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Miss Sara A. Hughes,a bright mulatto girl, was recently ordained in deacon’s or dersi by the African Methodist Episcopal Conference at Company Shops, N.C. She is well educated and is said to be a good preacher. A ‘terrible murder was committed at South Pittsburg, Tenn.,a few days ago. A laborer named M. Kelly had to quarrel with William Quinn over a trivial matter. Kelly jerked out a knife and plunged it into Quinn's back, causing instant death. The murderer was arrested. The deceased leaves eight small children in destitute cir cumstances. Gaston Dismukes, collector for a Nash ville (Tenn.) hat store, presented a bill to Judge Matt Allen, while the latter was on the bench in the Criminal Court a few days ago. The Judge motioned him aside, and upon Dismukes making some offensive re mark, the Judge reached over and slapped his face. Dismakes threatens an action for assault and battery. The mutilated remains of a man, sup posed to be G. W. Hewitt, of Navasota County, were found a few days since near Myra, on the Navasota River, Texas. The head was severed from the body, and there was a pistol-shot wound in the head. Bishop McTyeire, on taking the chair at the Middle Texas Conference of the M. E. Church South, a few days since, said that if the Conference of the Southern States would raise $15,000 for the Payne Institute for colored folks, he (the Bishop) would make it a $25,000 endowment. _ ‘There are five of Jefferson Davis’ four teen cabinet officers still living. Reagan and Toombs were members of the original Cabinet. Miss Tillie Mahone, daughter of the Vir ginia Senator, will make her debut in Washington society this winter. She is said to be pretty and bright. A recent measurement of Mount Mitch all, sometimes called Clingman’s Peak, in North Carolina, shows it beyond a question to be the highest point cost of the Rocky Mountains. An exchange declares that free grass in Texas means State troops to prevent wholesale cattle stealing, Cattle stealing means mobs, vigilance committees, Win chesters, six-shooters and shod generally. At Newport, Ky.,a couple from Jack sonville were married the other night on robber skates in a brilliantly lighted rink. There was a wedding grand march on wheels, and the door receipts were enormous. Nine hundred sections of Texas school iands were leased recently for a term of six years. Five persons were poisoned at Knoxville, Tenn., a few days since by drinking coffee in which a colored cook had placed half a pound of arsenic. Charlotte Wickliffe, colored, died at Louisville, Ky., a few days since aged 117. She has fifteen living children, the oldest nearly a hundred years old, and sixty grandchildren. She claimed to have handed Washington a cup of water at the battle of Yorktown. Her second husband was 112 years old. She was hale and hearty until recently. The jury in the case of William and Humphrey Best, charged with the murder of William Bailey, colored, returned a verdict of not guilty at Lancaster, Ky. The father of the Best boys killed seven men and always managed to escape pun ishment. Mr. J. C. HigginsP at Jacksonville, Fla., is six feet four inches high, weighs 416 pounds and has a head or a hat expressly made for him at Camden, N. J., which measures thirty-two and one-half inches in circumference. The Supreme Court of Georgia has de cided in the case of Samuel Jamison vs. the Southwestern Railway, that a dog is not such property as a railroad could be made to pay damages for. The Knights of Labor are beginning to make themselves felt in Georgia, and have already perfected an organization in all of the principal cities of the State. Some of the leading manufacturers are taking alarm and are quietly discharging all em ployes, known to belong to the organiza tion, which is expected to lead to trouble ere long. Bugiars have been particularly busy in Clarksville, Tex.,recently. One of them, who was seen for a moment, is described as a well-dressed man, but his identity was not established. Newton Chance, an aged itinerant preacher, who was on trial at Sherman, Tex., recently, for the murder of Junius Foster in 1883, was acquitted amid great rejoicing, the real murderer having come forward and confessed the crime. The sentence of George Strickland, who was to have been hanged at Louisville, Ky., on the 7th inst., has been commuted to imprisonment for life. A freight train on the Alabama Great Southern Railroad broke in two near Par lervile, Ala., a few days ago, and the two sections collided, causing a frightful wreck and the instant death of a brakeman named Coleman. Conductor McAllister was badly injured. The large woolen mills belonging to Watson, Ivey Co., at Adairsville, Ky., burned a few days ago. Loss, $20,000; no insurance. The South Carolina Legislature, now in session, is occupied with measures to reform the judicial system and take care of the convicts. Gilmore Thompson, a twelve-year-old negro boy, committed suicide a few days ago at Atlanta, Ga., by shooting himself through the brain because his mother had Whipped him for carelessly handling a pis- The Knights of Labor of Austin, Tex., have issued a circular requesting the peo ple to withdraw their patronage from the Chinese in the city except one, W. A Haing, a naturalized citizen. Green Rickerson was found guilty of the murder of Harrison at Atlanta, Ga., in July last.
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Saint Landry Democrat
Opelousas, Louisiana, US
Sat, Dec 12, 1885
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