American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-11-08
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

AT Newcastle, KY, recently, Turner
Barnes, young man, got on crazy drunk
and threatened to shoot every person he met.
VIM. Ford, particular friend of the drunk
en- man, finally induced him to get into a
buggy with him, that he might take him
home. Barnes, rs soon As seated in the bug
gy, remarked to Ford that he intended to
shoot him, and did so, the ball entering one
inch below the right eye, passing through
the mouth, cutting the tongue in twain, and
passing out at the back of the neck.
James S. Nash, well-to- do farmer of
Henri"o County, Va, returned home from
Richmond the other night somewhat intoNi-
Gated. He went to the stable to get some
feed for his horse, taking Il lighted candle
with him. In sonic Way the hay became i%-
nited and the barn burned to the ground.
Poor Nash, in his half stupetied condition,
was unable to get out, and persisted in the
flames.
-McKendree Church (Southern Metho-
dist the finest and newest church editice in
Nashville, Tenn, was burned to the ground
on the night of the 26th. 1t cost nearly Si0,-
900 and was insured for $4,000.
The Ladies' Memorial Society of Macon,
Ga, will soon erect "A handsome monument
to commemorate the Confederate dead of
Bib County.
Mrs. Spears, who is in Jail at Castro
vile, Medina County, Texas, charged with
completely in the murder of her husband,
has made confession. She acknowledges
conspirinq with two Of his enemies. She
rode with her husband in wagon and got
him to go back in the road after something
she pretended to have dropped. The two
men then sprang upon and murdered him.
a Oh. Ii - I,a
lives a few miles south of Comanche, on the
Texas frontier, wandered off the other day
and got lost in the woods. For three days
and nights 800 men kept up a thorough
search, and on the morning Of the third day
they found the wanderer in the brush in the
mountains, lying on his face, dead.
Near Magnolia, La Rue County. KY, on
the 10Th, young man named VIM. Smith
was fatally shot by Daniel Crutcher, aged Ii.
Smith had grossly insulted young lady, a
friend of Crutcher, while going home with
her from church on the previous night, and
this was the reason for the shooting.
Robert Good, preacher of Bath Coun-
ty, n.y., committed suicide on the Goth by
taking strychnine. He had just been tried
at Flemingsburg upon Il charge of obtaining
money under false pretences, but was ac-
quilted.
"A channel, to be 100 feet wide and 6 feet
deep, is being dredged at the mouth of the
Sabine River, Texas.
The st. Louis Republican of the 2Sth
ult. noted the presence in that city of a num-
Der of prominent gentleman from Arkansas,
whose mission was to confer with Presi-
dent Allen of the Iron Mountain Railroad in
regard to the project for building the Pine
Bluff, Searcy and Monroe Railroad, a mar
row gauge, to connect with the Iron Noun
tain Road ut Austin, Ark, the southern ter
minus to be at Monroe, La, on the Ouachita
River. The distance from Pine Bluffs to
Austin is about go miles, more than one half
of which is already graded and the whole is
surveyed. The line will cross the Memphis
and Little Rock Road at Lonoke.
"A Confed crate monument was unveiled
Mt Macon, Ga, OH the goth, In the presence
of $4,000 people. The military display
was very fine, The Grafton was delivered
by Col. Thomas Hardman. He counselcd
peace and fraternity and the burying of al
animositics of the past. II was received
with immense enthusiasm.
Mr.. S. West, young farmer of McLen-
nan County, Texas, 1T is stated, has not bought
= leaf Of tea for the last four years. He raises
all the tea he can use on his farm. The va
riety is hyson and the quality is said to be
hrst-rate.
Col. w. II. Gill, the sheep man of Nash
vile, Tenn, has bought the Sam. Davis
place, near Ocean Springs, Miss, and will
start a big sheep ranch there. He paid for
the farm and 800 sheep that were on it, s., 900
cash.
"A few days since some wagoners care
lessly set fire to stubble- field near Sher-
man, Texas. An old lady, Mrs. Palette,
attempted to extinguish the flames. Her
clothing caught fire and she was burned to
death.
A copper mine has been discovered in
Baylor County, Texas, on the Big Wichita
River. The copper is said to be of the finest
quality ever discovered in the United States.
The ore will assay 20 per cent.
Harry Eley, merchant, and another
man named Atkinson, had a shooting affair
at Leota, Miss, on the 3Oth, with fatal re-
suits. Both parties fired about the same
time, and were SO close TO each other their
faces were burnt by the powder. Atkinson's
second shot struck Eley below the left eye,
inflicting mortal wound. Eley fell, but by
despt rate effort raised himself up and
fired his third shot at Atkinson, wOunding
him high up in the thigh, and fracturing the
bone. Eley died about three minutes after
he was shot. The cause of the difficulty is
not stated.
-Incendiary fires are becoming numerous
throughout North Texas. Three cotton gins
were burned recently in q single day and
night-one at Van Alstyne, one near Corsi
cana and one near Plano. Nearly 200 bales
of cotton in all were destroyed. Loss on
cotton and buildings were $4,000. Tramps
are believed to be doing these incendiary
acts.
The Cass County Jail, at Linden, Texas,
was burned on the night of the Goth, it is
supposed by negro prisoners, two Of whom
escaped.
Daniel Scott, colored, has been sentenced
at Houston, Texas, to 30 years imprison-
ment for killing another negro. Mary Tur-
ner, at whose instigation Scott attacked the
other negro, was sentenced to five years.
-McDivitt, a sheep man, residing on the
Nueces River, in Texas, was recently muir
dered and robbed while returning home from
San Antonio, where he had been to sell lot
of wool. The dead body was found, stabbed
in several places, and the locality showed
evidences of a terrible struggle.
Appalling Salubrity.