Huntsville gazette., 1885-09-19
SOUTHERN cLEANINGs.


Davis will raise six hun lred bales OF cot.
ton this year.
A woman in Logan County, Ken
lucky, takes her rest in patches Of
three days and nights sleep at time,
and then keeps awake for like period.
She is eighty years old.
Ida Katzer committed suicide near Leon
Springs, Tex, a few days ago because her
parents sranted her to marry a man
nance 10
TT Sn,, So Anderson and Montague
cou., iyl2a, '~nt re Waterloo for the
Prof d
Dr Resol.at axahachie, Tex, q
few nigssx -. trunk, thrown from a
window, struck and it is thought fatally
injured Mr.. Simp Wilson.
Charles Williams, negro, shot and
killed Polk Mitchell, street-car driver,
at Chattanooga, Tenn, few days since.
The murderer was lynched.
Cotton has been damaged fully twenty
per cent. in portions of Mississippi by the
drouth, and many estimate the damage
much greater.
Mrs. Fl. G. Hulse wife of prominent
contractor, was assaulted on the street in
Chattanooga, Tenn, a few nights ago by
ruffian, who Knocked her d down and rob.
bed her of her portmonnaie. She was
painfully bruised. The assailant es-
capped
John Hoffman fatally stabbed a negro
by the name of Harrison Gladdish at Hop
kinsville, KY, few nights ago. The un-
fortunate man was almost disemboweled.
The slayer is in jail to await the action of
the Grand Jury.
Allen Thompson, a negro living near
Linden, Tex, beat his step-dau ghter to
death with club a few days ago. He
had frequently beaten her.. and fearing
arrest therefor he concluded to kill her.
Lynching was threatened.
The colored debating society in Geor-
gia town has been discussing the question,
(which Are the Most Useful to Society.
Lawyers or Buzzards"
North Carolina is building up an extern
sive trade in cherry lumber. The wild
cherry grows abundantly in the noun
tainS.
Thomas Manuel went into San Antonio,
Tex, from a hunting trip with a fatal
wound in the neck. He said he had been
accidentally shot by his companion, name
unknown.
The city of Fort Worth, Tex, and Pre-.
cinct Number ons of Tarrent County voted
on Prohibition few days ago. The pro-
position to stop the sale Of liquor was de-
feated by nearly l, 700 majority.
The Swatara, which was ordered to New
: Orleans to transfer silver coin from the
SUBJ Treasury to Washington, took on
board $12, ,000, 0J0 and sailed on the 18th.
curious case of lunacy has developed
at Conyers, Ga. Newton Hammock, a
prominent citizen, joined the Baptist
Church by immersion. The ceremony
drove him crazy, and he has been conf
mitted to an asylum.
News comes from Bristol, Tenn, of the
cremation, a few days ago, at Chillhowee,
settlement in Sullivan County, Of James
Sharett. He was standing over a fire in
his shop, took fit and fell suddenly into
the fire. He was burned to crisp before
assistance arrived.
Abraham Pope, owned house at Rock
Run, Ala, that he rented to a white man
named Hart. few days ago. while at
tempting to collect his rent, he and Hart
Sc zed a rock with which he crushed
Pope's skull Hart escaped, but officers
were in pursuit
A horrible murder was com mitted few
nights ago at colored church ten miles
east of Canton, Miss. Leon Cockrell, a
negro school tea cher, shot Aaron MARI, a
colored deacon, while the latter was
kneeling with the con gregation in prayer.
James Smith was fatally stabbed at
Louisville, KY, few nights ago by his
step-father, Harvey Clark. Smith and
his mother had sold calf, and Clark de-
manded the money. On being refused, he
tried to shoot his wife. The son seized the
gun, and in the struggle which ensued he
was stabbed three times by Clark.
Several weeks ago Mrs. E. R. Tenant,
of Marietta, Ga, was rendered and ac-
cepted the place of Superintendent of
Women's Work at the New Orleans Ex-
D ,stion, the place formerly held by Julia
Ward Howe. She publishes a card re-
signing the position, assigning as rea-
son: sMy husband is opposed to it, and
give it up in Difference to his Wishes"
Fifty years ago Ellen Johnson, a colored
woman, was separated from her mother
at Louisville, KY, the latter being sold
and sent to New Orleans. The mother ar
rived in Louisville few DAYS ago hale
and hearty. She is 112 years old and the
daughter sixty years old. Living in the
house with Mrs. Ellen Johnson are her
great-grandc children. This makes them
great great grandchildren Of Mrs john
sons mother. Strange as it may seem,
the great-great- grandmother, and the
great grandmother, the grandmother
mother and children all assembled In the
same room a few days since.
A double tragedy resulting in the NOR
tai wounding of two persons occurred at
Atlanta, Ca, few nights ago. Miss Ida
Maxwell eloped with John Shelton ana
married him at his mothers, whittier no
was followed by the girps father ana
brother armed. The elder Maxwell was
about to shoot at Shelton when the latter
Drained young Maxwell with hatchet.
He then fred at the old man and ne 1eli
mortally wounded.a
A sus was decided at Charlotte, N. u,
few days ayo, in the Superior Court IN