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THE NEWS. TOCCOA, GEORGIA. GENERAL NEWS. CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS, AND EXCITING EVENTS. news rnoii r.vrnywHEKE— accidents, stbikes, 7IRF.fi, AXD HAPFEX1S08 Of INTEREST. The black vomit has made its appear¬ ance at V< ra Cruz, New Mexico. Tbe total amount of contributions re¬ ceived by Governor Beaver, of Harris¬ burg, for the flood sufferers to date is about $700,000. Three of Captain Wissman's steamers are reported to have been lost on the Benadeir coast. German men of-war have gone in search of the missing ves¬ sels. General Grtely is about to turn loose three hundred weather prophets on the country. On and after July 1st, the ob¬ servers at the signal service stations will make their own predictions. The Russian army will soon be provided with hr ei h-loa ling rifl'-s, which will catry a distance of 0.000 feet. Noiseha; powder will also be used in the future by the army. Th sc improvements in the arming of troops involved immense ex¬ penditures. A dispatch from the City of Mexico says: The roof of the Merced market fell in Friday, burying nearly forty per¬ sons. Four dead and fourteen wounded have already been taken out. Soldiers are removing the rubbish and starching for the bodies. Severe hail storin') prevailed on Mon¬ day in many parts of Germany, mteifer- ing greatly with railway traffic. While a procession was passing through the streets of a Sicilian town, five of the ponders were struck by lightning and killed. Forty others received severe shocks. A Chicago paper contains the follow¬ ing paragraph: “The suivivors of ihc Johnstown flood aie throwing away their Bibles and openly providence. disclaiming any be¬ lief in a divine Men and women, who saw their loved ones swept aw ay and drowned, have in their despe¬ ration turned their backs on religion. The great calamity has made more athe¬ ists than a century of Ingcrsolism could have done. The John"town sufferers have received enough clothing, in the shape of contri¬ butions. to last the people twenty years. 6,000 men are now at work clearing away the debris, with the aid of dyna¬ mite and tire engines. Newspaper cor¬ respondents have taken sick, and many have returned home. A huudred porta¬ ble houses are being erected, and if sat¬ isfactory, a thousand more will be put up. Seventeen more bodies were found on Monday. STORMS IN FLORIDA. DISASTERS FROM WIND AND RAIN IN DIF¬ FERENT PARTS OF THE STATE. A heavy rainstorm prevailed in Jack¬ sonville Sunday and Monday, accompa¬ nied a portion of the time l>y a galo ot wind. Reports from the interior of the state indicate that the storm has done more or less damage in several localities. A terrific south-west gale and heavy rain prevailed at Sanford. At Lake May the tornado cut a track one hundred feet wide, bearing down forest trees before it and completely demolishing W. L. D. MaCrackers’ large orange packing house. Reports from Tampa Florida state that the track of the South lailrca l is sub¬ merged in many places with several bud washouts. A rumor is current that the gale tore off the upper deck of the steam¬ er H. B. riant, at Blue Springs, on the St. John’s liiver. but it cannot be au¬ thenticated as the telegraph wires in that direction are working badly. Presi¬ dent Ingraham of the South Florida rail¬ road left Sanford < n a speci il train Mon¬ day afternoon for Port Tampa to investi state the extent of daui&ge. DRIVEN TO SUICIDE. A SON SHOOTS HIMSELF TO AVOID A FATH¬ ERLY THRASHING. A young man named Jarvis Odam committed suicide in Rutherford county, N. C.. under peculiar circumstances. Tie had whipped a smaller brother who had repor'ed the occurrence to liis father. The latter is very severe iu correcting his children and several times ehistised his oldest son very cruelly. On tins occa¬ sion ht sent word to him that he would give him a L rrib'e thrashing for whip¬ ping his brother. The young man knew what this meant and weat up stairs cry¬ ing. In a few minutes the report of a gun was li aid, and when the young man’s room was entered, he was founu tying on the floor with a hole in his head. He died iu a few seconds. CHARLESTON’S COURT. The coming session of the criminal court, which commences ou Monday next, promises to be the most important ever held in Charleston, S. C. The jury is composed