Huntsville gazette., 1884-06-14
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

rived in Houston, Tex, q few DAYS ago.
While crossing bridge at midnight he
was attacked by ruffians and knocked
senseless, robbed Of $3.50 in gold, and
thrown into Buffalo bayou. He was res
cued by negro, and at last accounts was
lying in critical condition. The robbers
escaped.
A special from Clarksville, Tenn, re-
ports the discovery Of band Of outlaws
who have been depredating for fifteen
years in Montgomery County. The chief
was Ransom Morrow, a prominent farmer
sixty years old, living fifteen miles from
town. Two of the gang under arrest have
made full confessions, which are startling
in the extreme. They give the particulars
Of nearly dozen horrible murders, while
the accounts of robberies, arson and other
crimes would fill a book. The gang made
their headquarters at big cave, which,
seven hunered yards from the entrance,
ends at a precipice forming a bottomless
cavity called "HelPs Hole" On the edge
of the precipice lay the body of man
named Overton, whom the gang had re-
Gently murdered for his money and then
circulated a report that he had left for Ala
bama. 1t is supposed there are some eight
or ten members of the gang. The confess
sion duplicates several hitherto highly re-
spectacle citizens as being intimately iden-
tilted with the numerous murders and other
crimes. Intense excitement prevails in
Montgomery County.
Forty million acres in Texas are devoted
TO educational purposes.
There are more colored people in Georgia
than there are Indians in the whole cOun-
try. Georgia's negro population IL about
725,000.
Southern papers everywhere speak of
very small chickens bringing very big
prices.
The Mississippi civil-service law shuts
saloon-keepers out of office.
A Mumford (Ga.) girl caught hold Of the
horns of an enraged COW while the animal
was goring her brother, and thus saved
the boys life.
A tumor weighing 100 pounds was re-
moved from Weatherford (Tex.) lady by
two San Antonio physicians recently.
Death resulted soon after.
A wildcat measuring five feet four inches
from the nose to the tail, and two feet six
inches high, was killed recently near
Brownwood, Tex, by cur dog.
James Coward, the last victim Of the
pistol practice of Began Cash in South
Carolina, died a few days ago after intense
suffering for three months.
Bill Lewis, Bill Smith and Bum Albert,
three ex-convicts, pleaded guilty at Dallas,
Tex, to burglarizing Fortune Bros safe
in that city of over 800, on the night of
April 10, and were each sentenced to two
years in the Penitentiary.
The dead body of a strange man was
taken from the river at Waverly, KY. The
body was badly decomposed. 1t was at
tired in blue jeans pants, blue woolen
vest, cheviot shirt and suspenders. No
traces of violence were discovered. The
remains were placed in coffin and inter-
red in mound near the river bank.
The body of Captain Atkinson, formerly
Assistant Superintendent Of the Houston
Direct Navigation Company, who was
drowned in Trinity River May Goth, was
found a few days ago two miles below
where he fell off the tug.
In Brown and Coleman Counties, Tex,
great damage is reported from recent
rains. Fencing, driftwood, bedding, farm
products, and animals are to be seen
floating down the stream.
A fatal accident occurred q few days
ago at handle factory being rebuilt in
Chattanooga, Tenn. 1t became necessary
for Peter Norris, carpenter, to cross the
building, and he attempted to walk a mar
row strip that had been nailed down;
when he had walked short distance the,
tot hin, 70 ba
ground about thirty feet. He fell on his
head and shoulders and died in twenty
minutes.
Notwithstanding the serious damage
done to orchards by the numerous high
winds and the tornadoes of the past spring,
the fruit crop Of South Carolina will be the
largest in that State for ten years. Cher
ries, peaches, plums and berries are food
ing the market, and melons will soon come
in. The farmers are jubilant over the
prospects of cotton and other plantation
growth, but the recent cool nights has de-
layed cotton, which was on a boom in
growth.
Jack Brock was acquitted in the Federal
Court at Dallas, Tex, of charge of rob-
bing a stage near Henrietta This is the
fifth acquittal Of the alleged Black Hollow
robbers.
Bennett, one of the convicts who escaped
from Penitentiary Agent Oglesby, near
Jacksonville, Tex, recently, was subse-
quently arrested in Dallas. Bennett goes
up to serve a fourteen years sentence for
horse and cattle theft and assault to kill in
Wise County.
At Longview, KY, few days ago Ed
ward E. Steger, young man about TWEEN
ty-three years of age, shot and fatally
wounded Jesse Bullock (colored). He
went to Steger's house and attacked him
about settlement involving $50, and
snapped pistol at him. Steger then drew
a pistol and fired, the ball taking effect in
Bullock's side. The latter then fred at
Steger, and missed him.
A few days ago, i'll the County of Ches-
ter, s. c., a negro man named Isaac Wise
and a negro girl were killed by single
bolt of lightning. Isaac was sitting near
the front door and the girl was at the back
door of the house when killed. The shoe
on the right foot of the girl was torn into
shreds, but only two or three burnt places