American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-07
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

-JbHu MillHlnH anu Ell. Connolly, INu
prisoners confined in the Jail at Newport,
KY, occupied the safne cell. On the morn
ing Of the DIST they quarreicd about their
sleeping arrangements and both clinchcH
in hand-to- hand struggle. Connolly WIS
getting the better of Manning, !~hen tlIh
latter drew Il razor out of his pocket ana
siashed his adyersary's throat from ear TO
cdr. Connolly was considered to be ecner-
ally a good iitured and inoffensive man,
while his murderer .ras the reputation Of a
bully and desperate.
Near Richmond, Va, George S. G.. Wes-
ley Summers, ayouth Of Is, married against
the wishes of his father. The latter succeed
ed in inducing the boy to come home, when
he beat him in a most horrible manner. The
son, to put lin end 10 his physical suffering
and notification, committed suicide:
The sugar boiler at ID. II. Carroi's pfaii=
tation, on the Barrataria, in Louisiana, ex-
pioded on the Goth, killing Arthur Parrier,
chief engineer, Willis Wright, colorcd, and
colored man, name unknown, ard eerious-
ly wounding 13 others, some of whom arc
not expected to recover.
The Sharp County Court house at Even
ling Shade, Ark, was fired by incendiaries
and completely destroyed on the night of the
Goth, together with all the County records.
Loss, S2O,OO0; no insurance.
On the 23d n construction train on the
Virginia Midland Road at Rocktsh Station,
Is miles south of Charlottesville, ran off the
track at the bridge down an cmbankment 80
feet, killing Conductor Dabney Wilson and
two brakmen, and seriously injuring Capt
ii. ID. Luckert and six road hands. Six cars
were completely wrecked.
The report of the Prison Sanitary Com
10.
Penitentiary describes deplorabIe state of
affairs. The Committee finds that there are
eight coiycts confined there who positively
can not live longer than few months.
There are ut least 80 others, some of whom
are confined to their beds, who in all proba-
bllity can not live longer than the latter part
of this spring and about 200 others who are in
Il state of debility and weakness, practically
uniting them for duty or work. Bad drain
age, accumulated filth. overcrowded cells,
yards and workshops, and lack of proper
food, are given as the principal evils to be
remedied.
Two tramps undertook to rob and muir
der man in Tuscumbia, Ala. but they were
weak from long privations, while he was
robust, and the consequence was that he
killed one and fatally wounded the other.
Mrs. IIennen, the grandmother of the
Hood orphans, has concluded to pur-
chase home for the children
at Austin, Texas. The house and
lot have already been selected at a cost
of about $4,000, and she will remove there
with her ten sacred charges on the first OF
May.
The Lower House Of the Kentucky
Generel Assembly has passed a bliss to 80
the whipping-p post law. The
EpI hi fh.. u sI,.
sembly, but was defeated by the casting vote
of Lieut.. Coy. Underwood.
The Sugar-planters' Association OF
Louisiana have appointed 4 committee to
thoroughly investigate the subject of mark
ing abuses.
The difference between the horse and
the mule market in this CITY is Just this.
says the Atlanta Constitution: A drover
can get any price that he may ask for good
mule, whereas horse has to be sold ut any
price that he will bring.
Two emigrant agents, Windlcy and
Hughes, We're arrested at Madison, Ga, on
the 9th, charged with encouraging emigra-
ton from Georgia to Mississippi. The law
provides that emigrant agents shall pay tax
of $500 for carrying on such business. The
two Were subjected to trial and fined in the
agents had made quite an inroad into the
working class of the community, causing
scores of violations of contracts between
and their laborers.
"A few days since. r. +. Avery & Son,
pillow manufacturers, Atlanta, Ga, received
two barrels, which, being opened, were
found to contain three corpscs, packed in
As they dealt in no goods of that
kind the police were notified, and search re-
vcaled the fact that they We're shipped to
Avery, druggist, for the Atlanta Eclectic
Medical College. The circumstance, with
the recent graveyard transactions, created
unusual excitement.
The South Carolina Supreme Court has
decided the Tax Levy Act passed by the last
invalid, and refuse the Attorney
petition for mandamus against the
General to compel him to pro-
ceed with collection. There will be an eX-
ira session in February.
Andrew Irwin, 4 Georgia wife murderer,
was arrested in Kaufman County, Tex, on
the 25th, and will be turned over for trial.
AT Sherman, Tex, on the night of the
9th, City Marshal Sam Ball undertook to
eject from Il place known rs the cred
Light" young man named ALI. johnson,
who was on Il ''hurrah." johnson pulled
u revolver anu SnOt the Marshal through the
right breast, when the latter fired and shot
Johnson three times, causing instant death.
Another man, supposed to be Johnson's
brother, then shot Ball in the face. The
atter's injuries are very serious, but the
physicians say he may recover. johnson
was % years old and the son of Il respectable
farmer of Bonham, Fannin County.
Serious rioting occurred recently at Col
umbia and Liberty Furnaces, Shenandoah
County, VA, on account of the substitution
Of colored for white laborers. The white
attacked the negroes, two of the
latter being shot and seriously wounded.
The Sheriff called on the Governor for mill
tary assistance, and company ordered
from Winchester to the locality of the at
tack.
S. o. Edmonson Of Enterprise, Miss,
has received letter from A. S. johnson,
Land Commissioner at Topeka, Kansas, re-
luesting him, if possible, and for humanity's
sake, to prevent any more negroes from
eaving for Kansas, the condition of the large
number of those now there being described
Is truly pitiable.
Connecticut Economy.