Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-13
Miscellaneous Items.

Mrs. w. II. Harten, of Memphis,
Tenn, was the other day elected Superin-
tendent of the County Schools. Mrs. Har
ten had the honor of being the first woman
ever elected 10 office in that city.
Three cars of Scotch beef cattle,
Angus polled breed, were shipped to Cor
1 pus Christi, Tex, recently, for breeding
purposes. a.
A fire at Fort Deposit, thirty miles
south of Montgomery, Ala, destroyed six
stores and stock of goods, the other day.
Loss, S15, 200; partly insured.
Dave Roberts, coi51ed, was taken
from Jail at Abbeville. s. c., a few days
since and lynched. He was charged with
cotton stealing and murderous assault. .
During dispute about bottle Of
! whisky at Eastman, Ga. !, the other day. a
man named Blount ,Mas killed by A!eck
Harrell.
"A double tragedy at Cotton Springs,
Callahan County, Tex. ia which Tom
Jones and George l.. Franks wera Killed.
was reported the other day. The two
men were friends, and Franks got into a
difficulty with a third party. In order to
prevent a serious termination, Jones took
Franks pistol away from him. Franks de-
manded that it be returned. Jones refused
to comply. Franks went off and armed
himself with a gum. and,' returning. re-
peated the demand. Jones-ag refused.
Both men fired at the same time and both
were instantly killed. a.. .s.>s rsa', .
Gus Feith's dry-goods store at Yazoo,
Miss, was destroyed by fire the other day.
Insurance on building and stock $4,000
A white woman named Emily VIM
berry was burned to death in Memphis,
Tenn, a day or two ago. '''v
The other morning while a well@dig
ger named Albert Hofan was being lowered
by'a wndlass at San. Antonio, Tex, the
handle Of the windiass, slipped from The
grasp of the man holding it: IIotan fell
sixty feet, breaking his neck, both legs, an
arm and several ribs dying before he was
recovered from the WELL
The MachinistS' building. in New Or
leans, La. was. recently transferable tile
Louisiana State University. 1t was there
that the Constitutional Convention met in
1866, bat was broken up by the police, and
over 100 men were+kiled. 1t 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. It ex-
ploded, blowing two to atoms and seriously
iniurng the other. The house was. COM
pletely demolished.
Several cases of small -pox with four
deaths were reported by the Osceola (AfkJ
Times at that pla ce a few DAYS ago, causing
J quite a scare among the people and the
closing of the school.
The Legislative Committee appointed
to investigate-the Office of the State Treas
urer- at Nashville, Tenn, reported the other
morning that the Treasurer had been out Of.
the city two days, and his clerk was not
prepared to make a statement Of accounts.
The committee reported deficit IN the
Treasury Of 10000 and, after r.consultation
with the, bondsmen Of the Treasurer, rec
commended the suspension OF the business OF
his office for the present. srsss e,..-s y
Samuel Siebert and Robert Wright,
aged about twelve years, of Louisville, Ky.,,
quarreed the other evening Siebert cut
Wright on the heck, arm and breast, in
ficting 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 a.
-hatchet. ~tE ee..- M .
L. G. Wood, who killed j., b, For
gettson at Greenvile, 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 =
new trial