St. Landry democrat., 1883-03-31
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

! said the amount of his defalcation was esti-
mated at s., 900. The bank was not affected
| by the matter.
Mrs. Mary Car, maternal grand
mother of Mrs. Potter Palmer and Mrs.
/ Fred D. Grant, died at Louisville, KY, the
other day at the age of eighty-nine years.
The Prince of Wales has written the
managers of the Louisville. KY, Southern
/ Cotton Exposition to say that there was no
/ foundation for the report that he intended
to visit America.
Daniel Sanders died at New Liberty,
| KY, the other night OF hydrophobia. He
was bitten by rabid dog last July.
Mrs. Ellen Birmingham died in Louis
| vile, a few days ago,aged 07years. She was
| native of Tipperary, Ireland, and came to
| America forty years ago.
Captain w. FL. G. Williams, probably
| the oldest steamboatman on the Mississippi
River was buried at Memphis, Tenn, few
days ago.
The Attorney General has appointed
John S. Wise, of Richmond, special counsel
| to assist in the prosecution of the Virginia
election cases.
O. T. Bugg, Southern Commissioner
of the Southern Exposition at Louisville,
KY, was cordially received by the mer-
chants and manufacturers OF Memphis,
| Tenn, recently, nearly all OF whom ex-
| pressed a determination to make full ex-
hibit OF the products of that section OF the
country at the ensuing exposition. One ma
chine would be exhibited and thoroughly
| tested which, If successful, would reduce
| the cost of the cotton crop to the South the
enormous sum of $1Oo. ZOO, 1000 annually.
The bill to settle the State debt at
| fifty cents on the dollar at three per cent.
| interest has been passed by the Tennessee
Legislature.
Atlanta, Ca, had an $4,000 fire the
other day, six buildings being destroyed,
| and at New Orleans, La, W. E. seboid
| suffered the loss of his stationery, picture
| and fancy goods store, valued at $50, 900.
The other day James Wrenn, an en-
gineer on the Parkersburg Branch OF the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, saw large
stone on the track near Bridgeport, w. Va,
as he was running his train through deep
cut, and after reversing the engine he
jumped off, but fell back under the train
and was horribly crushed by twenty-five
cars passing over his body.
A Raleigh, n. G., youth of eighteen
years is six feet eight inches in height.
In Jessamine County, Ky. the other
night Fremont Oaks and companion rode
by George Alender's house and fired six
shots into it. Allender returned the shots
and Oaks was shot through the bowels, itwas
thought fatally. There was no previous
quarrel between the parties.
The State Treasurer of Texas, acting
on the advice Of the Attorney General,
lately refused to receive any more money as
first payments on school, University or asy
lum lands. The courts would probably be
called ON to decide the legality of the ques-
ton.
At Franklin, KY, United States Dep
utY Marshal 7. W. Campbell arrested David
Mink and Calvin Johns the other day,
charged with belonging to band of coun-
terfeiters, several of whom were captured
some days ago.
The other afternoon a saw in a mill
at Beaumont, Tex, flew in pieces and one
OF the fragments completely severed, just
below the thigh, the leg of young man
standing near. His name was James Rad
cliffe, and he was from Clinton, Mich.
A few days ago a young man from
Corsicana, named j. B. Upton, dropped
dead in the Union Depot at Houston, Tex.
He was originally from Knoxville, Tenn.
John Anderson, harmless fellow,
was drunk and playing with lot OF boys at
Camp Shannahan, on the Kentucky Central
Railroad extension, recently, when Pleasant
Dennis came along and ordered him to drop
rock which he had in his hand. As the
rock was not dropped soon enough to suit
him Dennis drew his revolver and shot Ad-
kerson through the body, killing him in
stantly.
Eli Sachs was fatally shot in a store
at Baltimore, Nd, the other night by Law
renee Fleischman, from whom he was buy
ing a pistol.
A fire which originated in the brick
store occupied by j. H. Stephens and owned
by J. Bosseau, at Shreveport, La, recently
destroyed $4,000 worth OF groceries and
produce and damaged the building down
stairs to the extent OF $4,000; all insured.
The adjoining stores and stock were injured
to the amount of S., 00o
The Secretary Of the Interior decided
recently that the New Orleans Pacific Rail-
way Company was the legal assignee of the
New Orleans, Baton Rouge & Vicksburg
Railroad Company, and therefore entitled
to the land granted by the general Govern
ment to the lastnamed company in 1871
(known as the backbone land grant), so far
as said lands had been earned by the con-
struction OF roadway. The New Orleans
Pacific Road is now owned by the Texas
Pacific Company.
Jane Williamson and little daughter
were missing from RALEIGH II. c.. lately.