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J. TT. DEVEAUX. Managkb.
B. W. WHITE, Solicitor. j
VOL 11.
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
NEWS NOTES GATHERED
FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS.
MISSISSIPPI.
Olive Branch has been carried by the
prohibitionists.
It has been discovered that the title of
160 acres of land in the heart of the res
idence part of Meridian has never been
acquired from the government. The en
try was made and not proven. This is
from the records at Jackson. No fears
are entertained that the titles of present
holders will be effected.
The analysis received from Birming
ham of a specimen of iron ore found at 1
Enterprise shows 51 per cent of iron and i
only .70 of 1 per cent of phosphorus.
The assayist pronounced the specimen to i
be a first-class ore and nearly a bessemer
ore. The Enterprise Mining and Furnace
company has been organized. The incor
porators are from New Orleans, Mobile,
Enterprise and Meridian. The company
owns 6,000 acres of land, and is capital
ized at $750,000.
The stockholders and directors of the
Mississippi State Fair Association held a
meeting at which it was determined to i
hold a State fair at Jackson some time
next fall, the date not yet being fixed. j
The number of stockholders have in- i
creased to fifteen, all of whom are first- '
class, energetic business men, and who |
make a success of everything they under
take. It is a joint stock company duly
incorporated under the laws of Missis
sippi. Hon. Wm. L. Hemingway is i
president of the board of directors.
The negro Alex. Crawford, who mur- ,
dered Vic Loggins, was captured in .
Choctaw county and taken to Winona, i
Crowds came in from the country, and ■
by 10 o’clock the town was full of peo- !
pie. Quite a crowd assembled at the I
courthouse to decide what steps should I
be taken, and many of the older citizens !
tried to stay summary proceedings, but !
all efforts to stay the infuriated populace j
were futile. Several hundred men as- ;
sembled at the jail and by force tookthe I
keys from the jailer and unlocked the
cell. Alex resisted, but was soon over
powered and was carried about 300 yards
to the railroad bridge, where he was
hanged. He acknowledged that he killed I
Loggins, but would give none of the de- I
tails. He only stated that no one was
implicated with him.
FLORIDA.
The French bark Palmier, recently ar- !
rived at Pensacola, has on board a cage
containing 700 birds from the west coast
of Africa.
Citizens of Tallahassee have already
subscribed $27,000 in behalf of railroad
connections with the Savannah, Florida
and Western.
A forty-acre Japan persimmon grove !
will be set out by a syndicate of fruit j
growers, which was organized by some |
of Fort Meade’s live citizens last week.
According to the city directory just
completed, the population of Pensacola
is now 14,220, an increase in two years of
3.648. The number of new surnames is i
1.649.
The hotel question should certainly be i
kept going in Tampa until it is built.
The men are now in the city and the ■
money ready. If Tampa will buy an SB,- j
000 block the hotel will start at once.
General Finley, the new United States !
Senator from Florida, is seventy years old ■
and the hero of three wars. He is very
pious, very popular and a powerful stump ’
speaker. He is the originator of two-cent
letter postage.
Thomas A. Edison, at Fort Myers, has
entirely recovered his health, and is buz
zing around town as active and strong as
he ever was. Much to the satisfaction of
the citizens, he will soon have the town
brilliantly lighted by electricity. He is
so extremely reticent about his new ex
periments and inventions that he posi- )
lively refuses to be drawn out by inter
viewerr on that subject.
One of the largest purchases of land
that has been made around Tavares lately
has been by Hon Frank Jones, of Ports
mouth, N.’11., of the Seals grove and
lands connected therewith, comprising
about 110 acres. This property was
owned by Mrs. F. J. Thomas, of Eufaula,
Ala. The land is situated on Lake Bus
t's, within the town of Tavares, and has
an attractive location, comprising about
one-half mile of lake front. Mr. Jones
announces his purpose of having the en
tlre property cleared. The purchase is
valued at |20,000
About five or six miles from Baldwin
there lived an old lady who, when she
*as about to die, made her children
promise to never put her under the
ground. She told them if they did she
vrould come back and haunt them. They
ixtthfunv complied with her commands.
■ They made a plain coffin out of the Flor-
■ ida heart pine; carried her to the grave
yard and placed the coffin east and west
on top of the ground, and built a good
log pen over her, where the writer saw
her after about thirty years in this posi
tion. That was nearly ten years ago.
