Huntsville gazette., 1884-04-19
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.


| Deer Greek, Miss, with 1860 sacks of cot
ton seed for the Memphis Oil Exchange.
| Freiburg & Workum's distillery burned
recently at Petersburg, KY.
Six counties in North Carolina have been
swept by fires. Many houses were de-
stroyed.
Confederate Decoration day was OBJ
served in New Orleans in the usual manner.
Joseph A. Mower Post, Grand Army of the
Republic, participated in the ceremonies.
/ Nancy Mouse, colorss woman of Dali
-, Tex. agssa thirty, dropped dead on the
street few days ago.
| Caledonia Chevarria was placed on trial
for murder at Laredo, Tex, and convicted
of murder in the first degree.
Chattanooga, Tenn, has new furnace
| with 100 tons daily capacity.
A freight depot, mill, hotel and several
other buildings burned few days ago at
| Pensacola, Fla.
| ID. Henson was tried by the District
| Court at San Antonio, Tex, a few days
ago, for infanticide, was found guilty of
murder in the first degree, and sentenced
for life at hard labor.
A verdict of 81 so was given recently at
Laredo, Tex, to Julius Herbeck and wife,
who had child killed by the Texas Mexi-
| can Railway some time ago, and brought
| suit for damages.
The Board of Sinking Fund Commits
sioners of the State of Virginia has de-
cided that the enrolled bill signed by the
Governor was a law, and the Board will
appropriate $4,000 out of the surplus in
the State Treasury for the purchase, this
month, of three per cent. bonds with all
matured coupons attached thereto"
John L. Agurs was shot and killed at
Bethany, La, twenty miles from Shreve-
| port, few days since, by J. M. Trosper.
| Both are white.
T. S. Stout, cowboy from Jim Cowan's
ranch, in Denton County, Tex, went to
Dallas a few days ago, sober and with $500
in his pocket He went out next day
drunk and with nothing in his pocket. In
an affiuent state of inebriety he went to a
variety show and was robbed.
The whole east side of the public square
of Huntsville, Tex, was destroyed by fire
few evenings since Loss, $4,000, dis
tributed among twenty persons; little OF
no insurance.
Andrew Cunningham, of Chicago, has
laid claim to the estate of the notorious
Kate Townsend, of New Orleans, who was
murdered by Troisville Sykes. Cunning.
ham alleges that the deceased was his sis.
| ter.
A double murder was committed few
days ago near Richmond, Va, it is. sup.
posed by Jack Thornton, colored, of his wife
and baby. Thornton was under indictment
Cor seduction and married his victim,
Marie Glenn, the day previous, to escape
legal results. He is still at large.
Two negroes, Lewis Carter and CLARK
Thomas, got into difficulty on the levee at
Vicksburg, Miss, a few mornings since,
during which Thomas pulled his gun and
shot Carter, the ball entering Carter's left
breast above the heart, inflicting an ugly
but not dangerous wound. Thomas was
lodged in jail in default Of $500 bond. Car
ter was fined $l5.
Near Chico, Tex, a few nights ago, a
band of armed men went to the home of
Smith Drew, noted character, and with
out passing any words commenced firing a
fusi1ade at the building. Drew's nephew,
lately from Missouri, attempted to run
from the house, when he was shot through
the neck and Instantly killed. There have
been nine arrests, including some of the
most respected citizens of the county.
Estimates of the :osses by the forest
fires in North Carolina vary widely. The
damage to farm-houses is light, but to fenc-
ing heavy. Much lumber was burned in
Moore County. In the lower counties tur-
pentine farms are considerably damaged,
but not to the extent of affecting the trade
except in the region swept over. The tur-
pentine yield will be disminished, but
not enough to affect the market
At recent meeting of the Legislative
Council, of Memphis, Tenn, the ordinance
which closes barber-shopS on Sunday was
amended so as to permit the shops to keep
open until 10 a. m. After five days publ
cation the ordinance was to go into effect
and citizens would then be able to get a
clean Sunday shave.
The wholesale grocery house of G. H.
Allyn & Co., at Cors icana, Tex, was de.
stroyed by fire a few mornings since. The
safe was recovered from the ruins and the
contents were found intact. Loss, SAL 800;
insurance, S32, so. The adjoining building
occupied as saloon by G. R. Barch, was
also totally destroyed. Insurance on
building, $500; valued at $1,000.
A few nights ago the two-story frame
! building known as Good TemDlar Hall, in
Denison, Tex, burned to the ground. 1t
was occupied by S. B. Lake as carriage
shop, and contained a stock of new and
secondhand vehicles, part only of which
were saved. The origin of the fire is a
mystery. This is the third time Mr.. Lake
has burned out in that city.
w. t. Dowda has been sentenced to the
Georgia Penitentiary for seven years at
Decatur for kidnapping. Dowdais school
teacher, sixty-three years of age and wear
ing flowing beard. He taught in Litho
mia year ago, where his attentions to a
thirteen-year-old pupil, Miss Ragdale, de
veloped into unholy love. Eloping one
night with the child he led the officers q
lively race from place to place, and was
not captured until after he had reached
South Carolina, where he had married the
girl at midnight.
George Long, one of the parties who es.
capped from the Madison County (Ga.) jail