The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1889-03-14
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L. @. Discharges and Co., coal deal
ers, Of New Orleans, have failed.
Liabilities $li4OO0; assets, $4,000.
A pointer from the Picayune Of in
terest to advertisers a paper In the
habit oflying lies most about
its circulation
A Boston Congregational clergy
man committed suicide on Sunday,
the day appointed for him to preach
his initiatory sermon.
A terrible boiler explosion took
place at St. Louis, Mo-, ON sunday
Two boilers burst and blew large
pieces ofthe boilers a distance Of 4OOn
Two men lost their lives.
The first foreign vessel to make use
of the Panama Canal was an English
vessel, which passed through the COM
pleted part on Friday.
A christening took place in a Mary
land jail the other day. The mother
Of the child had been committed for
three months for larceny.
Arizona Legislators have passed a
bill making train robbery an offence
punishable by death. This is a good
way of dealing with "Bunchites."
Maggie Mitchell, an Ohio lady who
had been married for 20 years, last
week applied for a divorce from her
"old man." She suspects him of inf
deity.
The gold fever is very intense at
Los Angeles, Cal, owing to the dis
coyery Of rich gold fields near. Near
ny every man in the town has left for
the new mines.
The American baseball team now
, touring the world are having a big
time Of it. Last week they gratifed
Parisians with a view Of "the game
as it should be played.
A theatre in Ne8 Orleans was to
tally destroyed by fire on Thursda!
morning. Scenery, dresses, orchestra
instruments and in factall properties
event up in smoke"
E A wreck occurred ON the Louisyill,
e and Nashville road near Covington
+ Ky, on Friday. A faulty axle-tre
= was the cause and the result was seri
i, Gus injuries to three men.
The Memphis police would like t.
{ meet two San Francisco diamond
merchants who have lately "done" tn
city. They could sell diamonds a
Il just half the price a city dealer coul,
e sell at.
Here is good burgln-scariul
scheme. A Boston household, com
!. posed entirely Of females, keeps
couple of gentlemen's hats and over
:. coats on the hall rack. 1t is said to b
very efiectual.
V The British Navy has been reduce
e the present week by the loss of one q
n their magnificent ironclads. Tn
t, Sultan, a splendidly-equipped vesse
i was run ashore in the Mediterranean
It No lives were lost.
: Jay Gould is about 10 start on a tou
: Of inspection Of his property in tn
South. lie will bring whole host {
millionaires with him. We hope the
y. may spend few of their hoarde
II dollars in this part ofthe States.
t. Louisville. Ky, had a big fire 0
re Tuesday y,which did more damage tha
T. has been caused by fire in that city f
le years. The total losses foot up
$4,000 Two fremen were scriou
ly injured during the contiagratiou.
n, A party of desperadoes attacked
Of railway contractors cncampment
+ East Tennessee on Friday. The
is were completely routed by the enc
as getic and gallant action of the raj
te road men. Two or three casualtir
are reported.
Minnesota has ice enough at las
4 Their lakes are frozen over to dept
al of loft, This is a big blow 10 Il
r spectators who had laid in a stock
n ice-making machinerv. as they did N