Huntsville gazette., 1883-06-02
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

One firm in Dade County, Fla, pro
poses to plant ole hundred thousand cocoa
| nut trees.
AT Austin, Tex, recently, an Italian
organ-grinder with monkey drew
crowd, and the monkey, in attempting to
kiss a pretty. colored girl; bit her OF the
cheek. The Lillian was arrested and fined
/ for assault.
A Virginia paper reports mother in
It's balliwick who named her baby Malone,
because its reputed father repudiated it.
A Lynchburg (Va.) paper of recent
date says: NEARLY every farmer we have
seen this week-and we have seen them
from nearly all of the surrounding counties
reports the tobacco-plant beds both late
and badly eaten by the fly. While such
reports of more or less extent are circulated
nearly every spring, we think we are war
ranted in saying that the acreage planted
this season will be considerably reduced on
that account. In number of instances the
lands prepared for tobacco have been re-
plowed and planted in corn because of the
scarcity of plants"
Considerable excitement prevailed at
Belmont, Tex, recently over the arrest of
Mrs. johnson and her five children. They
were induced to join a sect of sanctified
people, who had created much trouble by
inducing women to leave their families and
join the fanatical order. The captured
1 parties would be sent home.
| In Mount Ida, Ark, Dr. Burch and
Jerry Witt, who had an old grudge, met
Of lo1r in, tla
drew dirk knife, and Witt threw a stone
at him. Then they clinched, and Witt
pulled his pistol and killed Burch Instantly.
The largest single sale of mules ever
made in the United States recently took
| place at Columbia, Tenn. The purchaser
was w. B. Leonard, who paid $1S5 a head for
155 animals, making an aggregate of SOS, ,675
They are for use upon sugar plantations,
and will be taken to Louisiana in August
| next.
The other day a pilot boat off Calves
ton, Tex, picked up man sixty-five years
old who had been blown out into the Gulf
of Mexico in skiff by gale. The old
man was nearly exhausted and could not
have held out much longer.
In Jerusalem, Southampton County,
| Va, the other day S. Lewis, white, killed
Jasfies EewsSorss colosfeti, because the latter
made a demand upon Lewis for small
amount due him. Great indignation pre-
vailed among the colored people and lynch
1 ing seemed imminent.
George Johnson, son of Bradlsh
Johnson, of New York, died in the Airing
ton Hotel, Hot Springs, Ark, from the loss
Of blood occasoned by his falling upon the
sharp point of a broken pitcher, which sew
cred the femoral artery. He awoke be-
tween one and two O'Clock the other morn
mig and got up to get drink from Large
pitcher, the mouth Of which was broken and
had sharp point. He was able to say that
the last recollection he had was of taking
the drink of water and falling. When
found he was pulseless and speechless, and
his blood ran in streams over the floor.
The contract for building the Opera
House at Dallas, Tex, was let to A. Brown
lee lately for $4,000. 1t is to be completed
and ready for occupancy by October l.
The Executive Committee of the Cot
ton Planters Association met by special
request at the State House at Memphis,
Tenn, a few days ago. It's business re-
lated principally to the Worlds Industrial
and Cotton Centennial Exposition, to be
held at New Orleans aext year. The COM
rnittee confirmed its six United States Com
missioners whose names will be forwarded,
together with the sewn selected by the City
Of New Orleans, 60 the President OF the
United States for appointment as members
of the United STATES Board of Manage
ment.
The largest sale of Georgia gold la ads
ever made has been consummated in Ion
don, Eng. Negotiations between Dr.J Josiah
Curtis, of Washington, d. c., the repre-
sentative of the Nacoochee Mining Com
pany, and an English company have been
pending for several months past and have
resulted in the purchase of nearly eight
thousand acres.
Two men at Monroe, Ga, made away
with 10S oranges one evening recently, one
devouring fifty-five and the other fifty
three. The affair began in contest to see
who could eat the most, the loser to pay
for all.
I The Surgeon General of the Marine
Hospital Service has established quaran-
tine station at Pensacola, Fla.
The cotton mills at Admission, Ala,
have lately shipped a thousand bales OF
goods to China, and have orders for six
hundred more.
Z An English coin, bearing date 1856,
was plowed up in field, near Graham's,
s. c., one day recently.
P. J. Moore was arrested and jailed
at Dallas, Tex, the other day, on telegram
from Greenville, charging him with steal
ing horse. The animal was found in his
possession.
. The indictment recently found against
Paul Strobach, the newlyappointed United
States Marshal for Alabama, having been
dismissed, the Grand Jury at Montgomery
the other day returned five additional in
dictments. Three ex-Deputy Marshals have
also been indicted.
A fall of breast of coal in the Arm
strong mine, near Window, w. Va, on the
West Virginia Central & Pittsburg Rail
road. caused the death the other morning OF
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