The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-05-15
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGS.


born babe.
Conley Johnson, a colored man, was
shot few nights ago by a mob who called
at his house, near Waverly, Tenn.
A RECENT terrific hail-storm did great
damage to cotton, corn and vegetables in
sections of Virginia and North Carolina.
In some sections In Surrey County, Vir-
ginia, hail fell to the depth of eighteen
inches.
Ed Whalen, section boss on the Sunset
Road, fifteen miles west of Somerset, Tex.
was run over by an engine few day age
and instantly Killed. The mangled re-
mains were scattered along the road for
many yards. Whalen had been in the
city and started home drunk, from which
fact it is supposed he was lying on the
track when he met his death. Whalen
was about fifty-Hve years old and un-
married.
Jack Ballard went to a field In Bath
County, few days ago, where Peter
Spencer was playing and shot and killed
him in cold blood. The two had had
difficulty previously. Bullard escaped,
but indignant citizens were securing the
country for him.
Aho Jui III pho CdSo VI les IL. oohco, iab0
Postmaster at Lake Providence, La,
charged with conspiracy to rob and rob-
bing the United States mail at Lake Provi-
dence on the night of January 10, 1885, re-
turned verdict of guilty. The penalty is
imprisonment for life.
white man by the name of G.. M.
Millican, of Stee's Station, Ala, who was
in Vickburg, Miss, Tuesday, April 21st,
the day of the disastrous fire, and shipped
lot of goods on the Vicksburg & Mem
phis Railroad for his home that day, has
been missing ever since. His friends fear
that he was among the unrecognized VIC
Tins of the fire, and have written to per-
sons in Vicksburg making inq uiries about
him.
Snapper-fshing Off the Florida Coast is
fullyiunder way.
The strawberry crop In eastern Florida
is larger than ever known.
Eliza Wilson, colored servant in the
employ of DIR. B. Johnson, at Austin, Tex,
was brutally murdered a few days ago in
her own room.
Miss Emily Davis of North Carolina,
was refused admittance to the bar of that
State and tried to drown her disappoint-
ment in suicide.
The negroes around Washington, N. c.,
are paying twenty five cents each for
strands of the rope that recently hanged
q man there. The rope is to be used as a
cure for fits.
The Governor of Georgia recently sold to
a New York syndicate $3,455,000 in State
bonds, running thirty years at 4 1-2 per
cent, getting premium of 5-16.
The catch of herring on the lower Rap-
pahannock River in Virginia, has been Sc
large this spring that the owners of weirs
have been throwing them back into the
river, it not paying to ship them to mar
ket
Joseph Whiteman, one of the most prom
inent citizens of Tatnall County, Ga, was
recently found dead on the banks of Beard
Creek, having been hot dead by unknown
parties.
Twenty years has not been sufficient to
destroy the explosive qualities of shells
which were used in the late war. Forest
fires have recently laid bare the old battle
fields of the Wilderness, Virginia, and
many old shells have exploded.
w. H. Carter, well-to-do farmer from
Blue Ridge, Tex, committed suicide at
Austin few days ago. A young wife and
bad br other are said to have furnished
the provocation.
Fred Adams, colored, was shot near his
home in Temple, Tex, few nights ago by
some unknown person, the shots, of which
there were two, taking effect one in his
face, breaking his jaw bone, and one in his
right breast which is regarded fatal.
Twenty masked men went to the house
of Mr.. William Thompson, young mar
who lives in Lee County, Ala, few
nights ago and warned him that if he die
not leave the county by the 9th inst. ht
would be killed. Great excitement existed
IN the neighborhood.
Several United States Marshals were
fred into by moonshiners few days age
| in jackson County, N. c., near the Geor.
| gia line. Two of the Marshals were seri
ously wounded. The moonshiners ar,
supposed to be the same parties who par
ticipated the recent highland difficulties.
| The Southern Baptists met in conven
tion at Augusta, Ga, last week. .Th,
Treasurer's report showed a balanc, OF
hand for the foreign missions of $1,144
and for the home missions of $1,613 Rev
]. L. McCurry, of Virginia, delivered th,
annual address
A drunken row occurred in Vance,
County, N. c., a few days ago. in whicl
Gilbert Hensley was fatally stabbed b,
John B. Rockins. Hensley was LITERAL,
cut to pices, there being no less than ST,
wounds, each of which would prove fatal
Both were drinking.
The cattlemen of Western Texas hav
commenced to make heavy shipments b,
rail. One lot of twenty seven thousan,
head was purchased at Abilene recentl,
for transfer to grass in Wyoming. Som
buyers will make an attempt to eros
sKansas, in violation of the quarantin
laws.
One year ago Miss Fanny May Witt,
literary lady of Atlanta, Ga, passin,
through Monroe, La, called at the office o
the Bulletin. After her departure G. 4
Trousdale,i the editor, felt himself to b
desperately in love. A proposal of mar
riage twas accepted by the lady, who be
came his wife few days ago the secon
time she ever saw him.
Meshac Boar, of Gordon, Ga, met wit
singular death few days ago. On re
turning from a trip over his field, he no
tioed some bees swarming. He undertoo
to hive them, when they turned upon hin
settling upon his face, hands, and necl
and stung him to death.
! Veterans Day at New Orleans May 1.
A meeting of 200 merchants was held a
New Orleans few nights ago to decid