The Brookhaven leader., 1886-07-01
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

Judge, mas become raVlng maniac, anu
has been taken to the asylum.
DR.. A. K. Taylor, one of the most prom
inetit physicians of Hot Springs, Ark, and
a very influential citizen, died few days
since. He leaves many friends and rela-
tives to mourn his death.
A Kentucky farmer says he gathered
about twenty of the cut-worms which
have been devastating the crops in his
section and put them in cigar box half
filed with dirt, covered the same with a
pane of glass, and set it in the sun. The
result in less than two weeks was a brood
of grasshoppers.
A carload of Alabama manufactured
cotton goods was recently shipped to
Portland, Ore.
Wash Barnes, a convict from Harris
County, Tex, escaped from the plantation
of Messrs. Rogers & Hill a few nights ago
and was found asleep the next day near
the Navasota bridge, by some of the
guards. Upon being asked to surrender
he made another break for liberty and was
shot and killed.
The Governor of Louisiana has signed
the Sunday law. 1t goes into effect jan
uary l next.
A tramp recently arrested at Dallas,
Tex, turned out to be a murderer for
whose capture there was a standing re-
ward of $1,000 offered.
The grand jury, recently In session at
Vicksburg, Miss, returned seventy in
dictments, covering all classes of otfenses,
largely against poker-players.
The life sentence passed on Cliff Cook
for murder has been affirmed by the Court
of Appeals at Austin, Tex.
From five thousand to eight thousand
green turtles are shipped yearly from
Florida and adjacent Islands to New York,
where they sell at an averege of fifteen
cents per pound.
On telegram from the Navy Depart
ment, the revenue cutter Forward recently
left Mobile for Mississippi Sound, to inter-
cept a schooner loaded with men and arms
tor filbustering in Cuba.
Miss Maude Jetton was bitten few
months ago in Galloway County, Ken
lucky, by neighbours dog. few DAYS
since she developed all the symptoms OF
hydrophobia and died in great agony.
There are now in Swain and other ex-
treme western counties of North Carolina
1881 Cherokee Indians. They hold 73,0Oo
acres of land by deed of trust. They are
urged to go to Indian Territory, and are
considering the matter.
The truckmen of Norfolk County, Vir-
ginia, are enjoying a very successful cab
bage season. One man alone set out l,5Oo,-
900 plants on his four farms, and he ex-
poets to gather over 1,250,00O head.
The boilers of the international cotton
press at New Orleans exploded few days
ago, blowing out the Peters street side OF
the building and killing two employees.
Hcr. Thos. Seay, Democratic nominee
for governor of Alabama, is less than forty
years old, served as a private during the
war, finished his education after peace
was restored, and is one of the most sue
cessful planters in the State.
A New Orleans citizen few weeks ago
put a double -yelked egg under setting
hen. The other day a little head caffie
through each end of the egg, and when the
shell was removed two chicks were found.
They were slightly united, but were easily
separated.
A public meeting of citizens residing on
swamp lands in the Ouachita and Red
river valleys, Louisiana, is to be held at
Troyville on the ID of July to devise
means for closing the Atchafalaya river
and protecting the plantations from over
flow.
Mr.. J. ]. Grissom of Sparta, Tenn, re-
ports that lightning struck the house OF
neighbor few days ago, completely tear
ing off one corner of the structure and
uncoverng a bed where the children were
sleeping. The children were unharmed
and some members of the family did not
even awaken.
A Richmond paper notes that the skin of
"Old Sorrel," Stonewall Jackson's war
horse, has not yet be en- returned from the
North, where it was sent to be stuffed.
The taxdermist has sent word, however,
that he will make the old charger look as
though he was alive.
Reports received from every section of
Tennessee say that very great damage has
been done the wheat crop by the unusual
ly heavy rains, sire ans overfiowlng their
banks and causing considerable loss. The
Cumberland river rose seventeen feet at
at Burksville, KY, few days ago, and
was advancing one foot per hour.
A great waterspout burst on the line of
the Chattanooga railroad a few days ago,
and swept away all but five shocks of
wheat in twenty acre lot.
Robert Brown, a miner employed at
Bevier mines, went to Central City, KY,
few DAYS ago, and before leaving be-
came intoxicated. On his way home he sat
down on the Chesapeake, Ohio & South
western railroad track, a short distance
from the town limits, and went to sleep.
oil ah0uf fen
O'Clock ran over him, crushing him into a
shapeless mass. His dog, which accom-
panied him, was also killed. Brown
leaves a wife and two children in destitute
circumstances.
From planters of Madison, East Carroll,
Richland and Tensas Parishes, La, as well
as from the delta counties in Mississippi,
we get gloomy reports of the prospects
for a good outcome to the cotton crop
No blowing has been done during the
past few weeks, and the grass is not only
outgrowing the cotton, but many of the
fields are standing full of water. Imme-
diately on the banks of the Yazoo river
in the sandy land, the prospect is some
Early corn will pull through, but other
crops can not reach the acreage.
Watermelon harvest has begun.
The judicial convention recently held by
| the Kentucky Democracy at Lebanon was
a turbulent one. Fist fights were frequent
On the floor, and oaths were directed at th'
chairman. The commissioner of the Louis
vile Chancery Court knocked down lead
ing lawyer, and was himself foored will
| a cane in the hands of another prominent
| attorney.