Huntsville gazette., 1883-11-17
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

A south-bound freight train on the
Cincinnati Southern Road a few days ago
ran over and killed an old man named
Rhodes Powell, near Flat Rock Station,
Tenn.
A man named Brown, lately arrested
bv Sheriff Duson, of st. Landry Parish,
Miss, has confessed to the murder, two
wears ago, of Page, wealthy planter OF
Montgomery County.
Sir Edward Reed, of England, is re-
ported to have recently purchased 100000
acres of land from the Florida Land I'M
Fprovement Company.
L. A. Nasty has filed suit in the
United States Circuit Court at Dallas, Tex,
against r. f. McNulty, for $4,000, alleg-
ing breach of contract in cattle transac-
ton.
The hot-air tank in the pork-packing
establishment Of Gessel, Ahren a. Co., at
Memphis, Tenn, exploded few days ago
with such force as to wreck the building.
The warehouse of r. B. Hutchcraft,
at Paris, KY, valued, with its contents, at
$50, 900 was wiped out by fire recently.
A negro woman, named Cornelia
DAYS, has been sentenced to the Charles
ton, S. c., Penitentiary for life, for muir
dering a child which she was unable to care
fNa
Samuel Lee, mulatto, of Alabama,
who was appointed a special agent Of the
General Land-office, reports that in the
mountain region of his State no one who
knew his position would give him bed or
meal, for fear of revengeful acts by land
sharks or illicit distiliers.
A large number of Catholic citizens
of Galveston, Tex, met a few nights ago
and decided to form a stock company with
$4,000 capital to publish a weekly paper in
the interest Of the Catholics of the State.
Frank Hiland, of Youngstown, O.,
who recently escaped from jail, where he
was held on charge of wife murder, has
been re-arrested in Georgia and sent North.
William Rains, of Atlanta, was ar
rested in Gainesville, Ga, a few days since,
charged with forgery. He is well con-
nected
Reports from various parts of Texas
say that the second crop of cotton is max
ing and will be a large one, if frost does
not soon interfere.
The Dallas, Tex, branch of the Ma
tional Land League, is raising funds for
the defense of O'Donnell, the slayer of Ca
rev, the informer.
The Memphis cotton district has en-
joyed an exceptionally favorable picking
season.
j. I. and J. c. Terry, alleged stage
lo,1 nt
Dallas, Tex, but Immediately rearrested
for horse and cattle stealing.
w. II. Smith, recently appointed
Postmaster at Atlanta, Ga. has resigned.
VIM. Prilton, Of Shelbyville, KY, was
thrown from horse against tree few
days ago and instantly killed.
Deputy Sheriff Wilson. of Slateville,
n. c., while collecting taxes recently, quar-
relied with VIM. Pope and shot and killed
him.
A hostler in Mayors livery stable at
Sherman, Tex, recently saddled the finest
horse in the place and left for parts un.
known
A post Of the Grand Army at Coving-
ton, Kentucky, has started on its rounds
resolution urging the promotion Of 2. II.
Sheridan to the Generalship and of W. s.
Hancock to the rank of fLieutenant-General.
The farmers of Coahoma County,
Miss, are said to be in more prosperous
condition this year than at any time since
1879.
Suit has been brought at Dallas, Tex,
to test the right of Texas railroads to
charge four cents mile passenger fare.
The Grand Jury of Wise County, Tex,
has indicted ten persons for fence cutting.
A new railroad line IS projected to
run from Munroe, n. c., to Chester. S. C.
Moses Kyle was waylaid and assas.
sinated in the suburbs of Natchez, Miss,
few days ago. He was shot through the
heart.
Judge Parker, an aged magistrate,
living near Shelbyville, KY, accidentally
shot himself few days since and it was
thought he would die.
A German named Fohrmann was
waylaid and plundered by four robbers
near Marshall, Tex, a few nights ago All
the gang were captured.
The Presbyterian Synod for the
Southern District of Mississippi held ses-
sion in Natchez, commencing the 9th, with
seventy-ive delegates in attendance.
One of the incidents of the Virginia
election was that Malone had his ears
boxed.
A switch engine blew up at Dallas,
Tex, few days ago, fatally scalding the
engineer and fireman.
Clint Houston, a brakeman on the
Alabama Great Southern Railroad, was
killed by the cars near Tuscaloosa, Ala, a
few days ago.
j. E. McGowan editor of the Chatta-
nooga (Tenn.) daily Times, was attacked
on the street and knocked down by Alder
man c. c. Snyder few days ago. Polit-
ical differences caused the trouble.
The new hall of the Mozart Society.
of Memphis, Tenn, was formally opened
the night Of the 9th, Miss Minnie Hauk as
sisting.
A meeting of merchants and manu-
facturers was held in Nashville, Tenn, re-