Huntsville gazette., 1885-03-21
SOUTHERN GLEANiNGS.


The whisky establishments of Williams
Bros, at Louisville, KY, was partially
destroyed by fire few days ago. Loss,
$4,000; insured.
Mary G.. Randall, who was buried at
Maysville, Ca, recently, came to her death
from starvation. For forty -eight days
she refused to taste food and could not
bear to hear it mentioned. Reference to
eating would make her turn deathIy pale
and throw her into commissions She
would drink water, however She was
seventy EIGHT years old
Alexander Carter, proprietor of the Ar
lington Hotel of Gainesville, Ca, recently
went TO Atlanta on alleged business, and
IRON that point continued on to New Or
le ms. This caused rush Of his cred
itors, who believed he had absconded. 1t
was developed that he was heavily in
y4ived. All his property has been attached,
and the hotel has changed management.
The building is the property Of Congress
man Gambler.
Miss Lou Cotton, a most estimable lady,
while going to her home at Darby Station,
Tex, on the International Line, recently,
was thrown out of an ambulance and in
stantly killed. She had reached the gate
of her home, and when the boy came out
to open it, the horses became frightened
and ran off. Her back was broken.
A man in Helena Ark, recently drank a
gallon of beer in three minutes on wager.
The vanilla plant has been found grow
ing on the borders of the everglades of
Florida.
Murfreesboro o, Tenn, last year shipped
one thousand mules, valued at 100000.
A dried sweet potato factory is among
the prospective industries of Raleigh, N. c.
The itch is said to prevail along the rail-
way lines in West Tennessee.
During cy clone on the Texas Central
Road five cars were thrown from the
track.
There is said to be well organized gang
of horse-thieves at Vicksburg, Miss.
Forty mine cases of small pox have been
reported at Obion, Tenn.
A hotel to cost $50, 900 is being erected at
Cooper's Well, Miss.
Wolves are killing the sheep and pigs
around Springport, Miss.
| A counterfeit gold coin of the denomina-
ton of s. has been found in circulation
| at Macon Ga. The coin is light, and
test Immediately shows brass.
At Bowling Green, KY, few days ago,
Charles Moore choked and terrified his
aged father until he was compelled to sign
notes amounting to Sc. 110.
Mrs. Ada Beall, of Lumpkin, Ga, while
setting fire to underbrush a few days
since, suffered her clothes to catch fire, and
she was burned to death.
General Joseph Bell. one of the oldest
residents of Kinds County, Miss, died a
few days ago. In ante -bellum times he
was Secretary of State, and filled the po-
sition of Register of the Land Office many
terms. 1t is said that he was the best
posted man on land matters in tho State.
Convicts at Tracy City, Tenn, made a
break for liberty few days ago while be-
ing taken from the stockade to Lone Rock
Nine The guards fred four shots, fatally
wounding Preston Sladen, who received a
bullet in the brain. The rest were returned
to the stockade.
The town of Aurora, Tex, was visited
by a disastrous fire few nights ago. -Four
business houses were entirely consumed.
The heaviest losers are: Killaugh Bros,
SIS, 1000; L. j. Randall, $4,000; W. S. Kim
ball, 81 ,O0O-all about covered by insur-
ance.
A laborer in Louisville, KY, named Per-
| rv Garrison, beat his wife to insensibility
a few DAYS ago, bound her to the floor of
the cellar and left her without food or wa
ter until three days later, when a neigh
Dor heard her groans and the police burst
in the door. She begged that the brute
be not arrested, but he was locked up.
| James Mccall, said to be refugee from
Justice from the State of Arkansas, who
was arrested near Poolville, Tex, some
time ago, and who was subsequently shot
by citizen while attempting to escape,
has been placed in durance vile at Wealth
erford.
| A few evenings since j. D. White, a
passenger on an East Tennessee train,
was killed few miles east of Knoxville
| The train was crossing a covered bridge,
when White put his head out of the car
window and was crushed against the
timbers of the bridge. White was twenty
two years old. He lived in Upper East
| Tennessee.
Judge John W. Alberty, Associate JUS
tice of the Supreme Court of the Cherokee
Nation has been suspended from office on
charges preferred for malfeasance in
| office. Jackson Christie has been ap-
pointed to fill the vacancy until the Ma
tional Council meets, in November.
Shoaf, Hines and Upton, of Luling, Tex,
on preliminary examina nation for decoying
two negroes half mile from town, on the
railway track, and then numbering them,
under the pretense that they were train
wreckers, in order to obtain the reward,
we're refused bail and held for trial.
| Bishop Alexander Gregg recently had
his ann ual Convocation at Brennan, Tex,
| in st. Peters Church. The Bishop re-
| ports that all the Episcopal Churches
throughout the State are in as prosperous
condition as could be expected, consid-
ering the financial stringency of the times.
The City Councils Of both the Texas and
| Arkansas sides of Texarkana have passed
ordinances that will probably result in
water works being built within the next
six months. The contract is with F. W.
| Raider, of st. Louis.