The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-05-20
SOUTHERN GLEANINGs.


Florida papers, are that the Bishop had
seeond-class ticket and went into first
class car. When the conductor came to him
and took his ticket he told him be must go
into the second-class car The coloretl
Bishop became very angry, and said il he
could not ride in a first-class car be would
rot ride anywhere, and, although he was
told that he might ride to the next station,
he refused to do so. and, despite remon-
strances, got off the train and walked back
to Jacksonville, where he had got on.
Southern merchants in many districts
have gone to their hast limit in supplying
goods on credit to victims OF the overflow.
great deal depends on the crops.
gentleman living near Athens, Ca,
mas gourd that has been in use to hold
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 be
deprived of his right to testify, and as to
credihility stands on the same footing with
other witnesses.
The Sanitary Council of the Missis-
sippi Valley has recommended the estab-
tishment Of an inspecting service at the jet
ties to keep out the yellow fever.
A New. Orleans concern sent lot of
condemned condensed milk on dray to the
garbage boat, few days since. On the
way the driver threw several cans OF the
sour milk to men and boys on the sidewalk,
and in 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 la'er 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 con lemned
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 pail $3.50
or the privilege.
One man will ship nine thousand
cords of tanbarl from the vicinity of Chat
Canooga, Tenn, this season.
There has been a slight disturbance
among the different churches in Dallas.
Tex, caused by a committee of the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union waiting
on the pastors and asking them to liscon-
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 lea1. The result is that
many of the pastors have refused to take
81.
The prisoners in the County Jail at
Fort Worth, Tex. according to a local pa
peri. held kangaroo court, the other day,
and convicted the negro Dave Jackson.
After an exhaustive trial the foreman
brought in verdict of guilty, and the ne
gro was Immediately strung up to a rafter.
This was terribly realistic acting, and the
negro was ashv with terror. Dangling
from the beam. with his tongue protrudng
and his ewes 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 hideous fore
EAST Of coming event. The negro was
1earlv 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 a net return
Of about $1,000 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 store window in Selma, Ala. As
9 hp laid hands tho nffopIintr
ne grasped it with steel spinner outward,
and beat himself fiereelv over the forehead
and head with it until blood came, when he
threw the topraS far away as he could and
told the owner of the store that he "didn't
90 to break the window" This was novel
way of atonfng for his FAULT, but it had the
desired effect and he was allowed to depart
unmOiested.
The manufacture of canes and curl
oslies 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 or
fowl, animal, mineral or vegetable, is man
ufactured into articles of jewelry. for per-
SOnal use or adornment. The trade in ALI
gators is also large. One concern has sold
over eight hundred aligators this season,
and mother 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 ightwood knots and a few trees
standing and lying idle on some of Uncle
Sans $40 per acre mineral lands. No
''favors" >hown-the Marshal just cleans
them up for the money there is in it.
: The country contiguous to Vicksburg,
Miss, is now almost entirely out of water,
and planting and blowing is becoming gen.
eral. The prospect for the Hill City is un-
usually cool. A full crop win be made, and
the people are alive with the hope that comes
II the best prospects.
Eight hundred and twenty-three nee
dies and pins have been cut out of Mi
Stokes. q very intelligent young lady livi
ten miles west of Moulton, Ala, within
past few years. She declares that sh
not swallow or stick them in her herse.
it is very mysterious how the pins get .ea
in her body, causing great pain and sxa-
ton of spirit.
There are 100000 sheep in j sas.
A Mormon church has beer estab-
Hshed in Sewer County, Arkansas, with
several members, among the most ignorant
class of people. One preacher Was run ont
of the county, but two others have appeared.
They profess to be opposed to polygamy.
A gentleman and two ladies went to
Brunswick from ST. Simons, Ga, in row