The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-11-20
SOUTHERN GLEANINos.

Alt. Little, on trial for pension forgerles
at Louisville, KY, is said to have killed
fourteen men.
Lima johnson, nine years old, and Char
lie Morris, twelve, were playing with a
pistol near Plano, Tex, a few days since.
Lima is dead.
Bill Moss, murderer, was tracked by
bloodhounds in Marion County, Miss
issippi, few days ago and captured. He
killed one Of the dogs.
The retail liquor license in Fulton Coun-
ty, Georgia, excepting Atlanta, has been
increased TO 50 500, five times the original
tax, and presumably prohibftiTe.
A prominent physician ok thens, Ca,
who has had many cases saee throat
lately, made an investigation and found
nearly every one of them was caused by
cigarette-smoking.
Thirteen bodies were found ali Ag she
track of the recent cyclone in Alabaina;
several others are missing, and forty or
fifty are dangerously wounded.
The body of a Mrs. J. w. Taylor, who
died at Louisville, KY, six years ago, was
removed to a new cemetery recently and
was found to be completely petrifed
Every feature was well preserved and life
like.
An exchange noticing that geese are
now flying southwark in great numbers,
satirically remarks that the northern
goose resorts must be closed.
James Gibson, a former st. Louis street,
car driver, was killed few days ago by
John Strong, Waterman in the Illinois
| Central shops at jackson, Tenn.
Anna Davenport (colored) was recently
| convicted at Nashville, Tenn, of murder in
the first degree, with mitigating circum-
stances, the crime with which she was
| charged being the administration of con-
| centrated lye to a colored child.
The heaviest hail-storm ever known in
| Corinth, Miss, and vicinity, fell there q
few nights ago. Some of the Maidstone
were as large as hens eggs. .,-ss..
William Easley, who was shot recently
| at Graham Station, Tenn, by Buck Brown,
died of his wounds.
| Riley Pyle, who murdered United States
Commissioner Mcdonald in Pickett Coun-
ty, Tennessee, and who has evaded arrest
| for the past sixteen months, was captured
a few days since after desperate fight
| between his friends and Marshal's posse.
| Ben Now was recently sentenced at AL
sxandfia, La, to imprisonment for life for
the murder of Alfred Boone, whom he beat
to death with a club and mutilated in q
shocking manner.
| Ohio capitalists have discovered ON the
| farm of j. Graves, in Franklin County,
| Tennessee, gold quartz which yields $500 to
the ton. They have also found very
valuable vein of coal, and are arranging to
bore for OIL
/ The seventh annual State Fair of the
North Carolina Industrial Association
(colored) was held at Raleigh last week,
Governor Scales being present at the open
ing and delivering an address.
The Tri-State Medical Association of
Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee held
its annual session in Nashville, Tenn, last
week. Owing to illness, President T. K
Powell, of Danceyville, Tenn, was absent
Many valuable papers were read.
At Edgefeld, S. c., in the Culbreath
lynching case, an indie tment with seven
counts, charging murder and the abetting
of murder against thirty three prisoners,
was submitted to the jury.
Ford and Murphy, who were sentenced
to be hanged at New Orleans on the 18th
have been granted respite for thirty
uayS Dy tne Governor.
Citizens of Ell Paso, Texas, have agreed
to give $4,000 to an English syndicate
toward the erection of a smelter worth
$250,000. Vast quantities of ore are con.
stantly passing through the city from
Mexico.
At Fannin, Texas, few days ago lad
of thirteen years, named Valentine San.
ford, killed his mother with rifle. Ht
confesses having intended to murder his
father, sell the plantation, and organize q
band of stage-robbers.
Beverly Kelly, Coroner Of Christian
County, Kentucky, the only colored man
ever elected to office in the State, died 6
few days ago.
Judge Thomas H. Ford of New Orleans
has confessed that it was he who shot A
Fl. Murphy in December last, and not his
brother, Pat H. Ford, who is now under
sentence of death for the crime.
An attempt was made few nights age
to assassinate J. T. Henry, prom
inent merchant near Springfield, Tenn.
some unknown person firing at him from
behind fence.
Il Theodore Hines, Harry Forbes and AL
bert Chickering, aged respectively fourteen
sixteen and twelve years, were arrested a
Louisville, KY, a few days ago charged
with arson and horse-stealing. Thei
intended to start West and establish roat
agency business.
Sam Robinson, negro, who has beel
living honestly and industriously' nea
Dawson, Tex, for the past eight years
and managed to buy small farm, to mar
ry and raise small family, was arreste'
few days ago, and proves to be a convic
named James Music, who escaped fror
the State Penitentiary eight years age
having served nearly year and half Q
+ term of twelve years, to which he wa
sentenced in 1875 for manslaughter.
A distillery and fifty y-four barrels Q
, brandy, belonging to N. A. Warren, i
/ Giles County, Tenn, were seized by Unite
) States officers few days ago for violatio
of the revenue laws.
The editor of the Louisville (Ky.) EUen
ing Times proposes that, inasmuch as th
: Northern efforts to erect monument
! General Grant promise to prove abortiv,
the "Johnny Rebs," whom he only con
quered to befriend and protect, put thei
hands in their pockets and erect pile I
the old hero's memory themselves.
The Exposition at New Orleans is oper
Three negro urchins charged with burg
larry in Atlanta, Ca, were so small tha
/; when brought into court the Sheriff we
! asked if he caught them in rat-trap.