Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-02-14
CUR SOUTHLAND.
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DIXIE.
A Carefully Selected Budget of South.
ern News Items Culled From
Exchanges.
SOUTH cARaL,NA

w canuay at Laurcns, d. l.. Nj. IrSl
member of the Legislature, had fl IL
cuff fight with Magistrate w. Il. Stod.
daid, growing out of proposition 10 re-
mDve the latter from ofiics. No scrou
hahn was done then, but later on Irby
and his brother, l.. 4. Irby, mayor OF
the town, approached Stoddard, who at
once struck the mayor. Mayor Irby cut
Magistrate Stoddard severely with i
pocket knife, and Col. Irby was cut in
the face
There is abundant promise of troub,e
IN the upper and middle parts Of tn
state at an early date, aud the railroad
agents promise to get the worst OF it.
The usual exodus of colored laborers has
commenced and the landowners are get
| ting mad. Under the peculiar laws OF
! the state negro who contracts with a
farmer is, to put it mildly. held to a very
| strict account. If he breaks his ,ntract
| he Is taken before the criminal, not the
civil court. For some time past emf
| grant agents have been at work In the
| counties OF Kershaw, Lancaster, York,
Chester and other counties in II upLe
| part Of the state, and it is said that large
number Of nc groes have left the state
since Christmas. Soliciting agents
and emigrant agents are scat
tered in various parts of TIE
state, and they are exeriing all their eff
forts to entice the hands away. The
negro population of the state is esti-
mated at 600, 900.
North CAROLINA.
Daniels Cameron left Keyscr for his
home, few miles away in the pine for
est, in company with Henderson Dean
Both were, intoxicated. Next morning,
Cameron was found dead ON the tram
road, mile from Keyser, having been
shot with a shotgun in the bowels and
head. 1t appeared from the surround
ings that the murderer stood behind a
tree by the roadside and did the shoot
ing. Dean was arrested on suspicion.
based upon the fact that he had a gun.
Evidence was not conclusive enough to
commit Dean to Jail. 1t is learned that
another man, named Mashman, was with
him.
Delegates from nearly all the counties
IN the stare, exConfederatc pensioners,
met in Raleigh Tuesday 1t was the first
convention OF this character ever held in.
North Carolina, and the interest in it
was unusually great. Several hundred
veterans were present, nearly all with an
arm or leg missing, while some were
mere physical wrecks. All were guests
of the city of Raleigh. They paraded
and called on Governor Fowle, at the
executive department, where they were
given special reception, the governor
and staff and all state officers being
present. Governor Daniel G. Fowle was
loudlyrheered when he rose to speak.
Like the other speakers, he urged the
claims of the disabled soldiers for more
liberal pensions, aud also urged the es
adjustment of soldiers home and its
maintenance by the state. The COVER
nor was eloquent, and his eyes were full
OF tears. The Legislature will certainly
increase the pensions, which are now
only . little over SIS per annum.
MISSOURI
On Sunday night, the residence of
Mrs. Arfcil Hall, widow living three
miles from Brookfeld, was discovered
on fire by r. N. Vcrce, and his hired
man Smith. They hurried to the scene
OF the fire, arousing the neighbors as
they passed. Arriving at the house they
discovered that horrible murder had
been committed. The Hall family, con-
sistiGg Of Mrs. Hall and four children.
two boys and two girls, aged from four
teen to two years, were discovered in the
building, having been murdered. Sus-
picion rested on one J. A. Howell,
young man, cousin Of Mrs. Hall, who
was teaching school about three miles
from the scene of the mvrder, and who
mad been making his home at Mrs. Halls
on Saturday and Sunday Tracks were
found in the light snow leaving the
building in an easterly direction. Blood
was found in the tracks made by the
overshoes. Howell was arrested at
hotel in Brooktield
TExAs.
United States Marshal w. L. Cabell.
at Dallas, received dispatch from Ora
hame, in Young county, which tells of n
desperate and bloody battle near that
place. There were in the jail at Ora
hame as prisoners, four NARROW brothers
and a man named Pierce, and one named !
Bnrkhart. They were charged with
murler and other crimes. A mob tried
to take the men from Jail and lynch
them, but failed. Deputy Marshal
johnson and a posse, acting under in
structious from the United States Marshal
took the prisoners from Jail and started
for Weatherford, where it was thought
they would be more secure. When
about TWO ard half miles out, a mob
came up and demanded the priconers.
The guard refused to give them up, and
a fight ensued. -Four of the citizens
posse were killed at the first fire, two of |
the Marlows were killed and fifth citi-
zen was mortaIly sounded.
KENTUCKY.
The remains of Rev. j. p. Boyac we're
aud to rest at Cave Hill cemetery at
louisville, Sunday afternoon, after a
service as solemn and sub
lmeiy devout as any ever witnessed in
hat city. DR.. Boyce died at Cannes.
rance, three weeks ago. He was pres
lent Of the Southern Baptist Theologi-
al Seminary, the largest institution If
be kind in the world He left fortune
! $500. 600. He was the leading Bap-
ist in Ara. RIGA
LOUISIANA.
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