Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-16
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SOUTHERN GLEANINGS..

iiiieH BUSINESS OF that state: AS many
OF our readers do not know that there is
shetland pony ranch in the State, we will
give them bit Of Information. Baron Won
Raub, Leon Springs, oBexar County. has
eight thousand acres, jalsunder fence, prop
erly subdiyided and stocked with beautiful
Shetland and spotted ponies. His breeding
stock consists OF seven stations and forty
five mares, all thoroughbred, and two hun
dredl small pony mares. Y He is breeding
race OF striped and spotted ponies to please
the children. He sells the increase to per-
sons all over the world, and the supply is
not equal to the demand. These little po-
MES range over the prairie like sheep or
goats, and present q novel appearance.
They are very gentle; every one is as docie
as cat, and can be caught anywhere on the
range. - trEt hrFE +.lts3 II asrS+tt
The case of Priscilla Clark is quoted
by Lexington, KY, physicians as a most re-
markable one. Her skull was crushed with
stone recently, and piece of the skull
was driven through the dura- mater into
the substance of the brain and cut an artery
in the brain, from which the blood spur ed
so that the surgeons could hardly work.
The heavy stone so crushed in behind the
eyeballs as to push them out of their sockets
forward, and they were pushed back She
is now perfectly conscious, and directs her
household affairs. Her case is being writ
ten, and will be sent to the surgical journals
If she RECEIVERS. &l XXI aa-tAilt
Lit is related as a remarkable circum-
stance connected with the unfortunate Miss
Blair, who committed suicide at Camden,
;. g., that only few days before her death
she had been sketching points Of interest
around her home, having acquired consid
cradle skill in that line, and one Of the
sketches made was faithful delineation of
the gully in which she was afterward found, ).
with the dead body Of young girl lying in
1t. This furnishes a strong presumption
that the act of self destruction was premed-
itated by her for some time before its con-
summation. ~ $50 14s'Ls i'4 Il ~t7
Savannah is ahead of other ports in
the receipt of the first new rice. IigAyf
A resident of Shelby, N. c., is making
good brandy from watermelons. l.aie-
The popularity of prohibition in some
sections of Georgia is explained by the
statement that the cheap liquor sold these
days contains SO much strychnine md pep
per that it disagrees with the consumer.
A man started goose ranch near
Taylor, Williamson County, Tex, about
year ago, with flock of four hundred
geese; their bones now bleach on the prai-
rie.
A woman in the suburbs of Colum-
bus, Ga, heard her pastor say on recent
Spunay baf ha obI,r 1oI
She went into the woods and prayed for
one Just then she heard a rattlesnake,
and, rising from her knees, killed the snake,
sold the rattes for $4.5O and bought new
bible with the money.
Among recently-discovered docu-
ments is series of resolutions secretly
passed in the Texas Secession Convention
of Feb. 4, 1861, proposing a Southwestern
Confederacy, to include Texas, Mississippi,
Arkansas, New Mexico, and Arizona. To
negotiate for the formation Of such con-
federacy three commissioners were appoint
ed, whose credentials were signed by the
president Of the convention, G. NJ. Roberts,
the present Governor of Texas. The COM
missioners were also empowered to negoti-
ate for an alliance with the Choctaw, Chick
asaw, Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole In
dians. 4rtr.s t--stt lLf yM gsfH 1 a.
A little boy at Rogersville, Tenn, was
the other day playing near where a lime
kiln had been burned, and, supposing that
all the fire had burned out, jumped. with
his bare feet into what he supposed was
ashes and Stacked lime. There was bed
of hot Goals buried under the ashes and the
hof Him. a,,d hafot oa
to him his clothes were burned off and his
extremities frightfully. charred. y,at. ts5
A company of capitalists are putting
good deal Of money into the zinc mines of
East Tennessee, and expect profitable re-
turns from their investment.
/ North Carolina is getting famous for
its "yarbs." One day last week fifteen hun
dred pounds Of roots and herbs were ship
ped from Shelby to New York A shipment
of similar importance was made the week
before, and another OF cherry bark, butter
fly root, tansy, and catpip was to follow
speedily. -rs WY t..t.a
John Pritton, of Mercer County
Kentucky, 80 years old, has never been on
steamboat, train, or stage. -A
1t is claimed that North Carolina has
17S varieties of minerals, 25 more than any
other State possesses, and 112 varieties Of
wood, also, more than can be recorded by
any other State. tfafria4e a 1
Fifteen printing presses, at an aver
age cost of $1,000, have been received in
Georgia since the 1st of August. .te.,
Port Royal, S. c., boasts of the cham
pion female rover Of the State. She is
dusky maiden, who can spin a heavy boat
through six miles in one and three-quarter
hours. HlfE rf5 NiEH lt l
The little village of New Haven, Nell
son County, Ky, recently fined the Louis
vile & Nashville Railroad $1,000 for OBJ
structing crossing on Main street in that
place.. The road has taken an appeal.
Capital is sought to initiate cassava
culture on large scale. in lower Florida.
The cassaya is an edible root Of the tropics,
and isvery rich in glucose, which is the OBJ
ject OF its culture in this instance. p s-"
Wild turkeys are reported as more
numerous than usual this season Of the year
throughout the west Of Texas aId on ths
line of the railroads.
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