St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-05-05
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

the other morning, and died that night,
after seven hours of horrible agony. A 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 supposed to have been
the cause of it.
The third floor of the stove ware
rooms of the Lithgow Manufacturing Com
pany at Louisville, KY, gave way the 9TH
er evening, carrying down the second hoor
and 1000 stoves to the ground floor. The
damage would probably be 81 700. No one
was injured.
A company was formed at Louisville,
KY, the other day, with capital paid up
of $4,000, with the privilege OF increasing
it to $4,000, for the purpose of exporting
whisky to Bermuda. The incorporators
represent heavy whisky interests.
The Mcintosh House at Indian
Springs, Butts County, Ca, was destroyed
by fire few days ago. The house was val
ued at $40, 900 and the furniture at 1000.
It was the largest hotel at the Springs, and
was owned by George and Whit Collier,
brothers. The fire is thought to have been
the work of an incendiary.
The females outnumber the males in
Alabama by 1924.
w. A. Lyle, the newspaper reporter
who shot Charles NJ. Barnes, of Galveston,
last fall, was fined twenty-five dollars for
carrying concealed weapons the other day
by the District Court at San Antonio, Tex.
The State Treasurer of Texas has
1. Y1f
hereafter. This is made necessary because
of the immense amount of silver in the
vaults, there being over 500, 900 in silver in
them. sE
The funeral of Thomas G. Steele,
Secretary of the Grand Lodge Of Odd Eel
lows of West Virginia, took place at Graf
ton, w. Va, a few days ago. Members OF
the oder from prominent points in the
State were present.
San Antonio. Tex, is to have hotel
on the European plan, and a $4,000 addi-
ton is to be made to the Maverick hostelry.
In the United States Court at Savan-.
nah, Ga, the other day a bill was brought
in charging James C. Broswell, Postmas-
ter at Whigham, Decatur County, with
embezzling $3.50 from the post-otfice, and
separate counts charged him with hypothe-
eating postage stamps. In a separate bill
defendant was charged with having col
lected and appropriated to his own use post
age on due postage letters in violation of
the act of June, 1878. BrosWeu pleaded
guilty to all the charges. In one case he
was fined fifty dollars, and in the other
sentenced to two years in the Albany n.
W Penitentiary.
The Governor of Texas appointed
Captain I. G. Searcey and Walter Tips.
of Austin, as members of the Penitentiary
Board.
While Mrs. Wyatt Griffin was makir5g
pot of soap in her back yard at At1anfE,
Ga, recently, her skirt took fire, and befoie
it could be put out she was terribly burned
about the legs, abdomen and hands. In
their efforts to tear the clothing from their
burning mother, her two daughters, aged
fifteen and nine years, were dangerously
burned.
At Luling, Tex, the other afternoon
a negro woman attacked Mrs. Thornton,
who lives few miles from that town, with
knife, cutting her throat, barely missing
had become offensive and insulting to Mrs.
Thornton and was ordered not to come
near the premises. In passing the negress
saw Mrs. Thornton standing at the well
and opened on her with volley Of abusive
epithets, threw a rock at her and then
rushed upon her with knife and stabbed
her in the throat. The wound, though Sc
rious, is not necessarily fatal.
At a negro dance near Alton, Ander-
son County, KY, the other night, diff
Guilty occurred between Charles Brown and
Jerry Emmerson about a woman. Emmer-
son shot Brown in the left temple, killing
him, and then made his escape.
A span of horses ran away near Ar
lington, Tarrant County, Tex, recently,
wagon. She was impaled through the
breast on stump, and died almost in
stantly.
Governor Ireland, of Texas, has APP
pointed Captain w. NJ. Bush, of Mckinney !;
DR.. Fl. H. Fortine, of Gainesville; j. L..
Smith Of Groesbeck; William Yandell, of
Sequin; Hon. S. B. Cooper, of Tyler; Hon.
F. D. Stockdale, of Cuero; J. R. Fleming,
Of Eastland County, and Colonel H. B. An
drews, Of, San Antonio, Commissioners to
represent Texas at the Industrial and Cot
ton Exposition at Louisville, KY, begin
ming August I.
The Executive Committee of the
National Cotton Planters Association met
at Vicksburg, Miss, the other day and Sc
lected New Orleans as the location of the
Centennial Cotton Exposition. A resolu-
,tion indorsing the Mississippi River Com
mission was adopted.
The wife of Michael Barrel, Of Louis
vile, KY, gave birth to triplets, boys, a
few days ago. All doing finely. This was