Huntsville gazette., 1885-12-12
SOUTHERN GLEANiNGS.

Conference at Company Shops, N, G. She
is well educated and is said to be a good
preacher.
A terrible murder was committed at
South Pittsburg, Tenn, a few days ago.
A laborer named M. Kelly had a quarrel
with William Quinn over trivial matter.
Kelly ierked out knife and plunged it
into Quinn's back, causing instant death
The murderer was arrested. The deceased
leaves eight small children in destitute cir
cumstances.
CASTOR Dismukes, collector for a Nash
vile (Tenn.) hat store, presented bill to
Judge Matt Allen, while the latter was on
the bench in the Criminal Court few days
ago. The Judge motioned him aside, and
upon Dsmukes making some offensive re-
mark, the Judge reached over and slapped
his face. Dismukes threatens an action
for assault and battery.
The mutilated remains of a man, sup
posed to be G.. w. Hewitt, of Navasota
County, were found few days since near
Myra, on the Navasota River, Texas. The
head was severed from the body, and there
was a pistol wound in the head.
Bishop McTyeire on taking the chair at
the Middle Texas Conference of the NJ. E.
Church South, few days since, said that
if the Conference of the Southern States
would raise $4,000 for the Payne Institute
for colored folks, he (the Bishop would
make it $25, 900 endowment.
| There are five of Jefferson Davis four
teen cabinet officers still living. Reagan
| and Toombs were members of the original
| Cabinet.
| Miss Tillie Malone, daughter of the Vir-
| ginia Senator, will make her debut in
| Washington society this winter. She Is
said to be pretty and bright.
| recent measurement of Mount Mitch
| ell, sometimes called Clingman's Peak, in
North Carolina, shows it beyond question
to be the highest point east of the Rocky
Mountains.
| An exchange declares that free grass in
| Texas means State troops to prevent
wholesale cattle stealing. Cattle stealing
means mobs, vigilance committees, Win
chesters, six-shooters and sheol generally.
| At Newport KY, couple from Jack
sonville were married the other night
| on roller skates in q brilliantly lighted
rink. There was a wedding grand march
| on wheels, and the door receipts were
enormous.
| Nine hundred sections of Texas school
lands were leased recently for a term of
six years.
| Five persons were poisoned at Knoxville,
Tenn, few days since by drinking coffee
in which colored cook had placed half q
| pound Of arsenic.
Charlotte Wickliffe, colored, died at
|
III. She has fifteen living children, the
oldest nearly hundred years old, and
sixty grandchildren. She claimed to have
handed Washington cup of water at the
battle of Yorktown. Her second husband
was 112 years old. She was hale and
hearty until recently.
! The jury in the case of William and
Humphrey Best, charged with the murder
of William Bailey, colored, returned
verdict of not guilty at Lancaster, KY.
The father of the Best boys killed seven
men and always managed to escape pun
ishment.
Mr.. J. c. Higgins, of Jacksonville, Fla,
| is six feet four inches high, weighs 415
pounds and has head or hat expressly
made for him at Camden, N. j., which
| measures thirty-two and one-half inches
| in circumference.
| The Supreme Court of Georgia has de-
cided in the case of Samuel Jamison VS..
the Southwestern Railway, that dog is
not such property as railroad could be
made to pay damages for.
The Knights of Labor are beginning to
make themselves felt in Georgia, and have
already perfected an organization in all of
the principal cities of the State. Some of
the leading manufacturers are taking
alarm and are quietly discharging all en-
ployes known to belong to the organiza-
tion, which is expected to lead to trouble
ere long.
Buglars have been particularly busy In
Clarksville, Tex, recently. One of them,
who was seen for moment, is described
as well dressed man, but his identity was
not established.
Newton Chance, an aged itinerant
preacher, who was on trial at Sherman,
Tex, recently, for the murder of Junius
Foster in 1888, was acquitted amid great
rejoicing, the real murderer having come
forward and confessed the crime.
The sentence of George Strickland, who
was to have been hanged at Louisville,
KY, on the 7th inst, has been commuted
to Imprisonment for life.
A freight train on the Alabama Great
Soathern Railroad broke in two near Par
lervile, Ala, few days ago, and the two
sections collided, causing a frightful wreck
and the instant death of Ia brakeman
named Coleman. Conductor McAllister
was badly injured.
The large wooden mills belonging to
Watson, Ivey & Co., at Adairsville, KY,
burned a few days ago. Loss, $4,000; no
| insurance.
| The South Carolina Legislature, now in
session, is occupied with measures to reform
/ the judicial system and take care of the
| convicts.
Gilmore Thompson, a twelve-year- old
negro boy, committed suicide few days
ago at Atlanta, Ca, by shooting himself
through the brain because his mother had
whipped him for carelessly handling pis.
| tol.
| The knights of Labor of Austin, Tex.
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