The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1898-01-21

The ladies of the COVingtOn Bap-
fist church will give an oyster supper
tonight at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
w. A. Black for the benefit of
be served and only twenty-five cents
charged. Hours from to IL O'Clock.
There was another mad-dog scare
last Sunday. This time the dog was
in the neighbOrhOod of M. A. Rays.
a short distance east of Covington.
The dog bit a COW belonging to Mr..
Oliver Martin, so we are told. Char
lie, Jim and Dick Haynie, three young
men living in the neighborhood shot
and killed the dog.
Mr.. t. r. Connell and wife. of the
9th district, were in the city last Fri
day shopping. Mr.. Cornell informed
us that there was quite a good deal of
sickness about Kerville. He also told
us that Mrs. Virginia Davenport is
having dwelling erected on the site
of the old fair grounds at that place,
which will be occupied by Mr.. Jesse
Lyon.
Mr.. John Whitehorn is very sick
at his home in the Hastings neighbor-
hood and at last accounts was not ex-
pected to live. Since the above was
put in type we learn thai Mr.. White
horn died yesterday morning at =
o'clock. He was in his seventy-third
year. Consumption was the cause Of
his death. His burial will take place
today at Mountcarmel.
Mr.. w. B. Holder, OF Gallatin.
who spent a few DAYS in Covington
last week looking after business mat
tiers, met with a painful accident while
riding out on the Mountain road, near
MIR. j. +. Halls. The horse stumbled
and fell on him, MASKING the calf of
his leg quite badly. Mr.. Holder was
laid up for a short time, but was able
Saturday to go to Louisville, where
he had other matters to look after.
"A friend sends us the following:
Married, Wednesday evening, jan
uary Is. at 7:30 O'Clock, Mr. Luther
Jones, of Brunswick, Tenn, and Miss
Alice Marshall, at the residence of the
BRIDES father. Rev. l.. a. Street offi-
ciating. The bride is favorite wher-
ever known, and is lady of high at
tainments. The wedding was a quiet
affair, only n few friends being pres
eut. The couple left for Brunswick
Wednesday morning"
The report is that the Mississippi
river is rising very fast. Mr. J. A.
Yarbrough, of this place, returned
Tuesday from business trip down to
Island 30 and reports that the river is
rising rapidly. 1t was rising at the
rate of foot or more every day.
There is apprehension among the river
men of an overflow, which will stop
levee work and endanger if not de-
stroy a great deal OF that already
built.
"A horse belonging to Mr.. w. A.
Woolley, living about a mile south of
happen to il Monday. The horse was
playing in the pasture with some other
horses and got wire wrapped around
its leg, which cut the leg off at the first
joint, leaving it hanging only by the
leaders. The horse was afterward
killed, as it would never have have
been fit for use any more.
Mr.. John Sink, of the StewartvilIe
neighborhood, in Shelby county, died
Wednesday of last week with pneumo-
MIA. His father, Mr.. Jacob Sink, died
just one week before with the same dis
ease. There have been a great many
cases of pneumonia in that commu-
nifty, a number of which have proven
fatal, and there are still a good many
cases in the community.
An unfortunate accident happened
one day last week on Mr.. G. L. Kin
ney's place, near Bride, in which four
of his COWS were killed and three
others were more or less injured and
our informant thought it likely that
one of the injured cows would die.
Mr.. Kinney had his haystack fixed in
the shape of shelter, supported on
posts and oross-beams and this made
comfortable quarters for the COWS at
night and during bad weather. There
was heavy wind and rain that night
and the wind, it is thought, blew down
the stack. The accident happened
about daylight.
Friends Of Mr. Philip A. Fisher in
this place were shocked and surprised
to hear of his death which occurred at
his home in Memphis Sunday night,
after a comparatively short spell OF
pneumonia. Mr.. Fisher wrs reared in
Covington and was a son of the late
Charles G.. Fisher, one of the pioneers
of this county. He was young man
when the civil war broke out and Join
ed Company l. of the Seventh Tennes-
see regiment, DIR. L. Hill, Sr., as
captain Mr.. Fisher was second
lieutenant of the company and gal
liant soldier. He returned home at the
close of the war in 1865 and during
the year went to Sardis, Miss, where
he married Miss Kate Ridgway. He
| lived in the vicinity of Sardis until
! 1867, when he moved to Independence,
Mo. There and in Lafayette county
of that State he lived until 1879, when
he again moved to Covington,
| following the profession of teaching.
lie vas also county superintendent of
public schools for several years and
made most efficient official. In 1887
he moved to Memphis, engaging in the
insurance and real estate business.
Mr.. Fisher would have been sixty
years old next November, but his
genial, social disposition made him
| appear to be a much younger man.
To his kind words OF encouragement
many a boy in Upton county owes
his Inspiration to accomplish some
thi e nobler and higLes in life. His
| Influence on the educational interests