Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-06-06
SOUTHERN ITEMS
SOME INTERESTING NEWS COMPILED
FROM MANY SOURCES.

The city Of Atlanta will establish at once q
state normal school for Georgia.
Richard A. Thomas of Hanover county.
was drowned i'll the dock at Richmond, Va.
buildings to cost in the aggregate s7S5. 00C
are now IN course of erection in Roanoke, Va.
I ..-eeorgia timber land has increased from one
T hondred to SIX hundred per cent. in value
within the last five years
Bristol, Tenn, has voted $50. 600 for street
improvements, $4,000 for a courthouse and
$4,000 for a niarket-house
IS. II. Devore, o. Jewett, Belmont county,
( W. Va, blew his brains out with rifle, be-
/ cause of his wife's unfaithfulness.
/ Angelo Taylor aged twenty-five years. of
tarmylllc, Va, committed suicide by shooting
himself through the chest with shotgun
Capt. \: S. Harris, prominent lawyer of
Lanrens, $. G., and gallant Confederate
soldier during the late war, died Of heart
disease there.
Whilst young man named James Smith
was engaged IN digging well near Haynes
vile, Richmond county, va, it cayed in XIII.
/ ing him Instantly.
jesse {. Robertson, prominent resident of
Hamilton county, Tenn, was killed by rail
road train near his country home, seven miles
from Chattanooga.
The Supreme Court of the United States
declared unconstitutional the Virginia law
requiring the inspection of -four manufactured
outside the State when sold within the State.
"A party of United States surveyors has gone
from Florence, Ala, to Colbert Shoals. in the
tennessee river, for the purpose of locating
the route of the proposed canal around the
shoals.
In the suit of the South Carolina phosphate
commissioners against the Coosaw Phosphate
/
by decision removing the case to the federal
court.
y. Z. Morris has been appointed receiver of
the Pratt Saw Mill Company. at Verbtna.
Ala. Assets, $3.50 900; liabilities, 50, GOO. The
receiver was appointed on the application of
the Berney National Bank of Birmingham.
VIM G. Rife was killed near Raleigh Court
house, w. Va, by log rolling on him He
was president Of the Farmers Alliance and
chairman of the democratic executive com
mlttee OF Raleigh county.
The Georgia Central Railroad has decided
not to contest the payment Of the license tax
levied upon railroads by the State of Alabama
and has notified the auditor that its branches
IN Alabama will pay the tax.
The Hughes Lumber Company and d. W.
Hughes Of Chattanooga Tenn. who made an
assignment last December, involving nearly
$500, 0JO of liabilities, have made final settle
ment with all of the creditors on the basis Of
one hundred cents on the dollar aud interest
and will resume business.
It. &. Smith and John Mays had fight at
Stuart Henry county, Va, during which Smith
shot Mays three times in the neck and breast
and Mays stabbed Smith with n knife and
broke his weapon. Smiths wound is not seri-
Gus, but it is thought Mays will die
Captain J. A. Perrego, prominent farmer
OF Lexington, Va, committed suicide Il few
days since lie ended his life by firinga shot
gun into his breast dying almost Immediately
from the wound lie was at one time eondu(-
tor on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Samuel Smelling, colorcd, was hanged at
Cuthbert, Ga, Tor the murder of Seaborn
Bates colored, in 1891. lie confessed Smell
ling killed Balitf Skipper, who was in the
party that arrested him three years after kill
ing Bates.
Mr.. and Mrs. ilauy, the Virginia bridal
pair who were injured Ill wreck on the Penn
sylvania Railroad while on their honeymoon,
and who spent three months in q hospital in
Pitsburg, as the result of the accident, have
instituted suit against the railroad company
tor $4,000 damages.
The Cooperative Creamery, recently es-
tablisheda at ManganSville, Washington county,
Nd, is in tlourshiug condition and is being
run at high speed to supply the demands for
sand pounds Of butter daily, and its quality
stands high in the city markets.
Fred Carpenter a fireman on the East Ten
nessee, Virginia and Georgia Road, was fatal
shot from ambush while driving to his subur-
ban home, at Knoxville. He is a son of d. A.
Carpenter, Leading business and insurance
man of Knoxville, and the shooting has caused
int ense excitement.
John Collins, awell-known fruit and market
truck raiser, OF Nashville Tenn, was killed
a few days ago William Graves and his son
Foster Graves, colored, were arrested. 1t is
charged that the murder was committed for
revenge. Mr.. Collins employed the boy, who
was but fourteen years old, and had smacked
his jaws for leaving the pasture fence down.
The New cal grand jury made the final
report referring to the Irregular proceedings
about the court building. The fact is men
toned that the list of tales jurors in the Hem
messy case was delivered to the defense nearly
twenty-four hours before it was given to the
attorneys for the State. The grand Jury was
unable to ascertain who was responsible for
this.
The Atlanta and Florida Railroad has
changed management. Colonel Sage was
made president, and an entire new board of
directors was elected. 1t is the intention of
the new management to extend the line from
its present terminus at Fort Valley to some
point OH the AlidntlC COISI--JuSJ where does
not seem TO be determined.
Near the rear walls of Christ Church build.
ing at Prince Fredericktown, Calvert county.
Md, there is stone slab bearing this inscrip-
ton. Here lieth inferred the body Of
Reverend jonathan Cay, native of Newcastle
on-Iyne, England, who died October, 1877;
for q years rector of this church." The stone
is still in a good state of preservation, except
crack across its upper left hand corner, and
the lettering is easily legibe.
The Exposition 10 be held at Montgomery.
Ala, next fall promises to stlrpass in attract
iveness any exposition ever he'd in that State.
The requests Tor space already received indi-
Gates a widespread interest on the part of
exhibitors. There is to be an Editors Day.
and Congressman Jere Simpson. OF Kansas
and Governor Fillman, of South Carolina. are
among those who have accepted invitations to
deliver addresses.
Mr.. \. q. Longway, arrived at the Cumber.
land Valley Station, Hagerstown, Md, and
told a remarkable story of his experience.
which he will ever remember. He was en- a
box car of the Clinch Valley branch down in
Western Virginia when the rails spread and
he was fling into deep stream from the
height of thirty-five feet After considerable
delay his body was fshed up for dead and
flung carelessly on a car door, where he was
left for nine hours with the water dripping
from him. When some train hands came
along they found that the body had moved SO
they worked with it a while until Mr.. Longwav
spoke TO them, implering their aid. much TO
their surprise. A backwoods doctor, who
combined his profession with that of preacher,
farmer and blacksmith, took him in hand, and
he still lives to tell of his wonderful escape.