The Forrest City times., 1900-03-30
SOUTHERN GLEAniNGS.
The Lengtheninx Days.

roun' from east to west.
 They're in lots o'tribulation bout the
 ouildin' O the nest.
 There's a springy sorter O feelin' in the - country all about:
 The sun Is doin of his best to coax the
 blossoms out;
 An they a1 ,,lr be here in good season-jest An youH feel the light a-shinin through
 the winders of yer soul
 -r. l.. stanton, in Atlanta Constitution. Ex.Gov. T. NJ. stone, of Mississippi.
 Ex-Gov. John NJ. Stone died at Holly Springs, Miss. and was buried at his old home in Iuka. He was as brave an officer as there was in the confederate service, declining brigadiership on the battlefield after Spottsylvania. pre- ferring to remain colonel of his Mis- sissippi troops. He was released from Johnson's island in '65, returned home, was elected mayor of Iuka; treasurer of his county; state senator three times; was defeated for congress by Lamar: elected president pro tenn. of senate, and, on resignation of Ames and impeachment of Lieut.. .-Gov. Da- wis in '75, became governor; served six ' missioner, and reelected governor for six more in 1889. At the expiration of his term he organized the Merchants bank at Jackson, and was president till he resigned to accept the presi- deney of A. and M. college at Stark vile, a position he held at the time of his death. Mississippi mounrs her dis tinguished son. He was born in Car roll county, Tenn, April 30, 1s30.
 Negro Murders Six Persons.
 A negro, Tom Jones, commonly known in the vicinity as "Preacher" Jones, murdered Ella Jones and her oldest daughter, Ida, with an ax, and then set fire to the beds in which lay the bodies of his victims and four sleeping children, ranging in years from babe one month old to the largest boy, who was not more than five. The crime was committed at Gamers, a little town five miles east of Raleigh, N. C. The murderer, ac- cording to the story ot seven-year-old Laura Jones, who escaped with ner youngest sister, deliberately struck the mother four times, and then made two cuts in the body of the oldest child. He then fired the house, and it was destroyed. When Jones was ar rested his hands and clothing were stained with his vistims' blood.
 A Mad Dog Scare.
 Mad dogs have caused panic in St, eral localities of the Pee Dee sec tioD, says an item from Columbia, s. c. Samuel Nelson, of Statesberg, bit ten six weeks ago, has died of hydro phobla, after suffering the worst forms Another man, name unknown, Is reported to have died in Sumter county. In a few hours, in Sumter, $40o was raised by public subscrip- tion to send Samuel E. Shaw and three children to the Pasteur institute. Shaw, in attempting to kill mad dog that attacked his children, was himself bitten.
 A Wise Monkey.
 A pet monkey belonging to son of Rev. W. G. Herbert, pastor of the Car olIre Street Methodist church Of Bal timore, got into the study of the cler- gyman, opened volume of the En- cyclopedia Britannica, and tore out l6 peg ges of the article of Darwin s 'Origln of Species" Then it turned to But ler's Analogy, and it was examining it with great apparent delight when tue clergyman returned and put stop to the proceedings.
 Largest Orchard in the World.
 Views have been taken of the or chards of Messrs. Miller and Pancake, in the vicinity of Rodney, w. Va, for exhibition at the Paris exposition. These orchards are the largest in the world, and contain 250,000 peach and plum trees. The owners planted 1sl.- 900 trees last year, and cleared for planting 1,735 acres of timber laud. The first season their orchards began to bear they shipped 100 carloads of peaches and plums.
 Southern Colonization.
 The colonization season has been viz orously opened by the railroads which extend into southern territory, and the work of building up the south commer- cially is to be carried on this year on scale hitherto unknown. Industrial agents declare that the year promises to be a record-breaker for immigration to southern states, and for the loca- ton of factories and industries.
 Father and Son Drowned.
 F. F. Weill and his 12-year-old son were drowned in Pearl river, near Jackson, Miss. They lived in Bolivar county. They were in charge of sev- erul stave boats en route to New Or. leans. The boy fell overheard, and his father jumped in after him. For Promotion.
 Gen. Otis has recommended the pro- motion of Maj. B. F. Cheatham, to be colonel of the Thirty-seventh United States volunteers. Maj. Cheatham went out in the First Tennessee.
 Showing on.
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