St. Landry democrat., 1883-04-07
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.


two years, but considered harmless, forced
his way into his aged and widowed mothef,,s
bedroom and split her head open with an
old ak obtained in the yard. The young
man was at one time in the lunatic asylum
at Austin, but was released about year
ago and had been with his mother, who kept
a boarding house, until some two weeks
ago. when she became afraid of him and
had him confined in the county jail for a
short time and thence moved to the county
poor-far1n. He escaped from the latter the
other night with the above result.
Ed O'Brien, Waterman at the Delta
Point Government works, near Vicksburg,
Miss, was shot dead by Thomas Sullivan
the other day in drunken brawi
A New York corporation lately
bought seventy-five thousand head Of cattle
from Texas stockmen, the consideration
being nearly 100000.
A man in St. Tammany, La, freed a
wildcat few days ago and set hire TO the
bushes to smoke him out. The flames
soon got beyond his control and burned
forty panels of fence for neighbor. The
wildcat escaped.
w. E. Moore and bride, Of Peters
burg, Va, started on the day of their mar
rage, in January, for a visit to the West.
They had not been heard from to a recent
date, and their families were very much
concerned.
Squire Dungerfeld, of Delta, La,
issued writ the other day for the arrest OF
a negro named John Holmes. While as
sisting an officer to execute the writ he
was attacked in desperate manner by the
negro with pistol and .brier hooks and
was forced to retreat to his house. He
secured rife and killed the negro and
was acquitted by the Coroner's Jury.
A man named Jake Ashley was muir
dered in Barnwell County, S. c., few
nights ago. He was lying asleep in his bed
and was riddled with buckshot. -Four per-
sons were supposed to have taken part in
the murder, and six shots were fired. One
of his children was in bed with him at the
time. He was acquitted last fall Of bur-
glary, and it was supposed this led to his
murder.
Fred Fink, a colored boy aged twelve
years, was accidentally drowned in pond
the other evening, on the farm of Mr.. Wood
son, three miles from Frankfort, KY.
James G. Tracy and S. S. Ashe, OF
Houston, and Joseph E. Dryer, of San An
tonic, have been appointed commission to
examine and report upon the property Of
fered as site for new public building at
Galveston, Tex.
w. v. McCracken has resigned his
position as Superintendent of the East
rr@... o. jail tc
become Assistant President.
At Dallas, Tex, fire was discovered
in the grain elevator of D. T. Rainwater
about seven o'clock the other morning, and
the building and contents were totally
destroyed. The loss was estimated at about
$4,000; insurance 5000. Mrs. Marshall's
private clearinghouse was also destroyed.
Loss s., 900.
The Eureka Cotton Mills at Mount
Airy, N. c., were burned the other morn
ing, causing loss estimated at $50 600; in
sured for $15, 900. One hundred men were
thrown out of employment.
Two members of the Baltimore {Md.)
bar having banded epithets and blows in
an Auditors Court recently, the expecta-
ition had arisen that they would resort to
the field Of honor to settle their differences.
The Commissioner General of the
Land Office has issued an order opening to
settlement and entry, under the homestead
laws, the lands withdrawn for but not
needed in the final adjustment of the grant
made to the State of Arkansas in aid OF the
Little Rock & Fort Smith Railway. II
g Backlog was reported to have
broken out among the cattle in Harris
County, Tex, recently, and some valuable
stock had been lost. In the Northern part
| Of the county one farmer had lost several
very valuable cows and yearlings. The
disease had not made its appearance in the
lower part of the county, where there were
thousands of cattle, horses and other stock.
| Stock owners were viewing the slow spread
| Of the disease with much uneasiness, and
were apprehensive of the result should it
/ gain a foothoold in any of the large herds,
and every effort was being made to confine
| the disease in the section in which it had
/ originated.
Henry Porter, q wealthy farmer 1iv-
ing near Chattanooga, Tenn, was visited by
4 four masked men the other night, who, being
refused $500 that Porter had hidden in the
i house, set the building on fire and it was
consumed. Its value was 81 900.
Philip Samuel Fleming. q twelve-year
old boy, was sentenced BY the United States
Court at Shreveport, La, recently, to i've
/ years in the boys House Of Refuge in st.
Louis, for extracting mail matter from the
post-office box of 81. F. Doll.
In the Hastings Court at Petersburg,
Va, few days ago, Judge Mann appointed
Emmett w. Couch, Readjuster, City Treas.
urer of Petersburg, which office the su.
preme Court Of Appeals of Virginia had
declared vacant, the duties of which had
been discharged by Virginius Johnston