American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-03-06
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

The fourth trial Of VIM. Early, at Nc
Kinney, Tex, for the murder of Charles
Winter, resulted in a verdict Of murder in
t c first degree, the penalty being imprison-
ment in the Penitentiary for life. Early
and Winter came to Texas together from
Iowa, and the murder was committed on the
day the two left Mckinney for the West.
The evidence was entirely circumstantial,
but apparently conclusive. The first trial
resulted in conviction, but the case was taken
to the Court Of Appeals, reversed and re-
manded. In the second and third trials the
jury hung. The father of Winter was pres
ent at every trial, and has expended over
$4,000 in securing his conviction.
"A fight took place recently in the Pan
handle of Texas between two white men
and thirty Indians. One Of the men was
wounded, and mule killed. The Indians
surrounded and took them prisoners. A de-
tachment of twenty United States soldiers
brought deIiverance, captured the Indians,
and took them to Fort Sill. - -s
Some one has figured out that sugar made
in Louisiana costs $40 per hogshead to pro-
duce, and from one and half to two hogs
heads can be made to the acre, worth from
$I20 to $160.
John DOZier, a farmer at Deep Creek
near Norfolk, Va, made himself obnoxious
to his neighbors by enforcing the fence law
The other night his house was surrounded
by mob, who kept up fusilade until Do
zier and a colored man left the house by a
rear door, attempting to escape to the woods.
The colOred man was struck by ball and
killed. No arrests were made.
AT Claysville, Harrison County, KY, on
the 22d, Thornton Mitchell shot and fatally
wounded James Snodgrass while the latter
was quietly seated in his own store. The
only provocation was that Snodgrass had,
as charged by Mitchell, threatened to whip
a boy for some misdemeanor. The murder
er fled.
Mrs. Clarke, a respectable married lady
living in the Garry neighborhood, near New
Linden, Cass County, Tex, was recently
murdered, after being brutally outraged.
Three men were arrested, one of whom con-
fessed the crime. He was horribly mutt
lated by a mob, his clothing saturated with
coal oil and set on fire, and he was after
wards hanged.
The little town of Cedar Chapel, in
Harnden County, Tenn, sixty miles north
east of Memphis, was visited by a terrible
hurricane on the night of the 18th, which
blew down a number of buildings whereby
several persons were injured. Three
buildings took fire during the storm and
were burned down.
"A man, claiming to be from Kansas,
passing under the name of jackson (proba-
bly, an alias), recently played the confidence
game successfully at Sulphur Springs, Tex.
He represented himself as seeking home
and real estate Investments in Texas, and
IN ade terms for the purchase of piece of
residence property, but had no money
nothing but 5 900 check from a national
bank in Kansas on the First National Bank OF
New York. He wanted 81 900 on the check,
which he would leave for collection. Tom
linson, Henderson & Brothers, bankers at
Sulphur Springs, after carefully examining
the check, advanced him $3.50 on it, the
money to be applied as first payment on the
residence property. Mr.. Jackson imme-.
diately left the country and the bankers are
victimized. He was heard from going
through Little Rock. kilograms have been
sent to various cities for his apprehension.
Josie Tatum, young woman, commit
ed suicide at Nicholasvile, KY, by taking
arsenic. At the same time she gave dose
to man named Wilson, by concealing it in
IN apple. The man recovered, having got
an overdose. lie was married man, and
Miss Tatrrm's mother had forbidden her the
I'm the neighborhOod OF Sweetwater,
Tenn, the army worm is making sad havoc
of the growing wheat crop.
AT Hope, Lavaca County. Tex, VIM. Mar
tin and Felix Holland had q quarrel in the
street. Holland attempted to run to his
house after gun, but was prevented by
Martin, when Holland drew knife and
stabbed his adversary in the neck, but not
fatally. Martin then drew pistol and fired
at Holland, hitting him twice-once in the
arm and one ball passing through the body.
Hollands mother, aged 20, ran out Of the
house to see what was the matter, when a
stray bullet struck her in the stomach, NOR
tally wounding her. l--- e..-
r.. Alexander, an old resident of the vi
cinity of Gonzales, Tex, got mad at his wife
and fell to beating her, when her son, Henry
Bunting, seized a gun and killed his step
father The murderer then went to town
and surrendered himself. 1 ts
A recent visitor to jefferson Davis, on
his farm at Beauyoir, says that he is hard at
work on his memoirs, his cotton crop for
next season will yield 1000 bales, and his
wife and nephew, Gen. Joseph Davis, are
with him.
Mark Sumner, Baptist minister, has
been sentenced by Judge Brown, in the
United States District Court at Louisville,
KY, to confinement for six years in the AL
bany On. " Penitentiary, for forging PEN
sion papers.
John Beason, farmer near Columbus,
Tex, the other night was aroused from bed
by loud shouting at the front gate. He arose,
not sIlspectiug danger, but soon he
opened the door he was fired on by unknown
persons and shot dead.
A boiler explosion occurred at CLIPS saw
mill, on Deer Creek, four miles below Green
vile, Miss, on the 9th. Two white men
and one negro were killed instantly, and
number of others horribly mutilated. VI.
Miss Mary Louise Allen, of Louisville,
KY, was very seriously burned the other
day by her clothing taking fire from CRATE.
Her mother and brother were badly burned
in trying to eXtinguish the flames.
The negro physicians of Tennessee met
at Nashville recently and organized a State
Medical Association, with DR.. j. NJ. jane
son as President.
Several hundred negroes from the vicin-
ity of Warrenton, N. c., are preparing to
ioin the exodus to Indiana.