Huntsville gazette., 1884-02-23
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

S. c., has been sentenced to ten months in
the Penitentiary for changing 81 Nation-
al Bank note into $40 note.
In Austin, Tex, few evenings since,
John Gardner,a a timer, who was amusing
himself by firing into D. A. Schmidt's
dwelling was fatally wounded by Schmidt.
At the Devils Glen on the Chatta-
hoochie River, Ga, few days ago, man
who had kidnapped two children of Jacob
G. Worthington, wealthy turpentine far
mer of Madison, Fla, was shot dead while
resisting arrest. The children are safe.
Emigrat on from South Carolina to
Texas and Florida is said tohave been quite
general among the negroes throughout the
former State for some. time. One party of
eighty-two colored men went from Barn
well to work at railroad construction.
John Yonker, man fifty years of
age and German by birth, committed sui
eide at Austin, Tex, a few days ago by
taking poison. No cause for the act is
known.
Noah jackson, convicted in East Car
roll Parish, La, of the murder of Emma
Jacks, will be hanged March !. VIM. Moore,
of st. Marys Parish, who escaped a short
time before the day fixed for his execution
and was recaptured, had the Goth inst. set
for his execution.
A resolution was introduced in the
Mississippi Legislature providing that
members should not travel on anything
without paying, except on a mule. Its con-
sideration was Indignantly postponed.
A severe hurricane passed over por-
tions of Texas few days ago. 1t was fol-
by decided fall in temperature.
The Farmers and Dairymen's Con-
vention met at Jacksonville, Tenn, recent
ly, and had present 800 delegates from the
Northwestern States. Much interest was
felt in the proceedings.
Miss NJ. A. Lucas, of Chester County,
S. c., has brought suit against James T..
Ferguson, claiming S20,0oo for breach OF
promise of marriage. The trial, which
takes place next month, will, be the third
of the kind in the State.
A Merchants Exchange committee Of
Dallas, Tex, had raised 5000 of $1o,O0c
fund guaranteed for the Cattle Mems Con-
vetion in that city. @
Memorial services in honor of Wen
dell Philips were held, few nights ago,
in Galveston, Tex.
w. Emanuel; broker, of Atlanta,
Ca, is under arrest for alleged crooked
dealinas with his natrous.-
The Grand Lodge OF. the Knights of
Pythias, at its recent session. at Jackson
vile, Tenn, gave banquet, at which nearly
500 were present.
Eight counterseiters were arrested q
few days ago in Louisville, KY. They had
been passing spurious silver dollars and
half dollars. -..
+ LID. Mowry & Son, cotton factors,
Charleston, S. c., have suspended. Liza.
bilities, S150,000.
The Rawley family, of Boyle County,
Kentucky, has wi hin thirty years figured
in affrays in which ten men were killed..
The,feud with the Shearins resulted few
days ,since in the shooting of one of that
family by George W. Rawley.
Aaron Parrot. a faro dealer, while
standing in fl ont of the Crockford Saloon
in Sherman, Tex, few days ago, was shot
and dangerously wounded by George Bur-
gis, proprietor. Domestic trouble is said
to be at the bottom of the affair.
DR.. J. w. Drake shot and instantly
killed John A. Scarboro, at Clapp's Faeto.
ry near Columbus, Ca, few days ago.
The killing appears to have been in self-de-
-fense
Dennis Reed, while trying to cross
Waller Creek, at Austin, Tex, which was
greatly swollen by recent rains, was; with
the horse he was riding, swept down by the
torrent and drowned.
In Brown Cohnty, Ala, a few days
ago, Fred Plattenburg of Selma shot w. j.
Robinson, horse drover, from Murfrees-
boro, killing him instantly. The men hevcr
met until few minutes bsfdre the shoot,
ing. Plattenburg refused to lend Robin
sons friend 81. All were drinking
Three fence-cutters have recently
been captured in Edwards County, Tex.
One confessed. He says there were six in
the band. The rangers who made. the ar
rests were after the other three.
S. F. Jones, patient confined at the
Anchorage Insane Asylum, louisville, KY.
committed suicide few days ago by hang:
ing himself with towel. One end of the
towel was secured to the grating which
barricades window of his room, and the
other he tied tightly around his neck. He
then stepped off of the sill of the window
and was strangled to death before he was
discovered by the attendant.
Henry Booth was arrested few
nights ago by the watthman for attempting
to saw away the piles supporting the new
bridge over Sunfower River at Rolling
Fork, Miss, on the L., n. o, 81 I. r. K. II
seems that the culprit desired to saw the
bridge timbers In such manner that the
structure would fall when a train ran on
it. II is said that the man was instigated
by interested parties, who claim that the
bridge obi tructs navigation. He was held
to answer.
Frank Fr.es, for many years in the
employ Of the Wells-Fargo Express Com
pany at San Antonio, Tex, as money clerk
has disappeared. His safe has been broker
open and accounts and cash found all right
He was last seen on the main plaza at nigh,
alone. He was of aretiring disposition, ci
temperate habits and very powerful build
The generally accepted theory is that BIZ