St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-12-23
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

Two masked men killed drug clerk
the other day at sharkey, Miss, in an en-
daavor to rob the safe of the store.
Two prison guards shot each other
recently near Memphis, Tenn, in drunken
brawl.
Louisville, KY, has sixteen distiller-
les running and several others ready to start
up. :.
Two hundred thousand head of sheep
were driven from New Mexico recently to
Texas.
A riot occurred at Opelika, Ca, a few
days ago between the two factions which
recently contested for the municipal author
ity of that town. During the quarrel ten
men were shot, seven it was thought IA
tally.
The crops in South Alabama, of all
kinds. are abundant, and the planters and
farmers are in better condition, financially,
than at any time Since the war.
Covington, Tenn, had a $4,000 fire
the other morning.
At Louisville, Ky, a few afternoons
ago five-year- old colored girl, left alone in
aroom, approached the crate and her cloth
ing caught fire. Before the flames could be
extinguished the child was burned to cath
The clothing of Lucy, the four-year-
old daughter OF Mrs. Robert James, OF Chat
tanooga, Tenn, caught fire the other day,
while her mother was absent, and before as
sistance arrived the child was burned to
death.
w. r. Hammond has been elected
Judge of the Atlanta Circuit, the most inn
portant circuit in the State of Georgia.
The bronze statue of the late Senator
Hill, to be erected in Atlanta, Ga, will cost
about 100000
Over 100000 orange trees are said
to have come into bearing condition this
year in Florida.
An election was held recently at An
napolis, Nd, on the question of local OPP
ton, and the ladies thronged the polling
places, distributing tickets and singing tenn
perance songs.
Edward Keefe, workman in ce.
ment mill at Louisville, KY, was caught in
the cogs OF the stone elevator wheel few
evenings ago and crushed to a shapeless
mass. He leaves a wife and two children.
The engines and machinery of the
Charleston Is. CO. cotton factory, begun in
August, 1881, were successfully tested the
other day, and spinning has commenced.
The mill has $4,000 spindles, with capacity
for Is, 900 more. It is the first cotton mill
erected in Charleston since the war.
Passenger trains on the Texas & Pa
cific Road are hereafter to carry a strong
force Of State Rangers between Fort Worth
and El Paso. It has been ascertaiDed that
one of the men who recently attacked a
Gulf train near Dallas died at Clebourne
and was buried by his confederates.
Trains on the Kentucky Central Road
collided near Falmouth the other evening.
Ben Early. an engineer, and William Gray,
a fireman, were instantly killed, and nuns
Der OF passengers were injured.
The official vote Of North Carolina at
the recent election for Congressman at
Large gives Bennett (Dem.) Ill, 743, and
Dockrey (Rep.) III, 295- Bennett ajority,
448. So says the Raleigh Mems.
The Southern States have raised their
own supply Of breadstuffs this year and
have surplus to sell.
The Santa Rosa ranch, in Cameron
County, Texas, comprising 60, 900 acres of
land and $4,000 cattle, has changed hands at
$4,000.
During the recent cold snap several
deaths from freezing occurred in Virginia.
A jury at Arkadelphia, Ark, has ac-
quilted Sallie Stokes of the murder OF Ma
linda Stephens.
The passenger train which left Macon,
Ca. for Montgomery the other morning ran
off the track one mile east of Georgetown,
near EEfaula, about four in the afternoon.
The entire train was thrown one hundred
yards from the track down an embankment.
Every person on the train except the engine
crew We're more or less injured.
General Sidney Burbank, United
States army, retired, died the other night at
his residence in Newport, Ky. He grad
uated at West Point in 1929; served in the
Black Hawk aud Seminole wars, and in the
army OF the Potomac during the war, and
was breveted Brigadier- General. His age
was seyenty-four years.
The other night the jail doors at
Bastrop, La, were broken down by body
OF indignant men and Thomas Robinson,
William Cephas and Wesley Andrews were
taken out and hanged. Public opinion was
in sympathy with the lynchers.
The steamship Carmona cleared from
New Orleans for Liverpool recently with
cargo valued at $642, 700, comprising 10, 800
bales Of cotton, 1000 bushels Of wheat, and
2,750 slaves.
A negro man named Couch O'Neal,
living five miles from Dublin Lawn, Ga. was
taken from his house the other night and
shot to death, bis body being riddled with
buckshot. The killing was done by negroes
because several days before O'Neal had
committed criminal offense.
A 100000 fire occurred at Columbia,