The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-12-02
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS,

purchased coupons and propose to use
them in the payment of their State taxes.
Francis Darnell and his seventeen-year-
old son visited Griffin, Ga, the other day,
and crowds followed them. The father is
four feet four inches tall, and the son
three feet and one inch.
Tho French and Eversole factions in
Perry County, Ky, had battle at Hazard
a few days ago, where one man was
killed, when it was agreed that all differ
ences be left to arbitration.
Miss Jennie Lamar, daughter of Secre-
tary Lamar, is to appear in Washington
society this winter. She is described as
typical Southern beauty, tall, graceful
and of pleasant address.
By authority from the Attorney Gen =
eral of the United States, Marshal john
Carroll offers $500 reward for the arrest
and delivery at Fort Smith, Ark, of Joe
Stulzsr, charged with completely in the
murder of Th omas and John Mahoney On
February 16, 1886, in the Cherokee Nation.
His accOmplice, Patrick McCarty, is now
in Jail at Fort Smith under sentence of
death for this murder, the execution to
take place January IA, 1887.
I. J. Boasso, formerly chief of aids in
New Orleans, under sentence of fourteen
years imprisonment for forgery, and John
Soniat, of st. Landres Parish, under life
sentence, escaped from the penitentiary at
Baton Rouge a few nights ago by break.
ing through the wall of the hospital into
the cotton factory and thence making
their way through a large gate. They
Ixy
outside, as the hinges on the gate had
been wrenched from the bricks Of the wall
from the outside.
A syndicate has been formed to build a
railroad from Memphis to Nashville,
Tenn.
John Davis, negro, was lynched by a
mob at Randolph, Ala, few days ago,
his offense having been criminal assault
on a white lady.
Jacob Mas, of Cochran, Ca, has as
signed, with liabilities between $4,000
and $4,000 and assets about the same
amount.
Colonel Edward S. Jones, prominent at
Gettysburg, and Department Commander
of the G. A. 4. for Tennessee and Georgia,
died at Nashville a few nights ago.
Mr.. MCGee, who was elected to the
Georgia Legislature by the farmers of
Murray County, has introduced bill linn
iting mercantile profits on the necessities
of life to fifteen per cent. under severe
penalties. The measure has solhe chance
of passing the House.
A switch engine in the yard of the In.
ternational & Great Northern at Houston
Tex, cut off the foot of John Ryan, we'll
known railroader. AmputatIon of the
lower portion of the leg was necessary,
He was sent to the Missouri Pacific Hos
pital at Palestine.
The lawyers of Nashville, Tenn, have
offered the Lawyer stake, of $1,000, to be
run for at the spring meeting of the Nash
vile Blood Horse Association. The race
is for three-year- olds, and the distance i:
one and one-sixteenth miles.
C. F. Ilfrey, a well-known German citi-
zen of Harris County, Tex, was found
dead in his room few days ago. He was
a country merchant for a long time, and
finally became proprietor of the Arlington
Hotel, a railway house. The cause of his
death is not known.
The final survey for tn extension of the
Memphis &; Charleston railroad from
Stevenson, Ala, to Chattanooga, Tenn,
is in progress. AS soon as the survey is
com pleted it is believed the work will be
commenced.
The colored people of Owensboro, KY.
some time since made a proposition to the
State Educational Board offering fifteen
acres of land, worth 81 500, or $500 cash, in
return for the establishment III that city
of the State Colored Normal School. Col.
onel j. o. Hodges, of Lexington, visited
Owensboro recently to select a location
for the school, and work win be begun at
OEce.
petition, signed by eighty eight citi-
Zens, has been present ed to Attorney Gen.
eral Gum ing ham, of Louis lana, praying
him to take proceedings before the Su-
preme Court for the removal from office
of Judge Henry Z. Lazarus, of Division
E, Civil District Court, in New Orleans.
The petition charges him with ncnfeas-
ance, mis- feasance, gross misconduct, in
competency. abuse Of judicial power, etc.
R. G. Thomas & Co., dealers in dry
goods, clothing, boots and shoes, at
Brownsville, Tenn, made an assignment
a few days ago. Their liabilities are
placed at $4,000, due mostly TO Memphis
firms; assets SlO,0OO-in stock and $4,000 in
accounts. The firm is composed of Il. G.
Thomas and T. E. Glass, the latter OF
whom is the principal ste ckh older Of the
Brownsville Furniture Company.
A north bound freight on the Mobile &
Ohio railroad, while passing an unlocked
sw itch in leaving Mobile a few days ago
worked the switch open and two cars and
a caboose were ditched. Of the four per.
sons in the caboose, one, brakeman
jumped and escaped. Conductor Frazer
was thrown out the door and fell on tht
sidewalk, breaking his hip bone. w. E
Cole, president of the Cole Pole Road En-
CINE Company, of Richmond and Nash
Vile, had his foot crushed and leg injured
by box falling on it.
The North Georgia Methogist Confer
ence has just completed an importan
special session. Rev. Joseph Jones,
brother of the celebrated evangelist, San
Jones, went to Ringgold some time since
and began a revival. He used the viles
pulpit language to a mixed congregation
which fairly set his hearers wild with in
dignation. His conduct was reported {,
the conference, which has denounced the
minister in the severest terms. He will
not be allowed to preach in that distric
again until the General Conference of th
State disposes of the chargest agans
him.
Christmas will soon be here.
In Virginia amateur sportsmen ar
learning TO shoot wild turkeys and othe
large game with medium lied rifles
They find it less trouble to shoot the gam
several hundred yards distant with
riAa than amnI nvino the old elnhnrat