Huntsville gazette., 1885-04-18
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGS.

brooks kaufman, mate on the steamer
Oanube, was accidentally killed near
Shreveport, La, few days since.
me people of South Carolina are driv-
ing away Arkansas emigration agents,
who seek to have the negroes break their
planting contracts.
Evan +. Howell, of the Atlanta Consti-
tutaon, has declined the appointment Of
consul to Manchester, England.
| 1t is alleged that two negroes have been
Killed in Lawrence County, Mississippi, to
prevent them from testifying against Mr..
Lotion, who is charged with the murder of
his brother.
Physicians from Austin and Galveston
have been in San Antonio, KY, recently
to consult with DR.. Herff regarding Cap
tain Richard King, the cattle king, who is
suffering from cancer of the stomach.
| The Nashville (Tenn.) Daily World has
suspended publication. 1t was Democratic
in politics and was established three years
ago.
| Mrs. Cox, a colored woman on w. E.
Hunts plantation at Greenville, Miss,
| gave birth few days ago to three boys
and one girl. The happy family are all
doing WELL
! Marcellus Dougherty, notorious des-
| perado, was shot and killed by a negro
barber at Laredo Tex, few nights ago.
| ougherty had threatened the negro's
| life.
| General Thomas Pinckney Smith died
recently at Pinckney, Ga, aged seventy
three. He was noted as the best informed
man in the State on its early history.
William and Perry Melton, who were to
have been hanged in Union Parish, La, on
April 10th, have been respited.
Geo. Young. the Palmer (Tex.) wife
! murderer, was captured, but soon died of
the wounds received while officers were
after him.
A man named Fowler made four at
tempts to wreck the Missouri Pacific pas
senger train between Bolton and Echo,
Tex, recently. He was arrested and is
noET in Jail.
Reports from the wh t-raising counties
of Tennessee are to the effect that not
more than half a crop will be raised.
Mrs. Malone, while alone at midnight at
her home in Thomson, Ca, was feloniously
assaulted by a strange negro, who escaped
DelOTo uelp cOulu COME. "A ly yuCuluS parry
was in pursuit Of him.
In a row at Nashville, Tenn, few
nights ago, over the Senatorial muddle,
James F. Turner one of the Senate guards.
was stabbed by Pink McCarver, who was
! shot in the shoulder by Turner.
| John O'Brien attempted to sell stolen
horses on the Dallas Tex, market few
days agoF 01ttrwass arrested. O'8rien is
an alias. The prisoner is regarded as one
of the notorious Red River operators in
Texas and the Indian Territory.
The Western Road OF Alabama recently
paid to Harrison Schell, of Atlanta, Ga.
! 81 900 for personal injuries received This
is the largest damage bill ever paid in the
South to colored man.
! A posse Of Deputy Marshals arrived in
| Fort Smith, Ark, few days since with
thirteen United States prisoners from the
Indian Territory, among whom were
Amanda and Robert Jackson, for murder
ously assaultlng Susan Cherry on the
streets of Muskogee. They had some con-
| troversy with Susan Cherry over church
matters, and attacked her with knives, cut
ting her breast and arms and shoulders in
a merciless manner Lefore assistance could
be rendered her.
A sensation has been created by the an
nouncement that General Henry r. jack
son, the newly appointed Minister to
Mexico, is under precisely the same dis
ability as General Lawton, whose ap-
pointment as Minister to Russia was not
confirmed on account of disabilities hav-
ing never been removed General Jackson
states that he does not wish to complicate
matters, although he has been confirmed,
and will not assume the duties until his
disabilities have been passed upon.
L. K Eldridge. patient in the Nash
vile Insane Asylum, from Overton Coun-
ty, suddenly seized floor mop few days
ago, and struck Everett B. Buchanan, the
attendant of the ward in which Eldridge
roomed, crushing his skull and fatally in
iuring him. The infuriated lunatic next
attacked Thomas G. Layton, feeble epi-
leptic patient, aged twenty EIGHT years,
crushing his skull. The lunatic attacked
another patient, when an attendant from
an adjoining ward rushed in and secured
hun. Both Buchanan and Layton died in
a few hours. Eldridge is only twenty
years of age.
Mrs Barbara N. Deubier was run over
by a hand-car on the Texas 81 Pacific
Railroad at Dallas, Tex, a few days ago,
and instantly killed.
A terrific rain and wind storm swept
over Central Mississippi recently. 1t
came from northwesterly direction and
lasted several hours, blowing down trees,
fences and outhousss, and in some places
washed up corn and other seeds that bad
been recently planted. The next morning
at Canton and vicinity, number
strange birds were found lying, or sitting
on the ground, some of them dead and
others crippled from being hurled :against
trees, houses and other obstacles. Again,
others were found apparently uninjured,
although they seemed unable or indisposed
to fly any considerable distance. Up
ward of hundred of these birds have
been picked up, and, as they are entire
strangers to the locality, the supposition
is, that they were caught up on the sea
coast by the wind and waited that way.
Private letters from the chief OF the
Seminole Indians say Thomas Cloud, in
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