The gale., 1888-02-03
HEWsY PARAGRAPHS.
A FEW ITEMS OF SOUTHERN INTER-
EST CAREFULLY CULLED.
The Condensed News by Mail, Wire
And Otherwise.


And otherwise.
DR.. John Gordon, second cousin OF
Lord Byron, the great poet, died at Tex
akana, Ark.
4 movement is about to take place,
which will give Opelika, Ala, cotton
factory. The enterprise will be OF all
home capital.
The Railroad Commission of Alabama
has ordered and demanded of the rail-
roads running through Opelika, Ala, to
build a union depot.
Mack Jones, colored, formerly an en-
ploye of the Savannah, Florida & West
arn Railroad Company, sued the company
for S5. coo. for the loss of thumb. The
jury gave him $500.
The Virginia House joint resolution
requesting Congress to provide for the
| establishment of an experimental plant at
| Alexandria. for the manufacture of sor-
ghum sugar, passed, and will go to the
Senate.
Rev. j. NJ. Hubbert, of Nashville,
Tenn, gave the theater particular fits re-
Gently at the First Cumberland Presby-
torian Church in a sermon one hour and
fifty minutes long An opportunity was
offered any one who wished to reply, but
no one accepted the offer.
Christopher Williams, colored, of Al
banv. Ca, while walking into town be-
side his wagon, saw his loaded gun fall
ING out. He tried to grasp it as it fell.
The hammer struck the wheel just as the
muzzle was against his wrist. 1t went
off. penetrating his wrist, and tearing
away the muscles and flesh from his right
arm.
About five years ago colored insur-
anee organization, styling itself 1.-The
Mutual Aid Private Banking Department
of the Widows and Orphans Benefit and
Sick Relief Fund of the Chief Order
knights of Honor of the World, was
| brought into something like notoriety by
a charge of cheating and swindling against
a darkev named Allen, who was at that
time prominent officer in the Atlanta
lodge of The &c. o. K. OF L., and he
has been again arrested at Atlanta, Ca,
on complaint of Anna Dossey.
William II. Bailey a member of the
executive board of the Knights OF La
crowd in Nashville, Tenn, probably fifty
people scattering themselves about in the
Masonic theater. The address was com
munistic and Incorporate. Among other
things, he asserted that strikes were un-
known here because workingmen were
towards and afraid to ask for what was
due them; that they should threaten
their employers and force from them
better pay and more privileges.
A fire was discovered in the millinery
store of E. Nicholson, in Waco, Texas,
and in few minutes the whole building,
which covers one-fourth of block, was
in a blaze. Many of the guests OF the
hotel escaped by sliding down the avn
ing post One lady got out on an awning
with child in her arms and jumped to
the ground, sustaining very little injury.
Mrs Lehman, who was proprietress of
the hotel, and who had been separated
from her husband for about year, was
rescued by him from the building, and
they have agreed to bury their grievances
against each other and live together.
Seven persons were drowned in Sand
Lake, about ten miles cast of Ennis, Tex.
Two young women, daughters OF William
Williams, a farmer, and young man
named Babbitt, were skating on the lake,
when the ice gave way, and they sunk
in four and a half feet of water. Miss
Babbitt and two little girls, aged and
years, and daughters Of William Will
liams, were On the shore watching the
sport, were drowned in attempting to
rescue their friends. A Very small child
of William Williams, also fell through
the ice, but was saved by one of the
drowning young ladies catching and
throwing il out on The ice.