The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-02-28
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

by decided fall in temperature.
Memorial services in honor Of Wen
dell Philips were held, few nights ago,
in Galveston, Tex.
w. Emanuel, broker, of Atlanta,
Ca, is under arrest for alleged crooked
dealing with his patrons.
The Grand Lodge of the Knights OF
Pythias, at its recent session, at jackson
Vile, Tenn, gave a banquet, at which nearly
500 were present.
Eight counterseiters We're arrested
few days ago in Louisville, Ky. They had
been passing spurious silver dollars and
| half dollars.
l.. D. Mowry & Son, cotton factors,
Charleston, S. c., have suspended. Liza
bilities, S150,0O0.
The Rawley family, of Boyle County,
Kentucky, has within thirty years figured
in affrays in which ten men were killed.
The feud with the Shearins resulted few
days since in the shooting Of one Of that
family by George w. RawleY.
Aaron Parrott. faro dealer, while
standing in front of the Crockford Saloon
in Sherman, Tex, few daysago, was shot
and dangerously wounded by George Bur-
gis, proprietor Domestic trouble is said
to be at the bottom of the affair.
DR.. j. w. Drake shot and instantly
killed John A. Scarboro, at Clapp's Faeto-
ry near Columbus, Ca, few days ago.
The killing appears to have been in self-de-
fense.
Dennis Reed, while trying to cross
Waller Greek, at Austin, Tex, which was
greatly swollenrby recent rains, was, with
the horse he was riding, swept down by the
torrent and drowned.
In Brown County, Ala, few days
ago, Fred Plattenburg of Selma shot w. j.
Robinson, horse drover, from Murfrees-
boro, killing him instantly. The men never
met until few minutes before the shoot
ing. Plattenburg refused TO lend Robin
sons friend So. All were drinking.
Three fence-cutters have recently
been captured in Edwards County, Tex.
One confessed. He says there were six in
the band. The rangers who made the ar
rests were after the other three.
S. I. Jones, patient confined at the
Anchorage Insane Asylum, Louisville, KY,
committed suicide a few days ago by hang
ing himself with towel. One end of the
towel was secured to the grating which
barricades window Of his room, and the
other lie tied tightly around his neck. He
then stepped OF Of the sill of the window
and was strangled to deatr before he was
discovered by the attendant
Henry Booth was arrested few
nights ago by the watchman for attempting
to saw away the piles supporting the new
bridge over Sunilower River at Rolling
, Fork, Miss, ON the L., N. o. & I. Il. r.. 1t
) seems that the culprit desired to saw the
8 bridge timbers in such a manner that the
/, structure would fall when train ran on
Q it. 1t is said that the man was instigated
by interested parties, who claim that the
: bridge obstructs navigation. He was held
( to answer.
Frank Fr,es, for many years in the
employ Of the Wells-Fargo Express Com.
pany at San Antonio, Tex, us money clerk,
has disappeared. His safe has been broken
open and accounts and cash found all right.
| He was last seen on the main plaza at nighd
alone. He was of retiring disposition, Of
; temperate habits and very powerful build.
The generally accepted theory is that he
was murdered to obtain possession of his
safe key, which he carried with him. He
was also known to keep large sums o mon
ey on his person. Some papers belonging
to him were found on the bank of the river
4 and the water was dragged. He was of a
fine family, well known in San Antonio,
4 and one OF the most popular and influential
young men in the city
a The ungeiling of the Lee statue in
/. New Orleans took place on the I'D.
1 Captain James 4. Browning was shot
e dead at Hampstead, Tex, few days age
while trying to stop fight.
/ In u hotel at Lexington, Kentucky,
e recently, two intoxicated men blew out
h the gas in Their room and died in greai
r agony.
]. Five cars were wrecked and two
irakemen kiliednear Longview, Tex, few
I. days ago.
! In Green County, Tenn, few nights
ago, an assassin shot Mrs James Hunter
: firing through window Of her house.
Il The State Treasurer Of Texas recent
ly received $4,000 interest on land notes, t,
/ go to the credit OF the school fund.
ii The Tom Green Land and Gait,
Company, capital $lJO,00O, with Office a
J. San Angela, Tex, has been incorporated.
n The Goysrnor OF Virginia has vetoe,
the Congressional apportionment bill.
l. Articles Of association were filed few
n. days ago for the Young Mems Building AS
sociation Of Lampasas, Tex, with acapiti.
"A stock Of 100000.
IS Harry Miller, an old Texas & Pacific
freight conductor, of Dallas, lost an arm
n few nights ago in an accident near Colora
! do, Tex, and received other injuries whicl
= Il was thought would prove fatal
, Burglars elec cd an entr4nce into th,
= store Of Bradley s. Cook, at Ennis, Tex,
- Z, few nights ago, blew open the safe and Sc
: suredupward Of $1,000 in cash. 1t wa
Il thought gang Of professional burglar
y were operating in that section, and Their
y .e were fingers nervously itching to get hol,
If some Of them.
h The handsome residence Of ID. Mays
b on what IS known as the Divine Farm, o.
1t. the north s1de OF the Tennessee River nea