LOCAL MATTERS.--Jackson JOB was jailed last Monday evening for carrying concealed weapons.--James ARMSTRONG was jailed last week under the vagrant act. He has the appearance and appetite of an able bodied man, but is too worthless to support himself, and is, therefore, fed by the public.
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
David HERRIN to Alice E. CRAIN.
Richard M. DEHART to Margaret M. BUTTS.
DOCTOR’S HARVEST.--Ed MITCHELL is still confined to his room, but is slowly recovering.--Miss Meta GOODALL is suffering from an attack of slow fever.--A little child of Mr. and Mrs. Green WOMACK died last Saturday and was buried Sunday.--Misses Susie and Becky ROBINSON are still on the sick list.--Miss Emma BENSON is confined to her room with slow fever.--W.R. FARMER, Eight Mile, has recovered from injury sustained from a broken arm, and was a Marion visitor last Monday.
JEFFERSONVILLE JOTTINGS.--The village of Plumfield was the scene of a homocide on Sunday morning last. The circumstances are as follows as near as we can ascertain: The officers were trying to arrest John ADKINS for the theft of some cattle from Mr. Ruff HARRISON. ADKINS endeavored to make his escape, and ran toward Adam COONROD’s house. The officers called on Mr. COONROD to stop him. He halted ADKINS three times, but no attention being paid to the order, COONROD fired his shot gun at him putting seventeen buckshot in the back of his neck, killing him instantly. ADKINS was armed, and considered a dangerous character. COONROD fled and is still at large, although efforts are being made to capture him.
LOCAL MATTERS.--Mr. John EUBANKS has a little child very low with fever. --Mr. W.E. HEARN and lady, Corinth, started last week for a visit to friends and relatives in Tennessee.--Rev. R. W. LAUGHLIN left Corinth last Tuesday for Steelville, his new field of labor. --Mr. J.M. FURLING has for several days been upon the verge of death. Those who have seen him pronounce his case a remarkable one on account of its unchanging cause and prostrate condition of the patient so long without apparently getting better or worse. Mr. FURLONG is one of the pioneers of the county, and is known and admired by a large number of persons. --Married on the 26th of September, 1877, by Elder J.A. RODMAN, Mr. Columbus WAGNER to Miss Mary MCNEAL.--Married on Thursday September 27th, 1877, by Elder John A. RODMAN, Mr. David HERRIN to Miss Eva CRAIN.--Married in the M.E. church, Union Grove, by Rev. T.J. DAVIS, Sunday October 7th, 1877Mr. W.W. DAVIS to Miss Carrie AVERY.
CIRCUIT COURT NOTES.--People vs. Geo. COX, perjury; tried by jury; not guilty.--Joseph BRACKS, assault and battery; fined $50.00--James STEWARD, larceny, horse stealing; plea of guilty, and sentenced to penitentiary for five years. --People vs. John E. PALMER, conspiracy-tried, but up to last evening jury had alled(?) agree.--People vs. Jas. CRAIN, forgery; on trial.
A SAD CALAMITY!--Burning of the City Calaboose.--Thomas SCATES meets a horrible and Tragic Death.--Last Thursday night, between 9 and 10 o’clock, an alarm of fire was given, proving to be the City Calaboose. The first arrivals found the building wrapped in flame, and terrible cries of agony coming from inside, from a prisoner, Thomas SCATES, an old colored man, who had been incarcerated for drunkenness a few hours before. As soon as possible he was rescued from his perilous situation and taken to the residence of Mr. John GOODALL, and medical assistance called in and everything done to alleviate his sufferings and prolong hi life, but all in vain. He died during the night.The fire was got control of by hard work on the part of the citizens and the surrounding buildings saved.Coroner D.O. ALLEN, summoned a jury Saturday morning to inquire into the cause of death of SCATES, and the following evidence was elicited:L.C. FULLER said: I came up in town and saw Tom was drinking; Cruse and Geo. MITCHELL informed that he (Tom) must be attended to --- asked Jas. TIPPY if he could do anything with Tom. Said he could not. Tom came out from PRIBBLES and stopped in front of Hotel. Worth TIPPY and Wm. HENDRICKSON assisted me in arresting deceased. Told Charley ROBINSON, the keeper of the prison, that Tom must have blankets. It was suggested that straw was sufficient for his bed, but I told them that he must have blankets. I left the calaboose immediately after putting Tom in it. When I arrived at the fire I bursted the lock off the door; found deceased lying on the floor with his head in the southeast corner of the room. Mal HARGAN helped me drag Tom out of the calaboose. The straw was in the west room, the deceased in the east room; a window in the west end. Chas. ROBINSON keeps the keys of the calaboose and feeds the prisoners; the city pays him for it. Made the arrest between 7 and 8 o’clock; the fire broke out between 9 and 10. Don’t know whether Tom went to sleep or not; do not know of his calling for anything; wasn’t on the ground after I put him in the calaboose until the fire.
John GOODALL testified: Tom never said very much to me about the cause of his death; never talked when I got there; staid till the fire was out; went home and found he was burnt up; he said he was burnt up; said FULLER burnt him up; and some one threw fire in the calaboose; don’t believe he was in his proper mind; he was under the influence of liquor; don’t think his talk was reliable under the circumstances. He lived till a little after daylight. He said he was burnt in the throat.
Charles ROBINSON said: Tom was not put in my charge; was dark when he was put in calaboose; some one said straw was good enough for his bed; FULLER said he must have blankets. I have him blankets; showed him how to get into the west room where the straw was; straw was put there for prisoners to sleep on; he went in the west room and fixed his bed; I went back to north window of the west cell and told him to lie down and take a sleep, that he would soon be sober and we would take him out. He insisted on being liberated. I left the window just before 9 o’clock; I took hi water; did not see Tom before he was put in the calaboose; saw him just before night; he was drunk; didn’t see anyone in jail yard after night till the fire broke out. Tom was not in his right mind; he was crazy drunk; FULLER left the keys with me. I am deputy city Marshal.
