Huntsville gazette., 1886-10-09
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

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The next day he died.
The President has appointed Mrs. Anna
B. Cheatham, widow Of the late Gener al
B. F. Cheathem, postmaster at Nashville,
Tenn.
The only act in reference to Confederate
soldiers in Mississippi is one exempting
crippled or disabled veterans from the
payment of a privilege tax to carry op
business. 'te4
At a prayer meeting in Washington,
Ca, a few nights ago, two young men
quarreled about their right to escort home
female worshiper, the result being a
murder.
Fire broke out in Deland, Holusa Coun-
ty, Fla, few days ago and destroyed
thirty buildings in the business part of the
town. The loss is estimated at $72, 900.
Charles Hinkle and Joe Clark quarreled
at Louisville, KY, few nights ago, and
Hinkle knocked Clark down with chair,
and stabbed him eight times in the back;
while his victim was insensible. Clark
will die.
Reports from several counties In che
Texas cotton belt tell of the disastrous re-
suits to open cotton of the late heavy con-
tinuous rains, also of considerable dam
age resulting from the cotton worm, which
is ravaging Washington and neighboring
counties. 1t is believed large quantities
Of cotton have been whipped out and dam
aged by rain. r-..
A bread war in st. Augustine, Fla, re.
suits in eight loaves for quarter.
John Kemp, ex-chief of police, was
killed at Fort Smith, Ark, few days ago
by Officer Wiley Cox.
One Of the finest iron bridges in the
South is being put up at London, Tenn.
There are 1910 inmates of the Georgia
State insane asylum.
Immense beds of oysters are said to
have been found Off the coast Of North
Carolina.
has been dropped since prohibition went
into effect in that city.
A Florida newspaper brought out it's
biggest rooster to celebrate the victory of
the Yacht Mayfower.
One dealer at Winchester, KY, has
handled 1,200 900 pounds Of tobacco since
before the war. s-i
The yield of rice in Louisiana is said TO
be considerably below the average this
season.
live Charleston Is. c. merchan heads
his advertisements in the daily papers as
follows: Earthquake prices! Shake 'em
downp
The prominent young men Of Vicksburg,
Miss, are taking steps toward organizing
literary and library association, some-
thing the city hasn't had since befo ore the
war.
The wealthiest colored man in the United
States is Tenie Luton, a Fren ch quad
room of New Orleans,
The North Carolina State fair, to be
held at Raleigh on October 26, bids fair to
be one of the grandest exhibits ever made
of the products of the Old North State.
Lamar Fontaine, Yszoo City, Miss, has
a postal card containing 1900 words,
written by him upon one side of the card
with pen.
A Kentuckian failed recently failed for
$4,000, having but twenty five dollars of
assets. AS business man in that line ht
is an eminent success.
During the excitement over the debate
between the Taylor brothers the public
has overlooked the fact that Tennessee
has an Attorney General named George
Washington Pickle.
Two young Japanese employed in the
Japanese village show in the Louisville
(Ky.) Exposition, were recently made
one by matrimony-the first instance Of
the kind in this country.
The East Tennessee. Virginia & Georgia
tunnel under Missionary Ridge, which
caved in last winter, has been entirely re-
built and trains are now running through
on schedule time.
An epidemic of hog cholera, it is re-
ported, prevails throughout North and
Northeastern Virginia. In several To-
calities farmers report the loss of the en-
tire stock of hogs. One man in Spottsyl-
vana County lost forty, the smallest Of
which weighed over $50 pounds.
Willie, the sixteen-year-old son of John
Campbell, a farmer near Harrodsburg,
KY, accidentally discharged a Flobert
rife few days since, the ball entering his
right breast, killing him instantly.
When the war broke out there were but
forty -four colored insane in Georgia. The
colored people before the war were clean
pie of to- day, says the Atlanta Constitu-
ton, are filthy and drunken. The result
is an increase from forty -four to $50.
In the rotunda of the Richmond (Va.)
capitol there is an old stove made of iron
which is said to be one Of the oldest stoves
in existence 1t was made a present to
the colony of Virginia in ITO, and was
spoken of at that time as a warming ma
chine. 1t is seven feet high, and has as
much ornamentation as Queen Anne
house.
The steam laundry of John Lands, at
Shelbyville, Tenn, was completely de-
stroyed by fire a few days ago. FIX
Bros.' grocery and Samuel Akin's hotel
were also consumed. The fire was the
work of an incendiary. The total loss IL
$500; insurance, $500.
A shell of large moll usk was found IN
the bottom Of we'll near Albany, Ga,
few days ago. tThis fossil SHE'LL" sayf
the Ne,cs, discovered at such depth be-
low the surface, is another link IN the
chain of indisputable evidence that TINS
section OF the American continent was O.
one time the bed OF the ocean"
John Malloy, car repairer on the Louis.