The little house was in a good state of
preservation, so was the coffin, but curi
ous people had forced the lid off to see
the condition of the body. Most of the
body had decayed, but some parts were
in a natural position. Her desendants
met some two years ago and repaired the
place.
ALABAMA.
Some ore land in Franklin was sold a
few’ days ago at $l5O an acre.
The strike at Day’s Gap, Walker coun
i ty, still continues, and many miners are
■ leaving to hunt work elsewhere.
A little daughter of Mr. David Powell,
i of Dayton, was shot and killed a few
days ago by the accidental discharge of a
pistol.
A piece of gold ore about the size of a
baby’s fist, found near Alexandria City,
' was recently sold in New York for $22.
A large amount of this ore has been
| found in the Tallapoosa hills, and own
; ers are holding their lands at a high
; figure.
There is a little negro boy about seven
i years of age living near Uniontown, who
| seems to possess a wonderful talent. He
I can take a lump of mud from the road-
I side and with his hand form any animal
he ever saw’, and the representation is al
most perfect. All the proportions are
good.
An old woman claiming to be of
■ Scotch descent, and in search of land,
I visited Brewton last week. abruptly
i left her' hotel, on foot, and as she did
j not return, she was searched for and
j found across the state line in Florida, in
i a demented condition. She claimed to
I have been robbed of $25,000. This story
j was not altogether believed, but she was
■ seen in Brewton with a large roll of
' money, and when found she had lost it
j all.
Mr. William Atkinson, a farmer living
i five miles southeast of Port Deposit, had
j a curiosity in the shape of a pig which
was well developed. Although dead,
others of the same lot arc living. The pig
had eight well formed legs and feet, four
: ears, two eyes, two tails and one head,
. two of his ears coming out on top of the
I head. Just behind its shoulders the body
I divides, and from this point to its tail
there are two distinct bodies fully devel
oped.
TENNESSEE.
R. N. Irvine has erected a tobacco fac
tory at Dresden.
A twenty thousand dollar college is to
be built at Greenbrier.
A street railroad and water works are
to be built at Athens within one year.
A company has been formed at Chatta
nooga to manufacture fence machines.
J. P. Ferguson, Nashville,has received
the contract to build a hotel at Kingston
Springs.
A company to build a railroad from the
Nashville and Florence railroad to West
Point has been chartered.
Isaac Rosenstein, the Hebrew who shot
and killed Jessie Harris in Memphis, was
admitted to bail in the sum of $5,000.
Parties are negotiating with Paine &
Montgomery, Dayton, for a foundry
building with a view to establishing a
stove foundry.
It is said that Dr. J. F. Hicks owns a
vein of solid manganese six hundred feet
wide, situated on the road from Bristol
to Elizabethton.
There are no vacant business or dwel
ling houses in Bristol. The population
of Bristol would have been five hundred
more than it is to-day if new-comers
could have found residences.
A one hundred thousand dollar stock
company has been organized at Athens
to build a cotton factory. F. B. Mc-
Elwee, of the Mount Verd Cotton Mills,
Athens, will be superintendent.
V. 11. Staples, one of the jurors in the
■ late Goodwin case in Memphis, is on trial
1 in the criminal court, charged with per-
■ jury. He swore when being examined as
I to his qualifications as a juror that he
■ was a householder, and afterward stated
that all his possessions in the world were
four dogs.
A shocking accident happened at the
Craighead Marble quaries 1 uesday that
cost a laborer his life. The unfortunate
man, Wash Varka, was removing some
dirt from between a large stone, and the
wall of the quarry, when the stone became
undermined so much as to < ause it to
1 topple over and crushed the man against
the rock wall. The man was taken out
but soon expired. Drs. wire summoned,
I but on arrival found the unfortunate
( man beyond medical aid.
SAVANNAH. GA.. SATURDAY. MARCH It). 1881.
GEOKG I A.
There are thirty-five prisoners in the
Dougherty jail.
A canning factory is reported to be |
erected at Marshallville.
J. Taliaferro and others will develop
a slate quarry at Plainville.
A stock com p iny has been formed at
Dalton to build a planing mill.
E. A. Fincher contemplates develop
ing his black lead mine, eight miles from
Canton.
T. Tray has bought an old laboratory
at Macon, and will, it is said, use it for i
a soap factory.
