Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-20
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

John Elmore, sixteen years old, was
Killed the other day on the plantation Of Mr..
lfDy, In Laurens County, S. c., by being
packed IN bale Of cotton. While the hands
were at dinner Elmore got into the press
ana went TO sleep, and upon resuming work
The hands, without knowing Elmore's
Whereabouts, threw in more cotton to COM
pete the bale, run the press down and
crushed the sleeper to death. The horrible
discovery was made when the bale was
taken out and portion of the sleeper's
clothing was seen protruding from the bale.
At ball in Bedford County, Va, the
other night, young lady named Idelie
fead said to Scott Clayton, who was calling
the figures, that he was not calling correct
iy. lie made some sharp response, which
was resented by one of Miss Reads admir-
ers, Armsted Barksdale. The latter called
Clayton out and hot words passed. Barks-
dale drew knife, sprang on Clayton and
inflicted horrible cash from the right eve
to the back of the neck, severing the iugular
vein and causing immediate death. The
scene in the ballroom was sickening.
Women in fancy ball dresses tainted, fall
ing into pools of blood, and regular melee
followed among the partisans Of the two
men. Barksdale escaped unobseryed and.
wandering to another part Of the county,
borrowed a gun from an acquaintance and
! completed the tragedy by shooting himself
| through the bowels. He died shortly after
ward.
W. L. Fernold, Collector of Internal
Revenue Of the Fourth (ya.) District, head
| quarters at Danvile. was suspended a few
| days ago. A special agent was examining
his books. Fernold was on trial for lunacy.
A company known as the Wharf I'M
provement Company was the other day or
ganized in Galveston, Tex, with an author
lied capital OF $3, 600, 900. The object Of the
company was to construct wharves upon
the south side OF the island, the wharves to
be supported on iron piers and carried out
to deep water. The company had applied at
Austin for charter.
Cleveland capitalists it was reported
had recently organized company to build,
at Chattanooga, Tenn, the largest stove
factory in the South.
The other day three Americans, who
bad been employed on the Sunset route at
the Pecos, constructed boat to float down
the Rio Grande to Eagle Pass, Tex, where
they were again TO obtain work on the Mex
lean extension OF the Sunset. Opposite a
point known as Monclover Viego the MeXi-
can river guard, intrenched behind a o@.
leveled Winchesters at them and demanded
their coming to the Mexican side and sur
rendering. Being unarmed, they did so,
and were marched TO Pedras Niegras afoot
over rough country and imprisoned. 1t
was said they had appealed to the American
Consul for redress.
The Secretary Of the Treasury re-
Gently directed the United States District
| Attorney at Nashville. Tenn, to take steps
| to recover 5000 from J. NJ. Hurst, agent of
| the Board of Publication Of the Cumberland
| Presbyterian Church. money received by
| Hurst to be placed in the United States
| Treasury to the credit ot the conscience
| fund, instead of which it was placed to his
own credit as agent OF the Board OF Publ
! cation, under the impression that the
anonymous sender meant it % be so placed.
Eight houses were destroyed by fire
at Lebanon, Tenn, the other day.
The committee investigating the &C.
counts Oh StdtS TREASURER IOlh, NHOSt u6-
falcaion and flight from Nashville, Tenn,
was announced few days since, give tab
! ulated statement of the amount which should
have been in the Treasury January Sd as
nearly 100000. In the safe they found
about S6l 900. According to their state
ments the banks held on deposit about
800, ,00o, leaving the amount Of the deficit
about $500 900. Polk was arrested in Texas
il few days ago.
Four-fifths Of the hands employed by
The Galveston. Houston & Henderson Road
at Houston, Tex, quit work the other day
owing TO a reduction in their wages to $1.23
bv the newly installed Road Master.
The Memphis Mutual Aid Society, the
last OF the matrimonial institutions in Mem
phis, Tenn, suspended business the other
| day.
Two electric-light companies it was
said lately were soon to hav competitive
| exhibition at Louisville, the loser to pay
81 900 for expenses and give "A, 600 to the
Polytechnic Society of Kentucky.
A silver spike was driven the other
dav ON The Mexican Pacific Railroad extern
sion, connecting it with the Southern Pacific
and giving direct line from San Francisco
| to New Orleans.
John Morgan (white), an alleged
notorious desperate, horse thief and MUIR
derer, was shot and killed while resisting
arrest. four miles south of Pleasant Hill,
De Soto Parish, L1., the other day. 1t was
said that a short time since he shot down
and ruthlessly murdered in cold blood, il
| Minden, Webster Parish, two colored men,
without the slightest proyocation, and made
his escape. He had previously burned
barn, murdered man in Texas, and stolen
a number Of horses and mules. A posse
headed by an officer attempted his capture,
when he fired upon them, mortally wounds
ing MIR. John Furow, reputable citizen OF
De Sofa, who was aiding in his arrest. Two
of Morgan's comrades named Duke Crump
and Jim Rigby, who were with him at the
time, were secured and jailed.
A poor white woman and her three
small children were found few days ago
frozen to death in the woods, twenty miles
above Atlanta, Ga. The woman and one
child were stone dead in the snow, and tho
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