St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-03-14
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGs.

sured.
A gas war at Savannah, Ga, has result
ed in reduction of the price of the article
to fifty cents per 1000 feet.
Israel Brown, colored, postmaster at
Hardeeville, S. c., arrested recently
charged with classifying his returns to IN
crease his commissions, was discharged
A norther visited portion of Texas re-
Gently, and cattle were reported dying
RAPIDLY. Numerous failures among STOCK
growers are looked for.
Strawberries are selling in JACKSONVILLE
Fla, at fifty cents quart.
John Smith, pioneer citizen OF 4a2oo
City, Miss, and a veteran who served WIN
distinction through the Mexican war, was
buried in that city recently.
The new Treasurer of Habersham County,
Georgia, has given his bond for Slo'oUV'
There is just $3.50 in the Treasury.
A gardener near Mobile, Ala, is said TO
have raised ripe watermelons out OF doors
from seeds planted in December
A queer accident happened in johnson
County, Tennessee, a few days ago. Alex
Raber felled large tree on steep hillside
near his house, After the tree fell it COM
menced rolling, and finally swept his
house away, with the whole family. All
were more or less injured, but none
fatally.
The forty-ninth anniversary of the in
dependence of Texas was celebrated on
the Sd by the laying of the corner stone OF
the new State capitol at Austin.
A white robin was killed recently near
Thomastown. Ga.
There is a widow in Birmingham, Ala,
thirteen years old, and she attends the
public schools.
Louisville, KY, has eighteen wide-open
gambling bells, 100 policy shops and 100
poker-rooms.
Seven persons escaped from the Parish
prison at New Orleans few days ago. The
crimes of the convicts ranged from murder
| to petty larceny.
A North Carolina young ladies' institute
sends specimens of stocking darning and
refooting old stockings to the New Orleans
Exposition.
A fire at Fayetteville, Tenn, a few days
ago, destroyed Wilson's livery stable.
| Twenty five horses persisted. Loss, $4,000;
no insurance. Several small shops were
burned.
While celebrating the Inauguration of
Cleveland the people of Hopkinsville, Ken
| lucky, thought they saw meteor that
| looked like burning cabin, which explod-
ed with the noise of dozen cannon.
Near Hundo City, Tex, John Wohschie-
| ger, German farmer, with wife and
nine children, hung himself to fence a
| few days ago. leaving a placard lying
near, written in German, saying he had
| lynched himself. No cause assigned.
The Lookout rolling mill at Chattanooga,
Tenn, has been sold under Court decree,
| to A. NJ. johnson and Nesbit Hazelhurst
for $50 900. The mill will be put in opera
ton at once, giving employment to 1875
| hands. 1t has been closed down for a
| year.
In Roane County, Tennessee, near Chat
| tanooga, Miss Jenkens was recently on
| visit to a nei ghbor, and, while standing
near an open CRATE, her clothing caught
fire. She escaped from the house COM
pletely enveloped in flames, and ran the
entire distance home. Her body was lit
orally roasted, and she expired in a short
| time.
August Schaefer and wife were found
dead in bed at their home in Boerne, Tex,
a few days since, by neighbors. Schaefer
was an industrious wagon maker, and. his
wife was faithful and industrio They
had one little child. The bodies were ly
ing side by side, the mans arm over the
woman's breast. A pistol was lying near
the bed with four barrels discharged. The
woman was shot once in the head and
twice through the body; the man through
the head. Both had been dead some hours.
The bed was horribly bloody. tits thought
to be murder and suicide, but no positive
motive can be assigned.
John B. Martin, farmer from near
Pewee Valley, Kentucky, was found few
days ago lying dead by the side of the
turnpike on the Brownsboro Road about a
mile east of Louisville. He was terribly
crushed about the head and body, and had
evidently been killed instantly. He was
discovered at the foot of an embankment
about thirty feet high, and near by were
his horses and wagon. He had evidently
driven off of the embankment and the
wagon had fallen on top of him, MASKING
him almost to pulp.
A new epidemic has appeared in Lam
caster County, South Carolina, to which
five members of Mr.. r. w. Draffin's fam
lily have succumbed in the past few weeks,
leaving only himself and little son re-
manning. The disease has baffied medical
skill. Mr. Drafin had eight physicians to
visit his family, but none of them were ac-
quainted with the disease, and their treat
ment was simply experimental. Mr.. Drafin
says the spread of the disease is becoming
alarming. There are thirteen cases on his
plantation alone. 1t first makes its APP
pearance with nausea, with bloody fiux
and gripping, followed by excru ciating
pains. 1t is similar in many of its symp-