American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-11-01
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

A wilmington On. c. dispatch of the
18th says: To-day William and John Fish
! er, brothers, two of the most notorious
criminals in the State, were arrested and
sent to Jail. They have to answer for nu-
merous crimes. The one for which the
brothers were arrested to-day was the seclu-
sion of Tom johnson, one of the gang OF OUT
laws to which the two brothers belonged,
and subsequently abducting his wife and
carrying her off to South Carolina. On
the night she was abducted, she was
carried just outside the city limits, and kept
locked up in an old cellar for three days.
! The object of aDducting the woman does not
appear, and the Fisher brothers will not give
any clew. At the time that johnson was
run off by this gang he was charged with the
assassination of George Harper, a prominent
man in this county. Johnson's wife states
that he was murdered in a difficulty with
man near Cheraw, S. C.
AT Waco, Texas, on the 18th, d. b. Ken
iiedy, editor of the Sun, had an alteration
with William Brooks, another newspaper
man. Brooks struck Kennedy; the latter
| then drew a revolver and the former a knife
with which he stabbed his antagonist in the
neck, breaking off the blade Of the knife but
not inflicting a serious wound. Kennedy
meanwhile fired two shots at Brooks, neither
of which took effect. Both of the belliger-
ents were subsequently arrested.
-Frsbie, a white desperate, has been
sentenced to be hanged at Corsicana, Texas,
for the murder Of a negro, near Chatfeld, in
that county, short time ago. This makes
| three men in Corsicana to be hanged, the
others being Henry (colored) and Doran.
AT San Antonio, Texas ,on the Goth, intel
! ligence was received of a shocking tragedy
! twenty miles southeast of that city. A Mr..
Holdusen shot his best friend, f. S. Magnill,
killing him instantly. Holdusen had lost his
wife and daughter recently, and went crazy.
Magnill paid him visit after night to sit up
with him, and was shot through the heart
while entering the gate. Holdusen has been
| adjudged insane. Both were citizens of high
standing.
AT Memphis, on the Goth, Police Officer
| r. ID. jackson, colored, shot and killed Green
Smith, colored, chicken-thief, who resisted
arrest. He attempted to stab the officer with
a Bowie knife. The verdict of the Coroner's
Jury eXonerated Jackson.
To Opelika, Ala, there occasionally
comes a spotted woman. Her whole face
neck hands (and she says her entire body are
covered with large dark brown, white and
cream colored spots. The woman lives
about four miles north of the town and has
| been there several times.
Near Montgomery Landing, Ark, on the
night of the 18th, six negroes made an as
sault on the family of white man named
johnson, who occupied a flat-boat. They
first shot johnson, after which they abused
his wife in n most inhuman manner. They
then plundered the boat and cut it adrift,
leaving johnson, as they supposed dead, on
shore. He was more stunned than hurt,
however, and soon revived. The boat was
overhauled by the steamer o. w. Pearce and
the woman and children taken ON board and
cared for until they reached the next land
ing. The i'll used woman was left in most
critical condition.
VIM. King, colored, was brought before
the Criminal Court Of Fleming County, Ky,
for the unlawful marrying Of a white wom-
an. motion to quash was made on the
| ground that the laws of Kentucky conflicted
with the Fourteenth Amendment. The mo-
ton was overruled by Jos. NJ. Alexander,
Judge pro tem., and King was fined 500.
The case goes to the Court Of Appeals.
| AT Corsicana, Texas, on the night Of the
21st, party of 10 men went to what is
known as the Holiness Tabernacle" and
fOrcibly took therefrom the Rev. Haynes and
rode him on a rail. Haynes, it is alleged,
was forced to leave Sherman on account of
| Irregularities with young lady. He and
| his companions are termed religious fanatics.
| They claim to be sanctiied.
! j. c. Brantley, Town Marshal OF Whites
burg, Carroll County, Ga, recently shot and
killed a colored woman and her S-year-old
daughter, apparently without the slightest
| Justification. The Coroner's Jury returned
a verdict of murder in the first degree. The
murderer fled, but it was thought he would
| be captured.
N orth Texas is moving in the matter Of
receiving English immigrants. A delegation
| of English residents has been sent from Dali
las to meet coming colony at New Orleans
and present to them the advantages Of that
section of the State.
Miss Electra Griffin has recovered s., 900
damages and costs against Ransome NJ.
Avinger in the Orangeburgh Is. CO. Court,
for breach of promise of marriage. A beau
tifuI young babe was produced in Court by
plaintiff, the paternity of which she charged
upon defendant. The parties to the suit are
second cousins and belong to the best fami-
lies of the county. Avinger is now married
to another lady. He is rich and amply able
to pay the sum assessed.
Photographic correspondence between
TAYLOR Beattie and L. A. Wilt, Republican
and Democratic candidates for Governor of
Louisiana, has been published, in reference
to joint discussions throughout the State.
The proposition emanated from Mr.. Beattie.
Mr.. Wilt declined, on the ground that such
discussion would tend to "excite animosi-
ties, now happily fast passing away" and
for the additional reason that his appoint
mcnts for the canvass had already been pub
licly announced.
Gov. Roberts has pardOned out Of the
Texas Pcnitentiary all the boy convicts, num-
herring -. Some have served the larger
port ion of their sentences.
Two more Texas murderers have re-
ceived death sentences-S. S. Howard at
Ba>:rop and Warren Goodwin at Orange.
The Rev. Mr.. Goodnight of Corsicana,
one of the converts to the impious doctrines
OF the fanatic Haynes, has been declared in
sane and sent 10 the State Asylum.
Mrs. b. ii. Davis, wife of a prominent
lawyer at Bryan, Texas, was recently
drowned while bathing in the Gulf at Gal
weston.
THE practice of speculative insurance
on human life sometimes brings those
who indulge in it into disagreeable no.