Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-16
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

Miss Sebe def and her parents were ar
rested recently in Palo Pinto County,
Texas, charged with the murder of new
born babe.
Conley johnson, a colored man, was
snot few nights ago by 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-
ginla, hail fell to the depth of eighteen
inches.
/ Ed Wh-1en. section boss on the Sunset
Road, hftecn miles west of Somerset, Tex,
was run o-er by an engine a few day ago
and insts-uly 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 tifty-fve years old and un-
married.
| Jack Ballard went to 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.
The jury in the case of R. L. Jones, late
! Postmaster at Lake Providence, La,
charged with conspiracy to rob and rob-
bng 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.
A white man by the name of G. M.
Millcan, Of SteePs Station, Ala, who was
/ in Vickburg, Miss, Tuesday, April 2lst,
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 Ing uiries about
him.
Snapper-fishing 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 DR.. B. Johnson, at Austin, Tex,
! was brutally murdered 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
man there The rope is to be used as a
cure for fits.
The Governor of Georgia recently sold to
New York syndicate $3,455,000 in State
bonds, running thirty years at 1-2 per
cent, getting premium of 5-16.
The catch of herring on the lower Rap.
pahannock River in Virginia, has been SO
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 sh OF 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. HI. Carter, well-to-do farmer from
Blue Ridge, Tex, committed suicide at
Austin few days ago young wife and
a 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 man
who lives in Lee County, Ala, few
| NIGHTS ago and warned him that if he did
not leave the county by the 9th inst. be
would be killed Great excitement existed
| in the neighborhood.
| Several United States Marshals were
fired into by moonshiners few days ago
| in jackson County, N. O., near the Geor-
| gia line. Two of the Marshals were seri-
ously wounded. The moonshiners are
| opposed to be the same parties who par
ticipated the recent highland difficulties.
The Southern Baptists met in conven-
ton at Augusta, Ga, last week. The
Treasurer's report showed a balance on
hand for the foreign missions of $l,1A,
and for the home missions of 81 1,6l3. Rev.
i ]. L. McCurry, of Virginia, delivered the
annual address.
| A drunken row occurred in Yancey
County, N. c., few days ago. in which
| Gilbert Hensley was fatally stabbed by
John B. Rockins. Hensley was literally
cut to pices, there being no less than six
wounds, each of which would prove fatal.
Both were drinking.
The cattlemen of Western Texas have
commenced to make heavy shipments by
| rail. One lot of twenty seven thousand
head was purchased at Abilene recently
for transfer to grass in Wyoming. Some
buyers will make an attempt to cross
Kansas, in violation of the quarantine
| laws.
One year ago Miss Fanny May Witt, a
literary lady of Atlanta, Ga, passing
| through Monroe, La, called at the Office of
the Bulletin. After her departure G. d.
Trousdale,i the editor, felt himself to be
desperately In love. A proposal of mar
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