The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-04-15
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.


fore they met. Lewis made by his letters
the good impression anticipated, and when
the young lady at last saw him, she was
ready to overlook his unpleasing physique.
They became engaged. This engagement
he broke, and she sued him for damages.
At the trial, the defendants counsel dwelt
at length upon the ugliness of his client
and descanted with equal fer or on the love-
illness of the plaintiff. This was done to i'm
press the jury that Miss johnson ought to be
glad OF release from sSlch an unsightly
lover, and that it was no damage to lose him
as husband. The verdict, however, was
for 50 600.
Mr.. Job M. Nash, of Cincinnati, re-
Gently addressed the members of the Mem
phis Cotton Exchange on the subject OF a
public library. The phianthropic gentle
man proposed to subscribe ST., 900 toward
furnishing library, provided the citizens
expend a like sum in purchasing a lot and
building tire-proof structure for the recep-
ton of the books. A subscription was taken
and SIS, 900 subscribed, Mr.. Nash leading off
with 81 200, in which movement he had
eleven followers for like sum.
In the winter of 1854, twenty-eight
years ago, DIR. w. c. Avery, of Greensboro,
Ala, while hunting, lost gold watch,
hunung-case English lever. This watch
was returned to him recently by coiored
man, who found it about one mile from the
house, in the woods. The watch is in good
condition and, considering the length OF
time it has been exposed to the weather, is
comparatively bright. 1t was identified by
the initials of the owner, engraved on the
outside of the case.
An interesting social event in Char
lotte, N. c., lately, was the marriage Of
blind girl to deaf mute. After the first
difficulties of an introduction had been sur
mounted, the courtship is said to have ad-
vanced smoothly, and their mutual sympa-
thy and understanding are now so deep that
when they are together each readily supplies
the others lack, and their combined sense
are equal to any emergency.
The State of Texas recently bought in
$i42, 900 of its per cent. bonds, due in 1904.
at 40. 1t has within a year reduced it,
debt 100000.
Commissioner Walsh, of Texas, esti
mates that certificates have been issued for
5,00S,670 acres above the public domain open
to location.
The Augusta (Ga.) NeUs tells the fol-
lowing dog story: "The poor old fellow has
been bowling for a week with neuralgia Of
the jaw, and when his master, who is a
| thoughtful and conSiderate surgeon as well
as an artist, discovered the cause OF the Ca
nine's grief, he set to work to extract
whole row Of decayed teeth. Now this may
seem absurd to some very ignorant people,
| but it is all true, and the poor dog held his
4, a.,I otIu xUh 10
| the teeth were being drawn"
The Commissioned General of the
| Texas Land office recommends that the
| Panhandle and Texas Pacific reserves be
thrown open for location. This area will be
needed to satisfy certificates already l.
sued.
George Biggerstaff, of Glasgow, Ky,
having lost an eye in an election day row in
| November, 1880, sued his assaiant for $780,
| 600, and jury has just given him $500.
Mississippi has changed her Lien
law. Liens on personal property for rent OF
supplies are repealed.
The Texas Comptroller's annual re-
| port of railway companies for 1881 shows
| forty lone railroads, with capital stock OF
| S247, 122, 100 and 500, 279, 799 paid in stock;
|
| 800, 273: expended for purchase of land con-
struction of road, buildings, engines and cars,
| S160, 239, 957; due the companies, 1872 3S9;
freights, passengers and mails, $40 39), $50;
tons carried, 3,597; killed by accident,
| 50; injured by accident, 49,
Pamela County, Texas, is out of debt,
| and its county tax is only ten cents on the
| 800.
In Butler County, Ala, this year there
are ten acres Of oats sown this year to every
| one sown last year. Every farmer seems
| determined to plant more corn than usual.
There are over 10000 men and lOO,-
| 600 horses and mules employed in railroad
| building in Texas. There are about 1900
miles of road under contract, and about 5000
more to be contracted for.
Roasting-ears for dinner and ripe
watermelons for desert is the present bill Of
| fare in Manatee County, Fla.
On Sunday last the thermometer in
Charleston, s. c., reached IS deg, degree
| of heat unknown there in March for many
years.
Georgia has seventy-odd gold mills at
work. One is giving a monthly product OF
about $500.
It is estimated that more than 200, 900
| cattle will be driven north from Texas this
spring.
At the outer bar of Mobile Bay there
| ia now % feet of water, and the Collector of
the Port states that the channel is contin-
ually deepening.
A large number of cross-ties for Next
can and South American Railroads are being
| cut in Levy, Bradford, Clay and Alachee
| Counties. Florida.
A citizen of Marion County, Georgia,
has between $4,000 and 80, 900 trees boxed
in his turpentine orchard.
Finley McKenny, supposed to be very
poor, was dying at Morgantown, Ky. With
his last breath he told his wife to break an
old lug that had long stood in the CRIME OF
the smokehouse. She did so, and 81, POO in
gold and silver rolled out.
Bottom lands are not in request.
In neglected spot in Athens, Ga,
which marks the location where once ex-
listed the botanical garden of the State Uni
yersfty. stands a weeping willow, grown
from a sprout cut from the famous tree over
Napoleon's grave in St. Helena, elm
from the noted elm in Boston Common, and
an oak which grew from an acorn brought
from England by DR.. Ward.
Near Elizabethton, Tenn, negro ate
two raw mackerel, two dozen hard boiled
eggs and drank two buckets Of water. The
physician pronounced it case of "death
from over-eating."