St. Landry democrat., 1885-05-02
SOUTHERN GLEANINGs.

the last Legislature is legal tribunal.
NJ R. Wells, postal clerk on the line be-
tween New Orleans and Port Eads, dis
appeared recently taking with him the
contents of the registered letter pouch,
amounting, 1t is supposed, to several
thousand dollars. Wells was only SIX"
teen years of age.
The Governor OF Louisiana has issued
proclamation of quarantine against the
leading ports of Mexico, Central and
South America and the West Indian
Islands, to take effect May 10th.
A negro laborer, who had left his EN-"
ployer in Lincoln, Ga, was caught few
days ago by Peter Dill and George Kens
nedy and put under the lash. They tied
him and boat him until he fell unconscious.
He died few hours later. The crime has
startled the community with horror.
-Snrsicana, Tex, is to have a large roller
patent -four mill.
There are said to be large beds Of chrome
ore in Troupe County, Georgia
A cyclone at Prairie Grove, Tex, few
days ago caused serious loss of life and
property.
Texas will soon abound with cotton
mills, says San Antonio paper, which
also chronicles the erection of mill at
Riverdale at a cost of $4,000.
Vicksburg, Miss, was visited by con-
f1agration recently that destroyed $780,
600 worth of properly and a number Of
human lives. The Herald was burned ous
and had to suspend a few days.
W. G. Britton, Tax Collector of Hale
County, Ala, was convicted recently OF
embezzling SIS, 900, and was sentenced to
the Alabama State Prison.
1t is stated that recent losses by General
Gordon, of Georgia, may prompt him to
accept the Russian Mission on account OF
the salary.
The Supreme Court of Tennessee in ses-
sion at jackson, has confirmed the sem
tence of death on Joe Clark, colored, of
Hardeman County, for killing another
negro in 1884.
Perryville, a Tennessee River town, was
annihiIated few days since by an incen-
diary fire started by person seeking re"
venge on one of the inhabitants.
Citizens of Chattanooga, Tenn, Wilton
der General Grant the free use of a pri-
vate hotel on Lookout Mountain, where
it it is thought he will be greatly bene-
fitted.
Mrs. Willet Babcock's hotel at Paris,
Tex, burned few nights ago. Nearly all
the contents were destroyed. Loss, S15,-
coo; insurance, $4,000. The fire was of in
cendiary origin.
Charles Mcconnell, brakeman, was
instantly killed while switching in the
yard at Guthrie, KY, few days ago,
The deceased was resident of Earring"
ton, Ky.
The loss of cattle in Southwest Florida
the past winter is reported greater than in
any other previous year, one stock-ra raiser
estimating his loss at two thousand head.
Pneumonia, a Georgia paper says, seems
to have been the disease that played such
havoc.
Bernard Battishwhiler, aged thirteen,
employed to carry press dispatches from
the Nashville (Tenn.) american Office to
the Evening Bonner, fell from the Ibanis-
ters in the third story of the american
| building a few nights ago, and was in
! stantly killed.
The question of again opening the New
Orleans Exposition on November 1st is
being agitated Notwithstanding the ex-
| pense that would be entailed during the
I
| ing and reopening of the building, in the
way of insurance, repairs and police, it is
believed that the enterprise may be made
| to pay.
| Charlie Brett, of Jackson, Tenn, a
brakeman, while coupling cars at Cayce,
| KY, few days ago, made a misstep, fall
ing across the track. The wheels passed
over his left leg, crushing it between the
| knee and thigh. He was in critical con-
dition.
1t was recently announced by the Presi.
dent of the company that John L. Stovall,
book-keeper of the Georgia Chemical
Works, at Augusta, is defaulter, prob
ably as high as $4,000. The chemical
works is a wealthy corporation, the stock
| of which is owned almost entirely by para
ties in Baltimore and Norfolk, Va. Alfred
Baker is President.
Recent Investigations in the Lillian Mad
| ison murder case at Richmond, Va, show
that she had a watch key resembling that
| found in the aperture in the reservoir
fence. This in part destroys the most
valuable evidence against Cluverius, as
the prosecution relied upon the watch key
to connect him with the tragedy.
| The police of Mobile, Ala, have cap
| tured FL. Z. Wilkins, of many aliases, ac-
| cused of successful confidence games lin
many other Southern cities, especially
Atlanta and New Orleans. His game was
to buy out retail grocers, handle the cash
and skip. He answers the descriptions,
and was taken while trying to perpetrate
this swindle upon Mobile groceryman.
The seventeen-year-old daughter of
George Clarke, of Habersham, Ga, while
| putting out an incipient fire which had