Parties at Rome contemplate erecting
a large factory to manufacture buckets? I
tubs, pails, etc.
Newton county has more available
water power than any three counties in
middle Georgia.
The Forestville Land and Improvement
Co., capital stock $30,001), has been in
corporated at Forestville.
The Eureka Co., Macon, contemplates
erecting a three-story building, 76x100
feet to be used as a soap factory.
I’he Rome, Iron, Land and Improve
ment Co., Rome, are negotiating with
Northwestern capitalists for the location I
of a large rolling mill at that place.
Mr, T. J. Pallin, of Lowndes county,
was chopping fire wood, when a piece
flew up and hit him on the nose, knock
ing him down and causing a profuse
hemorrhage.
Mr. H. Simmons, of Chokee, Lee
county, has one hundred acres of the
finest oats ever seen in the State at this
season of the year. The entire field is
over two feethigh, and are already be
ginning to boot.
Wednesday night of last week, the i
commissary of Mr. W. W. Dews, at Wil
liamburg, was robbed of a large quantity i
of merchandise, consisting of dry goods I
and groceries. The burglar is supposed I
to have been a negro man lately employed '
by Mr. Dews on his turpentine farm, but )
who was discharged a few days before.
ARKANSAS.
A company has been organized at
Newport, to develop gold mining prop- |
erty near there.
A company will be organized at Van •
Buren, to bore artesian wells to secure I
water for fire purposes.
M. R. Denning, of Michigan, has pur
chased about 4,000 acres of coal lands
near Ozark, and will develop them.
The Houston, Central Arkansas &
Northern Railroad Co., capital stock
$450,000, has been incorporated, to build
a railroad from near Pine Bluff to the
Louisiana State line in Ashley county.
One of the citizens of Lonoke shot in
to a gang of little school children, put
ting a number of small shot into several i
of them, and he was held over in a bond
of S4OO, and further bound to keep the
peace.
The Pine Bluff Athletic association
was organized with a capital stock of
$5,000, Suitable buildings for a boat
club, gymnasium, bicycle, baseball and
all athletic sport will be commenced at
once.
$50,000 has been subscribed towards
organizing a $500,000 company at Fort
Smith to build a large cotton factory; a
$50,000 company to start a wagon sac
tory; also a $50,000 company to erect a |
canning factory.
Wednesday, the Rev. John White,col
ored, born in South Carolina, and aged
112 years July 9, next, obtained from the
clerk license to marry Edie Smith, aged
between 65 and 75. Rev. White has
been preaching 81 years. When the stars
fell he had several children, and this is
his third wife". His age was duly attest
ed by a responsible white person, who has
known him many years and is familiar
with his history. The clerk donated his
fee and all hands congratulated him up
on his third venture, and great expecta
tions exist in the minds of all as to re
sults. He lives in Greenwood township.
The town and neighborhood of Searcy
have for weeks past been greatly excited
over the running at large of mad dogs, j
The excitement was increased when it
became known that Mrs. Mary Pitts, a
well known lady, had been bitten by one
of these rabid canines. The animals at
tacked Mrs. Pitts and bit her in several ,
places, her arm and bo ly being dread- !
fully lacerated. A madstone was pro- 1
cured and applied to the wounds. It re- I
mained upon each some time and was re
peatedly applied. This is the fourth
person who baa been bitten by a mad dog
in the locality named. All of these
treated the wounds with a madstone. No I
cuties of hydrophobia have yet developed
but there is naturally considerable anx
iety among all concerned.
A HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.
.1 BRIDGE BREAKS DOH X OX THE
KOSTO V «£ PROVIDEXCE R. R.
Five Cars Loaded With Human Freight
Go Down to Destruction -Thirty-three
Persons Killed mid Twice as
Hany injured.
One of the most, appalling railroad
accidents that has ever been experienced
occurred on the Boston and Providence
railroad last Monday. The scene of the
horror was between Rosendale and For
restville and was caused by a defective
bridge giving way under a heavy loaded
passenger train. Five cars fell through
the bridge instantly killing thirty-three
persons and horribly wounding many
others, 'rhe train was crowded with
working people principally. The engi
neer, when his engine broke from the
train, kept right on to Forest Hill to
give the alarm instead of stopping to
ascertain the extent of the damage, and
on that account it was impossible to get
any assistance at once. Three cars went
over safely with the engine, but the five
others fell to the road beneath a distance
of thirty feet. The last car, which was
a smoker, turned completely over and
struck on top of the others.
