Huntsville gazette., 1883-10-27
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

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Evans, of the Western District of Texas, it
is understood has been rendered and will
accept the Judgeship of the Eastern Dis
trict.
The Governor and Secretary of State
of Texas are preparing list of delegates
to attend the Cotton Planters and Agricul-
tural Convention at Vicksburg.
Surgeon Stone, of the Marine Hos
pital service, and a physician selected by
the Louisiana State Board of Health, have
been investigating the epidemic at Brew
ton, Ala.
Levi Mccormick, who has served for
thirty-two years as conductor on the
Cumberland Valley Railroad, has been re-
tir ! by the Company on full pay for the
rest of his life.
1t is said that S5.000,O00 have been
invested in mines and machinery in the
gold regions of Georgia, while the total re-
turned value of the present assets of all
kinds of mines in the State is S127,000.
A forest mathematician has figured
out that there are enough pine trees grow
ing in the South to furnish the whole coun-
try with lumber for two hundred and fifty
years to come.
An eccentric individual of Dooly
County, Georgia, is seventy-six years old
but has never in the whole course of his
life spent one night from under the roof OF
the house in which he was born.
A negro girl about five years old lost
her life i'll singular manner at Bellview,
La, recently. She climbed fig tree, and
in descending slipped, the collar of her
dress caught ON broken limb, and she was
choked to death before assistance arrived.
Henry Pale was instantly killed BY
the cars at Pinta Station, Texas, few
nights ago.
City Marshal Ambrose Wilson of Sa-
dieville, KY, was shot dead recently by
James Creighton, who was drunk.
Rev. L. Fisher, Moderator of the
Presbyterian Synod lately in session at
Denison, Tex, fell into a deep cistern at
the house where he was being entertained
and was fished out badly bruised.
In Russell County. Alabama, a few
days ago, Thomas Prince instantly killed
his father-in-law, B. S. Jeffries. The kill
ing was done in self-defence and in defence
of Prices wife and Jeffries' daughter.
A freight train on the Vicksburg &
Meridian Railroad caught fire at Jackson
Miss, few days ago and thirty bales OF
cotton were burned.
The mill of the Indiana Lumber Com
pany at Nashville, Tenn, valued at $4,000
was recently destroyed by fire.
A man named Frank johnson was
arrested at Vicksburg, Miss, a few days
ago, for killing negro and wounding 6
white man at McCool's Station, in the State
named.
Sparks from the locomotive Of a
mail-train fired cotton-train and destroyed
about 200 bales of the staple, near Marshall
Tex, few days since.
Edward Miller was run over and
killed near Dallas, Tex, a few nights age
by Central Railroad train.
Several thieves in Greenville, Tex,
who were ''hard up" for something to wet
their dry throats, stole the Bible and lamps
from church in that city, recently, and
pawned them to barkeeper for half-pint
of liquor.
Paul Villars, a veteran journalist OF
New Orleans, nearly killed a colored lad
a few days ago who was stealing nuts from
pecan tree in his yard.
Cork, olive and almond trees were
planted some time ago near Brownsville
Tex. A report comes now that the cork
and olives are fourishing and the almond
trees are dead.
The City Council Of Nashville, Tenn,
has fixed the salary of the Board of Public
Works and Affairs at $4, 900 each, and elect
ed Mike Nester, DR.. T. A. Atchison and
Robert Ewing. Strictly business princi
pies, not politics, will govern the city. The
gentlemen elected are the best talent to be
obtained.
A fatal alteration occurred sever
miles from Owenton, KY, recently. John
NJ. Palmer, an old man, found Ben Crutch
low, aged twenty-five on his farm and or
dered him off. Crutchlow reluctantly
obeyed. As soon as he got out of the felC
hot words ensued. Palmer shot anc
Crutchlow threw a stone at the same mo
ment. The latter fell dead, shot through
the heart. Palmer's skull was fractured by
the stone. 1t was thought he would die.
Lewis Rabb, Texas negro, twic,
convicted of murder committed five year.
ago, and whose case was reversed eacl
time by appealing to the court for various
reasons, the sentence each time being i'm
prisonment for fifty years, pleaded guilt,
to manslaughter at Brennan, recently, th
jury assessing the penalty at two years il
the Penitentiary. Most of the witnesses TO
the State had disappeared.
The body of Louis Foster, colored
was found few days ago hanging to a tre
near South Union Church in Laraca Coun
ty, Tex. with a charge of buckshot in hi
neck and pistol ball in his head. Foste
is said to have been screening an ESCAPED
murderer and had borne a bad reputation
for years.
jeff Hays, a young brakeman on th
Missouri Pacific Railroad, while passin.
over the train to deliver an order of tn
conductor to the engineer, a few nights ago
fell from the train and was instantly killed
his head being crushed, besides being al
most disemboweled by the trucks of tn
cars passing over him. He was not misses
until the train reached Highland Station
Toy when search was instituted and th