The Brookhaven leader., 1888-03-08
SOUTHERN eLEANINoS.

Gambrell, on the 9th OF May last, IS "
progress at Jackson, Miss.
Steel from Alabama iron was made al
Birmingham a few days ago for the first
time, and the success of the test mean
much for the State and for the South.
While standing on the bank of Sulphur
Creek, in Montgomery County, Tenn,
few days ago, watching the food, the
earth caved in, and John and William
Rogers were drowned.
Colonel NJ. F. Jones, Of Montgomery,
Ala, received telegram from Midway a
few days ago, stating that the dead body
Of his dau ghter had been found near that
place. She is supposed to have been en-.
ticed away and murdered.
A little daughter of James McAndrews
of Chattanooga, Tenn, was bitten by E
mad dos while playing near her house q
few days ago. The affair caused much
alarm.
The great revival which has been go.
ing on at the First Methodist Episcopa
Church, Of Jackson, Tenn, for the pas
month, still continues, with no prospect
of closing. This is one of the greatest
revivals ever known in West Tenness ee
Colonel f. B. c. Cash, the famous duel
ist and "fre- eater" who killed Colone
William NJ. Shannon, prominent lawyer,
in a duel in August 1880, and who sub
sequently for ten years defied the power
! of the State to arrest him, died at his
home in Chesterfield County,S. G., a few
! days ago, of paralysis, aged sixty si1
years.
| VIII Miller, a negro, aged nine teen, liv
| ing in Tunica County, Miss, was shot and
killed few days ago in railroad camp
in the suburbs of the city, by Nose Mar.
veil, another negro. The two were play
| ing with a loaded pistol belonging to
Miller, which MARVEL got possession of
and pointing it at Miller, pulled the trig
ger. The bullet struck him in the center
of the forehead and he fell dead.
The storehouse of Blackwell & Webbs
/ at Crucifer, fifteen miles east of Jackson,
! Tenn, was broken open a few nights age
and robbed of several hundred dollars
worth Of dry goods, clothing, boots, shoes
and jewelry. The thieves entered the
store by prying open the windows. After
helping themselves to all they wanted
they departed, leaving a note, signed
"The James Boys" There is no clew tC
the robbers.
Near the Eagle and Phoenix dam al
Brownsville, Tex, a skeleton was re-
Gently unearthed by the rain. Mr. J. A.
: Allen identified the remains as those OF
Henry burlington, who was killed by the
Wilson raiders April 10, 1865. In 1874
during a rainy spell, similar to the pres
ent one, the body was unearthed and
buri ed again.
Five colored children were burned tc
death in burning cabin near Greenville,
/ S. c., few nights ago.
A constitutional amendment imi ting
n e kNf fA,rr as.a
without tie right of succession has beer
passed by the Mississippi Legislature.
The Mississippi Senate is discussing the
penitentiary bill, which proposes thatthe
! State shall, within thirty days after itt
tiary and convicts.
The committee to investigate affairs in
Rowan County, KY, will, it is stated
unanimously report in favor of the dis
memberment of that county, but there
are some differences as to what should be
done in the matter of Judge Cole.
John Pare, a well-known young man OF
Simps on County, KY, was found dead G
few nights ago about two miles from
Franklin, on the railroad track. His
skull was crushed. He had either re-
ceived terrible blow or else the car
wheels had struck his head in passing.
The Tennessee Farmers Alliance was
ORGANIZED in Nashville last week. j. A
| Buchanan, of Rutherford County, was
elected president; J. H. Mcdowell, o.
Obion, secretary; and /. F. Black, OF
| Giles, treasurer. There were seventy
delegates present, and the session wai
secret.
George w. Caradine, who lived two and
a half miles from Clarksville Ga, took q
dose of strychnine a few days ago. After
taking it his wife asked him what he had
taken. He told her, but gave no reason
for the act. He died shortly after. Deb
is the only cause that can be surmised.
Jack Reinhard, a farmer, of Lincoln
County, n. c. has struck bonanza. HI
has found gold mine in a cotton field OF
his farm, for which he was few days
since offered $40, 900 in cash, which he re
fused The ore uncovered is of the riches
quality and the vein large and well de-
| fined
A hand some monument of granite ant
marble will soon be erected in Cove Hill
Cemetery, near Louisville KY, over the
grave of Jennie Bowman, the domestic
who lost her life in a struggle with burl
lar. The inscription to be placed on tn
shaft will read: "Public Recognit on o
the Heroism of Jennie Bowman-Faithfu
to Her Trust, Even Unto Death"
The Alabama Supreme Court has decid'
ed the act establishing a colored unlver
sity to be uncons titutional on the grount
that the money appropriated was part
fund which had been declared by tn
Constitution to bs for the common schools
and which could not be used for univer
sity.
Miss Davenport, the teacher of th
public school at Rome, Miss, expelled one
or two pupils recently. Friends of the
teacher on one hand, and those of the ex
peeled parties on the other, met at th'
school-house. James Bailey, Jr., fireC
six charges from his pistol, instantly
killing R. A. Rutledge and fatally wound
ing his son, Edward. They were buried
in the same grave. BENZ. Fish anc
Bailey's son received slight wounds
Bailey was shot in the side and received
a cut in the back
B. Grooms, an old man residing nea
Greenfield, Weakly County, Tenn, sho
and instantly killed young man name
Connell a few days ago Grooms ha'
warned Connell not to come on his prem
ises. but the latter, who intended to leav
in a day or two for Arkansas, called t
bid girl living on Grooms' place good
bye. As Conneil approached the hous
Grooms, who was in a room up stairs
fred both barrels of his gun. the shot en-
tering Conuell's breast Grooms had no
been ARE sted.
All quiet at Jacksonville, Fla, again.
What is likely TO prove fatal cuttin
ARRAY between two negroes occurred
few days since at Lexington, KY, whe
John Donovan cut Sam Harting, infiic
ing an ugly cash over the right ey'
Harting bled till unconscious, and his re