St. Landry democrat., 1882-09-16
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

The Texas Wool GroaUer has the fol-
lowing concerning novel feature in the
ranch business of that State: ''As many
Of our readers do not know that there is
! Shetland pony ranch in the State, will
give them 4 bit of information. Baron Won
| Raub, Leon Springs, BeXar County, has
eight thousand acres, all under fence, prop
ery subdiyided and stocked with beautiful
Shetland and spotted ponies. His breeding
stock consists of seven stations and forty
five mares, all thoroughbred, and two hum
| dred small pony mares. He is bree ding
race OF striped and spotted ponies to please
| the children. He sells the increase to per-
sons all over the world, and the supply is
not equal to the demand. These little po-
MES range over the prairie like sheep or
goats, and present novel appearance.
They are very gentle; every one is as docile
as cat, and can be caught anywhere on the
range.'
The case of Priscilla Clark is quoted
by Lexington, KY, physicians as most re-
markable one. Her skull was crushed with
a stone recently, and piece of the skull
was driven through the dura-mater into
the substance of the brain and cut an artery
so that the surgeons could hardly work.
| The heavy stone crushed in Behind the
eyebals as to push them out OF their sockets
forward, and they were pushed back. She
is now perfectly conscious, and directs her
household affairs. Her case is being writ
ten, and will be sent to the surgical journals
| If she RECEIVERS.
| 1t is related as remarkable circum-
stance connected with the unfortunate Miss
Blair, who committed suicide at Camden,
S. c., that only few days before her death
she had been sketching points of interest
| around her home, having acquired consld-
| cradle skill in that line, and one OF the
sketches made was faithful delneation OF
the gully in which she was afterward found,
with the dead body of a young girl lying in
it.. This furnishes strong presumption
that the act of self destruction was premed-
itated by her for some time before its con-
summation.
Savannah is ahead of other ports in
the receipt of the first new rice.
A resident of Shelby, N. c., is making
good brandy from watermelons.
The popularity of prohibition in some
sections of Georgia is explained by the
statement that the cheap liquor sold these
days contains so much strychnine and pep
per that it dsagrees with the consumer.
A man started a goose ranch near
Taylor, Williamson County, Tex, about a
year ago. with flock of four hundred
geese; their bones now bleach on the prai-
| rie.
A woman in the suburbs of Column
bus, Ga. heard her pastor say on recent
Sunday that the church needed new bible.
| She went into the woods and prayed for
one. just then she heard rattlesnake,
and, rising from her knees, killed the snake,
sold the rattles for $3.50 and bought new
bible with the money.
Among recently discovered docu-
ments is a series of resolutions secretly
passed in the Texas Secession Convention
OF Feb. 4, 1861, proposing a Southwestern
Confederacy, to include Texas, Mississippi,
Arkansas, New Mexico, and Arizona. To
negotiate for the formation Of such a con-
federacy three commissioners were appoint
ed, whose credentials were signed by the
| president OF the convention, G. NJ. Roberts,
| the present Governor of Texas. The COM
! missioners were also empowered to negoti-
ate for an alliance with the Choctaw, Chick
asaw, Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole In
| dians.
A little boy at Rogersrille, Tenn, was
the other day playing near where lime
| kiln had been burned. and, supposing that
all the fire had burned out, jumped with
his bare feet into what he supposed was
ashes and Stacked lime. There was Il bed
of hot Goals buried under the ashes and the
hot lime, and before assistance could come
to him his clothes we're burned off and his
extremities frightfully charred.
A company of capitalists are putting
good deal Of money into the zinc mines of
East Tennessee, and expect profitable re-
turns from their investment.
North Carolina is getting famous for
its ''yarbs." One day last week fifteen hum
bred pounds OF roots and herbs were ship
ped from Shelby to New York. A shipment
of similar importance was made the week
before, and another Of cherry bark, butter
fly root, tansy, and catnip was to follow
speedily.
John Pritton, of Mercer County,
Kentucky, 50 years old, has never been OH Il
steamboat, train, or stage. ...
1t is claimed that North Carolina has
ITS varieties of minerals, % more than any
other State possesses, and 112 varieties of
wood, also more than can be recorded by
any other State.
Fifteen printing presses, at an aver
age cost of $1,000, have been received in
Georgia since the 1st of August.
Port Royal, S. c., boasts OF the cham
pion female rover of the State. She is a
dusky maiden, who can spin heavy boat
through six miles in one and three-quarter
hours.
The little Village of New Haven, Nell