The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-06-26
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.


very great. Good judges estimate the
average at twenty three bushels to the
acre.
George Bullard, of Columbia, Tenn, at.
tempted suicide few days ago by cut
ting himself in number of places about
the body and head. The cause was
whisky. Bullard is dangerously hurt.
A colored man in Anderson County,
South Carolina named Berry Armstrong,
has almost completely changed color in
the past year. He is sixty-one years of
age, and was formerly a slave. He says
that in June last white spots commenced
| coming first on his legs and then on his
body, neck and face, until now he is,
| except o few spots around his nose,
mouth, eyes, and the rims of his ears, as
white as most white men. His eyes have
also changed and correspond with his
| color His hair and beard still have the
appearanceof the negro, but are getting
very gray.
The Savannah (Ga.) authorities prohibit
bill-boards and wall advertising, and the
newspapers warmly support their action
on the ground that bill-boards mar the
beauty of the landscape.
Corn worms are destroying the plant in
Texas.
William Martin, New York drummer,
was drowned in the Tennessee River at
Florence, Ala, few days ago.
Miss Mary Lemard cowhided James
Myers at Nashville, Tenn, few days
since for circulating damaging reports
about her.
The total State school fund of Georgia
in 1884 was $5Os,454
While swimming river to escape from
officers of the law, George Edwards, col
ored, notorious Georgia burglar, was
fatally shot by his pursuers.
Max 7. Weiser, clerk in the San An
tonic Post office, has been arrested for
stealing reg istered letters.
Henry and Elijah Pickard, residing near
Chestnut Mound, Tenn, were shot and
dangerously wounded by Frank Evans.
The affair was the result of an old feud.
Elijah was shot in the left side and Henry
in the neck.
The boiler in the saw-mill of j. N. Doal,
near Wakefield Station, Tenn, exploded a
few daysago, killing John Tucker and in
juring three other men, one of whom can
not recover.
difficulty occurred few evenings
since in New Orleans between John III.
Charlton and Robert Keoghey, room
mates, during which the former shot the
latter in the right side and neck He then
shot himself in the head, from the effects
of which he died in short time. Keoghey
will recover.
Judge r. A. Hill, at Oxford, Miss, re.
Gently decided the case of the Memphis,
Salem & Brunswick Railroad Company
VS.. Green, Hamilton 81 Co. in favor of the
latter. The road owes the firm $191 200,
which constitutes the greater part of the
assets of Green's bank at jackson, which
failed last yaar.
Rittenhouse Moore, the extensive har-
bor-work contractor of Mobile, Ala, is
arranging to dredge and cut the pr opos ed
Atlantic Coast Tunnel, which work will
give a continuous water route along the
eastern coast of Florida by way of Indian
River.
Mike Pressley, worthless, impecuni-
GUS Irishman, living in Yazoo City, Miss,
who, eighteen months ago, inherited,
through the death of an uncle in Minneso-
to, fortune of 100000, is now missing.
1t is stated that Presley has sold his
claim for $40o. The theory now is that
the purchaser fearing that the contract
would not hold good on account of Mixes
intoxicated condition, planned his taking
off.
A waterspout burst in the vicinity Of
Dyersburg, Tenn, few days ago, doing
great damage. Fences and bridges were
washed away, lands badly washed, and
crops much injured A portion of the
Chesapeake, Ohio &c Southwestern Rail-
road track, at Henning Station, was
: washed away.
Two first cotton blooms were received at
Memphis, Tenn, q few days ago, one
from j. H. Bisco's farm at Bolivar Land
ing, Miss, and the other from Daniel
Mum of Tunica County, Mississippi
These blooms were thirteen days in ad.
3 vance of the appearance last year, but
1, about an average of date as to their gen.
: eral appearance.
William Freeman, aged eighteen, few
days since, on Chincoteaque Island, Va.
: shot Timothy Hills, his wife and daugh.
ter, and then killed himself. He had
courted the daughter of Hills, and she
!, it is supposed, at the instance of her
!. mother, declined his suit. 1t was feared
!. that all three would die. Mr.. Hills is one
of the most prominent citizens of tn,
island
!, Richard Stillwell, the grandfather 10
: the largest family in the vicinity of Jack.
son, Ga, was found hanging few day
. ago. He was eighty -seven years of age
His bed stood in the middle of the room
and rope, with a moose, hung from
rafter above to aid him in rising Will
a the family were at prayer meeting the oil
f man put his head in the moose and ende
his life.
g Frank W. Gregory, reporter on tn
o Louisville (Ky.) Commercial, was arreste
s few days ago on a charge of embezzle
y ment committed at Terre Haute, Ind, hi
Q former residence. Gregory has been EN-
Q ployed on various newspapers at Indian
apolis, Terre Haute, Lafayette and Craw
il fordsville, Ind. He is about twenty leigh
q years old, and respectfully contested i
q Indiana.
10 In Galloway County, Kentucky, recent
a man named Harris slapped his wife
ia face. Her fathes, James Hart, an
" brother, Tom Hart, demonstrated, and il
!. the fight that ensued Harris drew knit
and after fatally wounding young Har
:, stabbed and killed his father-in-lav
~ Harris surrendered himself. All the par
y y ties were WE'LL to- do farmers, and there
much excitement over the affair.
The June floods are coming.
N Kenneth Marlborough was killed fe
DAYS ago by W. B. Brooks, Justice of I'll