Richland beacon., 1888-04-14
SOUTHERN NEWS.
TATED IN A BRIEF AND INTER.
RSTING MANNER.
Suicides-Fircs-Thcfts aud EmbcZZIc-
msnss-EducaiionaIn aud Other
Matters.

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| menss-Educational aud Other
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William Port r, a young farmer of Co
! lumbia, Tenn, committed suicide, by
taking morphine.
Fifteen persons have left Oconec
County, S. g., for Utah, and Mormon
miss onaries" are making many converts.
Daniel Sayre, for over thirty years
grand secretary Of Masonic grand bodies
of Alabama, died in Montgomery, aged
81 years.
Ont of 1, 200 applications for Confed-
crate soldier pensions in North Carolina,
nearly one-third were rejected for irregu-
larities or fraud.
The steamer, Gen. II. d. Ruckcr,
which left Memphis, Tenn, for St Louis,
burned near Mount Pleasant, Mo. She
was valued at $4,000.
John Hawkins, assistant postmaster at
Newberry, S. C., and $500 disappeared,
end Mrs. Herbert, the postmistress is on
his trail, which leads to Florida.
Jesse Hall, agent of the Comanchc and
Wichita Indians, in Indian Territory, has
been indicted by the grand jury of the
northern Texas district, on the charge of
embezzling $l4, 900 belonging to the
United States government.
Clay Shown, an eminent lawyer Of
Rheatown, Greene county, Tenn, com
mitted suicide by shooting himself. He
had been in poor health fo- several
weeks, and ended his life by his own
act. He leaves u wife and four small
children.
The "Lcydcn," large boarding house
in Alfalfa, Ga, which was used by Gen.
Thomas, of the Federal army, for head
quarters during the War, was nearly de-
stroyed by fire. The executive mansion,
which adjoins it, was only saved by he
roic efforts on the part of the firemcn.
Henry Rosenburg, millionaire banker
Of Galveston, Texas, in communication
to the board of school trustees, donated
sac, 900 ior the immediate erection of
substantial public school building, for
the education OF white children cxclus-
lively. Mr.. Rosenburg is native of
Switzerland.
The libel suit of j. W. Hearn, edi-
itor of the Waynesboro, NC. Mteli9encer,
come to an end The case was given the Jury
which in twenty minutes returned yer.
dict of not guilty. 1t is great triumph
for Hearn, to whose attack upon Stones
methods of selling zcphyr cotton seed
has attracted such wide pr, attention,
and caused this suit.
Julius Wilson of Newton, N. c.,
Joseph Murphy of Hickory, and another
man who halls from Gustania, were ar
rested upon the charge of receiving and
selling stolen goods TO the amount Of
several thousand dollars. Robert Best.
formerly of NOwton, who has been in
the employ of G.. +. Graham & Co., Of
Ashville for some tim past, it is alleged,
furnished them with goods from Graham
e. Col store.
Three weeks ago, at Washington,
Beaufort county, N. C., William A. Par
ker was .ynched for the murder of Gen.
Bryan Grimes. lie committed tie crime
eight years ago, having been hired to
commit it by an enemy of Gen. Grimes.
II was known that Parker was married.
lie left some property. A day or two
ago the coroner received a latter from
Parkcr's wife. She had never seen nor
heard from him since he left until she
heard he was hanged.
DR.. j. T. B. Foard, cx-superintend-
ent of education of Escambia county,
Ala, was sentenced to five years in the
State penitcntiary for cmbezzhment.
He was formerly one OF the mo pfomi-
nent and highly respected citizcns in the
state, but he became defaultcr in 1885.
He was captured last year in Florida,
and few days ago his tIial came off.
He pleaded guilty to one of the indict-
ments, charging him with embezzlcment,
and made pathetic appeal in throwing
himself upon the mercy of the court.
The board of trustees of the University
of Tennessee, by unanimous vote elected
Prof. Lannon Scribner. at present chief
of the bureau of mycology in the Depart
ment Of Agriculture at Washington, d.
c., to the chair of botany and hOrticul-
turc in the University of Tennessee; also.
hotanist to the agricultural experiment
station of Tennessee. Prof. Henry F.