Huntsville gazette., 1884-01-05
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

for 10, ,OOD.
City Treasurer Walsh, of New Or.
leans, has been reinstated, the City Council
failing to sustain it's impeachment resolu-
ton.
Near Jellico, Tenn, few days ago,
Frank Brown was killed by being struck
by the branches of a tree hehad just felled
lie was brother of x-Lieutenant- Cover
nor Brown, of Ohio.
Yazoo County, Miss, has $4,000 ne
groes, 5000 whites and five Chinese.
NJ. Parks, q planter near Lancaster,
Tex, had horse stolen and his house bur-
glarized of nearly 5000 a few nights ago by
Henry Lawrence, whom he employed as a
farm laborer.
For several months past the iron
trade of Chattanooga, Tenn, has been
rather depressed, as we'll as all over the
country. An effort was made there re-
Gently to bring about resumption of busi-
ness. A meeting of the several manufac-
turers of Chattanooga, furnace men, min
ers of the raw material and the managers of
the Dade Coal Company, was held. The Dade
Coal Company agreed to reduce their prices
on coal and coke twenty per cent, and the
producers of the raw material the same.
The question of reducing wages ten per
cent. all around was discussed but without
result.
At Greenville, S. c., few days ago,
Thomas Hamell, aged seventy two, was
married to Miss Sallie Green, aged twenty
three.
In New Orleans, on Christmas Eve,
VIM. McCaffrey, Assistant Superintendent
of Markets, was shot by Bud Renard, keep
er of gambling room. McCaffrey died the
next evening.
VIM. Brown, a newly-married man
of Brenham, Tex, met former sweetheart
of his wife's near that city few days
ago, and literally carved him into mince
meat.
About seven miles from Brennan,
Tex, few days ago, while party of men
were running a pony race, the pony of
Frank Morgan jumped out of the road and
ran into the woods, striking against trees
and limbs, and killed Morgan.
The musket performed its Christmas
work in Columbia, S. c., on slight provo
cation. A man named Patterson shot a
boy named Carter in the neck with heavy
wad. The boy was expected to die.
frank Sterls, who shot and lAled
ayid Il. Allen, the theatrical manger, in
the Vicksburg (Miss.) Opera-house in No
vember, has been released from jail, his
bond of 5000 having been made by a
Vicksburg bank at the request Of Stark's
friends in Cincinnati, they having guar
anteed the bank against loss.
Alex. Webb, one of the proprietors
of the coal mines at Coaling, Ala, was
shot and killed by man ngmed Morrison,
who fed to escape arrest. Webb's father
offers reward of $500 for Morffson's ap-
prehension.
Proceedings have been instituted at
Petersburg, Va, against the Dismal
Swamp Canal Lottery Company with the
object Of testing the conlpany's right TO
sell lottery tickets in the State.
John Agnee was stabbed to death by
days agd, and Agnee's father had his knee
bone fractured and arm broken in a quarrel
between the Hamiltons and Agnees.
In an affray at Vancluse, S. c., a few
days ago, man named Scott was shot and
killed.
The jury in the case of j. M. Ed
wards, ON trial in the Memphis, (Tenn.)
Criminal Court for the murder of Sam. E.
Roberts, lat Kerrville, were discharged, after
being locked up four days and six nights,
being unable to agree to verdict, and a
mistrial was entered. 1t is said seven of
the. jury were for acquittal and five for
punishment.
Pitts Webb, colored, entered George
Moore's saloon in Nashville, Tenn, few
days ago and asked Charles Jones, the bar
keeper, for Christmas gift. "I'll give you
Christmas gift" replied Jones, and he dis
charged pistol at the negro. The ball en-
tered the eye and penetrated the brain,
causing fatal wound. Jones claims he
didn't know it was loaded. 1t is said he
had previous difficulty with Webb.
In Fayette County, Ca, Andrew
Lively was sitting by his tireside a few
evenings since when some one crept up to
his window and placing shotgun against
the glass, fired ON him. The gun was
charged with mixture of shot and bullets.
One bullet took effect in Lively's head
back Of the ear, and one side Of his head
and face was literally filled with shot.
Suspicion pointed to Bob Allen as the mur-
derer, and investigation. developed the fact
that'he had skipped out. He was subse-
quently arrested near Hampton, and lodged
in Fayette- County Jail.
Sam Palmer, notorious colored out
law, stabbed Frank Miller (white) to death
in a colored den al. Dallas, Tex, few
nights ago, and made his escape. Just be-
fore the killing Palmer had fight in a
colored gambling den and had piece of
his right ear shot off by Bill Davis. He
was fleeing from the police when he killed
Miller.
A street fight occurred at Allendale,
S. c., Christmas, in which two persons
were killed and five others wounded. John
Hudlett, Marshal of the town, and his sons
John and Tom and his grandsons Evan and
Joyce Strange, had an alteration with
Frank Weaver and Uly Middleton, in
which the two Stranges were wounded.
Returning from this fight, which was car
ried on until Weaver and Middleton got
nearly out of town, they met L. B. and
Frank O'Brian and Gus Allen, returning
1orfxv =