Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-03-28
OUR SOUTHLAND.
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NORTH CAROLINA,

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stable.
Rockingham postoffice was blown up
by an explosion of gunpowder.
Taylor 8 McNeill had thirteen
hundred dollars worth Of goods In one
part of the building. ALL were de-
stroyed. The building was blown to
pieces, the conclusion shaking the whole
town.
The State Senate passed on its final
reading after six hours debate, the bill
to amend the election law so that voter
shall, himself, deposit his ballot in the
box, the latter to be plainly labeled. It
is the cream of the election laws Of Ar
kansas, Georgia and South Carolina. 1t
is, of course, equivalent to an educa-
tional qualification for voters, and will,
alike, affect ignorant persons, whether
white or black.
As mail train was at point near
Lemon Springs, the conductor saw a
mulatto lad, named Harrington, from
whom he had not collected a ticket, APP
preaching him. The conductor asked
for his ticket. Harrington said he had
given the conductor his ticket, but the
latter insisted that he had not, and asked
him where he was going. He rose and
started toward the rear of the car. The
conductor supposed he was going to
borrow the money. On reaching the
door, Harrington stepped upon the plat
form and jumped from the train, and
was instantly killed.
Two negroes, who wrecked freight
train at Mispah siding, between Green's
boro and Reidsville, were arrested by
two colored detectives from Richmond,
whom the Richmond & Danville Rail
road Company had sent there to work up
the case. The prisoners are George Neal
and Henry Cobb, two negro desperadoes,
who have already served long terms in
the penitentiary. By the wreck which
they caused, one brakeman and one fire.
man were killed, while others were seri-
ously injured, and developments show
that these Williams had perfected plot
to wreck passenger train on the Haw
River Bridge.
GEORGIA,
Rice planters are waiting for the next
Spring tide. The acreage along the Sa-
vannah River will be much less than in
past seasons, but along the Ogeechec and
Altamaha Rivers, more will probably be
planted than last year or the year before.
About twenty negro gamblers were
playing cards in the woods near the bar
racks near Atlanta on Sunday. Wash
Persons and OF Wilson had row, in the
course of which Wilson drew a thirty
fyxra oal.hra ~ -.
the stomach, wounding him dangerously,
and then ran off.
A fatal accident occurred on the dunn
my line at Columbus on Sunday. As
train was going out Thirteenth street, a
young white man, named Charles Porter,
ran out from the Jacques building and
caught on to the platform of one of the
cars, and while trying to pass to another
car he fell between. He caught on to
the bumpers as he fell, but his feet
caught under the truck of the rear car,
and he was drawn under it and terribly
mangled.
Col. A. B. Culberson, died at his home
in West End. Col. CulDerson was born
in Troup county, and when young
man removed to Lafayette, Walker
county, where he studied law. On Feb
ruary 49, 1847, he was welded to Miss
Margaret Caldwell. He represented
Walker comfy in the Legislature, and
won an enviable position at the bar.
Mr.. Culberson was, for long time,
Mayor of West End, and was greatly
beloved by his neighbors and friends.
United States Marshal Lucius M. L.
mar, died at five o'clock with pneumonia
at Macon, on Monday. Col. Lamar
reached Macon from the North and Sa-
vannah only few days ago. Feeling
unwell, he went direct to bed. His
condition was considered more favorable
Monday, but he was attacked with q
congestive chill, and passed rapidly
away. Col. Lamar was q gallant Con-
federate soldier. He leaves widow
and several children. He was So years
old. and was born in Putnam county.
ALABAMA.
The mo- ion to reconsider the bill
which prohibits the selling of pools in
Alabama, on events occurring outside
the stale, was tabled by the Legislature,
and the bill having passed both houses,
goes to the governor Tor approval.
There is trouble of the bitterest sort
among the pupils and teachers ct the
college for colored people at Talladega.
The school has been kept up by white
men from the North, aud the faculty and
teachers are white. The cause OF the
present trouble is given out that Adalissa
Littlejohn, colored girl student, was
compelled to make fires for one Of the
teachers. She complained, but was in
formed by the authorities OF the school
that she would have to do the work or
leave. About forty students have left
the college and gone home, and the
principal features of the school are
broken up.
TENNESSEE.
Two freight trains collided Sunday
on the Knoxville & Ohio road.
half mile north of this city. One fire.
man was killed, both engines wrecked
-ad several freight cars demolished. The
accident was caused by misundersand-
ng of orders