The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-10-14
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS,

Henry Blackman was found guilty at
Americus, Ga, of the murder of Stone
wall Tondell, and was sentenced to be
hanged on the 26th of next November.
President Cleveland has sent twenty
dollars to the Confederate Home at
Charleston, S. c., accompanied by a sym
pathetic letter
The Mormons and Baptists at Hamilton,
Ala, are engaged in a heated religious
discussion, and hold joint debates two
and three times a week.
Some of the planters in Southside, Va,
have fin she'd curing their tobacco crops,
but many more have green tobacco yet on
the hill.
There new prevails in Vicksburg, Miss,
an epidemic of dengue fever which is un-
precedented. II Is estimated that there
are over one thousand cases under treat
ment The disease, while of a painful and
prostrating character. is by no means
malignant or dangerous, there having
been over ons thousand five hundred cases
without one of them terminating fatally.
In bloody duel with one weapon in
Mobile, Ala, few days ago, a negro
woman named Maggie Bell killed her
antagonist, Lilly Harris, also colored.
The fight occurred in front of low bar
room, and was caused by Bells disobey-
ing Harris injunction not to speak to her.
Harris had knife and she struck at Bell's
heart, cutting her hand, thrown to ward
off the blow. The knife fell to the ground.
Maggie Bell snatched it up, cutting Lilly
Harris throat from ear to ear.
Chief Post Office Inspector Harris was
notified few days ago of the arrest at
Lyon, Miss, of George Hartley on a
charge of appropriating post-office
moneys. Hartly was assistant postmas-
ter at Lyon. Inspector NJ. A. Fisher, who
made the arrest, says the assistant post
master took eight registered letters con-
tanning $175 from the mails, and added
twenty-four dollars in stamps to that
amount. He was committed to Jail in de-
fault of 81 900 bail to await trial.
A large female school is being estab-
lshed at Abbeville, N. c., by the Roman
Cotholics.
A large moccasin snake was killed in one
of the principal streets of Atlanta, Ga, o
few days ago.
The Georgia State elections resulted in o
Charles White, of Chester County,
South Carolina, shot his wife few days
ago and then hung himself
A colored girl in Laurens County, South
Carolina, bears this lovely name: "Fair
Rosa Beauty Spot Temptation Touch Me
Not"
From three bushels of potatoes planted
)n three-eights of an acre of land near
Cherokee, Co., this season, 105 bushels of
potatoes were raised
Not less than eight large cigar. factories
are now being constructed at Key West,
Fla. This will require not less than two
thousand operatives.
1t is claimed that the county jail at Gal
yeston, Tex, is an infringement of a pat
ent, and damages are demanded by the
patentees. The county will contest the
claims.
The amount of the losses in Charleston
s. c., by the earthquake is now estimated
at $5,COO,000. The Ne,os and Courier calls
for an extra session of the Legislature tc
devise means for the relief Of the sufferers.
In pulling down the undertaking shop
Of the late Godare Casanave in New Or
leans recently, workmen discovered mis-
aid coffin containing the corpse of a Gu
ban planter who died in Italy thirty years
ago.
Jesse Brown, colored, killed Boston Tay-
lor, colored, with a doul le- -barreled shot
gun few days ago on the Willow Glenn
place, five miles from Alexandria, La. The
arose from a dispute concerning
a mule. Brown, it is claimed, acted in
self f-defense.
The State of Louisiana has accepted the
bid of prison contractor for closing the
NJ organza crevasse in the Mississippi. The
River Commission is likely to raise serious
objections to the employment of convict
labor.
Preparations for the grand Exposition
and State Fair, which opens at Dallas,
Tex, on the I29th instant and continues
twelve days, are being rapidly pushed
every thing being in readiness by the
opening date.
A disastrous fire occurred at White
wright, Tex, few nights ago, destroying
S6o, 900 worth of property. 1t broke out in
the store of Batsell & Reeves, thence it
swept west and consumed every building
on the south side of the square except two,
one owned by the Masons and the other
by Patterson & Meadows. Eight build
ings were destroyed; only partly insured.
The Tennessee Conference of the M. E.
Church South, convened in Clarksville,
Tenn, last week. Bishop Hendricks pre-
sid ed. Reports showed six thousand ad-
ditions to the church in the past year.
The spiritual condition of tie districts is
in good shape, and the financial
report better than ever.
There appeared before local court at
Sparta, Ca, a few days ago. a negro
named Cooper Lamar, who was captured
off the coast of Africa and brought to
America on the Wanderer twenty-six
years ago, and consequently was one of
the last negroes ever stolen and snug
gled into slavery. Notwithstanding his
twenty-six years. residence here, he
knows but little of the English tongue.
and had to be q"estioned by signs.
A wonderful phenomenon may be seen
at the home of Mr.. M. p. Hoyle, who
resides only few hundred yards b,yond
is constant fall of rain from a cloudless
SKY. Inc area In Mr. hoyle's yard that
is covered by the shower is about twenty
five feet square. Many citizens have been
out to see this remarkable freak of nature,
and all testify that there is a genuine and
fall of raindrops. At times the
supply of water seems greater than at
others. Mr.. Hoyle first observed this un-
usual sight three weeks ago.
Two Turks reside in Kingston, Ga.
Thomas Austin, aged fourteen years,
son of C. i. Austin. a farmer ON Onion