Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-06-23
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

by her father. Finding escape mposslole,
she sprang intothe bayou and was drowned.
Her father sprang in after, but the g1rl
never came to the surface. The Coroner's
jury exonerated Hillary.
1t is said the Texas cattle-drive this
season exceeds expectations by about two
hundred Thousand head.
The unveYffng of Valentines reaum'
bent figure of Robert E. Lee will take place
at Lexington. Va, on Thursday, June %,
the day following the closing commence
ment exercises of Washington and Lee
University. The president of the Lee
Memorial Association is General Joseph E.
Johnston, and the narshal of the occasion
will be General John B. Gordon. The ex-
ercises of the day will begin with floral
decoration as1the grayes OF Lee and Jack
son, after W JED Feiig glous Services will be
conducted III Bishop Pinkney. The grafton
will then be pronounced by Major John W.
Daniel, followed by an artillery salute,
after which the mauSoleum will be thrown
open to the public for a view of the n1onu-
ment. -.
Some Texas papers are agitating the
question of State University for young
ladies.
A horrible. tragedy was enacted in the
Tarrant County Jail at Fort Worth. Tex,
the other night. A maniac named Wilson
attacked another named Hayes with a
stool. The officers succeeded in pulling off
the assailant when Hayes jumped up and
struck Wilson in the neck with a small
pocket-knife, severing the jugular vein. The
wounded man died in two minutes.
The Superior Court of Kentucky re-
Gently decided case of Importance to
mutual benefit associations. About three
years ago minister named Ricketts,
became member of lodge of the Knights
of Honor of the State. Three days after
the payment of all his dues the lodge sus-
pended, but was subsequently reinstated.
In the meantime Ricketts had died, and
payment of death benefit, demanded by the
widow, was refused. Suit was instituted
against the Grand Lodge of the order and
was decided in favor of Ricketts,. The rep
resentative of the Grand Lodge appealed,
and the Superior Court sustained the decis-
ion of the court below.
A company with a capital of $4,000
has been organized in Tom Green County,
Tex, for the purpose of establishing a
chicken ranch.
The President has appointed Calvin
S. Brewster, of LAREDO, Tex, Collector of
Customs at Brownsville. vice Payne, suS-
pended.
Judge Billings. of the United States
Circuit Court at New Orleans, has refused
the application of that city for reduction
of the appeal bond in the Gaines case. The
bond is $2,5OO,O0O.
Joseph r. West, Commissioner of the
District Of Columbia, has been sued to re.
cover on hundred 81 900 bonds of the New
Orleans Baton Rouge g. Vicksburg Rail
leyo2d h he was alleged to have fraudu-
AMtl1 baby in Chattanooga, Tenn.
was sevc3 ply bitten on the hand and neck
while ASLEEP, by rat few days ago.
AS fArther precaution in the fight
against smallpox, all stray dogs in Jack
sonville, Ga, are to be shot.
William L. Dodson was found guilty
of murder in the second degree at Danville
Va, the other day, for killing James Reed
and sentenced to five years in the Peniten
tiary, and to three years additional fol
burning the house in which he killed Reed
Charles Dudley Warner, of Hartford
Conn.,, delivered the annual address at the
commencement exercises of Roanoke Col
iege, at Salem, Virginia, recently, in which
he spoke encouragingly of the progress the
South was making Intellectually ant
materially, as evidenced by the increase Of
stitutions of learning.
Ibek Giles, the famous moonshinel
and slnuggler of the mountains of Tennessee
was placed in Jail at Memphis the other
afternoon. He was arrested in Oregon
County, Mo.
A negro and Mexican were founC
hanging in La Sale County, Tex, the Other
morning. The negro was minus his heaC
and lower limbs, but was recognized as Joe
Anderson. notorious thief.
At Sparta, Ca, the other day g
number of children were attacked by 9
buzzard, who kept up the fight until it was
killed.
In the United States District Court
at AUSTIN TEX, the other day, an opinion
was rendered in a criminal prosecution
under the civil act of Congress of March
1879, for penalty of $500 for excluding
Laura Evans (colored) from the ladies' cal
on the Houston & Texas Central Railroad
Similar cases were also disposed of. The
Court held the law unconstitutional and
that the things alleged were cognizable by
State tribunals only; also that the act was
an infringement on the rights of the several
States.
The new building at Louisville, erect
ed by the State of Kentucky for an Ameri.
can printing house for the blind, was for.
-.s,,sfty sssresTVs-few days ago.
Jim Woods, negro burglar, while
attempting to rob Herman Herald's dry
goods and plantation store, in Shreveport
La, ea rly the other morning, was shot dead
by Joe Blum, the clerk.
Crops are doing we'll in Louisiana.
FREQ lent inquiries are addressed to
the South Carolina Bureau of Agriculture
for inforItas*ipn in regard to improved
grasses, and the names and value of native
grasses. The Commissioner interprets this
as indicating that the people want to raise
more hay and oats, and as proving the in
terest taken in cattle-raising under the new
condition.
The Texas Legislature has appropri-
ated s., 900 to purchase sets of the ten vol
umes of he Southern Historical Society
papers. The society is now having 16O sets
bound.
It is estimated that Texas has 1,000,-
900 acres OF land capable of raising sugar.
Large tracts of land between Victoria
and Indianola, Tex, have had a hedge of
a. xFo(,ar+,,ev rose nIautad around Abano