Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1885-09-17
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGS.

ton this year.
A woman in Logan County, Ken-
lucky, takes her rest in patches OF
three days aud nights sleep at a time,
and then keeps awake for like period.
She is eighty years DID, ISL
Ida Katzer committed suicide near Leon
Springs, Tex, q few days ago because her
parents wanted her to marry q man
named Prellar.
The elections In Anderson and Montague
counties, Texas, were Waterloo for the
ProhibiIonists.
During a fire at Waxahaehie, Tex,
few nights ago a trunk, thrown from
window, struck and 1t Is thought fatally
injured Mr.. Simp Wilson.
Charles Williams, negro, shot and
killed Polk MITCHELL, street-car driver
at Chattanooga, Tenn, few days since.
The murderer was lynched.
Cotton has been damaged fully twenty
per cent. in portions of Mississippi by tho
drou h, and many estimate the damage
much greater.
Mrs. IL. Q. Hulso, wife of q prominent
contractor, was assaulted on the street in
Chattanooga, Tenn, a few nights ago by
a rullan, who knocked her down aud rob.
bed her Of her portmonnais. She was
painfully bruised The assailant cs-
capped.
John Hoff man fatally stabbed negro
by the name Of Harrison Gladdish at Hop
kinsville, KY, few nights ago. The UNI
fortunate man was almost disemboweled.
The slayer Is in Jail to await the action OF
the Grand Jury.
Allen Thompson, negro living near
Linden. Tex, beat his step-dau yhter 10
death with club few days ago. He
had frequently beaten her, and fearing
arrest therefor he concluded to kill her.
Lynching was threatened.
The colored debating society in q Geor-
gia town has been discussing the question,
(which Are the Most Useful to Society,
Lawyers or BuzzardsW
North Carolina is building up an extern
svs trade in cherry lumber. The wild
cherry grows abundantly in the noun
| tans.
Thomas Manuel went into San Antonio,
Tex, from hunting trip with q fatal
accidentally shot by his companion, name
| unknown.
The city of Fort Worth, Tex, and Pres
cinct Number one Of Tarrent County voted
on Prohibition few days ago. The pro-
position to stop the sale of liquor was de-
featod by nearly 1,70O majority.
The Swatara, which was ordered to New
Orleans to transfer silver coin from the
sub-Treasury to Washington, took on
board SIP, 600, 030 and sailed on the 12sh.
A curious case Of lunacy has developed
at Conyers, Ga. Newton Hammock, q
Prominent citizen, joined the Baptist
Church by immersion. The ceremony
drove him crazy, and no has been conf
mitted to an asylum.
News comes from Bristol, Tenn, of the
cremation, few days ago, at Chillhowee,
a settlement in Sullivan County, OF James
Sharett. He was standing over fire In
his shop, took fit and fell suddenly into
the fire. He was burned to crisp before
assistance, arrived.
| Abraham Pope, owned house at Rock
Run, Ala, that no rented to white man
named Hart. A few days ago, while at
tempting to collect his rent, he and Hart
became involved in a quarrel, and Hart
Sc zed rock with which he crushed
Pope's skull Hart escaped, but officers
were in ursuit.
| A horribl, murder was committed few
nights ago at a coored church ten miles
east of Canton, Miss. Leon Cockrell, q
negro school-teacher, shot Aaron Mare q
colored deacon, while the latter was
kneeling with the congregation in prayer.
Jamos Smith was fatally stabbed at
Louisville, KY, q few nights ago by his
step-father, Harvey Clark. Smith and
his mother had sold calf, and Clark de-
manded the money. On being refused, he
tried to shoot his wife. The son seized the
gun, and In the struggle which ensued he
was stabbed three times by Clark.
Several weeks ago Mrs. L. r. Tenant,
of Marietta, Ga. was rendered and &C.
cepted the place Of Superintendent OF
Women's Work at the New Orleans Elk
position, the place formerly hold by Julia
Ward Howe. She pub ishes a card re-
signing the position, assigning as a rea-
son: "My husband is opposed to 1t, and
give it up in Difference to his Wishes"
Fifty years ago Ellen johnson, a colored
woman, was separated from her mother
at Louisville, KY, the latter being sold
and sent to New Orleans. The mother ar.
rived in Louisville few days ago hale
and hearty. She is 1l2 years old aud the
daughter sixty years old. Living in the
house with Mrs, Ellen johnson are her
great-grandchildren This makes them
great great grandchildren of Mrs. John.
sons mother. Strange as it may seem
the great-great- grandmother, and the
great-grandmother, the grandmother
mother and children all assembled In the
same room few days since.
A double tragedy resulting in the NOR.
tai wounding of two persons occurred al
Atlanta, Ga, few nights ago. Miss Ida
Maxwell eloped with John Shelton and
married him at his mothers, whittier he
was followed by the girls father AND
brother armed. The elder Maxwell wa.
about to shoot at Shelton when the latter
Drained young Maxwell with Ratchet
| He then fired at the old man and he fel
mortally wounded.l
A suit was ueciueu uo Cnariotte, ~. u.
q few days ago, in the Superior Court in
volving points of interest to tho genera
public. In January, 1888, James G.
Holmes, late of Charleston, and now o
Baltimore, was elected from the only
first class passenger car of train ON tn,
Carolina Central Railway, aud forced t,
ride for some hours in car filled with to-
bacc, sn,ota He claimed a am cas N th.
sum of 5000 and a jury awarded hin
SIS.
New Orleans has q building boom.
The railway tank at the Longviev
(Tex.) Junction not working properly
few days since, Charles Hunter, an EN-
ploye Of the round houss, was sent up I,
put it in proper order. Slipping in, h