St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-31
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

A Texas youth of sixteen recently turned
| highwayman, stole two Of his fathers
horses, and, armed with a shotgun, went
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 c.
| Garrigus has sued a. Frazier of that city
for $4,000 damages for shooting him at
Russellville, KY, last year.
The heirs of Thomas A. Scott sued the
| city of Shreveport, La, for $40, 900 with &C.
crued interest since 1875, but Judge Board
man rendered decision against them.
James Murray shot and killed D. Hardin.
ex-Sherif ofiCrittenden County, Tenn, ia
few days ago in quarrel growing out of
lawsuit. Murray was shot in return and
| died soon afterward.
| An attempt was made few days ago by
| 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.
J. R. 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 a,towel and his body hid under
the straw. There was no clew to the MUIR
derer or cause of the crime.
John Ashley, farmer, while at work on
his farm, half a mile east of Denison, Tex,
was shot in the face by some unknown
party, the bail lodging near the ear, but it
is thought not to be serious. tits supposed
to have been stray shot from some one
out hunting.
The trial of School Superintendent
Carter NJ. 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.. Gee.
Reeves, of Waynesboro, Ca, went out |
into the yard, few days ago, carrying |
one of the smaller children in her arms. |
There We're two large pots of 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 few
days ago. Loss, 5000 o; insurance, $40
0OO:
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
G. H. Anderson attempted suicide at Dial.
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
Ivan.
The coffee imports into the port of Gal
weston, Tex, from July 1, 1878, to May i,
1854, were 7,373,454 pounds, valued at $685.
90.
ord l.; TaI |
lucky fewtdays ago by one of gang of
convicts whom he was taking to prison.
Already III the season there are known
TO be 900, head of cattle that will be
driven north in the course of the year
from Texas.
The German citizens of Dallas, Tex,
held a grand MAY festival, beginning on
the 18th with grand parade and picnic
Plans have been agreed upon for the
erection Of new hotel at Austin, Tex, by
a Chicago syndica.e. The building is to
cost $500 900.
The pioneers of Dallas County, Tex, in
Guiding all who came to the county prior
TO 1850, are making arrangements for re.
union July u.
Cresceneio Bales, Mexican barber at
Eagle Pass, Tex, committed suicide a few
lays ago by blowing out his brains with a
,eovlver. The act was caused by tenn /
oorarY insanity, owing to the cares of a
arge family, depression in business and
zoo much mescal
An aged Frenchman named Peter Car
0urett, who has been in the country only
;hree months, committed suicide a few
evenings since at Nashville, Tenn, by cut
ing his throat. The reason given was that
lie had no one to talk with, not speaking
English.