St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-05-19
SOUTHERN GLEAN1NGs.

The Yocona Miss mills, from JAN
uary to April %, turned out $500 pounds
| of yarn.
Pine lands in Putnam County, Fla,
worth eight dollars an acre two years ago,
are now selling for twenty-five dollars.
Prestonbprg, in Floyd County, al
though one of the Oldest towns in Ken
lucky, has never had church.
| A difficulty which grew out of q re-
| cent quarrel. between Frank Godfrey and
David j. Baird, farmers living few miles
west of HarEodsburg, KY, was settled the
| other day by Godfrey stabbing Baird, in
| dicting mortal wound.
Rugby, Tenn, after all its troubles
! and drawbacks, now shows unmistakable
signs of steady and sound growth. 1t is
said to be illing up with people who are
both willingand able to work.
| While party of ladies and gentle
men were shooting at mark, near Tus-
cumbia, Ala, the other day, cry for help
was heard OH the opposite side of cedar
| grove, and, rushing to the spot, the young
| men discovered that stray shot had hit
and mortallS, wounded Leroy Downs, aged
seventy yeas
At a late meeting of the Board of Re-
| gents of the Texas State University, at
Austin, Prot. R. L. Dabney, of Hampden-
| Sydney College, Virginia, was elected to
the chair of Mental and Moral Philosophy.
| The sum of 10000 was voted for procuring
chemical and philosophical apparatus, and
steps were taken looking to the completion
! of the University buildings in time for the
opening session in September.
1t was reported the other day that
the cattle in certain sections in West Texas
were affected with strange disease which
resembled, and was called, shydrophobia,
and was proving very fatal.
/ M. Franklin, wholesale notions, At
| lanta, Ca, made an assignment the other
| day, with liabilities of 10000; assets NOM
| inally $4,000. Fraud was alleged and
receiver was appointed
The Wheaton House, at Henderson,
Tex, with its entire contents, was destroyed
by fire the other night. Incendiarism was
| suspected. .
| At the annual session of the Georgia
State Sunday school Association, at Au-
gusta the other day, President Shepard an
nounced thai Mont Eagle, Tenn, had been
selected for the Southern Chatauqua. Re-
| ports from delegates showed an increase in
Sunday-school work and number of schol-
ars. The Convention represents about 1907
/ 600 scholars. The next meeting will be
| held at Columbus.
Some twenty thousand people are ex-
| pected to attend the Lee memorial exer-
cises at Lexington, Va, in June.
/ 4 peculiar case of poisoning occurred
/ at Stony Greek, about five miles from
| Frankfort, KY, the other day. William
Marshall, young unmarried farmer, had
been afflicted for long time with boiis,
and was recommended to use a certain kind
/ of root as a remedy. The other morning
while plowing he turned up a root that an
| swered the description, and ate freely OF it.
| He was shortly after taken sick, and re-
turning to the house soon died in convul-
I sions. The root was what is known as the
| poisonous hemlock.
The Deputy Collector of Internal
Revenue at frankfort, KY, reports that he
has collected $50, 63S.60 on whisky taken
4 out of bond from February 20, 1882, to April
80, 1883.
ComancEes have recently been COM
uniting depredations upon stock-growers in
CARA County, Tex.
j. T. Van Slyck, of Texas, was lately
at Albuquerque, N. NJ, making arrange
ments with the Albuquerque Bridge Com
pany for the passage of 1900 sheep he had
| just bought in Arizona and was preparing
to drive into Graham County, Tex. The
sheep cost ham seventy-fve cents apiece, or
$32 900 for tie whole lot.
a party of masked men lynched a
/ young negro at Hanson, Hopkins County,
| KY, the other night for an assault on Mrs.
| w. B. Haywood, wife of a prominent farm
/ er living near that place.
Nick Elliphits, Of Marion County,
Ark, was found dead in the woods near his
place the other day, whittier he had gone to
look up his stock, and examination showed
1 that he had been licked in the forehead by
| u mule.
A section-hand came so near being
run over by an engine that his hair was cut
off by the wheels at Bryan, Tex, few
| days ago.
| There hiss been considerable caving
1 in the banks of the Mississippi River at
Greenvlle, Miss, lately. Island No. IS,
/ which has hitherto acted as a kind of break
i water to the town, is almost entirely
! washed away. Owners of property on the
river front are becoming seriously alarmed.
The Vicksburg (Miss.) Grand Jury
the other day returned four indictments
/ against Charles Lehman, Clerk of the Cir
cult Court, charging forgery in issuing wit
1 ness certificates. Lehman was removed
and arrested, and gave bail in $1,000.
1t is related of citizen of Georgia
that he was born in Early County, was