The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-08-31
SOUTHERN eLEANINas.

on a freight train, were killed by rear
end collision near Nichols, N. @, few
days since.
The Rome & Decatur railroad, recently
completed from Rome, Ga, to A tlanta, a
distance Of about seventy five miles, has
been formally opened for business.
Tive hundred men are now at work on
the Jacksonville & st. Augustine road, in
Florida, strengthening and widening the
road-bed and laying nine-foot ties. By
next December the road is to be a stand
ard gauge with magnificent improved
equipment.
The authorities OF Green County. KY,
recently imposed a fine Of $500 on the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad CompR-
ny for breaking the Sabbath by distribut-
ing ties along the line of the road.
Near Paducah, KY, few nights ago,
Martin Englert a prominent German
farmer, was sitting with his family on the
Neranda before his house, when a bolt of
lightning struck him, killing him Instant
ly. No one else was hurt although sitting
around him.
The survivors of the famous Phillips
Legion Confederates held their second
reunion at Dalton, Ga, few days ago.
The Veterans of the Thirty-fourth, Thirty
sixth and Thirty ninth Georgia Infantry
were also present General LOngstreet
In whose command the famous Legion
fought, was announced as orator of the
day, but was unable to attend.
A novel feature in the way of affairs OF
honor occurred at Richmond, Va, few
days ago, it being nothing less than one
young Baptist minister challenging an
other to fight duel about young lady.
The affair was finally settled amioably.
William Hunter and Henry Lee, two
boys of twelve years, got into a quarrel
at Owensboro, KY, few days since.
Hunter cut Lee, making a dangerous
wound across his neck and face. Hunter
was arrested and held to await the result
of Lees injuries.
The gentlemen representing the princi-
pal coal companies of Kentucky and Vir-
ginia met at Louisville, few days ago
and succeeded in forming a gigantic COM
bine, involving about $3 100000 capital
and g. 900 acres of coal land.
News comes from Clay County Ala,
of the mysterious Disappearance and sup
posed murder of two Mormon elders, Da-
Wis and Weaver, who have been preach
ing in that section for some time.
N. M. Reid, charged with the murder of
his wife, in Tallapoosa County, had .
preliminary trial at Alexander City, Ala,
and was committed to Jail without bail to
await the action of the grand jury. Reid
is well-to-do farmer, and lived near
Alexander City.
William Robertson, a brakeman on the
Newport News & Mississippi Valley
railroad, in Kentucky, while engaged in
coupling box cars together at a station
near the bridge over the Cumberland
river, few evenings since, was caught
between the standards of two cars and
crushed TO do ath.
Near Monticello, Ga, at a Baptist AS
sociation meeting, a desperate fight Oc-
CURED between the Tyler and Malone
families and their friends. Thirty shots
were fred in less than one minute.
James Malone and Sam Tyler we're in
stantly killed Ed Tyler was mortally
and Walker Malone and several others
severely wounded.
At the last term Of United States Court
in Oh attanooga, Tenn, Mat Walker, of
Bledsoe County, was on trial for violating
the revenue laws. One of the witnesses
against him was Thomas Mcdowell The
two men met on the road few days
since, when Walker drew his revolver
and shot Mcdowell through the breast
the ball coming ont at his back. Mo-
Dowell will die. Walker has been ar
rested.
The trouble wbloh has been existing
for some time between the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers aud FiremeD
and the Mobile e. Ohio railroad, In re-
gard to wages, has been settled. A
grievance committee met General Man
Rger Clark in jackson, Tenn, and the
difference was satisfactorily adjusted.
Forty Italian and German emigrants,
en- route from New York to Texas, on ar
rival at the Mississippi State line, few
days ago, were stopped by the quarAn-
tine officers as they had no health certih-
Gates. Not one Of them could speak a
word of English, and being In strange
land were left in q deplorable condition.
The Farmers Inter- State Association
which met at Raleigh, N. O., last week,
adopted strong antitrust resolutions,
calling upon Congress TO take the neces-
sary action bo destroy oil existing trusts
and to prevent the formation OF new ones.
1t also called upon Congress TO repeal tho
iute bagging customs tariff, with view
to defeat the combination of CAPT talists
known as the bagging trust.
Pauline Mccoy, the negro woman who
few months ago murdered Annie Jor-
don, demented white girl who wandered
from her home Ia Montgomery, Ala, has
been sentenced to be hanged October 1S.
The crime was committed near Union
Springs, Ala, where the murderess is
now In jail She will be the FIRST woman
hanged in Alabama since the war.
Stevenson, Ala, was visited by a heavy
shock of earthquake few mornings
since. All the buildings In the town we're
shaken up, alarming the colored popula-
into the street No damage 70 property
was done, but many persons have been
living in constant fear Of another shock.
A rather alarming state Of aff air 8 has
been developed in Green Vile, s. c., where
the United States Court Is in session.
Greenvtlle is the center Of the mOonBhine
district in South Carolina, and over five
hundred Witnesses are in attendance at
the court. The difficulty is want Of
20 fha nd ggff
Judge Simonton, the presiding judge, has
written about the fact TO the Comptroler
Of the Treasury. Attorney Johnson has
written q letter in which he places ths
blame on the Federal authorities. The
situation in Greenville is said to DO OPP
palling. The jail is crowded with Wit
nesses who have been admitted on the
order OF the presiding judge, and who
would otherwise starve, and the others
are living out on the highways, begging
or stealing.
yellow fever is weakening.
Two sisters have been living opposite
each other in Atlanta, Ga, for I'VE years
without knowing they were related. Mrs.
/ Smith knew that she had a married sister
named Mrs Green, aud Mrs Green knew
/ she had q sister named Mrs. Smith, but
| neither knew where the other was until
accident revealed it few days sinoe.
Near aarrodsburg, KY. few days ago.
/ Herond James, respectable farmer,
who had been subject TO fainting spe ils,
/ was found dead with his face Ia the spring
in his yard. The water was only five
/ lnches deep. II Is supposed he stopped
/ % get a drink, and being seized with % htB
/ feII unconscious in the water
A large ratflssnake was killed ia Jnok-
| sonvilie, Fla., few days ago.
II Is related among other exploits of
/ 80. deaperaao Ike Lambert who wnf re.
Gently arrested Ia Alabama for killing
/ three men, that he once compelled lave
yer 10 pick a banjo all night FOR his
amuaeraenf, keeping him covered the en@