The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-05-01
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

James a. Trumbull, General Freight
agent Of the Galveston, Harrisburg g. San
Antonio Railroad, died at Sherman, Tex,
lew days ago. He was one OF the Oldest
railroad men in Texas.
Ten indictments have been returned at
Louisville, Ky, against d. X. Mason for
fraudulent hypothecation Of warehouse re.
ceipts.
Bill Epps, desperate, who has been op.
Grating inTexas for some time, and Under.
wood, of the Sam Bass gang, were jailed at
Gainesville few days ago.
Dowse, whose five children were mur.
dered in his home near Waynesboro, Ga,
some weeks ago, confesses the crime and
pleads emotional insanity.
John Bush (colored), the murderer who
was to have been hung at Lexington, KY,
on the 10th, was granted a new trial by the
Court Of Appeals which will probably
come up in May.
VIM. Todd was shot and mortally wound
ed at Speedwell, Madison County, KY, a
few days ago by man named Conway.
Thomas Shields, confined in Jail at Char
lotte, N. G., under sentence of death for the
murder of Joseph G. Sitton, with the aid
Of outside friends, cut a hole through the
wall and escaped few nights ago, but was
subsequently recaptured.
Two negroes named Willis Moore and
Henry Jackson, from Madison Parish,
Miss, while going to Vicksburg from
Delta in a skiff a few days ago, were over.
taken by storm and upset. Moore clung
to the skif and was rescued by another
colored man from the landing. jackson
managed to get upon an empty coal fiat,
lying in the edge of the willows, but was
blown off BY the terrible wind and nothing
has been seen of his body since.
a few nights ago while Claude Patterson
messenger on the East Tennessee, Vir.
ginia q Georgia Railroad, was passing
through the yard Of the Cincinnati South
ern Railroad at Chattanooga, he was struck
by locomotive. A binding rain was
falling, and i'll his eagerness to seek shelter
he did not see the engine. Both legs were
severed at the knee, the whole engine pass.
lingo him. He fingered iii great agony
for several hours, when death relieved
him.
man in Jacksonville, Fla, made $42.59
from a single rose-bush this season.
Shad are now being caught in the Ala.
bama River.
quantities Of Strawberries.
Tho Georgia Central Road has started
movement for an airline track from AT.
lanta, Ga, to Baltimore, Md, $50 miles.
strawberry measuring three and a
half inches one way by four the other, WINS
picked from Hawthorn (Florida) patch
few days since.
San Jacinto veterans recently gathered
at Paris, Tex, where they celebrated the
forty-eghth anniversary Of the battle Of
San Jacinto.
The orange crop of Florida this season il
estimated at 60OO0,009, netting $25O,OOO.
East Tennessee marble is selling for 100
per cent. more than Italian marble in the
leading markets.
General Gordon announces his intention
TO raise $l,000,000 for the Confederate Home
in Richmond.
Washington County, Mississippi, pro
duces more cotton than any other county
in America; it yields $1,000 bales. Yazoo
County is second, with 1900 to $4,000
bales.
George Cotes, colored, who set fire to
Jere Green's house at Gadsden, Ala, while
Green and his wife were at church, and
burned their four children to death, has
been captured. Threats of lYnching caused
the jail to be guarded by the local mill.
tary.
A. Lider, Dallas (Tex.) grocery mer.
chant, has been arrested on an indictment
charging arson, connected with the burn
ing Of his store about two months ago.
Lider has been burned out three times in
Dallas, and this is his second indictment
for arson. 1t is alleged that all his fires
secured heavy insurance on small stock.
He was liberated on e750 bond.
The recent fire at Carlisle, KY, destroyed
the whole Of one business block. 1t orig.
mated in Mrs. McCracken's millinery
store. Among the losers are Pyers' block,
$4,000; insured for $1,000; r. s. Adair
building, groceries, SI5,OOJ; insured for
$1,000; Simms e. Campbell building,
$500; insured for $3.50; Peale & Chap.
pell, dry goods, $4,000; insured for $l2,-
COO; Kennedy a. Beck, dry goods, $12, 900;
insured for $4,000; Masonic Lodge, 81 900;
no insurance; Mrs. McCracken, millinery,
5000; insured.
At Dallas, Tex, the grocery house OF
Fortune Brothers was robbed recently of a
large quantity of goods and the safe bur-
glarized of 1928 in cash and collateral
The burglars were captured subsequently
three miles southeast OF Dallas, and gave
their names as William Albert, Charles
Williams and Charles Gorham. The two
first named are white men, strangers. The
last named is notoriously bad negro OF
Dallas. The stolen money was recovered
and the burglars Jailed.
Texas is out of debt, but its cities and
towns, instead of profiting by the good ex-
ample, are issuing bonds as fast as possi-
bic. Some Of them are calling halt and
protesting against piling S5,00O,0O0 debt
on 81 100000 town.
A man named Jones, at Thornton. Tex,
under the impression that be was going TO
die, made confession of one burglary and
an attempt at another, duplicating young
Freeman. His illness was not fatal, and
Jones and his accomplice were arrested
and lodged in Jail.
The FIRST recorded death from snake. bite