Hillsboro recorder., 1888-03-29
SOUTHERN GOSSIP.
BOILED DOWN FACTS AND RAN-
CIES INTERESTINGLY STATED.
Accidents OH Land aud on sea-Sew Enter
prises-Snicides -. X eligious, temperance
and social Matters.

Accidents oil Land aud on sea~Sew Enter. f.
prises--snicides- -. IL eligious. temperance
and social Matters.
West Point, Ca. had quite fire,
which started in II. w. Woods store,
causing damage of Scot The losers
are ]. ]. Crawford, drugs; Courser,
tailor; George N. Craft, confectioner; ].
NJ. Scott, W. @. Shaeffer and Miller IL
Harris.
An epidemic Of measles is iaging at
Buckingham G. H., Va. Whole families
are down with it. One family consisting
of a .!an, his wife and fourteen children
are prostrted, and an old couple, aged
respectively 81 and 81, are down with
the disease. A great many have died.
There is excitement at Durham, n. c..
growing out of the arrest of number of
liquor dealers. on the charge of violating
the local option law. A New York de-
tectiye went there, and soon got evidence
against number of them. Arrests fol-
lowed, and the defendants were required
To give heavy bonds for their appearance
at court.
AT Wilmington, y. C., s. b. Dudley
and +. +. Aldrich were tried upon u
charge OF publishing libel upon Judge
.. p. Nears. of New AndOyer superior
court, In the Weekly Bulletin, their edi-
torial charging that Judge Mears grossly
dis.riminated between white and colored
people in court, and was very abusive in
tone
The Elyton Land Company at Birming-
ham. Ala, closed contract with the
Binghampton Hoe and Tool company, of
BinghamtOn, Y. Y. for the removal OF their
entire plant TO Birmingham. The capital
stock Of the company will be $100. 1000.
of which the Elyton Land Company takes
$40. 600. The plant will be in operation
by August Isl. aud 200 men will be en-
plOyed.
Revenue officers +. +. Fowler and W.
I. Westcottle returned from raid in
Butler county, Ga, raided and captured
an illict still in Butler county. The
news is specially interesting because
heretofore moonshiners and wild cat dis
lilleries have been unheard of in that
section of the state. The still was out
In the lonesome piney woods where the
timber dcpredators aie constantly work
ing. bn Ihe moonshiner is stranger. d
Two more Of the indicted Bald Knob
bers. at St. Louis, No., have presented
written confessions TO the sheriff. Amos
Jones and William Stanley follow John
Mathews in the plea for mercy, and man
age to weave story showing their pres
enco had a tendency for a peace gather
ing. They accuse Charles Graves of
being responsible. with Bill Walker, in
the atrocious murders, while they used
every eudeayor TO restore order and pre-
vent bloOdshed.
| East Nashville. Tenn, has suffered by
an epidemic Of fires, dozen stables and
several residences having been burned.
The stable of w. Moore was fred seven
times, and the other night was destroyed.
as was his house. The police have been
watching, as there have been two or
three alarms every day. The thirteen
year.old son Of Moote was caught start
| ing fire which burned two stables. II
appeared on investigation that he was
was melted to incendiarism by larger
negro boys, who robbed the neighbor-
hood houses while the people were out.
Moore was passionately fond. Of seeing
the fire engines, and was thus easily in
fluenced.