Huntsville gazette., 1885-07-11
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

between two cattlemen named Ellison and
Taylor resulted In the fatal stabbing of
the latter.
Atlanta, Ga, must be the paradise of
street car conductors, according to the
statement of the Constitution, of that city,
which declares that there are two of the
fraternity worth $37 50O
Waco, Tex, is now rated as the third
wool market in the State, the receipts for
the season being over 1900, 900 pounds.
All the clerks in the employ of the
Vicksburg & Meridian and vicksburg,
Shreveport & Pacific Railroads were
asked to resign, the designations taking
effect July 1st, the date John c. Gault,
tho rew goa%tl.i manager, went into Of
fee.
Two boys Of Polk County, Tenn, killed
big bear the other day with no other
weapons than clubs.
Governor Knott of Kentucky respited
till September 4th Floyd Williams, who
was to have been hanged on the 81 for the
murder of Pate Strcklin, at Compton,
Wolfe County.
A negro boy named John Ellis, while
picking whortleberries near his home at
Hartwell, Ga, a few days ago, was bit
ten by rattlesnake and died in great
agony.
At Mount Sterling, KY, Richard For.
man, the slayer Of Jerry Cravens, was ad-
judged guilty by jury, and was SEN
fenced to fourteen years in the State
Penitentiary.
brutal murder occurred at Gordons.
vile, Lownes County, Ala, a few days
ago. William Carnes and Charles Dunk
lin, colored, became involved in a diff
Guilty, when Carnes struck Dunklin on the
head with a billet of wood Death result.
ed in few hours.
The dead body of Mrs. Henderson, who
disappeared from her home in Lafayette
County, Ala. recently, was found in the
Tallapoosa River. Her self-destruction
was brought about by mental alteration
over the ruin of her daughter.
A twenty year old lad is among those
seeking dvorce in Toccoa, Ga. He has
been married two years
Villa Rica, Ga, was visited by re-
markable display of electricity a few days
ago. Quite a number were shocked by
lightning, and two, Peter Luthers and
Edward Mayson, were instantly killed.
John Starke en-year-old boy, was
burned to death at San Antonio, Tex,
few days ago, by the explosion Of a coal
Gil can. He was completely enveloped in
flames Death ensued in less than two
hours.
James Mcdaniel, a noted desperate,
stage -robber and murderer, was lied in
Texas recently while resisting arrest.
oIna
place, Sharkey County, Miss, few days
ago, for outraging a little girl named
Annie Curtis. 1t is said the girl will
die
A negro was killed and white dam
gerously wounded few days since in
row about selling whisky in Stepstone,
KY, where whisky selling is forbidden.
w. H. Stevens, of Canton, Van Zandt
County, Tex. was murdered few days
since in !his own house, and the place
ransacked.
Mr.. j. Yost, a sheep ranchman, was
struck by lightning and instantly killed
at Rice, near Corscana, Tex, few nights
ago. Deceased was thirty six years old,
and from Ohio.
At Andersonville Prison cemetery a
rosetush was planted years ago at the
head OF grave, and all efforts to exter-
inmate it prove of no avail. 1t has
sprouted again from the old roots, and a
single red rose blooms on one of the
sprouts. Another curious thing is cis-
tern at the keepers lodge that fills with
water in some mysterious way that all in
YES legations fail to account for.
man calling himself D. NJ. Phillips, of
Galveston, jewelry auctioneer, is locked
up in Jail at Shreveport, La, for larceny.
He dropped into town a few days ago and
advertised grand sale of jewelry and
diamonds, rented store, obtained goods
and money under false pretenses, and sold
a show case, loaned him by local auc-
tioneer, to a second hand furniture deal
er, and attempted to skip, but was caught
and locked up.
Two brothers, Hilliard and Smith John
son, of Hamilton, Ga, have. been paying
attention to the same woman for year
past. The most intense jealousy was
aroused between them. A few lights ago
Hilliard's company was declined by the
fair one 'sbecause of a previous engage
ment" The rejected suitor shade owed the
door, and at late hour, when his brother
emerged, set upon him with a long, keen
blade, hacking him I'D mercilessly, infiict-
ing fatal wounds. Hilliard has fed.
The Tennessee Manufacturing Company
at Nashville have closed their plain cloth
mill, thereby depriving $50 persons of en-
ployment for two months. The company
was unable to secure cotton of the grade
required at a proper figure, and the mar
ket is overstocked with the class of goods
made in the plain mill The proprietors
of similar mills througbo out the State are
reported as seriously considering par
tial suspension of operations during the
summer months
Six negroes were seen playing cards
around a wood fire by the railroad, one
mile out Of La Grange, Ca, few nights
ago. An hour later when a passenger
train went along it ran over ne
gro who was laying across the track. An
examination discl osed pack of cards IN
his pocket and dozen knife cuts on his
person, any one of which would have
produced death. His name was ascer-
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