St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-06-03
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

The people OF Butler County, Ky,
have been excited by the discovery OF three
skeletons under the floor of an old house
/ near Edgar's Ferry. A Mr.. Norris was
employed to make some repairs which ne
cessitated taking up the floor of the house
in question, in doing which the workman
noticed that at a certain place it was nailed
down with special pains. When the heavy
nails were drawn and the flooring removed,
/ a mound of dirt was revealed, and under
| this were the bones Of a man, woman, and
boy. "The people OF the community says
the Bowling Green Gazette, "are unanimous
in the supposition that some travellers have
put up at the house and been foully dealt
with, and laid under the floor to tell no
tales. The house is fifty or more years old,
and has been occupied all the time. Mr..
Steven Bond, now resident of Caneyviile,
owned and lived in the house during the
war, and it is remembered by the neighbors
that at one time he was digging in and
around the house for some money he said he
had buried and lost. He dug around in
several places, stirred the dirt considerably,
but never found the lost treasure he said he
had planted and supposed somebody had
stolen. William Hendricks lived in the
house before the war. Hiram Childers, who
laid the floor, is positive there was no
mound or even unevenness of the ground,
when the house was built, and is certain the
unfortunate victims were hidden away since
that time, as directly over them the flooring
was nailed down with especial care and
strength, as was developed the other day,
and he knows that that part received no eN-
ira work when the job was being done"
Nancy Henry, negro woman, 20
years old, was lodged in Jail at Selma, Ala.
recently, charged with killing her son, ten
years of age, by continued tiendish and bar
barous treatment. The woman is repulsive
in looks, and the characteristics of her face
are borne out in her recent actions. Pos
sessed of a fearful temper from childhood
up, she has been terror to all about her,
and her brutality to her three children has
been the cause Of much talk among the ne
groes. Some days ago she commenced mall
treating her son, and from that day to the
moment when death relieved him of all mis-
cry he has been in condition superlatively
pitiful. She whipped him until he was un-
able to walk, then took a plank and struck
him blow that broke his left leg between
the knee and ankle. A day or two after
ward, with the same instrument OF torture,
she broke his right thigh bone, and then,
because he would not get up, she whipped
him with strap. An old rusty scythe-
blade was brought into play, and with this
the helpless boy was literally hacked to
pieces. From head to foot his body pre-
sented a revolving succession Of cuts, gashes'
bruises and running sores.
A recent issue of the San Antonio
(Texas) Express says Joe Ludlum, al idiot
confined in the County Poor house, was Bit
ten by rattlesnake on the forefnger Of the
left hand, the fangs penetrating both sides
of the finger. About three minutes after
the bite was inflicted, Mrs. Symington, wife
of the superintendent, split the finger on
both sides with a razor, poured small
quantity Of powder into the wound, and set
fire to it. She then applied ammonia, and
also gave ammonia and whisky inwardly un-
til the man became drunk. This was a very
brave act for lady to do, and it saved the
poor fellows life.
Ferdinand Beer, a New Orleans cot
ing cotton and selling it at loss, with a
view to depressing the market, is in trouble.
Several hundred bales ON shipboard on
which he figured have been seized. Beer
sold lot of cotton to E. Forester and got
an advance of S19, 900, giving orders for cot
ton which was subsequently delivered on
board vessels, but the factor from whom
Beer purchased the cotton has not been paid.
The cotton, therefore, is liable for the fac
tors lien. Several similar case are reported,
amounting to $4,000.
Late reports from Louisiana indicate
that the cane which was covered by the
floods is not so much injured as there was
reason to fear that it would be. This is ac-
counted for by the low temperature at the
time of the floods. which retarded the
growth of the young cane instead of rotting
and killing it. In the regions which escaped
inundation the prospects for large crop OF
sugar are favorable.
A most remarkable phenomenon &C.
Cured few miles below Chattanooga,
Tenn, few days since. The river at that
point flows into basin seventy five feet deep
and twenty acres in area. On the afternoon
in question the entire body of water was
seen to rise six to eight feet,as if by volcanic
action, and mass of sediment which had
accumulated at the bottom arose and float
ed off. The occurrence is inexplicable.
tradition exists that precisely similar phe-
nomenon occurred IN the same place many
years ago.
Two delegates to colored conven-
ton held at Macon recently got on the train
near Tennille, Ga, and took seats in first
class coach. They were requested to go in
to another by the conductor, but refused
The Macon Telegraph says: Failing in this,
the conductor left the car, and, as he did SO,
the passengers pulled out their pistols and
gave the delegates two minutes to find the
second-class car. They found it, and had