Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-09-01
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

Railroad, which resulted in the woundlng
| of r. r. Coleman, who received shot In
| the shoulder from some unknown party.
| The residence occupied by James
Roberts at Chattanooga, Tenn, was de-
stroyed by fire few nights ago. There
! was no insurance on the property 1t was
known that a large sum of money and a
| fine gold watch were in the house, and 1t
| was believed it had been robbed and then
| set on fire.
DR.. r. H. Ryland, a prominent
| physician and planter of Bayou Sara, La,
| fell from his clubhouse a few days ago and
was killed.
A man named Fuller, an old sea
| captain, died from sunstroke at San An
| tonic, Tex, few days ago.
Mary Thomas was found dead in
| Nicksburg, Miss, a few nights ago. She
| had been in attendance at a picnic on an
| island in Louisiana, opposite the city, DUR
| ing the day. When found she was Dead
| with a wound ranging from the armpit up
| toward the neck. A knife was found in the
| bottom of the basket she carried, and al
| though the Coroner's jury found a verdict
| of suicide, it has since been ascertalned
| that the deed was committed by an enemy
| of Mary's, and an arrest was expected.
There Is some alarm in the eastern
| appearance in that quarter of peculiar
| worm, about an inch in length when grown,
| and of a brown color. 1t feeds on all sorts
| of vegetation and is said to be damaging
the cotton especially.
Great injury to cotton by drought is
reported in South Carolina, and greater in
jury threatening. The upland crop is esti-
mated at three fourths; Sea Island less.
John McClain and George Guinne.
| were suffocated while digging well near
Knoxville, Tenn, few days ago.
w. r. Adams, ex-J"dge of Faulkner
County, has been convicted by the Circuit
Court of Van Buren, County, Ark, of steal.
ing $3.50 from Sheriff Townsend, and SEN
fenced to year in the Penitentiary.
The threatened race conflict in Dallas
County, Tex, had apparently blown over
and the armed negroes dispersed.
At Abingdon, Va, a few days ago
William Bridgman, drunken white man,
made an assault on negro whom he shot
several times, and when Edwin Hawks,
the negro's halfbrother demonstrated,
Bridgman turned and killed him. The
murderer was lodged in Jail.
The Earl of Aylesford and several
other English noblemen arrived at Col
orado, Tex, few days since, intending to
supply with the best blooded cattle.
Henry Powers was fatally inj jured at
Cave Springs, Tenn, few days ago by
being caught in the machinery of Il saw
mill.
Mr.. John Rawls and a negro man
were struck and instantly killed by light
ming near Columbia, S. c., recently.
The cotton crop of Eastern Arkansas
and Western Mississippi promises favora-
bly,, and the bolls were reported opening
very rapidly.
William Stephens, son of a wealthy
farmer living near Gadsden, Ala, commit
ted suicide by drowning in the Coosa River
few days ago.
DR.. F. w. p. Butler, a son of Senator
NJ. c. Butler, while horseback riding with
a young lady at Lancaster, S. c., few
days ago, was thrown from his horse, the
horse falling on him, crushing him badly
and causing conclusion of the brain. No
hopes were entertained of his recovery.
New crop cotton-first bales-were
beginning to arrive at Memphis, Tenn,
from sections tributary to that city.
Alabama has 2,11S factories, working
s,2sf hands, with a capital invested of 3d.
11i,C32, paying annually in wages =, 2221 ,o6S
and yielding annually in products S13,O40,-
GA. Mississippi has ,130 factories, work
ing j94l hands, with capital invested of
S4,5nl,I1 paying annually in wages ST.
41o.42S and yielding annually i'll products
S., Ia, 15S. South Carolina has ,5S4 facto-
ries, working S,l41 hands, with capital
invested of $5,400,41S, paying annually in
wages 81, ,o43,11 and yielding annually in
products S9,S1S,OS1. Louisiana has 2,1J1
factories, working 3o,O71 hands, with a
capital invested of S1S,313,914, paying an
rinl
nually in products S24, ,lGl ,9n5.
Near Athens, Ala, a few days ago,
Mrs. Fowler, her daughter and a babe took
shelter under a tree in a storm. lightning
killed the mother and elder child, but the
babe was found clinging to the arms of its
lifeess parent.
The safe Of the Gulf, Colorado & Santa
Fe Railway office at Cedar Hill, Tex, was
blown open a few nights ago, and about 5000
stolen. The burglars escaped.
A lot of negro boys amused them
selves playing with fire under a Galveston
(Tex.) cottage a few days ago. Result, a
$4,000 conflagratiOn.
Six prisoners escaped from the Jail at
Lake Village, Chicot County, Ark, few
nights ago. Three were murdercrs, two |
were charged with grand larceny and the |
sixth was a burglar frcm Mississippi. False
keys did the business.
DR.. Abrahams. prominent physician
and ex-Confederate surgeon, was shot and |
probably mortally wounded by negro /
named Clark in affray recently, at !
Houston, Tex, in which both parties fired |
several shots. The negro claims to have |
been the victim of a system of petty perse
cutions. The doctor alleged that Clark |
looked through window at Mrs. |
Abrahams while making her toilet.
A. NJ. Sydes, negro, shot and dan
gerously wounded his father, D. Sydes, a |
few days ago at Portsmouth, Va. He |
claimed that his father deserted and aban- |
doned his mother.
Busy cotton worms in South Carolina. |
VIM. Henderson, for the murder of |
VIM. Clark in Grayso Carter County, KY, |
was found guilty few days ago of murder |
in the first degree. The jury affixes the
death penalty.
VIM. Johnston and Preston Watson
became involved in difficulty at Union
Point, near Natchez, Miss, few days ago, |
when Johnston struck at Watson with
stick. The latter seized the stick and struck
Johnston in the left side, near the heart, |