American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-06-05
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS,

| ULEANlNUys
The following particulars are given of
recent most horrible murder near Edinburg
Tex: About midnight party of men, sup
posed to be MeXicans, arrived at Bishops
store, and said they wanted to buy goods
Bishop, who was asleep in the upper story o.
the building, put on his pants and went dowr
| stairs. As soon as he began waiting on the
gang one of them drew an immense bowie.
knife and struck his victim ovel
the head, tearing the scalp open
from the forehead to the back
of the head. Bishop fell and was then dis
patched with eleven stabs, literally pinnins
him to the floor. The murder was accom-
plished so quietly that Mrs. Bishop, who
was upstairs, knew nothing of it until the
| assassins entered her apartment, after rob-
bling the store of $500 in coin. Mrs. Bishop
and her colored servant were most horribly
maltreated by the scoundrels. Bishop, the
murdered man, was from Tennessee. He
had been married but short time.
Prof. ii. NJ. Gathright, Principal of the
| Henderson (Texas) College, died at his home
on the 9th. He was one of the most promi-
nent educators in the South, having been at
the head Of the State Agricultural and Me-
chanical College at Bryan, from which he was
deposed recently in a disagreement among
the faculty of that institution. He was a
Mississippian, and had filed prominent edu-
cational positions in that State.
AT Abingdon, Va, on the oath, VIM.
Rife and S. A. Jackson, well known citizens
and business men, had a shooting affray,
growing out Of business quarrel. Rife was
shot four times, causing death in a short
time. Jackson was arrested.
WnO vxt0 xxytfI,
another named Bennett, was engaged driv-
ing a large herd northward, camped three
miles from Cleburne, Tex. They had quar-
relied about hours of relieving each other,
and finally Bennett stabbed his companion,
killing him almost instantly. The murderer
escaped.
The Southern Presbyterian General As
sembly at its recent session at Charleston,
S. c., in answer to the overture on the sub
ject of women preaching, took decided
ground against this innovation, but refused
to take steps toward so amending the Book
of Church Order as to make its language
more distinct. The next meeting will be
held at Coyington, Ky.
Mrs. Hannah Green, aged fifty five, liv-
ing with her brother in Louisville, KY, on
the oath committed suicide with arsenic.
The cause of the deed is enveloped in mys-
terry, and the only theory advanced is that
she sold cottage some time ago and went
to New York, where it is thought she lost
the money, causing alteration of the mind.
Col. Blanton Duncan has entered suit
against the Louisville COurier-Journdl
Company for So, 900 for SANDER, the cause of
the suit being an article published lately by
that paper charging Col. Duncan with being
connected with the Bloody Monday" affair
~ I1lo he Jor
to the above amount.
lanta, on the Goth, DIR. d. F. Knott, in a diff
ficulty with George Lee, fired at him, and
Col. b. F. McCollum. rushing in, took
Knott's pistol from him. John McKneely,
Town Marshal, soon came up and demanded
the pistol of McCOllum, who refused to give
it up. A fight ensued. Finally they were
separated, and McKneely went away. Soon
he returned with a double -barreled shOt-gu
and started to where McCollum stood. Nc
Collum picked up rock, and said: "Are
you going to shoot?" McKneely said, 1" Yes,
you,'' and fired both barrels. McCOl-
lum was literally riddled with shot, and fell
dying to the ground. The murderer fled
and Gov. CoIquitt has offered a reward for
his apprehension.
w. S. Parkes, better known as "Uncle
Buck, ," Of Vanceburg, Ky, for many years a
Justice of the Peace, committed suicide by
drowning in the Ohio River. Deceased was
eighty lone years of age.
"A Maysville (ky.) dispatch of the 18th
says the regulators have cut the telephone
wires between Catlettsburg and Louisa, and
have posted notices all over the county. |
the civil authorities not to attempt |
to hold Court. Several of the Lawrence
4 Ittr in, lafvh xrf
Sheriff's posse, afraid to venture to their |
homes. The excitement i'm Catlettsburg is |
intense, and troops were momentarily ex-
pected.
Mrs. b. NJ. Davis, the wife of a promi-
nent citizen of Bryan, Texas, had it given
out last September that she was drowned in
The bay. Her husband and friends mourned
her as dead, held funeral services, etc. 1t
now transpires that she eloped to New York
with man named McGraw, who has re-
Gently become conscience -smitten and in
'ormed Mrs. Davis father Of the whole af-
lair. The development creates a sensation
throughout the State, as the parties are all
widely known.
Ed. helms, the negro who assassinated
Rufus Armisted by shooting him in the dark
,ome time ago, near fernando, Miss, was
captured on the oath in Tunica County, Miss,
~ three colored men, who secure the $3.50
.eward offered for his body dead or alive.
The assassin was lodged in Jail at fernando,
,ut it was generally believed he would be
strung up without trial.
-Stonewall Jackson's widow and her
laughter, Miss Julia Jackson, will unveil
he Winchester, Va, monument to Stonewall
IN June Q.
During a recent rain storm the family of
?. NJ. Rountree, living near San Saba, Texas,
ook refuge in cave which soon became in
Undated, and two little boys were drowned.
The remainder Of the family were rescued
n perishing condition.
j. w. ParamOre, President of the
Texas and st. Louis Railroad Company, has
losed contracts with ii. NJ. Vaudeville for
he last of the uncompleted portion of the
Dad, between Tyler and Corsicana, dis
ance of seventy five miles, to be completed
october 1.
The Louisiana Republicans have nomin-
ted for Congress Taylor Beattie, George
williamson, James s. Matthews, and Charles
J. Anderson, for the Third, Fourth, Fifth,
nd Sixth Districts respectively.
FUNGOID ORIGIN OF WHOOPING
is worthy of note that the
ungoid origin of whooping cough, as
erted some years since by nj. Svet- ;
erich, seems to be confirmed by the