St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-09-19
SOUTHERN aLEANINGs.

ION GnlS year.
A woman in Logan County, Kens
lucky, takes her rest in patches o.
three days and nights sleep at Time
and then keeps awake for like period
She is eighty years old
Ida Katzer committed suicide near Leon
Springs, Tex, few days ago because her
parents wanted her to marry man
named Prellar.
The elections in Anderson and Montague
counties, Texas, were Waterloo for 1.-THE
Prohibitionists.
During fire at Waxahachie, Tex, o
few nights ago trunk, thrown from a
window, struck and it is thought fatally
injured Mr.. Simp Wilson.
Charles Williams, negro, shot and
killed Polk Mitchell, a street-car driver,
at Chattanooga, Tenn, a few days sinca
The murderer was lynched.
Cotton has been damaged fully twenty
per cent. in portions of Mississippi by the
drouth, and many estimate the damage
much greater.
Mrs. FL. c. Hulse, wife of prominent
contractor, was assaulted on the street in
Chattanooga, Tenn, few nights ago by
bed her of her portmonnaie. She was
painfully bruised. The assailant es-
capped
John Hoffman fatally stabbed negro
by the name of Harrison Gladdish at Hop"
kinsyille, KY, few nights ago. The un-
fortunate man was almost disemboweied.
The slayer is in jail to await the action OF
the Grand Jury.
Allen Thompson, negro living near
Linden, Tex, beat his step-daughter to
death with a club few days ago. He
had frequently beaten her, and fearing
arrest therefor he concluded to kill her,
Lynching was threatened.
The colored debating society in a Georo
gia town has been discussing the question,
Switch Are the Most Useful to Society,
Lawyers or Buzzards?"
North Carolina is building up an exten.
sive trade in cherry lumber. The wild
cherry grows abundantly in the noun
tains.
Thomas Manuel went into San Antonio,
Tex, from hunting trip with fatal
wound in the neck. He said he had been
accidentally shot by his companion, name
unknown.
The city of Fort Worth, Tex, and, Pres
cfnct Number one of Tarrent County voted
on Prohibition few days ago. The pro-
position to stop the sale of liquor was de-
feated by nearly !, 100 majority.
The Swatara, which was ordered to New
Orleans to transfer silver coin from the
sub-T Treasury to Washington, took on
board $12, 900, 900 and sailed on the 18th.
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at Conyers, Ga. Newton Hammock, a
prominent citizen, joined the Baptist
Church by immersion. The ceremony
drove him crazy, and he has been conn
mitted to an asylum.
News comes from Bristol, Tenn, of the
cremation, few days ago, at Chnlhowee,
a settlement in Sullivan County, Of James
Sharett. He was standing over fire in
his shop, took fit and fell suddenly into
the fire. He was burned to crisp before
assistance arrived.
Abraham Pope, owned house at Rock
Run, Ala, that he rented to white man
named Hart. A few days ago, while att
tempting to collect his rent, he and Hart
became involved in a quarrel, and Hart
seized rock with which he crushed
Pope's skull Hart escaped, but officers
were in pursuit.
A horrible murder was committed few
nights ago at colored church ten miles
east of Canton, Miss. Leon CockrelI, a
negro school-teacher, shot Aaron MARI, a
colored deacon, while the latter was
kneeling with the congregation in prayer.
James Smith was fatally stabbed at
Louisville KY, few nights ago by his
step-father, Harvey Clark. Smith and
his mother had sold calf, and Clark de-
manded the money. On being refused, he
tried to shoot his wife. The son seized the
gun, and In the struggle which ensued he
was stabbed three times by Clark.
Several weeks ago Mrs. E. R. Tenant,
cepted the place of superintend snt of
Women's Work at the New Orleans Ex-
position, the place formerly held by Julia
Ward Howe. She pub ishes a card re-
signing the position, assigning as rea-
son: My husband is opposed to it, and
give it up in Difference TO his wishes"
Fifty years ago Ellen Johnson, a colored
woman, was separated from her mother
at Louisville, KY, the latter being sold
and sent to New OrIeanss The mother ar
rived in Louisville few DAYS ago hale
and hearty. She is 112 years old and the
daughter sixty years old. Living in the
house with Mrs Ellen johnson are her
great-grandchildren. This makes them
great great grand hildren of Mrs. john
sons mother. Strange as it may seem,
the great-great- grandmother, and the
great grandmother, the grandmother.
mother and children all assembled in the
same room few days since
A double tragedy resulting in the NOR
tai wounding of two persons occurred at
Atlanta. Ga. A few NIGHTS AGO. Miss Ida