Huntsville gazette., 1882-12-16
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

than at any time since the war.
CoVlngton, Tenn, had a $4,000 fire
the other morning.
At Louisville, KY, few afternoons
| ago hve-year- colored girl, left alone in
aroom, approached the CRATE and her cloth
ing caught fire. Before the flames could be
extnguished the child was burned to death.
The frs krown instance of lightning
striking an orange tree occurred this year
at st. Augustine, Fla.
The business portion of Calhoun, Ca,
was destroyed by fire recently.
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 i'm
portant circuit in the State of Georgia.
Tippah County, Miss, boasts of
child born with three arms.
The bronze statue of the late Senator
Hill, to be erected in Atlanta, Ga, will cost
about $4,000
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 op-
ton, and the ladies thronged the polling
places, distributing tickets and singing tenn
perance songs.
Edward Keefe, workman in a ce-
ment mill at Louisville, KY, was caught in
the cogs OF the stone elevator wheel a few
evenings ago and crushed to a shapeless
mass. He leaves a wife and two children.
The engines and machinery of the
Charleston Is. c. cotton factory, begun in
August, 1881, were successfully tested the
other day, and spinning has commenced.
The mill has 1900 spindles, with capacity
Tor 10, 200 more. 1t is the first cotton mill
erected in Charleston since the war.
Passenger trains on the Texas & Pa
ciic Road are hereafter to carry strong
force Of State Rangers between Fort Worth
and El Paso. 1t 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 a.Sss' y, az engineer, and William Gray },
a fireman, were instantly killed, and a num-
Der of passengers were injured.
The official vote of North Carolina at
the recent election for Congressman at
Large gives Bennett (Dem.) III, 743, and
Dockrey (Rep.) III, ,295-Bennett's majority,
| 44S. So says the Raleigh Ne1vs.
c. H. Lind, a young gambler from
Rio Grande City, was shot dead by Clay
Drice in gambling house at Eagle Pass,
Tex, the other day.
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 so, 900 acres OF
land and $4,000 cattle, has changed hands at
/ $4,000.
Little Joe Tompkins, son of Mr.. Whit
Tompkins, Of Albany, Ga. met with fatal
accident few days ago. Joe. who was
spending the day at his grandfather's, Mr..
Boyd's, was playing about the gin house
with two or three little colored children. On
the premises were pair Of large steelyards
suspended from heavy frame, for weigh
| ing cotton. The coored children mounted
upon the beam and had elevated the large
weight, under which stood little Joe. They
| suddenly alighted from their perch, and the
heavy piece of iron descending, struck the
unfortunate child on the head. crushing his
skull. He breathed twice and expired.
During the recent cold snap several
deaths from freezing occurred in Virginia.
A jury at Arkadelphia, Ark, has ac-
quilted Salie Stokes of the murder OF Ma
linda Stephens.
The passenger train which left Macon,
Ga, for Montgomery the other morning ran
off the track one mile east of Georgetown,
near Eufaula, 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 were 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 and Seminole wars, and in the
army Of the Potomac during the war, and
was breveted Brigadier General. His age
was seventy -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 S642, 900, comprising 10, $50
bales of cotton, 1900 bushels Of wheat, and
2,750 slaves.
Eli Mcconnell, drunken carpenter,
residing at Weatherford, Texas, recently
took his wife and his two-year- -old child out
In a buggy. AS soon as they Were cut Of
town be began abusing her, and finally fell
to beating her with pistol, and accidently
struck the child on the head with the
weapon, killing it instantly. To cover the
crime, he told his wife if she did not tell
that the child was killed by the buggy turn
ing over on it he would kill her, but on
reaching home Mcconnell became fright
ened, and, mounting a horse, fed. Mrs.
Al L r.