Huntsville gazette., 1883-05-26
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

At Weightville, Ga, recently, MIR. A.
I. Fountain had been plowing all day, and
was taking the harness from his horse when
ne took fit, to which he was subject, and
fell with his face on the plowed ground and
was smothered to death. His face was
buried in the earth.
A herd of 1880 stock cattle recently
sold in Navarro County, Tex, for $4,000,
the largest sale ever made there.
1t is said that the State of Texas will
net $13,500,0OO from the increase to her
sheep farms this spring.
A Philadelphia company has pur-
chased farm in Accomac County, Vir-
ginia, which is to be devoted to the raising
OF geese, so as to secure supply of feath-
ers for making pillows and down quilts.
1t is proposed to commence with two
thousand geese, and to increase the number
to ten thousand as soon as the necessary
arrangements can be perfected.
There is plan to purchase four
thousand-acre farm in the neighborhood of
huntsville, Tex, for the employment Of
convicts whose length of term rad physical
condition fit them for outdoor work.
The amount now in the Louisiana
Treasury, together with the current col
lections, it is said, will pay all warrants to
date and the State Treasury, so far as the
general fund is concerned, is now upon
cash basis.
Quite novel spectacle was witnessed
at Pensacola, Fla, recently in the way of
funerals. A drayman died and his brother
draymen attended his funeral on drays.
DIR. G. L. Haywood, Boston human
itarian, has been examining the brands on
the cattle in Western Texas. He thinks the
cattle are tortured with more brands than
are necessary.
The Georgia Historical Society at Sa-
vannah has been notified by the executors
of the Telfair estate that they were ready
to deliver the legacy bequeathed the socie-
ty, the will having been sustained by the
United States Supreme Court. The legacy
consists of the elegant mansion of the Tel
fairs, opposite st. James Square, with the
entire contents, and one thousand shares of
Waynesboro & Augusta Railroad, valued
at 81 100000 with accumulated interest of
seven per cent for the past nine years.
The Decatur e West Texas Railroad
Company, capital stock $3,00O,000, has filed
a charter at Austin. The object is to cor
struct a road from Decatur, Wise County,
through Jack and Young to a point on the
west line of Throckmorton. j. r. ZearinS,
Chicago, and R. E. Montgomery, Council
Bluffs, To-, are among the incorporators.
The Mcleod House, in Crab Orchard,
KY, owned by S. A. Higgins, was burned
to the ground the other evening. Loss,
$1,000; no insurance.
1t is estimated that the amount of the
claim of Texas against the United States
for the protection Of the frontier will reach
5000 900.
The Exchange National Bank of Dem
ton, Tex, with a capital of $4,000, has been
authorized to begin business.
The death of General Josiah Gorgas
occurred at Tuscaloosa, Ala, few days
ago. He was native of Pennsylvania,
graduate of West Point, served through the
Mexican war, cast his fortunes with the
Confederacy and was Chief of Ordnance.
The safe of j. B. Kizer & Co., at Tex
arkana, Ark, was blown open by profess
sional burglars the other night and robbed
of about 500 in cash. Two notes for $500,
payable to bearer, were not taken.
Because Of protracted ill-health Miss
Bragg, niece of General Bragg, the other
day saturated her clothing with coal oil
and then applied match, at Bonham, Tex.
She would die.
The other morning a party OF eight
men rode up to the house of Vaughn Hilton,
near. Jacksonville, nine miles from Mt.
Sterling, KY, and awakened him, saying
they were looking for a horse-thief. While
he was sitting on the edge of his bed, some
of the men fired, killing him instantly. The
party was not known, but was supposed to
be in the interest of the Barnett family,
which had a feud with the Hiltons.
A package containing two drafts, one
of 81 900 another of $1,000 and IS gold
piece, belonging to lady in Beauregard,
Miss, was found 110 miles from that place,
blown there by the recent cyclone.
Houston, Tex, will soon advertise
for bids to pave some Of the principal
streets.
The Texas Press Association, during
its interesting session at Dallas, elected the
following officers for the ensuing year:
William Yandell, of the Seguin Times,
President; w. A. Field, of the Meridian
Blade; J. w. Booth, of the Decatur Irib-
uae, and J. F. Elliott, of the Dallas Herald,
Vice Presidents; A. w. Clifford, of the San
Antonio Light, Treasurer; W. A. Abey, of
the Longview Democrat, Secretary. The
convention adjourned to meet in Dallas
again next year.
The Adjutant-General Of Texas re-
ceived a telegram the other day from Lis u
tenant Hoffer, commanding the frontier
battalion, saying the formidable strike
among the COW boys up there had ended
peaceably, and they had gone to work at
the old wages. The danger of bloodshed
was all over.
The census of Denison, Tex, taken
on the 1st Of May, shows total popula
ton of 1888, an increase of 1,452 since the
census of 1882.
In answer to a letter of inquiry Comp
troller Swain, of Texas, replied as follows:
81 am of opinion that a wine-grower who
manufactures wine from grapes of his own
raising can sell wine so manufactured in
unbroken packages, that is by the barrel,