Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-11-15
SOUTHERN GLEANiNoS.

300 By . lone hishwsymAn. The mes
senger aud bagyag gs-msster were COM
peeled to throw mp their hands st the point
Of a revolver
The business portion of the town Of
Lewiston, BERTHE County. ". G., was
burned q few nights ago. Abou, twelve
stores are reported tn have been de-
stroyed The registration books we're
burned. which caused some trouble about
the voting at the election
A score OF retail merchants Of Charles
ton, s. C.. are In fail for refusing to
pay their city license. snd others expect
10 be arrested This move has caused
considerable excitement In thst commit
nity.
At the door os Brodwell's Hotel In
Louisville. KY. = few nights ago. Dan
Mcdaniel shot v. IL Pitt. lightning rod
agent McDsaisl made his escape. Pitt
refused to tell vhs, was the csuse Of the
shooting.
A frs broke out AZ Macon. Ca. few
nights ago. in the oil and paint store OF
T. c. Burke, and after consuming the
entire stock. valued as s2A 90. was COM
ntinicstsd 10 the adioi ing stores of
Su-sbanm. Van sicksl & Tindall. hard
ware dealers, Of r. d. Adams 4 c..
Wholesale groceries. and OF Charles Tay-
Tor. furniture dealer, all Of which were
destroyed The estimated loss Is aboai
Sfe5.@o, about two thirds OF which Is
covered By Insurance
The Official returns Of the recent guber-
Material election In Georgia show that
Governor Gordon received T.. T1S with
not much more than 100 against him.
difficulty occurred at TaxewelI Tenn.
on election day between X r. Carr and
IL n Carr on one side and N. N. Clapp
o the other. Clapp was. perhaps. fatally
injured Sheriff Hughes vas shot In the
hand while trying to quell the riot-
10 . riot at OSeusboro. KY. Q few
nights ago. Lieutenant Ed Crook, chief
OF police, vss stabbed in the back, per-
haps fatally. Lee Hayden and John Ny
rick, policemen, had their weapons taken
from than and were bru.slly beaten The
mob consisted of nearly one hundred
men, mostly toughs from the country.
A genuine sensation was created in
Chattanooga, Tenn, . tew evenings since.
when W. W. Thomas vent to police head
quarters and gave himself up as one of
the mIrderers OF Colonel W. A. Mcwiii-
iamA who wss killed at JacksonvilIs,
Fla, thirteen months sgc.
New Orleans iady sent hair dozen
designs to one Of the big cotton -prlr.
mills st Fall River for approval, and
some weeks later they we're sent back to
her as refused. Recently she saw the
Identical designs on some calico just re
ceived in New Orleans from the mill. and
wrote an indignant letter to the mill
owners demanding an explanation in
reply she received handsome check for
her work
Mckeudree Owen. q young man living
at Bartlett's Station. Ky, vas killed, Q
few nights ago, by Leonard Elmore. =
nsighbor. Owen some time since wrCt-
aud had published an article in n local
paper rejecting on Elmore. A feud re-
suited and as the two we're returning
from tho election with = crowd OF friends
the quarrel was reopen ed IL was ended
by Elmore drawing his pistol and shoot
ing Oven through tho breast. Owen died
in few minutes. Elmore was arrested
Both men are OF good family and unmAr.
ried-
& train on the Savannah a Western
road, containing rs passengers for the
Macon fair. was wrecked near EllAville.
Ga, few days ago. The killed are:
Charlie s,evilie. Dodge Tyson. Henry
Martin. George Davis and John Hanover.
A dozen others we're injured, among
them Conductor W. c. Singleton.
Iucendiaries ses are to and burned the
residence OF c. B. GreeEg = prominent
citizen OF Durham. N. c., few mofniags
since. There was intense political feel
ing between the whites and negroes DUR
ing the election and the mel groes had
threatened Green with violence. Green
and his family barely escaped from the
burning house with their lives The
white people Of Durham, who accuse ths
negroes OF the deed were e1pseting an
outbreak on the part Of the latter.
A horrible mnraes -.s perpetrated near
Rockhaven, KY, few evenings since.
Zach Hill. . farmer, shot aud killed H-ss
Mary A. Jones, n respectable widow, IN
der the most awful circumstances Sew
erAl days previous Hill vent TO Mrs.
Jones' house and attsmptsi to take Hb-
critics with her. She ran away from home.
and when she returned with help Hill was
gone. The next day shs had him arrest.
ed and he was fned hfty dollars by q
neighborirS magistrate. Hill then swore
he would kill her, sEc hs carried out his
threat Mrs Jones was going along the
road near her house unattended, vher
nul' armed s"n ouoie-o.frefeu snot-
gun, stepped our 9; we ousnss aud iev-
eied MS gun =. her- she gave scream
ana ne nred Ine shot strucx her III ,ne
mead and she died within an hour. Hill
escaped 70 the woois- a gang OF aD'ed
men Followed MIN however, and two
hours later tound RAM s"pesaled In
thicket ne was captured and saAeu 10
jail There was tax OF MOB out
strong guard was placed around the JAIL
Inc greatest excitement Is reportea 10
exist on account OF his awful crime