of fourteen rmdattoei and negroes and twenty-one whites-an miu sually large proportion of the colored race. The docket h s over 61 cases to he tried—13 for murder, 16 of assault with intent to kill, 6 burglary, 8 of va¬ grancy, 2 of carrying conceded weapons, 1 of rape. 3 of house-breaking, 8 of lar¬ ceny, and the rest of minor offences. The greatest interest attaches to the case ot McDow, charged with the murder of Captain F. W. Dawson, on the 12;h March last. It is probable, however, that thiscase wiii be postponed. HORSE BREEDER DEAD. General William T. Withers, aged 64 years, proprietor of the celebrated F dr¬ ift wn farm and breeder of noted trot tint- Ky., horses. Sunday died at from his home iu Lexington? effects of wounds re¬ ceived in the Mexican war. lie was a native Kentuckian, but moved to Missis¬ sippi iu 1851, where he remained till 1871, when he went to Lexington and commerced l>re« ding horses. He was the first livin in Kentucky to pay $25,0<X)for a trotting sta l:ou, he paying that amount for Almont. He served hrough the war of the rebellion on t! e confederate side and was wounded by a shell while in command of land batteries at Vicksburg NEWS FROM STANLEY. Letters received at Zinzibar from Ujyi, dated March 10, say that Stanley met Tippoo followers Tib and sent with a number him of his lick back by way of the Congo. Stanley intended coming to the East coast with Emin Pasha. Tip- Tib would arrive at Zanzibar iu SOUTHERN ITEMS. ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA - RIO US POINTS IN TUB SO UTII. ».v rrFwizap accocxt or what is oonro oir or imfobtance rx the sotTHEEif states. State officers are moving into the new State Capitol of Gco^i. in Atl.nta The Md buddmg, mall probability, will soon Thi The Lmon t- • p-. I oint aid , vvv, White p, I lams ■ ' . railroad vontiacts wifi hare soon been be in let operation. and work The w T i.l j bCKmat0nce - Zachanas McDaniel, the oldest cit zen . Rockingham county, \ and ! in a., a pen- sioner of the war of 1812, died near Elk- . ton, Va., Tuesday, aged 102. Tbe International Typographical Union h; s, by a large majority, accepted the invitation to hold its next annual meeting , at Atlanta, Ga., next June. A dispatch from Savannah, Ga., says: road Subscriptions to the Aimuieus The smount now to nearly $30,000. re¬ maining $20,000 will be raised next week. v r latiK t ci mith • ti of f c birmli • i C . 4 tation, .I- c' Ga., , was struck by lightning Tuesday while stanuing in ms store door anil instantly * e • e eavea a " 1 e anc * 6cvcra ren ‘ A middle aged negro Savannah, entered Magis- Irate Russell’s court, in Sat- urday, and insisted on surrendering him- se.f into He custody of the law. He said he had been guilty of suicide. Fourtccn negroes were baptized in a mud hole in the western part of Gaines- ville, Ga., Sunday afternoon, by Rev. Green Hunter Numbers of people at- tended and witnessed the proceedings. In Atlanta, Ga., on Saturday, an Ital- ian vendor of imitation dogs w", was attacked by dof?, a laryc Eentlioe. buli-dop. he thought escaped, the were 1 Ifali,m hut the dogs were broken ,n<l scattered on the aidewalk. The contunplatcd Piedmont exposi¬ tion, which Wtis to have been h Id in Charlotte, N. C., in the fall, lias col- lapsed on account of some disagreement among the committee, It any expttei- tion is held it will now require anew organization. Professor Richard W. Cone, ft teacher in the Nannie Low NVarthen institute at Wiiglitsville, Ga., has been ndjudged a lunatic, and was taken to Miilcdgeville Friday night. He is a graduate of the state university, and was a man of unusual natural endowments. A dispatch from Birmingham, Ala., savs: President Johnston and General Munairer Saire of the Georgia Pacific Rai road, left for Greenville, where they go to inspect the newly com- pitted extension to arrange for putting s on through trains by July J 1st. News reached Augusta, Ga., of the burning of the barn and stables of Mr. Dunbar Lamar, at Beech Islands, S. C. Besides the building, eighteen mules, three oxen, several hogs, and three thousand bushels of oats were consumed. It was evidently the work of an in¬ cendiary. , rI • f C „ , b , Smithc™'i V S TiJhia°l'’f7v mifas o°f Cu tb 8 - Stewart county* for" hie Jo Cuthbert "’^With’this connection mad, soon lo be bubt from IraJe Cuthbert to Bainbridire Cuthbert «m su erior connections “ ' I , lie case of the .. Mansfield Drug ^ Co., Memphis, I enn., against some thirty-four insurance companies, of New \ork, Philadelphia, Hartford, New Orleans and n tria !i, in tl 1 L >11 ted States c rcuit court f f for the past v\eek, was ended this moining, the jury returning a verdict for *86,800, the full amount claimed by tbe plaintiff company. II. S. Pullen, of Carrollton, Ga., who tried to cut his throat a few days ago Tuesday with a razor, trying attempted liis life aaain by to drown hims- If in a small branch, a short distance from his house. He was brought to town under a charge of lunacy, tried and sent to the nsylum. Mr. Pullen has been a successful farmer, and has accumulated a nice little psopeitj. John Williams was shot and fatally wounded Sunday at Emery church, ten miles east of SardD, Miss., by Mrs. Mattie Campbell. The shooting occurred immediately after religious services, and Williams died the following ir.ornino-. was°a The provocation for the killing charge made by Williams that he had been intimate with Mrs. Campbell several months ago, upon which statement a bill for divorce is now pending T L a . n f, Cr tarnia . of . ^e ,, ‘ 51 1 J ‘ / o^„?u arobna lnsr E s month , , , sion, were c;ease under toe earnings from the same of T^-: $,.,54 ,r ol. M St irT Die freight ei f n0d earnings ! - ?t ye ;- fur r ibe month were $3L 1,455.42, showing au inciease over the earnings from the same source during the same period last year ot $02,349.10. Tiure is a ncw r railway war at Durham, N. 0. Early on Tuesday morning a large force of hands began the extension of the Richmond and Danville side track along Peabody street. The commissioners held a meeting and passed resolutions forbidding the road from extending the track. The chief of police was instructed to use the force to stop the track-laying. The matter goes into the courts and adds to the complication. The Georgia Pacific railroad is now open to Greenville, Miss., and making regular connections with the road fr >m that point to Arkansas City on the other side of the great river. The mad between Warren and Camden beyond Arkansas City is being pushed rapidly, aud when it shall be completed there will be a new and direct route from Atlanta to Texar- kaua. It is expected that by the 1st of be August the Georgia Pacific railway will running schedule trains between At- anta and Texarkaua. A A dispatch from Raleigh, N. C. says: t< st was n ad j Tuesday on the Raleigh and Gaston ai road in the presence of a number of prominent railroad men of a process recently invented telegraphing by Baylus Cade,, of this county, for to and from moving trains. A current is main¬ tained by mi ans of a drag which is at¬ tached to the car, and which s ides over a set of wires bid along the track. A message was received from the offices at Raleigh and Greensboro while the train was running at the rate of thirtv miles an Lour. Between ■Between midnight and day Sunday ^ morning the Central railroad put a force of hinds to work laymg the track on its U'used r;ght-of-way, about a mile from Columbus, Ga., to prevent the Columbus t.ou,h„ a from c.-ming in bn it. An effor L was made to keep the matter a secret, but it teaked our, and before the work was half finished the Chattahoo- chee Brick company filed a bill asking for an injunction and Judge Smith granted it. The work was stopped at once. Uring Negroes coming from Sumter county the startling report that John Pickett, who was hanged in Leesburg, G a., Friday, has come to life a^ain. T hey say that the body was taken to Sumter City for interment. While tak- iug it to the cemetery that afternoon, st.angc sound, issued from the coffin. The negroes became very much fright- I t’hfron”? • ' OnToYj'lT?‘u ® negro remained With it, -1“ <nd he secured an ax and broke open the j eoffin. No sionei was this accomplished 1 the unutterable ' 0 amazement of ‘be darkey, , out jumped the supposed corpse and took to the woods instantly. The remains of John Sevier, first gov- ernor of Tennessee, were exhumed Mon- lay at old Fort Prcatur, near Montgom- £, 7i Ala., and coffined in a magnificent casket, arrived in Ch .ttanooga at noon Tuesday in charge of Governor Taylor and s ad. The train was draped in mourning. 