The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-12-23
SOUTHERN GLEANrNGS.

u Slds of John Trinler while he was suffering
S. Pm mental alteration.
AIRS. Sarah Wood died at Ruford the
ether day, aged III years. She was born in
,aborrus County, N. c., and moved to
apartansburg, s. c., about 1T79.
A tire at Paducah, KY, the other
morning destroyed the Southern Hotel and
tKree business houses, valued at S23, 600;
iRsured for $11 900.
Edward M. Cheney has been con-
fEned IS United States Attorney for the
u Mhern District of Florida.
kansas has 1890 miles of cemplet-
ei lroads and dEEe ruzds are being rap
ids@zOasttfacted.
Texarkana has telephones and now |
wants street railways.
The receipts of cotton at Little Rock. |
Ark, to December 8, were placed at 24,b45 |
bales, against 1854 bales at the same time
last year.
The little railway town in Tennes,,es
called Atoka, on the Chesapeake, Ohio}&
Southwestern Railway, Boosting between
500 and 1 900 inhabitants, met with serious
disaster by fire the other morning, which
destroyed the better part Of the business
district.
Near cambridge, Ca, recently, John
! Mathis, a boy, was playing around his IA
theirs sugar mill when the revolving lever
struck him on the head, dashing his brains
| out.
The grocery of H. L. Schmelz, and
four adjoining buildings at Hampton Roads,
Va, burned few days ago. Loss, $4,000.
Eli Mcconnell, the man who MUIR
dered his child and brutslly beat his wife,
near Weatherford, Tex, u short time ago,
and who escaped the officers and fed the
country, has been captured near Brown
wood, in Brown County, by Henry Fisk,
special Deputy Sheriff, and taken 10 Wealth
erford, where he had been indicted for the
crime of killing his child.
The other evening two men rode up
to R. j. Grier, standing in his store, in Tai
lahatchie County, Miss. and demanded the
key of the safe. He replied he had no keys;
the safe had a combination. The men then
shot him down and rode off.
Texas Legislature meets Jan. 3.
Jacob Collins, a boy living near Haw-
kinsvile, Ca, while in field with his
Younger brother the other day set fire to 6
very large dead stump and then, in pushing
it over, the stump broke in lhe middle ane
: the upper half fell on the boy, crushing hin
+ to death.
) Near Dublin, Ca, few days ago
Mrs. Russell Vaughn was drawing waite
g when the pole broke from the well-sweep
which fell from the fork on her younges
child, breaking its neck and skull.
A space in the southwest corner
;, the Government reservation at Hot Springs
= ait f0r
Army and Navy Hospital, for which Con
sress appropriated 100000.
Two failures occurred recently 6
Augusta, Ca, A. Brooks, clothing dealer
!. for $40, 900, and NJ. Brown, cigar dealer, IL
d $4,000.
a John L. Cushion was shot dead {
a. Thompson, Ga, the other day. The PEI
"a | pie were restrained with difficulty fro
l. lvnching his murderer, Locking, colort
~ man.
la Governor Stephens has pardone
u, CaDtain Ed, Cox, sentenced to life impri
Ill onnent for the murder of Colonel Robert
% Aston in 1879.
IN Scipio Horne, colored, of Skipwit
n Miss, who claimed to be doctor, pharm
all cist and also well-informed sstronom
IN among colored people, and who predict
he the next comet on Christmas night, "
called in to see a negro with sore leg
ne Gently. He decided that the negro haC
ID lizard in his leg and split the leg wide OPP
ng After butchering the Negroes limb until
on lain was beyond endurance, Scipio decld
he that it was an invisible phenomenon. L
at physicians were Immediately called in. a
ce. will probably save the Negroes lie by
ro INITIATING the leg.
or. Mary Henderson (colored), az
ers about seventeen We airs, tried to kindle
with kerosene the other day, at Allan
ton GA. Her dress caught fire and before
tie arrived her body was burned to crisp.
-. The Jail and jaIl-house at Delta, Nil
ION were burned few days ago. Fifteen pl
opers were released to save their li'
'no Some of them remained to help fight the
tom ard were again locked up.
tho The contract awarding the mana
ing ment Of the Arkansas Penitentiarv for
An ensuing t. n years to Fitzpatrick d To-
APP send, of Selma, Ark, was signed the Of
ear dav by the Commissioners.
was Johann Hansen, cook on board
ivil bark velox, in attempting to hoard
ESQ vessel in an intoxicated condition at
/ the board and was drowned.
In The architect of the new capito
N of Albany. n, V, was called to Columbi
c., to inspect the State house aud estll
the cost or completing it. He reported
building very unsafe, and showed tn
WAS slowly parting in the center.
the Two masked men killed drug
bill the other day at Sharkey. Miss, in an
lsid- deavor to rob the safe of the store.
aoso Two prison guards shot each
''ase recently near Memphis, Tenn, in dru
braw.
olnet Louisville, KY, has sixteen DIST
smed 10. running and several others ready to
up.
LORD A riot occurred at Opelika, Ca, a
DAYS ago between the two factions
III recently contested for the municipal all
otalo ity of that town. During the quarrt
IueIS' men were shot, seven it was though
tally.
Hall Georgia Legislature has adjourne
'st .. r. S. Champion, paymaster
saved. Ai'.,e ma ,,.,,h do,.lc,tion :,
TIA to ceh''s GU" 900 l,.,,,,,.tor had haer
Point. a'noi'n' " Pio'so - = an old
otaliy 'hAS'ei =. .He "a boratofore had
regarded As IA man of stries integrity
lg at ses>ing the fullest confidence OF the Of
roNel OF the road.
large A negro child eighteen months
"-'o' the step chilli of samuel Bad, froze to
few nights ago in the miserable hou
At the cnnied bv its mother and ep-fat
mat Danvile, Ky.
fumes Tt,o Malrosa Cation Mills. of Ri
Tas de- 1,.,.,aa The other dav.
sheet During uaIloe IA Don' -