The gale., 1888-01-27
NEWSY PARAGRAPHS.
A FEW ITEMS OF SOUTHERN INTER-
EST CAREFULLY CULLED.
The Condensed News by Mail, Wire
And otherwise.

The Condensed News by Mail, Wire
And Otherwise.
F. N. Talley, sheriff of Harris county,
Ca, died at his home, near Hamilton.
A fire at Denison, Tex, destroyed the
roundhouse of the Missouri Pacific rail-
way and twelve locomotives. Loss,
! 500, coo.
A. fire at Sedalia, Mo-, totally destroyed
! Smiths hall and consumed the boot and
shoe stock of w. j. Mackey, valued at
! 500, 900.
Mrs. Martha Fayard died near Biloxi,
Miss, of cancer. She was 106 years OF
age, and had ninety living descendants,
many of them being prominent.
Attachments aggregating over $780,
coo were issued at Dallas, Tex, recently,
against the clothing house of |. Reinhardt
& Son, and their store was closed.
The Georgia Terminal Railroad Com
pany, with capital of 81, 900, 900, has
been organized at Atlanta, Ga. 1t VIII
build a Union Depot and belt line
around Atlanta.
Col Bradford Dunham has been elect.
ed ce-president and superintendent OF
the Montgomery g. Florida Railroad,
which will now be-pushed to completion
to the one hundred and fifty mile post.
The Mexican Central passenger train,
bound for Ell Paso, Texas, was held up
forty miles south OF El Paso by train
robbers The robbers were Americans
and were armed to the teeth. They rob-
bed the express car, getting quite sum
of money.
The band of Regulators" which lynched
three men in Roane county, West Vir-
gnia, last October, for the murder of
Rev. Thos. p. Ryan, were themselves
the murderers. and they lynched innoeent
men in order to divert suspicion fr1p
themselves.
A movement is on foot in Western
Texas and Southern New Mexico to Sc
cure aid from the U. S. Government if
possible, in building monster irrigating
canal from two to two hundred and thirty
miles long, for the purpose of reclaimiDg |
vast tracts of land that are now arid |
wastes.
The courts in Montgomery, Ala, ad-
ate Col. Charles |. Pollard, whose fu-
leral took place from st. Johns church
md was largely attended. The engines
IN the Western railway and the Mont
and Mobile divisions will be
lraned in mourning thirty days.
Henry Vaughn died at Chattanooga,
Tenn,, from the effects of poison in bread
md coffee, of which he partook for din
ler. He boarded with Hattie Lightfoot,
md Frank Lightfoot, Hattie's husband,
is accused of putting poison in the water
and flour used in cooking. Five other
persons were poisoned, but wilt recover. |
Col. Charles Collins, of Savannah, Ga,
formerly master mechanic with the old
Atlantic s. Gulf Railroad, has patented
a milk shake which is now being sue
cessfully operated. An electric motor
will run the shaker, which is an ingenious
invention. The cups containing the
syrup and milk are charged with cleo
tricity, and the beverage is supposed to
be electrified while being mixed. Pat
rons can get slight electric shock while
waiting, if they desire it.
Mrs. Anna B. Cheatham, widow of
Gen. B. f. Cheatham, and at the time
of her death postmistress of Nashville,
was buried recently. The funeral services
were held at the First Presbyterian, and
the remains rested upon the spot where,
in 1866, she stood as bride by Gen.
Cheatham's side, and plighted her troth
in marriage to the famed warrior. DIR.
Witherspoon delivered brief funeral
Grafton, in which he spoke of the three
prominent traits of the deceased: Her
supreme unselishness, her fidelity in pub
lie and private trusts and in the attain
ment of the ideal state before her death.
The services were attended in body by
the officials of the custom house, includ-
ing the officers and employees of the post
office and the departments of revenue and
Justice. The burial occurred at Mount
Olivet. The pallbearers were Confede-
rate soldiers.