The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-08-23
SHORT SOUTHERN STORIES.

ALEXANDRIA. La.-Planters are now
complaining of too much ran.
MERIDIAN. Miss. While out hunting
two boys discovered cave near here
which was filled with relics of the In
dams.
COLUMBIA, La.-Pat Bennett, a work
man IN the Houston Central ssops. lay
down the track for a nap. mis- body
was horribly mangied and was picked up
in pieces.
TO fall, and farmers are disheartened.
Cotton stalks laden with bolls ready to
open lie fiat on the ground ard Will not
yield half crop.
HAMMOND. 1a.--walter II. Jewett.
aged 81, native " Iowa, cut his throat
from ear to ear with razcr re was
slowly dy ne OF consumption and suicidad
IN order I'D bring the end sooner.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.--Jesse Hetherton.
a white miner, married, was instantly
k lied at Sloss ore mines. The root of the
room In which he was working fell In on
him and crushed him TO death.
MONROE, La.-Pat Paine, the murderer.
who is now under sentence of death. says
he Is not pretending insanity and Is per-
fectly sane; he also declares man was
put ON earth to live certain number OF
days, and that he isn't going to cut his
short by suicide.
GI4OSTER, Miss.--News reaches here
that Mr. Emmett A. Bates, who lives
twenty-five miles east OF here. was struck
with a brick by a negro and his head
crushed. The negro made his escape. Mr..
Bates was a candidate for the legislature
at the last election.
ATLANTA. Ga.--The tax rate for the
state of Georgia for the year 1887 has been
fixed The rate, based on property re-
turns OF Alo.Qoo,ooe, Is 5.g mills per ~
$500 over last year, making an increase
In revenue of over S26s,0OO.
B1RMINGH M. A,a Joseph Ripley
United States government engineer, Is
here to survey the route for the proposed
canal from Nortf lake. two miles from
( this CIV TO the Warrior river, dis
lance OF thirty miles. 1t WI provide a
al water route to the gulf for this dis
trict.
vear-c,d daughter Of Mr., and Mrs. Steven
Hunt committed suicide at her residence
in Hampshire. Marry county, by tnklhg
morphne. She was found n her roam
terward. No Cause for the suc'de 10
known.
BIRMINGHAM. Ala.--Near Chepultepec.
Blount county, tins: o-year-old son or
Henry Freeman, a farmer was attacked
by hogs and trampled TO death; he was
In the habit of feeding peaches 10 the
hogs, and when he went among them
without giving them any they rushed upon
him fn an endeayor TO get the fruit with
which he had filed his pockets.
SELMA, Ala.-Pressure is being brought
on Dr. A. j. Dickenson, pastor OF the First
Baptst church in this city. by MS Trends
and local papers to run for governor a
year Renee. He is a great student and q
deep thinker. He has not yet given his
friends an answer, but It Is thought by
there c'osest to him that he will announce
his candidacy in a short tine.
BIRMINGHAM. Ala.-Detective p. r..
Burns Of the Southern Express company
passed through Isirminghsm en- route to
Nonteysilo. Shelby county. where ne
paced Thomas ". Low In Jail Low Is
the partner of Gus Hyatt, the train rch-
her, who Is serving ffteen-year sentence
at Clarkssslle, Tenn. where some months
ago he robbed o Louisville and Nashville
express train. He confessed the crime
Edward Parker Deacon Insane.
BOSTON August 22.-Edward Parker
Deacon was yesterday committed to the
Mclean hospital at waverly as insane.
He belongs to an old and distinguished
family OF this city.
on February H. 1892, he killed Emile
Abeilie n Mrs. Deaccn's apartments NJ
cannes France. The AFFAIR created q SEN
/ ,.,,i,., ~, two continents. His hPliucinsA