St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-11-24
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

VIM. Prilton, of Shelbyville, KY, was
thrown from a horse against tree lew
days ago and instantly killed.
A post of the Grand Army at Coying'
ton, Kentucky, has started on its rounds
resolution urging the promotion OF Z. q.
Sheridan to the Generalship and OF w. ,:
Hancock to the rank of Lieutenant-General
The farmers of Coahoma County,
Miss, are said to be in more prosperous
condition this year than at any time since
1879.
Two boys named McChesner and
Thompson the latter colored-escaPed
from the Pontiac Reform School a few days
ago, but were captured at Bloomington.
A National bank, with a capital OF
S50, 600, has been organized at Clay Center,
Clay County.
Suit has been brought at Dallas, Tex,
to test the right of Texas railroads to
charge four cents mile passenger fare.
The Grand Jury Of Wise County, Tex,
has indicted ten persons for fence cutting.
A new railroad line IS projected to
run from Munroe, N. c., to Chester. ). =.
Moses Kyle was waylaid and assas-
sinated in the suburbs of Natchez, Miss,
few DAYS ago. He was shot through the
heart.
Judge Parker, an aged magistrate,
living near Shelbyville, KY, accidentally
shot himself few days since and it was
thought he would die.
A German named Fohrmann was
waylaid and plundered by four robbers
near Marshall, Tex, a few nights ago. All
the gang were captured.
The Presbyterian Synod for the
Southern District of Mississippi held ses-
sion in Natchez, commencing the 9th, with
seventy-fve delegates in attendance
One Of the incidents OF the Virginia
election was that Malone had his ears
boxed.
A switch engine blew up at Dallas,
Tex, few days ago, fatally scalding the
engineer and fireman.
Clint Houston, brakeman on the
Alabama Great Southern Railroad, was
killed by the cars near Tuscaloosa, Ala,
few days ago.
j. E. MCGOWAN editor of the Chatta-
nooga (Tenn.) daily Times, was attacked
on the street and knocked down by Alder
man C. C. Snyder few days ago. Polit-
ical differences caused the trouble.
The new hall of the Mozart Society,
of Memphis, Tenn, was formally opened
the night of the 9th, Miss Minnie Hauk as
sisting.
A meeting of merchants and manu-
facturers was held in Nashville, Tenn, re-
Gently, at which it was resolved to erect
Sl5O,OO0 brick building for an Exposition
and Music Hall.
Joseph Whitton, brakeman on the
Western & Atlantic Railroad, fell between
the cars, near Atlanta, Ga, a few days ago,
and was killed.
The citizens of Memphis, Tenn, are
agitating the question of better water
supply for the city.
Lewis r. Redmond, the famous illicit
distiller of South Carolina, who has served
two years of his term at Auburn IN. W
Prison, is to be transferred to the Peniten-
tiary at Columbia, S. c., on the recommen-
dation of surgeon. Redmond has become
an expert shoemaker.
John Z. Martin, Of Luling, Texas,
who confessed having murdered his wife,
was taken out of the hands of his guard at
midnight few days ago by one hundred
masked men, and hanged to a tree. A sec
:ond lynching party called at the consta-
ble's house for Martin two hours later.
In a political dispute at Hazlehurst,
Miss, a few days ago, E. B. Wheeler killed
Pierce Mathews.
The greater part of the business por-
ton of Blufton, Tex, burned a few days
ago. R. Arnold loses $4,000; J. J. Maho.
nv, $4,000, others smaller amounts. The
fire was incendiary.
A few nights ago burglars blew open
the safe of the Adams Express Company at
Burger, Tenn, securing large amount OF
money.
The Mayor and majority of the
| Aldermen of Marshall, Tex, recently re-
signed, leaving the city practically without
| municipal government.
Lawrence White, a colored murderer
| was lynched a few nights ago by negroes
| of Mount Mourne, N. G.
New Orleans is enjoying an unexam
/ pied boom in cotton receipts.
Cisco. Tex, was nearly destroyed bJ
/ fire a few days ago.
/ The new telegraph line between
| .vicksburg and Yazoo City, Miss, is com
pleted and open for business.
Business was practically suspended il
louisville, KY, on the 10th, in honor of the
CLOSING day of the Southern Exposition.
A party of 100 excursionists from
Chicago are visiting various point in Texas
Joseph Debolsky and his sister were
drowned in swollen creek at Bryan, Tex.
few days ago.
r. G. Hurley was fatally injured ;
4 few evenings since by fall from the bal
/ 'conY of the National Hotel at Dallas, Tex