St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-08-25
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

| Md, the other night, Bernard Mentally
stabbed James Carr through the heart with
an ice-pick. McNally was proprietor of the
saloon.
Mrs. CIV. Woodland, Of Omega, La.
who gained renown for her ministrasions
to yellow-fever sufferers at Vicksburg,
Miss, the other day ended her life by
taking laudanum.
| Explorations of recently discovered
cave at the base of Lookout Mountain,
opening at low water mark of the Tonnes
River, three miles from Chattanooga, is
said to have developed a wonderful cave
of unknown depth. At the extreme point
of the exploration very large lake was
encountered, into which fall $50 feet high
poured its water with the voice of thunder.
Other waterfalls and other interesting phe-
/ nomena were discovered.
Allen P. Morris was the first Con-
federate soldier to draw pension under
the Tennessee law allowing ten dollars per
month to Confederates in the army. Mr..
| Morris had both eyes shot out in the battle
of Stone River, December 81, 1862.
There is a gold ring in the Ransdale
family of Orangeburg, S. G., worn by Miss
EllCe IiduSuule tudG Is COuipuLeu VI Ue HCt
far from two hundred years old. 1t was
the wedding ring of Mrs. Pou, the great
| grandmother of the young lady now
| wearing it.
The United States District Court con-
vened in Greenville, s. c., the other day,
when between 100 and 200 informations
were fled against moonshiners. A vigor-
Gus campaign has been successfully waged
| against the illicit distillers in the mountains
for the past six months.
During a recent storm in York
County, S. c., Mrs. Mary F. Starr and Miss
Irene Starr, her daughter, were struck by
lightning. The mule attached to their buggy
was killed, but the ladies escaped with Sc.
we're injuries only.
The other afternoon four boys named
Englehart, Steen, Hume and Halfpenny
went out on the river at Wheeling, w. Va,
in a boat, and rowing to the waves of
passing steamer, the boat was upset, and
all the boys but Englehart were drowned.
Englehart was fifteen years old, and the
others were all under twelve.
DR.. Daniel Asbury, of North Carolina.
is pluming his pinions for public aerial
dSSCAlaloA a1ktA sdkls 4uc GWU CdllFdS WHY'S
of his flying machine stretch thirty feet
broad from tip to tip, and all the man-bird
has to do to regulate his flight is to work
pedal Like that on sewing-machlne.
A stylish colored wedding took place
the other evening at Columbia, S. c., the
principals being daughter of Postmaster
Wilder and school officer of Washington
named W. G. Montgomery.
The executive order consolidating the
Second and Fifth Internal Revenue Dis
tricts of Tennessee went into effect few
days ago.
Major E. Burke, in a letter to the
Board of Managers of the Worlds Indus.
trial and Cotton Centennial Exposition at
New Orleans, accepting the position of Di-
rector General, suggests the organization
of an auxiliary committee in each parish of
Louisiana and in every State Of the Union,
that there may be complete representation
of the products and manufactures of the
country at the Exposition. He also hopes !
that foreign Governments and peoples may
be interested in the enterprise.
Quincy, Fla, seems to be bad place
for Swedes. OF one hundred who went /
there in 1874 the last one has died.
1t is estimated that the growing to-
bacco crop of Kentucky viii not exceed
three-fourths of 1astyear's crop.
A pure African woman died in
Orangcburg County, S. c., recently, aged
10 years.
Upward Of one hundred delegates
were present at the opening of the annual
session of the Texas State Grange at Dallas
the other morning. Sixty counties were
represented.
An earnest effort is beng made in
Georgia to raise funds by subscription for
tho purchase of Liberty Hall, Alexander
H. Stephens late residence, the intention
being to erect there a monument and to
keep the property as nearly as possible in
the condition in which Mr.. Stephens left it.
The property can be had for $40, 900 if taken
before the 1st of November next, and this
includes the library, which cost $4,000.
The plan includes the establishment of
high school on the grounds
r. j. Burdick, of Boscobel, Wis.
was arrested at Memphis, Tenn, the other
day on a charge of bigamy. He had mar
RED the daughter of a Galway Station mer-
chant, Miss Maggie Thomas, some time
ago, and it was only recently discovered
that he had deserted wife in Boscobel,
Wis, had been arrested in the West on
several charges, and, although young, was
an experienced crook.
In his speech at the reunion of the
of John H. Morgan's command in
Lexington, KY, recently, General Basil w.
Duke concluded as follows: 1--WE often hear
t said that the men of both sides believed
hey We're right. This plea may be regard
ID as sufficient. But l am sometimes in.
lined to believe that, paradoxical as it. may