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She 1 nvnnnnli (Tribune. Published bv the Tbibunr Publishing Co.) 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 -- ■ ■-. ■—. .1.11.. ■ ■■■ |m 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. 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