St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-03-22
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.
A gold mine is reported to have been

OreaG eXclGemenC prevails aG Ei1h'
Tenn, over the discovery of a gold mine.
While out hunting A. H. Bernathy found a
cave and evidence of gold. Over $1,000
worth of nuggets are on exhibition in
store. Miners and railroad men are flock
ing in. Erin is small place on the Louis
vile 6 Nashville Road near the Tennessee
River.
Enoch Brown, sentenced to be hanged
at Halifax, N. c., has been reprieved to
March 81. The sentence of death upon
Robert Pratt has been committed to life I'M
prisonment
|. A Georgia court has decided that
copies of art productions of the oldmasters
are not obscene in the legal acceptation of
the term.
A new bank, with 100000 capital, is
projected at vicksburg, Miss. Hon. Thos.
c. Catching is reported as at the head of
the enterprise.
A quarrel over the possession of
dime with a hole in it led to the fatalinjur-
ing of Henry Smith by Leonard Jefferson
few days ago near Selma, Ala.
A few nights ago at Fort Worth, Tex,
lamp exploded in the house of Lew Tay-
lor at PaIo Pinto, and the dress of Mrs.
Matte Taylor, his wife. caught fire. She
was very severely burned and died the fol"
lowing morning, after lingering through
the night in great pain.
Adyices from Culiacan, Mexico, give
the particulars of the recent killing of ex-
Senator Henry Cooper of Tennessee: Coop
er and companion were attacked by two
bandits. His companion Immediately fired,
killing one robber The other robber then
fired, shooting Cooper through the heart.
The robber then fed and had not been cap
tured, though the authorities have made
every effort.
A few nights ago Garry Stitch. a
negro policemen at Vicksburg, Miss, ar
rested Harry johnson, steamboat engi-
neer, who was very drunk, and while con-
veying his prisoner to the calaboose was
cut in the left leg by johnson, severing
the femoral artery from which he bled to
death. He managed, however, to put a
bullet through Johnson's heart before sue
cumbing to loss of blood.
The body of a white man, supposed
to be David Crouch, of Sample, Hamblen
County, Tenn, was found on the railroad
track at Newmarket, Tenn, few days
ago. 1t was literally torn to pieces by
passing train.
A shooting afray occurred at VIM
ston, Va, a few days ago, in which three
men were fatally wounded.
The most heartrending accounts of
suffering and death continue to be received
from the various sections in South Caro-
lima and Georgia recently devastated by
tornado. Women and children, who but
were living in plenty and com
fort, are now begging bread and shelter
from their neighbors. Houses, furniture,
andprovisions, the earnings of years, and
in many instances of life time, have been
swept away in an instant. These sufferers
are now unwilling but inevitable pension
ers on the charity of their neighbors.
James Campbell, native of Leith,
Scotland, stone-cutter by trade, was killed
at Lexington, KY, in bar-room fight
few days since.
Tennessee has money enough in the
treasury surplus to pay the interest on her
whole debt if it was all funded.
A fruit-canning company, with $780,
coo capital will soon begin operations in
Vicksburg, Miss.
Alabama newspapers are agitating
the question OF moving the State capital
from Montgomery to Birmingham.
There had been no rain for weeks in
the vicinity OF Brownsville, Tex, and a
failure of the crops in that region is feared.
The steamer St. Francis Belle burned
on Bayou Bartholomew, LouIsi-
ana.
The Naire House at Denton, Tex,
was destroyed by fire few days since.
Loss $4,000; insurance unknown.
The Weatherford (Tex. Courthouse,
the records of the courts and all
other public documents, was destroyed by
fire recently. The loss is estimated at $780,
900.
Rudd and Champ Fitzpatrick, to have
been hanged Friday, the 29oh ult., at Co
lumbia, Adair County, KY, for the muir
der of Miller Brewster, were reprieved by |
the Governor till March II.
Two negroes camped near the depot
at New Bradford few nights ago, and the
next morning both were discovered dead in |
camp. One was shot through the head and
the other terribly mutiIated, half of his
head being chopped off with an ak.
Chas. E. Coon, formerly employed as
a steward on one Of the local packets at
Memphis, Tenn, has been arrested on a
telegram from San Jose, Cal, charging
him with the larceny of available diamond
pin and large amount of money.
A cablegram dated London, Febru
ary %, mentioned John and Richard Lys-
;on, of Denison, Tex, as among Irish sus-
poets under the surveillance of the French |
notice. A Denjson sneciaI saws that John |