LIST KILLED.
Following is a list of killed and those
who have died of their injuries:
Conductor Myron Tilden, Dedham,
Alice Burnett, Roslindale, aged 16 years,
W. M. Johnson, Roslindale, violinist;
Mrs. Hormidias Cardinal, Roslindale;
Mr. Clapp, Central station. West Rox
bury, 21 years old; Miss Norris. West
Roxbury; Edward E. Norris, Dedham,
freight, clerk of the Boston and provi
dencc railroad; Edgar M. Snow, Spring
Street Station, West Roxbury; Waldo B.
Lailer, police officer. Spring Street Sta
tion; Lizzie Mandeville, Dedham, Lizzie
Walton, Dedham ; William S. Strong, in
nal injuries, died after removal to the
city hospital; William E. Durham, badly
crushed, died after removal to the city
hospital; Stephen T. Haughton, gas fitter,
Corinth street Roslindale; Harry Gay, a
clerk, Spring street, died after removal
to the city hospital; Miss M. L. O’Diorne,
Dover, N. IL, employed by Salem, Wil
der & Co., Summer street; Miss Ida
Adams, Katridge street; Miss Lizzie 11.
Price, Dedham; Miss Sarah E. Ellis,
Medfield, who was stopping with friends
at West Roxbury; an unknown woman,
about 30 years old Albert E. Johnson, 40
years of age, employed by George H.
Morrill & Co., jewelers; Peter 8. Warren,
Central station, about 15 years old, tailor;
Emma P. Hill, 25 years of age, worked
for R. H. White & Co.; Hattie J. Dud
ley, residence unknown; Miss Laura
Price. West Roxbury; Miss Rosa Bella
Welch, 53 years of age, West Roxbury.
The remaining parties killed have not
been identified. Os these there are three
men and two women at the Morgue.
It is impossible to obtain any absolutely
correct account of the number of injured,
but it will reach one hundred or more.
Os these at least twenty-five are quite
badly hurt, and the remainder received
only slight bruises.
The bridge evidently gave way when
the fourth car was passing over it. The
five rear cars went through to the road
way landing in amass of splinters in the
street. The strain of the five falling cars
pulled the three cuts in advance from the
rail. They remained on top of the em
bankment, but were pulled off their
trucks and the floor of each was forced
nearly to the roof, while seats were
jumbled together in great confusion.
The end of the second coach was a mass
of splinters,caused by a carhead grinding
against it when the others went down the
embankment.
The third coach was flattened to the
ground as if it hid fallen on its trucks
from a great height, although it remained
on the edge of the embankment. The
roof of the fourth car also remained on
the embankment, having evidently been
torn clear from its while the
coach went through. The next four cars
went down in a heap, the smoker, which
was on the rear of the train, falling in
the midst of the coaches and being actu
ally ground into splinters. The inmates
of the smoker were all either killed or
injured, not one escaping without injury
of some kind. Two of the coaches went
clear across the roadway,landing against
a stone w all that bounded a large field at
the foot of the hill. As the cars lie in
their present location they present a pic
ture of such absolute demolition that it
seems remarkable that any person in them
cscap :d alive.
A curious feature of the disaster is
fonnd in the fact that the entire bridge
went down with the wreck, not leaving a
piece of scrap iron attached to the abut
ments, and but for the chasm and awful
wreck beneath there is nothing to indi
cate 1 that a bridge had once spanned the
abyss.
Twenty-seven of the dead bodies have
been identified.
1 $1.25 Per Annum; 75 cents Aor Rix Months;
50 cents Three Months; Single Copies
I 5 cents—ln Advance.
A SERIOUS AFFRAY.
Several Families Have a Ihiutoi an llllnotAl
Church Ground. LS
An old feud between the 1 tanks
Uoinb-i and Roberts families, of OmegaH
township. Illinois, culminated ThursdajM
night at a church gathering in a generftm
cutting and shooting affray. Austlfß
Hanks slipped up behind Charles Robert®
who was escorting two young ladies intcH
ehun h, and struck him on the head w’itlj
a harrow tooth, cutting a frightful gash
and causing profuse bleeding. Before
Roberts could release himself from the
ladies, a pistol shot was fired by some
unknown party, believed to be one of the
Combs boys. The*ball cut through on«
of Roberts’s fingers and entered the palm
of his hand.
