West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1884-06-27
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINaS.

THE standing Of the members OF the Third
| Glass Naval Academy has been determined.
Among those from the South Newton J
| McCullcy, jr., South Carolina, leads, stand
| ing No. z; his associate, Victor Blue, stand.
| ing No. 80. Arkansas comes next, repre-
sented hy Samuel T. Darby, No, II; Henry
l.. Cueydan, W. r. MoNely and Horny a.
| Wiley, OF Texas, are respectively No. Ig
a. and II ; William Hcrschel Williams, Rich.
ard jackson and William II. Seymour, Of
| Alabama, are respectively No. -, 30 and
81, and Glen Waters and Ambrose II. W.
Cohen, OF Georgia, are respectively No. II
| ami 80. The class numbers seventy -sevcn
members.
THE Galveston Noes published crop re-
ports from over two hundred points i'm the
| state, covering twcuty-SiN counties, em-
bracing the agricultural districts ot Texas
The reports show the condition of cotton as
very materially improved within the past
| three weeks; that while the recent rains
| did serious damage to plants in lowlands,
the uplunds were correspoudngly bone
| fitted. The season viii toe late, but every
| indication now points to a FUN average
crop. In view OF recently published state.
ments and general apprehension, this an.
nouncemcnt will prove important to tho
| commercial world.
MR. j. w BRIDGEUs, Of Macon, Miss,
has a double headed calf IL only has one
neck, the heads joining to the neck, where
the head aud neck naturally join. Tho
| heads are distinctly separate aud two fully
developed heads, with four eyes, four ears
and two mouths. IL was dropped dead
and weighed siXty-one pounds, and is a
well formed calf otherwise. lie has put it
| up in alcohol AS "A curiosity.
| -
| having kept pledge made in 1871, not to
shave or cut his hair until Henry Clay was
placed in the Presidential chair.
CAPTAIN liUGHEs, a Mississippi Rivcr
man, has discovered an important use for
the long Spanish moss that hangs in such
| wonderful profusion from the trees in the
| South. II placed in dams or levees IL pre-
vents crawtiSh from boring through and
serves as "A mattress TO hold the sand.
a WAR against gamblers eliminated in
Dallas, Tex, the other day, in James Will
| kerson, one of the indicted gamblers, pay
| ing 5000 20 Dallas County in compromise
and agreeing To never again gamble in
Dallas County. An the other gamblers
left rather than pay large compromise.
One gambler, from whom the county do
mands $4,000, has sailed for Europe.
The legality OF the Memphis municipal
TAX on uluntneTS was hitlrmcd tno pLher
day by tho State Supreme Court.
| ALABAMA's saw mills are in excellent or
der, and constantly shipping lumber to
Northern aud Western points The lumber
! trade in Alabama is proving very lucrative
TO those engaged in II, and at present at
! tracts much notice. Some Western gentle
man recently obtained $1,000 acres of pino
| lands in the counties Of Butler, Conocuh
| and Crenshaw.
AN accident occurred on the Louisville,
New Orleans and ToNas Rnilrond, at Beaver
| Dam, siXty-five miles below Memphis.
| David McKie, young civil engineer, had
his left arm literally torn from the socket
and will die.
BY the sinking of the tugboat William
! NJ. wood, below New Orleans, j. Fletcher,
| pilot; j. McGilligan, engineer, and Fred.
| Roberts, assistant engineer, were drowned.
A STOCK company is being organized al
! Chattanooga, Tenn, for the purpose Of pur-
chasing ground, erecting buildings, etc,
| for a tair grounds in that city.
! AT Plaqucmine, La, Wlbcr e. Sons,
Shingle factory burned. Loss, $4,000; in
surancc, $4,000.
Mrssrssrrrr contains 2O,OOO,OO acres Of
| wooded land.
| THERE are number Of cases OF small.
pox In Harris Cornty, Ga, brought there
| bv a family which recently arrived from
South America. One death has taken place.
! MRs. JACOB CAMPBELL, OF Bourbon
! County, w. Va, drowned herself some
days ago by throwing herself irto the river.
| A. is said she was dementcd. striking
! fact in connection with the finding of her
| body is thather brotner.in .lay had dreamed
three times the week before that Mrs
! Campbell's body had been found in n deep.
secluded part Of the river. soon as she
| was missed her friends went 20 the spot 10
search and fouUd her.
| a LITTLE daughter Of James Douglass, in
] Marion County, W. Va, attempted 10 light
. fire with coal oil tho other morning. The
/ fluid in the can iguited aud an explosion
! followed setting fire % the little girI,.
/ clothes, burning her terribly, also setting
fire 90 the house. She extinguished the
| flames by jumping into the river, from
| which she was rescued in n hnlfdrowned
condition. She can hardly recover.
! The Florida volcano has been found
/ by Captain George Asher lie fol.
| lowed mp the Aucila river as FAR as the
source, and there found large number Of
pools Of water which emit n thick white
smoke Tho region is very rocky, he saws,
and tho rocks are hollow and full OF water.
Tho pools contain large numbers Of fish,
but the water is nausentiug to tho taste and
smol.
THE North Carolina Department of Agri.
| culture has received adyiros from all sec.
/ tion. of tho State that not tho least damage
| was done in North Carolina by the recent
/ cold snap. There was no frost anywhere.
/ even a. Waynesviue.
EAsrrRv capitalists will put up a glass
| factory at Morril'ou, Ark, to be- in opcra.
| tiou by September I. From fifty to seventy
/ five hands will boz employed, and the annual
/ product will bo worth $4,000
A HuoF dryland terrapin was captured
ON o mountain near Rrnggold, Ga. q fovv
days since by boy named Lewis HensIee
The following was cut ON his shell. "Com.
panv X, Ohio veteran volunteers, March
iG. 1854" AZ one end of its shell the word
"Union" was cut in large letters
\ oREAT pine belt stretches across South.
ern Georgia and Alabama % ,be rivers
that h1w into Mobile Bay The pine
forests alone cover an area OF 10000
acres
LIrrrEVAvr. GovERvoR JouN r. LEWIS
Of Virginia, while driving to bis home.
twelve mile. south of Harrieonbyrg the