The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-03-26
SOUTHERN oLEANINGS.


few days ago. In ante-bellum times he
was Secretary OF State, and filed the po-
sition of Register of the Land Ofice many
terms. 1t is said that he was the best
posted man on land matters in the State.
Convicts at Tracy City, Tenn, made a
break for liberty few DAYS ago while be- |
ing taken from the stockade to Lone Rock |
Mine. The guards fired four shots, fatally |
wounding Preston Sladen, who received |
bullet in the brain. The rest were returned |
to the stockade.
The town of Aurora, Tex, was visited |
by disastrous fire a few nights ago. Four
business houses were entirely consumed.
The heaviest losers are: Killaugh Bros,
$4,000; L. ]. Randall, $4,000; w. 8. KIM
ball, S, ,000-all about covered by insur-
ance.
A laborer in Louisville, KY, named Per-
ry Garrison, beat his wife to insensibility
few days ago, bound her to the floor of
the cellar and left her without food or wa
ter until three days later. when a neigh
bor heard her groans and the police burst
in the door. She begged that the brute
be not arrested, but he was locked up.
James Mccall, said to be a refugee from
Justice from the State of Arkansas, who
was arrested near Poolville, Tex, some
time ago, and who was subsequently, shot
by citizen while attempting to escape,
has been placed in durance vile at Wealth
erford.
A few evenings since j. d. White, a
passenger on an East Tennessee train,
was killed few miles east of Knoxville.
| The train was crossing covered bridge,
when White put his head out of the car
| window and was crushed against the
| timbers of the bridge. White was twenty
| two years old. He lived in Upper East
| Tennessee.
Judge John W. Alberty, Associate JUS
tice of the Supreme Court of the Cherokee
Nation, has been suspended from office on
charges preferred for malfeasance in
office. Jackson Christie has been ap-
pointed to fill the vacancy until the Ma
tional Council meets, in November.
Shoaf, Hines and Upton, of Luling, Tex,
on preliminary examin alton for decoying
two negroes half mile from town, on tho
railway track, and then numbering them,
under the pretense that they were train
wreckers, in order to obtain the reward,
were refused bail and held for trial.
Bishop Alexander Gregg recently had
his annual Convocation at Brenham, Tex,
in st. PETERS Church. The Bishop re-
ports that all the Episcopal Churches
throughout the State are in as prosperous
a condition as could be expected, constd-
ering the financial stringency of the times.
The City Councils of both the Texas and
Arkansas sides of Texarkana have passed
ordinances that will probably result in
water works being built within the next
six months. The contract is with F. w.
Raider, of st. Louis.
Three negroes-Ambrose Young, Charles
Latham and Frank Freeman-arrested on
the charge of numbering Thomas Mont
gomery, well-known citizen, on Christi
mas Eve last year, were taken from their
guards at Union City, Tenn, a few nights
ago and hanged.
The bill to suppress gambling, which
passed the lower house of the Texas Leg
islature was killed in the Senate.
North Carolina spends $l3, 100000 an
nually for liquor.
Several business houses were burned re.
J Gently at Pulaski, Tenn.
The remains of a carnivorous mamma
were found near Mckinney, Tex.
Charters have been granite ed to build +,
railroad from Pensacola, Fla, to Mem.
. phis, Tenn.
| iho oououoih 1aSi iSuiouIdi w Olho du ab
lanta, Ga, have made an assignment t,
secure debts of $l96.000.
There is no whisky sold in Schley Coun
ty, Ga, and the result is that there has no
been warrant issued for three months.
Pierre Duval, of Rutherford County, N
c., is dead. He fought under Napoleon
and lost leg at Waterloo.
Knoxville, Tenn, claims to sell twice a
much beer as any other town of the sam
size in the South.
A negro named Whitfield has been con
,, victed of arson at Savannah, Ca, and sen
fenced to be hanged on the 9th of March
Henry Hawkins was drowned in Cyprn
Bayou, near Smithville, Tex, a few night
ago. IS
!. T. B. Cowark, deputy United State
Marshal, arrived in Highland, Ga, fe,
days ago with five prisoners charged wit
9 Illicit distillation. A mob of mounte
men went to the hotel where the part
, were and attempted rescue. They weI
repulsed by Cowark and deputies One {
the party was killed, one wounded an
r three captured and jailed.
While party of gentlemen were hunt
ing in Leflore County, Miss, few day
J, since, they were overtaken by sever
: hail storm, and ]. D. Chickering, Circu
Clerk, was so severely injured by the ha
a that he was compelled to take shelter in
!, negro cabin about five or six miles fro
town, where he was kindly attended, b,
k so severe were his injuries that he died
i short time.
There is a negro on John Mccullough
If plantation near Clinton, Ca, who fi,
r years ago was as black as the ace
10 spades. At that time small white splotch
began to appear on his body, which spree
j. and enlarged until now he is half whi
= man, so far as color goes. He is in soun
health and has never been known to ha,
te day of sickness.
N In the Texas Senate few days ag
Of during a heated discussion, Senator Davi
of Cook County, alluded to Senator Hou
l. ton, of San Antonio, as resembling
l. strutting turkey gobbler. Houston toe
the floor and said that "no personal q
le lusion had ever been made in the Sena
s. until that yellow, sallow-faced mumn
and blackguard from Cook had seen fit
IN do So" The intervention of friends pr
in vented personal collision.
p The Exposition is doing better.
IS. R. D. Hargrove, constable of H
G. Springs Township, Ark, is a defauter