Huntsville gazette., 1883-03-24
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.


An advance of fifty cents and 81 per
ION Ior pig-iron was dem ,nded recently by
The furnace MN of Alabam and Tennessee,
who supply the Cincinnati and tributary
markets.
! Richard Howard, of Chattanooga,
enn.. took offense at the reports OF a scan
dalous suit in which he was involved, pub
l1shed in local paper recently, and as.
saulted G. w. .Ochs, the city editor, with a
cane. Ochs drew pistol and shot Howard
in the groin.
The result of late election for coun-
ty officers in Falls County. Tex, was de-
cided by the votes of seventeen nsturaIiZed
Cinnamon, and the defeated candidates were
contesting the election upon the ground
that State law passed in 1878 limited the
Issuance of naturalization papers to W hite
foreigners, and it was claimed DISTINGUISHED
Cinnamon who had already taken out nat
uralization papers.
The Sanitary Council of the Missis-
sippi Valley will meet in Jackson, Miss, on
Tuesday, April 8.
At Austin, Tex. 1.-The jury in the case of
the State VS.. Waller Morgan recently returned
verdict Of guilty of killing Henderson in
that place on January 8, and gave him
five years in the Penitentiary, as it was done
while he was drunk.
ID. r. Musselman & Co., tobacco
manufacturers, Louisville. Ky, made an
assignment few dsvs ago for the benefit of
their creditors. with liabilities OF SAL, 900.
Felix Wilson, colored, has been SEN
fenced to be hanged April 20 for the murder
of Nose RudeIman af Charlotte, N. C.
Charles Ashley, watchman of the
steamer Wyoming, fell oveboard near Yicks
burg. Miss, the other night and was
drowned.
A student of the State College at Lex
ington. KY, named Fugate. got drunk the
other night and while flourishing his pistol
recklessly an officer undertook to arrest
him. Four companions came to his rescue
with rifles, but after some parley they were
persuaded to surrender and were suspend :
ed by the Faculty, while Fugate was ey-
peled.
The colored driver of a coal cart,
named French, was thrown from the cart at
Louisville, KY, the other afternoon, and
falling on his head, broke his neck
The gin house and fifteen bales of cot
ton belonging to w. j. Anderson, at New
Orleans, La, were destroyed by fire few
days ago.
A patient in the Lunatic Asylum at
Edgefeld, S. c., managed to free his hands
from the mauacles with which his hands
were confined the other morning and beat
another inmate so horribly that he died soon
after. He then attacked keeper and near
" / illed him.
The death cf Thomas S. Flournoy,
member of Congress and candidate for
Governor on the Know N othing ticket, was
announced the other day at Danvile, Va.
At Roanoke, Va, a few days ago,
jealousy caused John Baldwin to kill Will
liam Watkins and then himself Both were
col0red.
At San Antonio, Tex, recently bur-
glars chIOrOfOrm'd Emil Mayer, a promi'
nent stock broker, and his family, robbed
the house OF jewelry, money. and other val
uables and then proceeded to Meyers busi-
ness office, adj i,cent. Here they chloro-
formed two men sleeping in-the rear room,
robbed the safe OF several hundred dollars,
mostly on deposit. Several of the parties
were suffering greatly from the effects Of
the chlOroform.
A fire which broke out in the Topper
room OF the Pelican Cotton Mills on the
t1a tknr
ing, caused by the friction OF a pulIy, did
$4,000 worth of damage before it was sub
dued.
H. N. Holdsworth, Cashier of the
Bank Of Hotopp & Holdsworth, Elizabeth
town, KY, disappeared recently, and it was
slid the amount OF his defalcaiion was esti-
mated at $1,000. The bank was not affected
by the matter.
The Collins County (Tex.) National
Bunk has been organized; capital stock
STE. 200.
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 or the LOUISVILLE, hy., SOuIDern
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 107 years. She was
a native OF Tippersry, Ireland, and came to
America forty years ago.
Captain w. H. c. 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 determination to make a full ex-
bibit of the products OF hat section Of the
country at the ensuing exposition. One ma
chine would be exhibited and thoroughly
tested which, il successful, would reduce
~ tho naftau error, RI ho Cufrth tha