St. Landry democrat., 1884-02-02
SOUTHERN GLEANINGs.

| ago. ana appears HOW W 10 AoAAAe
dead from the hips down, while above ne is
as we'll as ever, suffering no pain.
A Dallas (Tex.) gambler paid Sl,4o0
fines recently under pleas OF guilty.
| Nero, q colored man shot in the brain
at Marshall, Tex, couple of weeks ago,
died few days since from his wounds.
j. r. Tucker, railroad employe at
Denison, Tex, caught his foot in switch
| frog few days since and was run over by
a freight car, losing one leg.
Mamie Mayen, of Louisville, KY,
died recently, and an investigation showed
| that her death resulted from opium poison
ing. She sometimes took eighty grains
day.
The commissioners appointed to Sc
lect plans for new Capitol for the State
| of Georgia have recently been holding daily
sessions. The building is to be of stone
] and must cost not more than S1,000,0OO
Plans have been submitted from architects
both North and South.
At Darien, Ga, few days since, Bob
Anderson (coIored) was sentenced to the
! Penitentiary for life for the murder of
! Chauncey Brown and wife.
Captain HI. G. Summers, an old Mis-
sissippi steamboatman, who was formerly
engaged in building vessels for the South
| American trade, died atSan Antonio, Tex,
on the 18th inst
At Alexandria, KY, Ed. Beler re-
Gently became engaged because his sweet
! heart went to church with another man
that be tried to shoot her. Being prevented
he killed himself
The North Carolina State Board of
Agriculture having considered the matter
of an exhibit at the Worlds Centennial
Exposition in New Orleans with favorable
results, it is probable the State will make
fine display.
The number Of sheep in Georgia in
creased IL per cent. in the last year-6l1,-
$50 in 1882; and this, Notwithstanding So.
600 sheep were killed by dogs during the
year. It is not stated how much the dog
4 population has increased
Mrs. Mary Grace Love, wife of John
C. Love, Of Minden. La, committed suicide
few days ago with strychnine. Cause,
family trouble.
Tip Wilson, found guilty of the muir
der Of Henry johnson at Dallas, Tex, re-
Gently, was sentenced to forty years in the
Penitentiary.
| George r. Ward, proprietor of the
Relay House at Birmingham, Ala, had a
desperate fight with burglar few MORN
ings since, and was quite seriously wound
ed. The burglar escaped.
| While running his engine on the
Knoxville & Augusta Railroad in Abbe-
vile County, S. c., a few days ago. the en-
gineer discovered an obstruction on the
track ahead and managed to stop within a
few feet of the object, which he was horri-
fed to find was four-year-old white child,
tied fast to the rail. Swift punishment
awaits the perpetrators of this crime if
caught.
| The Kentucky Legislature has char
tered company to bridge the Ohio at Gov
ington.
Judge George NJ. Douglas, of Jeffer-
son, Teas, died suddenly at Lampasas in
that State, recently.
Hon. w. K. Spears, of Vicksburg.
Miss, member Of the State Senate, died
recently.
Eleven hundred bales Of cotton
burned at Murrell's Point, La, few days
ago.
The St. Charles Hotel, at Paducah,
KY, which cost $4,000 has been reduced
to ashes.
An engine and three box cars on the
Louisville, New Orleans Il Texas Railroad
fell through a bridge near Port Gibson,
Miss, few evenings since. Levi Coates,
the engineer. was killed.
Stephen Vidulich, an Austrian muir
derer, in jail at Dallas, Tex, tried TO com
nit suicide with some -four which had heen
given him by another prisoner, and which
ne thought was arsenic.
Returns to the Department of Agri-
culture show the damage to winter oats by
the recent freeze sixty per cent. and wheat
thirty per cent. in Georgia.
Silas Lane (colored) who was to have
been hanged on the 21st at Rolling Fork,
Miss, was respIted again
Jim Smith, a big Oglethorpe County,
Ca, planter, made 1920 bales of cotton
from which he realized $4,000 On corn,
wheat and oats he made $780, 900 more, max.
ing total of 100000. He uses convict la.
Dor.
Savannah, Ca, which recently adopt
ed standard time, has returned to the old
system.
The death occurred recently, at Alex
andria, Va, OF DR.. NJ. M. Lewis, phys,
ician of prominence and, during the war,
division surgeon in the Confederate
army.
Seven members Of Henry Kendall's
family, living near Louisville, KY, were
poisoned with Rough on Rats" which by
! mistake was put in the biscuits. 1t was