1 he fu; er.il train was met, in addition to tbe local military, by the officials of the city and county and a delegation of citizens. The procession marc * R 'd to the chamber of commerce, where the casket was placed in state. ; The casket was viewed during the duv p v hundnds of citizens. The party left ; the city Wednesday fur Knoxville, where the interment tooknlace at 2.30, d. m. j - - I 1 \\ ASIU^SGTON nm , Tn ^ A , T , T) D ' * ziuuiituiGit, LJ, W , - I MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT * AN]) , njr/ ; x ^uvi&nus. ArrorxTMrvrs, decx^Ta™ other matters of interest ‘ from ‘ thf capital. ____ ,^1°c n„ n . rf „ h"XlruU _ . r “ ChSeJo^wm „ T , . ,, e r “ “ d ' ‘“ J Scvera° f“ r a „mher ui l in Hho t hv “ , „ cck rf7in imnrovemeufa ar. t * m ber machfaerj the,Mtlfem -.*•*? States ntl.ruey for district f J^htd M oiroliaa , TT ThJv V 1 g ta cg for Soullr luvp lmon npoant,,] cb - tr , ,,, . U? the appointment of their successor * J?, f | he postmaster-general , ‘ ni L! , ; ’? s P , ost appointed ‘| iast(;rs the for 1 Ar r9 IV leavers, Duuwoody, i-” u’ county; * Cornelius Lnghshjgeb, > ! I . ia L.?” , 9 ( coun C0U11 ’ < 7 111 J. ,• ®! linchcr, ras > Mazep- Zeb- ’ ^ ’ Geo. rrj’ T herc ' ■ S ^ ons . derab , le talk of an extra - f 1 he northern e 8:011 ° G° n g res9 men - aroof t he °P. ln l ou tbat ifc will be held, Whllc l , he m ?J? nt y of southern men ex- P r ess‘he opinion that . the President will await the October elections in the newly admitted territories. Forty-one postmasters were appointed j”? Tuesday by t. e President of whom fiftec u were to vacancies created byre- were Southern: Zac bs‘riah B. Hargrove, at Rome, Ga , vioj William II. Atkins, removed, and Walter Brock, at Tallapoosa, Ga., the of- See becoming presidential. The President on Saturday made the 7 , « Shaauhai; Wakefield G. Frye, of Zachary T. Sweeney, f Ind,ana ' at Constantino P le i 01lVer IJ . Janeiro; Oliver N °'tf H. Simons, of Colorado, Ri » , de it Sr, Pennsylvania, Petersburg; George W. Roosevelt, Q f consul at Brussels; L ev } \y Brown, of Ohio, consul at Glas- 2 row. '___ __— SERIOUS ACCIDENT. -- r\vo men killed and one hundred in- juked in a kailkoad whech. - A railroad wreck, resulting in the death of two men and the injury of one hundred others, occuried about seven o’clock Tuesday moining near Pratt mines, six miies from Birmingham, Ala. The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company runs a train every morning to carry the miners and other woikmen from the town of Pratt Mines in the dif- ferent shafts and slopes where the men work. The train cot sisted of eight cars, and there were about two hundred men on beard when the accident occurred. The train was run- ning backward at the rate of ten miles an hour, when it struck two cows lying an “V 1 the lue track. u ai:K " Six ° iX of OI the ine eight eigne cars cars were thrown , ‘ irow Q down down 1 an an embankment embankment and and piled piled ® !iC ‘i other. Henry McCauley and Yal ! er J 3easIe v > carpeuters, were instaut- - , ^ hilled. Both were young white men and unmarried. On or.e ot the cars were about thirty convicts chained together, and, strange to say, they were about the nTed who esca P ed “W- A, ^ t . Ind wo^sUnjuries'behig^okTw^ it a ^. has been impossible to obtain a list of those seriously injured. The coroner’s jury found that the company was guilty of gross negligerce Jood in not keeping the road bed in repair, and that the conductor was gudtv of crimi- nal ncMHence ° ° - A TERRIBLE CRIME. A MAN IN SOUTHPORT, NORTH CAROLINA, POISONS HIS WIFE. Brjaot „ , Curroll, a youn- white ... man ,s . “ $*' « Southport Brunswick county N,T null be tried V, lor T- 1,J S fr Ideal , the 1 September i ?' I"' 1 term of court. He is .barged with p u- soulug his wife who something o£ contained >" “ bott !