The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-08-08

uSuolNC' AllC ClOllD III many DUouNo |
are very seriously damaged, and |
unless they have rain within the
next ten days, will be almost to-
tai failure. Pastures have dried
out, and new hay is being fed to
stock to keep them from starving.
This is a serious drawback on farm
ers having stock.
A. M. McOulloch, an employe in
the Southern Express Company's
office at Memphis, Tenn, has been
arrested for stealing packages con-
tanning money. He claims that
deficit of over 5000 occurred in
his accounts in a manner unknown
to him, and he took the money
packages to gamble on, hoping to
gain enough to replace the entire
deficit.
Two youngmen, one 10y the name
of Flack and the other by the name
of HARRISON, engaged in fight at
a protracted meeting near New
bern, Tenn, last Friday evening.
Flack hurt his antagonist pretty
badly, so much 50 that a physician
had to be summoned to attend him.
There was an old grudge existing
between them, and they undertook
to settle it at the church.
A peculiar case is reported from
Spring Greek, in Madison County,
Tenn. On Thursday evening Of
last week Mrs. Mandy Woods re-
tired as usual in good health, and
when awakened Friday morning it
was discovered that she had been
stricken blind during the night
She has not been able to see any
thing since that time. Physicians
there can not account for it.
Advices from Denver, Colo, state
that mine experts who recently ar
rived there from the Oklahoma
country report that gold fields of
marvellous richness have been found
in the Cheyenne Reservation, about
one hundred miles north Of Greer
County, Tex. The Indians jeal-
ously guard the place, and it is al
most impossible for a white man
to get into that country and get
out alive.
The supreme court of Georgia
has confirmed the sentence Of Tom
Walfolk to be hanged for the afro
cious murder of nine Of his rela-
tives in as many minutes. On the
night of August 6, 1887, Walfolk.
who is an overgrown boy, killed
with an axe his father, step-mother
six children, and an old lady visi-
tor. No one saw the deed Wal
folk being convicted ON circum-
stantial evidence alone.
A wild, naked man has fright.
, ened men and kept the women anC
children in the house in the sec.
tion along the borders of Lancas.
ter and Berks counties, Pa, anC
at least three attempts have beer
made to capture him, but without
avail. A farmer tried to coax thS
nude man into his market Wagon
for the purpose of driving him tx
! the county hospital, but the Great
ure struck him with a stick, anC
! the farmer was glad to drive OF
without him. The man weigh
t, about 1S5 pounds, has a reddisl
beard, is tanned quite brown, anC
= has trod the highways like a shad
: ow, sleeping in the woods. Their,
is an earnest demand on the par
: : of the people that the county con
! stable capture the man.
South American provinces ar,
assuming a war-like attitude, an,
j in Central America war has beel
: declared between San Salvador an,
y Guatemala. Information receive,
I concerning the actual situation i
d the two latter countries is very con
: hicting. Civil war exist in Bueno
: Ayres. Several months ago, as ou
G readers will remember, Empero
= Dom Pedro, Of Brazil, was dc
e throned and banished from th5
i country, and a provisional govern
o ment set up until u republican fori
of government could be regularl
$ established. The outcome is civ
.e war, and no conjecture can, at tn
70 time, be made as to the resul
J. 1t is more than likely chat the eI
l. tire South American states wi
1t become embroiled ina general wa
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