American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-11-22
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

A Young negro named Giles Walker, on
the night of the 9TH made forcible entry to
the house of Miss Susan Dorm, an eStimable
maiden lady living in the outskirts of Edge
field, 5. c. Miss Dorm was alone and the
Scoundrel attempted to take advantage o
her helplessness. She succeeded in Guiding
his grasp, however, and ran towards the
house Of the nearest neighbor, closely pursued
by the negro. Having given the alarm,
large posse set out in pursuit OF the villain,
and if they succeeded in capturing him there
is no doubt he received speedy retrbution.
A stranger, calling himself Vance, who
had been for some time an inmate of the
Charity Hospital at Shreveport, La, shot
himself through the heart on the 9TH.
New Orleans is considering a thorough
system Of sewerage, which will cost, accord
ing to the plans, - 100000.
The Touring mill Of A. G. Slcer, Eliza
vile, KY, burned on the morning of the eth.
Several persons were sleeping i'll the second
story, and all escaped but negro employee,
who was burned to death. The mill was
valued at $4,000, and is a total loss; no in
surance.
Scott Mosely, coIored, mail carrier,
was arrested at fernando, Miss, on the 9Th,
on charge of performing registered matter.
He was taken to oxford for examination
and committed to Jail in default OF bail.
Joseph Armengo, a prominent merchant
and cotton-buycr at Herne, Texas, left tlat
place on the eth, ostensibly to go to Calves
ton on business. 1t has since transpired that
he fled, swindiing his creditors. party
from Galveston holds transfers of all HIS
property. About 20 attachments were issued
in consequence. The amount Of the swindle
is thought to be about $50, 900. The princi-
pal creditors are at Houston, Galveston, st.
Louis and New York.
Alabama gets 5000 of the Peabody fund
this year. Mississippi gets $1,000.
The prize for the best home made bread
at the Atlanta (Ga.) Fair was Il fine cooking
range. 1t was captured lay Miss May Van
Dyck, young lady of Athens, Tenn.
Capt. Lee Halls rangers recently had
fight with gang of robbers in Atascosa
County, Texas, in which one of the robbers
was killed, another wounded, and one be-
sides these was captured. One of the rang
ers was wounded, but not seriously hurt.
The remainder got away in the darkness.
The Memphis Exchanges cotton crop
report for October shows generally favora-
BILE weather; about % per cent. of crop
picked; average increase in yield, 10 per
cent; condition of labor gen orally good; ay-
erage date of first frost, Oct. %.
VIM. ID. BLOCKER, one of the publishers of
the Little Rock (Ark.) Democrat, died on
the 9th, aged about 80. He was an officer in
the Confederate service during the War, and
q prominent Mason.
/. The sale of the Police Ne,cs, Gazette and
kindred publications has been stopped at
Atlanta, Ga. The recent Legislature passed
a law strictly forbidding the publication,
sale, or exhibition of any kind of indecent
literature. The Solicitor and Judge of the
Circuit Court had consultation, and de-
termined that such papers as those indicated
above were indecent, and that their sale or
distribution violation of the law. Al
newsdealers and newsboys in the city were
therefore notified that they must not deal in
such stock, and some of them were request
ed to destroy those on hand. Some of the
dealers will appeal to the courts.
AT Frankfort, KY, on the 18th, the
blacksmith shop of j. F. Wilson burned and
the remains of little 4-year-old son of Mar
Gus Jones were subsequently discovered in
the ruins. Wilson was suspected OF the
murder of one Hezekiah Gardner, who mys
teriously disappeared few days previous,
and it was suspected that he burned his shop
in order to destroy the body of his victim. II
was while search was being made for the re-
mains of Gardner that the little boys fate
was discovered. 1t is not known how the
little fellow came to be in the shop at the time
of the fire, and Wilson, who is an eXPcni-
Tertiary convict, was subject to no little sus-
picion in connection with the affair. He was
arrested and locked up in Jail to await fur
Their investigation.
A fire at Paducah, KY, on the night of
the 18th, destroyed the hub and spoke fac
tory Of Davis & Hefron. Loss about $4,000
with but small insurance.
$. W. Miller, one Of the Texas land
forgers, was recently captured in Little
Rock by a Texas officer and taken to Austin.
The Times office, at Brinkley, Ark, was
burned on the 18th. W. w. Folsom, editor
of the paper, estimates his loss at 81, 200, and
charges the disaster to incendiarieS.
The auction clothing house of A. & l.
Levy at New Orleans burned on the night
the 18th. Loss $780, 900; insured. Haggens'
tobacco factory, adjoining, was badly dam
aged; covered by insurance.
Charles Mann's cotton seed oil mill at
Yazoo City, Miss, accidentally burned on
the 18th. Loss, 81, 900; insurance, $4,000.
At Covington, Fy., on the 18th, Miss
Annie EIofi shot and instantly killed Charles
Schurer, her former lover, whom she charged
with having betrayed her under promise of
marriage. Miss Hoff is 81 years of age and
Is described as Il handsome brunette. In
company with her brother she went to
Schurcr's place of business and requested
private interview, which was granted. In
few minutes afterward the report of pistol
was heard and Schurer was found dead. Her
only explanation of the terrible affair was
g He betrayed me and l shot him.'' Miss
IIoff then voluntarily surrendered herself
and both she and her brother were locked up
for examination.
Edward c. Palmer, late President Of the
Louisiana Savings Bank, was arrested on the
11th, upon two indictments by the Grand
Jury, one charging him with ENLIGHTENMENT
and the other with publishing false reports
and willfully concealing facts to the con-
dition of the bank to deceive the public. He
WAS held to bail in the sum of 100000.
AT HOpkinsyile, ky., on the 18th, James |
+. Ferguson shot and killed j. Ii. Coombs, |
and then surrendered himself to the author |
tiles. The murderer justiies the killing by
the fact that Coombs had seduced his sister |
and then refused to marry her.
DO Clever Thing
for your wife. She does many for you
bakes, cooks scrubs and mends. Her work |
is never done. Get from your grocer n pack |