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aentiment; the teachers are all southern in sentiment, and *rith the excep-
tion of those born in Europe were born and raised in the south. Believing
the southern to be the highest type of civilisation this continent has seen,1

1 Illustrations of it thoughtlessly omitted by the advertiser:
KXOXYILLE, Tenn., October lU.—This morning a few minutes after ten
o'clock, General Joseph A. Mabry, Thomas O'Connor, and Joseph A. Mabry,
Jr., were killed in a shooting affray. The difficulty began yesterday afternoon
by General Mabry attacking Major O'Connor and threatening to kill him.
This was at the fair grounds, and O'Connor told Mabry that it was not the
place to settle their difficulties. Mabry then told O'Connor he should not live.
It seems that Mabry was armed and O'Connor was not. The cause of the
difficulty was an old feud abont the transfer of some property from Mabry
to O'Connor. Later in the afternoon Mabry sent word to O'Connor that he
would kill liim on sight. This morning Major O'Connor was standing in the
door of the Mechanics' National Bank, of which he was president. General
Mabry and another gentleman walked down Gay Street on the opposite side
from the bank. O'Connor stepped into the bank, got a shot gun, took deliber-
ate aim at General Mabry and fired. Mabry fell dead, being shot in the left
side. As he fell O'Connor fired again, the shot taking effect in Mabry's thigh.
O'Connor then reached into the bank and got another shot gun. About this time
Joseph A. Mabry, Jr., son of General Mabry, came rushing down the street,
unseen by O'Connor until within forty feet, when the young man nred a pistol,
the shot taking effect in O'Connor's right breast, passing through the body
near the heart. The instant Mabry shot, O'Connor turned and fired, the load
taking effect in young Mabry's right breast and side, Mabry fell pierced with
twenty buckshot, and almost instantly O'Connor fell dead without a struggle,
Mabry tried to rise, but fell back dead. The whole tragedy occurred within
two miuutes, and neither of the three spoke after he was shot. General Mabry
had about thirty buckshot in his body. A bystander was painfully wounded in
the thigh with a buckshot, and another was wounded in the arm. Four other
men had their clothing pierced by buckshot. The affair caused great excite*
ment, and Gay Street was thronged with thousands of people. General Mabry
and his son Joe were acquitted only a few days ago of the murder of Moses
Lusby and Bon Lusby, father and son, whom they killed a few weeks ago.
Will Mabry was killed by Bon Lusby last Christmas. Major Thomas O'Con-
nor was President of the Mechanics' National Bank here, and was the wealthiest
rymTi in the State.—Associated Press Telegram.
One day last month, Professor Sharpe, of the Somerville, Temu, Female
College, *a quiet and gentlemanly man,' was told that his brother-in-
law, a Captain Burton, had threatened to kill Mm. Burton, it seems, had
already killed one man and driven his knife into another. The Professor
armed himself with a double-barrelled shot gun, started out in search of his
brother-iii law, found Mm playing billiards in a saloon, and blew his brains out.
The * Memphis Avalanche * reports thai the Professor's course met with pretty