Huntsville gazette., 1882-12-09
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.


progressing in the most favorable manner.
Liberal subscriptions have already been se-
cured. The amount required. $500, 900, will
De raised without doubt. The Louisville &
nashville Railroad has subscribed $25, 600,
and the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago
$1,000. Applications for space are already
coming in. Official circulars will be dis
tributed in short time. The grounds con-
tain forty acres. The floor space is double
that Of the Atlanta Exposition,
The South Carolina Legislature or
ganized by electing Hon. James Simons, of
Charleston, as Speaker, and Col. John T..
Sloan, of Columbia, as Clerk.
A Tennessee law prohibits the sale Of
loose cotton between sunset and sunrise, the
object being to protect planters from the
theft of their cotton by night. Under this
law thirty indictments were returned against
u. n. Trust, doing business near Memphis,
who had been buying loose cotton at night
from colored men whom he knew had stolen
it. Six negroes who testified in the cases
were held for perjury.
The official report of the vote in
South Carolina at the last election shows
some surprising results. The whole num-
ber of votes cast for the candidates for Gov
ernor was S7,S77. This is considerably less
than one-half of the entire vote af the State,
which, according to the censns Of 1880, was
POS, ,7S9. At the election of 1876 the total vote
cast was 1872, ,6S2. In 1880 the total vote for
President was 170,976.
Col. w. G. Young is starting ranch
In GAIA County, Texas, which out in that
country is looked upon as rather small
sized affair. He begins with only 125, 900
acres and 1925, 900 worth Of cattle.
The jailer at Louisville, KY, ascer-
tanned that life prisoner. named George NJ.
Alsop, who had been kept heavily ironed,
had filed his shackles apart and secured a
model key with which to escape, the other
day. He is shrewd, educated man, very
desperate. This is his second almost sue
cessful effort TO escape. He is now confined
in close cell, with sixteen pound shackles
on his limbs.
Governor O'Neal, of Alabama, was
inaugurated on the 1st and escorted to the
capitol by military commands from differ
ent parts of the State.
The grand jury at New Orleans found
indictments against the following persons
for election frauds: Edmond J. Dupaquier,
Bartholomew Thames, Jr., r. Ulrich,
Dan Rees, Prosper Grand. Jr., Charles
Cune, Gustave Buder, Jr., William Lyons,
James Daigman, Louis Kathman, William
Ii. Buckley, John A. Brennan, John Vigers.
Rees and Dupaquier gave bail in 5000
each. The remainder filed bonds Of 81 900
each.
Next years beef crop in Texas is ex-
pected to fall little short.
just prior to his death an Elberton,
Ca, man hid large amount of money in
secret place in his house, known only to
him. All efforts to discover the treasure
have, so far, proved futile.
The scene of the Dade massacre, in
Florida, historic field, is being plowed for
cultivation. Cannon and musket balls,
muskets and other broken weapons are
found in great numbers.
TheGovernor of Alabama has ordered
an election for Tuesday, Jan. 2, 1883, in the
Eighth District, to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of William NJ. Lowe, who had
been seated in the place Of Gen. Joseph
Wheeler.
The Kentucky Public Elevator, owned
and operated by a stock company OF Louis
Vile, the first of the kind erected there,
opened the other day, and is ready to receive
grain Of all descriptions. The capacity is
half a million bushels. There are half
dozen other elevators in the city, owned by
private parties, but this one will issue grain
certificates, as is the custom in other cities.
Walker, Reynolds and Gardner, who
murdered man in Comanche County, Tex
as, have just been captured after hard
fight and two weeks chase.
Admiral Strong, retired, died at CO.
.umbia, S. c., the other day, from hem
orrhage of the lungs. For some time he
had been confined to a wheel chair with
rheumatism.
The St. Louis & Texas Narrow-gsxge,
when completed, will reduce passenger
rates in Arkansas to 8 cents mile.
Mrs. Senters, of Chattanooga, has be-
come maniac over the sentence Of her son
to the penitentiary for horse ealing.
j. Mixson, of Barnwell, S. c., while
stepping from train in rapid motion, the
other day, missed his footing. and was ia
tally wounded in the head. He was a
United States Commissioner, and was prom
inent in the arrests and trial OF political
prisoners at the last term of the United
States Circuit Court for that State.
In Coffee County, Georgia, the other
day, a hawk fell to the ground, and upon
Investigation was found to have black
snake wound around its neck.
Alabama claims a negress 125 years
old.
1t is alleged that a gold mine in For
syth County, Georgia, was recently sold for
81 900 900, the purchasers being syndicate
of English capitalists. The claim is made
that the mine is richer in ore than any of the
California mines.
There are hundreds of acres of cotton
between Austin and San Antonia, Texas,
on the International line, which will not be
picked, owing to the scarcity of labor. Hun
dreds of thousands OF dollars will he lost in
the State this season on this account.
The North Carolina peanut crop will
this year reach 10000 bushels.