West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1884-01-04
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGs

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sold TO one firm $1,000 worth OK wool. Tho
sheep from which the wool was shorn ran
out in the woods and were not dollars
expense TO the owners
\ GAtNESvILIE, FLA, baker, named DEM
bert, has just fallen heir TO 81, 100000.
Mormon missionaries report that they
arc doing good business in Texas
Amour sixty workmcu arc employed on
the army aud navy hospital 40 Hot Springs,
Ark, which is being pushed toward COM
plction.
THE farmers OF Marshall County, Miss,
at recent meeting in Holly Springs,
voted an favor of no-fcncc law. Stock
raising Is looked upon by them as a
promising thing and many expressed
their intention OF abandoning planting to
SO into Il,
SEvEpAL people at Lumbcrton, Miss,
were recently poisoned by eating oyster,
that had been packed la buckets previously
| containing tobacco.
ruE artcsion well at Amcricus, Ga, had
to be abandoned after boring nine hundred
toet.
Mr. JouN RILEY, OF Frederick County,
Va, will bc one hundred aud scven wears
old ON tho twenty .hfth of January. lie H.
In excellent hoalth, and frequently walks
to Winchester, ton miles distant from his
| residence.
WHILE Mr.. Louis Estcvan, of Bayou
| Black, La, was out hunting recently, his
powdcr.horn exploded aud injured him Sc.
Nerely. His hands aud arms were badly
| burned, "a large cash cut n his side, aud ho
was blown ont of his piroguo into tho yvator
a SAN ANTONIO, TcNas, court has dccid.
ed that one horse Is not "A steam"
A CoLoUED woman wns fined ono dollar
10y Judge Adams for eating peanuts I'm the
superior Court at Savannah, Ga, on Mon.
dny.
SoRGHuM is attracting tho attention of
North Carolina farmers as paying crop,
| and more care Is being taken to produce
good molassos than formerly.
JAMESON q MILLER, Bclibucklo, Tenn,
have failed FOR $1,000; nssctts, $4,000.
A. JoHpoN, at Milan, Tenn, has failed
for $4,000; assets, $4,000
ANDREW LIVELY, who resides near Pal.
metto, Ca, was sitting by his hrcside fow
dhys since, when some one crcpt mp TO tho
window, aud placing a shotgun ngaiust
| tue glass, fred ON him. TGe gun was
charged with mixture df shot aud bull
let's Ono bullet took effect i'm Lvelyts
! mead, back OF tho ear, and ono side of his
head and face was literally filed with shot.
| Suspicion pointed Co Bob Alien a the muir.
derer, nud an investigation developed tho
| factth he had skipped out. He was sub.
| sequenty arrested noar Hampton. and is
now in Fayette County Jail. There is n
family scandal connected with tho affair.
MRs. CAROLINE HAMPTON PRESTON, last
| surviving child of Cen. Wade Hampton, OF
| Revolutionary fame, died in Columbia, S.
9" recently she was II yeais ola
Tom JOHNSON, OF 10 GranEo, in 0iange
County, Fla, has an orange lmb less than
an inch in diameter, which holds cluster
Of oranges $50 in number.
FOREST fires have been sweeping through
the woods in various sections OF Florida,
damaging property, cndougcring lifo aud
! destroying the growing timber
UF no this time one hundred and two
manned Confederate soldiers have applied
TO the Governor of Georgia for the money
| granted 10y rgcnut act of the Legislature
| Tor tho purchase OF limbs.
The Chattanooga blast furnnco has re.
duced salaries 10 per cent, and secured
20 per cont reduction ia coke and orc
| ROBERr WILLIAMS, while out hunting
near Hoiskell Station, Tenn, fow dnys
since, was accidently shot by his cousin,
Leo Williams. lie died Immediately, nty
shot having entered his body.
MATE HILL, well-kown farmer living
near Knoxville, Tenn, was killed by tile
| hlHNhhl'h 'l u gun WVllf blfWlnI lt iuC
muzzie to soc II II was loaded, tho other
day.
MIR. II. LEDGER, n Swiss gentleman, has
determined 20 settle In Florida. lie win
have "a number Of Italians imported forths
! purpose OF cuitiyutiug oranges.
\ coon old citizen Of Dale county, Ala
was fined $50, including costs, at tie late
session OF the United States Court i'm Mont.
gomery, for cutting wood of of Govern.
ment land. Ile had no money with which
10 pay the fine, but rather than mortgage
his land he concluded 20 serve out his hue
in jail.
Az industrious ana enterprising colored
farmer, near Fayette, Miss, named Alex
Scott has already shipped $500 head of
/ cabbage Tor which he has realized nine
cents q head. This was in addition TO his
/ regular crop OF corn and cotton
IHE postmaster nt Scottsb boro. Ala, dur
/ Ing the present year has ISSUED money or
| dcrs 20 the amount of SiJ,7lG37-a good
| showing for "a small town.
OvE hundred incaudescent electric
/ lights have boon plnced ot thc Howard Cot
/ ton.seed ON Works n Houston. TEX. They
arc the first of the Kind used boz that city.
THE State Librarian of Virginia, Colonel
Sherwin McR1e, after studying fora de-
cadc the co1t-of.arus of tho old Dominion,
has produced "a new device which will be
recommended FOR official adoption. The
/ design represents Virtue standing with one
foot on tho dead body Of q tyraut, withth
chains of subjection broken. The sword is
sheathcd md the figure is clothed in tho
/ gar0 OF "a Roman citizen, instead OF In
arm0r
a CHILD ras born in the eastern part Of
/ Ecambia County, AIn., recently with n