Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-27
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

'N'i"" ioNOi ~ NASHVILLE, Tenn. A 1eW days
ago the Coroner was notified that the boy
was dead. A jury was impaneled and rem
dered verdict that the child had been
starved to death. Louisa was sent to Jail.
The First Presbyterian Church at
Memphis, Tenn, was destroyed by FIRE
few days since. Loss, about S25 900.
Dallas, Tex, is to have State Saen-
aEerfest in May. A committee of ten ciii-
zens met few days ago and organized for
its management.
A wrecking crew in q surf boat
boarded schooner ashore off Cobb's Island.
near Norfolk, Va, a few days ago, and
while on board the boat broke adrift and
they were compelled to take to the rigging.
They were rescued, but since that time
three of the men had died from the effects of
the exposure, and the Captain was not ex-
pected to live.
The Sailors Smallpox Hospital near
Chrisfield, Md. was burned the other morn
ing. One of the patients, while delirious,
knocked lamp off a table and then jumped
into the river. nurse rescued him, but
! the man died soon after.
On the death of John Broad and wife,
Of Atlanta, Ga, who left $4,000, no will
could be found. A nephew was approached
by letter and offered the missing document
on payment of $500 without questions. He
made the purchase and the will was placed
on record. The administrator brought suit
to break the document, and the Superior
Court recently decided that it was a forgery.
| IUn fo ba will Q1
At Jefferson, Tex, child of Charles
Terrence fell into the fire from rocking
chair and was burned to death few days
ago.
l.. L. Maddox, an attendant at the
Insane Asylum at Anchorage, KY, ducked
refractory patient, from the effects Of which
it was said he died. A jury before whom
Maddox was tried the other day returned
a verdict against him OF involuntary man
slaughter, and fixed his punishment at four
months in Jail and fine OF 500.
Atha Thomas, a prominent lawyer OF
Franklin, Tenn, was elected State Treas.
urer by the Legislature a few days ago.
M. T. Polk, the alleged defaulting
State Treasurer of Tennessee, arrived at
Nashville the other day, accompanied by
Marshal Gosling, the detectives and Polk's
son. Polk was Immediately conveyed to
! isl, whege he was turned over to the Sheriff.
| The Grand Jury had indicted him for en-
! bezzlement. Judge Quarles called the
Grand Jury before him and reiustructed
! them. charging them to indict all persons
who received money from Polk, knowing
that it belonged to the State. 1t was under
stood application for bail would not be
made for a few days.
The stock farms around Lexington,
Ky, were lately reported alive with Eastern
and Northern horsemen in search Of trotters
and roadsters. Breeders in that section, it
was said, disliked to sell to each other. \
6-year. old mare was sold the other day for
$500.
John johnson and Martha johnson,
both colored, living together as man and
wife at Baltimore, Md, had a fight with
razors day or two ago. johnson received
sixty distinct wounds and would die. The
woman was wounded in twelve places, but
not fatally.
The San Antonio (Tex.) EUeninq
Liant Of late date says: The bonded in
debtedness Of the City OF Austin is S91. 30.
The amount Of outstanding warrants TO date
is $40, 697 80. When compared with the
bonded Indebtedness of San Antonio, Aus
tins is rather insignificant, that of the Ala
mo city being 500, 133.03.
DIR. Samuel A. Mudd, who died re-
Gently in Maryland, dressed the fractured
leg of John Wilkes Booth after the assassin
alton of Lincoln, for which he was sent for
life to the Dry Tortugas, but was pardoned
by Andrew johnson.
At Fairmount, w. Va, the other day,
Mrs. Hettie Cunningham threw her young
son from the suspension bridge into the
Monongahela River, and leaped off herself
Both floated over the dam, but were res
cued and resusctated.
The North Carolina House of Repre-
sentatives recently adopted resolutions in
structing Congressman to vote for Federal
aid to State educational purposes.
Ben Garretty, Of Louisville, Ky, for
merly policeman, was recently con
victed Of defrauding the State by false claims
and was sentenced to one year in the peni-
Tertiary.
James Lucas, Of Allegheny Station,
va, was recently indicted tor causing lad
thirteen years Of age to drink enough whisky
at one time to produce death.
The Texas House Of Representatives
lately passed a bill Withdrawing the fifty
cent land from market, intending to make
the minimum price s..
The other night Thomas Champion,
weIl-liked young man, was killed at ball
near Santa Maria, Tex, by desperate
named George Cinierez, who escaped. 1t
was said to be his third murder.
Cope j. Snapp, clerk of Back-tax
Collector Ferguson, was arrested few days
ago for complicity in the City Hall frauds at
Louisville, Ky. Warrants were sworn out
by Mayor Jacobs.
There was very large meeting OF
eolored men at Wilmington, NC, the other
day to inaugurate the first railroad enter
prise ever started exclusively By men OF
that race. Several thousand dollars was
subscribed. The projected road, it was