American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-12-13
SOUTHERN GIEANINGS.

| II desperate nSnl TOOK pace al Jones
boro, Clayton County, Ga, on the night o
the ID. Matt. Walker and George MANSFIELD
were rival candidates for Mayor and eaci
was making an earnest canvass, particular,
among the colored voters. Mansfield CAV.
the negroes n supper; Walker intrudcd will
some of his supporters; Mansfield under
took TO eject him, and in the personal strug.
gle that enSucd Mansfield struck Walker oyel
the head with n club. The latter then drew
u revolver and fired at Mansfield, killing hin
| instantly. The town was fcarfully excited
over the event and further trouble was APP
prchcndctl.
AT New orleans, on the it'll, W. W
Bcaslcy, while under the influence OF liquor
seized Mrs. VI. !. IIebert, boarding house
keeper, and threw her from thrd-story
gallery, killing her almost instantly.
AT Ncl>onvillc, Ky, the other day, two
year-old son of DIR. 5. b. Smock was fatally
burned by up-settinS cauldron of boiling
grease while play ing in the yard.
AT WaHihatchic, Tex, two negroes, Ben
Haynes and Dan. Lewis, who plotted tC
murder white man, JAS. :. Davis, have
been arrested. Davis had his suspicion.
| aroused by their conduct. One of the ne
groes hired the other to assist him in dig
| gins the grave. The plot was to kill Davis
when he stepped out into the horse lot after
dark, then carry the body out and bury it.
The object of the crime is not stated.
AT Il dance near Waco, Texas, not long
since, Bud W God got mad because a young
lady refused to dance with him, provoked a
quarrel with VIII Currie, in which several
| shots We're exchanged and two or three per-
! sons were wounded and finally wound up by
shooting dead 4 man named Albert Choch.
Judge Cowan and Hiram Cole, two well
known citizens of Hunt County, Tex, had Il
| lawsuit which ended i'll blood. Cole and his
| son, the latter armed with II hammer, went
to Cowan's house. When Cole entered the
yard, Cowan came up with gun and or
dercd him 10 halt. Not obeying, Cowan shot
him dead, also shooting and dangerously
woundin% his
The law passed ut the late session of the
Alabama Legislature prohibiting the pur-
chase of cotton in seed has been decided I'M
constitutional.
AT Maric;ta, Cobb County, Ga, on the
night OF the list, an old and respectable white
| lady, living alone, was most horribly out
ragged by negro named Thompson, who Sc
| cured admission to the house by saying he
| had Il lie ter for her. Thompson WAS arrest
| ed, and Court was in session he was prom
ised an immediate trial.
| a number of negroes, 80 or more, passed
| through Dallas, Texas, on the 9th, on their
way buck from Kansas, where they went
| with the exodus blacks a few weeks ago.
Several families who had started for Kansas
| returned home after meeting the returning
| negroes. Fearful accounts of suffering by
| cold and hunger were related by thn>r re-
| turning. They were MI s. dead brokc,' hay
ing been robbed, As they allcge, by land
sharks in Kansas.
r.. H. Savers, late mail agent, running
found guilty of stealing money from letters,
and sentenced by Judge Baxter to three
years in Auburn On. " Penitcutiary.
Judge Elliott, only brother Of the late
Judge Elliott, of the Kentucky Court Of APP
peals, killed by Buford, has been found
guilty of Illicit distilling, "moonshining,''
and sentenced by Judge Baxter TO four
months in Covington Jail.
IS. & A. Rosenbaum and s. and A. Rosen
baum Il Schwab, doing business in Louis
vile, Winchester and Paducah, KY, have
gone into bankruptcy. Liabilities about
5000; assets not stated.
The steamer Henry w. Frank, from
Memphis for New Orleans, sustained 5000
damage by storm encountered on the 9TH
at Helena, Ark, blowing down chimncvs.
derricts, etc, and badly damaging the cab
in. She proceeded to New Orleans where
she Will undergo repairs.
Edward Day, a boy of 10, qiIarreled with
his uncle, Charles T. Day, living near Knox
vile, Tenn, about Edwards dissipated hab-
its. The quarrel resulted in a fight, when
the boy drew knife from his sleeve and
plunged it into his unclc's heat, killing him
Instantly. The boy has been arrested, and is
now in the Knoxville Jail.
DR.. ID. NJ. Wilson, Postmaster at Walnut
Hill, in Parala County, Texas, and his
deputy, young Ramey, have acen arrested on
a charge of mail robbery. Ramcy is reported
to have escaped from his captors. Sundry
violations are charged against them, all of
which Ramey has confessed.
The principal in the body stealing bust
ness at Chattanooga, Tenn, is a man named
Jackson, who was candidate for Alderman
at the recent election. The express Office
books show that he had shipped several sus-
picious boxes recently to parties in Cincin-
natl and Atlanta, and in his possession when
arrested was found letter from J. W. Will
liam~ of Atlanta, acknowledging the receipt
of a body, and for which 50 was inclosed.
Boxes were shipped as containing fish OF
furs.
A recent dispatch from Atlanta, Ga.
>iNS init u nlilnbcI Oh L. . deputy laT-
sialS, who had been raiding about tn a
county, We're surrounded by large fore, o,
armed moou@hiners and forced to surrender
their prisoners, among them n man alleged
to be the leader Of the moonshincrs. The
Deputies surrendered without Il fight, but
of their number was wounded and left
III fcucc corner for dead by the mountain
GERS. The Deputies haze left the county.
Sheriff wood and three Deputies Green,
Blackstone aud Davis, went to arrest ne
gro desperate named Sparks, at his house,
three miles from Navisto, Tex. Sparks ran
out, and finding himself face to face with an
officer shot at him. The officers returned
the lire, kiili 9 sparks.
A fced-store at Austin, Tex, was burned
on the morning Of the 30;h. After the fire
WAS eXtinguished, the charred remains of Il
young man named Billy Watson, who slept
i'll the store, were found i'll the ruins. 1t is |
suspected that Watson was killed and the |
place set ON fire to destroy evidence Of the
crime.
a CORRESPONDENT of the San Fran |
cisco Bulletin says that Alaska is s; |
pleasant country to live in, notwith-