Huntsville gazette., 1882-05-27
SOUTHERN GLEA.NINGS.

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| \ A strange suicide occurred the other
day at Sheilmound, small station a few
miles below Chattanooga, Tenn. A genteel
stranger reached the town in the afternoon
and, feeling i'll, asked to lie down in cot =
tage- A few minutes afterward he handed
the lady package, telling her it was hers if
ne dled. Soon afterward he was found in
the room dead, having severed his jugular
vein with small pocket-knife. The pack
age was found to contain S640 in currency.
There is no clew to his identity. Its thought
he is a Michigan man, and killed himself
while under temporary alteration Of mind
from extreme pain.
A correspondent writing from Hicko-
ry Valley, Union County, Tenn, tells oftwo
young ladies living in that (r.inity who he
thinks deserve special mention. One is Miss
Sarah Lett, who weighs 257 pounds, and the
other her sister, Miss Lucinda Lett, who
weighs 207 pounds. These women are re-
markably strong and healthy, performing all
kinds Of out door labor, swinging the AK
and using the mattock and hoe as we'll as
stout men. They raised last year 700 BUSH
els Of corn besides large crops of wheat, oats,
and hay. They have mother and two sis
ters living.
On the petition of wealthy citizen of
New Orleans, the publishers of a pictorial
weekly were recently enjoined from assail-
ing him by. order OF Judge Fighter. The
offenders repeated their assaults, and were
Jailed for contempt. An appeal to the Su-
preme Court caused decision in their IA
yor, Judge Fenner stating that no court in
England or America had in modern times
issued general order to prevent publica-
tion by newspaper. N ssal
The Tampa (Fla.) Tribune says that
Capt. Sam Ellis and w. s. Whtehurst
went down the bay recently and succeeded
in capturing one Of those huge monsters
known as devilfsh, near Point Pinellas.
! Capt. Ellis says that he had six hours
chase after striking it with lily iron. The
head and tail were brought UP to town.
The mouth is three feet wide, and the cap
tain says that the fish was eighteen or
twenty feet across. 1t was the intention Of
| Capt. Ellis to skin him, but before the fish
could be towed to shore the sharks had fed
! SO rayenously on it as to defeat the purpose.
Its estimated weight was between two
| thousand and three thousand pounds.
The Birmingham (Ala.) Age says:
"About So, 600 in gold is coined every day,
or 81 ,0O0, 900 annually, not from the Govern
ment mint, but from the blast furnaces in
Birmingham, in the shape of pig iron,which
is melted from the everlasting hills Of Jeffer-
son County, the generous soil OF which
! yields also each year three-quarters of a mill
| lion more in diamonds, not the gems that
sparkle upon the brow of beauty, but black
diamonds, which serve the more useful pur-
pose of driving the wheels of commerce and
industry"
A man named Andrew Allen, residing
in Fayette County, Ala, separated from his
wife for several months past, recently visited
her at her mothers house and deliberately
shot and killed her. A brother Of the woman
entered the house few moments later, and,
seeing his sister lying dead upon the floor,
fired double -barreled shotgun. Allen fell
dead by the side OF his wife. His slayer sur
rendered to the police. s ss.a blgI
The colored troops of Georgia are to
go into encampment at Macon in June.
About fifteen companies are expected to re.
port to the camp. a ~fsr
Some of the finest walnut trees in the
mountains of North.Carolina have been sold
at $40 each just as they stand in the woods,
the purchasers reserving the privilege to
take them away within a certain number OF
years. w A ..esA
Memorial Day was observed at Co
lumbia, S. c., with unabated interest. The
graves Of Confederate soldiers were deco
rated by children, under the supervision of
committees of ladies'. Business was sus-
pended and the church bells were tolled. 4
The Wilmington. Star claims that the
people of North Carolina have never yet
elected Governor who was not native of
the State. One Governor was born abroad,
but he was elected by the legislature
% The yield of wheat and oats in South
Carolina and Georgia will be larger this
yearsthan any since the war.
Pensacola, Fla. !, viii soon have an
establishment for creosoting timber. All
timber Of this kind now used in that city
comes from Pascagoula, Miss, and as much
as $50 apiece has been paid for creosoted
pilings.
w. r. Bickerstaff, of Mount Hilliard,
Ala, recently took his family to travelling
photographer to have their pictures taken, 1
when the little 2-year-old son got hold OF
some poisonous mixture, drank it, and died
in two hours. qaf fsFe -t-ustssss ia
Virginia G. Penny, of Louisville, a
iadyof fine literary abilities, has been sent
to the lunatic asylum Of Kentucky. One
brother, navy lieutenant, is in an insane
retreat in Pennsylvania and another, DR..
Penny, killed himself with a revolver. ls
> One of the most extensive rice-plant- |
ers near Georgetown, S. C., has planted his
entire crop this year by machinery. So rap.
id has been the termination and growth Of
the rice that it is now being hoed. This is
said to be perhaps the first instance in South |
Carolina, if not in the entire South, in which |
whole rice crop has been planted with ma
chimes. ~ ssHH& trs@ MH H
The whipping-post was established
The other day at Lexington, KY, by con- /
sent OF colored man named Eph Woods, |
who stole goods from B. f. Dawson. Go to |
Jail or take acowhiding was the punishment
for the negro, and he chose the latter.
II q mn shirt ed himself and took forty laShes 1