Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-03-22
SOUTHERN GLEANINoS.

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An unknown boy, fourteen wears old,
was run over and killed On tis Overland
Dummy road at NasAv.I lie, Tenn. few
days ago. He fell fron a coach aat was
crushed under the wheels OF tue next
car.
Edwin Smei sv. OF the firm Of sns,I-
ley y Wood. water works contractors, OF
Dubuque. Ia, has begun operations on q
tao.oo0 water works plant for Baton
Rouge, La.
Jap Davis, who villfally AMI brutally
murdered his wife at Anderson. = C.. By
shooting her with = shotgun loaded with
old nails. in September. lsS,i. has been rs-
sentenced by Jud<e Norton. to be hanged
on Friday, March q
Mrs EGnics Hoossr. % Eikton. XIV,
has Just completed a calico quilt that is
composed Of a. 81 pieces
Win Bsaiisy. q miner. thirsy-two years
old, who lived At Rock Run. Chsrokss
County. Ala. Was run over and killed by
train on the Kansas City railroad, near
Birmingham. few davs ago
Mr.. W. A Caldwell diesi with cancer Of
the mouth az his home In Jackson. Tenn,
Q few days ago. aged seventy one years.
Deceased was for q number OF year,
~esNtNA ha +A" ~HsNAeaAA DAAA Va
Jack ksou-
The steamboat Phil z. Chsppell. Of the
Red River and Coast Lins, was sunk in
Red River, q few nights ago. At Hainss'
Landing. eighteen miles above Shrevs-
port La Shs was under command OF
Captain Lew KountL
The Kentucky Legislature passed .
joint resolution indefinitely extending les
session A bill has been introduced to
punish wife-beaters with thirty inc
lashes by the sheriff TO which q years
Imprisonment may be added
The old structure known as Lumpkius'
Jail in Richmond, Va, has been deInoI-
ished- 1t was widely known throughout
the South in slavery davs, having been
used as q slave pen or mart
Sher IN StAlsr shot and seriously wound
ed John Puckett at Ca houn, XIV, a few
days ago. the latter defying arrest for
violation OF the Prohibition law and max
ing a display Of weapons.
The propos tioa Of Rev. YoungJ. \ Hen,
Of Nashville. Tenn. agreeing TO b. one Of
fifty TO give 500 each towards paying the
debts of the Board OF Missions Of the
Southern Methodist Church, is meeting
with much favor, and a large number
have already responded with the requisite
amount The latest donation Of 500 was
received from gentleman living Is Mis-
souri,
7. s. Hardy. Of Hart County. XIV.
loaned q man one dollar to paw for sd-
mission TO q show twenty three years
ago. Last week a dollar was returned
with an extra dollar for interest.
| Fire broke cut on the naval store
wharv.s az Savannah. Ga, q few day,
I ago. ard destroyed 3. 10 barrels of rosiu
and go barrels OF turpentins- Loss, si5.-
7 oo0, insured
a premature blast Of dynamite, thirty
miles from Bremen, Ga. a few days ago.
buried four conyicts beneath huge pile
Of dirt, and when exhumed three were
found to b. dead The fourth l. not ex-
/ pectei 20 recover.
/ The elevated road along the river front
which forms the shortest connecting 2ins
between the railroads esntering at Louis
vile. KY. was sold fsw days ago for
$40. .Oa
Rev. VIM H. Leigh. one of the Oldest
ministers Of the Kentucky Method st
Conference, died at his res dsnce IN
Paducah q few days ago. in the sixty
fourth year Of his age.
The death Of Colonel Cash. OF South
Carolina. removes the last of the old race
[ Of daslistz-
Miias Irwin was out hunting Just east
I Of Chattanooga Tenn, a few days ago.
When he fred the ght barrel OF his shot
gun, ths breech was biown out str ng
him in the heal, killing him almost in
ssAntIy, blowing the top OF his head or.
A switchmaa in the Louisville &
Nashville railroad yards a. B rmin am,
( Aia, few dNys since. IA ard weak cries
q frr ha1r ras4er k.sw a
With hay. He broke The seal, and OPEN
ta< the door found three white tramps.
most Wild with hunger and thirst and
very weak. Th>- boarded the car in
I Chicago and had been without food and
/ water for fve days They were given
som=thins 20 eat by the sNitchmSn and
allowed 20 go their way.
An unsuccessful attempt was mad a
few nights ago 20 burn the barn Of WILL
lam Vaughn, q farmer living near Hop
kinsvills. KY. BY piIing planks saturated
with coil oil against the door and setting
fire 80 these The Il ght from the blaze
streaming upward attracted the attention
Of neiShhors, VIA extinguished The fra
Two construction trains on the Charles
ton, Cincinnati & Chicago railWag e0llid-
ed few days ago near Camden. 5. c.
The engine and ears we're badly wrecked
Enginser Fell was scAided TO death; Fire
man Duncan rece we'd fatal mi riss. and
Jerry Crosby, ths other engineer, was
terribly sea ded and was not expected to
live.
The iron draw bridge across the Tom
bigbee river at Aberdeen, Mss, for the
Kansas City. Memphis & BirmIng ham
railroad. has been completed. AMI pas
senzer trains are now crossing Over IT,
R Halliday WithersFOon, a handsome
young man with a brown nsustachs and
| sty iIshiy dressed, who recently went
TO Memphis, Tenn, from ST. Louis, and
| engaged a. an advert sing agent for an
| afternoon paper. was arrested few days
since for forging ckecSs on the Security
Bank Of Memphis WitherspoOn : highly
/ connected in the CITY
| A mob of masked msn boarded the
| Nashville s. Chattanooga ira "A AZ Mood
land Mills, Tenn, few days since. and
took q negro, Ella Davie, from an officer.
who was carrying him 10 jail It Hickman. b.
| KY, and. after going about three hundred
| yards. hung him to tree
All the buildings and m aehinery OF the
Nashville Rolling Mills have been pgr-
| chased by the Elyton Land Company Of
| Birmingham, Ala, and the entire plant
will be moved there a. once. The capacity
Of the mill is seventy tons per day, and
| i've hundred men will b. employed The
mill was built BY Cherry. Morrow & Co,
/ Nashville, but they found they could not
| operate il proftably in that city, and sold
it very cheap.
Colonel Cash Is dead at last
A most remarkable case Of triplets s
reported from SLmtsr Coanty. 5. c. The