Huntsville gazette., 1883-10-06
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

NASAAAoS WI V oojuu5Co lASdlc. MISS hcil-
lite Is a German, aged about twenty five.
She was formerly member Of German
opera company and talented and accom-
plished vocalist. She has been confined in
jail for several weeks. The loss of her
mind has not affected her voice, and she
sings for half day at a time.
A man named Montgomery, who
killed another named Quigley at Bracket,
Tex, has been sentenced to prison for
ninety-nine years.
Joseph St. Cyr, an old and honored
creole resident of New Orleans, who par
ticipated in the battle near that city in 1915,
died few days ago.
A German steamer from Bremen
haven landed 200 emigrants at Galveston,
Tex, few days ago. They were intend
ing to take up homes in the State.
DR.. E. W. Watts, an old resident of
Galveston, Tex, died a few days ago of
convulsions. He was native Of Alabama.
James Goff, the engineer, whose dead
body was found few days ago near the
Decatur, Tenn, depot is supposed to have
been murdered and robbed. He was seen
about half an hour before his corpse was
found, on his way home, and was perfectly
sober.
The jury in the case Of w. L. Boyd,
accused of numbering Birdie Patterson,
alias Louisa Nicholson, several months ago,
rendered a verdict of murder in the second
degree, and fixed his punishment at fifteen
years imprisonment. A motion for a new
trial was entered and bond fixed at 5000.
AT Wills Point, Tex, a few nights
ago, three burglars entered the bank and
exploded the vault, but were scared off be-
fore they secured any plunder.
Walter Boldly, colored, who was con-
victed last spring at San Antonio, Tex, Of
the murder of soldier and sentenced to
fifteen years. Imprisonment, has been ac-
quilted on a second trial.
A few days ago while James Cowen,
was attempting to draw some water from
a cistern, on the farm of John Gill near
Lancaster, KY, he lost his balance and fell
in. He was drowned before any assistance
could be gotten to him. He was about
twenty-seven years old.
In an affray recently near Lumber
ton, n. c., between two brothers named
Butler and three brothers of the name of
Horne. David Butler was killed.
A few days ago while some plumbers
were engaged in repairing a gas-pipe in
VIM. Jacks & Sons wholesale queensware
store in Memphis, Tenn, an explosion oc-
Cured, which severely injured John
Whalen, one of the gas-ftters. Several
employees of the store were considerably
shaken up, and a fine dinner set displayed
in the front show-window, fully 100 feet
from the spot of the concussion, was
broken.
After an adjourned session of three
months the Georgia Legislature adjourned
sine die on the 25th. They finished all the
business, having considered more than 900
bills during the session. The most import
ant measures passed were the bill to build
a 100000 Capitol in Atlanta, and bill
redistricting the State, made necessary by
the addition of one district, the Tenth, in
accordance with the last census.
Manager L. Degive, of Degive's
Opera-house, Atlanta, Ca, has been ar
rested at the instigation of w. D. Moore,
colored, who was elected from the Opera
house last winter for insisting on sitting
among white people.
A. P. Simpson, late of Kentucky, was
killed a few nights ago in Kaufman Coun-
ty, Tex, by Texas & Pacific freight train.
Isaac Trowbridge's saw-mill at
Franklin, La, burned few days ago.
Loss $4,000.
At Britain, Tex, two negroes, Lewis
Martin and Perry Cavett, were found
guilty of killing in a quarrel a farmer
named Brockwell The Jury gave Martin
twenty-five years in the Penitentiary and
assessed Cavett's punishment at death.
At Memphis, Tenn, a few nights ago.
During the performance at S. H. Barrett &
Co.'s Circus, Ed Belmont, while trying to
turn a. back somersault from his brothers.
shoulder, struck his neck and fell to the
ground senseless. He sustained injuries to
his spine that will in all probability lay
him up for the remainder of the season.
John White, who has for several
years operated in Dallas, Tex, and adjoin-
ing counties as horse-thief and counter
feiter, was arrested at Hanlan's Fort, in
DEVILS Neck, by a posse of Van Zandt
County officers and taken to Canton for
safe-keeping. The Dallas officers sur
rounded Hanlan's about an hour after the
Van Zandt officers had arrested White.
White several months ago fell into the
hands Of the Limestone County officers, but
he broke Jail at Mexia and brought all the
prisoners with him. He is Kentuckian.
A broom factory is a new industry
about to be started at Vicksburg. Miss.
A poplar tree was recently cut down
near Moultrie, Ala, that measured fifty
eight feet at the butt and $50 feet in length.
1t will make 100000 shingles.
A sixteen-year-old boy at Ennis, Tex.
picked 607 pounds of cotton in one day re-
Gently.
The estimated cost of the work of
building the Florida ship canal is S46,-
900, 900.
Henry Reed, Scottsborough County
(Ala.) farmer recently missed several hogs
from his pen, and keeping watch few
nights ago discovered a man walking to-
ward his hogs, and as the man was seen to
climb the fence Reid fired, and going to the
spot found he had killed Abraham Green,