° " f p; rt "e,! Ch h V"; duccd her to drink. . She died about fifty in,note-. afterwards. The bottle containing what remained of the wine lias been subjected to analyses, which re-ulted finding . strych- m arse- ic, nine and prussic acid both m the wine and the stomach. There is another woman in the case to whom Carroll now desires to be married, but the county commissioners refuse to aliow him to have even an interview with the woman, who is at large and is not charged with complicity in the murder. GENERAL TAFT INSANE. TOO MUCH RELIGION SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN THE CAUSE. T It is . rumored , that General Taft, ex- postmaster and present candidate for the postmastership of Charleston, S. C., has again lost his mind, and been sent to the state lunatic asylum. Taft lost his min l about two years ago went crazy on the subject of religion, and after remaining m ihe asylum for some time, was taken north by his wife. He recovered and re- turned here, apparently perfectly restored, although little his friends thought he was a off. He was a cmfiMete for tl.e postmastersh:p, and has been to Wash- inytoa recently looking after his interest : there, and it is thought that this might have unsettled his mind FARMING HINTS, GARNERED FROM SOUTHERN ALLIANCE SOURCES. The Alliances of Georgia are solid for ootton bagg'mg. Many Allacc^s are meeting hiving their leo- tures read ut every from the ScutScm Cultivate, of Atlanta, Oa. The Alliance men of DeKalb county, Ga., will have a g "rand fourth tha/couniy. of Julv meet- ing at Wefcley hapal in ™ rrjw, q„ . n ’Jm£ 3£ op fishfng of unencvLed law lands! hunting 3 and ,^ on ‘ ricultural . headquarters v of . Geor- e a = p„ b lishLi* tpnHppi^fnrii R OCatt< J a **}• ? a, 1 ’ rankl a., m 111 . room - ^ ' ^ purpose. The Dougherty county, Ga., Alliance bought a lot aul will commence the erection of a warehouse at an early day. ^ be lot purchased has a front of 102 J feet, running back 210. In the last repo:t of the condition of crops in South Carolina, it is estimated that 4 per cent, less commercial fertiliz- ers has b-en used on cotton than last year, and that 23 per cent, of t£. w fertil- izer useti th s year wai home-made. As to corn, 55 per ceut. of the crop Lis been fertilized, and over one-half of this amount with home made manures. A large number of farmers came as del- ©gates to the meeting £ of the Countv Al- liance at g,, s . Resolutions con- d emn j n g the bagging trust and pledging ‘be members of the Alliance to use only cotton cloth to bale cotton, were adopted. Though the Alliance declined as a body to endorse the proposed cotton seed oil miH, m^nv of the m mheri sub-eribed hugely, thus showing their sympathy with and confidence in the enterprise. The 7,670,000 former, rtn.l farm fabor- «« of the Unite,1 State. (4,000,000 '«'“») '<thor , hicU, to feed 00,000,00 t of l»<'Pl« «d the dem.-etic animal,, and to —'& Jot 100,000,000 M 0 000 ^7 people besides b 9 !t° ,h our ° " K own; ”'* be* ^ pork, beef, T' lard, a ?' i tallow, , ti “ ot ™f hides r - and horns ^ bich tlj e factories work into forms and shapes suited to the convenances of commerce and the wants of the people, Albany, Ga., peop’e spent many dol- hirs in nending oil and buying of an iten- erant 11 irist the clematis, when the wild clematis of that section is far more beau- tiful. A resident discoveted one of these P lf in s in one of li s incursions into the country, and that for delicate beauty, it far surpasses the clematis that bloom in the gardens. The flora of that section embraces about 175 varieties, some of which are as choice ns ever were fash- loned in Nature’s mould. Think to what some of these flowers, so beautiful eultivatian. ‘ Q their wilds, could lie brought through A Georgia farmer gives his formula for making a superior fertilizer. It is about the same as the popular Furman formula. He puts together, in layers, thirty bushels each of stable manure and cotton seed, sprinkling in 100 pounds P h os P b ? to “'“J "‘- v , ts w ^ as lows it to stand say sin weeks, then sixty bushels to “th’'' the 08 area. fr ' ,m He ,, thirt makes )' “«« “«*> and without th*> stable manure. One hundred pounds cottou seed meal, fifty pounds acid phosphate, fifty pounds kainit, mixed together, applying from two hundied to three hundred pounds to the acre. The following experience of a French ican agriculturist was translated from a Mex- orchid journal: ‘Two peach trees of my were covered whh insects, just a6 they were about to flower. Having cut several tomato vines, the idea occur- red to me to place them around the trunks and branches of the peach trees, sun! to shelter them from the rays of the What was my surprise, all’the on the following day, to notice that insects had disappeared, except from the leaves be- yond the influence of the tomato plant, ap! I carefully separated these leaves nud plied disappeared the tomato to them, when the in¬ sects as tliough by