St. Landry democrat., 1882-05-20
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

| The facts of the alleged outrage on
Bishop Paine (colored, as published in
Florida papers, are that the Bishop had Il
| second-class ticket and went into a first
class car When the conductor came to him
and took his ticket he told him he must go
into the second class car. The colored
! Bishop became very angry, and said if he
could not ride in a tirst-class car he would
not ride anywhere, and, although he was
| told that he might ride to the next station,
he refused to do so, and, despite remon-
strances, go; off the train and walked back
| to Jacksonville, where he had got on.
Southern merchants in many districts
have gone to their last limit in supplying
goods on credit to victims Of the overflow.
A great deal depends on the crops.
A gentleman living near Athens, Ga,
has gourd that has been in use to bold
pepper and spices over two hundred years.
The genealogy OF the gourd is clearly traced.
The Louisville (Ky.) Court of APP
peals has decided that an atheist can not Re
deprived Of his right to testify, and as to
credibiity stands on the same footing with
other witnesses.
The Sanitary Council of the Missis-
lishment Of an inspecting service at the jet
lies to keep out the yellow fever.
A New Orleans concern sent lot of
condemned condensed milk on dray to the
garbage boat, a few days since. On the
way the driver threw several cans of the
sour milk to men and boys on the sidewalk,
and in a very short time large number of
people had gathered about the dray and took
every can from it. The immunity from arrest
| in this transaction emboldened those who
received the milk, and later in the afternoon,
when the crowd saw the same dray proceed
ing down Peters street, loaded with twenty
! five cases of condensed milk, they at once
concluded that the milk was condemned
and on its way to the garbage-boat. Instead,
| however, the milk was perfectly sound, and
intended for use on the steamship Mediator.
The crowd surrounded the vehicle, and in
few minutes it was left bare
During March only fifteen drummers
visited Natchez, Miss, and they paid $3.50
or the privilege.
One man will ship nine thousand
cords of tanbark from the vicinity of Chat
tanooga, Tenn, this season.
There has been slight disturbance
among the different churches in Dallas,
Tex, caused by a committee of the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union waitin.
on the pastors and asking them to discon-
tinue the use of fermented wines at the
communion table, and giving as their rea
son that they could hope for and accomplish
nothing in the way OF prohibition until the
churches took the lead. The result is that
many of the pastors have refused to take
further part in the temperance movement.
The prisoners in the County Jail at
Fort WORTH Tex. according to a local pa.
peri, held a kangaroo court the other day,
and convicted the negro Dave Jackson.
After an exhaustive trial the foreman
brought in a verdict Of guilty, and the ne
gro was Immediately strung up to rafer.
This was terribly realistic acting, and the
negro was ashy with terror. Dangling
from the beam, with his tongue protruding
and his eyes rolled up, the awful silence OF
the prisoners at their grim pastime, all pre-
sented picture that lacked only the black
cap and the coffin to make a hideous fore
cast of a coming event. The negro was
nearly dead when cut down, and little
pains were taken to relieve him.
A planter in Rapides Parish, La,
cultivated one thousand acres of cotton last
year, and four hundred acres in Bermuda
grass. The cotton yielded him net return
of about II 900 less than the grass. The
cotton was cultivated with severe manual
labor, while the grass was handled entirely
by machinery.
A negro boy recently threw his top
through a store window in Selma, Ala. As
soon as he laid hands on the offending toy,
he grasped it with steel spinner outward,
and beat himself fiercely over the forehead
and head with it until blood came, when he
threw the top as far away as he could and
told the owner of the store that he "didn't
go to break the window" This was novel
way of atonng for his fault, but it had the
desired effect and he was allowed to depart
unmolested.
The manufacture of canes and curl
osities is one of the leading Industries of
Jacksonville, Fla, furnishing employment
to greater number of persons than any
other branch of business in the city. Almost
every thing, in the shape of fish, flesh OF
fowl, animal, mineral or vegetable, is man
ufactured into articles of jewelry, for per-
sonal use or adornment. The trade in alli-
gators is also large. One concern has sold
over eight hundred alligators this season,
and another over five hundred within
month.
One hundred citizens of Tuscaloosa
County, Alabama, have been taken to Mont
gomery to give bond to appear at the May
term of the United States Court, for captur-
ing few Iightwood knots and few trees
standing and lying idle on some OF Uncle
Sans $40 per acre mineral lands. No
''favors" shown-the Marshal just cleans
tha,,, III, Co.. Tho ,,,o,,ou thara il n it.