Huntsville gazette., 1885-02-14
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGS.

ago by professionals and $4,000 stolen
@z,zVo IN greenbacks and SLID in notes. A
diamond drill was used in cutting the hole
INTO tie combination, and it was then
shattered with chisel and the door
opened.
The boiler In the Snider Brewery at
Louisville, KY, exploded few days since.
John Bush, an employe, was struck and
fatally injured by piece Of iron. Frank
ana Henry Klppers and Rudy Lamleng,
three children playing in an adjacent yard,
were struck and seriously hurt. The cause
of the exilpiion was a mystery
There are rGmors 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. Aftidavits
have been repaired and forwarded to tho
Surgeon General of the Army, with q
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, O few days ago Evans
started from Mooringsport, in Caddo Par
ish, for Shreveport iu a skif during the re-
cent cold spell AMI 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 Abelene, Tex, was set on
fire few days since by prisoner named
Butler, charged with ro6bin5 a drumm er
named Levy, from Fort Worth Butler
Tod b,,to oh Il, Re
swOre thathe would burn himself out, but
no attention was paid to the threat, an be
was confined with pocket full Of maj tch-
es. The door was ignited and the flames
gained considerable headway before dis
covered.
Ben Hawkins, negro, who murdered a
peddler, was lynched by a mob in Robert
son County, Texas, few days ago.
George Webster, colored fireman. fell
from the deck of the steamer Harry Brown
at Louisville, KY, a few nights ago and
was drowned.
AS an important step toward securing
an abolition of the practice of pistol-car-
rying, a Galveston (Tex.) paper suggests
that the pistol pocket should be prob ibited
by law.
The river bank in front of Greanvlle,
Miss, is caving away rapidly and causing
| great uneasiness.
The gin-house of Mr.. John Robinson, on
Campbello place, below Shreveport, La.
Oh Red River, burned a few nights ago
Loss about 1000; insurance not known.
| The Houston (Tex.) Light Guard have
decided to go to Mobile in May next to com
pete at the inter State drill. Prizes ag-
gregatng $4,000 are offered. They hope
to meet their close competitors, the Tired
way Rifles, of st. Louis. The Light Guards
are now the champions Of the United
States.
While praying during recent storm
says the Natchez (Miss.) Dtm0crat, "old
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, Ga.,
by ex-Confederate and Union veterans.
The books printed in the South during
the war are now IN demand among collec-
tors. One of these was 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 young man living in
Louisburg, n. c., while in a grog shop a
few days ago made a wager that he could
drink a quart of whisky inside forty
minutes. The money was put up and he
slipped the liquor from the quart measure,
getting through in thirty lone 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 neig ighbor
as yourself was recently fully exemplified
near Barnwell, S. G. 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 mill,
had them sawed into lumber and during
the next week built for Mr.. Cave a new
dwelling as comfortable and commodious
as that which burned.
Edward Grieves, one of the freight de-
partment clerks 9f the Galveston, Harris
burg & San Antonio Railway at Houston,
Tex, wrote letter to his wife a few days
ago limiting suicide, and since that time ne
has not been either at home or at the rail-
road office. The opinion prevails that ne
has committed s1icide. He was man OF
fine address and education.
A bill was introduced in the Texas Leg
islature recently donating all the public
lands to the free schools; but similar bill
failed during the last session and it viii
probably meet the same fate at this.
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