Huntsville gazette., 1886-12-25
SOUTHERN GLEANiNGS.

hOHey Dy sehlng ''edflhquaAe Sanu' al
twenty-five cents per pound.
Beaufort (Ga.) bride is the groom's
third wife, and the groom is her third hus-
band. Each has one son, and the sons are
Of about the same age.
The negroes of Grant Parish, La, are
holding meetings and organizing for the
| purpose of forcing landowners to rent
their lands at less than four dollars per
acre.
The supreme Court of Texas, in decid-
ing that Ffs4Eavis is the !, gal county seat
Of Preside County, rendered void siGo 0fl
in bonds given to the contractors for the
! courthouse, some of which were recently
sold at par.
On the 1st of January the sum of S265,0Gc
interest on the bonded debt of Tennessee
viii be due. AT present the State Treas
ury is empty and overdrawn, but Comp
troller Pickard announces that the interest
will be paid.
The Gate City Guard of Atlanta, Ca, the
most famous volunteer company in the
Southern States, has closed contract
with q steamship company for transporta
tion to Antwerp. Thence the command
intends to make tour Of the continent
including a march across the Alps from
Switzerland into Italy. Eighty members
will probably take the trip. Governor and
Mrs. Gordon have been invited to accom-
pany the organization.
An outgoing accommodation train on the
Vicksburg a Meridian railroad dropped a
spark Of fire in the dry grass near the
Jewish Cemetery. one mile east of Vicks-
burg few nights ago. The fire soon
spread to the cemetery. consuming about
half of the fencing and killing about five
hundred dollars worth of ornamental
shade trees.
Ex-Governor Preston H. Leslie of Ken
lucky has been nominated Governor OF
Montana
| In the Savannah (Ga) markets shad are
selling at eight cents each.
A gourd IN Barron County, KY, holds
twelve gallons.
| A COW in Owen County, Ky, four and o
| half years DID, has given birth to four
calves in three years.
| A citizen Of Athens, Ga, recently paid hia
subscription to the local paper fifty years
in advance There are but few like him.
| Texas towns are experiencing great
scarcity of coal through lack of transporta-
tion facilities.
| 1t has been discovered that the weight
/
! Southern dealers by sailing it.
/ Tennessee's peanut crop this year is
worth S700,0G0. The average yield per
\ acre is forty-two bushels.
/ f. l.. CASTOR, a prominent farmer 1f
| Coweta County, Ga, shot and killed h
son-in-law. W. w. Estes, in a fight few
nights ago. Both men had been drinking.
'Aunt Amy Gordon, who was born in
/ Amherst County, Pa, in 1116, died recently
| near Lynchburg, Va, where she had
lived during the past seventy years.
There are seven Swiss colonies in Ken
lucky. and all the people are doing well
and living comfortably. A large number
of Swiss are now on their way from Eu-
rope to found another colony near Lin
| coin
| At Greenville, Ala, few days since,
Mayor Perry and some friends made a
brutal attGck upon two temperance speak
ers who had given o4fense. One of the
| lecturers was knocked down on the rail-
road track with brass knuckles; the other
was in the act of shooting the mayor when
| his arm was seized.
Representative Oates, of Alabama, is
| brave enough to advocate the allowance of
clerk for each member, at a salary of
! 800 per month, the aggregate cost to the
people being 81 COO per day
| The planters of the Teche region of
| Louisiana, at a convention recently held
at Franklin, seemed to agree that sugar
/ can be proftably manufactured, tariff or
no tariff, by means Of central factories
/ using improved machinery.
A sheriff, deputy and four policemen
made a raid on negro gambling-den near
Birmingham, Ala, few nights ago when
| a fusilade occurred between the occupants
| Of the house and the officers. The result
! was that five Of the gamblers were capt
ured and two were killed. None OF the Of
| ficers were hurt.
The handsome residence Of r. K. Car
| ter. of Tuscola, La, burned to the ground
| few nights ago. 1t was unoccupied at
| the time Loss $500; insured in the
| Royal, of Liverpool, for S2,250. The fire
was undoubtedly the work Of an incen-
diary.
The residence and boarding-house Of
| Mrs Porterfield was burned in Delta,
| Miss, a few evenings since. II was clean
sweep She has kept a clearinghouse in
| that place for many years, and her busi-
ness was her only support
| Turfmen from every section Of the
| United States gathered at Lexington, re-
| 49,
| oughbreds, at which elghty-fve were sold
for an average of $1,000 each. Blue Wing
| brought 81 900, the Duke of Bourbon S6,O5o,
| and Bob Fisher $3.50, all going to Sam
Brown, the coal king of Pittsburgh, Pa.
The Henderson (Ky.) Buggy Company,
which was closed down several weeks ago,
throwing fifty men out of employment, has
resumed operations with full force OF
hands, but work only eight hours per day.
| The wages of the men per hour are the
same as paid before the suspension OF
/ work
AS Lindsey Hall, a white farmer was
| proceeding home from Pine Bluff, Ark,
| few nights ago, with his cotton money
| 800, he was waylaid when three miles
! from town and robbed and dangerously
shot, by three negroes The scoundrels
have been arrested and lodged in jail
General W. G. Harding, proprietor of
| the Belle Meade stock farm. located SIX
| miles from Nashville, who died few DAYS
ago, aged seventy-eight years, was one q
the best known breeders in the Unlteu
States. He had been in ill-health 1or
several years. but, nevertheless, mani
| tested great interest in turf matters
/ lfHr s,,@ 0f his great