Huntsville gazette., 1883-07-07
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

| pleted its Richmond extension, the last
| spike having been driven at Paris few
| days ago.
An experiment has been recently
made in securing wool at Fort Worth,
lex, and the clean product forwarded to
Boston for inspection. Thirty or forty
million pounds will be exported from Tex
as this year in an unsecured condition. An
allowance of fifty per cent. for dirt and
grease is said to be obtained.
A genuine tiger" was slain in st.
Landry Parish, La, lately which meas
ured nine feet from tip to tip.
The ''peen-to,' or fiat peach of Chi
ma, is revolutionizing peach culture in
| Florida. 1t is fiat like a biscuit.
Recent information from Dallas states
that within the past few days northern
capitalists have been looking over Texas in
quiet way, and have been reported from
different points prospecting for locations
for themselves and those they represent.
Northern railroads are organizing plans
for sending large parties on such tours into
the State to investigate the country as in
diligently as possible.
A few days ago there was sold on
the trash wharf at Key West, Fla, 49,
1929 worth of sponges.
A reeler of silk in New Orleans, who
has hitherto employed some nineteen hands,
proposes to go into the manufacture of silk
fabrics, and to organize joint stock com
pany for that purpose. He has already
reeled 1,50Q pounds of silk and has an i'm
portation of cocoons on the way from
France of 1,200 pounds.
A sixteen foot shark, of the hammer
head variety, has been recently killed. at
Fernandina, Fla.
OF the 5,100 Episcopalians in Ken
lucky, it is said $500 are in Louisville.
Minnie Mitchell committed suicide
at Shreveport, La, recently. A local paper
relates that her death in Shreveport, and
the killing by a railroad accident of the
man who brought her to that city, on the
same day, was a singular coincidence, par
ticularly as it was thought her suicide was
caused by him.
Twenty thousand pounds of zine
We're shipped one day last week from
Knoxville, Tenn, to Connecticut.
Moses Stuart, while fishing near Rod
dy, Fly, fe+# days ago with dynamite,
was injured by the explosion, fell into the
water and was drowned
At the National Cemetery near Mem
phis, Tenn, the other morning George
Fletcher, section boss of the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad, was shot and killed by
William Kennedy, negro. Fletcher's
little boy was roughly handled by Kenne-
dy, and when Fletcher expostulated Ken
nedy, without warning, drew a pistol and
fired, the ball striking Fletcher in the side,
from the effect of which he died soon af-
terward. Kennedy made his escape.
Judge Pardee, of the United States
Circuit Court, at New Orleans, the other
day rendered a decree in the case of New
Orleans VS.. John A. Morris ct al, by which
the city RECEIVERS 4,3H shares of stock o.
the Waterworks Company which had been
seized and sold by various parties, who are
now ordered to restore the stock to the city.
The Supreme Court of the United States
decided that the stock was held i'll trust by
the city and not liable to seizure and sale.
Fourteen Judgment creditors, stock dealers
and brokers who sold and purchased the
stock are ordered to restore the bonds to
the city, which, together with dividends
since 1879, amounts TO nearly half a million
dollars.
Cleburne County claims the tallest
average set of officers of any county in
Arkansas. The average is about six feet
the Sheriff, Assessor, Treasurer, Surveyor
and Coroner will fall little short of six
feet. The Judge, Clerk and Deputy Clerk
will measure eighteen feet six inches, and
all combined will measure fifty-four feet.
A. j Ringo, Sheriff of Menifee
County, KY, who was wounded in the
recent attempt to get Barnett and his gang
out of Jail, at Mount Sterling, for the pur-
pose of hanging them, and who has since
been lying in the jailer's room, has now
been removed to his home. He had his bed
lifted in a covered wagon, and got home
| without any serious trouble. Charlie, son
! of Sheriff Ringo, aged fifteen years, has
been acting Sheriff of Menifee County
ever since his father was wounded. Charlie
summoned all of the witnesses in the Bar
net trial.
Forsheimer Brothers, of New Or
leans, dealers in tobacco and whisky, have
suspended payment, with liabilities of S40,-
900.
The Sheriff of Upton County, Tenn,
the other night dreamed that the prisoners
in the County Jail were making efforts to
| escape by the aid of a wooden key and
| pieces of iron. He went into the Jail and
by threats forced a confession that the
| prisoners had concealed four or five bars of
| iron from eight inches to three feet long,
and also a well-made wooden key. Planks
had been loosened and plans for escape had
been matured.
Three brothers, Rodriguez by name,
who have been stealing horses in the vi.
cinity Of San Antonio, Tex, for some time,
were captured and jailed few days ago.
Frazier Lane. an industrious colored
man Of Montgomery County, KY, was
remarked the other day to his wife, who
was sold away from him forty years ago.
In the meantime he has been married twit e
and she once. Both had been single some
time when remarked
| ID. McAylerworth, formerly of New
York City, employed as stenographer in
the Louisville & Nashville Office at Louis
vile. XIV, wound up debauch few days