St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-09-08
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

shelter under tree in a storm. Lightning
killed the mother and elder child, but tn
babe was found clinging to the arms Of it
lifeless parent
Six prisoners escaped from the jail a
Lake Village, Chicot County, Ark, a few
nights ago. Three were murderers, tw,
were charged with grand larceny and thu
sixth was burglar from Mississippi. Falls
keys did the business.
DR.. Abrahams, a prominent physician
| and Confederate surgeon, was shot anc
| probably mortally wounded by a negro
named Clark in an ARRAY recently, al
| Houston, Tex, in which both parties free
| several shots. The negro claims to have
| been the victim of system of petty perse
cutions. The doctor alleged that CLARK
| looked through a window at Mrs
Abrahams while making her toilet.
"A. NJ. Sydes, negro, shot and dan
gerously wounded his father, D. Sydes, a
few days ago at Portsmouth, Va. He
claimed that his father deserted and aban-
doned his mother.
James Gouldman, ex-member of the
Fire Department of Lynchburg, Va, was
arrested a few days ago, charged with fir
ing the Norvell House stables.
John Bowdin. colored railroad
hand, while intoxicated, laid down on the
railroad track near Shelbyville, Tenn, a
few days ago, and was run over and killed
by switch engine.
Henry Jones was hanged at Raleigh,
n. c., a few days since for the murder of
Deputy Sheriff Avis H. Blake last year.
The execution was private. Jones made a
profession of religion, and was remarkably
self-possessed before the execution and on
the gallows. Death ensued in twenty min
utes from strangulation. Jones was TWEEN
ty-three years old, and leaves widow and
infant.
O'Brien's circus exhibited at La
grange, KY, August Il, and while there
Ben Alexander, a colored attache, was ar
rested for carrying concealed weapons. In
default of the fine inflicted he was sent to
jail, where he remained until few days
since, when, getting hold of rope by
some means, he hanged himself. When
he was dead.
The Texas s. st. Louis south-bound
passenger a few nights ago jumped the
track near Waco, Tex, and the whole
train, engine and all, landed at the bottom
Of fifteen foot embankment, wheels up.
All lights We're put out. The passengers
grouped their way out of the windows as
best they could. Strangely, no one was
fatalls injured.
A report recently gained currency
that several Revenue Officers in the upper
part of South Carolina had been system
atically swindling the Government fo
some time. 1t is charged that the officer |
n question lured persons to putup old still |
N remote places and then captured the ma |
erialin the night time and obtained the Gov |
reward of fifty dollars for each |
seizure. The same material was then put up
n another part and seized again. It is al
eyed only few stills captured in the
'een used for illicit distilling. An inyesti-
,ation had been ordered.
District Attorney Gutheridge, for the
Eastern District of Texas, handed in his
resignation few days since to
special Agent Wiegand, who had been in-
estigating the Hough assassination and
ther matters in that district.
The immense herds of cattle in the
anhandle in the southwestern portion of
exas had been suffering terribly from the
rought. The grass had been completely
arched and the streams dried up Thou
ands of cattle had died, and the stock-rais-
IS were driving their herds to the north
nd west as rapidly as possible, in order to
I've them.
The growing cotton crop throughout
helby County, Tenn, had been benefited
Y recent rains, and the outlook was more
romising than few weeks ago. With ia
orable conditions the yield in chat imme-
ate section would average within twelve
Id half per cent. of last year.
A comprehensive and complete re-
'rt, through correspondents, OF the cotton
OPP of the Nashville District, including
iddle Tennessee and portion of West
and North Alabama, has been
ce1ved. Seventy per cent report crops
tier than at the same date last wear,
Tenty three per cent. as good and seven {
r cent. worse. Last year the crop of Mid
g tennessee was the poorest for many + ,
'ars. The reduction of acreage this year {
twelve and half per cent, but with IA
rable weather the prospects looked fair !
r larger aggregate yield in the Nash :
lie District over the crop of last year.
Henry Hertel and his wife were |
nnd murdered in their store at Atlanta. :
i, few mornings ago. The crime was /
for robbery, S
c. B. Clifford, engineer on the Louis
lie & Nashville Railroad, was fatally t
TT few days since in collision at Leb. 9
on, KY. s
William Middleton, a prominent citi- .
! of Lower Carolina, died in Greenville, q
c., aged seventy-fvc years. He was :