The gale., 1888-04-07
DYKES DOINGs.
SOUTHERN PARAGRAPHS OF
INTEREST TO OUR RE EADERS.
The Events Of Week In Our Old
country-New Enterprises,
&C., &c.

The first train over the first section of
the Lookout Mountain, Tenn, Railway
passed over the road recently.
Several young men caught Balaam
Sims at Lansing, Tenn, cut off his hair
and threatened to kill him, when he be-
came so alarmed that he died in a few
hours.
The first Chnaman in the South to
embrace the Christian eligion--Chung
Wung immersed in the Savannah
river, at Augusta, Ca, and made full
fledgcd Baptist.
West Point, Ga, had quite a fire,
which started in r. W. Woods store,
causing damage of $50, 900. The losers
are j. j. Crawford, drugs; Courser,
tailor; George N. Craft, confectioner; ].
NJ. Scott, w. G. Shaeffer and Miller &
Harris.
An epidemic of measles is raging at
Buckingham G. H., Va. Whole families
are down with it. One family consisting
of man, his wife and fourteen children
are Frustrated, and an old couple, aged
respectively 81 and 81, are down with
the disease. A great many have died.
There is excitement at Durham, N. c..
growing out of the arrest of number of
liquor dealers, on the charge of violating
the local option law. A New York de
tective went there, and soon got evidence
against number of them. Arrests fol-
lowed, and the defendants were required
to give heavy bonds for their appearance
at court.
At Wilmington, N c., S. B. Dudley
and F. F. Aldrich were tried upon
charge of publishing libel upon Judge
0. p. Mears, of New Andover superior
court, in the Weekly Bulletin, their edi-
torial charging that Judge Mears grossly
between white and colored
people in court, and was very abusive in
tone.
At Loveless convict camp, near Bir-
Ala, Archie Stokes, negro
was shot and killed and Henry
Allen, another convict, severely wounded.
When ordered to Work Allen refused to
go and would not let the other convicts
leave the barracks. They stood IN the
door armed with picks and defed the
guards. i
The E!yton Land Company at Birming
ham, Ala, closed contract with the
Hoe and Tool company, of
N. Y. for the removal of the;l
entire plant to Birmingham. The capital
stock of the company will be 800, 600, |
of which the Elyton Land Company takes
s4O, 900. The plant will be in operation
by August 1st, and 200 men will be en-
ployed.
Revenue officers f. F. Fowler and w. |
T. Westcottle returned from raid in
Butler county, Ga, raidcd and captured |
m illict still in Butler county. The
news is specially interesting because
moonshiners and wild cat dis
tillcries have been unheard of in that
section of the state. The still was out
in the lonesome piney woods where the
timber depredators are constantly work
ing, but the moonshiner is a stranger.
Two more of the indicted Bald Knob
bers, at st. Louis, Mo-, have presented
written confessions to the sheriff. Amos
Jones and William Stanley follow John
in the plea for mercy, and man
,ge to weave a story showing their pres
snce had tendency for a peace gather
being responsible, with Bill Walker, in |
,he atrocious murders, while they used
every endeavor to restore order and pre-
vent bloodshed.
East Nashville, Tenn, has suffered by
m epidemic of fires, dozen stables and
several residences having been burned.
The stable of w. Moore was fired seven
times, and the other night was destroyed,
as was his house. The police have been
as there have been two or
three alarms every day. The thirteen
year-old son of Moore was caught start
ing a fire which burned two stables. 1t
on investigation that he was
was melted to incendiarism by larger
negro boys, who robbed the ncighbor-
hood houses while the people were out.
Moore was passionately fond of seeing
the fire engines, and was thus easily in