Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-07-28
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

off large numbers. They take sick and die
very suddenly.
During heavy storm in Talcott
County, Md, the other day the dwelling of
Frank Willis, near Wye Mill, was struck
by lightning and his eldest daughter was
killed.
On narrow-gauge road in Dodge
County, Ga, a few days ago, four cars went
through a burning bridge, by which three
men lost their lives and ten others were
wounded.
Information has been received at the
Treasury Department at Washington that
''flled" twenty-dollar gold pieces have APP
peared in Tennessee and other parts of the
South.
A Georgia negro, a few days ago,
couShed up cocklebur that has been
lodged in his throat for more than three
years, giving him much pain.
After a married life of sixty-seven
years, Amelia Sanford, of Milledgeville,
Ga, died recently at the age of eghty-eight
years. Her husband is ninety-two.
1t is proposed among the cotton fac
tors of New Orleans to set aside two cents on
the bale on their cotton receipts to the stock
of the Exposition. Such subscription would
amount to $4,000. If this is done, other
cotton associations and the sugar and rice
interests will assume a similar tax, all of
which, it is estimated, would raise about
$IOO, 900 more.
Near Paducah, Ky. the other day
negro herb doctor named Fletcher stabbed
and killed his wife and mother-in-law with
a butcher knife and then made his escape.
His children gave the alarm.
A most remarkable case of deter
mined suicide was recently reported from
Hampton, Ga. negro climbed ten feet
up a tree and launched himself the third
time from limb, after adjusting Il rope
about his neck, before successfully hanging
himself. At the first two attempts he touch
ed the ground.
The bark Mcnrovia sailed from New
York the other morning for Liberia with
fifteen negro colonists. The negroes were
all from the South.
A handsome college building that
will accommodate six hundred students is
going up at Decatur, Tex.
A citizen of Gallatin County, Ky,
has watermelon patch containing 2,I00
hills. A few years ago he sold 500 worth
of mclons-the product of one acre.
BY a boiler explosion in Clarendon,
s. c., the other day, mule which was
htched to a w;ter-cart standing few feet
from the engine was blown out of the shafts
IL distance of twenty yards or more, and
alichted on his feet none the worse for his
rapid transit except a few scalds on his
legs.
There is a family in Rusk County,
near Henderson, Tex, consisting of two
brothers and two sisters, whose ages are as
follows: Mrs. Lloyd, SO; Mrs. Melton, 81;
Taylor Brown, 80; Frank Brown, SJ-the
average age being 81 years.
Attorney General Moore. of Arkan-
sas, holds that meat, corn and other pro-
visions owned by farmers, merchants and
others, are subject to taxation, there being
nothing in the revenue laws or Constitu-
ton excmptng the same.
While cleaning q public well in
Brownwood, Tex, recently, the remains of
a prisoner who had mysteriously dsap-
pcared six years ago were found. Shortly
after he disappeared the water of the well
began to taste badly, and some hair and
flesh found in it, but the cause was
credited to a pet goat which was missing at
the time.
BY pouring oil on the floor, and set
ting it fire, then gouSing out the charred
portions by means of sharpencd spike
and piece of scissors, and then repeating
the operation, three prisoners in the Corpus
tnTlSll (lcS) llll very nearly Suctteicu
in escaping 4 few days ago.
a recent dispatch from Selma, Ala,
says the cotton caterpillar has made gem
eral appearance in that section. Examina-
tion of the crop near that city shows the
top leaves badly riddied, with plenty of
worms in sight and webbed up. The crop is
three weeks late, and worms in such num-
bcrs are two weeks early.
People of Graysville. Ga, are turning
out en- masse to slay mad dogs, which are
becoming very numerous. A goat bitten by
recently went mad and butted its brains
out.
A Young woman on Cumberland
Moun-an, Tennessee, lately killed rattle
snake light feet long.
Both the ball and cotton worm have
made their appearance in the Brazos Bot
tom, Tex, two months earlier than usual
and fears are entertained that they will
greatly damage the cotton crop.
A gentleman in Washington County.
Texas, raised twelve pounds of cocoons
This year and shipped them to a silk fac
tory.
The army worm is making trouble in
some portions of Texas.
Thirteen thousand pounds of red
pepper was received at Laredo, Tex, few
days ago from Mexico.
Charles Francillo, the oldest citizen
in Warren County, Miss, and one of the
oldest in the State, passed away at his resi-
dence III Eicksburg Il few days ago.
There is a sycamore tree in Campbell
County, Georgia, which measures Il little,
over four feet in diameter.
The other evening while William
Webb, a young man living at Shell Mound.
near Chattanooga, Tenn, squirrel
hunting, he accidentally dropped a bottle
of shot, and in attempting to pick it up his
gun discharged, the shot taking effect
in his side. The whole region of the side
torn up, laying open the cavity, break
ing several ribs and exposing the lungs,
from which he died next morning.
Selma, Ala, has sixty artesian wells.
Bids for the hire OF Texas convicts
were opened at Austin few davs ago.
Hawley and Allen bid for all corrvicts and
two penitentiaries for six years, at eighty
thousand dollars per annum There are
2.3O0 convicts. Four other bids were for a
limited number of convicts and shop room
at sixty cents per day for irst-CIass con-
victs, and forty cents for second-claSs. The