The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-04-17
SOUTHERN GLEANINGs.

western Mississippi. Deer are fleeing 10
the high lands Of Arkansas to escape the
pests.
Hortensia Mason, colored school
teacher Of Shelbyville, KY, has sued the
Louisville 4 Nashville Road for $4,000 for
refusing her the privilege Of tho ladies,
coach after she had purchased a first.class
ticket.
a fatal boiler explosion occurred i
few days ago al the Marine dry docks in
New Orleans.
Dallas and Fort Worth are engaged
IN desperate contest for the railroad cham
pionship.
y was reported III Dallas, Tex. 4 few
nights ago that Morgan Commack, impli-
Gated in the cotton swndles in that citv.
mad been rearTested at some point on the
Lower Rio Grande.
Five prisoners broke jail, few DAYS
since. ct Lexington, Ga.
Southern cotton mill owners met re.
Gently at Augusta, Ca, and adopted reso-
lutlons looking to a curtailment Of manu-.
features.
Frank Elliot, negro who assaulted
q white girl in York County, North Caro-.
INA, was taken to Rock Hill for examina-
tIon. The citizens overpowered the Sher,
MS posse and lynched the oiiender.
J. T. Ransdall, Postmaster at New
castle, KY, is defaulfer to the amount
Of $500 Ransdall has disappeared.
Government agent is in possession Of the
office.
AT Newport, Tenn, shortly after dark
few nights ago w. G. Fowler shot and in.
stantly killed John Rutherford. Ruther.
ford and associates were engaged in rock.
ing Fowler, when the latter fired at the
crowd, killing Rutherford. Fowler had
not been arrested.
At FairyieN, Ky, q few davs apo.
John ", Gibson walked into the grocery
of John Mccoy and shot him dead. A
large party Of citizens went III pursuit Of
the murderer
THE Attornoy-Gcneral Of Texas has
brought suit against "A. A. Talmage and j.
N. O'Donnell, Of st. Louis, Mo-, to recover
63,00O acres Of valuable sugar land IN
Brazoria County, claiming that the tract
was obtained by the use OF fictitious
names.
Alfred and James Mccullough. con.
victed Of the murder of Ephraim Soxon,
at Greenvile, $. G., have been sentenced to
hang May 16. Riley Anderson, who mur.
uerea Leon Griffith and an infant, was sen.
fenced to hang the same day. Anderson's
crime was cold-blooded, and several at.
tempts were made 70 lynch him.
he body Of woman was found
floating in the river at Memphis, Tenn.
few days ago, by some men engaged n
getting out drift wood. The remains were
entirely nude with the exception Of a rcd
handkerchief bound around the head and
were in very advanced state OF iecom.
position. A small rope was tied around
the waist, indicating foulplay, as weight
may have possibly been attached to the
rope.
Captain William II. Robinson. Demo
cratic candidate for Congress in the Eiebth
Alabama District against General Joe
W heeier, committed suicide at Scottsboro,
Ala, few days ago, by sticking d pen.
knife in his heart. He had just returned
from an electioneering tour, and it is sup.
posed the excitement affected his mind.
John Coifey, Jr., who shot and killed
Alfred Gossett, colored, October 20. 1882. nj
New Orleans, while Gossett was in cbaroe
of an officer on the way to the Courthouse
to receive life sentence for the murder of
Folleeman John Coffey, father of the ac-
cused, was tried recently and acquitted. |
There was much sympathy for the accused. |
VINO IS emily twenty years of age, and al |
most the sole support Of his mother and
brothers and sisters.
Antonio Lopez, well-known Mexican al |
Laredo, Tex, was recently tried for rnnr. |
der After many delays jury was secured
ana ne was acquitted. He was tried for an |
atfoclous murder committed in Hidalgo I
County in 1881.
Fire destroyed the MeTchants' Bank and
several stores and offices at Pensacola.
Fla, few days since. Loss, $3j. 500: IN.
surance, $4,000.
5. L. Harley, formerly a merchant ot
New York, convicted at Petersburg. Va.
ast January of bigmay, his punishment
being six years in the Penitentiarv. has
been grsated new trial
a party Of 100 excursionists, from Michi.
,an, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and
looking for sites for new
ZONES, are looking around in Texas.
captain Eads has informed Direct or
General Burke OF the Worlds Exposition
hat the Great Eastern steamer can be bad
or the Exposition Hotel. Correspondence
now passing looking to bringing the great
hip to New Orleans.
Joe Noel, drunken man, shot a little
egro, Tom Bridges at Harrodsburg, Ky.,
few days ago for laughing at him. The
ail entered the back of the neck and
odged. Noel was caught and lodged IN
all.
The steamer Harry sunk her barge IN
)eer Greek, Miss, with 1,eO0 sacks Of cot.
on seed for the Memphis Oil Exchange.
Freiburg & Workum's distilIery burned
ecently at Petersburg, KY.
Six counties in North Carolina have been
wept by fires. Many houses were de.
troyed.
Confederate Decoration day was oh.
erved in New Orleans in the usual manner.
oseph A. Mower Post, Grand Army Of The
'epvbie, participated in the ceremonies.
Nancy Mouse, colored woman Of mai.