Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-07-19
SOUTHERN GLEANiNos.

r. n. Parrish, OF Louisville, KY. once
worth $4,000, committed suicide few
days ago, alleging inability to pay Ave
dollcr debt
The marble and stone works OF Peter q
Burghard at Louisville, Ky. were burned
out few days since. Loss, chiefly by
damage to marble. $4,000; insurance,
NSooo.
A gentleman by the name OF Isaac
Beard was drowned in the Ohio river at
Hurricane. XIV, a few evenings since.
The Memphis Para Rubber Company
has made an assignment for the benefit
OF its creditors. Liabilities, 5000. due
in Memphis and New York. Dull busi-
ness is the cause reported.
Geo. Guttermuth. son ~ Councilman
| Gut;ermuth. os Louisville, KY. shot him.
self through the heart. few days ago,
on account Of disappointment in love.
He was twenty and Ida Becker. his
swecthe art sixteen
United States Deputy Marshal Spurri-r
recently returned to Nashville, Tenn,
| from the upper Cumberland river coun-
ties, where he arrested seventeen men FOR
violating the internal revenue laws.
William Tucker. aged fi,ty-n nine years.
a farmer, living near Riverside, Ala. on
1 Runway was Nttu&
and instantly killed by lightning few
days ago.
A colored woman named Louisa Carroll
has been holding revival meetings among
the negroes IN Colbert County Ala. re-
Gently. while she WAS preaching to a
large crowd of colored people at Blake's
Springs, few nights ago. Tom Ross and
Nose strstton become involved in quar-
rel, which ended in Ross cutting Strat
tons bowels open with knife, killing him
almost instantly. Ross escaped.
J. I. Moorehead was nominated FOR Con-
| gress by the Democrats OF the Fifth
North Carolina district IL took I6O bal
| lots.
Prof. o. II. Tuttle, Of the Ohio State
University, has been elected TO the chair
of biology and agriculture at the Univcr-
sity OF Virginia at Charlottesville.
j. II. Charp-ntir-, notary public OF
View Orleans. has disappeared, and with
him, as creditors say. between seo,ce and
900 OF money not his own
:. NJ Shaner, whose father resides in
Atlanta, Ga, and whose wife lives at
Conyers, in the same State, died suddenly
from apoplexy in Links Hotel, Nashville,
Tenn, few days ago.
Harry Smart and his wife are under ar
rest at Louisville. XIV. on suspicion OF
having murdered Meisner Green and
Mary Rannels, who were found in the
river. Mrs. Smart hal on the murdered
woman's skirt when arrested
Kelley, Roper & Reilly. Wholesale
grocers, doing business in Memphis.
Tenn, have made an assignment. Their
liabilities are sI0S.00; assets nominally
sI55.0oo slow collections are given as
the canse.
Colonel B. W. Frobell, one y: the most
distinguished OF Southern railway en-
gineers, died in gontevillo. Ca, few
days since. Colonel Frobeil was born
fifty-s!x years ago in Alex intria, Va. II.
graduated from the MilItary Academy at
West Point
The large training stable of William
Rue at Dsnvill., KY, was burned n few
nights ago. Thirty-three head OF fine
tsotters were consumed. The total loss
will be $1,000. Some OF the trotters were
entered in Ohio and New York races.
Tho gallery OF the old Quaker Church
In Alexandria, Va, now Used as in
irmary for old colored people, fell few
| nights ayo. during au entertainment fol
the benefit OF the home, precipitating the
crowd to thr lower floor. probably fatally
injuring the jSnitor and breaking a leg
and otherwise inluring six or seven
women. all col3red-
Deputy United States Marshal SpurrieI
reports the capture Of "Humpy" fen-
| nington, the oldest mOonshiner in Ten
nessee. Pennington. who lives in tn,
Upper Cumberland country, is over sixt'
years OF age, and although he has been
running an Illicit distillery ever since
the war, he had never before been an
| rested.
The Bridgeford mansion, in Louisvills,
KY, was entered by thieves a few nights
| ago and silverware and valuables to ths
amount Of nearly $1,000 taken. The door,
had been forced open by the use OF a
hatchet and steel, an instrument used for
sharpening butcher knives.
VIM. Willis, n young white man en-
ployed as a fagmsn on the Mobile &
Montgomery railroad, was killed instant
ly n few days ago by being knocked of
the train by low bridge at Fort Deposit,
Ala Willis had been married only few
months
Benz. Woods had q miraculous escape
from instant death at South Pittsburgh,
Tenn, few days ago. He was riding on
! the pilot of an engine for the purpose OF
} making a coupling, when he slipped and
was drawn under the engine. The dri-
vers pushed him along on the rail for
twenty feet His left foot was so horri-
bly, smashed that IL had to be amputated.
Twenty -four physicians have been busy
at Nashville, Tenn, vaccinating under
the provisions of law on the subject. One
new case and two suspicious cases at tn,
Small-Pcx Hospital are reported There
is a great emand for virus, although tho
feeling Of alarm is abating. Up to tbs
present writing only half a dozen case:
have been found in the city.
Jane Alfred has brought suit in the
Circuit Court at Chattanooga, Tenn.
against the Nashville, Chattanooga & st
Louis Railroad Company, claiming dam
age in the sum OF $4,000 for injuries re-
ceived on the night Of June l6 The
plaintiff alleges that in getting OF tn,
train at whiteside, Tenn, she was throwr
into ditch and landed on n stone, which
caused injuries so serious that sho eoaa
not be moved for fourteen days
At Cullman, Ala, a few days since
John T. Woods was charged with the en-
bezzlement OF $50 from w. Muller, OF Bir-
mingham- Soon after he was arrested
Woods attempted TO cut his throat, bu
was disarmed He then struck himself
| on the head with a Inonkeywrench, ant
when that was taken from HIM he sprane
head foremost against an iron door, which
Knocked Him senseless- He will recover
il is thought. Woods claimed that h'
borrowed the money.
Cotton is fully two weeks late
Miss Pauline Ackler, Nashville
| (Tenn-) heiress, was married at Washing
| ton. ID. c., few days ago, to Mr.. j. w