American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-10-25
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

"A negro family, consisting of an old me-
gress named Esther, her son, Charles, a
younger boy, girl, and other children, rent
cd, worked and occupied a cabin on a farm
Of John Aldridge, four miles from Orange
vile, in Fannin County, Texas. George Aid
ridge, son of John, accused Charley,
Esther's sou, with stealing, when Charley
and two other negroes attempted an assault
| on Aldridge, but were prevented by
two white men. At midnight, old
Esther's house was surrounded by a party
of armed and masked men. They called for
Charley, but were refused admittance, when
the maskers fired into the house, wounding
Esther's daughter in the forehead. Charles
Justice, another negro who lived in the fam
lily, returned the fire, hitting one of the
maskers, Samuel Gilley, in the stomach
and wounded him MORALLY. The mask
ers then became furious and went to
breaking down the door, when Justice es-
capped by climbing through hole in the roof.
John Washington and two boys also escaped
in the darkness. The masked men then
forced old Esther and her children to come
out, and, as they did so, fired upon them,
killing both old Esther and her son Charley.
George Aldridge and Thomas Fullerton were
arrested, charged with being members of the
party, and were Jailed, in default of $1,000
bail.
C. p. Williams, a young man living in
Cleveland County, Nc, got into dispute
with his father the other night about a mule.
His stepmother stepped up and said some
thing about the matter which offended him,
when he drew pistol and shot her dead
The father and son were both drunk. The
murderer fed to escape arrest.
The Dripcipa1 bIISiuesS norton of Rrvup
Texas, was DESTROYED by fire on the 18th.
The fire originated in a lamp explosion.
"A young negro employed upon the plan
tetion Of Isaac sncol, near eoncordia, y. C.,
became offended at something Sneel said to
him, and for revenge forcdbly abducted
Sneel's daughter, aged about ID. A posse of
citizens started out to recover the child, but
had not been successful when this report
was sent.
In street fight at Henderson, Texas,
on the 18th, Charles Alexander stabbed
Ward Cornelius in the bowels; the latter
then shot his assailant in the shoulder, and
the fight was ended by Alexander shooting
Cornelius in the abdomen, from the effects
Of which he died.
The first session of the new Federal
District Court opened at jefferson, Texas,
ON the 18th.
Bill Davis has been sentenced to be
hanged at Lockhart, Texas, Nov. 6, for the
murder of Dolly Hodspath. -
The Georgia General Assembly adjourned
sine die on the 18th after an adjourned ses-
sion of 1O6 days, during which time two inn
parchment trials took place. Also con-
demnatory and very damaging reports were
made by other special investigating commit
tees against the heads of other departments,
i,Uf fba 10 Loo latI re
in the history of the State.
Miss Ruth Wood, beautiful and ac-
complished young lady of Granville Court
house, N. c., recently eloped with blind
man, named Weaver The latter is a we'll
to-do farmer, young, handsome and intelli
gent, and the only objection Ruth's parents
had to the marriage was that he was blind.
The Jail at Bryan, Texas, was set on fire
and burned on the morning of the 18th, by a
negro horse-thief from Grimes County, in
order to escape. His cries were not heard
till too late, and he persisted in the flames.
Collector Wade, of the Third District of
Georgia, informs the CommissionerofIn Internal
Revenue that a special force in attempting to
destroy an illicit distillery i'm Ebert County
were repulsed by body of armed men and
obliged to return to Elberton for additional
aid and arms.
Memphis Apdfdnclte proposes that
the old town be entirely depopulated and
destroyed, and that new Memphis be built
at place known as Bartlett, IL miles dis
tant. 1t suggests that "half a dozen rail
road tracks" could do all the transporting
between the new city and the river.
I'm Martin County, N. c. on the 14th Peter
Freeman was waylaid and shot and killed by
Robert Outcridge. Freeman's wife was ar
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object being to get rid Of her husband so as
to marry Outeridge. The guilty parties are
all under arrest.
AT Corsicana, Texas, Rev. T. NJ. Good
night, of the New Holiness sect, who last
winter published pamphlet purporting to
be the visions of a prophecy, has been ad
judged crazy by Jury, and will be sent to
the asylum. -hf
-Grasshoppers have appeared in large
numbers in North Texas, but no damage
from them is reported.
"A fiourishing whisky ring is reported to
have been unearthed in CASTOR County, n.
c., by United States detectives. The local
revenue officers and the distillers were work
ing very profitably together, so it is said.
John Mills went to Mooresville, N. c.,
with bale Of cotton, sold it, drank heavily
during the day, and in attempting to get in
to his wagon to go home he fell to the ground,
striking upon his head, and was instantly
killed.
king Fisher, the notorious ruffian and
frontier murderer, who escaped from the
Rangers, near Laredo, has voluntarily sur
rendered to the authorities at Uvalde, Tex
as, and will stand trial on numerous indict-
ments.
AT Moorehead, KY, recently, Alvin Bow
ling, saIoon-keeper, shot and killed Joshua
Hammond, while the latter was rushing at
him with large butcher-knife. The killing
was considered justifiable. ri
Col. John NJ. Wade, one of the members
of the Convention which framed the Declara-
ton Of Independence of Texas, and vet
eran of San Jacinto, died at his home in
Austin on the 9th inst.
In shooting encounter at Hardinville,
Shelby County, KY, on the 18th, between
Alfred Bentley and James Bright, the latter
was fatally wounded Bright was the ag-
gressor, and fired twice ut Bentley, but the
latter was the better marksman. He was