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OXFORD, MISS., THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1888. COLONEL AARON K. DUNKEL of Penn. SOUTHERN GLEANING GENERAL SHERIDAN. sylvania, ex-State Senator and ex-Secretary of Internal Affairs, died at PhilaJoseph Isminger was attested at ville, Tenn., a few days ago for phia, on the 31st, aged fifty-one years. The Gallant Soldier's Ambition tion of the revenue laws. He W/ JOHN M. Scorr, a moulder. of Reading, Gratified on His Deathbed. to Chattanooga and bound over Pa. during a quarrel with his wife, on next term of the United States Co the 1st. cut her throat, and then drew the J. W. Chandler, who shot Pr blade of the same weapon-a large butchThe Grade of General of the Army Reer knife-across own throat. Both are vived to Honor the Brave Soldier rence at Jellico, Te n. was t -His Commission Received in a critical condition. Knoxville to keep him out of th and Accepted mob violence. It is evident th THE boiler of the steamer Fulton ét: rence can not recover. and it wa ploded while the steamer was in the gulf, that if Chandler was allowed to r at the mouth of the Mississippi river, on WASHINGTON, June 1.-The House toJellico he would be lynched. the 31st, instantly killing the pilot, Edday passed the Senate bill to revive the A shooting affray occurred ward Perkins, fatally wounding Captain rank of General of the Army for the one. W. H. Riddle and two colored deck hands, Lick Springs, Ky., a few days fit of General Sheridan. A half hour aft. and demolishing the boat. which J. A. Secrist. proprietor er the passage of the bill It was enBARON Vox MEHRENHEIM, the Russian springs. and B. F. Porter, ex-si grossed, signed by the Speaker and presiPendleton County, were dan Ambassador to Paris, gave a banquet and dent of the Senate and dispatched by shot. Several others were reception in honor of President Carnot on special messenger to the President for his wounded. the 31st. All of the Cabinet Ministers and approval. The bill was at once signed by many prominent statesmen and diplomats The style of the company en the President and the nomination of were present. building a railroad from Knoxvill Philip Henry Sheridan to be General of GENERAL B. F. BUTLER put himself or to Cumberland Gap, sixty-five m of the United States Army was at once record, on the 31st, as a Shermon man-a been changed from the Powell's forwarded to the Senate. That body Im. William Tecumsch Sherman man. He Company to the Knoxville, Cun mediately went into executive session and said General Sher man would prove a Gap & Louisville Company. Wo confirmed the appointment. sure winner if run by the Republican road is progressing favorably. party: and that he would possess a safe Robert Hendricks, who myst counselor in his brother John. disappeared from the Western K BRAKEMAN WOLF was killed and ConLunatic Asylum more than a y ductor Everett seriously injured in a landed in Franklin a few days a wreck on the Philadelphia & Reading arrival produced a profound sens railroad, near Shamokiu, Pa., on the 31st. it was evidently thought by hisfar Forty cars of merchandise were smashed the public that he had either been to pieces. tim of foul play at the asylum or wandered off and died. He ret DR. MACKENZIE introduced to his royal patient, on the 31st, a six-year-old lad on the full possession of his mind, whom he had +performed the operation of hale and hearty. He gives a thril tracheotomy a year ago. A "fellow feelcount of his escape from the asy his adventures since. ing" made the Emperor "wondrous kind". He loaded his little visitor with presents The Supreme Court of Georgia and invited him to call again. affirmed a judgment of $10,000 aw a negro for the loss of a foot in a W. H. MOORE, cashier and general manager of the Bank of Socorro, N. M., is accident, but the negro is missing short in his accounts and has gone to attorneys, who are to get half the Mexico. The bank has closed its doors. are anxiously hunting for him. The amount of the defalcation is not Much excitement has prevailed known. County, Ky., recently by the pre ADMIRAL STOSCH has been appointed to mad dogs. Mrs. James Hancock General Philip H. Sheridan. succeed Count Von Stolberg-Wernigerode ten at Long Hollow by a pet As soon as the Senate in executive as Grand Chamberlain of the German showed all the symptons of hydr session confirmed the nomination of Lieucourt. and a madstone has been applie tenant-General Sheridan to be General, MR. PYNE, M. P., who had been serving wound, which is a painful one. Senators Hawley and Manderson took a a sentence of imprisonment fat Clonmel, was killed, but