Huntsville gazette., 1883-09-29
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.


ease while on his train on the Texas & Pa
cific Railroad few days ago between Mar
shall and Jefferson, Tex.
A locomotive exploded q, few days
ago while crossing Trinity River bridge
near Palestine, Tex, but fortunately in
jured no one.
A few nights ago at Fort Worth, Tex.
Louis Kunkel and H. 4. Franey, Il Prslssian
and Frenchman, became involved in an
angry alteration over the respective
merits of the two nations, when Kunkel
said he could down Frenchman, and he
whipped out his knife and and stabbed
Franey in the right side, between the
second and third ribs. The knife penetrat-
ed the cavity, inficting wound from
which Franey will probably die.
The corpse of man named Butler,
ringleader among the fence-cutters, was
found a few days ago near Henrietta, Tex,
perforated with bullets. Two companions
of his are known to be badly wounded.
The body was lying near where the fence
on Sherwood's ranch had been cut for sew
eral miles.
The Georgia delegates to the Ma
tional Colored Convention at Louisville
have formally announced their determine
ton to demand admittance to the hotels,
and to insist on first-class accommodations.
The managers of the principal hotels say
that they will not admit them as guests at
all.
In the District Court at Shreveport,
La, few days since, Richmond Stuart,
colored, charged with numbering his wife,
was found guilty and sentenced to death.
AT Marysville, Tenn, a few days ago
Joseph Scott and John Dunn agreed to set
tie an old feud by free encounter. They
fought with knives. and Scott was stabbed
four times in the chest, from the effects of
which he died.
The Foreign Mission Convention (col-
ored) of the United States met in the Bap.
tist Church, Manchester, Va, few days
| ago. The following missionaries were ap-
pointed and will sail for Africa by the 18th
| of December: Rev. j. W Presley and wife,
]. }. Cole and H. Kenney.
A party of campers in the Panhandle,
| Texas, came near being drowned By a
| cloud-burst few nights ago.
William Harris, a native of Harbor
Keys, died recently at Key West, Fla, at
| the advanced age of 105 years.
Minor Melmore, one Of the proprie-
| tors and city editor Of the New Orleans
Daily States, died few days since of ma
larial fever, aged twenty-five.
A stranger who registered as John
| Ryan shot himself fatally at the Southern
| Hotel, Austin, Tex, few days ago. No
one knew anything about him.
Murrain is raging to. fearful extent
| among the cattle in Northern Georgia. 1t
| is said that nearly every animal attacked
| by the disease dies. This dreadful disease
| prevails more or less all over the South this
| season.
Augustus F. Schneider, who has been
in the employment of 0. w. Thomas & Co.,
| of Louisville, KY, for nearly twenty years,
| has been missing for several days. He was
| last seen on the 18th on Wenzel street, be
| tween Main and Market, about $50 or
! O'Clock p. m. When he got to his fathers
| house some unknown man was with him
| He went into the house, paid his father
some money and left, saying he was going
| to his mother-in-law's on Story avenue
| near Johnston street. He drew out of the
| bank that day 800 on a certificate Of de
| posit and left $475 with grocer ON Jeffer
son street, saying he would call for it or
Monday.
A few days ago little son of Clabe
Bowman, living near Oakdale Junction
| Tenn, was in cart driving a mule, with
the lines around his neck, when the animal
| became frightened and ran away, throwing
| the boy out with the lines still around his
neck, and he was thus dragged to death.
John Jarvis shot Clodius Bonnev in
Princess Anne County, Va, a few days
since, with shotgun, killing him instantly
The murderer escaped to a neighboring
swamp.
A few days ago, near Mexia, Tex,
| Joe Barber, from behind house, perfo
rated Lee Wood with buckshot. Wood was
unarmed. He will die. They were neal
neighbors. Barber surrendered.
Judge August Siewering died at San
| Antonio, Tex, few days ago aged fifty
| one years. Deceased emigrated to Texas
from Germany in 1S49, and made his home
| in San Antonio. At the last State election
| he ran for Lieutenant Governor and re.
ceived fine vote. At the previous election
he was strongly favored as the Republican
| candidate for Governor.
Larry Russell, mail carrier between
lockwood and Kings Creek, was arrested
few days ago at Lenoirs, Tenn, and
lodged in Jail at Chattanooga charged
| with robbing the United States mails. A
registered package was put in the bag at
| Kings Creek which failed to reach lUs des-
| tination, hence Russell's arrest. He made
a full confession duplicating others.
The total amount of funds in the
| Texas State Treasury, according to a recent
| report, is 2,79S, 296 in currency, S17,4SI in
| gold and S4,476,370 in bonds. The prin-
| cipal items are as follows Revenue, $345-
| 154; available School Fund, $424,961; per.
manent School Fund, 81 1927 ,S0S in currency,
| $17,4S4 in gold and S37 ,672.65 in bonds; per-
manent University Fund, S253,823 in cur
rency and 1858 ,591 in bonds; Asylum Funds.
S8S,13 in currency and $53, 400 in bonds
Agricultural and Mechanical College,
S4,70O in currency and 100000 in bonds
special School Fund, $10,479; land sales ac.
count, $l30, 400; available University Fund,
SCI ,3l5. The amount disbursed for the quar-
tQr and