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The Daily Dispatch: April 10, 1862., [Electronic resource], Miscellaneous items. (search)
Miscellaneous items. The following items we gather from various sources: A Remarkable murder. We learn from the Jonesboro' Union that the wife of Lewis Cates was killed recently in Carter county, Tenn., by one Powell Phillips, under the following extraordinary circumstances: Phillips was going to see a Miss Britt, who lived with Mrs. Cate, who is her sister. To annoy the young man, Mrs. Cates put on men's clothing, and pretended to be courting the young lady, which exasperated Phillips so much that he drew a pistol and fired it, taking effect upon the breast of Mrs. Cate, who lived but twenty minutes after being shot. This is the same Phillips who, some three weeks ago, struck a citizen on the back of his head, which almost proved fatal. Cotton goods The Augusta (Ga.) Factory has followed the commendable example of the Athens and the Macon factories, and fixed the prices of their cotton goods at rates below what could have been extorted from the necessitie