Hillsboro recorder., 1888-01-26
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The Social, Religious and Temperance
Worid-Proiectcd Entcrprises-Mar- !.
rinEes. Fires. Deaths. Etc.
DR.. John Gordon, second cousin Of
Lord Byron, the great poet, died at Tex
akana, Ark.
A 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 oil the rail
reads running through opelika, Ala, to
build union depot.
All the prisoners in the Bryan county,
Texas, Jail escaped through hole in the
wall, which they made while the Jail
officials were keeping warm In the Jail Of
fee.
w. B. Frank, postal clerk, sues the
Atlanta & West Point Railroad and the
Savannah; Griffin g North Alabama Rail.
road for s25, 900 damages for injuries re-
ceiyed at a collisionin February, 1856.
Mack Jones, colored, formerly an EN-.
ploye Of the Savannah, Florida & West
ern Railroad Company, sued the company
for $5, 900, for the loss of thumb. Tho
jury gave him 500.
The Tennessee Supreme Court decided
the Sunday barber law to be unconstitu-
tional. The case was test one, brought
up by William Ragio, of Nashville. Tenn,
who had himself indicted for shaving a
customer on Sunday.
The committee of colored men ap-
pointed to raise funds for the defense Of
the Pickens, S. c., lynchers, who hunga
white man, are getting along well. John
NJ. Freeman, the colored lawyer, will as
sist In the defense.
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. @
At Columbia, 8. c., Rev. w. B. Shaw,
Baptist minister, who was unbalanced
by his enthusiasm on the subject of sane
tification, attempted to commit suicide by
cutting his throat. he kneeled over tub
OF water, uttered wild prayer and
plunged the knife into his throat.
Charles A. Howard, secretary and treas
urer Of the Dixie Powder company, of
Chattanooga, Tenn, was experimenting
with dynamite cartridge to see how
much heat il would stand, when IL ex-
ploded, tearing his hand and arm open,
and breaking all the glass In the front OF
his Office.
w. II. Green has been appointed gen.
eral superintendent Of the Richmond &
Danyilie Railroad system, including all
its leased lines. His duties will include
some Of those hitherto performed by the
general manager. Mr.. Green has hereto
fore held the position Of superintendent
of the division embracing the line from
Charleston to Richmond. #
The corner stone Of the new theater,
1t Augusta, Ga, was laid BY Miss Katie
Putnam. an actress. w. II. Fleming de.
liyered the address on the occasion, and
vas happy and eloquent in the treatment
Of his theme. Among the objects placed
in the box was the battered crown that
Mrs. Bowers wore the night Of the fire
which destroyed the Masonic theater.
A man named Barneau, from Fort
WAYNE, Ind, has been in Chattanooga,
Tenn, to get Socialist recruits TO go TO
Chicago. He succeeded in enlisting ten
men, who, il Is alleged, have been fur
nished BY the Socialist clubs Of Chicago
with railroad tickets and $40 in cash to
90 TO that city. Barneau says the Chica-
90 Socialists are adding to their numbers
recruits from all over the country. He
says that there will be q terrible Socialis-
tic uprising In Chicago in less than nine.
" days
Three people died near Dixie, Clinton
county, Ala, under peculiarly unfortu-
nate circumstances. The Oldest son Of Mr..
O'Rearden, who had been absent from
home on some business matters, was sud-
denly seized with some disease and died
in ,hort time. A short time afterward
his eldest sister was a corpse also. While
the funeral Of brother and sister was in
progress third child suddenly passed
away, and two others are now lying At
the point Of death. Physicians say death
was superindHced by eating poisoned hog
meat.
Mrs. Lola McGrady, who lives near
Columbia, S. G., was alone In the
house with her nine months old child,
and was suffering from the cold.
She knelt down on the hearth and
turned her back to the open fire, when
her erclothing caught fire and in an instant
her body was enyeloped in flames. She
rushed screaming from the house, and
ran about three hundred yards along the
road. when she sank TO the ground ez-
hausted and horribly bnrned. The I'm.
fortunate lady's body was burned to .
crisp.
Seven persons were drowned Ia Sand
Lake, about ten miles cast Of Ennis. Tex.
| Two Young women, daughters Of William
Williams, farmer, and a young inan
named Babbitt. were skating on the lake,
when the ice gave way, and they sunk
| IN four and half feet of water. Miss
Babbiit and two little girls, aged 8 and
4 years, and daughters Of William vii.
Iiams, were on the shore watching the
sport, were drowned in attempting g
rescue their friends. A very small child
Of william Williams, also fell through