American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-12-20
S0ETHERN GLEANINGS.

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Among other recent and Noteworthy eyf1
dences of the Improvement of the coior5d
people in Georgia, says the Atlanta C0Rsti-
tuition, is the fact that during the present
sfison they have held two agricultural fairs,
one aI nrili.I aid OF" at La Grange. We
are told that the displays at Dotn tt:esF eShi-
billions were more than creditable to the
thrift and industry of the negroes, and that
the competition for the premiums offered
was characteristic and lively. The pro-
gramme of each fair was yarfSs Sttr The
contests and amusements usual with SUCH
exhibitions, and in each instance the fair re-
ceived the patronage and support of whites
rs well as blacks.
Mrs. Wlry ltessel. widow, of Newport,
IT,, oil the Stu drowned herself in eisterp.
She hadlost the pension papers 81 Her lat.
husband, and fear that she could not recover
them led her to this act.
- AT Rockbridge, Va, on the Sth, Jacob
sylos, aged 81, had a quarrel with his wife.
Che went to q church meeting, and while she
Was gone he cui piets 81 -'ot,es-Iine, tied
it to a rafter and hanged himself.
Charles Woods (colored) has been sem
fenced to be hung at Memphis, February 2,
for the murder of Mrs. w. C. Foster, COM
.nstted last January.
Information reached SIN kntrnio. Tex,
on the 9Th, of a raid of % MeXicans on NJ. Z.
Aliens stock ranch on the Lower Rio Grande.
The marauders crossed from Mexico, visited
the ranch, tied the inmates to trees, and rob-
hr,i the place OF all the money and valuables
and large numbef Of horses aid mules.
Emigration Commissioner Killebrew OF
Tennessee will soon sail for Europe, in the
hope of inducing emigrants to this country
to settle in that State.
1t IL proposed Mt Vicksburg to change
the channel of the Yazoo tsivef Try turning
it into the old channel of the Mississippi.
This would give the city prominent
river front, and save it from the fast APP
preaching fate of being left high and dry.
"A contract has been let for building a
railroad to connect Pensacola, Fla, and Sell
MIA, Ala.
The Morgan, Louisiana and Texas Rail-
road has been opened to New Iberia. Work
on the road is steadily pro- crossing, and 1t
will only be few months before its trains
will be running into Houston.
The Memphis and Charleston Railroad
has been leased for 20 years to the East
Tennessee and Virginia Railroad, which
road has been controlling il under tempo
rary arrangements. The lessees guarantee
a payment of per cent. interest on I,225,
900 worth of bonds of the road.
The Regulators of Elliott County, KY,
have recently called upon a number of indi-
viduals known or suspected to be guilty Of
various fragrant crimes or misdemeanors,
and after giving them number of lashes
advised them to leave the country within n
hours.
The Memphis cotton crop report, giving
average returns to Nov. %, shows the fol-
lowing averages: 77.5 per cent picked;
picking to be completed on Dec. "a; 10 per
per cent. increase In crops and 1925 per
cent. increase in lint. The Nashville report
shows an increase in crop of about 30 per
cent. and shows about three-fourths of crop
marketed.
The United States officers are making a
determined raid upon moonshiners :"
throughout Georgia.
:. AT the recent meeting in Philadelphia of
The stockholders OF the Texas and Pacific
Railroad, a mortgage of So, 900 per mile OIL
the Rio Grande Division, for the extension
of the road from Fort Worth to the Rio
Grande, was authorized. Tine gross earn
ings Of the road for the last six months were
81, 291, l7O, of which S694,512 were profits.
"A man giving his name as Claudius A
Hood was arrested, the other day, in Bogue-
phalia Swamp, Miss, and taken to Green
vile for trial before United States Commits
sioner Ferguson, on charge OF counterfeit
ing United States silver coin. He claims to
be native of New York, molder by
trade, and respectfully connected. The
evidence against him is said to be concIus-
i've.
The Virginia General Assembly have elect
ed the following State officers: 7. I. Fount-
leroy, Secretary; John E. Massey, Auditor;
L I Ax,Ii rnrl,t
Reynolds, Urea surer; II. f. Walber, Super
intendent of Public Printing. The Read
justers have full control of the State Govern
ment.
Leading Democratic citizens of Rich
mond County, Virginia, headed by Charles
Pitts, their recently elected member of the
Legislature, recently petitioned Judge Jones
10 include within the jury list suca of the
colorcd citizens of the county as the Court
shall think well qualified to serve rs jurors.
They say the step is both proper and i'm
portant, as they believe this class of fellow
citizens entitled to representation, which
right is the bulwark OF all civil liberty.
Judge Jones granted the order.
The county officers of Wheeler County
Texas, who were brought before the United
States Court at Dallas for alleged violation
of the revenue laws, were all discharged,
the Grand Jury failing to find a true bill.
The Grand jury has indicted Lieut.. II. o.
Flippes (colored) and Capt. Nolan, both of
the 10Th Cavalry, for unlawfully furnishing
troops to Deputy Marshal johnson with
which to make the arrests.
William Kay of Fort Clark, Tex, while
extracting an old load from gun, exploded
it. His wife was Immediately in front of the
muzzle at the time and received the con-
tents through the abdomen. After suffering
IL hours she died.
Judge j. ID. Gilmore, prominent citi-
zen of Columbus, Tex, was shot and almost
instantly killed on the 18th by J. j. Harrison,
City Marshal, who was drunk. There was no
provocation. Harrison was jailed.
-Uriah NJ. Cooper has been tried and con-
victed at Fort Smith, Ark, for the murder
of Robert A. Donnelly, railroad man, at
Caddo, in March, 1877. The murderer fled
to North Carolina, where he was arrested.
BY the breaking of the dam of an ice
pond, IS miles north of Nashville, Tenn, on
the 10th, two children of VIM. McCroy, one
girl aged 8, and Il boy aged 3, were
drowned.