Huntsville gazette., 1883-11-24
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

was lynched a few nights ago by negroes
of Mount Mourne, N. C.
In a political dispute at Hazlehurst,
Miss, a few days ago, E. B. Wheeler killed
Pierce Mathews.
Cisco. Tex, was nearly destroyed by
fire few days ago.
The. new telegraph line between
iVicksburg and Yazoo City, Miss, is COM
pleted and open for business.
( Business was practically suspended in.
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 a swollen creek at Bryan, Tex,
few days ago.
r. G. Hurley was fatally injured
few evenings since by fall from the bal
cony of the National Hotel at Dallas, Tex.
E. L. Cunningham has been remand
ed to prison without bail at Fort Worth,
Tex, for the killing of V. w. Fleming.
Cunningham has a father living at st.
Charles. Mo. rft4
Lee Thomson, newsdealer at San
Antonio, Tex, was recently fined 500 for
selling the Police Gazette. saez e.
A human skull, measuring forty inch
es around the forehead, has been unearthed
near Kingwood, Virginia.
Colonel Hugo Rose, a German school
teacher at San Antonio Texas, who suf-
fered from wounds received in the rebel
ion, killed himself few days ago with
chloral.
A grand banquet WILDE given during
the session of the National Cotton Plant
ers' Convention at Vicksburg, Miss.
Andrew Rusdin, of Costroville, Tex,
was arrested recently, suspected of poison
ing his wife. .- u,.s-a
The Oglethorpe Barracks, at Savan-
nah, Ga, were sold by the Government at
auction few days ago, and were bought
by hotel company at $67,3S1.
At Loyola College, Baltimore, Broth
er Richard O'Connell, nearly ninety years
of age, attempted to replace a broken pane
of glass a few days since, and fell fifty feet
to the courtyard crushing his skull.
Some excitement prevailed near Con-
zales, Tex, over rumor that the negroes
were drilling nights, and the whites have
organized a minute company.
All the buildings on the west side of
the public square at Rusk, Tex, were de-
stroyed by fire few days ago.
A boiler in saw mill at Moscow,
Tex, exploded recently, killing D. Cooper,
wounding J. B. Jones fatally, and danger
ously wounding two other men, \. a,Yrr
Aztec, famous running horse, val.
ued at $4,000, died recently of lung fever
at Lexington, KY. He was owned by Pow
ers & Son, of Decatur, LII. EW
Hunger and cold caused the death of
a colored woman and child at Lexington,
KY, few days ago.
Charles Warren and Murdock Mall.
ley, of Charlotte, N. c., quarreled recently
over game of cards, and Malley killed
Warren with knife.
By the giving away of the wall of a
gravel-pit at Dallas, Tex, five men were
instantly buried. One of the number was
killed, and all the others sustained severe
injuries.
Samuel Wheeler was sentenced few
days ago at Gilman, Tex, to be hung for
the murder of r. Q. Short, last fall.
Governor Ireland, of Texas, has is
sued proclamation raising the quarantine
throughout the State.
During the demolition of an old resi-
dence at Richmond, Va, a few days ago,
wall fell, crushing three laborers. Wm..
Tallaferro, aged ninety, was fatally in
jured. u
The ladies of Macon, Ga, declined to
appear at a musical festival with the cor
netist, Levy, because of his marital rela-
tions. @sA1 AFtk
In Alexandria, La, a. few days ago
Frank jackson was killed and Henry I'm
derwood wounded while endeavoring. t.
evade arrest. They were the only two of
the notorious Sam Bass gang who survived
The campaign by the Texas rangers in. 1872, J
ana regarded as the worst men who ever
went on the road in the Southwest. Two
thousand dollars reward was standing on
the head of each for several years, and is
believed to be still good. sS3 VA -ff. .%
Lehman & Rothscllild s. mammoth
store at Black Hawk Landing, Concordia
Parish, La, burned with contents a few
nights ago. -yvfree7 ~a1m rRK To
At Comanche, Tex, few nights .ago1
while the Sheriff was absent, fifty armed,
masked men battered in the jail door with
heavy pole, overpowered the guards af-
ter a hard struggle, and taking 1.-THE two
Bailey brothers hanged both to tree in a
graveyard a mile from the town. 1t Is
not stated what the Baileys were charged
with. s--g-t,.r, v..er 4s.-
The magnificent residence of Major
Henry Crumbliss at Kingston, Tenn, was
burned few nights ago. The blaze was
discovered in the roof by passers-by about
midnight, and the alarm was given in time
for all of the family to make good their es-
cape, bnt the entire contents, and the house
was elegantly furnished, were consumed.
The loss to Major Crumbliss can not be less
than 1000, but he had some insurance.
K1einston, suburb of Vicksburg,
Miss, was almost entirely destroyed by
fire few days ago.
Miss Fannie Hillurn, of Chattanooga,
was fatally burned few days ago, her
clothes igniting by too close contact with
an open CRATE fire.
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