St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-06-27
SOUTHERN aLEANINGs.


over. The cut is enormous and the yield
very great. Good judges estimate the
average at twenty three bushels to the
acre.
George Billiard, of Columbia, Tenn, at
tempted suicide few days ago by cut
ting himself in number of places about
the body and head. The cause was
whisky. Billiard is dangerously hurt
A colored man in Anderson County.
South Carolina, named Berry Armstrong
has almost completely changed color in
the past year. He is sixty-one years OF
age, and was formerly slave. lie says
| that in June last white spots commenced
coming first on his legs and then on MS
| body, neck and face, until now he lss
except a few spots around his nose,
mouth, eyes, and the rims of his ears, as
white as most white men. His eyes have
also changed, and correspond with his
color. His hair and beard still have the
appearance of the negro, but are getting
| very gray.
The Savannah (Ga.) authorities prohibit
bill-boards and wall advertising, and the
newspapers warmly support their actlon
on the ground that bill-boards mar the
beauty of the landscape.
Corn worms are destroying the plant in
/ Texas.
William Martin, a New York drummer,
was drowned in the Tennessee River az
/ Florence, Ala, few days ago
Miss Mary Leonard cowhided James
| Myers at Nashville, Tenn., few days
since for circulating damaging reports
about her.
The total State school fund of Georgia
in 1884 was $5OS, asa.
While swimming a river to escape from
officers of the law, George Edwards, col
ored, notorious Georgia burglar, was
fatally shot by his pursuers.
Max 7. Weiser, clerk in the San An
tonic Post-office, has been arrested for
stealing reg istered letters.
Henry and Elijah Pickard, residing neaH
/ Chestnut Mound, Tenn, were shot and
dangerously wounded by Frank Evans.
The affair was the result of an old feud.
Elijah was shot in the left side and Henry
in the neck.
1 The boiler in the saw mill of j. N. Doal,
near Wakefield Station, Tenn, exploded
few days ago, killing John Tucker and in.
Turing three other men, one of whom can
not recover.
"A
since in New Orleans between John 81.
Charlton and Robert Keoghey, room
mates, during which the former shot the
latter in the right side and neck He then
shot himself in the head, from the effects
of which he died in short time. Keoghey
will recover.
Judge r. A. Hill, at Oxford Miss, re
Gently decided the case of the Memphis,
Salem 6 Brunswick Railroad Company
VS.. Green, Hamilton &c Co. in favor of the
latter. The road owes the firm $191, GOO,
which constitutes the greater part of the
assets of Green's bank at Jackson, which
failed last yaar.
Rittenhouse Moore, the extensive har"
bor-work contractor of Mobile, Ala, is
arranging to dredge and cut the proposed
Atlantic Coast Tunnel, which work will
give continuous water route along the
eastern coast of Florida by way of Indian
River.
Mike Presley, a worthless, impecuni-
. GUS Irishman, living in Yazoo City, Miss,
who, eighteen months ago, inherited,
through the death of an uncle in Minneso-
to, a fortune of $500 600, is now missing.
It is stated that Presley has sold his
claim for $40o. The theory now is that
the purchaser fearing that the contract
would not hold good on account of Mikes
intoxicated condition, planned his taking
off.
"A waterspout burst in the vicinity Of
Dyersburg, Tenn, few days ago, doing
great damage. Fences and bridges were
washed away, lands badly washed, and
crops much injured. A portion of the
Chesapeake, Ohio s. Southwestern Rail-
road track, at Henning Station, was
washed away.
Two first cotton blooms were received at
Memphis, Tenn, few days ago, one
from J. FL. Bisco's farm at Bolivar Land
ing. Miss, and the other from Daniel
Mum of Tunica County,. Mississippi,
These blooms were thirteen days in adj
vance of the appearance last year, but
) about an average of date as to their gem
eral appearance.
William freeman, aged eighteen, few
DAYS since, on Chincoteaque Island, Va,
shot Timothy Hills, his wife and daugh-
ter, and then killed himself. He had
courted the daughter of Hills, and she,
: it is supposed, at the instance of her
: mother, declined his suit. 1t was feared
: that all three would die Mr.. Hills is one
of the most prominent citizens of the
island.
Richard stil1wel, the grandfather Iof
the largest family in the vicinity of jack
son, Ca, was found hanging a few days
i ago. He was eighty -seven years of age.
His bed stood in the middle of the room
and rope, with moose, hung from q
:. rafter above to aid him in rising. While
the family were at praye meeting the old
2 man nut his head in the moose and ended