St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-06-16
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

| years, dled Few days ago at the age OF
, eighty-five years. She was noted for her
piety, and was related to some Of the most
prominent families of the South.
Robert Smith, one of the brothers
!; who killed the two Cecil brothers at Helen.
wood, Tenn, was killed the other day
while resisting arrest.
The other night Glenroy Henson
(colored), keeper of the city hay scales at
Petersburg, Va, was murdered by his step.
son, Joseph Henson, lunatic, who killed
his victim by striking him on the head with
q fence-paling. Several nails penetrated
the skull.
THE body of William Lenders, rich
Philadelphia, was found in Gulph Creek,
six miles below Hot Springs, Ark, few
days ago. He had evidently wandered
away temporarily deranged and fallen in
to the creek.
An inspection of the Post-office at
Savannah, Ga, by the United States In
spector the other day developed a shortage
in the accounts of L. B. Toomer, colored,
superintendent of the carriers delivery.
Toomer was prominent Republican poll
tician, heads the colored Masonic order in
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Georgia Battalion (colored), and Warden
in the Episcopal colored Church in Sayan-
| nah.
G. F. Wing, the young lawyer of
Princeton, KY, who killed City Marshall
Conger, was indicted by the Grand Jury for
murder few days ago. An attempt at
his rescue was feared and the guards
around the Jail were doubled.
De Bardeleben, the great iron master
/ of Birmingham, Ala, has recently pur-
chased $4,000 worth of iron-ore lands in
the vicinity of Gadsden.
At Memphis, Tenn. the other after
noon, a verdict of guilty of murder in the
first degree was rendered against A1exan-
| der Hill, negro, who, on February 22,shot
and killed Daniel Townsend and his wife,
Minerva Townsend.
The aggregate of gifts to the Univer-
! sity of Virginia, since 1867, in connection
| with the Leander Mccormick Observatory,
| amounts to $4,000.
The mystery of the murder of Michael
Defour and his wife near Atlanta, Ga, in
1879 was explained the other day by the ar
rest of a man named Johnson, who was EN-
has confessed that he and two other men
| named Brown and Slovenger committed
the deed for the purpose of securing the
money the couple We're supposed to pos
sess.
A ten-year-old girl, of Dennison, La,
studied night and day to excel in her class.
Suddenly her memory left her recently,
and now she is an idiot.
Hendersonville, Sumner County,
Tenn, it is said will ship this season over
thirty thousand barrels of early potatoes.
At Vicksburg, Miss, Ellen johnson
died from the effects of chloroform admin.
istered by DR.. j. c. Mcconnell, dentist, a
few days ago. Both were colored. Ellen
went from Ben Lomond Landing to Vicks-
burg to have tooth pulled.
The family of John Newman, con-
sisting of himself, wife and child, living in
Galveston, Tex, were poisoned by canned
beef recently, and were only saved from
death by the most unremitting care of two
physicians.
There is a peach orchard near Yves.
Point, Miss, containing seven hundred
acres.
John Mahoney was taken to Dallas,
Tex, from Hutchins recently and placed
in Jail, charged with insanity. He refused
to talk or eat, and had not broken his fast
fof. eight days.
Mrs. Haynes. of Isle Piquant, Iberia
Parish. La, was killed by lightning lately
while in the act OF throwing clothes over a
wire line fastened to. tress.
Granville w. Burke, who before the
war was one of the most notorious coun-
terfeiters, without warning shot dead Hens
ny Madison, ferryman of the Suwanee Riv-
er, at Branford, Fla, a few days ago.
During the prevalence Of a severe
storm at Whites Station, nine miles east
OF Memphis, Tenn, the other day, the wife
of Luke Nance, a co1ored blacksmith, was
struck and killed by lightning. She was
ironing clothes at the time, when the elee-
trie current struck the chimney and other
wise shattered the dwelling. At Crystal
Springs, Miss, Mrs. Mayfeld's store was
struck and Miss Clara Cook was killed. She
was surrounded by several young ladies,
none of whom were hurt
Sheriff Maddox arrested three horse
thieves at Fort Worth, Tex, the other day
who came from Red River County. j. B.
Grimes, one of them, had 5000 in money.
The party had four fine horses.
The Hope (Ark.) immigration Assoc
citation has fled articles of incorporation
III the office Of the Secretary Of State. Its
object is to aid, procure and protect imlni- ]
grants within the State of Arkansas. The {
trustees are: w. T.. Foster, T. NJ. Hum
phreys, 7. C. Black, J. 7. Writ, C. A. !
Bridewell, J. r Hartin and B. F. Kennedy. :
The Commissioners appointed to To- /
ate Lunatic Asylum in North Texas has {
'eported the purchase of 6i2 acres of good t