Huntsville gazette., 1884-03-01
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.


go TO the credit of the school fund.
The Tom Green Land and Cattle
Company, capital $4,000, with office at
San Angela, Tex, has been Incorporated.
The Governor of Virginia has vetoed
the Congressional apportionment bill.
Articles of association were filed few
days ago for the Young Mems Building As
sociation of I.ampasas, Tex, with capital
stock Of Sl0o,0r
Harry Miller, an old Texas Il Pacific
freight conductor, OF Dallas, lost an arm a
few nights ago in an accident near Colora-
do, Tex, and received other injuries which
it was thought would pcye fatal.s
Burglars elfec; ed an entrance into the
store of Bradley &, Cook, at Ennis, Tex, a
few nights ago, blew open the safe and Sc
cured upward Of 1000 in cash. 1t was
thought a gang of professional burglars
were operating in that section, and there
were fingers nervously itching to get hold
of some of them.
The handsome residence of ID. Mays,
on what is known as the Divine Farm, on
the north side of the Tennessee River near
/. Chattanooga, Tenn, was totally destroyed
The loss was quite heavy, but the full ex-
tent was not learned.
Newport, Kentucky, reports 1887
houses inundated, the estimated damage
being S1,Ge0,000. Thirty-three buildings
were washed away and 127 turned bottom
upward
At Macon, Ga, recently, I'll. G. Tur-
pin was fatally stabbed by John Burnett
They were rival sewing agents.
Ki ty Evans has instituted suit in
Vicl1sburg, Miss, against Jacob Guadeffer,
for the recovery of diamond ring alleged
to have been taken from the finger of Ed
Wilson, who was recently killed in his own
gambling house.
A suit begun at Brownsville, Tex, by
one Arsnendazo, a Mexican, against the
Stillnaan estate, for damage done on the
Mexican side of the river by jetty built
on the lands of the defendants on this side,
has been decided against him. The Court
took the ground that the defendants had
right to protect their own property.
The surveyor appointed by the Gov
ernor of Texas to correct the boundary lines
of the Texas & Pacific land grant discov-
amounting to 450, 900 acres, and it's officers
have agreed to restore that space to the
State.
AT recent meeting of all African
Methodist Church at Atlanta, Ga, lit was
decided that the preacher should be paid
but half his salary, the other half being
paid to his wife. The cause for this action
was that the clergyman, a beau among his
flock, did not attend to the support of his
own family.
At Lagrange, Tenn, few days ago,
Emma Mccoy, colored, gave a poisoned
biscuit to her husbands alleged paramour.
The latter, instead of partaking, divided
the gift between two children, one of whom
died from the effects. The other was saved
by physicians.
Taylor p. Wells, the well-known
river p lot of Newport, KY, ended pro-
tracted spree at Louisville a few days ago
by shooting himself dead.
At Goodyear, Ala, a few days since
fire destroyed twenty-four buildings and
some substantial merchants were burned
out. The loss will reach 100000. Insur-
ance triiing.
Over two hundred persons are known
to have been killed and more than twice
that number injured by the recent cyclones
in the South.
The first regular annual meeting of
the Southern States Immigration Associa-
tion is to be held in Nashville, Tenn, com
mencing March II and continuing. three
days. A large number of prominent speak
ers will be present.
James Hawkins of Chattanooga,
Tenn, was bitten few days ago by mad
dog with which he had desperate fight,
and succeeded in killing the brute.
The Mardi Gras festivities at New Or
leans attracted an immense concourse of
people.
The vital statistics of Atlanta, Ca,
from the record of 1888, just issued, gives
some interesting features as to the mortal
ity, and the causes leading thereto, Of an
average Southern city. The population of
Atlanta is $1,000, of which $4,000 is white
and 10000 colored. The number of deaths
for the year was 1,0I0 or 21.74 per 1,000.
Of this the proportion of mortality stood
as to the races, whites, 14.76; colored, 32 90,
or more than double the death rate of the
whites. The number of deaths among per-
sons over five years of age reached 554, 2i9
being white and 305 colored. The deaths Of
children under five years of age were 533,
1914 white and $50 colored. Of this number
261 died ander the age of one year; white,
102; colored, 159. The deaths for the four
hot months of May, June, July and August
exceeded the number for the entire balance
Of the year.
The cyclone about Lake Creek, n. c.,
swept away forty houses. Two negro chill.
dren and three white children perished
The dead in the village Of Rockingham
numbered IL; wounded, Ii.
A few evenings since the steamboat
Clinton burst steam pipe 100 miles above
New Orleans, fatally scaldng George
Pierce. Patrick Murphy, assistant engi-
neer, was also scalded.
A few nights ago fellow named
Manuel Martinez set fire to a Mexican house
in the upper part of Brownsville, Tex, be-
longing to a hackman named Jose, who