Richland beacon., 1888-08-18
SOUTHLAND ITEMS.
PARAGRAPHS. SAD. PLEASANT
AND TERRIBLE.
INDUSTRIAL PRoGREss-THE EXCURSION
FEvER-RAuEoAD ADMINISTRATORS
pEFALCATIONs--CoTTo REPORTS, ETC.
AInba IN n.

was sentenced in Ireland to four months
Imprisonment. on chlrge Of makig
speeches inclting to intimidation.
A west-bound passenger train, from
Birmingham. on the Georgii Pacific
Road, was derailed on Thursday Mt
Cooks Springs, twenty five miles OF Biz
mingham. Every car lett the track ani
turned over on their sides down a slight
embankmont. NJ. J. Carlisle. of Eden.
Ala, passenger. was severely ut about
the shoulders and head. The other pls-
scpgcrs and train men escaped with =
few slight bruises. 4 defective switch
fro. caused the rails TO spread.
\ terrific thunder storm pa sed over
Birmin.ham on Thursday, doing consid-
cradle damage \ number Of telephone
wires were cut. breaking some of the
| large circuits. The residence Of DR..
| Brewster, on Fourth avenue, was struck
and badly damaged. Iii, daughter Miss
| Fanny, and coored servant were lady
shocked, the colored woman being rem
dered unconscious tor several hours The
| handsome residence of DIR A. GoddeT
was struck and badly damagcl. Al East
Lake. six miles from the city. the elegant
residence of Mr.. H. VI. Horton WIS torn
to pieces and the furniture b'oScn into
kindlipg wood by bolt of lightning.
After digging in the ruins of the recent
fire at Chattanooga, nearly dozen bod
les were recovered.
Miss Daisy Judd, of Nashville, COM
mtted suicide at New Middleton nv
blowing out her brains with pistol.
Unrequited love was the cause.
The Oilucc Manufacturing Co.. en-
| gagged in the production of wire cloth at
| West Nashville, new manufacturing
| suburb of this city, made an assignment
on Saturday. The assets are placed at
about $3.50, 900, while liabilities are
| $l2O,000
A fire broke out on Thursday in tho
Griffith Caldwell building on Market
street in Chattanooga, and loss Of
s4OO, 600 was sustained before the fire
was extinguished. The heaviest losers
were: Bradt Printing Co.. Gibson, Lee
& Co., china dealers; n. Deitzer & Bro.
Block Drug Co. l.. Rosenheim, cloth
ing dealer; A. Tschopik, confec,ioneries;
Baltimore Clothing Co. Three men,
among them J. p. Mcmillan, a promi-
nent citizen, were buried in the falling
walls.
Two men had made ready very
heavy blast in The face of the high bluff
at the mouth of Smiths forks, near Ian
caster 1t was composed of quite num-
ber of holes about twenty feet deep, and
with nine OF ten kegs of powder to the
hole. Everything had been made ready
| to touch the blast with electricity by
means Of wire connected with the bat
| tery. A cloud came up in the meantime,
and as it was lightning, the men con
| cludcd to wait until the cloud passed
over. A fash of lightning, however,
came running along the wire from the
battery exploding the blasts with a ire
mendous noise The whole side of the
bluff was blown of and it tumbled with
a tremendous crash down below. At
the time the blast occurred, two laboring
men were seen coming along down
under the bluff They were vigilantly
searched for after the exp.,sion, but no
trace Of them could be found.
Jonathan Norcross has presented 20
acres Of land near Atlanta, to the Geor-
gia Baptist Orphans Home.
Col. Harrison, of Gov. Gordon's staff,
reporS that ,033 manned veteran sol
dlers have been pensioned, entailing IN
expenditure of $25. s2j
Brunswick and Savannah have de-
clared a strict quarantine against Jack
sonvillc, Fla. The action Of the Board
Of Health of Savannah was overruled by
Mayor Lester Of Savannah, in order to
have some trains to pass through, and it
is feared trouble may come from it,
Az meeting Of melon growers held at
Camilla >i,he following resolution was
passed: THAT i is the sense of this
meeting that unless he g.ilronds grant
substantial reduction in freIsm rates.
that the growing of melons in this county
will necessarily be abandoned.
Several painters were engaged in paint
ing frame building a mile from Rome,
just beyond East Rome, on Thursday,
when thunder shower came up. Light
ming struck chimney and the fluid de-
scended TO the ground. l.. p. A. Wal
ker wa, instantly killed, James Bsgwell
and Ruben Mulkey were injured, and
Robert Ramsey was paralyzed in both
legs.
-oW,h CnroiiwW
Cbarlest n fas insti utcd close quar-
antine agains III" loIida infected y rts
on account Of yellow fever. The quai
antiuc is not only by sea, Lu' on lam.
Rep irts from 262 correspondent. of
the sts.e agricultural d'ra TN nt, ';iow
that cotton has greatly improved durin
the last month. and phitiru'a' ly in ti.,.
upper and middle sections Tie CO..
howcv,r, is still late Tie ,tarl ottton
on the sea island is vc.y fin", tie cordi-
tion being report, from o'.c hundr d Il"
a hundred and ten. Corn is reported at
70 for the state against 80 last year; th-
average Of rice for the state is s. againsi
% last year. The ira in iice i. about
the same as last year Labr IL sats
factory.
John Lovejoy, a prominent attorney
shot and instantly killed Aaron William
son at Galveston on Saturday. The diff
iculty originated over a debt Of $20
owed Williamson by Loveioy since the
Fall of 1884, when the latter ran and was
defeated for district attorney.
On Thursday morning, six miles from
Waco, on the Texas Central road, a piece
/ Of timber was fastened to the track and
/ the night express was deraied, the loco