Joab GOODALL testified: I saw Tom in the evening about 4 or 5 o’clock; thought he was drinking; left my team with him; next saw him between 9 and 10 o’clock in a buggy in which they hauled him from the fire. I heard him say that he was gone by the board, that he was burnt deep. Said FULLER burnt him up; never did consider him in his right mind when he was drunk.S.W. DUNAWAY said: I hauled Tom from the fire to John GOODALL’s; heard him say the fire was thrown in the window; never said he knew who threw it in; he appeared to talk very sensibly. I think he had been drinking; he said he never set the calaboose on fire.
Dr. COREY said: I was called into see deceased; saw him at John GOODALL’s; he was badly burnt; his breast and arms were mostly denuded of external skin; also his breast, neck, shoulders and face were badly burned; might have extended to his lungs. Heard him talk; I believe he was in his right mind; heard him saw he blamed some one. [The witness did not remember the name] I believe his death was cause from the burning of his lungs. I don’t believe it was FULLER he said he blamed.Sarah A. GOODALL testified: Tom said to me: “They have burnt me to death;” said FULLER burnt him to death; said matches were thrown into the window. I think Tom had doubts as to his recovery during the conversation. I know he was in his right mind. M.W. BARHAM said: I have often heard Tom say that if he was every put in the calaboose he would burn it up.James TIPPY said: After Tom was shut up in the calaboose he said he would kill FULLER; never saw him with whisky or matches; don’t think he was in the habit of smoking. Mahala VINEYARD testified:-----------------------wanted Mary Ann or Sarah Ann GOODALL [Witness did not remember which] to come take him our of prison.
At the close of the evidence the jury returned the following verdict.VERDICT: State of Illinois Williamson County}ss.We, the undersigned jurors, summoned by the Coroner of Williamson County to hold an inquest over the dead body of Thomas SCATES, late of the county of Williamson, believe that he came to his death by being burned fatally while in prison in the city calaboose of Marion, Ill., on the night of October 4th, 1877. As to how the fire originated the evidence fails to show. John H. REYNOLDS, Foreman; D.B. WARD, M.W. ROBERTSON, G.W. EVANS, M.D.; W.P. GOODALL, P.M. PARKER, J.T. PERKINS, G.W. BROCK, J.M.HARGAN, J.C. JACKSON, S.S. IRELAND, Jury.
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
Thos. NAUGLE to Martha WALDRON.
Wm. MOULTON to Josephine GRIMES.
Jas. CLARADA to Mary PARKS.
W.S. TARPLEY to Lizzie E. JOINER.
LOCAL MATTERS.--Dr. J.J. FLY leaves us tomorrow for Nashville, Tenn., where he will attend medical college. --A little child of Mr. and Mrs. M.C. CAMPBELL died last Sunday evening and was buried at the Cunningham burying ground Monday evening. --Ed MITCHELL is again at his post in the Clerk’s officer, after a protracted spell of sickness.--Rev. D.R. SANDERS, M.D., Grassy Precinct, left Thursday morning last for a trip through the South for the benefit of his health.--Mr. J.M. FURLONG, an account of whose sickness appeared in last week’s Monitor, departed this life last Thursday morning at 8 o’clock. Mr. FURLONG was born in Tennessee, moved to this state with his parents while a young man, and has lived in Williamson county the greater portion of his life. During his residence among us he has been treasurer of the county, and has filled other officers of trust with honor to himself and those who elected him. He was a positive man, and in all cases spoke and acted as a true citizen. His life for morality and Christianity has been marked with success. He has for several years been a consistent member of the C.P. church, and in his death the church loses one of its strong pillars and shining lights, and his community one of its most worthy citizens. While we deeply regret the loss of Mr. FURLONG, we feel assured that when he fell asleep in death he awoke to walk in newness of life on the evergreen hore(?). Peace to his ashes. --W.R. HALL, late of Marion, has sold out and left Austin, Texas. --Geo. WINGFIELD obtained $200 judgment against the city of Marion last Tuesday for damages caused by the plaintiff falling through a defective sidewalk. --Miss Hattie HARTWELL is teaching the Fairview school again this winter, commencing last week. She is accounted one of the best teachers in the county, and is popular with pupils and parents. --R.D. HARRISON has been quite sick for a day or two past. Jacob SHARP is sick. Mrs. T.J. GOODALL has been confined to her room some days on account of sickness. Cary WILEY has an attack of slow fever. --It is said that the grave yard at Corinth is in a deplorable condition. That in digging graves there is danger of opening old ones. Such indifference should not exist.
CIRCUIT COURT.--Geo. COX, larceny, nollied. --Wm. J. PULLEY, assault to murder, nollied. --Geo. COX, perjury, not guilty.--J.E. PALMER, Conspiracy, fined $50.--J.M. CRAIG, forgery, not guilty.--Newt MINOR, Thos. PRICE and Lee ROSE, burglary and larceny, change of venue to Franklin county.--Charles CAGLE and Vincent CAGLE, malicious mischief, quashed by the People.--Frank LENNING, gaming, plea of guilty to 20 counts, fined $50 on each count-$1000. --City of Marion (whisky cases) vs.-R.M. HUNDLEY, appeal, not guilty; P.M. PARKER, Same; A.J. BENSON, Same; P.M. PARKER, Same; Samuel BUNDY Jr., Same; J.E. MANIER, fined $25--John OGDEN vs. Wm. A. GUINN, *** trespass vi et armis, not guilty.