The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-07-24
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

inquiries must be confined to Federal cleo
tions.
Dr. q. W. Pierce, of Dallas, Tex, was
arrested and lodged in Jail few nights
ago on charge Of implication in the exten-
slVe frauds recently perpetrated by the
forgery of titles to public lands Of Texas.
otate Attorney Clint notified Attorney.
General Templeton and the Sheriff took
the prisoner to Austin.
One Of the train wreckers who have
made several attempts to throw the cars
OF the Illinois Central Railroad from the
track near Duck Hill, Miss, was arrested
a few days since by detectives, on the in
formation of woman he was about to
marry, who says he confessed to her that
ne belonged to the party. 1t is probable
the balance of the gang will be captured.
Joe knntz, Of Denison, Tex, shot his di-
yorced wife few days ago in the yard in
front Of Catholic priests residence,
where the woman was employed as a
housekeeper The cause is unknown.
huntz, after shooting his wife, walked
several blocks to his room, and entering
killed himself. His wife will recover.
The case OF Judge Jones VS.. Judge Hicks
was decided by the Supreme Court at
Opelousas, La, in favor of the latter. 1t
Will be remembered that Hicks was elected
Judge Of that district at the last election,
and Jones claimed that he was an in.
truder, as his term of office did not expire
Tor two years yet. Jones was elected two
years ago, under an act of the Legislature
creating an additional Judge for that dis
trict. The decision sets at rest vexatious
judicial mudde.
Charles Billings met with horrible
death at Knoxville, Tenn, few daya ago,
while attempting to ocouple cars. He fell be.
tween them and was cfushed to death by
the wheels. He was struck by the wheels
near the hips, and two cars passing over
him ground and dragged him thirty yards
or more. The mangled body was literally
cut III twain and presented sickening
mass. From above the knees to the hips
the body was crushed to jelly, and the
lower limbs distorted completely out of
shape. His cries for help reached the ears
of those on the engine, but they were pow
erless to relieve him. George Lusk, the
head coupler, rushed to the scene, and
others followed. Scattered along the track
We're shreds of clothing and pieces of bleed
ing flesh mixed with the coal and dirt
Strange to say above the waist the body
was not disfgured, and Billings mind was
entirely clear When he saw Lusk an
preaching, he said, "George, / fell between
the cars and tried my best to get out of the
way, but could not do it, / have been
working with you a long time, but will
never help you couple any more" His
agonizng groans were piteous to hear. He
begged them to move his feet, and said he
could get up if they would help him. He
clueched convulsively to those bending
over him, and prayed for His Maker to
stand by him in that trying hour. This in
tense agony lasted for forty minutes, when
he began to weaken, and fell back with the
death damp on his forehead. He became
quiet and expired fifty minutes from the
time he was run over. Billings was
twenty six years of age, and leaves a wife
and one child, now living at Roanoke, Va.
An extra mail service is to be provided
by river between Vicksburg and Green.
vile, Miss.
James A. Chandler, Postmaster at Du
pre-, Tex, was found dead in his house
few days ago,
San Antonio (Tex.) capitalists propose
to build new railroad to connect that city
with deep water on the Gulf,
An attempt is being made to borrow the
centennial organ for use at the New Or
leans Worlds Exposition.
The authorities of Port Gibson, Miss,
will resist the delivery of $4,000 in bonds
to the Louisville, New Orleans & Texas
Road.
Newton Carpenter and Ned Macks, ne
groes, of Starksville, Miss, were arrested
recently for poisoning two boys in 1882.
While on the way to jail they were hanged
by mob.
A petrifed hog has been discovered in
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 Baltimore restaurant few days
ago by 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
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 Bainbridge.
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 tiocks 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