St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-24
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGs.


for the past fifty years a minister in the M. e.
Church, was stricken with paralysis whilei
at dinner few days ago and died at the
residence of his son-in-Iaw, Rev. r. Thorn
son, at Marshall, Tex.
Alicia Cruce, wife Of a prominent citizen
of Laredo, Tex, went into her yard, few
days since, and was bitten on the foot by
tarantula. A physician was summoned,
but the poison was too active, and she died
in horrible agony. The limb swelled to an
unnatural size, and she was unconscious
within an hour after receiving the bite.
While the steamer Hays was near Moe
casin, Ca, on the Chattanoochee, few
days ago, passengers observed young
man in batteau, apparently superlntend-
ing some hands rafting in the river. He
had shotgun in his hand. Suddenly,
while the gaze of all was turned away, the
report of the gun was heard, and, on look
ing, they saw him tumble back into the
stream and sink to the bottom. Whether
it was case of suicide or not is not known.
He was in comfortable circumstances and
married, having welded Miss Horton, of
Macon, recently.
The City Council of FL Paso, Tex, re-
Gently resolved to reduce the police force
The next morning one of the principal
stores was burglarized and about 500
worth of revolvers taken. The electric
lights made everything clear as day, and
relying on the brilliant lights no shutters
were up, so the thieves simply broke the
glass and took the plumber. No clew.
There is a movement on foot among the
influential colored men of Abilene, Tex,
to induce negroes from other parts of the
South to settle in that and other towns in
West Texas. Negroes readily find work
at good pay there; servants especially are
in demand; and are paid from SO upwards
per month. Large numbers of negroes are
already in some towns, and the movement
is regarded with disfaYor by the whites.
The cotton seed pool in the Mississippi
Valley has not ended, as reported.
Maude Reynor, the female desperate OF
Texas, beat a woman almost to death a
few days ago at Abilene.
Chas. Golden, a young man lately from
Madison, Ia, was found dead in bed at Fl
Worth, Tex, a few days ago, from an over
dose of morphine.
Willie Werner was shotdea at Sommer-
set Landing, Davis Bend, Miss, by Wesley
Gasly, colored. The murderer escaped.
A fire at Augusta, Ga, few days ago
resulted in $4,000 damage to the stock of
dry goods and notions in the store of s.
Fl. Myers; insured.
Neal, the last of the Ashland (Ky.) muir
derers, will be hanged February 18th, as
the higher court sustained the verdict and
the Governor refuses to interfere.
Of linn
on Archbishop Leroy at New Orleans on
the 18Th inst, included grand military and
civic procession and imposing ceremonies
at the Cathedral, Archbishop Gibbons, of
Baltimore, officiating
T. D. Welldone and wife, young couple
from South Carolina, We're drowned few.
days ago while fishing on Lake Mineola
near Altoona, Ala.
The hanging of McLane, white man
in Bossier Parish, La, by a mob somt
months ago is being Investigated by the
Grand Jury.
By order Of Governor Mcdaniel OF
Georgia the convict camp of B. G. Lockett
& Co., in Dougherty County, has been
broken up, and the prisoners sent to other
camps in the northern part of the State.
Major Alex. Moses, the agent and adj
iuster of the New Orleans Underwriters,
while getting out of hack at the Louis
vile, New Orleans & Texas Railway De-
pot at Vicksburg, Miss, few nights
ago, slipped and fell, breaking his leg
above the ankle and injuring himself in
ternally.
Petitions signed by $4,000 citizens asking
the Legislature of Tennessee to submit to
to the popular vote a Constitutional
amendment prohibiting the manufacture
and sale of Intoxicating liquor have been
presented to that body, which has appoint
ed committee to consider them.
Notwithstanding the massacre Of Nor
mon elders in Tennessee, missionaries have
been working quietly in several counties
recently, and tospreyent the expounding of
their doctrine and guard against other
possible deadly ARRAYS, bill has been in
troduced in the Legislature to punish the
teaching of the doctrine of polygamy by a
fine of $500 and imprisonment for two or
three years at the discretion of the Court,
It is likely that the measure win become a
law.
City Marshal NJ. Bauer, of Met Comb City,
La, having warrant for the arrest of Pat
Woods, colored, called at his house a few
days since, when he was fired upon by
Woods, the ball taking effect in his neck
producing wound from which Bauer died
Woods escaped. 10
The heirs Of T. o. Jennings, conductor
of Jackson, Miss, killed in July, 1888, by
his train going through Mammoth Bayou
bridge, sued the railroad company fol
$4,000. The last term of court resulted in
mistrial, the jury being equally divided.
After trial at tn presen term, lasting q
week. the Jury retrlrnad a Yerdict in favor