Hillsboro recorder., 1888-04-19
SOUTHERN GOSSIP.
BoILED DOWN FACTS AND FAN
" OIES INTERESTINGLY STATED.

accidents ON Land aud ON Scn-New Eater.
prises-suicides- SIR eIigions, Temperance
.l' and social Matters. 81 gar #lF9 u.ll ,
Col. w. III. Chapman, an internal rev
enue agent, was shot by n moonshiner
while raiding an Illicit distillery near
Florence, Ala. @. ;. 1m:r l4as
The Shreveport Arkansas Railroad was
completed and golden spike was driven
by Mrs. Julia Rule (Pansy), of the
Shreveport Times. ,..... ...s......
Fifteen business buildings and eight
cottages were destroyed by fire at Tavares,
Fla, entailing loss of probably $780,
600; insurance very small.
Negotiations are pending between 4
large firm Of Pittsburg, Pa, and a citi-
zen Of Athens, Ga; for the necessary
plaLt and buildings for extensive glass
works. e. 2 s<ihH sA a8"1.t ia'&5 Eh.'34
\ The treatment of conyicts in Alabama
is receiving considerable attention from
Gov. Seay, and some officers at Love-
lace's camp near Birmingham are likely
to get into trouble for unnecessarily
shooting prisoners for trIfing otfenses.
The Farmers Alliance entered North
Carolina about year ago. l. now has
686 sub-alliances in the state with 3D.
900 members. The Knights of Labor are
losing strength and the new order is over.
shadowing everything.
In Sumter county, s. c., a stroke OF
lightning killed a negro boy, who was
riIiug along q public road, killed the
mule he was driving and shattered the
buggy. Iu the same county, about the
same time, a stroke of lightning killed a
mule. COW and pig. There are no
other casualties reported.
While construction train on the Kan
sas City, Memphis & Birmingham Rail
road was running backward ut a rate OF
twenty miles an hour, near Amory, Miss,
it struck COW and the entire train was
thrown from The track and badly
wrecked. Four negro laborers were
killed outright and eight Others injured,
some Of them fatally.
The jury in in the case of David
Walker, chief of the Bald Knobbers,
who have been or trial at Ozark, Mo-, ie-
turned verdict of murder in the first
degree. James Mathews, William Stin-
ley, Amos Jones and G. c. Simmons.
were then sentenced by the court, three
Of them having pl,ad guilty to murder
in the second degree. Stanley and Jones
90 twenty-five years in the pcnitentiary,
Simmons fifteen years, and Mathews was
released on 81 600.
A negro named Jack Wilson attended
Joe Jefferson's play of "Trip Van Winkle''
few weeks ago at Macon, Ga. From
that time he has developed longing to
initiate Rip in his long sleep, and has
almost lost his mind on the subject. lie
was taken to the hospital, where he suc-
ceedcd IN sleeping two nights and days
without waking. About o'clock the
other morning he awoke, shrieking like q
demon, and showing every symptom of .
raving maniac, smashing furniture and
attempting to ILL every one he met.
From November ], 1886, to April !.
1887, the sales oil commercial fertilizer,
in South Carolina amounted to s1,03s
tons; and for the same period in 1sS7-sS
the salts have been 110, ,220 tons, an i'll
crease for the present season Of 2S, lSS
tons. This is probably the largest quan'
tity Of fertilizers ever purchased by the
farmers in one season, and is good in
dication Of an increased cotton area, al
though the low prices prevailing this
year nav have induced the farmers tC
use il more largely than usual on othel
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