Huntsville gazette., 1883-04-21
SOUTHERN GLEANINCS.

| Hot Springs Greek contract will be relet on
the 23d inst.
A panther measuring seven feet in
length was killed near Palatka, Fla, re-
! Gently.
In Bowling Green, KY, recently, two
men named Walton and Cullender were
playing cards, while Scott Oliver kept the
| pot, hfty cents. There having been a mis-
| deal the principals asked for their money,
instead OF decision. Oliver declined to
I surrender it and, twas alleged, without
| warning, fired at and killed Walton
During the month of March thirty-nine
vessels left the port of New Orleans, La,
] carrying 1,7S6,619 bushels of corn and 3d.
S6f bushels of wheat, total of 2,30O,5S3
! bushels of grain, against 1913, ,421 for March
of last year-an increase of about 500 per
cent. Among the departing vessels was
the Briscoe to Belfast with $500 bushels
of corn, equivalent to 3,100 tons, the largest
| grain cargo that ever left the port of New
Orleans.
For charging illegal fees, L. M. Carr,
4 Of Louisville, KY, has been debarred from
practice as an attorney before the Interior
Department at Washington.
The contract for constructing the pro-
posed Marine Hospital at Memphis, Tenn,
has been awarded John Reed, of Memphis,
for S3S,775.
Richard Crowley, New York, has re-
signed his position as special assistant
counsel for the United States in the prose-
cution Of alleged election fraud cases in
South Carolina.
The directors of the Louisville (Ky.)
Southern Exposition the other day closed
contract with the Seventh Regiment band
Of New York for the first fifty days Of the
exposition, and Gilmore's band of the same
city the remaining fifty days. This in
| wolves an expenditure of $50, 900.
l.. l.. Polk & Co., dealers in agricul-
tural implements at Raleigh, N. c., have
made an assignment with liabilities Of $13,-
600, and assets 900. 1t was thought the
business would be continued.
The other morning the incoming train
on the Memphis & Charleston Railroad ran
over negro six. miles east Of Memphis,
Tenn, completely severing his head from
his body.
A few days ago near Clinton, Jones
County, fifteen miles from Macon, Ga, a
| nine-year-old son of Buck Jordan accident
ally, while playing with an old gum killed
Mrs. Wheeler an old lady, and wounded
her daughter and her baby.
a South Carolina court has decided
that where person adopts a perilous en-
ployment, knowing it to be such, and is
killed in the pursuit of his avocation, his
heirs have no recourse against the en-
ployer.
John Bassett, prisoner held to an
swer six indictments for cattle-stealing,
died in Jail at Corscana, Tex, the other
night from the effects of injuries received
in attempting to escape by jumping from
running train.
At Augusta, Ga, the Industrial
! Works, a manufactory of barrels, buckets,
tubs and similar articles, was burned few
! days ago. Loss, $4,000.
I The safe in the store Of Stubs & Co.
at Moreham, Tex, was blown open lately
and $1,700 in money taken. Most of the
money belonged to depositors. The bur-
| glars made a clean job of it by drilling
/ hole in the center of the top of the safe.
\ The explosion burst the safe asunder in all
directions.
An alleged incendiary fire at Cadiz,
\ Trigg County, KY, the other evening de-
\ stroyed seven business houses and large
/ livery stable. Loss $4,000, with no insur-
/ ance.
\ w. H. Russell, United States Mar
| ly convicted at San Antonio of presenting
] Al.
Penitentiary for two years.
| The Governor of Arkansas has signed
/ the bill permitting a nonresident to become
State Printer and perform the work outside
the State.
The steamer Merida with 100 passen-
/ gers from Vera Cruz collided with
schooner and was 50 much injured that sic
had to be beached in Hampton Roads. No
lives were lost
A grain Call Board was inaugurated
at the Board of Trade in Louisville, KY,
the other day, twelve transactions being
/ recorded. This was considered a fair be-
/ ginning for city where Call Board never
existed before.
There are said to be thirty-fve coun-
ties in Kentucky where no newspapers are
! printed.
The Galveston (Tex) fiour-mills
burned a few days ago, the loss being S50,-
1 900 and the insurance $780, 900.
The Supreme Court holds that the
revenue law of the late Alabama Legisla-
ture is void, because of the omission from
the bill as enrolled and signed of certain
words in the bill passed. The new law re-
duced the tax to five and half mills.
| William Pritchard was killed at Ra
| leigh, N. c., the other day by constables,
whom he attempted to shoot when he was
arrested.
| Elevator No. 2, on the Northern Cen
tral Railway, at Canton, Nd, costing $40,
900 and insured for $4,000, was burned a
few days ago.
In Sharkey County, Miss. during a
| quarrel between o. W. Thayer and Wilks
| Shannon a few days ago, Shannon GU
! Thayer's throat with razor, killing him
/ instantly.
While putting roof on new stable
\ being erected by Mann Foster, at San An