Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-09
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

age, for whose education she appropri-
ates 100000, or sixty-seven cents per
capita.
A twenty-pound she'll from a Parrott
gun was Lately found imbedded in the
roof of the Vicksburg Opera-house.
Five thousand acres of tobacco will be
raised in Bourbon County, Ken ucky, this
year. Ten years ago not ten acres were
raised.
A farmer of Clay County, Mississippi,
has 100 acres planted in peppermint.
Jackson Brown, an aged colored man
of Harrisonburg, Va, while returning
from wood-cutting the other night at
/ tempted to crawl through board fence;
his head became fastened, and he strangled
| to death.
j. F. Ray shot and killed an escaping
convict, Wash Mcintosh, colored, at Yazoo
City, Miss, few days ago. Ray surren-
| dered.
The steamer City,of Yazoo sunk at st.
Delphine near Baton Rouge, La, few
| days ago. She was loaded with cotton
sued and OIL
Theodore Dempster, painter, fell from
| Gne roof of three story building at Louis
| vile, KY, few days ago, and was in.
| stantly killed.
| Governor Ireland, of Texas, respited for
| sixty days Bill Bass, the rapist, who was
to have been executed August 1.
| Attorney General Templeton of Tex las
| rules that county funds cannot be used to
| defray the expenses of county exhibits to
| the New Orleans Exposition.
| Governor McEnery, of Louisiana, has
| fixed the s9Jh of August for the hanging
| of Berry johnson (colored), who murdered
| his wife few months ago by choking her
| to death.
A few nights ago, on Captain John
| Willis plantation in Sharkey County
Miss, a negro named Tom Sanders de.
| liberately shot and killed another negro
| because he dunned him for debt of ST.
| The murderer escaped.
| Andrew K. Jackson, respectable white
citizen of Marlboro County, S. c., was
| killed at his supper table few evenings
| since by negro named Eli Gale, who cut
his throat. Gale was in Jackson's employ.
and they had had a slight difficulty. a
party went in pursuit of the murderer.
| A fire at Lampasas, Tex, few days age
| destroyed the Post-office building and two
| adjoining stores with contents. Total loss
estimated, S62, 900; insurance, S40 900. The
mail matter was saved.
! Thomas Calhoun, of Beech Island, S. c.
was found dead in his bed few mornings
| since, lying in pool of blood, face down.
| with pistol in his hand. Financial troubles
was the cause of the suicide.
| Sing Wing, wealthy Chinaman. died
recently, the first Celestial who has given
up the ghost at Fort Worth, Tex. His
brethren gave all the attention possible to
the remains, embalming and placing them
| in metallic casket. Lee Tai and Sam
Ling went to San Francisco with the body,
| from which point they go to China.
A few DAYS ago brute named Antonio
Rivera, of Brownsville, Tex, whipped his
woman, Carmen Redellosa, terribly with
mule whip. Next morning Carman pleaded
| hard for the fellow with the Mayor, but
| Antonio was set to work on the streets.
| A novel appeal for pardon was recently
sent from Augusta, Ga, to Governor Nc
| Daniel. One year ago George w. Ham
| cock ran a lottery establishment in Au
| gusta. A raid was made upon him. and
| an Indictment found. Pending trial Han
| cock became seized with religion, and
| joined the st. James Episcopal Church.
On trial Hancock pleaded guilty, and was
| fined $500 and sentenced to three months
| in Jail. Now the church appeals to Gov
ernor Mcdaniel to pardon Hancock, mas
much as he has become a subject of Grace.
The first Hawaiian cotton was recently
| sold in New Orleans
! Geo. Webber, agent of the Texas Trunk
| line at Simons, Tex, was fatally injured a
! few days ago.
Cotton reports compiled at New Orleans
show the crop in the various States to be
favorable, though somewhat late.
| AT San Saba, Tex, a few days ago, fire
destroyed $4,000 worth of property, in
Guiding the Post-office and fixtures.
| One ethird of the counties in the State of
| Texas report an aggregate increase in tax
able values in one year of $1S,000,0)0.
The Supreme Court of Alabama holds
| that the reorganized corporation of Selma
| is liable for the debts created under
| the old city charter, repealed by the
| Legislature.
Stephen Massie eloped with and was
married to Tillie Wallace at Maysville,
KY, few days ago. John Calvin, who
| connived at the scheme, got drunk and
| SnOU lODe udWkIuS through Tile 81 tOfnacO.
John B. Carter, prominent citizen of
/ Augusta, Ga, was accidentally burned to
death few nights ago in that city by the
| breaking of a kerosene lamp in his bed
| chamber. He had been forty years a
| druggist.
A negro named Charles Ford was killed
near Corsicana. Tex, few days ago,
while hunting, by the accidental discharge
of his gun, the ball entering at the right
breast, producing instant death.
DIR. Stoddard, an Austin, (Tex.) dentist,
recently returned from trip through the
West, reports having seen quantity of
gold ore taken from a newly discovered
mine within three miles of Ell Paso. The
proprietor Of the principal hotel pur-
chased the claim recently for $40, 900, and
had since sold half interest. Dr. Stod.
dard reported that an attempt was being
made to suppress the news of the dis.
covery.
Dock Peeler, fourteen-ye year-old boy,
shot at Newton Fain at GAINESVILLE, Ga, a
/ few days ago, but Peeler's mother knocked