Huntsville gazette., 1885-02-07
SOUTHERN GlEANINcs.


John Price and John Wright have been
arrested at Tyler Tex, for killing Con-
ductor Frazier and wounding Brakeman
Powers
While riding into Louisville, a few days
ago from their country residence, Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Lowell were thrown out OF
buggy by the horses running away.
The wife was severely injured. The hus-
bands skull was fractured and he was
fatally injured. The injured man is son
of General Lowell CT the United States
army.
Wiley Cannon and his wife, living near
Bells Ferry, N. c., went off to the ferry a
few days ago and locked their.three chill
dren in the house. On their return they
found the house in flames, and all efforts
to save the children proved fruitless, and
they were burned to death. The children
were aged one, FIVE and seven years, re.
spectively.
DIR. ID. E. Salmon, Commissioner of the
Bureau OF Animal Industries, visited Jack
son, Tenn, recently, to examine the
herd Of Jerseys, removed there from
Cynthiana, KY, lately. He says there is
no doubt but the cattle are affected, and,
having been exposed the da niger will not
be passed for eighteen months. The cattle
are quarantined.
Robert Freeman, mulatto boy, seven
teen years old, was killed by the acci-
dental discharge of his gun, near Jackson,
Tenn, a few days ago He had started
hunting, and was standing in the door
leaning on the gun when it slipped, strik-
ing the hammers, and the entire charge
entered his abdomen. He lived about two
hours.
The Pennington Hotel at Cleburne, Tex,
was destroyed by fire few days ago.
A woman of Tuckertown, Fla, is max
ing money by running saw mill.
The old city of st. Augustine, Fla, is to
celebrate the 32Oth anniversary of its foun-
daton March 27-2S. ......
Bennett Parsons, a farmer seventy-twc
years of age, was murdered near Jones'
boro, Ala, few days ago, and his wife
and two daughters are charged with the
crime.
The second female moonshiner ever ar
rested in Kentucky was lodged in Jail at
Louisville, few days ago. Her name is
Melissa Flow. She is a good-looking
blonde, twenty years of age, and was taken
in for selling pin and haE Of "Moun-
tain Dew"
Judge Alexander H. Arthur, one of the
Oldest and most prominent citizens of
vicksburg, Miss, died in that city few
nights since. Hewas State Senator from
Vicksburg for several terms prior to the
war, and has filled various positions of
public trust during the past twenty years.
Mrs. Cole, widow of Judge James l..
Cole, of Placquemine Parish, aged sixty
nine, was found murdered in bed a few
mornings ago. Thieves took her jewelry.
including diamond ring from her finger,
Five persons have been arrested on sus-
picion.
Franklin J. Moses, formerly Governor Of
South Carolina, recently finished a term
of three months in the Detroit (Mich.)
House of Correction for obtaining money
on false pretenses. He was at once ar
rested by Boston officer, to stand trial in
that city on an indictment for swindling
Colonel T. w. Higginson and several other
professors of Harvard University.
On returning to his home in Jackson
County, Georgia. a few nights ago, Mr..
Basil White found his bride wife hanging
dead from joist in the sta BILE. Her
maiden name was Eizabesh Beatty, and
she had been m arried but one week, her
husband being a widower with one child.
The new relationship proving irksome she
sought relief in suicide.
The mother of a dead infant found iz
Dallas, Tex, a few days ago, in well,
has been discovered in the person of Ellie
~
Tex. When her crime was discovered she
took train for the East, and officers went
in pursuit of her. She is prepossessing
young woman, single and about eighteen
years old.
A few nights ago farmer named =.
Smith, residing four miles north of Gov
inSton, Tenn, was murdered by unknown
persons. His body was found in the woods
near his house. his skull having been split
open by hatchet. Robbery is believed to
have been the cause of the murder, the
money in his posses sion at the time having
been taken.
Fire at Lewisville, Tex, few nights
ago, destroyed the principal part of tho
town. The heaviest losses, with insurance,
are: B. Flew, loss, s., 600; insurance, 81, 700;
W. H. Hyder, loss, $4,000; insurance, 81 600;
n. Owens, loss, $500; insurance, none; Johp
Kealy & Co., loss, $1,000; insurance, none,
Mrs. May Rawlings, floss, $500; insurance,
none; E. F. Stover, loss, 81 800; insurance,
none. The total loss is estimated at $10,-
900. The origin is thought to have been
incendiary.
During the year 1883 Ballard County,
KY, lost several bridges, the most i'm
portant passways in the county. A reward
of 1000 was offered for the apprehension
of the guilty parties, with evidence
to convict. No clue was obtained,
and would Enever have been, most
likely, but for the arrest, a sh ort
time ago, of VIM. Beard, charged with
breaking into store. After the arrest and
incarceration of Beard, he concluded to
cause the bridge burning business to be
'tiivulged and secure the company of his
confederates. He managed to get an in
terview with Mildred Coffee, of that
county, one of the party, and induced him
to pea ch on Tobe Hendricks, who, Coffee
says, fired the Scarborough bridge across
af ha