American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-01-31
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

Jacksonville and Russellville, Ark. by
which it is claimed shipments from Boone,
SeaIcy and Newton Counties, that have here
tofore gone to st. Louis, will be diverted to
Little Rock-was the occasion OF much
jubation. A train of 800 wagons loaded
with produce and accompanied by a large
delegation of citizens of the counties named
arrived in Russellville on the 10th, and the
delegates thence proceeded to Little Rock
by rail. At both Russellville and Little Rock
the newcomers were handsomely enter
tanned.
1t is believed that between 800 and 400
miles of railroad will be built in Texas dur
ing the present year. The Galveston, Har-
risburg and San Antonio Road, from Hous-
ton to San Antonio, is making arrange
ments to push its extension at once to Ell
Paso.
Coy. Wilt and Lieut.. Governor S. ID.
McEnery of Louisiana were inaugurated on
the 14th. Gov. Wilt sent long message to
the Legislature, much of it devoted to a re-
equalization of the new Constitution and
pointing out legislation necessary to give it
effect.
AT Hinton Station, Scott County, KY,
on the 18th, Henry Green shot and killed
Alcade Stubs in cold blood. The parties
had previously quarreled, but at the time of
the shooting Stubs was unarmed and plead
ed with Green for his life.
The working men at Houston, Tex, have
organized a Vigilance Committee, 1000
strong, for the purpose of Kidding the city
and suburbs of tramps, who have congregat-
ed there by hundreds and are committing all
kinds of depredations.
Miss Elizabeth Hammond, young and
pretty girl of about %, has been committed
70 no uinia toto TO
out a sentence of three years for horse
stealing in Russell County. The fair pris-
oner belongs to highly respectable family
| in that section, is well educated, and refined
i'll appearance. She is petite in form, with
soft, dark brown eyes and chestnut curls,
with a face of peculiar attractiveness. This
| is believed to be the first case where a wom-
an has been convicted on the charge
of horse stealing, and is certainly the
| only one of the kind that ever occurred in
Virginia.
AT Elberton, Ga, on the 14th, Perry
Gunter and Lindsay Cleveland were blown
out of a well while making blast. The
bodies were terribly mangled, and pieces Of
flesh scattered all around the surface of the
ground, near the opening Of the well.
AT New Liberty, Owen County, KY, on
the 18th, ID. G.. Garvey shot and fatally
wounded his cousin, Frank Lewis. The
shooting grew out of feud of long exist
ence between the families of Joe and Tom
Carney and Mrs. Daniel Lewis, their sister,
who live on adjoining farms.
"A desperate and fatal fight took place
recently between two brothers, Alexander
and Ed. jenkins, on one side, and T. b. and
Jack Mcdonald on the other, about IL niles
south of Bastrop, Tex, Jack Mcdonald was
shot and instantly killed, and T. B. Melon
aid slightly wounded.
| II. w. House, one of the oldest and best
known citizens of Houston, Texas, died sud-
denly of paralysis at San Antonio on the
18th.
Henry Van Pelt, engineer in Van Ars-
dell's distillery near Harrodsburg, KY, on
the 18th was crushed to death by being
drawn in between a pair of cogwheels.
An association for the manufacture of
wine, with capital Of $4,000, has been or
ganzed in Randolph County, Ga. Grape
culture has been carried to great perfection
in that county.
Nine hundred MANNED ex-COnfederate
soldiers have applied to the State of Georgia
for artificial limbs.
Among the Alabama contributors to the
Hood fund were the children of General Jo-
seph Wheeler, who prepared bale of cot
sum of $256.5O.
Mr.. Steddart, of Pensacola, Fla, has
beyond doubt the largest fig orchard in
America at his Fairnil Hill place, just be-
yond Pensacola. He has $500 fig trees, of
which 800 are bearing, and all Of them are
of the various fine varieties from Europe,
Asia and Africa. He has recently planted a
lot Of 2 900 received from France.
The State debt Of Mississippi is 50 ,61S,-
900.47. During the past two years the debt
has been reduced $220, 900. The cash bal
ance in the Treasury Dec. 81, 1879, was $780,
757.14.
Arkansas ranks next to Texas as a cot
ton-producing State.
Monroe Reed, living three miles from
Charleston, S. c., is a thrifty farmer. From
II acres he gathered 800 bushels of corn,
each ear II inches long, and weighing lone
and quarter pounds apiece. That is hard
to beat.
The steamer Jay Hardy, from Memphis
to Shawnee Village, was sunk on the 18th at
Island No. 40, by tree falling from a cav
ing bank. The Captain and crew swan
ashore. The boat and cargo are total loss
Loss, $4,000; no insurance.
The National Bank at Morganfeld, KY,
was entered by burglars on the night of the
~oih, VIM suSSccuSA III SttlillS III SllNe CT.
They blew the safe door off, but could not
open the time burglar lock. They stole three
horses and rode away with their booty.
The Lee Association of Mobile celebrat-
ed the anniversary Of Gen. Lees birthday,
Jan. 10, by grand parade, banquet and ball.
On the Goth, the first locomotive passed
over the new and magnificent iron railway
drawbridge Of the Louisiana Western Rail-
road, over the Sabine River, seven miles
from Orange, Tex, and connecting Louisiana
with Texas. 1t is 400 feet long, with draw
of POO feet. Only IA miles of track remain to
be completed between Orange and Lake
Charles, La.
The breaking Of ground for the new
sewer system of Memphis took place on the
21st, with appropriate ceremonies. President
Porter threw out the first shovelful Of earth
and other prominent officials and citizens
pulled off their coats and made the dirt tiy
for few minutes each. 1t is intended to |
have 500 men at work by the LIST of February.
THERE is point in the geography of |