
station of Tennessee. Prof. Henry y
: Summers, n Cornell University, n. y
{ was elected professor Of zoology and en-
! tolnology, and Prof. Vim. 4. stern, for
merly of Massachusetts, experiment sta
= ton and Houghton farm station, who !
! now AZ the University Of Goetting, Ger
: many. was elected chemist.