Hillsboro recorder., 1888-02-02
SOUTHLAND DOTTINGS.
INTEREsgING NEWS ITEMS FOR
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The secinl, Religious and Temperance
Worid-Prolec,ed Enterprises a. =.
= riages, Fires, Deaths. Me. .+ :

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The Social, Religious and Temperance
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riages, Fires, Deaths, Me. .+ f'}
Chancellor P. II. Nell, of the Univer.'
sity at Athens, Ga, is dead. ,s g..
| The grand jury at New Orleans, La,
has decided that keno is not gambling
within the meaning Of the statute. y
Hon. John It. Allen, ex-State Treasurer
| OF Texas, died at Houston, aged 30. He
bequeathed 100000 to the city for an
industrial school for boys. f5 satt ssa
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.
Stenographer Barnes asked for 5000 for
reporting the Voolfolk murder case at
Macon, Ga, and Judge Gustin allowed
the bill, There were 100000 words put
in the record.
Deputy Sheriff J. NJ. Autry was shot
and instantly killed near Tuscaloosa,
Ala, while arresting Jim Semmes, a ne
gro. The negro fired from his house just
/ 40 iAC iNd1lAtu 3 .
The Jail of Edgecombe county, North
Carolina, at TarDoro, and the old Steele
Creek Presbyterian church in Meckien-
buSg county, North Carolina, were des.
troyed by fire. .-
Rev. J. s. Dill, who was called to the
pastorate Of the Central Baptist Church
at Atlanta. Ga, and also to that of the
Baptist Church of GoldsborO, N. G., has
accepted the latter call.
The court house of Mobile county, Ala,
was destroyed by fire. A defective fiue
set fire to the roof and the flames spread
slowly and gave time to save the records.
The building was valued at $4,000
While the fast train on the Georgia
road was approaching Augusta, some
misereants, when the cars were about two
miles from the city, threw rocks which
smashed several windows. No one was
hurt.
Rev. Sam Jones, the reviyalist, spoke
ITO Men Only" at Kansas City, Mo. The
attendance was 5000, and the collection
for Jones' personal benefit amounted to
s3,5OO. lie spoke that night TO an audi
ence Of 1000.
The celebrated trotting stallion, Happy
Medium, valued at $40, 1000, died at Lex
ingtOn, Ky. He was foaled in 1868.
Thirty nine Of his get have records Of
$3.50, or lower. He was Of Ned by Gen
erai W. 7. withers. e..
Glands up; am a detectiyer' were
the words used by Albert Knott, a 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 & Georgia Railroad
company, left Columbns, Ga, for Mexico
to accept the position of auditor of ac-
counts Of the construction company Of
the Mexican National railway.
Il having been announced that the
printers who recently struck on the Couri.
er-sowndt, of Louisville, Ky, proposed
starting an opposition paper, W. n. Hal
dcman, proprietor of the GJaricr.JouFRaL,
rendered the strikers full associated press
dispatches six months free Of charge.
| Central railroad engine, No. 90, En-.
gineer Greagor, run over J. B. BrinsOn, a
young white man, at Tennille. Ca, and
cut of both his legs Just below the knee.
BrinsOn is a train hand on the W. & T.,
and was in the discharge Of his duties
when he was struck by the engine, which
he did not see, as he had his back 10 il.
lie died.
Cold weather has at last closed pataps
co River with ice, and navigation is
stopped TO Baltimore, Nd, except "a
larger class local steamers and a few
smaller craft which set up in tow Both
state and city ice boats are 1T work, and
thus far have succeeded in breaking The
ice from that city to open water In Chesa.
pcake Bay.
Charles q. Minnigcrnde. prominent
citizen of Alexandria. Va. in the railroad
supply business, committed suicide nj his
residence by Shnolng himself in the head
with pistol. He was q son d Rev. DIR.
Minnigsrode, of Richmond, Va, was
at one time Confricr tc soldier and
served on Gen. Fiizhugh lees siaif. lie
leaves q wife anl eight children.
Goldthwaite Graham, we'll known
citizen, for many years deputy sheriff ol
Montgomery, Ala, committed suicide.
The deceased had been drinking and re-
marked 10 his son: I'm going TO kill
myself. Old man Workman went by the
laudanum route, and I'll do the same. "
lie was noted for courage and integrity.
and when not drinking was very estima.
BILE man. -.~
Murphy Phillips. indicted for rape Jack
Chapman, charged with the murder ol
Monroe Bynum, and a negro named Jones
under iail sentence--the only three pris-
oners in the Murfreesbofo, Tenn, Jail cs.
capped. The Jail Is constructed after the
usual manner, with an inside cage sur
rounded BY q corridor. AZ the time Of
the escape the prisoners were out in this
corridor, and. by the use Of q common
stove poker, they dug hole through the
brick wall Of the jail.
The man who was secured by The
Montgomery, Ala, police, tohfessCd 10
the captain Of police that he was Reuben
Barrows and the fugitive his brother Jim.