Huntsville gazette., 1884-07-26
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

| "A petrlueu nOS mas Deeu ulSCofo ou ~
Rawson's Creek, about seven miles from
Harrisburg, Miss. 1t will be sent to the
New Orleans Exposition for the purpose OF
bringing into notice the peculiar petrify'
ing properties of that stream.
William J. Crump, a son of the Judge OF
the Virginia Court of Appeals, was muir
dered in a Baltimore restaurants few days
ago by a sporting character named George
w. Sonner, Jr.
Miss Sedalia Lock, the seventeen-year-
old daughter of Deputy Sheriff Lock, OF
Austin, Tex, who disappeared from her
home few weeks ago, has been heard
from at Kansas City, Mo. She is reported
married to John Fletcher, member Of
| patent medicine concert company.
James Sims (colored) who murdered his
wife in Miller County, Georgia, and fed to
Florida, has been captured and lodged in
Jail at Bainbr idge.
Advices from the western part OF Texas
confirm the report that the sheep and cat
tie industry of that part of the State is
| threatened with annihilation by drought.
Sheep men with f1ocks were arriving daily
at Eagle Pass seeking ingress into Mexico
water holes. The streams on the American
side of the Rio Grande are dried up.
Hardin, the Troup County (Georgia)
rapist, was lynched by citizens, who
wrested him from the custody Of the
Sheriff.
A little girl near Branchville, S. c., was
awakened few nights ago, when she told
her mother that something had bitten her,
and that she had pulled it in two. A light
was procured, when about eight inches OF
garter snake was seen writhing near her
pillow. 1t was supposed to have been
placed upon the bed by cat, which had
been seen eating the tail part. The child
died the next day from the reptiles
wound.
Marshal John G. Morgan, of Taylor,
Tex, was shot and mortally wounded
few nights ago by S. E. Stiles.
DR.. Wesley Norwood, an eminent physi
clan of South Carolina, died 1T Galesburg
a few days ago.
The largest cotton mills of Atlanta, Ca,
will reduce production about twenty-five
| per cent.
The stage from Lampasas tC san Saba,
! Tex, was robbed few days ago by "one
small-sized man."
Two French creoles had duel near New
Orleans recently, which resulted in one of
the participants being wounded in the left
leg.
Mike Taggart, a workman, fell from the
| Ohio River bridge, at Louisville, KY,
few days ago and was drowned.
Texas shows an increase of $50, 100000 in
the value of her assessable property this
| year over last.
| Joseph Williams of Raleigh, N. c., has
been found guilty of murder for killing
| Willie Watkins, whom he mistook for a
man engaged to his cousin.
Ex-Governor Hubbard, Of Texas, dc
clines to be candidate tor Governor 0
that State in the coming campaign.
The mail between Round Mountain and
Fredericksburg, Tex, was robbed a few
days since by two men supposed to be
Mexicans.
A few evening since, in quarrel at Con-
zales, Tex, Bud Zeigler cut Peter Marsch
in the abdomen, causing the intestines to
drop out. Zeigler was arrested.
Police. e.Lieutenant,Arnold,o of Athens, Ca,
shot Sam. Taylor, colored, fatally a few
days ago, for resisting arrest A large
crowd gathered and trouble was feared.
| The jury rendered verdict Of justifable
| homicide.
A formal presentation of the flag sent to
Ascalon Division, Knights of Pythias, by
the Fort Dearbon Division, Chicago. was
celebrated in New Orleans by full dress
| parade and ball in the Spanish Fort.
An incendiary fire at Lexington, KY,
| few days ago destroyed the Blue Grass
cooper shop and the dwelling houses of j.
D. billiard, Mrs. j. Fl. Campbell and Phil.
B. Thompson, Jr. Total loss, $1,000; in
surance, $14, 500.
At Cooperstown, KY, a few days ago,
William Faulkner was fatally shot by
Ben. Miller. The shooting resulted from
revival Of an old difficulty.
Colonel Ed Richardson, of Vicksburg
Miss, having visited many plantations on
the Mississippi River south of Memphis
gives discouraging account of the crop
prospects.
A few evenings since, at a point ten
miles east of Kosse, Tex, LeeW Wright and
young man named Hamil ton, out hunting,
became engaged in dispute, resulting in
a shooting affray in which both I were
killed. Wright leaves a family. Hamil-
ton, a boy of sixteen, was shot down twice
before giving Wright fatal shot.
| Richardson, one of the contestants inithe
Fourth of July walking match in Angus
ia, Ca, died few days ago. He had
walked about three hours when he sudden
ly fell down on the track and had to be
carried away. He had not been out Of
bed since, and died from loss of blood. He
had ruptured some internal organ in his
efforts to get the first place.
The Georgia Board Of State House Com
missioners recently opened the bids for
the erection of "a new State House in
Atlanta, in accordance with plans made
| by Edbrook & Barnham, Chicago. Only
two bids were received for the building
entire. The Hallowell Granite Company,
Chicago, bid S1,163,62i, and Chas. Pierce
& Co., Indianapolis, 81, 1913. .202. Thirty
eight other bids were received for parts of
the work. OF these fourteen were from
| Chicago contractors, and both bids for the
whole were below the aggregate lowest
proposals for separate branches Of the
work.