Hillsboro recorder., 1888-05-31
SOUTHERN SPRAYS.
INTERESTING FACTS BRIEFED
FOR BUSY HUMANITY.
MOVEMENTS IN RELIGIOUS, TEMPERANCE,
MASONIC AND SOCIAL cIRcLEs-FIREs,
ACCIDENTS PROGRESS.


AcciDENTs-INDUsTRIA PROGRESS.
Arkansas
Owing to the absence of appropriations
to pay witnesses. the Federal court Of
Fort Smith hiss been obliged to close,
aud over 400 witnesses were discharged
on Monday without cent.
Florida.
LID. Gore, an old citizen living near
Buiow, was shot while at work in his
clearing. Four rifle balls entered his
body near the heart, and death followed
almost instantly. There is no clew to
the assassin.
Leon Bas and wife, of France, recently
arrived in Jacksonville. He has been a
successful scholar Of the celebrated
French Agricultural College De Grignan.
He will 20 to Fort Meade, and from that
point as a center, will inspect the sur
rounding country with view to estab-
fishing large farming and stockraising
enterprise, and will advise his country
men who come to America to settle in
| Florida.
J. II. Clay, an industrious colored bar
Der, of Barlow, was shot dead by some
unknown person. He was in the rear of
the Barlow house when the shots were
fired. Persons rooming in the building
heard sounds of a scuffie and Clay's
cry, aDon't shoot" followed closely by
three shots. When the persons reached
him he was found to be dead, two shots
having entered his head, the third pass
ing through his heart.
Georgia.
Gov. Gordon paIdoned Matte Barrow,
o colored woman, sentenced from Hous-
ton county, for manslaughter, because he
considered she was innocent.
Contracts have been given out by the
Central railroad for 90 new engines, 49,
900 tons of steel rails, and the road is
building 500 new cars for itself.
Augusta has grown in population as
follows: 1860, l2,493; 1870, 1886;
1880, 5000; 1883, 46, l76. Since 1880
the limits of the city have been enlarged.
Because Augusta, Macon, Columbus,
Rome, Athens, Milledgeyille and Gaines
willie, will hold fairs next Fall, the Pied
mont Exposition company, Of Atlanta,
will not hold fair until October, 1889.
This is the menu of prisoners who are
confined in the Savannah Jail: Loaf Of
bread and water for breakfast and loaf
Of bread and plate Of soup for dinner.
During the rest of the day and night they
are allowed all the water they want.
Nearly 100 persons livingin West End,
near Atlanta, having complained Of fail
ing to get valuable letters addressed to
them, Inspector Simpson prepared sew
eral decoy letters and arrested Charles
Alternader, a letter carrier, as the thief,
Freight train 6s, on the Georgia Pa
cifC Railroad, was wrecked on Monday
Just back of the Cotton Exposition ho
tel, two miles from Atlanta. As thu
tender left the track, the fireman, ne
gro named Lee Arp, jumped from hi
engine. At the same time the engin'
parted from the tender and the mai
fell upon his head and shoulders, sus
taining some pretty severe bruises. III
tender was turned upside down, and wa
thrown entirely from the track and a
right angles TO It. Then followed sevel
cars piled promiscuously. They hat
plowed gullies through the mud, and i
some places had showed the cross-tie
from under the tracks for ten or twely
feet. The cars were in all sorts ofpositions
and most Of them were complete wrecks
A rail was bent into semi-circle 10 fec
in diameter, and one end had been burie
ia the bank. Bob Nance, Of Birming
ham, Ala, a negro brakeman, had bee
standing when the wreck occurred. II
, was found under one Of the wrecked car
dead.
Laulsiann.
The Legislature, in joint session o.
wednesday, declared Gen. r. L. Gibso
the choice Of the general assembly to sue
| ceed himself as United States Senator.
|. mississippi.
/. A committee left Jackson on Monda
/. for Beauvoir to escort Mr.. Davis to th
1 layinr of the corner stone Of the Confed
Q crate monument.
y Koniueky.
n A fire al Hiseyille, KY, on Monday dC
d stroyed the postofice, and half doze
e other buildings.
. George Washington Ewing, member {
q the Confederate Congress, died at b
q home, near Adairsville, Ky., on Monda!
}. lie was eighty years old. He was at on
d time prominent in Kentucky politics.
North Carsiina.
Col John A. Fogg, one Of the last su
yivinp officers Of the Mexican War flo
North Carolina, died suddenly on We,
u nesday, at Ashyillc; aged 81.
: Allen B. DilIs, a wellknow and high
+ rcspected farmer near Webster, shot a.
: killed william II. Bumgarner, and
. tally wounded his father, William Bun
I garner. The difficulty arose through
e misunderstanding about small tract
Y land. and Il the termination Of au o
~ feud. The latest report says that 9
man Bumgarner has seven bullets in hi
and Is expected TO die.
Texas
IN All the infantry prizes at Austin We
an won BY Texas companies, except. :
n. fourth. which was captured by the Mot
= gomery, Ala, True Blues. The Washir
- \ Ton ARTILLERY Of New Orleans, won