Richland beacon., 1888-09-01
SOUTHERN BRIEFS.
OUR NEWS GATHERRR AT HOME.
what 10 GSiss - all ever Dixie Land
An Isterestins Budget.
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y passenger train on the Nashville road
ran INTO buggy Just east Of Stevenson
IN sunday In which was "a man. hi,
wife and ch Id. The man was killed and
the wouan and child badly hurt.
Contracts have been signed viii, Ii in.
-ure the removal from Pttsburp. Pa.
and the erection at Bes>cmcr of the im.
mcnsc foundry. machine shops an boiler
works of James T. Witherow & Go.
The shops will manufacture the fire fur.
ntccs to be built in Bcsscmcr. They
will employ a large number of skilled
mechanics, and nccessitatc the outlay oi
half million dollars
Work on the Tennessee & Coosa Va
ley Railroa from the Huntsville end OF
the line has been temporarily snsrcaticd,
and the contractors and engineers have
returned t. Huntsville, where the con
tractors are mostly employed in building
the Huntsville dummy Inc 1t is II t
known what is the cause Of the suspcn-
sion. The road has been completed from
Admission. Al9 10 Alfalfa, and tn
grading has been going on from both
ends of the uncomp,etcd portion.
The race and labor troubles at II, und
Mountain furnace, Cherokee county, have
broken out again. A special from G.'Gs-
den says the white laborcrs. who hld
tiled To drive away the negro $, blew up
/ the house of Manager Elliott, Of the fur
/ mace companv. with dynamite. They
/ threatened to blow up the furnace, and
/ Manager Elliott and the sheriff of Cher
/ Okee county appealed to the governor
/ for help. Governor Seay ordered the
/ Etowah Rifles of Gadsdcn to the scene Of
! the trouble.
Miss Ida Fultou committed suicide at
Brcwton. She loved against the iulg-
ment Of her parents, not wisely, perhaps,
but to well. Miss Fulton was only
! about seventeen years o: age, accomplish
ed and Attractive and sh3 belonged to
one Of the best families of the place.
In the note to her heart chosen sweet
heart she gave him her ring and request
, cd him to kiss her once in death before
burial. Her engagement with the man
chosen by her parents had gone so far
that her wedding trosseau had been pre-
pared, but there was funeral dirge in
stead Of a wedding march.
News comes from Clay county, in the
eastern part of the state, of the mvstcr-
Gus disappearance and supposed murder
of two Mormon elders, Davis and Weaver
who have been preaching in that section
for some time. These Mormon elders
were ordered to leave some tine since,
but they refused to obey the order The
feeling against them among the better
class of citizens was stirred TO fever heat
last Sunday by baptizing conducted by
Elders Davis and Weaver 1t is said
that these elders took several converts of
both sexes to mill pond, and taking
them into the water in a perfectly nude
condition, immersed them in the presence
Of about fifty people.
south Carolina.
The twO-s' 'Ory framed dwelling Of i.
W. Rcntz, twelve m lc- south OF Georges
together with the fur"iturr and store
house, were destroyed by fire; caused by
defective stove fluc.
The secretlry If the state beard OF
heat has received additional and i'm
portant nation concerning the
alarming epidemic of black measles
which is prevailing among the ncgio,s
on the pl'ntatirrs along the Santee river,
in Georgetown co lnty. On the planta
tion Of Mr.. Hazard, where over thirty
negroes died from the disease, and
it is said to lie spreading so rapidly that
an entire ccs a'ion of work on the grow
ing crops is fca cd. The crops consist
mostly Of rice which is now in the milk !
and requires care ul watching.
FIorian.
The Jacksonville mails have failed to |
reach Tallahassee for several days. |
There is great complaint about the irrcg-
ulaiities of the mats from all points.
A par y of eight depera'e negroes at
tempted to run the Gordon at st. Angus
tine. They were sent hack and then
made an attempt at night to cross a |
marshy creek. Captain Of Guarl Hop. /
stationed an extra guard on the creek
with shOt-guns, su,pecting that an at
tempt would be made at night. The at
tempt was made as anticipated, and the
guard fired. He sprinkled the party
pretty thoroughly with fine shot, Which
put Iuirtus oa any further attempts.
The captain of the steamer Mason l..
Weems, which passed down the Rappa.
hammock river dnrin. a storm. reports
that when the storm came up, the mcm-
bcrs of colored Baptist church were
gathered at Cartcr's Wharf, witnessing
an immersion The rain dtovp TN, !
crowd into an empty freight shed.
While they were huddled together, bolt
of lightning struck the building and
seemed TO leap right into the midst of
The crowd, killing three persons and
stunning the entire crowd. The candi-
date who was being immersed was one
If these killed.
Nor, Cn-oIinn.
Thirty Of the lawl,s IS negroes (railr0ad
hands, were tried bef,re Jud.e Mares at
Char ot,e All were found guilty and
sentenced from two to three years in tic
cLai gang.
Walter Alvis Thompson, who. during
The War was color ser. .oant of Jeff Divis's
regiment. the Missi-s'ppi Rifles, died on
Wedneslay at his home near IIillsboro.
Iii, age was IS.
Five weeks sgo, Policeman W. T. Rus
:ell. of Chattanooga. shot and killed
Jesse Bishop, negro, for rtsi-tlng ar
rest. Chief of Police Howard received
he following communication. written
Il 81, "a. or1 oil .