Huntsville gazette., 1882-06-24
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

ttio Poiio VI DccoHiHS tpiutlHiC III houls- n
vile, Ky. 1t is supposed to be caused by
germs floating in the atmosphere, and is al Z
ways most prevalent after Hood. A Louis
vile physician says that it Is known to med
ical science under the appalling name OF
"muco-purulent conjunctiva,' that in times
past it has occasionally swept over large
portions Of the globe, and that to his knowl-
edge there are now between two and three
hundred cases in Louisville, outside the
hospitals, orphan asylums and 1ais. When
the disease is neglected the eye is speedily
destroyed by the action of pus, which can
not escape through the sealed lids.
A Chattanooga letter says: Already
there is invested here over $1,000, 900 in
manufacturing enterprises, over $4,000, 900
of which is in iron interests. One company
alone, the Roane Iron Company, has paid
up capital Of 81 100000, and money is every
day seeking Investment here. To give an
idea how much values have increased here,
in 1871 there were $3,6O0,000 worth OF prop
erty, and in 1851 it swelled to $6, 10000 or
about 100 per cent. In 1882 the assessed
value will be over 81, 100000. In the manu-
factories there are employed over 5000
hands, the Roane Iron Company paying one
fourth Of these, or 800 in all.
The North Carolina Methodist who
sang so loudly and discordantly in church as
to annoy other worshipers, and was indicted
as nuisance, has won his case. The Ian
guage of the Court is: "The disturbance OF
congregation by singing, when the singer
does not intend so to disturb it but is con-
scientiously taking part in the religious
services, may be a subject for the discipline
of his church, but is not indictable.o
A few small California carp placed in
pond in Woodford County, KY, eighteen
months ago were recently caught, and
weighed from six to eight and a half pounds
each.
The Receiver of the United States
land office at GAINESVILLE, Fla, has sent to
Washington over SAG, 900 for land purchases
in that State since closing the business
of the last fiscal year. This shows
that there has been a land boom
recently, and the purchases of common
school land from the State, if they have been
in the same proportion, have largely replen-
ished the State treasury.
Several years ago Enoch Thomasson
was convicted Of the murder Of R. G. jack
son, at Mount Pleasant, Tenn, and sem
fenced by the Maury Circuit Court to hang
tar the crime. His sentence was afterward
commuted to life imprisonment. Another
chapter in this crime has just developed.
A man died recently in Maury County, near
Columbia, who confessed on his death bed
the crime for which Thomasson is leading a
prison life. Steps to liberate him will be
taken.
A suit is threatened to test the validity
of the Confederate land scrip of Texas, up
on the ground that the act under which the
scrip was issued is in violation Of the Con-
stitution of the United States.
During the month of May the State
Treasurer Of Texas received from the sale Of
land $65, ,326, of which $2S, 4SS was first pay
ments, representing sales Of about $50, 900
acres of school lands.
Every distillery in Arkansas has been
compelled to shut down for want of grain,
and an exchange says that this will tend to
the establishment Of many fruit distilleries
this year.
A goldfish ten and a half inches long
was recently taken from cistern in Macon,
Ga. sv5
The Eleventh Congressional District
of Texas is larger than Alabama and Missis-
sippi, and will some day raise more cotton
than those two States, and more wheat than
Ohio and Missouri.
The cotton-seed oil mills on Hutchin
son Island, opposite Savannah, valued at
S5O, 900, were recently destroyed by fire.
An extraordinary incursion of prairie
dogs threatened the corn and oats with de-
struction in some parts Of Texas.
Some land in the Mississippi Valley,
above Vicksburg, is so thoroughly and
hopelessly inundated as to leave no pros
poets for cotton crop this year.
A manufacturer in Macon, Ga, has
procured from the City Council a special per-
NIT to shoot snakes on his property, in the
rear of his factory, where they abound near
his fish pond.
A valuable deposit of asbestos has
been developed near Roanoke, Va. The vein
varies from six to ten inches, and in tough
ness compares most favorably with the best
Canadian.
A Greenup County, Kentucky, man
has an old fashioned squirrel rifle that will
soon celebrate its centennial.
One Mason County, Kentucky,
fruit-grower has set out 100000 young ap-
pie trees this year.
One Key West pineapple grower net
ted $4, 900 last year on his fruit.
The Hessian fly has destroyed the wa
iermelon vines about Tampa.
Augusta, Ca, will soon add four
thousand people to her population by taking
In the new factories and Harrisburg, Hicks
vile, and RoIlersville, and the Sibley, King
4nd Curry settlements.
Senator Brown, of Georgia, has given
g. 500 toward the building Of Baptist psr-
sonage in Atlanta.
A large number of German emigrants
are settling in Texas.
Florida shipped 29,94S,640 oranges
during the season ending June l.
The Wool Growers Association OF
Texas adopted resolution to support no
man for Congress who does not advocate the
,nrntna.iau af that ipterpst again It imDOrta-