Huntsville gazette., 1882-04-22
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

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Reports received by the Agriculture
Department show very hopeful prospect
Tor food crops in the South. There is gem
eral increase Of acreage in winter and spring
wheat and oats, and a slight decrease in
cotton. The increase in food crops is as
follow: Tennessee per cent. in wheat
and ~ per cent. in oats. North Carolina
Whe#, % per cent; oats, -. Georgia
Wheat, 20; oats, 33. South Carolina
Wheat, 25; oats, 80. Arkansas-Wheat, 10;
oats, 10. In all these States there is reported
to be decrease in the purchase of CONNER
cial fertilizers amounting in estimated ag-
gregate to $1,000, 200. Alabama reports
that, owing to a very short crop of corn last
year, on account of drought, the planting OF
winter wheat and oats was fully so per cent.
greater than ever before, while preparations
for corn are increased in as great ratio.
With good season the food crops will be
enough for two years. supply. The decrease
in cotton, owing to the floods, is estimated
at 250,O00 to $50, 900 bales.
Jesse Glass, of Shelbyville, Ky, di-
rector of the Bank of Shelbyville and one Of
the most reputable Of that towns citizens,
was well acquainted with Zerelda Cole, now
the famous Mrs. Samues, when she was
country girl, living near Stamping Ground,
In Scott County, the seat. OF ''Old Dick"
Johnson's Indian school. He has often
spoken about the buoyant and beautiful
"tomboy'' girl whose remembrance of him
was perpetuated in the, Christian name OF
her robber boy, Jesse James, who now lies
r. tod hnr oc
buxom country lass, with no over-nice
sense of delicacy, brimming full of fun,
daring horsewoman, good dancer, and not
afraid OF anything.
James A. Sylvester, who died in New
Orleans a few days ago, aged 20, was the
man who captured Gen. Santa Anna in the
battle Of San Jacinto, April 81, 1885, in the
| war for the Texas independence. He fought
the Comanche Indians at Plum Creek in
1910, and was survivor Of the illsfated ex-
pedition OF the Texans to Mier-Mier in
Mexico, being one Of the prisoners who was
forced to draw lots for his life, when each
man who drew a black bean was marched
out and shot in the presence OF his compan-
ions, and II out OF ITO were so executed.
! After desperate fight with the Sher-
| iff and turnkey at Arkadelphia, Ark, few
days ago, four prisoners broke Jail, three OF
them securing their liberty.
In the Jail at Greenville, S. c., Rich
ard Bates, coored, was married to woman
of his own race. The next morning the
bride was transported to the Penitentiary,
while the groom will be hanged for arson on
April %.
The principal and interest of the debt
of Tennessee amounts to $2S, 100000.
Orange leaves, six by ten inches, will
be used for fans in Florida this season, it is
said, displacing the palmetto leaves.
Atlanta (Ga.) men are working up a
Southern Chautauqua, or central camp meet
ing ground, for all the benevolent institu
tions of the South.
Wheat in Bosque County, Texas, is
already greatly damaged by rust, especially
| the red May variety.
At a recent meeting of the cattle
kings Of Gainesville, Texas, $25, 100000 Of
capital were represented.
Twenty-Five hundred head of merino
sheep recently arrived at Tyler, Texas, from
| Ohio.
The Yazoo City (Miss.) Oil Works
have lost between 5000 and $1,000 by the
! food. ...-.s ..l q.
The Kentucky State Bar Association
has been organized, with the following Of
ficers: President, B. f. Buckner, of Lex
ington: Vice Presidents, William Preston,
of lexington; John w. Stevenson, OF Cow
ington: G. F. Durham, of Richmond; James
Speed, of Louisville: Isaac Caldwell, Of
Louisville: John G. Carlisle, Of Covington,
and John F. Eland, of Hopkinsville; Secre-
tary, George Baber, Of Louisville.
A suit will be brought in Texas bring
ing into question who are the lesses of the
numerous eoal-beds twenty five miles above
Laredo. Millions Of dollars will be involved
in the result unless a compromise can be ef-
fected. sH
During storm, some time ago, at
! Hampstead, Tex, the lightning struck a
negro cabin in which several darkies were
sitting up with corpse. The attendants
ran out, and when they returned the coffin
lid was off and there was hole in the face
of the dead, made by the lighting.
Forty thousand acres of land in Arkan-
SdS nave U6cu ScCQlCu iol al Ie"hoh SOAohJ3 >
About a thousand Italians have already set
tied in that region.
Texas used to feed her pecans to the
hogs. Now she sells the crop for s., ,OO0,O 600.
A calf born near Paulding, Miss, has
ears marked exactly like those OF the parent
cow-a swallow fork in each ear.
A pompano fish was exhibited at Sell
ma, Ala, few days aga, which weighed
six pounds and half
A company has been organized, and
all the stock taken, to build water works at
Palatka, Fla.
Tomato culture has proved a failure
in the vicinity of Tampa, Fla, this season.
There are over 1000 insane people in
Texas, and only $50 in the asylum.
The Knights of Pythias have over
thirty lodges in Texas.
Mr.. Malone Wheless, of New Orleans,
has recently invented a very ingenioCs ma
chine for reporting, by which he claims to
be able TO report over two hundred words a
minute. He has so arranged the language
that any combination of sounds can be in