Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-07-07
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

Inc kentucky Centrai ROAD mas COM
pleted its Richmond extension, the last
spike having been driven at Paris few
days ago. e.
An experiment has been recently
made In securing wool at Fort Worth,
Tex, and the clean product forwarded to
Boston for inspection. Thirty or forty
million pounds will be exported from Tex
as this year in an unsecured condition. An
allowance of fifty per cent. for dirt and
grease is said to be obtained.
A genuine tiger" was slain in st.
Landry Parish, La, lately which meas
ured nine feet from tip to tip.
The ''peen-to,'' or fiat peach of Chi
ma, is revolutionizing peach culture in
Florida. 1t is fiat like biscuit.
Recent Information from Dallas states
that within the past few days northern
capitalists have been looking over Texas in
a quiet way, and have been reported from
different points prospecting for locations
for themselves and those they represent.
Northern railroads are organizing plans
for sending large parties on such tours into
the State to investigate the country as in
telliGently possible.
A few days ago there was sold on
the trash wharf at Key West, Fla, $9,
1920 worth of sDonges.
A reeler of silk in New Orleans, who
has hitherto employed some nineteen hands
proposes to go into the manufacture OF silk
fabrics, and to organize a joint stock com
pany for that purpose. He has already
reeled 800 pounds of silk and has an i'm
portation of cocoons on the way from
France of 200 pounds.
A sixteen foot shark, of the hammer
head variety, has been recently killed at
/ Fernandina, Fla.
Of the 800 Episcopalians in Ken
tuckv, it is said 1870 are in Louisville.
Minnie Mitchell committed suicide
at Shreveport, La, recently. local p ,per
relates that her death in Shreveport, and
the killing by a railroad accident of the
man who brought her to that city, on the
same day, was singular coincidence, par
ticularly as it was thought her suicide was
caused by him.
Twenty thousand pounds of zinc
were shipped ono day last week from
Knoxville, Tenn, to Connecticut.
Moses Stuart, while fishing near Rod
dy, KY, a few days ago with dynamite,
| was injured by the explosion, fell into the
water and was drowned.
At the National Cemetery near Mem
phis, Tenn, the other morning George
Fletcher, section boss of the Louisville e.
| Nashville Railroad, was shot and killed by
| William Kennedy, negro. Fletcher
| little boy was roughly handled by kenne-
| dy, and when Fletcher expostulated Ken
nedy, without warning, drew a pistol and
| fired the ball striking Fletcher in the side,
| from the effect of which he died soon af-
terward. Kennedy made his escape.
Judge Pardee, of the United States
| Circuit Court, vt New Orleans, the other
| day rendered a decree in the case of New
| Orleans VS.. John A. Morris ct al, by which
| the city recovers 4,344 shares of stock o
| the Waterworks Company which had been
| seized and sold by various parties, who arc
now ordered to restore the stock to the city.
| The Supreme Court of the United States
| decided that the stock was held in trust by
| the city and not liable to seizure and sale.
| Fourteen Judgment creditors, stock dealers
| and brokers who sold and purchased the
| stock are ordered to restore the bonds to
/ the city. which, together with dividends
| since 1879, amounts to nearly half a million
| dollars
Clcburne County claims the tallest
| average set of officers of any county in
Arkansas. The average is about six feet;
the Sheriff, Assessor, Treasurer, Surveyor
and Coroner will fall little short of six
feet The Judge, Clerk and Deputy Clerk
will measure eighteen feet six inches, and
| all combined will measure fifty-four feet.
a. J. Ringo, Sheriff of Mcnifee
County, XIV, who was wounded in the
recent attempt to get Barnett and his gang
out of Jail, at Mount Sterling, for the pur-
pose of hanging them, and who has since
been lying in the jailer's room, has now
been removed to his home. He had his bed
| lifted in a covered wagon, and got home
without any serious trouble. Charlie, son
of Sheriff Ringo, aged fifteen years, has
been acting Sheriff of Menifee County
ever since his father was wounded. Charlie
summoned all of the witnesses in the Bar
net trial.
Forshcimer Brothers, of New Or
leans, dealers in tobacco and whisky, have
suspended payment, with liabilities of $780,
G0J.
The Sheriff of Upton County, Tenn,
the other night dreamed that the prisoners
in the County Jail were making efforts to
escape by the aid of a wooden key and
pieces of iron. He went into the Jail and
by threats forced confession that the
prisoners had concealed four or five bars of
i, Oh from eight inches to three feet long,
and also Il well-made wooden key. Planks
had been loosened and plans for escape had
been matured.
Three brothers, Rodriguez by name,
who have been stealing horses in the vi
cinitv of San Antonio, Tex, for some time,
were captured and Jailed few days ago.
Frazier Lane, an industrious cOlored
man of Montgomery County, KY, was
remarked the other day to his wife, who
was sold away from him forty years ago
In the meantime he has been married twice
and she once Both had been single some
time when remarked.
-. McAylerworth. formerly of New
York City, employed as Il stenographer in
the Louisville & Nashville office at Louis
Vile, KY, wound up debauch few days
ago by taking overdose of chloral. He
| leaves young wife in New York.
At Rolling Fork, Miss, Nathan Ayers
insulted Mrs. Chisolm n few days ago,
when he was killed by her son Thomas.
Louisiana has a big potato crop.
A branch of the Southern Historical
Society has been organized at Houston,
| Tex. This is the first branch organized in
| the State General George e. Johnson, of
| Georgia, in a speech, said that he was as
! sured that Mississippi and Alabama would
soon follow the example of Texas in donat-
| ing So 900 to the society, would eventu-