Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-04-05
SOUTHERN oLeANiNos,

rian who Is now living near the shores OF
| Lake ThOnotosassa, Fla, Is one os the old
| est survivors OF the Seminole Indian war,
and was AN important actor in thst bloody
strife
The first section Of the broad gauge rail-
/ road up Lookout mountain has been COM
| pleted, and trains are running. The road
bed is said by railroad engineers to be the
most marvellous piece of engineering skill
ever exhibited in the South. The entire
road will be completed May Is.
Horace Parker was killed by Robert
| Youngblood. of Childersburg, Ala, a few
nights ago. The two men got into q dis
pute, when the latter killed the former
with billet of wood. Youngblood claims
to have acted in self-defencc. Young
blood was arrested.
1 "A queer tale comes from Perry County,
Tenn A man named Williamson stole
hog from butcher and made OF with IL.
Before he reached home he had fence to
cross, and, il seems, threw the hog over
before him. He had failed to take out the
'.gammon stick" and it caught him by tho
neck, and when found next morning he
was dead and cold. with his prey on one
side OF the fence and his body on the
other.
| William and Joe Hopkins were recently
| convicted ut Clayton, Ga-. OF the unpro-
voked murder OF Willie Thomas. whom
they stoned to death A. he came out Of
church at Mount Carmel. The crime, ar
rest and conviction only covered a weeks
time.
A bale OF cotton recently received at
| Bremen was found to contain it6 pounds
of seed cotton, and il was traced back to
farmey named Snipes in Banks County.
Ga. The latter. however. declines to
settle the damage, and legal proceedings
will involve more than the cotton Is worth.
| A terrible storm Of wind and hail swept
over Boliver County. Miss, a few evenings
since, doing much damage to the planting
interests. Trees were uprooted and many
fences destroyed. The store house ot T.
S. Mailer, OF Kentucky Landing, was car
ried of its foundation and upset.
| Advices from all parts Of Georgia show
that the recent enormous rainfall through
out the State has resulted in great dam
age to railroads and farming interests.
| Chas. Floys, n cooper by trade, aged
twenty eight, fell under the cars on the
Louisville & Nashville road at Memphis,
Tenn, a few nights ago, and both OF his
legs were cut of. His home is In Green
| willie, Ind.
1
United States Pension Bureau, who arrived
at Gainesville, Tenn, a few days ago from
his field Of labor in Georgia, died at his
fathers home. few miles west of Gaines
vile, OF consumption.
The private banking house OF Thos. p.
Miller q Co, at Mobile, Ala. after thirty
six years existence amid all sorts Of
financial difficulty, has succumbcd, and
leaves but n wreck behind.
Ii has raincd almost constantly In Mis-
sissippi. lately, interfering very ma
terially with planting prospects. All the
creeks are out OF their banks and flooding
the country.
Andrew Jones, the eighteen year -old
son of Mr.. VIM. Jones, OF Brownville,
Ga, died few nights ago. The young
man was stung ON the neck by a spider
two weeks previous. The sting was very
| painful, and the neck and side os his face
were greatly swollen. Erysipelas set in,
which produced death.
Johnny Bertelkamp, twelve years old,
was reported dying in the City Hospital at
Louisville, KY, OF trichinosis. Johnny's
parents are Germans, and the chief article
of their diet is pork. The boy preferred
this raw, and was allowed to eat the meat
that way.
l II II not RrltTatiN kuhNf. uut II u.
neverthet ~, true. that Georgia furnished
one regiment Of infantry to the Federal
service during the civil war. II was not u
full regiment, and somehow the officers
and men were never paid for their serv-
ices. They are now before Congress seek
ing a settlement.
James Derossett. who is charged with
wandering Ras Smith at Dayton, Tenn,
was taken TO Chattanooga and locked up,in
Jail To prevent him from being lynched. A
mob intended to hang him at Dayton.
A party of Louisville (Ky.l men have
been working to develop lead mines in
Scott County. Silver prospecting was also
indulged in, and after six months of
patient work silver has been struck on the
Brown farm, about ten miles from George
| town.
John Meyer. a tramp, boarded car
filled with lumber on the Western & At
lansa road, at Dalton, Ga, a few nights
ago. While the car was en- route 10 Chat
tsnooga the lumber fell on the man, kill
ing him instantly. His dead body not
discovered until the train arrived at its
destination
JEFF Sims. farmer, and lis wife, living
near Hernand0, Miss. have been getting
along badly for some time. She was found
dead in her room few days ago, with
several knife wounds on her person Sims
claims that she killed herself, but he was
arrested as the murderer
The body of white man was found in
the Alabama river above Selma, few
days ago. 1t had probably been in the
water a week IL was discovered by =
boatman catching drift. No papers to
| identify the man were found on his per-
son. The neck was broken, through which
was a bullet hole. He was properly buried
Nothing has developed to lead to his iden-
tity.
In Chatham County, Y. C., few days
since, Deputy Collector Spence Taylor
captured and destroyed an Illicit still.
When they were near the still they saw
FIVE men, who hastily fed and escaped
Two OF them were playing cards and an
other was Just passing Jug To his mouth
| TO take a drink when the officers were first
seen The still was very large one and
was in full blast.
At Sparta, y. C., the county scat OF Al
leghany County. Joseph Lee was informed
that Geo. Sexton had gone before the
| grand Jury as n witness against him Lee
waylaid sexton, walked up behind him
and shot him twice through the body, kill
ing him Lee at once fed towards Vir-
| giuia, but was pursued by the sheriff and
large posse, captured and jailed
Dick Tate still sojourns in Canada
John Merna, aged sixty, was shot through
the heart by his son, John, aged twenty
two. near Frankfort, KY, few days ago.
| The father began the shooting, they hav-
ing previously quarreled about the pur-
n