Huntsville gazette., 1882-01-21
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

According to Boston correspondent,
"the results of the Cotton Exposition, so
far as Atlanta is concerned, can not be fore
shadowed, but it is fair to expect that the
city viii gain quite number of business
concerns. Director General Kimball gives
it as his opinion that there will be fifty new
manufacturing enterprises established in
Atlanta during the next year. 1t is not Ger
tain yet that the Exposition will give Atlanta
her third cotton factory. Mr.. KimbalI says
that it will require capital of $1,000, 600 to
fill the main building with machinery, and
is'sIe does not see where the money is to come
hon 10 push the matter on to success. The
truth is the building cost only $1S0,000, and
everyone must know that in an expenditure
! OF more than 81 200, 900 the matter of few
wooden buildings can not be considered, al
though these buildings may be we'll con-
structed. Mr.. Kimball thinks the main
building will be sold to a company, which
will put power in the center and lease the
wings and shafting and furnish power to
small industries. This may be done, and
probably will be the fate of the exposition
buildings. The Exposition may do much
to develop the South, but it will only be an
assistant, and not the real cause of the de-
velopment which is to mark the next six or
eight years. The resources of the South
were already being looked into by men Of
capital and brains, and, if the Exposition
had never been held, the South would not
have slept on. 1t has been a source of much
good in bringing together the people of all
| nd ciy han de ha T.
ing and experience meeting"
A committee of young gentlemen re-
Gently waited on Jefferson Davis to tender
to him, on behalf Of the young men of Mem
phis, banquet at such time as he might
designate. The banquet was rendered, as
expressed by the committee, to Mr.. Davis
to assert the esteem, veneration and affec-
tion OF the Southern young men for him,
which they declared to be sincere and earn
est. Mr.. Davis sent to the committee the
following: 81 gratefully acknowledge the
invitation of the young men of Memphis you
represent, to meet them at banquet at such
time as | may designate. My present visit
will be so brief as not to permit me to avail
OF your kind courtesy before my departure,
but hope to be here again early in the
spring. and it will then give me great pleas
ure to accept the invitation offered. Hav-
| ing closed long career of public service,
nothing could be more gratifying to me than
the manifestation of such consideration as
is expressed by those to whom the destinies
| OF our country are to be intrusted. To
yourselves and your associates present my
cordial thanks and assurance Of affec-
| tionate regard.'
An old-time dueling party recently
left New Orleans for the purpose of settling
grievance according to the code. The
principals were Mr.. Edmond Brou and Mr..
II. de Bauthe. The weapons selected were
short swords, and after arriving at the spot
selected, near Kennerville, the party pre-.
pared for the combat. The permission OF
the owner of the plantation was obtained,
and the combatants, drizzling rain falling
at the time, assembled beneath the sugar
| shed attached to the sugar house. Here the
usual ceremonies were had and the princi
| pals, weaponin hand were placed in position.
In the shortest space Of time there was an
attack and defense on either side, both well
executed, but not sufficiently well to prevent
the weapons from doing harm. AT the first
pass Mr.. Brou was slightly wounded in the
abdomen, and Mr.. de Bauthe in the neck.
The wounds were not serious, but were con.
sidered satisfactory.
A singular inquest of lunacy has beer
tried in the Jefferson County (Ky.) Chan
Gerry Court. Several years ago the wife OF
Edwin Heffield, we'll do mechanic, was
taken seriously i'll, her disease being pro-
n canitu HpfiaId unit yynrk
to attend at her bedside. One morning she
was found dead in bed, with her husband
asleep beside her. An examination of her
body developed the fact that she was Scared
from head to foot with knife wounds. A
small knife lying near the bed told how she
had been killed. Her husband was placed
under arrest and found to be ravng ma
Mae. He confessed he had killed his wife,
and declared he had done so to east out the
devils that were in her. He was adjudged
a lunatic and sent to the State Asylum. Be-
fore his wife became insane Heffield had
never exhibited the least evidence of an un7
sound mind.
Leslie Warner, of Nashville, Tenn,
has purchased 10000 acress Of pine timbered
lands lying along the proposed New Orleans
& Northeastern Railroad, in Mississippi.
The tract contains pine trees from 100 to 150
feet in height, and will become marketable
on the completion Of the railroad named
Mr.. Warner contemplates making it a sheep
rancho, and VIII stock it with about 1000
head.
The murder of Melvin Murphy by
Charles Golden, in Catoosa County, Ga, was
a cold-blooded and deliberate affair. MUIR
phv had sold Golden some wheat and had
received part payment and was merely ask
ing for the remainder when Golden pounced
on HIM and stabbed him in the breast seven
times. Golden was powerful man, and
Murphy was half dead with consumption.
The murdered man was wealthy and con-
nected with the best families in the county.
Judge John Mcclure has instituted
suit in tho Chancery Court of Jefferson
County, Ark, TO quash the payment Of GER
tain bonds issued during reconstruction
days, ON the ground of illegalty. These
bonds are known as the Levee bonds, and
amount to over 100000. They were bought
up by Eastern capitalists at ridiculously