The Brookhaven leader., 1889-04-25
SOUTHERN 6LEANINoS.

Near Hayneville, Ala, recently, two
mules belonging to Moses Patt, colored
lied from hydrophobia.
Tom Cochran, who was shot at the race
track in Memphis, Tenn, recently, by
Policeman Hendrick, Is dead Hendrick
was lodged in Jail.
Mack Carneal, yardman in the Louis
VILE g. Nashville yards at Birmingham,
Ala, was struck by locomotive few
nights ago and almost instantly killed.
Carneal leaves q wife and two children.
Rain has at last stopped the forest fires,
which have been so destructive in North
Carolina Immense stretches Of the long
eaf pine country have been burned, en- :
ailing irreparable loss.
John Green, q negro, now living In JEFF
fersonville, Ind, two years ago, In the
Federal Court at Louisville, KY, sued q
number of white men of Hart County,
KY, for ku-kluxing him while he was liv-
ing in that county. The suit has been
compromised by the defendants paying
| Green 500 and costs.
The stable Of James Miller, a colored
hackman of Louisville, KY, two horses, q
carriage and his colored driver, sleeping
on the second floor, were burned a few
days ago. Miller, as soon as he discov-
cred the fire, rushed into the building to
save his horses, but was overcome by the
smoke and lost his life.
An interesting historical document, up
to few days past. was the property of
| Captain r. A. Hardie, UniontOwn (Ala.) }
citizen. 1t was the inaugural address OF
| General w. II. Harrison delivered on
| March 4, 1S41. The address is printed on
satin, and is perfectly clear and well pre-
| served. Captain Hardie has sent it to
| President Harrison.
At Ringgold, Ca, a few nights ago,
| Jacob A. Parson, contractor, and five
of his family were poisoned by drinking
coffee. A tablespoonful of arsenic was
found in the bottom of the coffee e-pot The
attending physician said the family would
recover.
John Banks shot and killed Andrew
Taylor, near Coal Greek, Tenn, few
nights ago. Banks was badly wounded
| by Taylor's brother.
VIM. Dibble, alias J. E. Dow, colored,
was convicted Of the murder of Walter
Long, in Thomas County, Ca, and SEN
tenced to death.
The Southern stove molders at Chatta-
noogo, Tenn, elected Fillmore Gibson, of
that city. president. and P. L. Pfngst, oi
Louisville, KY, secretary. They ad.
| journed to July III.
Miss Mamie Tatum, of South Pittsburgh.
Tenn, was shot through the brain and
instantly killed by her brother, Joseph
Tatum. few nights ago. The shooting
| was accidental.
Isaac Jones, q Jacksonville (Fla.) ne
gro, broke every bone in the body OF his
four -year-old child with an iron bar, q
few days ago, and then fatally beat his
l. y hot he
was suffering with one at the time of the
| deed.
The Grand Lodge of Tennessee, Knights
of Honor, met in annual session in Nash
Vile last week. There was large attend
ance, ninety-six out of 119 lodges beiui
represented. The reports of the gram
officers showed that the order is in -four
ishing condition.
VIM. Wiley, who was recently tried il
the Circuit Court at Hopkinsville, KY.
charged with the murder of Alber
Wright at dance near MadisOuville las
December was found guilty and SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for life.
Joshua F. Ross, convicted Of the muir
der of his uncle, George Hughes, at Glou
cester Court House, Va, and sentenced t.
Ave years. Imprisonment, will have an
other trial. 1t was asked on the ground
that one of the jurors had expressed al
opinion on the case before he was
sworn.
Captain John Smedley, an old. ant
prominent citizen, died at his home il
Paducah, KY, a few days ago. He was il
the sixty-first year of his age. For {
number Of years he was engaged on tn
river. and for several years past was
member Of the City Council.
Henry Rice, the murderer of Wine
Olive and John Hollis, who was lodged il
Jail at Florence, Ala, had to be moved t
Huntsville for safety. A mob was or
gauized, and the leaders declared the
would have the prisoner and lynch him
west-bound passenger train, on the
Vicksburg & Meridian railroad struck al
old gentleman named Dolittle, at Newton,
Miss, a few days ago, iuficting wound;
from which he died. He was upwards o.
eighty years old. and being very decrepit
did not hear the train in time to get of
the track.
Bishop Walden, DR.. J. c. Hartzell anC
associates held a meeting at Chattanooga
Tenn, a few days ago, at which the papers
were signed and the unifcation of th'
Chattanooga University and the Gran
| Memorial University at Athens was COM
I
| combined in one. The School of Liberia
Arts will be in Chattanooga, the Schoo
of Technology at Athens, both being un
der one board.
| The Baltimore Manufacturers RecorC
reports that there is great activi ty
throughout the South IN building cotton
seed -oil mills, and that dozen mills, t.
cost 81 900 900 or more, have been or
ganized in the last two weeks, while ther'
is a report that a $2.O0o,00o company ha
been OF ganized in Philadelphia to built
mills in the South. The new mills re
| ported are nearly all by Independent
companies not connected with the Cotton
| Oil Trust.
A negro named Grant, who has beer
confined in the county Jail, at Raymond
Miss, killed the jailor, Robert Thomas
| few nights ago. The negro was put il
| Jail some time ago under writ of lu
macy. 1t is thought that he was harmless
and he was allowed to walk around il
the jail-yard when the negro struck hin
on the head with an axe, almost severine
the head from the body.
| ANorthern tourist recentlyphotograped
| at the Secretary Of States Office in Co
lumbia, s. c., one of the most remarkably
documents existing among the records o
! the State. 1t is the original deed made b,
the Casseque Indians, in 1878, to the Lords
proprietors Of Carolina for all that trac
| of land which now constitutes what i:
known as the low country of South Caro-
lima.