The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-10-16
SOUTHERN GlEANlNGS.

Sheriff Mcconnell, of Rains County,
Tex, was stabbed and seriously wounded |
a few days ago by an old man named Finn,
who was drunk.
Indianapolis, the great trotting stallion,
the property of W. H. Wilson, of Cynthi
ana, KY, was shipped from Peoria, ILL.,,
and by mistake was taken to Lexington
Instead of to Cynthiana. He was led to
Cynthania, distance of twenty six
miles, and the exposure brought on in.
dammation, which res ulted in his death.
Advices received at Talladega, Ala, by
associates of the English capitalists who
recently invested largely in mineral lands
in Talladega County, say that the plant
for furnace to be erected on those lands
has been shipped from England.
Atlanta, Ga, is to lay the corner stone of
soldiers monument next July, which is
to be 18) feet in height and cost 100000.
Near the base of the column, in inches,
will be statues Of Grant, Lee, Johns ton
and Sherman. Near the top of the column
will be two soldiers, the blue and the gray
clasping hands, and at the top of the col
umn, standing on a globe, will be the God
dess of Liberty. Many of the stones to be
used in the construction of the pedestal
are to be contributed by the various army
posts and war associations of the country,
and some of them are expected to be fur.
nished by the general G overnment.
Four prisoners confined in the County
Jail at Abilene, Tex, made bold dart for
liberty few nights ago. They gained
possession of heavy pick with which
they broke the lock and opened the door
stepping out into yard surrounded by
close picket fence, twelve feet high. They
surmounted this and then ran like deer.
Officers on horseback ran speedily on their
tracks, and in less than ten minutes three
were retaken, including one charged with
murder. The fourth got away.
A university is to be erected at Athens,
Tenn, by colored people.
North Carolina rejoices in a great peanut
crop.
English capitalists are buying large
tracts of land in Georgia.
j. G. Lively, of Plano, Tex, was heeced
out of $3.50 by fakirs following circus.
There are three colored mem bers of the
Georgia Legislature. Two of them are
| brothers.
| The tobacco warehouse of 7. j. Conrad
& Co., at Louisville, KY, burned few
nights ago. Loss, $4,000; no insurance
| Work has begun at Henderson,, KY, on
the Ohio Valley Road, to connect that
place with jackson, Tenn.
A freight train on the Texas Pacific Road
was ditched near Mineola, Tex, a few days
since. An engineer and a brakeman were
severely injured.
There is not church within fifty miles
of st. Lucie, Fla, and hundreds Of people
in that region never heard a sermon.
While Booker Huddlesten and Alex. Sar
geant were blasting a well at Cowan, Tenn.
few days ago, bucket of powder ex
ploded, burning the two in fearful man
ner.
Tennessee Methodists, in conference a
Columbia, voted against eliminating th'
word South from the name of their church
Ex-Governor Moses of South Carolin;
since his sentence OF three years in tn
Massachusetts State Prison, has been in
condition of melancholy bordering on in
sanity.
Cows in Key West are abeled with th
names of persons for whom their milk
kept.
Out of total of about 81, 900, 900 acres G
land in Florida about S,000,0 900 acres il
the southern part of the State have neve
been surveyed and do not appear in th
tax books.
The Superior Court of North Carolin
has decided that railroad company ca
not force passenger to ride in a smokin
car if he does not desire to do so.
A little girl who patronizsd the stree
cars in Rome, Ga, rece ntly, under the in
preston that she was dropping nickles
the missionary boxes to help the POT
heathen, now wants the company to T.
I fund, having discovered her mistake.
A dispatch from Rome announces tn
the Very Rev. d. j. Qui uiyley, Vicar Gener
| of the diocese of Charleston, s. c., h
been appointed Domestic Prelate, with Il
title of Monseignor. This is the first prize
in the South so honored.
! The first white child ever born in til
Kentucky Penitentiary was born recent
to Josephine Fritz, from Henderson Cou
ty, who was convicted as an accompli
in the murder of Mrs. Moses Caden.
The following are the newly elected of
T, GERS of the Shreveport Ua.) Cotton I
change: President, N. Gregg; Vice-Pre
q dent, G. H. Minge; Treasurer, j.
5 McWilliams. Directors-B. H. Johnstt
Q James G. Soupe, Sam N. Ford, W. F. Ts
G lor, W. Scofield.
$ Charles L. N. Reade, the abscondi
j. agent of the Southern Express Compa
o at Morristown, Tenn, was arrested in
9 City of Mexico a few days ago by det
. tive, who has brought him back. Reade
charged with embezzling about $4,000.
!; Twenty-Five of the accomplices in
a . lynching of Culbreath, in Edgefield Co,
:, ty, s. c., have been lodged in jail.
DIR. e. r. Duval died recently at F
Smith, Ark, Of typho -malarial fever.
was one of the most prominent men in I
!, State, and the most distinguished ply
- =. clan. He was past Grand Master of \
20 sons of the State, had been President
y the school board a number of years, 6
u was universally beloved.
IT. The strike which has been in progress
IL the Poplar Creek (Tenn.) coal mines
e. ended, the 800 strikers resuming work 6
Ve compromise figure. They struck for
" advance of ten per cent. and were gil
10 half that amount. In consequence of
~ advance in wages, coal has advanced
NJ cent per bushel.
al A few nights ago, Joe Bruce (colore
Tn who choked and robbed Major John Y
,ly entine's wife, at Bowling Green, KY, ,
ee caught. He resisted arrest and had to
Ity shot, but was not killed. He was pla
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