St. Landry democrat., 1885-02-14
SOUTHERN eLEANINGs.


diamond drill was used in cutting the hole
into the combination, and it was then
shattered with a chisel and the door
opened.
The boiler in the Sntder Brewery at
Louisville, Ky, exploded few days since
John Bush, an employee, was struck and
fatally injured by a piece of iron. Frank
and Henry Kippers and Rudy Lamleng,
three children playing in an adjacent yard,
were struck and seriously hurt. The cause
of the explosion was a mystery.
There are rumors of mis- management of
the Marine Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.
Charges are made by ex-patients of negli-
| gent attention, dirt, and want of kindly
care on the part OF the nurses Atfidavits
have been repaired and forwarded to the
| Surgeon General of the Army, with a
view to having him examine into the
matter.
The dead body of James Evans, white,
was picked up near the mouth of Dooley's
Bayou, La, few days ago. Evans
| started from Mooringsport, in Caddo Par
| ish, for Shreveport III a skif during the re-
cent cold spell and was last seen alive by
passing colored man in the act of making
a fire in his skiff, which was moored at the
mouth of the bayou.
The Jail at Abilene, Tex, was set on
fire a few days since by a prisoner named
Butler, charged with robbing drummer
named Levy, from Fort Worth. Butler
was arrested but a short while before and
swore that he would burn himself out, but
no attention was paid to the threat, and he
was confined with a pocket full of match
es. The door was ignited and the flames
gained considerable Roadway before dis
covered.
Ben Hawkins, a negro, who murdered a
peddIer, was lynchei by mob in Robert
son County, Texas, a few days ago.
George Webster, colored fireman, fell
from the deck Of the steamer Harry Brown
at Louisville, Ky., few nights ago and
was drowned.
AS an important step toward securing
an abolition of the practice of pistol-car-
rying, Galveston (Tex.l paper suggests
that the pistol-pocket should be prohl bited
by law.
The river bank in front of GreenvilIe,
Miss, is caving away rapidly and causing
great uneasiness.
The Clubhouse of Mr.. John Robinson, on
Campbello place, below Shreveport, La,
on Red River, burned few nights ago.
Loss about s., 900; insurance not known.
The Houston (Tex.) Light Guard have
decided to go to Mobile in May next to COM
pete at the inter-S State drill. Prizes ag-
gregating $4,000 ara offered. They hope
to meet their close competitors, the Tired
way Rifles, of st. Louis. The Light Guards
arr now oIl pF
States.
While praying during a recent storm,
says the Natchez Miss Democrat, sold |
Katie Hightower, who had been blind for
fifteen years, had her sight suddenly re-
stored, and can now see as well as when !
child"
At the University of Virginia there is
no prescribed course of study, no entrance |
examination, no vacation, except the sum-
mer one, and but six holidays.
A movement is on foot for the erection
of soldiers monument at Atlanta, Ca,
by ex-Confederate and Union veterans.
The books printed in the South during t
the war are now in demand among coIlec-
tors. One of these was a spelling book
printed on common wallpaper. Another,
more ambitious, was illustrated with the
old trade cuts found in newspaper offices,
producing a comical effect. Upon the
title-page is the legend: ''Printed in the
fourth year of the war of independence.
VIM. Robertson, a young man living in
Louisburg, n. G., while in a grog shop
few days ago made wager that he could
drink quart of whisky inside forty
minutes. The money was put up and he
slipped the liquor from the quart measure;
getting through in thirty one minutes.
He died two hours afterward.
The carelessness of negroes in regard to
their children is becoming every day more
apparent. Every week come reports from,
various sections of child burned to death
through the negligence of their parents.
Within the past month three were burned
to death in Kershaw County, two in
Sumter, two in Orangeburg, two in Rich
land and others in other counties in
South Carolina. 1t is becoming such a
common occurrence that legislation on the
the subject has been demanded.
The commandment to love your neighbor
as yourself was recently fully exemplified
near Barnwell, s. 9. While Mr.. w. T.
Cave and his wife were absent from home
their dwelling house and kitchen were
consumed by fire, their children barely es-
Gaping with their lives. The next day
thirty or forty of their neighbors turned
out and cut logs, hauled them to q mill,
had them sawed into lumber and during
the next week built for Mr.. Cave new
dwelling as comfortable and commodious
as that which burned.
Edward Grieves, one of the freight de.
partment clerks of the Galveston, Harris
burg & San Antonio Railway at Houston,
Tex, wrote a letter to his wife few days