Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-05-12
THROUGH DIXIE.
SPARKS AS THEY FLAsH FROM
THE WIRES.
What Our Southern People are Saying and
BeiDe-Iiems of Interest Re
duced 10 Facts.

At Dade City, Fla. Peento peaches
will soon be ripe enough for shipment.
Sixteen hundred alligator hides wero
sold and delivered in Fort Ogden, Fla
last week.
Alf Prater, pedestrian, of Atlanta, Ca,
will enter the six days go-as-you-please
foot race that opens at Madison Square
Garden, New York, May 6.
An immense crevasse has occurred in
the west bank of the bayou at Lafourche
Crossing, La, but it is thought there will
be no serious damage to crops.
Parties representing aBelgian colony
have purchased 1900 acres of land.
seven or eight miles from Manatec, Fla.
from the South Florida Railroad, and
will settle hundred families there this
fall.
Celestino PaIacio's cigar factory at
Key West, Fla, has been closed, owing
to the impossibility of securing good
wrappers until the new Cuban crop is
ready for use. About 500 persons are
thrown out of employment.
The activity in mining operations in
North Georgia is increasing daily. Men
from the North and Europe are visiting
the city, and thence go to the mines in
Hall and Lumpkin counties, examining
the mines with view to investment.
A quiet strike is in progress at the
Pratt mines, near Birmingham, Ala.
The company proposed to reduce wages
five cents ton, and the miners resisted.
The matter will be discussed by the board
in day or two. A strike is also re-
ported at Wheeling, Miss.
The store and grocery of Mrs. Nancy
McKeanel, of Nashville, Tenn, were
burned. Andrew Logan, her sixteen
year old son, was burned to crisp. 1t
is supposed he went to bed and left the
candle burning and the fire caught from
this. The loss was 81, 300.
A fatal burning occurred at the farm
of E. G. Davis, one and half miles from
Bell Buckle, Tenn. A negro, child,
whose mother had left her alone, was
found with its clothing on fire, which was
so badly burned as to prove fatal.
Wiley Dixon, negro man, was shot
and killed at Montgomery Ala, by the
accidental discharge of gun in the
hands of Leavett Peet, the nine year old
nephew of Colonel 0. o. Nelson, of the
Montgomery Oil Works.
At Bennettsville, S. c., Dock Dargar,
negro boy, deliberately shot witha gun
and instantly killed white boy, W. L.
Coke, Jr All the parties lived near
Bennettsville. The negro is in Jail there.
Several attempts have been made to
lynch him. The sheriff keeps the Jail
guarded. A number of enraged men
shot into the house of Essex Dargar, the
father of the murderer, and killed a
three year old child. The entire section
is aroused.
The announcement that Col. W. L.
Scruggs would accept the editorship of
the prohibition weekly at Atlanta seems
to have premature. 1t is now said that
Col. John William Jones, the historian,
will be selected to fill the position. Col.
Scruggs is regular contributor to the
North American Review, but on account
of his being Republican it was thought
best not to select him. The first issue
of the paper is expected to appear on
May sth.
Two miners engaged in an affray at
Warrior, Ala, few days ago. One of
them, George Martin, shot and Instantly
killed Deputy Marshal Kelly. He was
arrested. The mayor of Warrior tele-
graphed the sheriff to come quickly with
a posse to resist the mob and miners and
protect the prisoner The officers snug
gled Martin aboard a freight train. The
mob followed and cut loose the caboose.
They hanged Martin and then filled his
body with bullets. Sheriff Pruss failed
to go.