enchant- ment, and from that time the peach trees beg ;n to grow luxuriantly. Wish- ing to carry the experiment further, I put some of the tomato leaves in water and sprinkled other plants, such as the r oge bush, orange tree, apple which tree, peat tree, etc., with the infusion, also had the same effect of completely freeing them of insects within a few days.” South Caro ina papers meti ion a some* thing astonishing to the “oldest inhab¬ itant,” the finding of wild cane in seed: “This rara avis in question is a growth fesembiing the red oak somcwlnr, and f rows oa a common can e or reod ,’ su ch as ls fouad on bmDch aad . cretk bottoms, . The specimen stalks before us from twelve to fifteen feet in heighth, thickly filled from end to end, or from ground to end , Wltn ... oat-like , ... , beads, , containing ... $P flat P ura ’ .P It seems that this » of dis- seed-bearing cane is a very recent covery, never having been observed, infact, until within the past few days.” Both the large and small cane bear seed, though not freely, as is the case with most p ants, which increase free'y by running root-stocks. The latter fact, well kuown to botanists, ’ accounts for the almost in- 5 . lriab]e !t crili , y of lh „ p e9 ,if erou! th , .. m „i leu cane." But J. H. Simp-on, ‘ of M natce, discovered it in seed la ,t / year, ’ and i„ proved it to be a va- rie . J y of C£rt oin 8 mp gra . aley, Si , he pani . cam Curtisi . Dr . G , V of the I>»l»r meet of Agriculture, Booth Caro- : has l0c „ mm ended botanist! to rec- it as .. TOri , tv Sinipsoni." The Farmers’ Alliance is becoming a powerful and influentu* society in Mis- nssippi. It has able public sneakers and well-iuformed agents visiting all of the counties of the state, organizing aid incci and instructing the farmers in an! regard to their interests, their rights theii wrongs. Their lecturer.-) are iti-ie ant school-masters, teaching the farmers in their lectures exactly what they all ought to know. And the members of the or¬ der wiil pass it round to their neighbors who do not belong to the order. They are not only taught important practical facts in agriculture, but facts relating tc commerce and trade, how they should sell their crops, how they are affected by “rings” and “corners” and “combines” and “trusts,” and by paving dearly fox the credit they get; and thev are taught important facts in political *economv°ia relation to labor and national - wealth, where the money w}J comes from ‘ and where it goes, and <r e ts it And they are taught that they must have more farmers in state legislatures and in Ct n-re«s -"aft and SriSttSS^?fof in state o/ovemments to loo auStt? 1 r the a» frie-JcL that thev must vote for tried the farmers ^ for k/uila all oflVec * ffJ frnm c-i aent oa _ ^««n» uown te the officer that testa the honesty of weight* and measures. Farmers have a deep in¬ terest in weights and measures, as well as in presidents and lawmakers. FIGHTING IN COURT. THE JUDGE, CONSTABLE, PHISONEB AND SEVERAL SPECTATOIIS KILLED. A bloody shooting affm, occurred eighteen miles south of Austin, Te.,, Thursday evening, In which four white men and live negroes wire killed and many others wounded. It appears that in the neighborhood where the trouble occurred, a colored justice of the peace, Orange Wickea, and a colored constable, Isaac Wilson, were recently elected. The j 1). ust j ce jj a( j j ssue( j H warrant for one II. Litton, and it was put into the hand* of Wilson. Soon alterwards, the latter met Litten, and informed him he had a warrant for his arre-t, and proceeded to re a<I it. Little remarked that it was no use to read tbe warrant, for he would not be arrested by a d- nigger. Quite a crowd had gathered and Wilson’s friends advised him that he place the warrant in the hands of a white constable, This he did and Litten was nrrested, but declared he would not be tried before a colored justice. Notwithstanding hi* protest he was carried before Justice Wickes, whose court was in session, The room was crowded with blacks and whites. In the courtroom Litten was very abusive, and finally words led to blows, then to the use of six-shooters and Winchesters. Justice Wi. kes and Litten were riddled with bullets ami died im- mediately. The constable was also kilied &s was a negro named Bell. A spectau i was filled with lead and toon died. Ho-iston Moore