The Russellville Democrat., 1889-03-07
SOUTHERN oLEANINoS.

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 merchant, died at Louisville, Ky, few
 days since, aged seventy eight, of heart
 failure. He was born at Brimfield, Mass,
 and had been identified with Louisville
 business interests forty nine years. In the suburbs of Knoxville, Tenn, a | few days ago, two freight trains met on a
 curve on the Knoxville & Ohio railroad. John Maggott, a fireman, was instantly l killed while in the act of throwing a shoyelful of coal in the fre-box. He was | horribly mangled and roasted almost to a crisp.
 l When Rev. Sam Jones, the Georgia | evangelist, last preached in Nashville, | Tenn, he started movement looking to | the erection of union tabernacle. Gen. | tlemen representing eight denominations have secured charter and will soon be- l gin the erection of building that will l cost between $40,000 and S50,000 and seat l $500 people.
 | The post office at Rockingham, N C., was blown up by an explosion of gum | powder few nights ago. Taylor X Me- l Neill had $500 worth of goods in one part of the building. All were destroyed. | The building was blown to pieces, the con. cussion shaking the whole town. Every l thing in the post office was consumed by the fire which followed the explosion. The attention of the country is being turned to Memphis just now on account of her cotton receipts, which since the first I of September have amounted to 646.2 .255 bales. This is 43,615 bales in excess of | last year up to this date, and Memphis, outside of being the largest interior cot | ton market in the world, is the second | largest receiver of spot cottons in the Unitad fat ,,bj fbic ,ril | receive fully 725,000 bales of cotton, which will be by over 60,000 bales the largest in her history. Ten railroads and forty steamboats contribute to her growing inn portance as a business center. Robert Moore's wife, near Springfield, Ky, recently left him. The other day he went to get her, swearing he would make her live with him. He met her brothers and is dead.
 Ex-United States Senator John W. Johnston died at Richmond, Va, recently, in the saventy-cighth year of his age. He married daughter of Governor John B. Floyd, and was nephew of General Jo- seph E. Johnston.
 The negro exodus from South and North Carolina and Virginia is growing in re-
 markable degree.
 The residence and household goods of
 Mir. Thomas Crabtree, eight miles from
 Owensboro, Ky., were totally destroyed by fire few nights ago. Loss, S2, 300, on which there was no insurance. Rev. John F. Hughes, we'll known
 minister of the Methodist Episcopal
 Church South, and pastor of the Method
 ist city missions, died at Nashville, Tenn,
 a few days ago, after severe illness of
 about week. MT. Hughes was born in Stokes County, N. O., in 1874.
 An agree ment of consolidation of the three street-railroad companies in Knox vile, Tenn, has been filed at Nashvill for registration. The capital stock of the
 consolidated company is placed at $110,- 900.
 The first regular train over the Yazoo
 branch of the Georgia Pacific road made the trip from Greenville to the Yazoo river few days since. Trains will be run three times week.
 Four eonvicts attempted to escape from the camp, mile from Charlotte, N. C.. few days ago. Three were shot down by the guards. One succeeded in getting away. The three were fatally wounded.
 Howard Anderson was hanged at Colds boro, N. C., few days since. De ath oc- cured in seven minutes. The neck was broken. The prisoner was stubbornly un- communicative to the last, and made no talk or profession whatever. He was a white man, and his crime was the murder of poor old barbecue vender named Wm. Porter, at Goldsboro, last July.
 Rev B. W. Mcdonald D. D., IL. D., of Lebanon, Tenn, one of the most dis tinguished divines in the Cumberland d Presbyterian Church and very accom- plished literary man, is dead. He was native of Overton County and spent the greater part of his life of over sixty years in Tennessee.
 The colored citizens of Florida recent. ly decided to invite Fred Douglass, Mme. Salika, the colored singer, and Miss Hal lie Q. Brown, the colored elocutionist, to visit the Subtropical Exposition. A com mittee of invitation was sent to Washing ton to bear the message.
 Reports from Henderson County, Tenn, confirm the news of the assault and mur- der of Miss Virginia F. Meals. The man under arrest, charged with the terrible crime, is Joe Grogan, Q single man. Cir cumstantial evidence is strong against aim.
 George Foster, leading young attorney of Tuscaloosa, Ala, committed suicide re- gently by shooting himself through the head upon the grave of his wife in Ever green Cemetery. When found he was lying prostrate across the grave with the pistol firmly grasped in his right hand.
 Bettie Lore, the fifteen year. old daugh- ter of John Lore, of Davidson County, suffered terrible death in grist-mill a few days since. She was in the mill with her uncle, who left her there alone while he went away. During his brief absence the girls clothes came in contact with a rapidly y-revolving shaft and carried her around with each revolution, striking her head upon the floor with terrible force. When her uncle returned he found her lead and her head beaten to shapeless mass, striking the floor many times each minute.
 The Alabama Legislature has adjourned sine die During the session 6J0 bills were passed, chiefly of a local nature. The Legislature reduced the tax rate from five mills to four and half mills for the next fiscal year and four mills thereafter. It made an additional appropriation of Sl00,- 900 for the support of the public school system, making about one-third of the States revenue subject to the cause of education. It appropriated s60,0o0 to re- build the buildings of the Agricultural and Mechanical College, established me- chanical department in the Blind Insti- ute, and appropriated 500 to aid in the completion of the monument on Capitol Hill to the dead Confederate soldiers of Alabama.
 Horace Butts, quartermaster sergeant of the Second Artillery, United States army, who deserted from Jackson Bar racks, New Orleans, taking with him $500 of money belonging to the post, was ar rested at Mobile, Ala, upon description given of him in the New Orleans papers.
 Governor Tavlor of Tennessee has of fered reward of S250 for the arrest of George Dunnaway, who shot and killed James Dunnaway, probably fatally wounded Mrs. Dunnaway and assaulted Miss Melissa Dunnaway near Lascassas, Rutherford County.