Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-30
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

eSthooi, Nele interrupted Dy 4 remarkabie
freak OF one Of the sisters, Martha Taylor,
aged 59. The immense audience which was
present aroused her enthusiasm in the first
| place, and as Brother Williams opened with
prayer she became thoroughly enraptured
| There were others who were laboring under
| the same spell, but there were none so Wild
| ly demonstrative as she. The seats had all
| been occupied before she reached the church.
and she was compelled to take her position
in an outside aisle near window which had
| been raised. The shutters, however, were
drawn, but still it was a very dangerous
place for the old woman, under the crcum-
stances. Brother Williams had not proceed
| ed very far before Martha's excitement
reached its climax. She abandoned all re-
straint, and shouted and tossed, as the spell
moved her. Suddenly she gave a pitch for
ward throughthe shutters, and landed in
| the yard, 15 feet below. A cry OF horror es-
capped the audience, and a scene of great
| disorder ensued. The enthusiast was found
| lying on her back, unconscious, and nearly
| dead. She was picked up and carried into
the church, where she revived somewhat
under the treatment Of a physician. -
The premium tobacco sale at the
! Louisville Exposition was grand success
IN every particular, the quality OF offerings
| being superior, prices realized good, and
competition lively. The Farmers house
| sold about 300 hogsheads and the Ninth
street house probably $50, making total Of
about $50 hogsheads. Offerings included
nearly all types Of the leaf, from all sections
of.ihe State. The best lines OF burleys were
from Owen and Henry Counties, KY, and
from Brown County, Ohio. The .hogshead
OF cutting leaf which won the first prize, of
| 500, was grown in Owen County, and
brought S66 per 100 pounds. The best hogs
head OF shipping leaf was from Logan Coun-
Fiy, and brought $10.50 per 100 pounds.
Among the sales We're twenty-five hogs
heads OF Brown County (Ohio) leaf at from
S25 to 1888; lot OF Henry County hurley at
from $27 to $3.50; a line of Green River
burleys at from IS to $15, and two Christian
County black wrappers at IS so to 20. 10. An
idea of the extent of the sale may be formed
by statement of approximate value Of to-.
bacco sold: Each hogsbead averages about
800 pounds weight and the average price
realized IS not far from $500; so the so
| hogsheads sold represent nearly 100000.
In slavery days, the chimes of st.
Michael's Church, S. O., were rung at I
p. m. in winter and ia summer,as sig
nal to negroes that their bedtime was nigh,
and again an hour later to warn them to dis
appear from the streets, after which all
blacks found abroad were arrested. The
custom was continued until few days ago,
though nobody has obeyed the bells since
the war. The Mayor has now cut off the
salary of the ringer, and the act is exciting
considerable discussion among the old resi-
dents. ... ~. a. 1d
At Greenvlle, S. c., the people let
their hogs run in the streets during water
melon time, in order to dispose OF The rinds.
which would otherwise furnish a green and
slippery pavement.
A story comes from Stanton, Va,
that a few days ago a stranger asked Chief
of Police Waters if he knew Of a Mrs. Eliza
beth Bailey IN that city, explaining that he
had, twenty five years before, when boy
| years old, run away from his home in
| Staunton, and had not heard from his fam
lily since. Capt. Waters knew the lady, and
took the stranger to the house, and there
WAS n joyous meeting Of mother and son.
Virginia's 172' tobacco factories con-
sumo As, 600, 900 pounds of the weed annu-
| ally. at tt
In Henry County, Ga, recently, Hen
ry Willis had occasion to reproye colored
farm laborer. The negro used bad lam
guage, and Mr.. Wilts's son, mere boy,
threatened to knock him down. AT this the
liend grasped the boys right hand, with a
grip OF iron, and before the father could in
terfere, drew large knife and hacked the
hand off at the wrist joint. He then es
capped.
The blue-gr farm of the late Fl. P.
McGrath, near Lexington, Ky., containing
over four hundred acres, was bought at
auction by Milt. Young, the turfman, for
S112.50 per acre. hrn ti
A mysterious serenade, apparently
coming from the clouds, delighted as well
as excited the people Of Madison, Ga, few
nights since. EA i@ ~'fh
e 1t is estimated that over one-half of
the new manufactures started in the South
during the past two years belong to North
ern capitalists. .gc2iaHm at e'a+-I aat-'
A farmerat Valdosta, Ca, has made
two crops of corn on the same land this
year.
Half-pound peaches are common in
San Sata, Texas. y+a.as 5laH '
Forty vessels from Key West are
gathering sponges off Arclote a d Clear
4 Water harbor. a5iaf
The apple crop of North Carolina is
| unprecedentedly large. aa azieHlara h
\ About two years ago Commodore
Watson, of the De Barry Line, on the st.
Johns River, Florida, directed that no
u more shooting be allowed from his boats.
This was done not only for the protection Of
the passengers, but that the game should
i not be driven from the banks OF the river.
The order has had good effect, and now
alligators and birds may be seen as of yore.
Mad-stones appear to have market
value in North Carolina, where a local pa
per records the sale OF half interest in one
Tor IS, adding that clouded title lessened
/ the value OF the share disposed of.
Sumter,S. c., will shortly be CON
nected with Charleston, via the South Caro-
lima Railway. Twenty thousand dollars
| l.,xa haon stIbScri hed