The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-04-10
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

Tex, in which wealthy cattleman named
Hall, late o druggist at Fort Worth, was
killed by leading citizen named Vincent
Wicher.
The Texas Legislature passed a bill to
compel railroad companies to keep their
principal offices in the State, under a PEN
atty of $1,000 fine for each month of neg
lect.
G. Armstrong & Co.'s furniture houae at
Memphis, Tenn, burned a few nights ago.
The building was owned by j. d. Lake,
and was valued at $4,000; insured foy |
$4,000.
Burglars rifed the safe of Griffith 6 |
Conover, lumber dealers, of Dallas, Tex, |
few nights ago, securing cash and secu' |
rifles to the amount of about $4,000. The |
notion store of H.. B. Burr was also bur- |
glarized of nearly 5000 worth of goods, and |
all the samples of d. i. Malone, drum
mer for a Cincinnati house. No clue to the
burglars.
Section No. 2 of a freight train on the
Illinois Central Railroad ran into the real
end of section No. near Grand Junction,
Tenn, a few days ago. Brakeman Turner,
of Mcconnell, Tenn, was killed and Con-
ductor Turner, brother, probably fatally
hurt. The caboose of one train and the en-.
gine of the other were wrecked.
Not to be outdone by other cities, an or.
ganized movement is being made at Shreve.
port, La, to suppress gambling, which
merchants of the city claim has been OPEN
ly carried on, detrimental to commercial
L interests. Money has been subscribed to
employ the best attorneys of the city to
enforce the laws against gambling, in or
| der to have them fully carried out. The
| city authorities will ais, be invoked 10
| carry out tho ordinances.
Charles Cooke, defaulter from jack
sonville, Fla, was captured in Western
| Texas few daye since. Young Cooke
| was employed in the Office of the Florida
Railway &c Navigation Company. In
February he stole a package of money
amounting to $1,000 and fled. The dectec-
tives followed him 5000 miles before he
was captured. Young Cooke belongs to
one of the best families in Florida.
On the Western g. Atlantic Railroad,
near Tilton, Tenn, few days ago, as the
north -bo1nd express train thundered
around curve near the station, Engineer
McNabb saw a two-year. old girl toddling
up the track. He did all in human power
to stop the train. When the locomotive
whistle sounded the little girl turned, and
seeing the train threw her hands to her
face and knelt down on the track, where
where she met horrible death. The child
was daughter of Engineer Walker.
One night recently, Chloe Randolph, q
colored woman, of Orangeburg, 8. G., went
from her house and left four children in bed
During her absence the house caught fire
and burned down. One of the children
was literally roasted to death, and thu
other three were so badly burned tina
they are probably dead now.s
The Tennessee Legislature repealed the
railroad commission act.
A man named Cleveland who is not re
lated to the President has been found a
Gadsden, Ala.
, A Jacksonville (Fla.) merchant dispose,
of 10000 marbles within three weeks re
Gently. The boys must have them.
There are $50 disabled ex-Confederat
soldiers living in the poor-houses of Mort
I. Carolina.
A South Carolina planter raises Sc
Island cotton for French spinner and re
d ceives 81 per pound
Willie Jones, son of Mr.. Thomas Jones
= wealthy farmer of Bath County, KY
1
|, shooting himself with q pistol. He wa
about thirty years of age.
The $4,000 damage suit against Hon. Jnt
J. Sumpter by J. Joseph ended in the Circu
Court at Hot Springs, Ark, by verde
: for plaintiff awarding $500 Defendar
Q gave notice of appeal to the Suprem
Court.
: Hartwell, Ca, is excited over TRACED
|. in which son Is accused of the death I
}. his father. Morgan Brown, an old ma
: sixty years of age, was found dea
by his Fireplace, with his skull crushed il
% 1t was stated that the fatal bru ise was I'll
q result of fall, but the son, jeff Morgan
i said to be unbalanced in mind, is in ja
charged with the crime.
IS On April 10Th an Industrial Conventic
1, will be held at Richmond, Va, under ii
Is auspices of the Virginia State Agricultur
Society, to discuss tine best and most pra
l. ticable means of furthering the gener
4. prosperity of the State. The executi'
10 committee of the society, Messrs. R.
Is Gaines, w. G. Wickham and A. S. Bufor
in their address to the people of Virgini
at call attention to the losses of the State
to large emigration from it to other State
as Court at Rome, Ga, recently. In April
or last year T. B. Veasey, grocer of th
city, posted blackboard in front of
A. store with the words: "Deadbeat-R.
k Welch, $685." Welch, who is a miller,
no once entered suit for 5000 damages
libel. A large number of witnesses W,
ar introduced on both sides. Mr.. Yeas
ct pleads truth in justification. The ju
awarded Welch $3.50.
IL Mr.. Jacobs, of Lexington, Tenn :,
va hibited recently a black terrier d
a. that, for his peculiar and wonderful ia
for tacks and small scraps of iron, p
70, haps has no rival. The dog is six ye
to old, and has been known to eat two
in pers of tacks at one meal, and devo
en- them or any small piece of iron with
much relish as other members Of the
he uine race would bone.
for The oldest and happiest married couI
ast in the State of Kentucky are DR.. al
he Mrs. j. G. Chinn, of Lexington. M
led Chinn is ninety-eight years of age, a
her husband ninety -four. They W,
nai married six years ago, and are as Low
but like in their home affairs as MARI
the folks generally are at forty. DIR. Chin
re- still quite hale and hearty, and so is
the good wife.
ses Wheat prospect in Kentucky is glool
A colored man of Key West, Fla, W
i'm, to the fish market few days ago, bou
70 conch, and upon cracking the shell '
surprised to find hidden treasure