St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-12-20
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGS.

mount, S. c., were poisoned and died
few days ago by taking morphine for
quinine.
The Democrats of Prince Georges Coun-
ty. Virginia, are making arrangements to
erect monument to the memory of DR..
George E. Rives. who was a candidate for
Congress at the late election, and dled
during the canvass.
Lodge No. so, Order of the Elks, consist
ing Of some fifty members, was Installed
at New Orleans few days ago by Exalted
Ruler Thomas w. Keene. A grand ban
quet followed in honor of Mr.. Keene.
William Lawson, q railroad clerk n tne
Galveston, Houston & San Antonio Rail-
road general freight Office at Houston, Iex''
shot and mortality wounded John Living
ston, trans. er agent, q few days ago, 1he
result of an old feud. Livingston fingered
few hours and died. Lawson had not
been captured.
man from Mobile, Ala, has gone TO
Maine to pass the winter.
a company of Scotch capitalists nave
recently invested 5000 in mining lands
in White County, Georgia.
Interesting dog races took place at Can
ton, Miss, few days ago, for the Ma
tional American Kennel Club stakes.
A saloon at Laredo, Tex, recently re"
ceived turtle, measuring two and half
by six and a half feet and weighing 5oO
pounds.
A Florida paper estimates that in the
past sixteen years the Republican party
in the South has stolen 1, T85,OOo,O0
chickens.
A Louisiana negro man attempted to
shoulder five bundles of cotton ties at once
the other day. He succeeded in getting
them nearly up, staggered and fell dead
from oyer-exertion.
New Orleans papers say that dozens OF
small, low priced restaurants are being
opened all over that city, and that at many
of them "very decent and filing meal
can be had for twenty-five cents"
All of the cotton factories of Columbus
Ca, are running full time except one. The
plaid mills are full of orders and the busl~
ness outlook is bright
John P. Martin was shot and killed by
| regulators at farmers Station, KY, few
days ago. The victim was desperate fell
| low and had killed one or two people.
LATE Gammons and James Davine were
| Guarreling at Bedford, KY, few days
ago, when a son of the latter shot Gam.
mons through the head, killing him in.
stantly. W. P. Gammons, father of the
murdered man, then stabbed Davine twice
with a pocket-knife, inffcting serious
wounds.
At Thompson's Station, Tenn, few
days ago, two young clerks, w. J. Russell
and j. H. Morris, had a trifing quarrel
when without warning the latter fired
two shots into Russell, who died in ter
minutes.
Mr.. j. NJ. Hill, one of the most prominent
men of Memphis, Tenn, was stopped or
/ the street a few evenings since and robbed
! of $3.50. The theft was committed by three
| young men.
! A man named Watson, confined in the
new stone Jail at Denison, T x, charged
with demonstrating, and who was chained
in his cell, escaped a few nights ago by
first breaking through lock, then dig.
| ging through brick partition and thence
removing some bricks from the chimney
and climbing on to the roof, from whence
| he let himself to the ground by rope
made of blankets.
/ Rod Preston, up till within a short time
Deputy Sheriff for Dallas County, Tex.
! sold horse in Dallas few days ago
Subsequently Mr.. Mort Cole swore out
warrant charging Preston with horse.
stealing, and recovered the animal from
the purchaser. Preston fed the country.
A shoemaker at Wytheville, Va, few
DAVIS ago wrote President-eleet Cleveland
asking for his measure for a pair of boots
for the Inauguration. Governor Cleveland
replied in polite note, enclosing a TWEEN.
/ tv-dollar bill for the boots. The shoemaker
/ returned the money, but the Governor in.
sisted on paying and sent the money back
adding he would wear the boots on inau.
guration day.
The Texas State Eclectic Medical Asso.
14S members present, and adopted resolu.
tions protesting against legislation dis.
eliminating in favor of any one school Of
medicine, and demanding representation
in the Medical Department of the State
University.
woman named Shelley went racing
into Franklin, Tenn, a few days ago or
horseback, pursued by her husband on {
/ mule. She declared to the crowd that she
| wanted divorce because of cruel and in.
human treatment, upon which Shelley
who had come up by that time, began tt
beat her, In an attempt to arrest him &
police officer was fatally cnt. Shelley is
believed to be insane.
John Sullivan, recently from Kansas
was killed at Corsicana, Tex, few day;
ago by the cars of the Houston e. Texat
Central Railroad crushing him to death, a:
the Union depot, in the presence of hi
wife, his son and his daughter.
nj, ooo,,+ J;soo1,aru of ooId and silve,