Huntsville gazette., 1883-11-10
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

after being robbed.
The first bale of cotton picked from
the held by machinery was exhibited recent
ly on the Charleston Cotton Exchange. Its
condition was pronounced as good as if the
cotton Had been picked by hand.
j. Rt Lively, charged with having a
wife in Sedalia, Mo-; one in De Soto Par
ish, La.,s one in Limestone County, Texas,
and another in Fort Worth, Texas, was re-
Gently ;trrested at Fort Worth as biga-
mist.
Mary f., Isabella and Annie L. Nc
Clure, sisters, of Chattanooga, Tenn, were
all married together few days ago.
United States Collector Crumbaugh,
Of Louisville, KY, has been acquitted of
the charge of illegal use official stationery.
An accident occurred on the North
ern Railroad in North Carolina few days
ago by Which the engineer, P. B. Stratton,
was killed, and three colored men seriously
injuredi
North Eern traffic on the Texas Central
Road was blocked recently, the bridge at
Bear Geek giving way under freight
train. 1t was burned with the cars, which
caught fire.
A meeting of stockmen is to be called
at Austin, Tex, 70 consider fence-cutting
and pasthre-burning outrages and suggest
legislation. Some of the pasture burners
have beeh lately indicted.
The cteosoting works near Norfolk,
Va, burned few days ago; loss 100000.
Zebulon w. Morris, colored, has re-
Gently graduated as physician at Central
College, Nashville, Tenn. He is said to be
the first Southern graduate of medical
college for his race.
Four children were recently burned
to death in negro house in Edgefield Coun-
ty, S. c. II
Eli Cmlbertson, an engineer on the
Internatio pal Road, in Texas, was killed
few nights ago near Lindale, the locomotive
striking t,roken rail and turning over and
crushing l;m.
Walter Scarrett, living near Cole
City, Tenn, beat his wife nearly to death
few days ago because she went to church
against histwill. Her skull was fractured
by bis blows.
David Cooke and Harley F. Pope, of
Hampton County, S. c., quarreled over the
ownership d pistol one day last week.
Pope stabbed Cooke to death.
Mitchell Putnam, of Texas, recently
made visit to Laurens County, S. G. He
is 103 years cid, and draws pensions for
parUIcipatiop both in the war of 1872 and in
that Of Texas.f for independence.
Mr. Fred Brown, of Austin, Tex,
fell from the platform of the railroad de-
pot there few nights ago, breaking his
neck.
The faculty of the University at Nash
vile, Tenn, have resolved to allow secret
societies AMONG the students. ~
The Grand Jury of Marshall, Tex,
adjourned few days ago after finding
nearly 100 ind dictments.
The steamer Katie P. Kountz burned
twenty miles, above New Orleans a few
days ago.
Half-rate fares to the approaching
Cotton Convention at Vicksburg have been
secured over nearly all of the railroads.
The lines of the Erlanger system all make
the reduction.
Miss Rhuda Murphy, Of Rutledge,
Tenn, fell from a foot-log a few days ago
into what is known as Richland Creek and
was drowned.
A few nights ago ex-Sheriff Oscar Nc
Kenzie, of Morgan County, KY, was called
to the door by Ben Razener and two of his
brothers, on pretext of making up an old
feud, and was fatally beaten with clubs and
left for dead.
In fight recently between Noble Tul-
ford and John Hatton, in Powell County,
T,1 CHI nd oil doI
Hatton. Tulford was also shot and wound
ed by one of Hatton's sons. The cause Of
the difficulty was not learned, but was
supposed to be the result of an old feud,
which it was feared would be continued
with more serious results.
The concrete foundation of the new
Texas Capitol at Austin is completed. 1t
has cost $4,000, and has consumed 1900
barrels of sand, 1900 barrels of cement and
300 cubic Of gravel
| A large meeting of colored citizens
was held at Memphis, Tenn, few nights
bgo to protest against the recent Supreme
court decision on the civil rights bill. Let
ters from several Congressman were read.
Wash DensmoEe, farmer of Walker
County, Ga, had his back broke by being
thrown from a wagon carried down de-
divity by runaway mules.
| All work at building in Austin, Tex,
skve that on the new State House, is re-
IIorted at a stand-still, because of the high
price of brick.
1.-The Memphis region has been visited
bt killing frost.
lover 500 delegates have now ex-
pIessed their intention Of being present at
thk Vicksburg Cotton Convention, which
begins November 81.
Robert Robinson, prominent negro
of Hanover County, Virginia, was mur-
del led by Charles Lewis, another negro, a
few days ago.
4 Mr.. Tinsley, Of Ellington. Ca, has
mysteriously disappeared.
The penitentiaries of Texas now con-
tain over $500 convicts.
N young man passing himself off as a
cousin of Fred Gebhart got himself in
trouble at Memphis, Tenn, recently for
getting a watch from jeweler under false
pre5enses.