Huntsville gazette., 1884-05-10
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

Madison county, Ga, issued Ten years
ago, to aid a railroad from Canton to
Vicksburg. The road was never built,
and the bonds never legally issued. The
present Board of Supervisors has en-
gagged counsel to resist payment.
Two colored politicians were arrested at
Garysburg, N. c., few days ago when
about to fi2ht dual@A
Colonel VIII Lam bert, Secretarsre ef the
Texas Live Stock Association, says there
will be one hundred Texas COW men at the
Convention in st. Louis next November.
kilograms state that Mullican and Clark,
convicted in Ouachita Parish, La, of the
murder Of old man Rogers and wife last
month, were taken from jail at Monroe
few nights ago and hanged.
At the last sitting of the Medina County
(Tex.) Grand Jury, fifty-tAree men were
indicted for 100 misdemeanors and forty
. one cases of fence burning, fence cutting,
conspiracy to murder State witnesses, etc.
A negro in Houston County Texas, re-
Gently passed $50 Confederate bill on a
grange store, got so worth of goods and
$40 in change, and skipped out before the
fraud was detected.
Colorado City, Tex, has hen which few
into lis owners room few days ago in
time to give the alarm and enable him to
drive away two thieves who were making
off with a load of booty.
Bidle University, at Charlotte, N. c., for
colored people, is to have a new hall cost
ing $4,000.
Fort Worth, Tex, generously offers to
contribute y for every Il allowed by the
State to establish and conduct a summer
Normal School at that place.
Anthony O'Brien, an employe of the
Texas & Pacific Railroad, drank to excess
few nights ago at Marshal, Tex, and wan
dered off, and the next morning was found
drowned in branch near the CT ".
Jim Smithson, a farmer living near
Birmingham, Ala, shot his father n-law,
named Blankenship, dead few days ago,
on account of something the latter said
and re used to retract. Smithson escaped.
The Owensboro S5 Nashville Accommo-
dation train was wrecked near Russell
vile, KY, few days ago by cow on the
track. Sam Page, engineer, of Louisville,
was killed. Mike Costello, fireman, was
badly injured.
The general store belonging to VIM. II.
1ys.--, ~7Iay Ug1-, go e1voU1 ~ cu W
fire a few mornings since. Loss, 5000;
insurance, $4,000 The origin Of tile fire
is unknown.
Sheriff Brawley, of Ellis county, Tex,
recently lodged in Dallas Jail notorious
horse-thief named Thomas Wolf, who has
operated in Texas and the Indian Territory
for years, and whom the authorities have
been after since 1889. Wolf was captured
in East Texas. He was to be transferred
to Waxahachie Jail.
A convention of plaid manufacturers
South met at Greensboro, N. c., a few days
ago All reported no stock on hand and
many largely ahead. The mills organized
as the Southern Plaid Manufacturers Asso-
citation and elected I. NJ Holt, President.
VIM. Neal has been sentenced to be
hanged at Grayson, KY, July 49, He
made long speech, denying his guilt, and
relating in detail his movements before and
after the time of the murder, saying he was
at home asleep when the crime was COM
mitted.
News reached Dallas, Tex, a few nights
ago that the fences Of Alex Cockrel's big
pastures, seven miles west Of Dallas, had
been cut. Cockrell has two pastures, one
of 4,0C0 acres, the other of 1900, and the
fences were cut in almost every panel.
The damage is estimated at $4,000. There
is 10 clew to the fence cutters.
At Long Branch school-Eouse, Guada-
loupe County, Tex, eight miles from San
Marcos, at the close of Sabbath-school last
Sunday difficulty occurred resulting in
the killing of Houston Geary by Gus
Scrutchins. Wiley Watson, in endeavor
ing to prevent the parties from fighting,
was shot through the shoulder. Five shots
were fired, two by Geary and three by
Scrutchins. The difficulty was the result
Of an old feud.
G. J. McDowall, a trial Justice, was shot
and killed near Camden, S. c., few day
ago by A. H. Perry. The latter had com
planned Of the rulings Of the Justice in a
cause before him. for which McDowall
called Perry to account, and fight ensued
with the above result. Perry has fed
McDowall's brother was murdered by a
negro two years ago, for which the latter
was hanged.
Miss Maria Hedden, daughter of Mr..
John Hedden, was drowned in the Ococe
River, near Duektown, Tenn, few days
ago.
Some time ago Mr.. G. /. Record, of
Vicksburg, Miss, bored holes in rows
around a hogshead at regular intervals,
filling the hogshead with earth, and set a
strawberry plant in each of the holes, be-
sides putting number of plants on top.
There are now 100 plants growing from the
sides of this novel garden in full beauty
and bloom, with aprolific growth of thriv-
ing, healthy fruit.
The Florida Republicans elected Arthur
men as delegates s-at-large to the Chicago
Convention.
William Brooks was hanged at Alexan-
dria, La, on the 81 inst for wife murder.
Enoch Brown suffered the same penalty
for similar crime on the same day at
Halifax Courthouse, N. G.
James Monroe, of Camden, Ray County,
KY, while in fit of temporary insanity a
few days ago committed suicide by cutting
his throat.
A. Heniman's warehouse at Waco, Tex,
was destroyed by fire a few days ago.
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