The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-07-27
SOUTHERN eLEANINes.

Inc cnemlcal WORKS OF y. A Smith at
Atlanta. Ga, were burned a few days
since. Loss, $50, 600; insurance, 81, 900.
The Brush Westinghouse electric plant,
on Dryades street. New Orleans, was
burned few days ago. The loss is esti-
mated at 100000. The City Hall, parish
! prison, police station and levee were fur
nished with hight from this plant.
Mr.. Spengler, one of the leading and
| wealthiest citizens of Vicksburg, Miss.
was thrown from his buggy by runa-
way horse few days ago, and died from
his injuries.
The cornerstone of the Colored Baptist
seminary was laid in Lynchburg, Va.
recently, by the colOred Massns. Five
| thousand persons Witnessed the cere-
monies. The institution will be devoted
to the higher education of both sexes.
Captain Thomas Clagett of the steamer
James Lee, living at Memphis, Tenn, re-
| Gently received letter announcing that
he had fallen heir to property worth $500, =
900 in Virginia. The whereabouts of Cap
/ tain Clagett has been mystery to his
| family in Virginia for some years.
Four convicts escaped from the guards
/ at Graysville, Ga, few days ago, only
| one of whom was captured, although
| bIoOdhounds were used to track the fugi-
| tiVes. The man who was captured was
| given fifty lashes on the bare back.
A singular suit for damages has been
| instituted at Atlanta Ga, by Mrs. Sarah
F. HasIett, the mother of Mr.. George
| Rose, against the Dade Coal Company
for $4,000 damages. Geo. Rose is the
/ brother of Charlie Rose, the well-known
criminal. He sues for injuries received
| while working as a convict in the Dade
coal mines, and on account OF which he
| was pardoned recently by Governor Cor
/ don.
! Kentuck has the vOu0 0est life convict
known in the person of Linvtll Combs,
| who killed his little three year old sis
| ter. Combs is only eleven years of age.
At Kyle's Ford, Tenn. few days ago,
John Donet killed James Farrell, who
had threatened his life
Judge j. w. HI. Underwood, of Rome,
! Ga, ex-Congressman and membor of
! President Arthur's tariff commission,
/ died of heart disease a few days since.
! Carl Brenner, the famous painter, was
reported dying at his home in Louisville,
! KY. He has been i'll many months.
/ Fire at Fayetteville, Tenn, recently,
/ burned the Elk Bank and several other
blocks. Loss, $4,000.
AT BakersviIle, N. c., few days since,
| Jesse Peterson stabbed and killed Frank
/ Blonnett There was talk of Iynching.
Mrs. Ailsee Brasher, widow of the late
Lawrence Brasher, died at her home, in
! the northern portion of Christian County,
! KY, a few days ago, after lingering
and painful illness of drOpsy, aged sew
enty-five years.
/ Dr. JAS M Hunt, an old and prominent
physician of Vicksburg Miss, died at
| his residence, few nights ago, after an
/ illness of several years. He was in his
6fty- sixth year.
/ At the Democratic convention of the
! Second Congressional district of Missis-
sippi, Hon. w. B. Morgan was renomi-
mated by acclamation.
! Peter Townsend, a farmer living near
! Newbern, Dyer County, Tenn, while har-
/ vesting, few days ago. has his foot am
! putated by mower. He died soon after
! ward.
! Mrs. Lucy D. Brown, widow of the late
! Hon VIM. Brown, ex-mem Der of the Leg
| islature from Christian County, KY, died
at her residence near Crofton, KY, a few
nights ago, after a lingering illness, aged
| about fifty years.
| A fire at Rockingham, N. c., few days
since, destroyed the courthouse, seven
! stores and one dwelling The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
! Will Houston, who shot and killed o
negro woman in a disreputable house at
! Raleigh, N. C., last spring was hanged at
| Winston a few days since. The execu-
tiOn, which was public, was witnessed by
/ several thousand people.
! Moses Davis, cOlOred man, was found
! standing dead in pond five miles north
of MiccOsukie Lake, near Lloyd, Fla, 8
| few days ago. Investigation proved that
he had been shot by a rifle ball, and tied
! head and foot to an iron wagon axle, and
sunk near the middle of the pond.
Amos Morris and Frank Brown, resid-
ing at Norris Mill, Giles County, Tenn,
| quarreled about the trespassing of
| Browns hogs upon the fields of Morris.
| Morris struck Brown upon the head with
a hammer, inf1icting wound that is ex-
| pected to prove fatal
A terrible explosion occurred in the
courthouse at Athens, Tenn, few days
| ago The county register was at work
with a dental vulcanizer when it ex-
| ploded. A Mr.. Harrington had his arm
| broken. The building was badly dam
| aged, and the report, which was as loud
as cannon, caused great excitement il
| the city.
A. Rincher Jones was pardoned by
| Governor Scales of North Carolina upon
the recommendation OF the judge who
| presided at the trial and the prosecuting
| solicitor. Jones is white man and was
| sentenced to one year in the penitentiary
| for horse stealing at the spring term,
| 1887, of the Cha ham County Superior
| Court
will Hunt, well-known Mississippi
| Tenn, for stealing horse from the rack
at Johnson Grove Church, Crockett Coun-
| ty, belonging to Mrs. Budford. He has
| lived in that community some time. He
| has a wife, but they separated some time
| ago. The horse was recovered.
A young farmer named Mack Donnell,
| living near Paducah, KY, went into May
| field creek, a fen evenings since, to
bathe. Just as he got into deep water he
was seized with cramps and drowned be-
| fore any of his companions, who fastened
to his assistance, could reach him. He
was twenty years ola, and was to have
been married the following Sunday. The
| body was recovered.
Hon. Putnam Darden, one of the orig
| inators of the Grange movement in Mis-.
sissipp1 and the present grand master OF
| the National Grange of the United States,
| died at his residence at Fayette, Jeffer-
son County. Miss, few days since.
| The tobacco outlook is promising.
General Land Commissioner Stock
slayer has called upon the Alabama &
| Chattanooga Railroad Company to re-
| store to the public domain p, O54 acres OF
land which were enormously certified to
that corporation. In case of refusal legal
| proceedings will be instituted to compel
compliance.
| Colonel ohm Dunn, president of the
| Atlanta & Florida railroad and a
prominent wholesale grocer Of Atlanta,
| Ca, died recently.
Charles W. Henry died at his home in
| Jackson, Tenn, few nights ago. The
| deceased had been a citizen Of Jackson
| sixty i've years.
Congressman TauIbee. Of Kentucky is
| au.arously i'll
There is sn epidemic OF some kind in
/ Wolf County, in the Kentucky mount
/ aims. Deputy United States Marshal Day
/ writes from Mayt own that people are dy-
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