St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-04-26
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

| western Mississippi. Deer are fleeing to
the high lands of Arkansas to escape the
pests.
Hortensia Mason, colored school
teacher of ShelbyviIle, KY, has sued the
Louisville & Nashville Road for $4,000 for
! refusing her the privilege of the ladies'
| coach after she had purchased first-class
ticket
A fatal boiler explosion occurred a
few days ago a6 the Marine dry docks id
New Orleans.
Dallas and Fort Worth are engaged
in desperate contest for the railroad cnam-
| pionship.
1t was reported in Dallas, Tex, a few
nights ago that Morgan Commack, impli-
Gated in the cotton sw1ndles in that city,
had been rearrested at some point on the
Lower Rio Grande.
Five prisoners broke jail, a few days
since. al Lexington, Ga.
Southern cotton mill owners met re,
Gently at Augusta, Ga, and adopted reso-
| lutions looking to a curtailment of manu-
features.
Frank Elliot, negro who assaulted
whitolgirl in York County, North Caro-
lima, was taken to Rock Hill for examina-
ton. The citizens overpowered the Sher.
ltf's posse and lvnched the offender.
j. F. Ransdall, Postmaster at New
castle, KY, is defaulfer to the amount
of $500. Ransdall has disappeared. A
Government agent is in possession of the
Office.
At Newport. Tenn, shortly after dark
few nigats ago w. C. Fowler shot and in
stantly killed John Rutherford. Ruther-
ford and associates were engaged in rcch-
ing Fowler, when the latter fired at the
crowd, killing Rutherford. Fowler had
not been arrested
At Fairviex, Ky, a few days ago,
John w. Gibson walked into the grocery
of John McCoy and shot him dead.
large party of citizens went in pursuit of
the murderer.
THE Attorney General of Texas has
brought suit against A. A. Talmage and J.
NJ. O'DQnnell, of st. Louis, NO., to recover
63,O00 acres of valuable sugar land in
Brazoria County, claiming that the tract
was obtained by the use of fictitious
names.
Alfred and James Mccullough. con-
victed of the murder of Ephrain Soxon,
at Greenville, S. c., have been sentenced to
hang May 16. Riley Anderson, who MUIR
dered Leon Griffith and an infant, was SEN
fenced to hang the same day. Anderson's
crime was cc1d-blooded, and several at
tempts were made to lynch him.
The body of woman was found
floating in the river at Memphis, Tenn,
lew days ago, by some men engaged in
getting out drift wood. The remains were
entirely nude with the exception of red
handkerchief bound around the head and
were in very advanced state of decom-
position. A small rope was tied around
the waist, indicating foul play, as weight
may have possibly been attached to the
rope.
Captain William Fl. Robinson, Demo
cratic candidate for Congress in the Eighth
Alabama District against General Joe
Wheeler, committed suicide. at Scottsboro,
Ala, a few days ago, by sticking a pen
knife in his heart. He had just returned
from an eleetioneering tour, and it is sup
posed the excitement affected his mind.
John Coffey, Jr., who shot and killed |
Alfred Gossett, colored, October 80, 1888, at
New Orleans, while Gossett was in charge
of an officer on the way to the Courthouse
to receive a life sentence for the murder of
Policeman John Coffey, father of the ac- |
cused, was tried recently and acquitted. |
There was much sympathy for the accused, |
who is only twenty years of age, and al |
most the sole support of his mother and |
brothers and sisters.
Antonio Lopez, well-known Mexican at
Laredo, Tex, was recently tried for muir. |
der. After many delays jury was secured
and he was acquitted. He was tried for an |
atrocious murder committed in Hidalgo
County in 1881.
Fire destroyed the Merchants Bank and
several stores and offices at Pensacola.
Fla, few days since. Loss, $50, 800; in.
surance, $4,000.
S. L. Harley, formerly merchant of
New York, convicted at Petersburg, Va.
last January of bigmay, his punishment
being six years in the Penitentiarv, has
been granted a new trial.
A party of 100 excursionists, from Michi.
gan, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and
Pennsylvania, looking for sites for new
homess are looking around in Texas.
Captain Eads has informed Direct OF
General Burke of the Worlds Exposition
that the Great Eastern steamer can be had
for the Exposition Hotel. Correspondence
is now passing looking to bringing the great
ship to New Orleans.
Joe Noel, drunken man, shot a little
negro, Tom Bridges at Harrodsburg, KY,
a few days ago for laughing at him. The
ball entered the back of the neck and
lodged. Noel was caught and lodged in
jail.
The steamer Harry sunk her barge in
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