\t this juncture Roberts drew his re*
volver and began firing, the second shot
tired taking effect, in Austin Hank’s ab
domen, and when his followers saw theii
leader fall, they at once ceased hostilities.
Roberts was immediately placed under
arnwt and his preliminary trial is now in
progress. There are so many witnesses
the trial will probably last all night.
Hanks lies between life and death. The
parties me all prominent citizens. 1
ANSWERED IJY A SHOT.
Wm. Mills, an English laborer, was
shot and killed Monday afternoon by a
man named Pierce, at Coosa tunnel, on
the Good water extension, twenty rnilea
from Birmingham, Ala. Pierce was a
timekeeper, and had struck a drunken
laborer with a rock. Mills and three
companions followed him to a store near
by, and Mills asked Pierce why he struck
the man. Pierce picked up a double
barreled shotgun and said: “I will
answer with this.” He fired, and the'
entire load passed through Mill’s head,
killing him instantly. Pierce escaped.
March, 1882, Rev. UN. St. Onge, P. P. In*
dian Missionary, Glen Falls, N. Y., wrote: "A
single application of St. .lacobsOil relieved me
of rheumatism.” October 29, 1886, he writes
again: “Itcured me then.’”
The scene of Rose Elizabeth Cleveland's
new romance is laid at Holland Patent, the
old home of the Cleveland family, and the
public are promised a very pastoral love story
full of the author’* poet ic descriptions of na
ture in her varying moods.
•
k lend.ng plnsician has made the startling
revelation that six thousand people, mostly
children, die yearly in this country fioruthe
< ffecis of < oui-h mixtures containing morphia 1
or opium Red Star t ough Cure contains I
mdthei opiates nor poison*; purely vegetable. 1
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The Spiniards claim Patti as theirs becanse 1
she was born in Madrid. Her youth having ■’
been passed in New York, she is an Ameri- I
can so we deciare. Now the Mexicans con- ]
tend t hat she is "a Mexican type, a daught* I
er of the country of flowers."
11 uin tin Calve*.
An exchange says: “Nine-tenths of the un
happy marriages result, from human calves
being allowed to run al. large in society pas
tures.” Nine-tenths of the chronic or linger* ■
ing diseases of to day originate in impure .
blood, iv.-r coniplnintor bi musrie-s, resulting
in scrofula, cons unpt on (which is butscrofula
of the lung-’, sores, ulcers, skin diseases and
k ndr<-d affections. Dr. Pierce's “Golden
Medical Discovery” cures all these. Os
Druggists.
Strong salt water will stay the colors of
prints or any wash goods.
You Can’t Rend This
witl out wishing to investigate, if you aro
wise. Send your address to Hallett & Co.,
Portland. Maine, and you 'ill receive free,
full information about work that you candc,
ai.d live at home, wh rever you arc located, at
which you can rex:e \e from $5 to s”> mj'*. n P"
wards daily. Some liave earned over in a
day. Cup.tai not reiiuired; you are started
t ree. All is new. Doth sexes; all ages. Snug
little fortunes await all workers.
if you have Cutting, S< aiding or Stinging
sensations tn tin- part, when voiding urine—
HwauiP-itool will onlcklv relieve and cure. • '
Brimchiii- i- cur- <1 by frequent small dose* ’
of Ptso’sCure for Consumption.
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IT IS A PURELY VEGETABLE PREPARADOI
std SENNA-MAHDRAKE-BUCHU
crSER EWLLVETFICIEWREMEDIES
i | It han stood the Test of Years,
# tin Curing all Diseases of the
BLOOD, LIVER, BTOM
ACH, EDNEYS.BOW
-fiAG/fz ? J ELS, &c. It Purifies the
I<> - ru U Blood, Invigorates and
U . >AU Cleanses the System.
BETTERS I dyspepsia,consti-
CURES I PATION, JAUNDICE,
.AOSEkSESCFTHE H SICEHEADACHE.BIL
’’ I (VFR 1 10 US COMPLAINTS,&c
L~ 1 disappear atonce under
j KIDNEYS | its beneficial_influcnc«.
I STOMACH H It is purely a Medicins
II AND I as its cathartic proper-
L rminrri el lies forbids its use aa a
&DO WLLSJ? beverage. It is pleaa-
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