Huntsville gazette., 1883-04-28
SOUTHERN GLEANINCS.

.stPffiNs ~ y . icPOLltu 10 De raging
IN certain parts of Arkansas recently. Sew
eral valuable horses had died, and great
apprehension was felt among stockmen.
lIhe Supreme Court of Mississippi has
decided that, the Secretary of State having
\ declared Manning elected to Congress from
the Second District, the court has no iuris-
dlction of the suit of Chalmers for writ of
mandamus, and that the question as to
whether Manning or Chalmers was legally
elected must be decided by Congress.
d. nj. Robinson, lately a Deputy
United States Marshal, has been found
guilty in the United States Court at At
lanta, Ga, on nineteen counts of an indict-
ment for falsifying his accounts. ftu
Owing to deficiency in the appro-
priation for the payment of expenses, all
witnesses and defendants in the South
Carolina election cases have been dis
charged from further attendance at this
term of the United States Court.
The following charters have been
filed with the Secretary of State of Texas
recently. The Central Elevator Company,
of Dallas; capital stock, 10000. The Cor
pus Christi & Nueces Valley Railroad with
I hoauqual ueIS dO OOTpuS OHTlSll, capital
stock, $4 100000, divided in shares of $1,000.
The line of this road and telegraph to be as
follows: Beginning at Corpus Christi, in
| Nueces County, running in a northerly di-
.rection to some convenient point at or near
/ Uvalde, in Uvalde County, on the Southern
Pacific section of the Galveston, Harris
burg & San Antonio Railway, through the
! Counties of Nueces, San Patricio, Bee or
! Live Oak or both, McMillen, LaSalle, Trio,
/ Seavilla and Uvalde. La all the distance is
not to exceed 200 miles.
An exodus of cattle began from South
ern Texas few days ago. Seventy-five
thousand head would be taken over the
railways from Milhern to Wichita Falls.
| Two hundred and fifteen trains would be
required to move the herd.
John r. Lynch, Chairman of the Mis-
sissippi Republican State Committee has
called a meeting Of the leaders Of different
| parts Of the State at jackson, June I2.
Chalmers has called meeting of Republi-
| cans July 4.
Buffalo gnats are beginning TO disap-
| pear from lately infected districts of Ar
| kansas under the influence of the clear
weather and increasing warmth.
Of the six little negro children pois-
oned at Dermott Station, eighteen miles
! from Arkansas City, Ark, recently. by
usingstrychnine instead of salt at a play
| dinner they had cooked, four have since
died The others were likely to recover.
| While Mike McCabe was digging a
well at Louisville, KY, the other day and
| when at a depth of fifteen feet, the walls
| caved in, burying him beneath about nine
! feet Of earth and sand. After the body had
been partly unearthed, but before he could
be released, the poor fellow called for a
priest, and one being summoned low
cred into the pit and confessed the unfor
tunate man, who was thought to be in ex-
trenlis. When removed prompt medical
aid was extended and it was believed the
man might recover
At Fort Worth, Tex. the other after
noon two children, Willie White, aged five
| years and Minnie Howard, aged seven, got
Y into large dry goods box on an empty lot,
playing what they called jail. The boy
was supposed to have lighted match,
which caught the dry hay in the box, when
both children were burned to death in a
few minutes. A number Of persons stood
| ON the street and saw the box burning, but
did not suspect the children were in it,
Judge Mcdonald, Mayor of Athens
Tex, died a few days ago. The recent
municipal election in Athens resulted in the
election of colored Mayor, City Attorney
and Marshal. All the Alderman were
white men, who refused to qualify and
serve with the colored portion of the city
Government The colored officers-elect
never came forward TO demand possession
Of the offices to which they had been elected,
and it was understood that the old officers
would continue in office another term. But
the death of Mayor Mcdonald has comph-
Gated matters. The rightful Mayor is full
blooded African, who is waiter in the
Dean Hotel. He says he will not have the
office so long as there is any objection to
him, although he was elected by white
votes.
Recently a child died in the family of
a man named Westbrook, at Graysville,
Ga. Soon thereafter other members of the
! family were stricken with singular dis
ease. A few days ago the mother and four
children died, and the next day two more
children, making seven members of the
! same family, were lying dead at the same
time. Only one member was left, the
father, who was crazed with mingled fear
and grief. 1t was not known of what dis
ease they died
4 Early the other morning, at Mont
gomery, Ala, William Dorsey mistook his
wife for burglar and shot her fatally.
Il The failure of Dillingham; & Wuerget,
general cotton and produce brokers, New
Orleans, La, has been announced.
Henry A. Lewis. of Wichita Falls.
Tex, has been granted patent on new
stock car. f,-
Miss Alice Snedeker, a young lady
aged twenty -one, daughter of farmer
living near Limestone, Marshall County,
w. Va, took dose Of Trough on Rats"
the other morning, and died that night,
after seven hours OF horrible agony. 4 Mr..
Crow was to have married her, but failed
to put in his appearance at the time ap-
pointed for the wedding, and has not been
seen since. This was supposedto have been