The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-05-22
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGS.

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Houston, Tex, few days ago, it was
struck by an engine and completely de-
molished. The only passenger in the car
at the time was lady, who jumped and
escaped uninjured.
The Crittenden trial at Taylorvills, KY,
resulted in hung jury, ten being for J.
quttal and two for imprisonment. Tom
Crittenden, the grandson of the celebrated
John j. Crittenden, is charged with muir
dering Rose Moseby, a colored man, at
Anchorage, about two years ago.
Miss Martha Debask, an attra ctive y oung
lady living with her parents near Rose
Hill, Va, had a quarrel with her lover. A
few nights ago, about midnight, she tied a
heavy stone about her neck, ju npad in
Clinch River and was drowned. Her body
was recovered the next day.
In the woods near Dixie Station, on the
East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Rail-
way, the body of Scipio Atchison, colored,
was found few days ago riddled with
buckshot. Recently Atchson's son, James
outraged white woman near the same
place. James was pursued by white men,
who failed to find him. Scipio was terri
bly, enraged at the white men and threat
ened to kill them. He went to the houses of
1
your day, but tomorrow is mine l will
get your scalps." These threats are be-
lieyed to have been the cause of his death.
His son will he lynched, if caught.
Eustis, Fla, boasts of five-year -old
century plant which is about to bloom.
Though the melon crop in South Georgia
is late, it is none the less promising. The
acreage is not as great as last year.
! A happy colored youth of Georgia char
acterized picnic as "chicken fixin's an
flour doin's."
'Elias Josephus" aud "Marine Aida
, Diana" were the names two colored in.
fants received recently at a baptism In
> Georgia.
. "Daisy Simmons" the daughter of a
proud and wealthy North Carolina fam.
lily, killed herself in bagnio in Savannah,
Ga, few days ago.
George James and Theodore Bantz were
killed and several others injured few
. days since by boiler explosion at Gray,
9 son, KY.
Twenty-Five years ago gentleman il
: Upson County, Ga, buried 5000 half-dol
a lars in silver, where it remained until {
9 few days ago, when it was exhumed and
put into circulation.
$ Two citizens of Quitman, Ga, while OF
q a fishing tour in the lower part of the
county, were twice arrested for tramps.
Corn planting has been completed in th
: southwestern counties of Virginia. Th
acreage is much larger than usual.
: A TitusviIle (Fla,) man has an orang
growing on an orange bud that was Sc
's only eight weeks ago.
An enterprising Creole writer of Ney
i Orleans is said to have had three hundre
Is articles rejected before onewas published
. Alabama physicians say that pneumoni
is worse now in that State than ever be
81 fore in their experience-a period of thrt
: OF forty years.
10 John Hall, engaged in bee culture {
Resaca, Ga, was stung to death a fe
e days ago by an angry swarm Of be,
:, which he was trying to hive.
- j. w. Cartright was sent to New Orlear
to make some collections for the Aust
- !. (Tex.) Statesman. He got the money b,
~ nobody seems to know where he is now.
~ Some excitement exists at Graysvill
:, Ga, over the discovery of silver deposit
:, in Catoosa County. Some rich specimen
are on exhibition.
;. James Mcdaniel and L. A. Potter we
~ ~ sent to the Texas Penitentiary or life
!, robbing stage.
~ Six members OF the Riddle family
Rockingham N. G. were poisoned recen
ly by eating lady peas. They we're throw
into violent spasms and soon became d
lirious. Fortunately a physician was
hand, and saved their lives.
,r- A new Post-offics in Swaine Count
at North Carolina, has been named Maiden
B. Bosom. a
ad Mount Clark and Miss Stratton we
,th eloping recently in Pike County, Ke
is. lucky, when the brother of the lady
Die terfered, and both men were fatal
led wounded.
On the plantation Of Slade Morgan, ne
,x. Vienna, Ga, few days ago, tene
at named Jones left two children locked
5he in the house while father and mother W,
on at work The cabin burned down a
rv. only the chared skeletons of the childI
nj. were found.
Lookout Mountain has been leased to
, liverymen of Chattanooga, Tenn. AT
~ a dozen years of Niagara hack fares,
people will want to make the mountain
i, National Park.
-" Henry Etheridge, convicted in Jo
~ County, Ga, of the murder of Tom Gle
~ mons, has been sentenced to hang il
i'S 10Th. Clemmons was on the way to ma
Etheridge's former sweetheart when
10 was shot dead.
re- In Jones County, Ca, a few days sii
Henry Allen, who returned from pray
r of meeting one night and set fire to his
ployer's house on the way, "just to
ma. the white folks dance" was sent to Pt
,on- tentiary for life.
h Wild turkeys are very plentiful in T
~, tions of Texas, and the Medina Con
~, Neacs, in speaking on the subject,
WV marks: "As there is no law against /
ing them, we say to the nj mrods b
ory away, and if you kill an extra one or t
, on remember that we like turkey, too
ana There is family of negroes living
-ord Judge Gwynn's place, about ten m
S SO east of Tallahassee Fla, who sub
,ted almost entirely on rabbits. A boy an
d IN dog are kept busy hunting, while
Abe remainder of the family works the
= Sc to furnish the bread and clothes.
The New Orleans Picayune,of May
Sus- is printed on paper made of new M
d to rial-bagasse, the crushed refuse of
has stalks OF Ithe sugar -cane. The pape
fine and soft, with almost silk-like
nted face. ss.
dis Texas claims population of 2,500, on
Thomas Green, a negro. thief, was