Huntsville gazette., 1882-10-07
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.
This story is from the Alamance (N

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} Cleaner: Recently there was a camp
betting in Bethel, and Bob Tawner, deaf
| tie, 13 years old, was q regular attendant
pe camp services. Many people Won
I'd what Bob was doing there, as he
"a hear nothing. but he told them what
hets about before the camp-meeting was
owe At the last call he came up to the
'ers' bench, opened his mouth, and
sanae hymn: .'He Proclaimed His Con-
'ersi" 1t is stated there was general |
amaze and all the sinners present were
convey. According to this, the boy Bob
got Starring, and speech, and voice cul-
lure ail'auee, although he had never heard
the humaoce before.
A duel as recently fought at Peters
vile, Lev County, KY, between J. E.
Lang and riton Lykins, rival tobacco
dealers. Tweapons used were tobacco
sticks four f< png and three inches in di-
ameter, and te,ontest lasted seventy min
utes, three rolts being fought Lang won
the battle, but th men were terribly pun
ished. After Ing arrested the combat
ants made up nd paid their respective
fines. The lefrm OF each Of the contest
ants was broke and their heads showed
of frightful wolhs.
A negro in te Jail at Forsyth, Ca, it
is said, bas cate nothing in two months.
The editor who puches for the statement
says: ''He has lst about sixty pounds IN
flesh, and is meref skeleton. He can NOT
walk step, and en- only get up with as
sistance When lying quiet he has the ap-
pearane ola deadman. His temperature
and pulse are far below normal, and his res
piration isbnly eight per minute. The blood
has settlehbout in spots under the epider-
mis-, and looks somewhat like Calico
circus hore in trance"
The Teas Rangers are home guards
peculiar themselves. There are two hum
dred of then in all employed by the State
| Government to ride roughshod over lawless'
ness. The. enlist for year, and are re-
| quired to funish their own horses, sadoies
brides, rifessud pistols, and clothing, no
uniform. The iress is go-as-you- please
They get $50 month and rations and dt
good service.
Probably tn youngest farmers IN the
country are tw,chiIdren living near Shreve
| port, La, who have eight acres In cottor
| and ten in corr, and will make good crops
The children re brother and sister, agee
respectively / and 10 years, and have dom
most of their ,wn work.
The ''BigJ." road is now sending
cars loaded With lemons through from New
Orleans to San Francisco without transfer
The Iua'>made in from thirteen to sixtee
days, and it atnears that the fruit trade
New Orleans will ,xtend much further tha
the most sanguine dealers expected.
The box deposited in the conversion,
of the college in Manchester, Tenn, wa
robbed recently by some miserable thief
who cut through the stone.
A gentleman at Lexington, Ky, fno
that it costs about SO per acre to grow
wheat crop, and that one acre which is mad
to yield thirty bushels is more profitable
the farmer than three acres which yiel
twenty bushels each.
The Selma, Ala, cotton-mills hav
Just shipped five carloads of goods to Chini
Fortv-nine nurses are now in the pa
of the Pensacola (Fla) Board of Health.
They are blasting for silver at Miners
Wells, Jack County, Texas, and coal is sal
to be abundant near by.
English real estate men are negotia'
ING for forty thousand acres Of land in Al
kansas.
The first Jewish synagogue built
East Tennessee was consecratcd at Chatta
nooga a few days ago.
1t is claimed that pears grow to grea
er perfection in Shelby County, Alabam
than in any other portion OF the Unite
| States.
A curious-looking specimen OF tt
boyine race was exhibited on the streets
Greensboro, N. c., recently. The animal
Deyonshire bull calf, months old, with
tail and hide similar to those Of an elephan
The calf is about the usual size, and appa
emily well and hearty. Its hide is entire
destitute of hair, lies in heavy folds like
elephants, and is Of about the same colo
The tail is short and spiked.
Two Louisville urchins, one aged
and the other years, were arrested t.
other day for stealing from the change box
Of street-cars.
At Moore's Chapel, Bedford Count
Tennessee, a few days ago, during diyil
service, stray swarm of bees made an a
tack on the horses, and caused a compile
stampede, stinging some OF them almost
death. The meeting was broken up for q
time.
A school of domestic economy is to
opened this season at Clark Unlverslt
Atlanta, Ga. A "model home" is to be
tablished in a convenient cottage, and all t
domestic processes conducted therein in t
best manner.
A 7-year-old colored boy fell into
thirty-foot well In Marion County, ke
lucky, and then, without assistance, climb
up the sides to the Top. He was wet, b
not much injured.
A pig with horns like COW excit
wonder in Marion County, Mississippi.
The recent storm was very destru
tive to the sparrows in some portions
Georgia. In Troup County they were XIII
by thousands, having been blown again
trees and houses.
A negro of Lebanon, KY, recent
caught stealing chickens, had nine in