Huntsville gazette., 1884-04-05
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

The Dire ctors of the Louisville Board
bonded whisky bill, and appointed a com.
mittee to prepare suitable resolutions for
transmission to Congress.
Strawb r.ies are becoming plentiful
in the Jacksonville Ella. } market, but prices
still remain firm and the demand good.
Fifty cents quart is what is asked.
Warner Williams, better known as
'the baby giant" died at Anita, La, a few
days ago. He was a child six years of ags
and weighed 200 pounds
James Ha milton, the greatest short
horn stock dealer in the world, died re-
Gently at Mount Sterling, KY.
Twelve hundred cases containing
$4,000 cans of oysters, were shipped in one
order by Newbern N. c., firm one day
recently.
Fifteen companies will compete in the
military drill at Houston, Tex.
Prof. j. A. Smith, Superintendent OF
Public Instruction in Mississippi, it is re.
ported, is to be impeached upon charge
of intemperance.
A cyclone passed over the country
three miles northwest of Columbia, S. c.,
recently. Considerable damage was done
farm property. Eye witnesses say the
storm approached with a terrible roaring
sound, bursting upon the people almost as
soon as seen. G. T. Taylor, hearing the
storm coming, called his wife, who jumped
from bed and ran in the next room, fol-
lowed by her husband. Almost instantly
the building was levelled, and heavy
timbers pressed Taylor and wife to the
floor. Both were severely injured.
Five children are reported to have
died from trichinosis in Glynn County,
Georgia; but there is a suspicion that they
were poisoned, and an investigation was
to be made.
Laurena County, Georgia was shaken
up by an earthquake a few days ago which
created quite a panic among the inhabi'
tants.
The Texas Democratic 81 Conven.
tion meets at Fort w forth on June 10 to Sc.
lect delegates to the National Convention:
and ON August 10 to nominat3 State officers.
A remark overheard by g clergyman
on southern train led to the discovery OF
bank messenger at Augusta, Ga.
Rev. F. X. Leroy has been appointed
Archbishop of New Orleans.
An opossum farm is one Of the enter
prising plans for making money in the
vicinity of Savannah, Ga. Fine, fat, stall.
fed opossums sell for forty cents each.
Tie Merchants National Bank OF
CaI, a fax
by electing Isaac Heidenheimer, Albert
Weis, NJ. Frieberg, D. Blum, w. H. Sin
clair, L. Block and NJ. Marx as directors.
The most destructive of the series OF
cyclones which swept over the Southwest
recently seems to have been that in the
Bluegrass region of Kentucky, which de-
stroyed the villages Colmansville, Conroy,
Antioch, and Mount Nebo. Four persons
were killed and five mortally injured near
Ptman.
The Barlow House at Americus, Ga,
and eight stores burned few nights ago.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
Absalom Watkins, of Chattanooga,
Tenn, died few days since. He had tor
many years been connected with Cincin-
natl, Louisville and Chattanooga newspa.
pers.
Alfred Davis, wealthy farmer of
Sequache County, Tenn, was beaten to
death by a tramp whom he sheltered few
nights since. The tramp is in jail.
Moore & Swenford's saw-mill at
Orange, Tex, caught fire few nights ago
from a furnace while the watchman was
asleep. The building was consumed. Loss,
$4,000; insurance, $1,000.
A Miss Letitia Smith, living several
miles east of Lexington, Ga, killed her
newly born infant child few nights ago,
and the Coroner's Jury returned a verdict
of infanticide.
John johnson, German laborer in
the capital quarries at Austin, Tex, was
killed few mornings since by a falling
derrick.
The business men of Dallas, Tex, re-
Gently telegraphed the Texas delegation in
Congress requesting them to vote for the
extension of the bonded whisky bill, as
they thought the defeat of the bill would
produce panic. The panic can now mate
rialize.
Savannah, Ga, has the Oldest opera
house in the United States.
The people in the vicinity Of Athens,
Ga, have been afflicted for some time past
with female tramp. She passes under
the name of Mrs. Glanter, the name of her
third husband, now living in Elberton.
She has raised a great excitement among
the negroes and ignorant whites by her
curious tales and revelations, and crowds
of whites and negroes flock to the house
where she is stopping to have their for
tunes told. A negro preacher left his pull
pit to see "that woman what tells peoples
fortunes" She is taking it cowboy fashion,
and is armed with two pistols, which she
drew on negro, whose opinion was not
catering to her ladyship.
A citizen OF the County of Greenville,
S. G., has written to the Commissioner Of
Agriculture in Charleston rendering speci-
mems of iron ore for exhibition at the New
Orleans Exposition. The writer offers to
furnish ore of the same kind which
Korruth smelted and forged into musket
barrels for the United States Government
for use in the war of 1912. the works still
existing at or near paper mill in Green