American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-03-20
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

evening of the 9th mutinied and, attacking
the guard,f escaped from custody. During
the attack several of the prisoners were
handling Frank McSherry, one of the guards,
pretty roughly, and in self-defense he pulled
a reyolved and fired, the ball missing his as
sailants and striking Patrick DAILY, prison.
er who was taking no part in the fight, in the
abdomen, killing him instantly. The attack
ing prisoners escaped unhurt.
Hon. Robert L. Montague died suddenly
at his home in Middlesex County, Va, on
the Sd, aged three years. He was Lieu
tenant Governor of the State with Gov.
Letcher during the early part of the late
war, and was subsequently elected a MEM
Der Of the Confederate Congress.
| The annual camp meeting at Biloxi,
Miss, will begin June IL and continue ten
days.
-Covington, KY, has been agitated a
good deal over the enforcement of the Sum-
day law, particularly against saloon-kcep-
ers, and the latter, as a method of retalia-
ton, agreed to close all their places of bust
ness on Sunday, the It'll, and devote their
time to obtaining information against every
| body who performed common labor on the
Lords day. The result was large number
of arrests, principally Of carriage drivers
who brought people to church. Every place
of business was closed, except drug stores,
and they sold nothing except medicines on
written prescriptions.
Charles Cox, who, in company with
Monroe Spradley, murdered peddIer named
McAnnally, in Pamela County, Tex, in the
spring of 1876, has, after repeated delays,
been brought to trial at Carthage, and sem
fenced to ninety-nin years in the Peniten-
tiary. Spradley broke Jail some years ago,
and is said to be in Mexico.
Judge w. H. Hayes, of the United States
Court, died suddenly of heart disease, at his
home in Louisville, Ky, on the It'll. He was
80 years of age. Judge Ballard, whom he
succeeded, also died suddenly and of the
same disease.
-wess Tolls, of Smithfeld. KY, who last
summer shot and killed a negro named Bry-
ant for being too intimate with his wife,
and who was cleared, returned to Smithfeld
from Colorado the other day, and, meeting
his wife, cut her throat from ear to ear, kill
ing her instantly.
Grayson County, Ky, on the night of the
9th, the victims being John and William
Gwyn and the murderer Henry Kite, their
brother -in-law. Both were killed with an
ak, while in bed at Kites house, where they
had come at the solicitation of Mrs. Kite, to
take her and her children away, on account
Of her husbands shameless liaison with her
own sister, which had been continued fol-
months in her house. Kite fled.
-Isham Cupps, negro, has been sem
fenced to death by the District Court at Fort
Worth, Tex, his offense being the criminal
assault of white lady.
Abe Shwarts, Jr., boy only seventeen
years old, is the largest cotton buyer al
Dallas, Tex. He recently purchased, on
telegram order direct from Liverpool for
immediate shipment, 900 bales, for which he
paid $55, 200.
The safe of Johnston, Rogers & Co., Of
Mariana, Lee County, Ark, was rifled by
burglars on the night Of the Sth Of $4,000 in
currency, and State and county warrants.
w. M. Embry, of Richmond, KY,
Clerk of;the Madison Circuit Court, COM
mitted suicide on the night of the 9th. He
was forty two years of age and unmarried.
Long continued ill-health. is supposed to
have been the cause.
The Legislature of Virginia adopted
resolution relative to the recent decisions of
the United States Supreme Court, declaring
that the rulings threaten the very existence
of State Governments, and place the judi
ciary of the State completely under control
of Congress. Virginia's Senators and Repre-
sentatives in Congress are urged to work for
the repeal of all laws which tend to the eX-
ercise of powers not delegated to the United
States by the States. The Legislature adj
iourned sine die, on the 9Th, without passing
the appropriation bill.
"A great quantity of mining machinery
has arrived recently at San Antonio, Tex,
for wagon transportation to Mexico. Ex-
tensive mining operations will be inaugural
ed as soon as the necessary machinery can
be sent forward.
Judge John F. Wheeler, editor of the
Fort Smith ark Independent, died on the
18th, aged y years. He was connected with
the Fort Smith press for over thirty years,
and served a term of four years each as
County Judge and State Senator.
The Texas Court Of Appeals, in a de-
cision affirming the Constitutionality of the
bell-punch law, says: Sc The tax in ques-
ton is tax upon the business of retail
dealer in spirituous, vinous or malt liquors,
and not a tax upon the property occupied
in such business. F."
Deputy Sheriff W. L. Brown, of Casey
County, KY, while attempting to arrest
James Coffey on a warrant, for carrying con-
cealed weapons, was shot by him with a
musket, four bullets taking effect and in
Hlctlng mortal WOUNDS.
A quarrel occurred on the Sth between
two lads, Newton Shannon, aged fourteen,
and Joseph McCreight, aged sixteen, en-
ployed in two adjacent business houses in
Shelbyville, Ky, in which the latter was shot
by the former and died few days after
ward from his wound. twas proven before
the jury that McCreight had first drawn
knife upon Shannon, and the shooting was
declared to have been justifiable.
Henry Simons, a farmer, living in Nc
Cracker County, KY, on the 9th shot and
killed ALI. Hudson, who had just returned
from the Penitentiary, having been pardoned
by Gov. Blackburn after serving three OF
fifteen years for incest. The difficulty was
about land title.
AT Valley Station, twelve miles from
KY, on the Ellzabethtown and
Paducah Railroad, on the 18th, shooting
ARRAY occurred between George nj. Alsop
and Robert E. Kennedy, in which the latter
was fatally wounded. Alsop was arrested.
SOME years ago a wealthy old bach
elor in Hoboken, n. j., named Joseph
L. Lewis, died, leaving his property,
valued at $1,O0O,000, to the United
States Government, for which he APP
peared to cherish unusual respect. The
singularity of the case excited the
cupidity of several sharpers, and a con-
spiracy was entered into for the pur-
pose of producing "widow" who
would contest the will, secure the
and divide handsomely. In
due time some of the schemers, in
the woman, were arrested on