Hillsboro recorder., 1888-06-14
SOUTHERN SPRAYS.
INTERESTING FACTS BRIEFED
FOR BUSY HUMANITY.
MOVEMENTS IN RELIGIOUS, TEMPERANCE,
MASONIC AND SOCIAL cIRCLEs--FIREs,
ACcIDENTs-INDUsTRI PROGRESS.
Alabama.

anu MIS-. IL. v. hiuu, VI NeJulupht,
Ala, have returned from Princeton, New
Jersey, where they went to attend set-
tlement of the estate of the late Paul
Tclane. A partial settlement of the es-
tate was made. and as heirs of Paul Tu-
lane they received half million liars
equally divided between the three. -.s.
Michael Duffy, the Oldest member of
the Montgomery police force, died on
Monday. lie was q native of Ireland,
and has been in the service of the city
for thirty years, except when in the
Confederate army. He was corporal OF
the Montgomery Greys, and fought gal
lantly from Manassas to Appomattox,
receiving eighteen wounds. At Appo-
mattox he tore the coloTs of the Sixth
Regiment Alabama Volunteers from the
st&tf, wrapped them around his body and
brought them home.
Florida.
Prof. A. @. Holiday, from the Uni.
versity of Virginia and University Of
Berlin, and president Of the State Agri-
cultural College of Florida, has been
elected fellow of the Royal Society of
Science, Letters and Art of London,
England.
DR.. Kenworthy, the health officer of
jacksonville, stated that George
Hughes supplied his store recently with
a soda water fountain costing 50, 400. A
child drank some of the water and was
made very i'll; and Mr.. Hughes directed
his attention to the fact, and insisted
upon an analysis beipg made. A small
quantity of lemon-syrup was drawn from
one of the taps and tested by Prof.
Lynes, who made tests determining be-
yond question the presence of tin as a
stannous salt in the specimen of syrup.
The health officer stated that he found
verdigris (subacetate of copper in a
number of the faucets, and in connection
with the analyses of Prof. Lynes he
condemned the costly fountain.
Georgia.
A large number Of dealers have been
arrested by the Atlanta police for selling
diseased meat.
Peter Brown. a colorei man, was
sho. in Savannah, by Policeman Quinn,
while stealing brasses from the Central
Railroad cars.
The one hundreth anniversary of the Or
ganization Of the Presbyterian church in
The United States, will be celebrated in
Atlanta June 1914.
Representatives of the Confederate
Survivors, of Fulton county, and the
Grand Army of the Republic met ON
Tuesday in the Office of the Piedmont
Exposition, in Atlanta, and accepted the
invitation of the Army of the Potomac
to meet at Gettysburg in July. Gen. ].
II. Lewis. a one-armed officer of the u.
S. A., presided. 1t was unanimously
resolved, on motion Of Federal soldier,
that the party go as Georgia Veterans, p"
without distinction on which side they
fought. Col. LowndCs Calhoun, the
ordinary of Fulton county, is chairman
of the committee Of arrangements, and
the Gate City Guard go as escort.
North CaroIiun.
One of the mo.t terrific cyclones that
has ever visited that section passed near
Milton, Saturday evening. The length Of
the track was about twenty-five miles and
five hundred yards vide. The destruc'
ton and devastation was immense.
Whole plantations of recently planted
corn aud tobacco were wiped out an,
buckets full Of hailstones, as large t
guinea eggs, could be easily gathered.
and the weather has since been so colo
that hail is still seen on the ground and
people are sitting by fires. The woods
arc strcwed with green leaves like the
fall of dry leaves 10 Autumn.
Tennessee.
Mr.. W. +. Gordon, Jr., has been ap'
painted chief engineer Of the S. A. and
D. Railroad with headquarters at Bristol,
Charles winn, son Of a prominent cit.
izen Of Chattanooga, while crossing the
track Of the Alabama & Great Southern
Railway, in the southern part Of the city
OH Wednesday, was run over by trait
and instantly killed. His body WIS.,
horribly mangled.
United States officials have succeeded
in capturing Fred Fowler and William
Ferguson, two members Of a counterfeit
ers' gang who have been working the see
tion around Chattanooga for over tive
months. Il is estimated that there is up
wards Of fifteen thousand dollars II
counterfeit coin now in circulation. be
sides large number Of five dollar silvei
certificates.
Another shooting affray occurred Il
Paris on Monday, in which Dudley Por
ter. son Of Ex-Governor James ID. Porter
was killed. Il was q sequel to the qaar
rel in which Will Edmondsou seri0usl,
wounded Kinney Porter, the 9Th Of las
April. Kcnney Porter had recovered
and he aud Dudley were together. Kin
ney shot at Edmondson, who returned th,
Gre, killing Dudley Porter dead.
virginia.
O. b. George, manager Of the Joseph
Davis shoe company, Of Lynn, Mass,
contractors for convict labor in the Yir.
ginia penitentiary), committed suicide Ia
the penitentiary yard at Richmond By
shooting himself in the temple. The
act Is attributed 10 temporary meniai
alteration. The deceased was fifty-ninl
years old, q native Of Massachusetts,, and