Huntsville gazette., 1883-08-04
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

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$S55,357
Auburn Ky.) Jail has not had an in
mate for so long that the lock has become
rusty and will not admit key, and the
hornets have taken possession of the in
tegior.
A duel with knives was fought at the
County Line Church in Doty County, Ca,
the other day, between Samson Cason and
Samuel Clifton. Clifton was hacked in
| pieces.
At Clifton, W. Va, the other night,
Joseph Hill was fatally stabbed by James
Kirby, boy eighteen years old. Kirby
escaped.
Lightning struck in the open lake, in
Lauderdale County, Tenn, during a recent
thunderstorm, and killed hundreds of fish.
A twelve-year-old girl named Nc
Donald was found dead in the woods near
| Collula, Tex, few days ago. She had
been lost four days and five nights. Her
mother was in Laredo with little son who
was bitten by rattlesnake. During the
last twelve months this lady lost q son-in-
law, killed by railroad accident, her hus-
| band died from blow on the head, and
| her son blew his brains out in her presence.
The largest sale of timber lands ever
made by the st. Louis & Iron Mountain
Railroad was completed the other day, be-
ing 5000 acres in Saline County, Ark, to
the Pierce Lumber Company Of New Jer-
sey.
George Kane, Harry Suffer and Wor-
thlngton McCulloch, young unmarried
men from Frostburg, Md, were rowing in
the Potomac River a few days ago when
the boat capsized and all were drowned.
A German syndicate wishes to pur-
chase 900 acres of land in Tennessee and
Kentucky.
Another Blind Tom has come to as
tonish and plague the American public. A
colored boy, nine years old, at Rome, Ca,
! is said to play the piano like an educated
performer.
James 2. Wright, notorious thief,
smuggler and desperado, was captured in
Frio County, Tex, a few days ago.
Luke Pryor, a clerk in Milton Gar
rettson's store at Lnwood, Ark, was MUIR
dered and robbed by unknown parties the
other night.
The Dolier4in steam laundry eX-
ploded at Houston, Tex, the other day, par
TALLY wrecked the building and doing from
five hundred to thousand dollars damage.
James Buck, the engineer, was fearfully
scalded and may die. There were several
narrow escapes from death among the en-
ployes.
Mr. Robert c. Gilmer, of Columbia,
KY, found guinea's nest on his farm last
week containing sixty three eggs.
Sixteen completely pctrifed human
bodies are said to have been recently dis
covered in Pine Mountain, Campbell Coun-
ty, Tenn, in solid limestone rock with
fragments of petrified wood. Near by is
also cave, the walls of which are deco
rated with paintings of extinct or imagi-
nary animals.
A traveller in North Carolina recently
saw near Waynesville a church twenty
eight by forty-four and eighteen feet high,
with pine steeple, all made from one
tree, and there was enough lumber left over
to fence the churchyard.
An aged lady applied to the police OF
Wheeling, w. Va, the other day for aid to
reach Washington, where she hoped to Sc
cure admission to charitable institution.
She stated that her father was Vice-Presi-
dent William R. King, and that she was the
widow of General Hunter, whom President
Jackson sent to Russia as minister, and
that the first six months of her married life
were spent at the american embassy in st.
Petersburg. She was given ample funds
to proceed on her journey.
The State Board OF Education in
Texas has resolved to purchase for the
school fund 1000 in registered four per
cent. bonds of the United States.
1t is understood that the negroes of
Tidewater, Va, are making preparations
for the performance of funeral services at
an early day in memory of John F. New
som, the colored man who was killed by S.
Lewis in an altercation at Jerusalem some
weeks ago. The services will be conducted
according to the Masonic ritual, and it is
expected that an immense number of ne
groes will participate in the services,
which will take place at Franklin, South
ampton County.
A mutilated check for $4,000 on
national bank at Raleigh, n. c., was found
on the streets of Billings, a few days ago.
A swimming-master, giving exhibi-
bitions in Lake Pontchartrain, at New Or
leans, recently encountered a sword-fish,
which he succeeded in capturing. In the
saw were forty-two teeth.
At Brighton, West Tennessee, thir-
teen flying squirrels were killed recently
in the yard of house to which they had
come for crumbs.
An unknown negro attempted to as
sault Mrs. w. g. w. Hill near East Point,
Ca, the other night and was arrested. On
the way to the court next day the guard
said he escaped, but it was believed he was
lynched.
A fire occurred at Vicksburg, Miss,
the other day, resulting in the destruction
of three frame two-story buildings, aggre-
eating loss of fully $4,000. The Anchor
line elevator also came near burning.
ID. M. Eslick, one of the most promi-
nent and wealthy citizens of Lincoln Coun-
ty, Tenn, was killed by lightning near
Fayetteville the other evening. His skull
was split in twain and his shoes torn from
his feet.
George M. Silsbee, of San Antonio,
who, on October p, 1881, robbed the mail