St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-01-17
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGs.

"A Inc M6pcAalGS' Cl DdllaS,
Tex, held a meeting d few days ago and
Endorsed the proposed National bankrupt
law, urging that it would be g. protection
to credit.
Peter Howe, aged about thirty, Ger
man by birth, originally from Indiana,
was found dead in bed at Marshall, Tex, a
few days ago.
In Douglassville, Ga, few days ago,
James Newton drank too much and laid
down in front of bar-room fire, when his
clothes ignited and no was burned to
death.
A member of a convict gang working on
the Houston & Texas Central Railway was
shot by guard few evenings since and
killed, one mile north Of Dallas, while at
tempting to escape.
The late lynching at Clayton, N. c., of
two negroes, who were shot and thrown
into the river, receives sensational interest
4 by the alleged temperance of one OF the
negroes, Henry Davis, in neighboring
county.
A car of the United States Fish Commits.
sion, in charge of N. Simmons, is making
tour of Texas distributing German carp
/ and other fish for culture in Texas waters.
The car had 10000 on hand and will also
distribute in Western Louisiana, New
! Mexico and Arizona.
John c. Francis committed suicide at
Augusta, Ga, few days ago, by cutting
his throat with a razor. He was great
! sufferer from neuralgia, and took NOR
| phine freely to deaden the pain. He was
! supposed to have been temporarily insane.
After cutting his throat, he said the pain
I hal driven him to desperation, and he
| could bear it no longer. Francis was
| well-known and respected citizen.
| Greenberry Bray was married during
the holidays sand took up his residence
about five miles out of Americas, Ga. For
some unexplained reason there was
| great indignation among neighbors
against him, and party Of them, maskedy
broke into his house, few nights ago,
tore him from the side of hisi:wife and
rode him on a rail, and perpetrated other
indignities.
On the oath OF December, the schooner
Selma, loaded with fish and oysters,
sailed into Mobile Bay from Mississippi
Sound, and for two weeks was not heard
from when shewas found bottom up in the
Bay. Nothing is KNOWN of the four men
on board = Captain Charles Drummond,
Mate FL. K. Cleveland and Seamen Henry
Drummond and VIM. Mccullough. Doubt
less they were drowned.
The recent cold, wet spell caused great
suffering among cattle in Western Texas
A. H. Peale, Secretary of the Dallas
TEX Merchants Exchange, is missing.
Charles Huber, manager of the Erie
Telegraph and Telephone Company at
TNnll /,
are $2,7O0 short.
The North Carolina Legislature met and
organized on the It'll inst. E. T. Boyken
was elected President and r. NJ Turner
Clerk of the Senate. Thomas NJ. Holt was
elected Speaker of the House and j. D. |
Cameron Clerk.
sensational killing occurred a few
days ago near Goodlettsville, Tenn. A
young man named Smiley Cantrell, while
hanging meat in a smoke -house, fell from
the loft and was impaled on sharp stick,
which entered the side, passing through
the heart and causing instant death.
The storehouse Of E. @. Oakley, at Lucy
Station, Tenn, on the Chesapeake, Ohio &
Southwestern Railway, was entered by |
burglars a few nights ago, who afterward |
set fire to the building, which, together
with stock of goods valued at $1,000, I
We're destroyed. The thieves rihed the
store before setting it ON fire.
Lucy Washington (colored), aged nearly
one hundred, was found dead sitting in
chair in her room near the colored Baptist
Church at Shreveport, La, few days ago.
She was the mother of several children
when the battle Of New Orleans was
fought, and often related her experience
at that time. For some years she has been
an object of charity.
Bud Millsap was shot and instantly
killed at Lynchburg, Tenn, few days
ago, by Officer Silvertooth, who attempted
to arrest Miilsap for being drunk and dis
orderly. The latter tried to assault Silver
tooth, who fired three shots
. Governor Lowry of Mississippi has APP
pointed Judge James NJ. Arnold of Colum-
bus, Circuit Judge of the Sixth District, to
fill the vacancy on the Supreme bench
caused by the death of Judge Chalmers.
Judge Arnold is lawyer of great ability.
The house of Mrs, Clay, at Sandhat.
Smith County, Texas, was robbed and
burned few nights ago by negro named
Alex Robinson, in the absence of the fam.
lily. He was captured, and it was thought
he would be lynched as a portion of the
plumber from the house was found in his
possession.
News is received of the lynching of Jno.
staplston. Sr., a farmer residing near Mt.
Sterling, KY. A few weeks ago STABLE
toms son shot and killed Callahan White,
for which he was arrested and sent to Mt.
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father was arrested on pretense of being
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