American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-14
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

SUUIHEhN ULEANlNUSs
Extensive car-works Fare to be estab-
ished at Marshall, Tex, backed, it is said,
0y a capital stock Of 81 ,0O0, 200. The COM
pany is styled the " Marshall Car and Foun-
Try Company, )" with Charles Cobb of New
York President and John f. Dickson Of
Marshall VicePresident and General Man.
ager. Jay Gould is said to be fostering the
enterprise, with special reference to the ex-
tension of the Texas Pacific Railroad.
In Grantham Township, Wayne County,
N. c., Haywood and Wright Rainier, broth
ers, quarreled regarding a horse and buggy
owned by them in partnership. Haywood
picked up bar and struck his elder brother
a blow on the head, crushing his skull and
killing him. The murderer escaped.
Rev. p. Cyrus Lundy, colored, has en-
tered suit against the Texas Central Rail-
road Company for s., 900 damages under the
Civil-rights act, for election from a first
class coach at Dallas, Tex.
The Virginia Republican State Conven.
ton has been called to meet ut Staunton on
the 21st of April.
e. W. Cole, President of the Nashville.
Chattanooga and st. Louis Railway, has been
rendered the Presidency of the Cincinnati
Southern, and will probably accept it. By
through line from the Ohio River to Savan-
nah via the West Atlantic and Georgia Cen
trail.
The principals and seconds in the Burke
Hearsey duel ut New Orleans have been ar
rested and held to bail. The penalty under
the law for fighting duel in Louisiana is
$500 fine and Imprisonment for two years;
| seconds, 500 fine and Imprisonment for one
year.
An act to prevent and punish the inter-
marrying of races, passed at the last session
of the South Carolina Legislature, provides
that any persons offending shall be SUBJ
ject to a fine of not less than $500, or i'm
prisonment for not less than one year, or
both. at the discretion Of the Court. Any
clergymen or magistrate who shall unite in
the bonds Of matrimony persons of different
races is subject to the same penalty.
Joe Starnes, Deputy United States Mar
shall, who was looking for illicit distillers,
was shot and killed recently near GAINESVILLE,
Ga, on the Airline Railroad, by Bill Bolton,
another Deputy Marshal, in personal diff
Guilty.
| The Methodists of Georgia have decided
to erect a monument to the late Lovick
Pierce, D. d. 1t will be located in the yard
| of st. Luke's Church of Columbus, which
church was some years under the pastoral
care OF DIR. Pierce.
Miss Mildred Lee, daughter of the dead
Confederate General, is visiting in Washing
ton at the house of w. w. Corcoran, the
banker.
The final report of r. NJ. T. Hunter,
Treasurer of the Lee Monumental Associa-
ton, shows the total receipts to have been
| $50 ,569.6l.
The ice factory in New Orleans has in
troduccd new way of shipping fish, par
| ticularly red snappers. They are frozen in
cakes of ice, or rather cakes of ice arc
frozen around the fish, and in this condition
they are forwarded to all sections Of the
country.
| The South Carolina Board of Agricul-
tu-e has employed \ permanent chemist in
order that uniform analyses Of commercial
fertilizers may be obtained.
The monument of Stonewall Jackson,
to be erected in Metairie Cemetery, New
Orleans, is completed. The unwilling and
dedication ceremonies will take place on
February %. Hon. Il. j. Semmes will be
| the orator of the day. L. l.. Bayne, Presi-
dent of the association, will make the pres
entation, and Col Owen will respond The
ceremonies will be the occasion of a large
military turnout
| The Confederate monument to be erected
at Tuscaloosa, Ala, will be 26 feet in height,
and he cost will De 500. 1t will be of Ala
bama marble, quarried at Dickson.
| The largest sugar mill in the world will
soon be erected in st. Charles Parish, La.
The weight of the mill, including engine,
will be $50, 600 pounds.
The Memphis Directory, just published,
shows population of 40 1927 against 49,
491 last year.
| "A heavy snow-storm occurred through
out the South on the night of the LIST.
| The stone cutters, 60 in number, en-
ployed on the Memphis Custom house,
struck on the I'd, on account of disagreement
to wages and the discharge of the fore
man.
The cattle men of North Texas convened
at Henrietta on the I'd, for the purpose of
| forming combination to pool cattle ship
ments for the coming season. Each member
Of the comhi ion is required to give bond
in the sum OF 5000 Tor the faithful carrying
out of the contract entered into by the Ship
ping Committee. The object is TO ship all
cattle by the railroad giving the best rate.
| If frcights are not sufficiently low, the cat
tie, amounting to upwards of 1000 carloads,
are to be driven to Kansas City. The meet
| ing adjourned to reconvene at Jacksonboro,
March s.
Judge l.. f. BIeckley Of the Supreme
Court of Georgia has resigned, and Gov.
Colquitt has appointed Judge Martin j.
Crawford OF Columbus to fill the vacancy
| thus caused.
Eli Barner, Secretary and Treasurer of
the Longyiew and Sabine Valley Railroad
was recently killed by train his road
| He was well known a railroad builder.
| "A large number of Illicit distlleries have
recently been raided in the mountains Of
Rabun County, Ga. Eight prisoners were
brought in to Atlanta.
The Historical Society Of Tennessee has
purchased from Clark Mills bronze eqIcs-
TRAN statue of Gen. jackson. 1t is to be
identical in appearance with the one in
Washington and the one in New Orleans,
the three having been cast in the same
mold.
| "A large crop of Irish potatoes is being
| planted in some of the Louisiana par
| ishes.
The County Courthouse at Dallas, Tex,
was nearly destroyed by fire on the morning
of the 4th. 1t cost $3.50, 200. No insurance.
| Incendiarism SUSPECTED.
| PRINCE MILAN of Servia, who enter
tains, as is well known, the most ex-
travagant notions about the divine right
of kings, became recently greatly ex-