Huntsville gazette., 1883-03-10
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

rendered himself, saying that he had killed
negro named Jerry Collier the night be-
fore. The Coroner summoned a Jury and
held an investigation, and the verdict
was that Jerry Collier was willful-
ly murdered by John Barrow.
The Coroner's inquest developed the fact
that the negro was shot in the face, but that
the shot that killed him entered his back
and pierced his left lung. The cause Of the
trouble was some swords between the negro
and Barrow's father. His father told hira
about it, and they both went to the negro's
house and the difficulty occurred.
Books were opened at Galveston,
Tex, recently for a mortgage bank, and
subscriptions to the amount of $2,0O0,v00
were made.
An inexhaustable mine of kaolin has
been discovered lately in mountain slide
in Towns County, Georgia.
Burglars at Howe Station, Tex, after
preparing safe for explosion few days
ago, piled sacks of coffee about it and
wrapped them in wet cloths. Two doors
were thus blown off, and no one was
alarmed by the noise.
DIR. John nj. Duke. one of the ablest
physicians in Kentucky, died at MaysvilIe
recently, OF paralysis.
Samuel 0. Fowler, a veteran of the
successful struggle Of Texas for independ-
ence, died in Louisville, Ky, few days
ago.
W. H. II. Holly was arrested near the
A,1ya IL
the other day, charged with robbing the
mail coach between Shreveport and Minden
on the 9th of last July. He was also
charged with horse stealing in Bell County,
Tex, some time in 1877, and was arrested
then but escaped from the Sheriff while en-
route to that county.
John Stump, of Preston County, w.
Va, recently died at the age of sixty eight.
About fourteen years ago, while a physician
was probing for roach which had crawled
into the ear OF the deceased, sharp piece
Of steel was broken off the point of the in
strument and lodged in his ear, the effecr
Of which finally resulted in death.
Orange City, Fla, claims popula
ton of one thousand. One real estate agent
made sales to the amount of $4,000 in one
month recently.
In the Opera house at Galveston,
Tex, the other night, pistol which dropped
from the pocket of Sheriff Blakcly killed G.
E. Douglass, of Crockett.
A few days ago lunatic in the
Memphis (Tenn.) City Station set his cell
on fire and was fatally burned. The flames
communicated to the roof and four prisoners
escaped.
The Texas Legislature has passed a
resolution to purchase the old Alamo build
ing and grounds at San Antonio for the State,
at $40 coo. The Governor, Attorney Gen
eral and the Commissioner OF Insurance,
Statistics and History are appointed COM
mission to make the purchase and secure
the title, and also to appropriate $4,000 for
nclosing the cemetery in which Fannlng.
who fell at the Goliad massacre, is buried.
The Governor and Adjutant- General
Of Virginia went cunning for oyster pirates
recently with two steamers and force OF
troops and captured five oyster vessels as
prizes and forty men as prisoners.
A. D. West, of East Tennessee, was
robbed OF $40 by two fellow passengers,
strangers to him, on the south bound Mis-
souri, Pacific train, near Alvarado, Tex,
the other night. They grabbed his pocket
book and jumped off the train and escaped.
Officers were in pursuit and it was thought
the rascals would be caught.
A San Antonio (Tex.) special re-
ported Sheriff Benito Gozales, of Ell Paso
County, about 5000 short in his accounts
the other day, and County Clerk Manuel
Flores was also said to be defaulter. Both
were suspended. The bondsmen of w. w.
Mills, Justice Of the Peace, made good his
deficit CT 5000.
The nomination of George N. Tell
man, to be United States Marshall for the
Middle District of Tennessee, has been con-
firmed, and James A. Meek has been con-
firmed United Sta tes Attorney for the East
ern District.
At Elgin, Tex, seventeen-year-old
negro boy attempted an assault on a school
girl the other day, and the next morning
his body was found swinging from tree be-
side the railroad.
Inc champion StalllOn STAKE organ
lied by Pierre Lorillard for the proposed
Worlds Fair has been awarded to the
Louisville (Ky.) Jockey Club for S10,575,and
will be run at the September meeting.
Mary Hall, maiden lady Of New
port, KY, became insane recently because
OF the less OF 500 through Archbishop Pur-
cell.
Two Austin, Tex, boys inaugurated
a system Of highway robbery in Hayes
County recently, and succeeded in getting
some money and two horses from negroes
at the muzzles Of pistols, but erred in try
ing the scheme on white man. He took
the young desperadoes in, and they were
lodged in Jail.
A man named John Sheppard, with
several aliases, was arrested at Round Rock,
Tex, the other afternoon with two gray
horses in his charge which he had offered to
sell for $50. After being locked up he con-
fessed to having stolen them near Lockport.
Geogre C. Mckee has been appointed
Postmaster at jackson, Miss.
Colonel Harry Gilmor, who won fame