St. Landry democrat., 1882-10-07
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.


meeting in Bethel, and Bob Tawner, a deaf
mute, IS years DID, was a regular attendant
of the camp services. Many people Won
dered what Bob was doing there, as he
could hear nothing, but he told them what
he was about before the camp-meeting was
over. At the last call he came up to the
mourners' bench, opened his mouth, and
sang the hymn: "He Proclaimed His Con-
version" 1t is stated there was general
amaZement and all the sinners present were
converted. According to this, the boy Bob
got his hearing, "nd speech, and voice cul-
ture all at once, although he had never heard
the human voice before.
A duel was recently fought at Peters
vile, Lewis County, Ky, between J. E.
Lang and Milton Lykins, rival tobacco
dealers. The weapons used were tobacco
sticks four feet long and three inches in di-
ameter and the contest lasted seventy min
utes, three rounds being fought. Lang won
the battle, but both men were terribly pun
ished. After being arrested the combat
ants made up and paid their respective
fines. The left arm of each Of the contest
ants was broken, and their heads showed
of frightful wounds.
A negro in the Jail at Forsyth, Ca, it
is said, has eaten nothing in two months.
The editor who vouches for the statement
says: ''He has lost about sixty pounds in
flesh, and is merely a skeleton. He can not
walk a step, and can only get up with as
sistance. When lying quiet he has the APP
pearance Of dead man. His temperature
and pulse are far below normal, and his res
pirstion is only eight per minute. The blood
has settled about in spots under the epider-
mis-, and he looks somewhat like Calico
circus horse in trance"
The Texas Rangers are home guards
peculiar to themse elves. There are two hum
dred Of them in all employed by the State
Government to ride roughshod over lawless-
ness. They enlist for year, and are re-
quired to furnish their own horses, saddles,
brides, rifles and pistols, and clothing, not
uniform. The dress is go-as-you- please
They get $50 a month and rations and do
good service.
Probably the youngest farmers in the
country are two children living near Shreve-
port. La, who have eight acres in cotton
and ten in corn, and will make good crops.
The children are brother and sister, aged
respectively 10 and 10 years, and have done
most Of their own work.
The "Big j." road is now sending
cars loaded with lemons through from New
Orleans to San Francisco without transfer.
The run is made in from thirteen to sixteen
days, and it appears that the fruit trade OF
New Orleans will extend much further than
the most sanguine dealers expected.
The box deposited in the cornerstone
of the college in Manchester, Tenn, was
robbed recently by some miserable thief,
VINO cut through the stone.
A gentleman at Lexington, Ky, finds
that it costs about $40 per acre to grow
wheat crop, and that one acre which is made
to yield thirty bushels is more profitable to
the farmer than three acres which yield
twenty bushels each.
The Selma, Ala, cotton-mills have
just shipped five carloads OF goods to China.
Fortv-nine nurses are now in the pay
OF the Pensacola Fla.) Board of Health.
They are blasting for silver at Mineral
Wells, Jack County, Texas, and coal is said
TO be abundant near by.
English real estate men are negotiat-
ing for forty thousand acres of land in Ar.
kansas.
The first Jewish synagogue built in
East Tennessee was consecratcd at Chatta-
nooga a few days ago.
1t is claimed that pears grow to great
err perfection in Shelby County, Alabama,
than in any other portion of the United
States.
A curious-looking specimen of the
bovine race was exhibited on the streets of
Greensboro, n. c., recently. The animal is
a Devonshire bull calf, 8 months old, with a
tail and hide similar to those of an elephant
The calf is about the usual size, and appar-
emily we'll and hearty. Its hide is entirely
destitute Of hair, lies in heavy folds like an
elephants, and is of about the same color.
The tail is short and spiked.
Two Louisville urchins, one aged
and the other S years, were arrested the
other day for stealing from the change boxes
of street-cars.
At Moore's Chapel, Bedford County,
Tennessee, few days ago, during divine
service. stray swarm Of bees made an at
tack on the horses, and caused a complete
stampede. singing some Of them almost to
death. The meeting was broken up for the
time.
A school of domestic economy is to be
opened this season at Clark University,
Atlanta, Ga. A "model home" is to be es-
tabished in a convenient cottage, and all the
domestic processes conducted therein in the
best manner.
A 7-year-old colored boy fell into
thirty-foot well in Marion County, Ken
lucky, and then, without assistance, climbed
up the sides to the Top. He was wet, but
not much injured.
A pig with horns like COW excltes
wonder in Marion County, Mississippi.