Huntsville gazette., 1885-01-17
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGS.

Tex, held meeting few days ago and
indorsed the proposed National bankrupt
law, urging that it would be protection
to credit.
Peter Howe, aged about thirty, a Ger
man by birth, originally from Indiana,
was found dead in bed at Marshall, Tex, a
few days ago.
In Douglassville, Ga, a few days ago,
James Newton drank too much and laid
down in front of a bar-room fire, when his
clothes ignited and he was burned to
dssth.
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
by the alleged temperance of one of the
negroes, Henry Davis, in a 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 5000 on hand and will also
distribute in Western Louisiana, New
Mexico and Arizona.
John c. Francis committed suicide at
Augusta, Ga, a 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.
flor rJIttiuor his throat ba sold tho II,
had driven him to desperation, and he
could bear it no longer. Francis was a
well-known and respected citizen.
Greenberry Bray was married during
the holidays ..and 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, masked,
broke into his house, few nights ago,
tore him from the side of his;.wife and
rode him on 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 she was found bottom up in the
Day. ANObHlDS 10 kLOWu VI Guo 1cul llOh
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 III. PelIe, Secretary of the Dallas
(Tex.) Merchants Exchange is missing.
Charles Huber, manager of the Erie
Telegraph and Telephone Company at
Dallas, Tex, is missing, and his accounts
are $2,70O short.
The North Carolina Legislature met and
organized on the 7th inst. E. 7. Boyken
was elected President and r. NJ Turner
Clerk of the Senate Thomas M. Holt was
elected Speaker Of the House and J. D.
Cameron Clerk.
A sensational killing occurred a few
days ago near Goodlettsville, Tenn. A
young man named Smiley Cantrell, while
hanging meat in smoke-house, fell from
the loft and was impaled on a sharp stick,
which entered the side, passing through
the heart and causing instant death.
The storehouse of E. G. Oakley, at Lucy
Station, Tenn, on the Chesapeake, Ohio &
Southwestern Railway, was entered by
burglars few nights ago, who afterward
set fire to the building, which, together
with stock of goods valued at $1,000,
were destroyed. The thieves rifled 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, a 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 Millsap for being drunk and dis
orderly. The latter tried to assault Silver
tooth, who fired three shots.
Governor Lowry of Mississippi has ap-
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 Sandfat,
Smith County, Texas, was robbed and
burned a 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.
Stapleton, ST., a farmer residing near Mt.
Sterling, KY. A few weeks ago Staple
toms son shot aud killed Cullahan White,
for which he was arrested and sent to Mt.
Sterling to protect him from mob. The
father was arrested on pretense of being
an accessory to the murder, and mob of
thirty men took him from jail and hung
him in front of the Courthouse.
A negro has been arrested and jailed at
Nashville, Tenn, who answers almost per-
fectly the description Of the desperado,
Tom Owens, the chief assassin in the no.
torious Freedman murder case, for which
Meyer Moskovitz is now under life SEN
tence as instigator. Owens was reported
killed in a fight in Nebraska, and the Off
GERS Of that State claimed the large re-
ward offered for him. He is a notorious