Huntsville gazette., 1886-02-20
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGS.

shot seriously by moonshiners few days
ago in Newton County, Ga.
The Knights of Labor are arranging for
thorough organization throughout Ten
nessss, and an attemp5 is soon to be made
to force the adoption Of the eight-hour
system among the miners.
terrible scene was witnessed in
Augusta, Ca, few evenings since when a
huge bulldog grasped a boy named
Jimmie Gallagher in his mouth and shook
him like rat as he ran down the street.
A shotgun was brought into play, when
the dog dropped the lacerated child and
dashed into the crowd, biting left and
right. Another shot blew the dogs brains
out. The child was fatally injured.
In the case of Richard Backarrow, the
Louisville drummer recently tried at
Shreveport, La, on the charge of being
one of the parties to the abduction of Mrs.
Inez Watkins, of Nacogdoches County,
Tex, the jury, after being out an hour, re.
turned verdict of guilty.
Madison Wells, of Louisiana, has entire
ly lost the use ofhis eyes.
Congressman Reagan, of Texas, is sew
enty years old and has lived forty seven
years in the Lone Star State.
Near Dresden, Tenn, few days ago,
Robert Edmondson's daughter fell down
stairs and was killed.
1t isnot generally known, but the water
power 1t Columbus, Ca, is just about
equal to that of Minneapolis.
General Wolford, of Kentucky, is an
original character and his speeches afford
the House more amusement than those of
any other Congressman.
Burglars blew open the safe of j. W.
Biggs, at Burnsville, Miss, few nights
ago, and secured $500 in cash and notes
to the value of $4,000.
At Mecklenburg, N. c., iron works a few
days since, John Springs and Will Austin,
both colored, were instantly killed by the
falling of the elevator. julius Brown, also
colored, was badly injured.
In the United States Court at Memphis,
Tenn, M. R. Patterson, the young attor-
ney who recently assaulted Mr. Newman
Erp in court, was fined 500 and costs by
Judge Hammond for contempt.
A Pole named NJ. j. Powosky committed
suicide by hanging himself by means
of a rope on the farm of Captain
Kelly, at Oaklawn, near Dallas, Tex,
few days ago. Deceased was thirty years
old. and left no clew as to the reason for
self-destru ficn.
Lille Shields, aged thirteen years,
daughter Of Joseph Shields, died at Nash.
vile, Tenn, few days ago from burns.
While preparing dinner her dress was
ignited at a CRATE, her side and back being
fearfully burned.
al aIa
merchant of Mobile, Ala, who during the
war supplied the Confederate army with
drugs, and was noted for his liberality
toward Catholic institutions, died recently
at the age of seventy years.
The Grand Jury at Nashville, Tenn, has
indicted Ben Brown, Nelson Joslin, Simon
Fox and Foster Joslin, all colored, for mur
der in the first degree. They are charged
with killing Frank Arnold, the negro whose
mutilated body was recently found in
"Hen's Half Acre" The quartet pleaded
not guilty.
Thornton Augustus Rudd and his wife,
Mary Marcissa, an old colored couple, liv-
ing at Louisville, KY, recently celebrated
their golden wedding at their home. They
were married February IL, 1886. The old
man is eighty and his wife seventy six
years Old They have no children.
Green Gum. who, with four others, was
arrested for entering the house of Thomas
Burt, on Turkey Creek, Coffee County
Tenn, in disguise and shooting him after
he refused to give up $4,000 in his posses
sion, has made confession. He impli-
Gated the rest of the party, and said Joe
Clark, his father in law, compelled him to
join in the raid.
George Robinson, colored, who murdered
Wittle Parker, white, at Monroe, La.
about two months ago, was arrested
Cleveland, Miss, few days ago, and was
placed in jail at Vicksburg to await the ar
rival of Sheriff Mcclure, of Monroe.
The jury before whom VIM. Jackson was
tried at Owensboro, KY, for the murder of
Freeman Williams found him guilty of
manslaughter, and fixed his punishment at
twenty -one years in the penitentiary.
Jackson was noted as one of the most des-
perate characters in Davies County, and
his conviction and sentence is hailed with
joy
The Louisiana Senators are thus de-
scribed Senator Gibson is an accomplished
man of the world, and represents more
particularly the old regime; Senator Eustis
the practical element. Both were Confed-
crate Generals. Gibson is courtier Eus-
tbs would command court. Both are law
yers and scholarly speakers.
The House of Representatives OF the
Mississippi Legislature has passed a bill
granting pension of thirty dollars year
to "every soldier or sailor of the late Con-
federate States of America who entered
from the State of Mississippi and lost a
leg, an eye or an arm in the service OF SAID
Confederate States; and to every such
soldier who is now or may be hereafter
otherwise incapacitated for manual labor
by reason of wound received In saio
service, and also the widow, remaining
unmarried, of any soldier or sailor VINO
lost his life in said service while citizen
of this Staten
The Georgia State Agricultural society
met at Columbus last week. Tnefe were
about two hundred and fifty delegates
present, nearly every county IN 0eofgia
being represented.
Hannah Hundley, colored, aged one nun