The gale., 1888-02-10
NEWSY PARAGRAPHS.
4 FEW ITEMS OF SOUTHERN INTER-
EST CAREFULLY CULLED.
The Condensed News by Mail, wire
And Ofherwise.

And Otherwise.
Chancellor p. II. Nell of the Univer-
sity at Athens, Ga, is dead.
The grand jury at New Orleans, La,
has decided TINT keno is not gambling
within the meaning of the statute.
A bottle of corn whiskey taken from
drunken man in Atlanta, Ga, while on
The mantlepiece of the police station, ex-
ploded with the noise of small cannon.
Deputy Sheriff j. NJ Autry was shot
and instantly killed near Tuscaloosa,
Ala, while arresting jim Semmes, ne
gro. The negro fired from his house just
as he reached it.
The Jail of Edgecombe county, North
Carolina, at Tarooro, and the old Steele
Creek Presbyterian church in Mecklen-
burg county, North Carolina, were des-
troyed by fire.
While engaged in his office, Col. w. d.
Gale, one of the best known citizens of
Nashville, Tenn, was stricken with total
paralysis, and is not expected to live. He
served on Gen. Leonidas Polk's staff dur
ing the War.
The celebrated trotting stallion, Happy
Medium, valued at $40, 600, died at Lex
ington, Ky. He was foaled in 1868.
Thirty-nine of his get have records of
2:30, or lower He was of Ned by Gen
eral W. T. Withors.
GLANDS up; am detective!n were
the words used by Albert Knott, young
colored man who had summoned Fred.
Patrick, of Atlanta, Ga, to the front
door. With his hands out, Patrick cap
tured the bogus detective.
J. NJ Frazier, who was for years treas.
urer of the Mobile g. Georgia Railroad
company, left Columbus, Ga for Mexico
to accept the position of auditor of ac.
counts of the construction company OF
the Mexican National railway.
George Bankston, who is alleged to be
the most expert burglar and COW thief in
Atlanta, Ga, was shot and dangerously
wounded on Decatur street, between Col
Inns and Calhoun, by Patrolman Wooten,
from whom he was trying to get away.
It having been announced that the
printers who recently struck on the Couri-
of Louisville, KY, proposed
starting an opposition paper, w. N. Hal
deman, proprietor of the Courier-J0uynal
rendered the strikers full associated press
dispatches six months free of charge.
Marshal Tom Brown, Of Kingston,
Tenn, shot and instantly killed Taylor
Bowlin. During the day Bowlin had
been arrested by Brown, and when he
gained his freedom he said he would kill
Brown on sight. lie went to Browns
residence and attacked him, when Brown
shot him through the head with pistol.
Charles G. Minniqerode. prominent
citizen of Alexandria, Va, in the railroad
supply business, committed suicide at his
'esidence by ,a,oting himself in the head
With u pistol. He was son of Rev. Dr.
of Richmond, Va, was
t one time Confederate soldier and
ervcd on Gen. Fitzhugh Lees staff He
caves a wife and eight children.
Goldtilwaite Graham, a well known
itizen, for many years deputy sheriff of
Ala, committed suicide.
The deceased had been drinking and re-
marked to his son: ''I'm going to kill
myself. Old man Workman went by the
audanum route, and I'll do the same"
lie was noted for courage and integrity,
md when not drinking was a very estima-
Die man.
A white waif, boy about a week old,
was found lying in basket covered with
worsted shawls, at the front door of J.
L. Butler, in Hamburg, s. c., opposite
Augusta, Ga, just across the river. The
was placed at the door after
midnight, and when found was alive, but
onlv lived an hour afterwards. The night
was intensely cold, and it is thought the
infant was frozen to death
Governor Lowry's vetoing the constitu-
tional convention bill, passed by the Mis-
sissippi Legislature, has created quite a
happy sensation among the people. Con
letters from many of our most
prominent citizens, have been sent to the
plucky governor. The opinion prevails
tina, all the Objectionable features can be
eliminated by means of amendments, thus
saving the enormous expense necessarily
attached to the formation ofa new consti-
tuition