St. Landry democrat., 1882-06-10
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

| DAY at Shellm0und, small station Few
| miles below Chattanooga, Tenn. A gentee
stranger reached the town in the afternoon
and, feeling i'll, asked to lie down in a cot.
tage. A few minutes afterward he handed
| the lady package, telling her it was hers il
he died. Soon afterward he was found ir
the room dead, having severed his jugulal
vein with small pocket knife. The pack.
age was found to contain 500 in currency
| There is no clew to his identity. It's thought
he is Michigan man, and killed himself
while under temporary alteration of mind
! from extreme pain.
A correspondent writing from Hicko-
~ Valley, Union County, Tenn, tells OF two
young ladies living in that vicinity who he
thinks deserve special mention. One is Miss
Sarah Lett, who weighs PSI pounds, and the
other her sister, Miss Lucinda Lett, who
weighs POT pounds. These women are re-
markedly strong and healthy, performing all
kinds of outdoor labor, swinging the ak
and using the mattock and hoe as well as
stout men. They raised last year 700 bush
els Of corn besides large crops of wheat, oats,
and hay. They have a mother and two sis
tiers living.
On the petition of a wealthy citizen OF
New Orleans, the publishers of a pictorial
weekly were recently enjoined from assaiI-
ing him by order of Judge RICHTER. The
offenders repeated their assaults, and were
Jailed for contempt. An appeal to the SUI
preme Court caused a decision in their ia
yor, Judge Fenner stating that no court in
England or America had in modern times
issued general order to prevent publica-
ton by 4 newspaper.
The Tampa (Fla.) Tribune says that
Capt. Sam Ellis and w. S. Whitehurst
went down the bay recently and succeeded
in capturing one Of those huge monsters
known as aeviltish, near Point Pinellas.
Capt. Ellis says that he had six hours
chase after striking it with lily iron. The
head and tail were brought up to town.
The mouth is three feet wide, and the cap
tain says that the fish was eighteen or
twenty feet across. 1t was the intention of
Capt. Ellis to skin him, but before the fish
could be towed to shore the sharks had fed
so raVenously on it as to defeat the purpose
Its estimated weight was between two
thousand and three thousand pounds.
The Birmingham (Ala.) dye says:
"About So, 900 in gold is coined every day,
or 81, 100000 annually, not from the Govern
ment mint, but from the blast furnaces in
Birmingham, in the shape of pig iron, which
is melted from the everlasting hills of Jeffer
son County, the generous soil Of which
yields also each year three-quarters Of mil
lion more in diamonds, not the gems that
sparkle upon the brow of beauty, but black
diamonds which serve the more useful pur-
pose Of driving the wheels Of commerce and
Industry
A man named Andrew Allen, residing
in Fayette County, Ala, separated from his
wife for several months past, recently visited
her at her mothers house and deliberately
shot and killed her. A brother of the woman
entered the house few moments later, and,
seeing his sister lying dead upon the floor,
fired double barreled shotgun. Allen fell
dead by the side Of his wife. His slayer sur
rendered to the police.
The colored troops of Georgia are tc
go into encampment at Macon in June.
About fifteen companies are expected to re-
port to the camp.
Some of the finest walnut trees in the
mountains of North Carolina have been sold
at $40 each just as they stand in the woods,
the purchasers reserying the privilege to
take them away within u certain number of
years.
Memorial Day was observed at Co.
lumbia, S. c., with undated interest. The
graves of Confederate soldiers were deco
rated by children, under the supervision of
committees of ladies. Business was sus-
pended and the church bells were tolled.
The Wilmington Star claims that the
people of North Carolina have never yet
elected a Governor who was not native of
the State. One Governor was born abroad,
but he was elected by the Legislature.
The yield of wheat and oats in South
Carolina and Georgia will be larger this
year than any since the war.
Pensacola, Fla, will soon have an
establishment for creosoting timber. All
timber of this kind now used in that city
comes from Pascagoula, Miss, and as much
as $50 apiece has been paid for creosoted
pilings.
w. r. Bickerstaff, of Mount billiard,
Ala, recently took his family to travelling
to have their pictures taken,
when the little 2-year old son got hold Of
some poisonous mixture, drank it, and died
In two hours.
Virginia c. Penny, of Louisville, a
lady of fine literary abilities, has been sent
to the lunatic asylum of Kentucky. One
brother, navy lieutenant, is in an insane
retreat in Pennsylvania, and another, DR..
Penny, killed himself with revolver.
One of the most extensive rice-plant-
ers near Georgetown, S. c., has planted his
entire crop this year by machinery. So rap.
i'd has been the termination and growth OF
The rice that it is now being hoed. This is
said to be perhaps the first instance in South
Carolina, if not in the entire South, in which
a whole rice crop has been planted with ma
chimes,