St. Landry democrat., 1883-01-20
SOUTHERN sGLEANINGS.
miscellaneous Items.

tenQenC OF Lne county OCuoolSs MA h"i-
ten had the honor of being the first woman
ever elected to office in that city.
The Machinists' building in New Or
leans, La. was recently transferred to the
Louisiana State University. 1t was there
that the Constitutional Convention met in
1866, but was broken up by the police, and
over 100 men were killed. It was subse-
quently used by the Legislature.
Three colored laborers on the
Kentucky Central Railway extension put
wet danamite in a stove to dry the other
morning near Winchester, Ky. L ex-
ploded, blowing two to atoms and seriously
injuring the other. The house was COM
pletely demolished.
Several cases of small -pox with four
deaths were reported by the Osceola (Ark.)
Times at that place few DAYS ago, causing
quite a scare among the people and the
closing Of the school.
The other morning while well dig
ger named Albert Hofan was being lowered
by windlass at San Antonio, Tex, the
handle of the windlass slipped from the
grasp Of the man holding it. Hofan fell
sixty feet, breaking his neck, both legs, an
arm and several ribs, dying before he was
recovered from the well.
Samuel Siebert and Robert Wright,
aged about twelve years, of Louisville, n.y.,
quarreed the other evening. Siebert cut
Wright on the heck, arm and breast, in
flicting dangerous wounds. The boy was
sent to the city hospital. Siebert escaped
arrest. @
The Marshal of Plano arrested John
Green at Dallas, Tex, the other day on the
charge OF killing an old man named Coles,
in Plano day or two previous. The two
men became involved il a quarrel, when
Green struck Coles on the head with
Ratchet.
L. G.. Wood, who killed J. B. For
gettson at Greenville, Tex, last spring and
was convicted Of murder and sentenced to
the penitentiary for forty-six years and
three months, was the other day granted a,
new trial. 9Jigs
John Elmore, sixteen years old, was
killed the other day on the plantation Of Mr..
Irby, in Laurens County, 5. c., by being
| packed in bale OF cotton. While the hands
and went to sleep, and upon resuming work
the hands, without knowing Elmore's
| Whereabouts, threw in more cotton to COM
| plete the bale, run the press down and
crushed the sleeper to DEATH The horrible
| discovery was made when the bale was
taken out and "a portion Of the sleeper's
| clothing was seen protruding from the BALE.
!. The other day Harrington Williams,
colored, walked into Governor Stephens
! Office at Atlanta, GA, and stated that he
| wished to give himself up to the authors
| ties. He said that he was charged with
| burning the tewn Of Millen, and would have
surrendered to the Burke County authori-
ties, but feared lynching. Millenis in Burke
| County, and was partially burned on the
| 18th of December by an incendiary. Will
/ liams was placed in Jail at Atlanta until
4 the Governor could communicate with the
! Burke County authorities. Harrington
said: 81 gave myself up for protection. I
didn't burn the town, and was not there at
the time. don't know anything about it
| except what / dreamed in my dreams. /
see the burning town, the officers following
me and the mob fixing to hang me.
Dallas Carter, colored hand at Liy-
ingston's turpentine still, about eight miles
from Orangeburg, S. O., was the other day
burned to death under very peculiar cir
| cumstances. In working around the still
/ he got considerable crude tnrpentine on his
feet, and in the evening, while standing
near fire, he put one of his feet in the blaze
i to warm it, when the turpentine instantly
| caught fire, and before he could think the
poor fellow found himself enyeloped in
flames. He ran and jumped into an old
well, but was so badly burned when taken
out that he died.
7 Colonel Ed. G. Anderson, ex-Mayor
of Savannah, Ga, and President of the
Ocean Steamship Company, died the other
/ morning. He was formerly an officer in the
United States Navy, and afterward q Con-
federate Colonel.
] At ball in Bedford County, Va, the
other night, a young lady named Ideile
4 Read said to Scott Clayto who was calling
the figures, that he was not calling correct-
4 ly. He made some sharp response, which
was resented by one OF Miss Reads admir-
ers, Armsted Barksdale. The latter called
4 Clayton out and hot words passed. Barks-
dale drew knife, sprang on Clayton aud
inflicted a horrible cash from the right eye
to the back of the neck, severing the juguar
i vein and causing Immediate death. The
4 scene in the bathroom was sickening.
i Women in fancy ball-dresses tainted, fall
i ing into pools Of blood, and a regular melee
followed among the partisans OF the two
men. Barksdale escaped unobseryed, and /,
wandering to another part OF the county,
borrowed gun from an 4acquaintance5an and
completed the tragedy by shooting himself
4 through, the bowels. He died shortly after
4 wardsi as t