The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-06-12
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

III East FeHclana IarlSn, Louisiana, but
not in sufficient numbers to do any serious
damage.
A contract has been made for putting
the capitol at Tallahassee, Florida, in
thorough repair. The basement will be-
paved with marble or fiag.stone, and
everything put in first-class order and re-
painted.
Two young ladies e. Sardis, Miss, had
lots of fun one day recently. They
dressed themselves up in the guise Of
beggars and scooped the town for three
dollars in cash and something to eat and
| drink.
There. were 1,12O bales of leaf tobacco
and 1904 gallons Of wine imported into
Key West, Fla, from Havana last
month.
A sport Of Vicksburg, Miss, offers to
bet S1,750 that gigantic Vicksburg ne.
gro can whip either Sullivan or Ryan.
John Wolf, son of the Circuit Court
| Clerk Of Scott County, KY, has been sem
fenced to five years. imprisonment for for
gerry on the Georgetown Bank? Fifteen
similar indictments are pending against
him.
Five South Carolina counties are two.
thirds good pine, but have no railroads.
The wholesale grocer and liquor house of
L. Boyer q Co. at Mobile, Ala, burned
few nights ago. Loss about $4,000; in.
sured for $4,000.
| H. 4. Duncan, editor of daily newspa.
per at Lexington, KY, has been fined 5000
for malicious libel because his journal pub
lished the card of citizen casting refiec-
Tn - Az.
Duncan was away from home when the
card was issued.
The commencement exercises OF the
Memphis Conference Female Institute at
jackson, Tenn, begins June with
commencement sermon by Rev. Josephus
Anderson, Of Arkansas. The graduating
exercises will take place Wednesday,
June II.
AT Starkville, Miss. the jury in the case
of the State against William Cranberry,
charged with killing Ike Sharp, few days
ago, returned verdict of guilty of murder
in the first degree after being out about
sixteen hours.
nacollision, few nights ago, near Palat'
ka, Fla, between the steamers Anita and
Princess, the latter 3as disabled. A pas.
senger named Hall, from Boston, was
knocked overheard and drowned.
Mumford r. Ligon, freight conductor
on the Houston IL Texas Central Railroad,
was killed few nights ago on the road,
between Hampstead and Navasota, Tex.
He was running train that was water.
bound at Courtney, and was on the loco
motive when it ran into cow, throwing
the engine from the track and killing
Ligon.
Six prisoners broke Jail ut Eastman, Ca,
few days ago, and escaped by breaking
off heavy iron bar from the bedstead in
one of the cells, prying through the cor
ridor bars, knocking hole through the
gable of the Jail and letting themselves
down by blankets. Following are the
names and crimes for which they were i'm
prisoned: Amos Bryant, murder; George
]. Fuller, murder; Brass Wright, highway
robbery; Frank Matthews, attempted mur.
der; Lewis MacRae and Joseph Durr, rob
berry.
DR.. Thomas Griffith, a distinguished sur
geon of Louisville, KY, died few days
ago.
A confagration at Paducah, KY, few
days since, destroyed $4,000 worth OF
property.
Green corn is being shipped from Flori.
da.
Gilbert g. Wright, an attorney of Dal.
las, Tex, has been indicted on charge of
completely in the cotton swindles.
II. w. Thaler, editor Batesville (Miss.)
Blade, shot and killed julius Porter few
days ago. The net was in self-defense.
VIM. Cook, VIM. Defus and Eddie Loven
were drowned few days ago while sailing
on Lake Ponchartrain, La.
Joseph Schaefer OF GAINESVILLE, o., ar.
rived in Houston, Tex, few days ago.
While crossing bridge at midnight he
was attacked by ruffians and knocked
senseless, robbed of 1850 in gold, and
thrown into Buffalo bayou. He was res.
cued by negro, and at last accounts was
lying in a critical condition. The robbers
escaped.
The dead body Of an old man named
Jno. Hassett, an Irishman, was found
few nights ago two miles east of San An
tonic, horribly mutilated by being dragged
over rough ground and through the woods.
His head was mashed. all the limbs bro.
ken, and body bruised. His wagon and
camp were near by. Two mules were
grazing-one with a long rope dragging.
out and became tangled in the rope and
the mule ran away. He had been freightine
in the vicinity several years. He had on
his person $3.50.
special from Clarksville, Tenn, re.
ports the discovery of band Of outlaws
who have been depredating for fifteen
years in Montgomery County. The chief
was Ransom Morrow, prominent farmer
sixty years old, living fifteen miles from
town. Two Of the gang under arrest have
made full confessions, which are startling
in the extreme. They give the particulars
Of nearly dozen horrible murders, while
the accounts of robberies, arson and other
crimes would fill book. The gang made
their headquarters at big cave, which,
seven hunered yards from the entrance,
ends at precipice forming a bottomless
cavity called "Hell's Hole" On the edge
of the precipice lay the body of man
named overton, whom the gang had re.
l.. - e