execution, very old bullet wound, watkins out of the warehouse biz

1879-11-04 - Oxford Torchlight

  • Mr. Anson and wife injured in a horse and buggy accident
  • Jealous rage at a party over in Nutbush
  • Execution over in Hillsboro - Boswell, for murder. A description of the hanging. His neck didn’t break and it took 30 minutes for him to die
  • Death From an Old Wound – Mr. Chapel of Dutchville died of a bullet wound from the Revolutionary War (from a battle with Gen. Marion’s men) (how did that happen? was he a baby?)
  • Free city lots in Denver, 3125 sq. ft.
  • Jailed: guy who set fire to Elam’s tobacco barn
  • Currin & Watkins dissolves partnership; Samuel & Charles are getting out of the warehouse biz to focus on leaf tobacco
  • New Goods, E.G. Davis ad
  • Eggleston’s Sensible Truss