Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-08-04
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.


The total valuation of real and per-
! sonal property in Bradley County, Ark, is
$S55,357.
Auburn (Ky.) Jail has not had an IN
| mate for SO long that the lock has become
| rusty and will not admit a key, and the
| hornets have taken possession of the in
| terror.
A duel with knives was fought at the
| County Line Church in Doty County, Ca,
| the other day, between Samson Cason and
| Samuel Clifton. Clifton was hacked in
| pieces.
At Clifton, w. Va, the other night,
| Joseph Hill was fatally stabbed by James
| Kirby, boy eighteen years old. Kirby
| escaped.
Lightning struck in the open lake, in
Lauderdale County, Tenn, during recent
| thunderstorm, and killed hundreds of fish.
A twelve-year-o girl named Nc
| Donald was found dead in the woods near
| CoIlula, Tex, a few days ago. She had
| been lost four days and five nights. Her
! mother was in Laredo with little son who
| was bitten by a rattlesnake. During the
last twelve months this lady lost a son~in-
| law, killed by railroad accident, her hus-
! band died from a blow on the head, and
| her son blew his brains out in her presence.
The largest sale of timber lands ever
made by the st. Louis e Iron Mountain
| Railroad was completed the other day, be-
| ing 5000 acres in Saline County, Ark, to
the Pierce Lumber Company of Now Jer-
| sey.
George Kane, Harry Suffer and Wor-
| thlngton McCuloch, young unmarried
men from Frostburg, Nd, were rowing in
the Potomac River a few days ago when
| the boat capsized and all were drowned.
A German syndicate wishes to pur-
| chase 100000 acres of land in Tennessee and
Kentucky.
Another Blind Tom has come to as
tonsh and plague the American public. A
colored boy, nine years old, at Rome, Ga,
is said to play the piano like an educated
performer.
James p. Wright, a notorious thief,
smuggler and desperate, was captured i'll
Frio County, Tex, a few days ago.
Luke Pryor, a clerk in Milton Gar
rettson's store at Linwood, Ark, was muir
dered and robbed by unknown parties the
other night.
The boiler in steam laundry en-
plo-aed at Houston, Tex, the other day, par
TALLY wrecked the building and doing from
five hundred to thousand dollars damage.
James Buck, the engineer, was fearfully
scalded and may die. There were several
narrow escapes from death among the cm-
ployes.
Mr. Robert c.. Gilmer, of Columbia,
KY, found a glinea's nest on his farm last
week containing sixty-three eggs.
Sixteen completely petritied human
bodies are said to have been recently dis
covered in Pine Mountain, Campbell Coun-
tv, Tenn, in a solid limestone rock with
also Il cave, the walls of which are deco
rated with paintings of extinct or imagi-
nary animals.
A traveller in North Carolina recently
saw near Waynesville a church twenty
eight by forty-four and eighteen feet high,
with pine stccple, all made from one
tree, and there was enough lumber left over
to fence the church yard.
An aged lady applied to the police Of
Wheeling, w. Va, the other day for aid To
reach Washington, where she hoped to Sc
cure admission to Il charitable institution.
She stated that her father was Eice-Presi-
dent William Z. King. and that she was the
widow Of General Hunter, whom President
Jackson sent to Russia as minister, and
that the first six months of her married life
were spent at the American embassy in st.
Petersburg. Size was given ample funds
to proceed on her journey.
The State Board OF Education in
Texas has resolved to purchase for the
school fund $50 900 in registered four per
cent. bonds of the United States.
1t is understood that the negroes of
Tidcwater, Va, are making preparations
for tie performance of funeral services at
an early day in memory of John F. New
som, the colored man who was killed by s.
Lewis in an alteration at Jerusalem some
elsS ago. The services will be conducted
according to the Masonic ritual, and it is
expected that an immense number of no
;;rors VIII participate in tho services,
which will take place at Franklin, South
ampton County.
\ mu,ilated check for So, 900 on y
national bank at Raleigh, N. c., was found
the streets of Billings, few days ago.
i swimminG-master, giving eNhibi-
'itions in Lake Pontchartrain, at New Or
leans, recently encountered sword-fish,
which. he succeeded in capturing. In the
saw were forty-two teeth.
At Brighton, West Tennessee, thir-
teen flying squirrels were killed recently
in the yard of a house to which they had
come for crumbs.
An unknown negro attempted to as
sault Mrs. w. G.. W. Hill near East Point
Ga, the other night and was arrested. On
the way to the court next day the guard
said he escaped, but it was believed he was
lynchcd.
A fire occurred at Vicksburg, Mss,
the other day, resulting in the destruction
of three frame two-Story buildings, acgrc-
eating a loss of fully $12,0l0. The Anchor
line elevator also came near burning.
d. NJ. Eslick, one of the most promi-
nent and wealthy citizens of Lincoln Coun-
ty, Tenn, was killed by lightning near
Fayetteville the other evening. His skull
was split in twain and his shoes torn from
his feet.
George NJ. Silsbee, of San Antonio,
who, on October -, 1881, robbed the mail
the Texas Central Railroad of forty
packages containing 1880 and afterward
escaped into Mexico was arrested in Silver
City, Col. He was returned to San An
tonic the other day.
The Arkansas Oat crop is immense.
Miss Clara Collins, of Colorado City,
Tex, was accidentally killed by one of her
most intimate lady friends few days ago.
They were together in the room, and her
friend, picking up an old pistol supposed
not to be loaded, and pointing it at her