The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-07-05
SOUTHERN oLEANINGS.

fought recently az the residence of Hamp
Green. During the progress OF the bat
tie a fve- yesr-old child was killed ana
several Of the cOmbatants were slightly
wounded. Over two hundred shots were
fred. A new invoice of rifles has been
shipped to the scene Of war.
The outlook foI a big crop in the victn-
ity of Jackson, Tenn, was never better.
The cotton is looking very fine, with
plenty Of blooms.
Charley Winters, a fisherman at Helena,
Ark, caught and landed one of the larg-
est fishes ever seen in that part OF the
country, few days ago. 1t was chan
mel catfish, weighed over two hundred
pounds and was caught in the St Francois
river.
Near Bayou Pierre, twenty-five miles
below Vicksburg, Miss, few evenings
since, a gravel train on the louisiana,
New Orleans a. Texas railway tackled
furious bull on trestle, which resulted
fatally to the bull and the pillng up OF
the engine and tender and seventeen
gravel cars in general smash. One ne
gro brakeman was killed and the engi-
neer received slight wound in the head
The north and south-bound passenger
| trains we're compelled to tranfer at the
wreck, which delayed them several hours.
| At Maysville, KY, q few days since,
! domestic scandal terrnln ated in Lucy RICE
shooting Barbara Ballinger to death
Rev. J. Henry Smuthe, D. D., L. l.. D.,
regent of Grant University, Athens,
| Tenn, was reported lying dangerously Ill
at the Windsor Hotel, in New York
Boston capitalists are negotiating for
the purchase of the charter of the Chat
tanooga & Augusta railroad, and If they
| succeed in their efforts it will mean the
| ir,Yy7adi i.+a h1Til Of the road,
George Deans, a negro, living near
jacksonville, Fla. three OF his own chill
dren and another child. were poisoned,
few days ago, by some drug in their break
fast. Two Of the children have died.
Three men were arrested recently IN
Mason County KY, charged with steal
ing 30, 900 tobacco plants from their nelgn-
bors.
Three years ago Charles Selhe, OF Nor
ris Cove, Tenn, saved from drowning the
young daughter of rich New Yorker.
Now, by will of that gentleman, who has
lately died, Selhe gets 10000 in reward
for his bravery.
Blanche X Bruce, formerly Senator OF
the United States from Mississippi, and
later Register of the United States Treas
ury, received eleven votes for Vice-Pres-
ident in the Republican National conven-
: ton.
The last spike of the Chattanooga, Rome
. & Columbus railroad was driven few
days since. This road extends from Chat
, tanooga through Rome, Ga, to Carroll
, ton, Ga, a distance of l40 miles, and Will
be extended to Columbus, Ca, and thence
to the sea.
A Young man named Harris was killed
in a stave factory near Pimeson, Tenn,
few days since The jointing machine
few to pieces while going at a rapid rate
of speed. large piece of casting struck
. Harris in the breast, killing him instantly.
Two other men we're seriously hurt, but
i will recover.
t Sam Alexander, colored, was shot dead
r a few nights ago in Walton County, ia.
o There was church festival, when quar-
9 rel arose as to who had done the most
g work for the church. The combatants re-
y tired to a distance of $50 yards and fred
y several volleys at each other, by which
o Alexander was killed and others wounded.
o The grand jury at Frankfort, KY, has
/ returned four indictments against Ken
}, tucky's fugitive Treasurer, James w.
5 Tate, charging him with defalcation. The
= charge of forgery did not hold because
/ the evidence showed that the bank book
which he used was his own private prop
: erty.'
Rev. Warren A Gambler, associate ed
> ! itor of the Nashville Christian AdrOcdte,
!, has been rendered the presidency OF
- Emory College, located at oxford, "a.
/. Mr.. Gambler is regarded as one OF the
. ablest young divines OF the Metnodlst
= Episcopal Church South.
Having lust finished the mineral road
, around Birmingham, Ala, and being hard
> at work on the Huntsville extension, with
n letting a few days since of the contracts
for sixteen more miles OF the latter, II
develops that the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad Company is at work on Rnother
I scheme, by which Bristol, Tenn, and
: Birmingham will be Joined.
= A destructive cyclone visited Todd and
Muhlenburg counties, KY, few nights
ago. passing from northwest to southeast
and on to Tennessee. Vast tracts or land
we're laid waste, trees uprooted and houses
blown down. The rain also fell IN tor
rents, causing the streams to overflow
> doing great damage.
At negro church three miles south OF
Davisboro, Ga, dispute arose between
two negroes, Hal Bryant and Sam Hunt,
over q debt of fifty cents, which 1t ls
claimed the former refused to pay the lat
ter, as 1t was made at cards. Hot words
caused Hunt TO draw his knife, and when
> he did so Bryant shot him through the
: left lung, causing death in less than four
minutes. Bryant left Immediately after
the shooting.
Eight years ago Henry johnson, living
a in Stafford County, Va, was made the
n happy father of twins and he named them
Grant aud Garfield. A few days ago,
while the husband and wife were absent,
the boys got possession of their fathers
gun, and after fruitess attempts to hre 1t
? Grant found percussion cap, which no
r put on the gun and with an old hammer
I succeeded ia discharging the load into
:. the body of his twin brother, CARRIED,
/ tearing and mutilatiug it almost beyond
o recognition.
d The Grand Temple of Tennessee,
% Knights Of Tabor, the second strongest
n colored organization in America, was IN
g session at Nashville, Tenn, last week
IS Rev. Moses Dixon, of st. Louis, delivered
% an address, and the report of A. McFall,
s chief grand mentor, was read. The Grand
IS Temple of Georgia, which has member
d ship of 800, was admitted to the Jurlsdlc-
'e ton of Tennessee. The Order OF knights
o of Tabor. organized twenty years
IS ago, has 10000 members in the different
n States.
Worms are hurting the cotton.
The cornerstone of the Masonic widows
and Orphans Hone, which will DO bull
=, by the Freemasons of Tennessee at a cos
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