West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1883-11-09
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS.

serious injury TO property In Bourbon
County, ny, a barn was blown down and
four negroes killed.
NANNih HORNE, n girl sixteen years old, ,
ran away from her home at Grecnvillc,
Ca, with membero OF Sells Circus Com.
panN, and was arrested 10y a detective at
Atlanta.
SMOKE issuing from n locality few
miles from st. Marks, Florida, has led To
the belief that therc was an active volcano
somewhere in the vicinity. The smoke is
now explained 10y a hunter, who SAYS that
th're are three rivers cmptymg into "a
small lake, two OF which are warm and tho
other very cold, and the mingling OF these
w"t,r' produces the vapor
lr Is said that young man made sin
gular contract with farmer near Ahbe.
Vile, Ala, last year. He agreed To work a
whole year for the farmers daughter and
a double. harrclcd shotgun. This contract
he faithfully carried out, and is now happy
in the possession of his double reward.
TnE first arrival of now grnuulatcd sugar
at New Orleans from the Parish of Ascen.
sion is pronounced hy competent judges to
be the finest and huuG,omest ovor brought
TO that market, and equal, i'm cvery re-.
spect, To the best product Of largest East.
ern retinories. II was in two lots, and one
lot sold at nine cents and the other at eight
and sevon-cights.
\ MAN named Loon, convicted OF rape,
has been sentenced TO bc hanged December
%, at Guilford, n. {.
JoHN CARSON was killed by William
Gleason i'm quarrel over game of old
slcdge at Gilmore Station, Ark, IA few days
ago.
. FIFTEEN hundred bales OF cotton await.
ing shipment TO New York, were burned at
Charleston, =. c., n few days ago.
DURING the past four years, Arkansas,
Florida, Louisiana and Texas have doubled
thoir railroad mileage. Tho total mileage
in tho four States now stands 2G
Oio, against 1920 ton years ago, aud dur
ing the decade IL * estimated that at lcnst
$500, 100000 has been invested i'm these en-
tcrpri,cs.
PAT HALEY, youth of cightcen, has
been arrested nt Dallas, Tex, for tho un.
provoked murder OF an old colorcd man at
Memphis, seven months ago.
ROSE FARM is n new Georgia industry.
Two gardeners i'm the vicinity Of Savannah
planted thrco acres in rosc trees. This
year they sold 22,0DO trees TO persons in
the North, aud had orders for $1,000
which they could not hll. Tho trees met
with "A ready sale at from SO to $40 pc.
hundred.
a SwINDLER who represented himself ms
tarvcling agent for the shoe department Of
the Georgia Penitcntinry has been victim.
izing tho merchants OF South Carolina. 1t
seems there is no shocmalSing or other
manufacturing department attached TO the
Georgia Pcnitcntiary.
SENATOR HAMPTON, Of South Carolina
says: practically, there will be, in my
Judgment, no effect exercised by the dcci
SION Of the Supreme Court on tho relations
between the races, aud there should be
none. The colored people have been put
on the same footing politically and legally
as the whites"
GREAT imprO vcmcnts have been and are
still being made at the industries of Rock.
wood, Tenn. The furnace company has
laid tracks 90 their furnace so that the work
OF ten mules aud twenty men may now b,
dispensed with; besides this an additional
engine 90 cost $4,000 is 10 bc added TO the
furnace.
The Baptist denomination Of Georgia is
engaged iu n centennial movement TO raise
100000 for Mercer University The
different Baptist associations have pledged
themselves 10 $4,000 or 5000, or $4,000
90 that cnd, and about $4,000 have been
pledged already.
THE Supreme Court nt Knoxville has NJ.
hruI"d the decision Of the lOwcr Court in
the case OF Mrs. Tcnnio Gurloy W.. Th,
East Tennessee, Virginia aud Goorgia
Railroad, and awards the plaintiT $l2,JOC
for the loss OF her husband'- life i'm an acci
dent no Cleveland about two years ago.
AGrAriDV in favor of new Coustitu.
tiounl Convention has begun i'm good
cnrncst in Georgia The Grand Jury ir
Bibb County calls for tho establishment Of
the whipping post for persons guilty of
certain petty oTnscs, involving moral
turptudc, in order 10 relieve courts of the
annoyance Of trials aud the county Of
expenses. As these petty crimes are
almost universal among negrOcs courts
being crowded with them every day, such
n change of law would I'm time bring the
great bulk Of negroes under the avcuging
lash. Several newspapers also advocate
tho establishment OF the whipping post.
BLrwEEy East aud West Pearl rivers
on the borders Of Mssi- sippi and Louisi.
ana, Us territory called Honey Island
with eight hundred inhabitants, located in
numerous small towns, who claim that
tuey are ON neutral ground and belong O.
no state. though they belong, in point Of
fact, 20 Louisiana.
HJHHiBLE stenrh came from Tho vicin.
fly Of tne bar-rOom of Wade Wallace. Ma.
rietta, Ga., few days a41. ON breaking in
tho door, roaring Gre was found in tho fire.
place, aud tbree.quarters length in 10 wa
the dead body Of Richard Hunt. Tho bar.
tonder. He was drunk, and had fallen into
the fire.
THg Northeastern railroad connects New
Orleans with Meridian, Miss. "a distance of
one hundred and ninoty.Gvo miles, most OF
which 8, through a forest region, sparsely
settled, Unclelred, uncultivated. and here.
tofore almost unknown, but rich iu valuable
timber Tho first train OF cars passed over
the road a few davs ago, making Che trip in
about twelve hours, The bridge OF this rcd
over Lake Ponchartrain, including tho
treste-work through tHe marshes on each
side ~ The lake is twenty.fve miles long.
being te orgest railway bridge in tbs
world. lie cost VA 81 800 900.
Every ihcator critic has his own no.
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