The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-11-14

hands of moneyed men and will
doubtless be entirely successful.
Mr. w. D. Battle, of Summer
County, Ala, has ON exhibition at
the Birmingham fair the largest
hog in the world. He is of the
red Jersey breed, twenty-eight
months old, stands 3 feet 9 inches
high, is 8 feet 81 inches in length,
is 7 feet 4 inches around the girth,
is 2 feet l. inches across the back,
and weighs 1,500 pounds.
A fight between three men Bob
Patterson a farmer, and two saw
mill men, Hughes and Hutchinson,
occurred near Franklin last Friday.
Patterson and Hutchinson had
dispute abouta log, and the former
knocked the latter down with a
cane, whereupon Hughes struck
Patterson over the head with a
scantling fatally injuring him.
The boiler of j. w. Baker & Co.'S.
gin, at Dyersburgh, exploded No
vember 7, completely wrecking the
gin building, also the adjoining
building Of the Dyersburgh Ma
chine Works, and instantly killing
the engineer and fireman. All the
glass in the windows for several
blocks around were broken, and
the boiler, weighing 2 IONS, was
thrown half a mile across town and
struck another gin almostwreckin
it. Loss $4,000.
Kenton, small place on the Mo-
bile and Ohio Railroad, near Union
City, thinks it has a sensation. w.
B. Grissom, a married business man
of the place, and Miss Rosa Epps,
fascinating young lady, also Of
that place, disappeared simultane-
ously about three weeks since, and
Mr. Epps, the young lady's father,
and Mrs. Grissom are both Of the
l opinion that the couple have gone
west together. Grissom and family
, boarded with Epps and the couple
had every opportunity to become
intimate.
I Bob King, the Seyenth-day Ad-
I ventist, who was tried in the cir
! cult court and sentenced to pay a
$75 fine for working on Sunday,
q and who appealed to the State su-
preme court and had the decision
affirmed is in trouble. Lawyer
a Richardson Of Dyersburgh, is go
: inng to appeal the case to the su-
n ureme court Of the United States,
e and has telegraphed to get Don M.
Q Dickerson, Postmaster General un-
d der the Cleveland Administration,
|. to take charge of the case. The
n time has come when King must
; pay the $75 fine or so to jail. He
a says that 1t is religious persecution
It and that he will go to Jail before he
It will pay a cent King is now in
e charge Of sheriff Jackson awaiting
u the result Of Colonel Richardson's
efforts towards securing an ap-
y peal. Troy News-Banner.
e A singular runaway is reported
II from South Brooklyn, n. Y. A
e woman named Gildersleeve, who
IS had lived with her husband for
h over thirty years and born him
If four sons, some Of whom have at
d tanned manhood, has left her home
because, as she states in a letter,
II her husband had furnished her
st means to properly cIothe herself
d and had refused to give her the
If money to have her teeth attended
y to. She therefore secured a place
< at $14 a month and with her earn
n ings for year she said that she
ie proposed to have her teeth prop
d erly cared for, and with the bal
N ance to buy clothes to last her dti
% ing life. Then, if her husband
f. would receive her, she intended to
le return to him, as she loved him.
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