Huntsville gazette., 1882-12-02
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.


Natchez, and an associate of Cant. Cowt.en
In the outlet scheme, testified before the
river Commission in New Orleans that he
hau oeen on the river forty-six years, most
Oh tne time running between New Orleans
ahd ficksburg; made usually 120 landings
gong up and eighty coming down; the river
WAS constantly changing its channel; banks
cave at low stages; often two or three acres,
Win trees growing on them, fall into the
water at one time; the greatest deposits were
curing the flood stage; the longer the dura-
lion OF high water the greater the deposit Of
sediment. After last season the average
depth between New Orleans and Vicksburg
was twelve feet at low water. The river
rose flfty feet in the food of 1882, and is
deeper now than when he first saw it years
ago, and navigation has been improved.
This effect he ascribes to the levee and the
confining OF the water. The construction Of
the Jetties and the works in the Southwest
Pass have backed up the water in the river.
and the disastrous effects of the flood in 1882
were due to these causes.
Thomas B. Morton, the check-raiser,
who escaped from the Jail at Memphis,
Tenn, some weeks ago, has just been
brought back from Georgia. Morton, after
making his escape, proceeded to Atlanta,
where he met young man named Billings.
The two formed partnership, under the
firm name Of Longshaw & Co. Morton repre-
sented Longshaw and Billings the company
They proposed to do general commission
brokerage business. Morton was familiar
with this branch Of trade, as he had been in
the employ OF Mr.. George Mackey, In Men,
phls, whose check he had raised from 800 to
S6UO. His first move was to write letters to
all The Eastern houses with whom be had
become acquainted during his service with
Mr.. Mackey, soliciting business. 1t was the
handwriting Of one of these letters which
led to his detection and arrest.
E. O. Glenn, a store-keeper at Bowl
ing Green, KY, has been held in $500 bail
for shooting John Valentine. Valentine and
two companions, while drunk, went to
Glenn's store, beat and otherwise abused
him, helped themselves to his goods, threw
some in the street and carried others away.
They made three visits to the store, in each
Of which Glenn was mistreated. The last
time Valentine started toward the store,
pistol in hand, Of which fact Glenn was
warned. When inside Valentine took
stone from his pocket and threw it at Glenn,
striking him on the shoulder. The latter
| fired two shots in rapid succession, one
striking Valentine in the abdomen. Ply
sicians pronounce the wound probably fatal.
L. j. Graham, Superintendent of the
Texas Lunatic Asylum says there are fully
1000 insane persons in the State, and that
the addition 10 the asylum now In course
Of erection, and for which the Seventeenth
Legislature made an appropriation OF $780,,
000, will be completed in few months, but
that then the accommodations will be made
quate. He recommends further additions
to the building and the purchase of at least
200 acres more ground in addition to what
they now have.
Brick Caywood, who escaped from
Jail at Mount Sterling. KY, few days ago,
returned and gave himself up, saying he
preferred Imprisonment to starvation in the
bush.
Dock Erd, a young man employed in
the freight department Of the Chesapeake Il
Ohio Railroad at Lexington, KY, shot him.
self III the temple, the other evening, caus-
ing fatal wound. Mental depression, the
result OF overwork, is the cause assigned.
Assistant City Engineer Murray was
called to examine big hole in front Of the
Hanover Oil Works, on the river front, at
Memphis, the other day. He found a kind
of tunnel, nearly twelve feet wide, evident
ly an old land shaft excavation of many
years ago, extending eighty feet east
and twenty feet west Of the hole. The
railroad tracks to the eastward are therefore
undermined and upheld by thin crust of
cIay The oil mills are in more dangerous
situation, as the land shaft probably runs
entirely under the building to the old river
bank and jeopardizes the south wall.
Large tracts of land are being bought
by Eastern capitalists in Breathitt and Row
an Counties, Kentucky, in the timber and
camel coal belt. The white oak timber of
that section has been found adapted to ship
building. Mills will be erected to cut the
same for that purpose. The prices paid per
acre are 50, IS and S10
Judge J. L. Caldwell leading mem
ber of the bar OF Kentucky, fell dead Of
appoplexy, at Shelbyville, the other day.
The two adventurers who are making
their way from Lake George to the Gulf OF
Mexico in canoes, were escorted over the
falls at Louisville, KY, the other day, by
members Of the life-saving service.
The body of an aged colored man
was found by the side of straw stack on
the farm Of George Yount, near Eminence,
KY, recently. 1t is supposed death was
caused by cold.
There is violent disagreement in the
faculty OF the Mississippi State Agricultural
College, at Starkville. Two professors have
resigned.
The citizens of Chattanooga have sub
scribed $780, 900 toward the erection Of
hundred ton iron furnace.
Editor Watterson and Mayor Jacobs
placed crown of laurel upon Miss Mary
Anderson's head in Louisville (Ky.) the
ater the other night.
A peculiar case of hallucination comes
from Fort Mills, N. G. E.. S. Hawks, OF
Ashfield, Mass, arrived at that place re-
Gently on a hunting expedition, and shortly
after became impressed with the idea that,