St. Landry democrat., 1882-05-13
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

passed over portions OF the State: "A re"
miles beyond Campbell & Livingston's mill,
and two miles from Browns station, it
struck the residence Of Mr.. John Mccarthy,
a well-tO do farmer, which it completely de-
molished. Mr.. McCarthy's family eonsistd
Of himself and wife and Miss Talbot, his
wife's sister. Hearing the storm coming,
Mr. Mccarthy hastily arose from bed, and
told his wife that they must get out OF the
house. Bnt before they could do so the
house was blown away, and he and his wife
fortunately fell where the floor between the
hall and their room separated, thus being in
measure protected by the stills and a por-
ton of the floor. One of the stills was blown
across Mr.. Mccarthy, also across Mrs. Nc
Carthy's feet, but she managed to disengage
her feet and then roll the sill from her hus-
band and assist him to crawl under the
floor, so as to partially protect him from the
severe hail that was then falling. She then
commenced calling her sister, Miss Talbot,
and, after several calls, thought she
heard her answer. Going in the direc-
ton from which the answer came, she
found her in a hole where large oak had
been blown from, up to her arm-pits in wa
ter. She succeeded in getting her out OF
the hole Of water, and dragged her under
the floor where Mr.. Nee. was sheltered.
Some of the negroes on the place afterward
went to them, from whom they learned that
all Of the negro cabins, situated few hum
dred yards from the dwelling, but in the
direct track of the cyclone, were blown
away, and one negro child killed. 1t is ut
terly impossible to describe the appearance
Of McCarthy's. Everything is literally
blown away. The sills and heavy timbers
Many of the timbers are in splnters. Miss
Talbot was in bed in one of the rooms of the
dwelling when the storm struck it. She
Wss aware that the house was blown away
and that she was being whirled through the
air, and was conscious when she struck the
earth, but remembers nothing more until
she heard her sisters calls. 1t was just
sixty yards from where the bed stood to the
hole where she was found. The hole was
made by the uprooting of large oak, which
was blown twenty yards away. 1t is mirac-
ulous that all of the family were not in
stanly killed.
Farmers in the neighborhood of Louis
vile, Ky, have suspended blowing, to ex-
terminate dogs. Numerous sheep and cat
tie bitten by CANNES have developed symp.
toms of rabies.
For the murder of J. B. Weisinger,
Bill Ludlow and AL Weisinger were last
month executed at Selma, Ala, although
strongly asserting their innocence. A few
days ago Henry Ivy voluntarily confessed
that he did the killing, and was aided by
his brother and Sim Acof and the ones who
suffered hanging. Ivy and Acoff were ar
rested and placed under guard at a school.
house, from which they were taken by
masked men and lynched.
The people of Ell Paso, Tex, recently
raised enough money to defend a woman
who was on trial for shooting a Chinaman.
Upon her acquittal she was presented with
silver cup.
Henry Clement, of Putnam, Fla,
claims to have killed 800 bears in the past
thirteen years.
A COW at Vicksburg, Miss, ran her
tongue through lattice-work and had fou.
inches of it bitten off by mule.
George Mcneil and wife, who sued
the Louisville & Nashville Railroad for
100000 damages in causing the death OF
their son, q brakeman on freight train, has
been awarded $4,000 by New Orleans
jury.
Gen. Sanford has growing on his
place in Orange County, Florida, the cam
phor and cinnamon tree, bergamot oranges
and lemons, India crab grass, the Australian
olive wood, golden apples, and the Brazilian
palm.
A Louisville Ny.) milkman lost two
COWS, the other day, because, being of vici-
GUS disposition and for a long time deter
mined to fight, they accidentally had
chance at one another and went at it. The
owner arrived too late. One of the animals
died in half an hour, and the other had to
be killed.
A Mississippi editor says many people
believe the odor from the blossoms OF china
trees produces bad colds.
Accounts from all over the State of
Arkansas show no damage to the fruit crop
by cold weather. The season is unusually
advanced and the prospects for bountlfuI
harvest are exceedingly good.
The recent storm at New Iberia, La,
left 1900 persons in that parish without
shelter or support.
The Adjutant General of Texas has
been asked for detachment of rangers to
suppress cow-thieves in Chambers and Lib
erty Counties.
A family of emigrants, consisting OF
father, mother and four pairs OF twins,
aged respectively one, three, five and seven
years, recently passed through Chattanooga.
Pools were sold at Frankfort, KY, on
the failure or success of John Rocketty in
resisting the efforts OF Barnes. the evangel-
list, to convert him. The limit Of time was
ten days, and before its expiration Rocketty
was among the penitents.
A mulberry tree at Griffin, Ca, acted
in a curious manner the other day, emitting
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