Huntsville gazette., 1884-04-26
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

of morphine are sold annually by drug
store at Washington, Ga.
The prophet tor of a hotel at Keowee, S.
c., is engaged in preparing large storm
pit for the benefit of his guests in case of a
cyclone.
The Illinois Central Road has completed
a branch of forty miles from Jackson,
Miss, to Yazoo City, and will soon run
regular trains.
The colt Farondale. entered for the
Louisville Derby, ran away few days
ago and fell, fatally injuring his jockey.
w. w. Taylor committed suicide at
Gainesville, Tex, few nights ago by taking
morphine. Family trouble is supposed to
have been the cause.
One Friedman, Russian Jew peddler,
wa fatally stabbed at Nashville, Tenn, by
anuaiA:loy-n person few nights ago.
Tensas and Concordia Parishes, La,
though badly overflowed, will probably
be able to raise a cotton crop. The
water is slowly draining off.
The Executive Committee of the Re-
publican Wing Party of Georgia has is.
sued a call for convention to meet
May 1, for the nom nation of State officers
duu elcCtOIS.
A few days since Charles Sanders, a
colored young man of Fort Worth, Tex,
went home, took pistol from his pocket
and remarked to his sister as he sat down:
"Would you like to see me kill myself"
She told him: "No, put it away" He put
the pistol to his forehead and sent ball
through his brain, dying almost instantly.
Stephen Moore, Wichita Falls (Tex.)
cattle man, was killed few days ago by
Ben Shanklin. The killer escaped. He is
described as five feet nine inches high,
light complexion, blue eyes and sandy mus
tache. Moore was rich and formerly re.
sided at Dallas. a reward of $1,000 is Of
fered for the capture of Shanklin.
Captain ALI. G.. luther, of Memphis,
Tenn, has been missing for several days.
The gentleman is widely known, and has a
wife and four children in Memphis. Cap
tain luther was Adjutant- General under
General James C. Veatch, who commanded
the Federal forces in Memphis during 1854
He afterwards marched to the sea with
Sherman, and was popular officer in the
army.
1t is stated that there are six hundred
lunatics at present in the Texas jails.
Hampton, Va, boasts the oldest church
in the country-St. Johns, which was built
in 1884.
Goat men are very successful near
Uvalde, Tex, most of them raising 100 per
cent.
The business quarter of Monroe, La, has
been entirely destroyed by fire.
- :e,- Il- -->,,-I-o1 ssSiY rniIac to Mont.
a inf ,fY1rr rtoIr
after the recent tornado, 250 miles from
Montgomery.
1t is said that a number of the negroes
who recently went to Arkansas from
Anderson County, South Carolina, are
dissatisfied, and are trying to get money
to get back home.
Carthage, Tex, is to have a $4,000
Courthouse, and Center, in the same State
one costing $4,000. Both buildings are to
be begun at once.
In the San Antonio (Tex.) City Council
away with the charter and organize the
City government under the State law.
In Marion County, South Carolina, hun
dreds of persons are said to be in danger
of starvation. In no year since the war
has there been such scarcity Of food.
George Dunaway, of Randolph County,
Georgia, had fretful child. He attempted
to whip it recently, whereupon his wife
drew pistol and killed him.
The Kentucky House of Representatives
has passed bill prohibiting b:cyclsts
from using the public roads of most of the
counties in that State.
James A. Trumbull, General Freight
agent of the Galveston, Harrisburg & San
Antonio Railroad, died at Sherman, Tex,
few days ago. He was one of the oldest
railroad men in Texas.
Ten indictments have been returned at
Louisville, KY, against d. K. Mas on for
fraudulent hypothecation of warehouse re-
ceipts.
Bill Epps, desperate, who has been op.
Grating in Texas for some time, and Under.
wood, of the Sam Bass gang, were jailed al
Gainesville few days ago.
Dowse, whose five children were muir
dered in his home near Waynesbcro, Ga,
some weeks ago, confesses the or me and
pleads emotional insanity.
John Bush (colored), the murderer who
was to ha We been hung at Lexington, KY,
on IHe lOtn, was granted new Crldl Dy ble
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 a hole through the
wall and escaped few nights ago, but was
subsequently recaptured.
Two negroes named Willis Moore and
Henry jackson, from Madison j ar.sh,
Miss, while going to Vicksburg from
Delta in skiff few days ago, were over.
taken by storm and upset. Moore clung
to the skif 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