St. Landry democrat., 1883-01-27
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

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was announced few days since, give tab
ulated statement of the amount which should
have been in the Treasury January Sd as
nearly 100000. In the safe they found
about $50, ZOO. According to their state
ments the banks held on deposit about
100000, leaving the amount of the deficit
about $500, 900. Polk was arrested in Texas
!. few days ago.
Four-fifths of the hands employed by
I the Galveston. Houston g. Henderson Road
at Houston, Tex, quit work the other day
/ owing to reduction in their wages to $l.25
! by the newly installed Road Master.
Two electrie-light companies it was
said lately were soon to hav a competitive
exhibition at Louisville, the loser to pay
| 81 900 for expenses and give "a 900 to the
Polytechnic Society of Kentucky.
A silver spike was driven the other
day on the Mexican Pacific Railroad extern
sion, connecting it with the Southern PACING
and giving direct line from San Francisco
to New Orleans.
John Morgan (white), an alleged
notorious desperate, horse thief and MUIR
j derer, was shot and killed while resisting
arrest, four miles south of Pleasant Hill,
De Soto Parish, La, the other day. 1t was
said that short time since he shot down
and ruthlessly murdered in cold blood, in
Minden, Webster Parish, two colored men,
without the slightest proyocation, and made
his escape. He had previously burned
barn, murdered a man in Texas, and stolen
q number Of horses and mules. A posse
headed by an officer attempted his capture,
when he fired upon them, mortaly wound
| Ing Mr.. John Furiow, reputable citizen
De Sofa, who was aiding in his arrest. 1--WE
of Morgan's comrades named Duke Crump
and Jim Rigby, who were with him at the
time. were secured and jailed.
i A poor white woman and her three
small children were found few days ago
4 frozen to death in the woods, twenty miles
above Atlanta, Ga. The woman and one
child were stone dead in the snow, and the
other two children were gasping in the last
agonies of death. Their names were UNI
/ known, and no one knows whence they
came or where they were going. They were
clothed in rags, and their lectures were
pinched rs if from long suffering from hum
ger.
Greenville, Tex, had shipped 1920
/ bales OF cotton to recent date, and eA-
4 pected 70 send off 5000 more this winter.
!. David Griffin, stout young negro,
took whisky as pay for his work from Tom
i lin, Newman, Ga, saloon-keeper, few
i days ago, and late in the afternoon
4 started home, drunk. Attempting to climb
a high fence, he fell backward into mud
puddle, where he was found next morning,
4 frozen to death. The same day an aged
negress left Newman, on foot, for Fayetvile.
The next day she was found by the Wayside,
frozen to death. s5
Several years ago. Louisa Lewis, q
colored woman, moved to alilledgeyille, Ca,
carving with her little boy whom she said
was given to her by his parents, who died OF
yellow fever at Nashville, Tenn. A few days
ago the Coroner was notified that the boy
was dead. A jury was impaneled and rem
dered verdict that the child had been
4 starved to death. Louisa was sent to Jail.
| The First Presbyterian Church at
i Memphis, Tenn, was destroyed by fire .
few days since. Loss, about so, 900.
Dallas, Tex, is to have State Saen-
4 gerfest in May. A committee of ten citi-
zens met few days ago and organized for
its management.
A wrecking crew in a surf-boas
boarded schooner ashore off Cobb's Island,
Z near Norfolk, Va, a few days ago, aDG
while on board the boat broke adrift and
they were compelled to take to the rigging.
They were rescued, but since that time
a 70 SfHf
the exposure, and the Captain was not ex-
ipected to live.
The Sailors Small pox Hospital near
Chrisfield, Md. was burned the other morn
ing. One OF the patients, while delirious,
knocked lamp off q table and then jumped
into the river. nurse rescued him. but
the man died soon after.
On the death of John Broad and wife,
of Atlanta, Ga, who left $4,000, no will
could be found. A nephew was approached
by letter and offered the missing document
on payment Of $500 without questions. He
made the purchase and the will was placed
ON record. The administrator brought suit
to break the document, and the Superior
a Court recently decided that 1t was forgery.
Two witnesses to the will were arrested.
i At jefferson, Tex, child of Charles
Terrence fell into the fire from rocking
chair and was burned to death a few days
ago.
4 f. r. Maddox, an attendant at the
Insane Asylum at Anchorage. KY, ducked
a refractory patient. from the effects OF which
it was said he died. A jury before whom
Maddox was tried the other day returned
verdict against him 0. involuntary man
slaughter, and fixed his punishment at four
months in Jail and fine Of 500.
Atha Thomas, prominent lawyer OF