Huntsville gazette., 1883-07-14
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.


$4,000 capital stock. 1t will employ the
best detectives to bring stock-thieves to
justice.
A colored woman is creating q sensa-
ton in Holmes County, Miss, by her
preaching.
The burning of saw-mill at Fernan-
dina, Fla, the other day caused loss OF
$4,000. ra.F fa.tt
An Augusta paper says that about
nine out of ten truck farmers in Georgia
have lost money this year.
An old lady in Georgia having lost
all her patience, has sued a neighbor for
eight dollars for coffee borrowed, a cupful
at time.
The city of New Orleans, La, would
have been forced to default on its July in.
terest to the amount of nearly 500, 200,
| through changes in the tax laws, had it not
been for public spirited citizens, who
agreed to advance the amount required
from their own pockets.
Two incendiary fires occurred in Dal.
las, Tex, a few days ago, one of which de-
stroyed the cracker factory Of Goldsmith &
Winter, valued at $4,000.
Edward Wittick, Of Covington, Ky,
made a desperate assault on Prof. George
A. Yates, veteran teacher in the public
schools, the other evening, for whipping
him when a boy.
Miss Ella Carter, q young lady OF
Austin, Tex, has recently won suit in
volving the ownership Of city lots valued
| at about $4,000. Hon. Bird Holland, de-
| ceased, Secretary of State before the war,
got mad at his relatives and willed all his
property to Ella Carter in 1864. She was
then little girl. s.tsl-.s
A day or two since negro man was
hired to convey sick brother to the hos
pital at Lexington, KY. On the way he
| robbed the sick man of $3.50 and skipped
| leaving the poor fellow on the street. The
sick man subsequently died.
An ex-soltlier of the Confederacy. on
| trial for larceny at Beaufort, S. c., the
other day was defended by a colored law.
/ yer, who made pathetic appeal for the
man who had lost an arm in the service,
but all the same the court gave him two
years in the Penitentiary.
An authority in iron matters says that
no less than 5000, 900 has been diverted
from Pennsylvania within the past two
years and invested in the mineral deposits
| of Southwest Virginia.
Late accounts from the tobacco-rais-
ing counties of Virginia and North Caro-
/ lima say that "under the Inspiration of the
recent rains the tobacco crop is improving
| and growing rapidly"
A herd of four thousand cattle, mostly
| COWS and heifers, passed through Fort
! Worth, Tex, the other day, for the New
| Mexico Land and Cattle Company, a Bos-
| ton corporation.
A company organized in Washington,
| d. c., lately has purchased six thousand
| acres of land in Polk County, Fla, and will
raise oranges, lines, lemons and other trop-
| ical fruits.
A number of counterfeit dimes and
nickels have been put in circulation at New
| Orleans recently.
J. T.. Brown, Jr., late United States
| Marshal of the Eastern District Of Arkan-
sas, has been sentenced on two counts for
| forgery and perjury in vouchers while dep
uty. Total imprisonment, five years at De
troit, and 81 900 fine.
A circus billboard at Bowling Green,
| Ky., fell and killed man few days ago,
| and the jury assessed $4,000 damages.
The fees of the Arkansas State Land
office average 81, 200 per month.
The Garrett Davis property, at Paris,
Ky, has been sold for $500. The place
contains TWENTY-FIVE acres and beautiful
residence, built by the late Senator.
The first bale Of the new crop Of cot
ton was sold at Albany, Ga, the other day
at 25}s cents per pound. 1t weighed $50
pounds, classed middling and was raised
by Primus w. Jones, Baker County.
At Sunday-school picnic near Oak
dale, Tenn, few days ago, a gang of
roughs, after getting drunk, started dis
turbance on the train as it was returning.
Jesse Sacker stabbed Tom Lyle in the side
and was Immediately shot dead by Lyle's
brother. The latter escaped.
Eight of the graduating class of the
University of Virginia, this year, have
been called to professorships in other col
leges of the South.
FincenZo Borgia, a native OF Malta,
residing in New Orleans, became involved
in a vendetta years ago, and was once
stabbed so severely that his recovery
seemed impossible. Fear of assassination
so filed his thoughts that he the other day
killed himself with razor.
At barbecue near Deposit Station,
Ky, the other afternoon, William Middle
ton had a row with Levy Miller, one of the
managers. The latter was cut in fourteen
places and soon died. Middleton had been
drunk all day. -seeBk eis s4
The other night at Sweetwater, Tenn,
Henry Prigmore was killed by Thomas
Morgan. Morgan was an officer, and, with
another, had arrested Prigmore. Prig-
| more's friends tried to rescue him, and
shooting commenced on both sides, during
which Prigmore was killed.
Two ships from Vera Cruz arrived at
Pensacola, Fla, few days ago with yel-
low fever on board, and were sent TO guar
| antine.
d. r. Caldwell, Alexander Land and
| ]. W. Ackerson were arrested in Chatta-
| noga, Tenn, the other day, on charge OF
| ,o,,n+arfaitinc Tho evidence against them