not until a numbe carriage and were rapidly driven to the Ireland, for offenses committed under the er dogs were bitten by it, some White House. They were immediately Crimes act, was released on the 31st. He were still at large, while oth received by the President, who handed was met by a large crowd and heartily caught and shut up to see if the Senator Hawley the parchment commischeered. oped signs of madness. sion. Five minutes later they were in the MR. TAULBEE, of Kentucky, announced The tobacco firm of J. Simon & drawing-room of the Sheridan home. in the House, on the 1st, that he did not Montgomery, Ala., was sold out Mrs. Sheridan was summoned, and soon propose to be bound by party caucus. At to certain local creditors to satist appeared. Senator Hawley handed her the proper time he would move an amendamounting to $14,000. There ar the commission with a few appropriate ment to the Tariff bill putting lumber on creditors, who will suffer to the words. the dutiable list at 10 per cent. ad vabetween $12,000 and $15,000. Mrs. Sheridan told the Senators that she lorem. Henry Fuller, a young white I thanked them and all others who had asA MEETING of Mr. Blaine's friends was in Pickens County, S. C., was sisted in conferring this great honor on held in New York City, on the 1st, to conand instantly killed a few days a her husband. "If any thing can him, sider the situation created by that gentleler had been squirrel hunting, this will". she said. "Early this morning man's late peremptory declination. returning home was in the yard he seemed greatly pleased when he learned MRS. ELLEN MARTIN and her sixteenup hls gun, which was accide of the efforts that were being made. I year-old daughter were struck by a train charged, the whole charge going will show him the commission as soon as and instantly killed at Bristol, Pa., on the he wakes." his head and tearing a frightfu 1st. body. General Sheridan woke a few minutes GENERAL HENRY BIERGE died of apoafter this. His wife told him the news, The conviction by the Supre plexy in New York on the 1st. and the sick man seemed greatly pleased. of Tennessee of George Millin AN explosion from an unknown cause "That's the best tonic I've had for a murder in the second degree occurred in the Eureka Iron-works, at week," he said. sentence to fifteen years in the Wyandotte, Mich., on the 1st, by which Chief Clerk Tweedale of the War Detiary, is the first instance since three employes lost their lives. partment was sent for, and soon arrived. in this State of the punishment THE Queen Regent of Spain unvailed The members of the General's staff who man for felony. e the new statue of Columbus at Barcelona, were in the house were summoned to the Mr. James Caldwell, a w on the 1st, amid great rejoicing. sick-room, and the formal oath was adflorist of Montgomery, Ala., cou MINISTER PHELPS will sail from New ministered to the stricken soldier by Mr. pin from his right lung, a few York for England on the 13th. Tweedale. He has suffered about twenty y THE body of Miss Adele Menard, of While waiting for him, a letter of thanks $ has been treated for lung trouble Minneapolis, Minn., who committed suito the President, at the General's request. now a distinct recollection of S cide, on the 28th, because her father was prepared, and a few moments later the pin forty-seven ears ago in had whipped her, was found floating in he affixed his signature to the letter, his Scotland, when seven years of a the Mississippi river on the 31st. first attempt at writing since he was Mr. Thomas Baker, of Hart taken sick. THE House passed the Senate bill to re1 met his death a few days since After taking the oath General Sheridan, vive the rank of General of the Army on ) manner. He had been out hun now General of the United States Army, the 1st. It was soon after signed by the returning about sunset, stopped signed the necessary official papers and President, who'immediately sent the nomt leaning on his shotgun with his immediately announced his staff to be the ination of Philip Henry Sheridan for the e fence. Suddenly his foot slip same officers who had served him as position to the Senate. The Senate cont Lieutenant-General. the fence, striking the hammer o firmed the appointment and notified the causing it to discharge, the en Sympathetic and low-voiced congratuPresident of its action. During the afterb entering his chest and throat. 1 lations were tendered to General Sheridan noon Senators Hawley and Manderson e ed for several hours, when death by those present during the simple cerecalled and placed the General's commi r him. monies. sion in the hands of his wife. , l
