The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-05-22
SOUTHERN GLEANINGs.

| on the road. AT the first store he attempt.
ed to rob the proprietor fired five shots at
him and the boy hasn't been seen since
The cotton crop report for the Memphis
district shows a decreased acreage
| planted.
A Louisville attorney named Lewis @.
Garrigus has sued A. Frazier of that city
| Tor $4,000 damages for shooting him at
Russellville, KY, last year.
The heirs of Thomas A. Scott sued the
city Of Shreveport, La, for $4,000 with ac-
crued interest since 1875, but Judge Board
man rendered decision against them.
James Murray shot and killed d. Hardin,
ex-Sherif of Crittenden County, Tenn, Ia
few days ago in quarrel growing out OF
lawsuit. Murray was shot in return and
died soon afterwnrd.
An attempt was made a few days ago by
a Sheriff's posse OF forty men TO capture
w. B. Cash, the Chesterfield Is. CO out
law. The Cash mansion, Cash's depot, was
surrounded and thorough search of the
premises made, but the murderer could not
be found.
l. ]. II. Wolf, of Georgetown. KY, was ar
rested at Lexington few nights ago on
the charge of forgery. He had forged the
name of T. J. Burgess, Cashier of the
Georgetown National Bank, to checks to
the amount OF several thousand dollars.
The bank will lose heavily by it.
Austin Bull, raftsman from Pennsyl.
vania, was found murdered under pile of
straw in the eastern part of the city of
Louisville, KY, few days ago. He had
been struck in the head, then choked to
death with towel and his body hid under
the straw. There was no clew to the MUIR
derer or cause of the crime.
John Ashley, a farmer, while at work on
his farm, half mile east of Denison, Tex,
was shot in the face by some unknown
| party, the ball lodging near the ear, but it
is thought not to be serious. Itissupposed
TO have been a stray shot from some one
out hunting.
The trial of School Superintendent
! Carter M. Lauthan, of Richmond, Va, for
engaging in politics in violation of law
resulted in a verdict of guilty. He was
fined fifty dollars in addition to forfeiture
of his office. Lauthan will appeal.
One of the little girls of Mr.. Geo.
Reeves, of Waynesboro, Ga, went out
into the yard, few days ago, carrying
one of the smaller children in her arms.
There were two large pots OK boiling
clothes in the yard. As she neared the
pots, holding the little one in her arms,
peeping over the edge, she released her
grasp and dropped the little fellow into
the hot water. 1t was scalded to death.
The mills of the kentucky Lumber Com
pany at Williamsburg, KY, burned a few
days ago. Loss, 10000; insurance, $40,.
000.
The Postmasters at Flag Springs, KY,
and Walnut Ridge, Ark, have been arrested
on charges of embezzlement.
At the Houston (Tex.) drill member OF
the Columbus Guards tainted and stabbed
himself seriously in the neck with his own
bayonet.
A well-dressed man giving the name OF
@. H. Anderson attempted suicide at Dali
las, Tex. few days ago, on account Of a
love scrape.
James Scanlan has been arrested at Car.
rollton, Tex, as an accessory TO the MUIR
der Of George Moore, which occurred about
the middle of April.
The wives Of Dick Crouch and James
Sullivan of Paducah, KY, quarreled and
Crouch shot and fatally wounded Sui.
livan.
The coffee imports into the port Of Gal
weston, Tex, from July /, 1873, to May /,
1884, were 1874 pounds, valued at $685.
90.
A penitentiary guard was killed in Ken
lucky few days ago by one OF gang Of
conylcvs wnoll, ie was euklns lo prison.
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