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A blooily murder oecurred ;U Hvnm, SImm asso oounty. on the 12th inst. Samuel Hadden, i pemioner, aged 40 shot bis fn tlirv. Alnahiim Hadden, aged í. Samnel li.nl been ti tle villagp, and retornad to father'K farm, tbree miles out Golng iiuo the house, the father and son got inte .i. Ssmuers statement is tbat the old man struik hini wlth a lantern. which "i:s knnckedout of lus hand; Uien the father struek him th his list. The son is n cripple, one leg beiog helples. He trled :t' ivard ofl tlu' blowfi witli lus crutehes, but becamo alanneti and pulled out a bullriog i-evolver, and. vvhiln standing ithin three feet of his father, flred five :!Scaliber Lnlls througli the old man'a body in the inesence of his aged jrife The fnther left the house and went to the barn-yard, h rod! nsy. where his sou Henry was dolng chores The young man did not bear tlio shots, bul gaw lus futher enter the yard and said to the old nuiu, "you hnve "forpotten your inilk pail. " The father tlien staggered againgt the fence and iiied, "My God, lm shot. Sam hai killed me." Hónry called Mr. l)im11 iiiír. a üeighbor, who iminediately carne and lifted Hadden to carry hun to the house. Hadden then died in Dunning's arins. The n -ife and mother saw the hole quüri'el. but the hoot.ing was done so suddenly she was paralyzed and utterly unalile to help her busband. Samuel was taken before Justiic James Sleetb at Byron, who remanded him to the oounty jail at Corunna. Abe Hadden was n well-todo farmer. Sam h:s been a hel]less cripple for years. The community is deeply excited, and there w:is talk of lynching, but better ':oun ' '!í;d. Charlotto's Calamity. At 4 o'cloek the othér inorniu fire was discovered breaking out of Woodbury & Pinches1 wire hammock factory, a small wooden building situated on the east sido Of Coohl'ane avenue, in Charlotte, among a row af buildings of similar material. A Btrong gale was blowing from the sonthenst at the t.inu' and sncli lieadwav had been gained that the most valuable portion of the city seemed doomed. Pire branda were carrind by the gnle, setting fire to the awiiniíí ín front of the Republican office and ('lark's livery stable in the rear of the Sherwood house, but these three blazea were speedily extinguispfi. Jihn Coïlins, who OOeupfed anadjoining building íor a procery, with living rooms upstairs waa DArely able to get his family out and lost everything excepting a few articles of vrearing apparel. Diek Baxter, in another building, ocoupied tor a bakery and living rooms, trasobllged to carry his wife and child out of the burnioR building and Baved on!y a few things. [tsweptin (;. T. Henlon's, car riage eniporium and Hines & (ireen's furniture store, and it was not 15 minutes from the. time the tire was diseovered before it leaped over the briek residence of Leroy BMnerdaod was running through the loeality known as woodep row. toward the llnest business blocke in the city. The fire departuiem Fooght the Barnes bravely but Owing to the ale the steumer made but little unpression, and it was ni ' 1 1 1 v ii i lic ucmi e iik mu ti w ' " "■' coukl be made available. Tiie latter, it is believed, is all that saved amostserioug disuster. The lo fnntf lip ahout $2P.T0O.