The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-07-10
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGS.


street car conductors, according to the
statement of the Cons titation, of that city,
which declares that there are two of the
fraternity worth $37, 500.
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 6 Meridian and vicksbur
Shreveport &c Pacific Railroads were
asked to resign, the designations taking
effect July 1st, the date John G. Gault,
the new general manager, went into Of
flee.
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 Sd for the
murder of Pate Stricklin, at Compton,
Wolfe County.
A negro boy named John Ellis, while
picking whortleberries near lis home at
Hartwell, Ga, 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 adj
judged guilty by jury, and was SEN
fenced to fourteen years in the State
Penitentiary.
A brutal murder occurred at Gordons-
vile, Lownes County, Ala, few days
ago. William Carnes and Charles Dunk
lin, colored, became involved in diff
Guilty, when Carnes struck Dunkln ON the
head with billet of wood. Death result
ed in a 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 divorce in Toccoa, Ga. He has
been married two years.
| Villa Rica, Ga, was visited by a re.
markable display of electricity few days
ago. Quite number were shocked by
| lightning, and two, Peter Luthers and
Edward Mayson, were instantly killed.
John Starke, a en-year-old boy, was
burned to death at San Antonio, Tex,
few days ago, by the explosion of coal
| oil can. He was completely enveloped in
flames. Death ensued in less than two
| hours.
James Mcdaniel, a noted desperado,
stage -robber and murderer, was k He'd in
Texas recently while resisting arrest.
A negro was lynched at the smedee
place, Sharkey County, Miss, few days
ago, for outraging a little girl named
Annie Curtis. 1t is said the girl will
die.
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. FL. Stevens, of Canton, Van Zandt
County, Tex. was murdered few days
since in ibis own house, and the place
ransacked.
MIR. j. Yost, sheep ranchman, was
struck by lightning and instantly killed
at Rice, near Corsicana, Tex, few nights
ago. Deceased was thirty six years old,
and from Ohio.
At Andersonville Prison cemetery a
rosebush 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
| WdpSf III Solio mysterious way buaU all IN
vestigations fail to account for.
A man calling himself D. M. 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 anc-
tioneer, to secondhand 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 nights age
billiards. company was declined by the
fair one because of previous engage
ment." The rejected suitor shadowed the
door, and at a late hour, when his brother
emerged, set upon him with long, keen
blade, hacking him up mercilessly, inflict-
ing fatal wounds. Hilliard has fled.
The Tennessee Manufacturing Company
at Nashville have closed their plain clotl
mill, thereby depriving $50 persons of en-
ployment for two months. The company
| Noo ubupio w ooCuo COubOu VI buo RTuut
required at proper figure, and the mar.
ket is overstocked with the class of good
made in the plain mill The proprietor
of similar mills througbout the State ar
reported as seriously considering a par
tial suspension of operations during th,
summer months.
Six negroes were seen playing card
around wood fire by the railroad, on
mile out of La Grange, Ca, few night
ago. An hour later when a passenge
train went along it ran over a ne
gro who was laying ross the track. Al
examination discl osed a pack of cards il
his pocket and dozen knife cuts on hi
person, any one Of which would hav
produced death. His name was ascer
tanned to be Dock Swanson. His fiv
companions are in jail for the murder.
The police of Louisville, KY, acting un
der warrants taken out by A. H. Gala
her, secret detective of the Law and Or
der Club, raided twelve gambling house
a few nights ago, arresting employees an,
taking charge of implements and ma
chinery. This is their first open move
ment, and it was sweeping one. TIL
houses raded ran keno and faro games.
Postage is now one cent an ounce.
. Sam Jones, the revivalist has closed hi
labors of Waco Tex, and returned to hi
home at Carteryille. Ga He racayad gee