Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-08-25
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

Major E. Burke, in 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.
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
the purchase of Liberty Hall, Alexander
H. Stephens late residence, the intention
being to erect there monument and to
keep the property nearly as possible in
the condition in which Mr.. Stephens left it.
The property can be had for $4,000 if taken
before the 1st of November next, and this
includes the library, which cost $4,000.
The plan includes the establishment OF q
high school on the grounds.
In his speech at the reunion of the
survivors of John H. Morgan's command in
Lexington, KY, recently, General Basil w.
Duke concluded as follows: 1--WE often hear
it said that the men of both sides believed
they were right. This plea may be regard
ed as sufficient. But l am sometimes in
clined to believe that, paradoxical as it may
sound, both sides were right, and that his
tory will so declare"
Recent advices from forty-five coun-
ties in Georgia and Florida upon the con-
dition of the cotton crop, state that the
drought is generally broken and the out
look is brighter. There is some fear Of
rust and damage by worms and caterpil-
lars in some counties. The prospects in
Florida are better than in Georgia, owing
to more frequent rains. Caterpillars are
numerous in the latter State. Picking has
begun to a limited extent Labor is gem
orally in good supply.
An artesian we'll at Waynesborro.
Ca, has struck a vein of sharks teeth at
four hundred feet depth. The fossil bed is
quite thick, and other bones are occasion
ally brought up.
The trustees of colored church at
Winston, n. c., mOrtgaged the edifice re-
Gently to secure 81 200 with which to have
an excursion to Columbia. Half the
amount required was deposited at Winston
to the credit Of the Richmond & Danville
Railroad. A special train was sent to
Winston to draw the money and take the
congregation, but it steamed back to Rich
mond when it was learned that the trustees
could raise no more cash.
The other afternoon a difficulty oc-
Cured in Memphis, Tenn, between Col. M.
c. Galloway, editor of the Memphis 1p-
peal, and Walker Kennedy, city editor of
the Araldnche, regarding special sent by
Kennedy to paper in New York, in re-
gard to the recently pending duel between
Colonel Galloway and General Chalmers,
in which Colonel Galloway's bravery was
questioned. The beligerents were separated
before any harm was done.
Four armed rulfians boarded Texas
Central train at Bryan, Tex, recently, evil
IDENTIFY with the intention of robbing the
sleeping-car, but the passengers were
aroused by hearing loud talk, and the
thieves fed.
At the dental Office of w. A. Wesson
& Son, in Memphis, Tenn, the other day,
Mrs. Samuel Scheebler, wife of the senior
member of-tho wholesale leather firm of
ScheeDier & Co, took chloroform while
having a tooth extracted, from the effects
of which she died before leaving the chair.
The South Carolina Railway Compa-
ny has expressed its willingness to furnish
free transportation to organized bodies of
negroes who will agree never to return to
the State.
An incendiary fire at Lexington, Ky,
recently destroyed Bush & Sons planning
mill and some adjoining buildings, causing
loss of $4,000.
At Henrietta, Tex, the other night,
John McMurray, while playing with
pistol under his pillow, accidently shot his
wife through the head, killing her instantly.
The Crescent flour mill, at Augusta,
Ga, owned by J. F. Miller, was burned
few days ago with a loss of $4,000; insur-
ance $27 900. A considerable amount of
flour was destroyed.
An assignment has been filed by
Captain Vincent Shinkle, of Covington,
KY, whose liabilities are $4,000. He has
the costliest residence in town, and en-
barrassed himself in aiding his son and his
brother.
The Texas State Grange finished its
labors at Dallas a few days ago by the
election of an executive committee, which
consists of Messrs. A. NJ. Kellogg, of Bell
County, Chairman; j. E. Gray, of Wash
ington County. and w. H. Harris, of Dallas
County. The Grange adjourned to meet in
Galveston in August, 1884,
AT recent old mems gathering at
Lewisburg, Tenn, 1874 members were pres
ent, the oldest being 1O4 years old. There
were ia between the ages of % and 70; A.
between 20 and 80; between 50 and 30, 5;
between 30 and 100, ,; over 100, 1. OF this
number 102 were born in Tennessee, 40 in
North Carolina, in Virginia, in South
Carolina, 3 in Kentucky, 1 in Maryland,
1 in Germany. in Ireland, and in Geor-
ga.
During thunderstorm few days
ago the lightning struck tree in Lawrence
County, Tennessee, leaving only a few
traces on the tree, but tearing up the ground
at the roots in several directions. 1t then
ran along tho ground seventy five yards,
scorching the grass on its way, and finally
killing three cows.
IN II quarrel about money at Lynn
vile, Giles, County, Tenn, recently, Abra-
ham Aldridge was shot and seriously
wounded by Colonel A. H. Higdon.
Key West consumes 20 cattle weekly.
There are two ladies in the neigh
borhood of Newbern, Ala, who were living
in that section before Alabama was State.
That was before 1919. The act organizing
the territory dates two years previously.
During the fiscal year ending June
% there xxere S:fe 1OT "a received at the