Huntsville gazette., 1883-08-18
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.
Two men and one woman. all colorod

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! poison the family of Andrew Daniel.
Ben Hume, at one time prominent
and successful merchant in Vicksburg,
Miss, was arrested and placed in the
county Jail the other day to prevent his
committing suicide.
A Charleston, S. c., church steeple
/ finds itself suddenly in commercial demand
The owners of a few tug boats in the har-
Dor learned that an incoming bark could
be sighted from its summit while yet afar
/ On. Business prospered with them, while
their rivals, despite industrious cruising
off the bar, could get no vessels. At last
| the secret of the lookout was discovered,
and now the steeple is to rent to the highest
bidder.
Among the patents issued from the
| patent office at Washington recently were
| the following to Arkansas inventors: VIII
liam o. Coleman, Little Rock, seed cotton
separator and cleaner; Margaret Smith,
Little Rock, muff; Wilber F. Southland,
Berlin, churn.
The little town of Sumpter, S. c.,
was thrown INTO a state of great excitement
recently, by the discovery that John d.
! Lynch, married man forty years old, and
the father of two grown children, had
eloped the night before with Miss Sallie
| Slack, sixteen years old. They were traced
to Brunswick, N. c., where they were ar
| rested.
Recent advices from eighty points in
the Texas cotton belt report the cotton suf-
fering from continued drought; from thirty
| points it is estimated that only half the
usual crop will be made: from fifty points
| the crop is placed at two-thirds the usual
amount. Cotton worms have appeared in
some sections and are doing much damage
| Early corn is made and is a full CROP
Late corn is a total failure in some Sec
tions.
Putnam county, Florida, is excited
over large panther which has made its
! appearance near Rice Creek.
A Columbus (Ga.) company, with
100000 capital, will electrically light that
city.
The Board of Managers of the Worlds
Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposi-
tion held regular meeting at New Or
| leans the other night, with Vice-President
! Albert Baldwin in the chair. After trans
acting other business, E. A. Burke was
elected Director General of the Exposition,
with salary Of $4,000. The subscriptions
] to the enterprise aggregate S}oo,U0e and its
| success is cOnsIdored ACQUIRED.
A freight train on the Chesapeake,
| Ohio & Southwestern Railroad
wrecked the other morning, near Kerrville,
about twelve miles north Of Memphis,
Tenn. Fifteen cars were badly damaged,
! h,.,1- iniu
100 yards of the track was torn up, necessi-
tating a transfer of passengers.
Two negro girls, twelve and eight
years old respectively, were left alone by
their mother in cabin on Mrs. James
| Beams Farm near Lexington, KY, the
other day. When the mother returned she
| found the cabin in ashes and the body of
| the youngest girl in it. The elder girl could
not be found and it was suspected she
| burned the house Intentionally.
1t was estimated that fully forty thou
sand people were present at the opening of
the Confederate reunion, which occurredat
| Mckinney, Tex, few days ago, fifteen
thousand of whom were served by the or
ganization with dinner on the grounds.
The speakers were General Cabell, ex-Gov-
ernor Tnrockmorton, Governor Ireland,
General NJ. Lewis, Ex-Governor Hubbard,
Colonel Bowers and Congressman Welborn.
| The tenor Of Governor Ireland's speech was
that the Confederates had no excuse to
make for the part taken in the late contest.
1--WE are to forget the political strife which
led to the war, but must teach our children
| the deeds of those who wore the blue and
| the gray. We are all Americans, and ever
| ready to battle with the country's assail-
ants from whatever quarter"
There was great excitement at Sis
terville, w. Va, ON the Ohio River Rail-
road, recently. Negroes and Italians
were working together blasting. The ne
groes put in blast, notified the men Of
their danger and ran to a safe distance.
| The Italians ran only a short distance and
| two of them were killed. The Italians pur-
sued the negroes with revolvers, picks and
| dirks, when the negroes drew razors. Fur
| ther trouble was feared.
Clarence Rutherford, who was recent
lv pardoned from the Kentucky Peniten-
tiary by Governor Blackburn, had served
two wears of life sentence for murder he
had been insubordinate up to the revival
| y
| Barnes, when he was converted. Mrs.
Blackburn was instrumental in his refor'
nation.
In bar-room fight at Baltimore,
Md, the other night, Bernard McNally
stabbed James Carr through the heart with
an ice-pick. McNally was proprietor of the
saloon.
Mrs. G. w. Woodland, of Omega, La. i,
who gained renown for her ministrations
to vellow-fever sufferers at Vlcksburg,
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 Tennes-
River, three miles from Chattanooga, Is
said to have developed wonderful cave
of unknown depth. At the extreme point
of the exploration very large lake was
encountered into which fall 100 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-
| eo5ara+a soldier to draw pension under