St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-10
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

/ SOIleTy, AiG.S was IOuIlQ III Cle mountains
| after the recent tornado, $50 miles fron
Montgomery.
James A. Trumbull, General Freight
agent of the Galveston, Harrisburg & Sar
| Antonio Railroad, died at Sherman, Tex,
a few days ago. He was one of the oldest
railroad men in Texas.
Ten indictments have been returned al
Louisville, KY, against D. K. Mason for
| fraudulent hypothecation of warehouse re.
| ceipts.
Bill Epps, desperate, who has been op.
eratingin Texas for some time, and Under.
wood, of the Sam Bass gang, were jailed at
Gainesville few days ago.
Dowse, whose five children were muir.
dered in his home near Waynesbtro, Ca,
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 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. c., under sentence of death for the
murder of Joseph G.. Sitton, with the aid
of outside friends, cut 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 skiff few days ago, were over
taken by storm and upset. Moore chung
to the skiff 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 & Georgia Railroad, was passing
through the yard of the Cincinnati South
ern Railroad at Chattanooga, he was struck
by a locomotive. A binding rain was
falling, and in his eagerness to seek shelter
he did not see the engine. Both legs were
severed at the knee, the whole engine pass
UNCOVER him. He fingered in great agony
for several hours, when death relieved
him.
A man in Jacksonville, Fla, made $3.50
from single rose-bush this season.
Shad are now being caught in the Ala
bama River.
Crystal Springs, Miss, is shipping large
quantities of strawberries.
The Georgia Central Road has started
movement for an airline track from At
lanta, Ga, to Baltimore, Md. $50 miles.
A strawberry measuring three and a
half inches one way by four the other, was
picked from Hawthorn (Florida) patch a |
few days since.
San Jacnto veterans recently gathered |
at Paris, Tex, where they celebrated the |
forty. eighth anniversary of the battle of |
San Jacinto.
The orange crop of Florida this season is
estimated at 69,000,0oo, 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 $1,000 for the Confedera e Homo
in Richmond.
Washington County, Mississippi, pro
1uces more cotton than any other county
IN America; it yields % 200 bales. Yazoo
County is, second, with 1900 to $4,000
bales,
George Cotes, colored, who set fire t.
(ere Green's house at Gadsden, Ala, while
5reen and his wife were at church, and
burned their four children to death, has
'een captured. Threats of lynching caused
he Jail to be guarded by tue local mill
airy.
A. Lider, Dallas (Tex.) grocery mer,
liant, has been arres, ed on an Indictment
harging arson, connected with the burn.
ng of his store about two months ago.
Aider has been burned out three times in
DALLAS, and this is his second Indictment
or arson. 1t is alleged that all his fires
ecured heavy insurance on small stock.
lie was liberated on 1850 bond.
The recent fire at Carlisle, KY, DESTROYED
be whole OF one business block. 1t orig.
mated in Mrs. McCracken's millinery
tore. Among the losers are Pyers' block,
Il 1000; insured for $1,000; P. S. Adair
uildlng, groceries, $1,000; insured for
1900; Simms & Campbell building, .
$500; insured for $3.50; Peale & Chap
ell, dry goods, $4,000: insured for S12.. I
20; Kennedy & Beck, dry goods, 1000; {
lsured for 81 800; Masonic Lodge, 81 900;
Q insurance; Mrs. McCracken, millinery,
5000; insured.
At Dallas, Tex, the grocery house of ;
ortune Brothers was robbed recently of a !
rye quantity of goods and the safe bur- !
larized of 1923 in cash and collateral. !
be burglars were captured subsequently t
rec miles southeast of Dallas, ami gave a
eir names as William Albert, Charles a
'illiams and Charles Gorham. The two 4
st named are white men, strangers. The i
st named is a VIGOROUSLY bad negro of y
alias. The stolen money was recovered
Id the burglars iailed.