n colored boy was also kllleJ b y “ bullet. Alexander Notch and George Schochf, both white men, were 6hot down and instautly kille< '- *»»*“ ", hoSt name could not be learned. One him- ? red arm '? f g 0 ""' 1 10 tbe ^ but * U hM bse “ V™* TENNESSEE S SENSATION. A REVEREND GENTLEMAN SUBS SEVERAL NEW6PAPEHS FOll $50,000 DAMAGES. The great Howard damage suit is be¬ ginning to assume shape at Jackson, Tenn. The declaration was received. It covers about sixty pages of legal cap, and contains sixteen counts, and claim* $50,000 damages. The charges, as pub¬ lished in the Forked Deer Blade, and the Baptist and Baptist Reflector, briefly are; That the plaintiff has borne the abuses Frederick Howard, Hewlett, Howard; that if he sailed on the ship Tigress in 1873, in search of the Polaris in the Arctic regions, he bore the name of Ilowlett; that in South Carolina he as¬ sociated with negro's; ns trial justice, had committed malfeasance in office; eloped from Robbies, South Carolina, with C. C. Brown’s wbfe; that hia life is covered over with a mass of corrup¬ tion. The defendants plead the truth in justification. The first evidence intro¬ duced by the plaintiff was to r rove the publication in the papers, and it was conspiracy also, to prove that the plain¬ tiff secured his title—doctor of divinity —from the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Auburn, Ala., in a regular manner in 1883. The defendants opened Thursday. They introduced depositions the of Commander Greer, of the Tigress, officers in the Bureau of Equipment in the navy in Washington, Soiled and a journalist Ti¬ named Commague, who in the gress on the polar expedition in search of the Polaris ill 1873; that nc man named Howard Was on the vessel; that Frederick Howlett was on it ns a seaman, deserted the ship in New York harbor in November of the same year. The connection of the case with a historical event like the Arctic expedi¬ tion, is but one of the many interesting points which are to come up during this trial. HERO AND HEROINE. A BRAVE WOMAN SAVED FROM DROWNING BY A BRAVE MAN. A dispatch from Wilmington, N. C., says: The m; st daring rescue ever made on this coa c t has made Richard Warren, of Wilmington, the hero drowning of the hour. the Miss Carrie Moffit was in surf. She is a heroine, and inherits her fearless spirit. Her grandfather was Captain John N. Moffit, of Confederate fame. Her father was late Ensign Eu¬ gene Moffit, who the distinguished Alabama himself the in the fight of with Kearsage. She showed her true south¬ ern pluck by saying to licr nearly ex¬ hausted rescuer: “I do not think you Can save me, the waves are so high. It is not w*ell you should perish in trying to save me. It is not necessary that both should die, so if you find yourself growing Weak under your burden, turn me loose and let me die alone. I will release my hold.” People in Wilmington will pre¬ sent testimonials to Miss Moffit and young Warrea. A MYSTERY. DISCOVERY MADE IN AN OLD GRAVEYARD NEAR BIRMINGHAM, ALA. A mysterious child murder was un¬ earthed Monday afternoon. Two young men were walking through an old grave¬ yard in the suburbs of the city, and w'ere surprised to see a fresh mound. As the place has not been med i s a burying ground for many years, officers were no¬ tified nnd the mound was uncovered. Buried only a few inches under was found a pine box containing the dead body of a child, apparent¬ ly about one year old. The head of the child had apparently been crushed by a terrible blow with some heavy instru¬ ment, the murderer evidently seeking to prevent any chance of recognition Th« clothing worn by the. dead child was ol a very fine quality, but saturated with blood lrom the terrible wound in the head. No one has yet identified th« body. The investigation, it is expected, will develop a big sensation. ROBBING GRAVES. Three young colored women—Sylvia Green, Fannie Williams and Ziky Magee weie arrested and jailed at Albany, Ga., on Monday, charged with robbing the Albany cemetery. Their two room cabin near the graveyard was found to be a perfect curiosity store, so packed of with the ornaments stolen from the graves dead. This desecration has been going on for several months, and other negroes residing in the same bouse have beet) held as witnesses. THE GRAND PRIZE. 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