Huntsville gazette., 1882-12-23
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

~. " lh0 Noi oioners Jury was Qea6h AT the
hands of John Trinler while he was suffering
from mental alteration.
Mrs. Sarah Wood died at Buford the
other day, aged 121 years. She was born in
Caborrus County, N. c., and moved to
Spartansburg, S. c., about 1779.
A fire at Paapcah, KY, the othet
morning destroy e9fhe Southern Hotel and
three business houses, valued at S23, 600;
insured for $11 200.
Edward M. Cheney has been con-
firmed as United States Attorney for the
Northern District of Florida.
Arkansas has 1890 miles of complet-
ed railroads and five roads are being rap
idly constructed.
Texarkana has telephones and now
wants street railways.
The receipts of cotton at Little Rock,
Ark, to December 8, were placed at 24,545
bales, against 17,S74 bales at the same time
last year.
The little railway town in Tennessee
called Atoka, on the Chesapeake, Ohio s.
Southwestern Railway, Boosting between
300 and 1000 inhabitants, met with serious
disaster by fire the other morning, which
destroyed the better part of the business
district.
Near Bainbridge, Ca, recently, John
Mathis, boy, was playing around his ia
ther's sugar mill when the revolving lever
struck him on the head, dashing his brains
out.
The grocery of II. L. Schmelz, and
four adjoining buildings at Hampton Roads,
Va, burned a few days ago. Loss, $4,000.
Eli Mcconnell, the man who muir
dered his child and brutally beat his wife,
near Weatherford, Tex, short time ago,
and who escaped the officers and fed the
country, has been captured near Brown
wood, in Brown County, by Henry Fisk, a
special Deputy Sheriff, and taken to 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 Ta=
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. 9.
Jacob Collins, boy living near Haw-
kinsvile, Ca, whi!D in a field with his
younger brother the other day set fire to a
very large dead stump and then, in pushing
it over, the stump broke in The middle and
the upper half fell on the boy, crushing him
to death.
Near Dublin, Ga, a few days ago,
Mrs. Russell Vaughn was drawing water
when the pole broke from the well-sweep,
which fell from the. fork on her youngest
child, breaking its neck and skull.
A space in the southwest corner of
the Government reservation at Hot Springs,
Ark, has been selected as the site for the
Army and Navy Hospital, for which Con-
gress appropriated $100, 900.
Two failures occurred recently at
Augusta, Ga, A. Brooks, clothing dealer,
for $40 900, and NJ. Brown, cigar dealer, for
$4,000.
John L. Cushion was shot dead at
Thompson, Ca, the other day. The peo-
pie were restrained with difficulty from
lynchng his murderer, Locking, a colored
man.
Governor Stephens has pardoned
Captain Ed. Cox, sentenced to life impris-
onment for the murder of Colonel Robert A.
Aston in 1879.
Scipio Horne, colored, of Skipwith,
Miss, who claimed to be a doctor, pharma-
cist and also a wellinformed astronomer
among colored people, and who predicted
the next comet on Christmas night, was
called in to see a negro with sore leg re-
Gently. He decided that the negro had 8
lizard in bis leg and split the leg wide open.
After butchering the negro's limb until the
pain was beyond endurance, Scipio decided
that it was an. invisible phenomenon. Two
physicians were Immediately called in, and
will probably save the negro's life by am
putating the leg.
Mary Henderson (colored), aged
about seventeen years, tried to kindle fire
with kerosene the other day, at Atlanta,
Ga. Her dress caught fire and before help
arrived her body was burned to crisp.
The jail and jail-house at Delta, Miss,
were burned few days ago. Fifteen pris-
oners were released to save their lives.
Some of them remained to help fight the fire
and were again locked up.
The contract awarding the manage
ment of the Arkansas Penitentiary for the
ensuing te n years to Fitzpatrick & Town
send, Of Selma, Ark, was signed the other
day by the Commissioners.
Johann Hansen, cook on board the
bark Velox, in attempting TO board that
vessel in an intoxicated condition at GAL
weston, Tex, the other night, fell over
hoard and was drowned
The architect of the new capitol st
Albany, N. Y, was called to Columbia, ).
c., to inspect the house and estimate
the cost of completing il. He reported tho
building very unsafe, and showed that L
was slowly parting in the center.
Two masked men killed a drug clerk
the other day at Sharkey. Miss, in an en-
deavor to rob the safe of the store.
Two prison guards shot each other
recently near Memphis, Tenn, in drunken
brawl.
Louisville, KY, has sixteen distiller-
les running and several others ready to start
up.
A riot occurred at Opelika, Ca, a few
days ago between the two factions which