Huntsville gazette., 1885-01-31
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

the carrier was waylaid and the pouch
carried off. 1t was found next morning
some distance from the point where it was
taken, cut open and robbed of all the
registered packages; also the report of
Postmaster Jones of Lake Providence. The
pouch contained 81 ,2s0 in registered pack
ages.
A few days since fire was discovered in
two-story frame building, in Mobile,
Ala, occupied as a grocery store and
sleeping-room by Mr.. Frank Cullen, with
the upper floors occupied by George Phil
lips, osvnc1 of the house, and family, with
boarders, three in number. The flames
spread so rapidly that Mrs. and Miss Phil
lips were burned to death. Mr.. Phillips
died subsequently of burns received in en-
deavoring to save his family. Cullen has
been arrested for incendiarism.
Rev. Charles F. Clark, a we'll known
clergyman of Houston County, Georgia,
while quarreling with a colored man a few
days ago, was attacked by the latter with
knife. The preacher, who had a cane in
his hand, struck the negro on the head with
it, killing him instantly. A Coroner's jury
justified the preacher.
In fire at Paris, Tenn, a few night ago,
the Howard Block on the West side of the
Public Square, was burned. w. F. Daw-
sons grocery was also destroyed. A young
man named Boofman and a negro, while
trying to save the goods, were burned to
death. Fill Myers, a negro porter, was
buried in the cellar, but was finally res
cued, having sustained dislocated shoul-
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buried in the ruins. Total loss over $40, 600;
light insurance.
There are many counties in Tennessee
without even a carriage road, and horse
| back is the only mode of locomotion.
j. NJ. Hall, an old citizen of Arlington,
Tex, had his neck broken a few days
since
Mrs. Magoffin, a widow living at Green's
store, KY, shot and killed a noted hog
thief who had broken into her barn few
nights ago.
John Cheeks, who murdered Anderson
Odom at a ball some weeks ago, broke jail
at Swainsborough, La, few nights ago.
Rev George Spencer, a colored Baptist
preacher of Norfolk, Va, was recently
convicted of petit larceny and sentenced
to thirty days in jail.
In none of the Southern States do the re-
ceipts from the Post office pay the ex-
penses of the postal service. In the Vir-
ginia the deficit is $407 900 and in Georgia
| $4,000.
Mrs. &. IL. w albridge snut and wounded
an unknown burglar a few nights ago,
while he was trying to break into her house
at Dallas, Tex. He escaped, but aipool Of
blood was found.
Stephen Spence, a sheepman, living three
and one-half miles from Morgan, Tex, ac-
cidentally shot his little son a few days
ago with buckshot, killing him instantly.
The jeans manufacturers of Louisville.
KY, and New Albany, Ind, have decided
to open all mills now closed by agreement
on February 1st, running two-thirds time
till April.
There was an unusual civic and military
display at the installation of Governor
Shales of North Carolina at Raleigh. The
Governor, in his inaugural, sketched the
great improvement of the State during the
past ten years.
DR.. Leo, the notorious counterfeiter. was
sentenced at Nashville, Tenn, to fifteen
years in State Prison, on three indictments
of counterfeiting. He created quite a
scene in court by appealing TO the jury,
and for mercy.
A few days ago Pat Woods (colored)
killed Cons table Mike Bowen at McComb
City, and escaped Woods was subse-
quently arrested and lodged in jail. A
mob of masked men broke open the Jail,
took Woods out and hanged him.
Wiley Fryar, the seventeen year-old son
of one of the leading Magistrates of Hamil-
ton County, Tennessee, was drowned few
days ago in less than three inches of wa
ter. He was passing a pool when he fell
in an piIeptc fit, face downward, and
when found was dead. Drowning was the
cause of his death.
DR.. Marken, of Adams County, Iowa,
and Mrs. Eliza Park, who eoped together,
deserting their lawful partners three
months ago, were arrested at Jackson,
Tenn, a few days ago and were taken to
Chattanooga. Marken is believed to be
implicated in bank robbery, and it is al
legged that $500 is offered for his arrest.
The pair were sent back to Iowa.
A singular fatality occurred at Royston,
Ca, few days ago, in which spontaneous
combustion exploded crib of corn on the
farm of James Shirley. He had packed the
corn very closely and left the crib uncov-
cred. Rain came, when the corn swelled
and burst the crib in every direction, some
of the corn flying thirty feet away, one of
the cobs striking a negro, who was stand
ing by, on the temple, killing him in
stantly.
The police of Memphis, Tenn, have sue
ceeded in arresting Willis Cole, q negro,
who on the night of the ed Of last Septem-
Der stabbed and killed Joseph Grimes, a
plumber. The killing was very mysterious.
Grimes was in company with companion
going to a circus. He stumbled up against
a negro man and woman. when the negro
man drew knife and stabbed Grimes,
killing him instantly. There was no clew
as to who the man and woman were, as
they disappeared in the darkness imme-
diately afterward.
Owing to the rapid caving of the river
banks on the Mississippi side short dis
tance below the Refuge oil mills, two miles
below Vicksburg, Miss, the Louisville,