St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-04-17
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGS.

At Tallahassee, Fla, the last grand-jury
raked the county over but could not find
ground on which to plant single indict-
ment-the first time such thing has &C.
Cured in thirty six years.
The Brookhaven (Miss.) Leader says 1t
has authority for saying that l.. H. Whit
worth formerly of Brookhaven, but now
of Leflore County, led the armed mob who
did the killing at Carrollton.
Mrs. Maria P Evans, who figured con-
spicuously before the courts as legatee or
the estate of the late Mrs. Myra Clark
Gaines under the alleged will of Mrs.
Gaines, was arrested at New Orleans few
DAYS ago. charged with uttering forged
will, and was lodged in Jail in default OF
10000 bail
Miss Mary G. Shaw, of Marshall County,
Tenn, has entered suit for $4,000 dam
ages for alleged breach of promise of mar
riage against B. L. Cooper, who has mar
ried another.
Clarence st. Lawn, who had difficulty
with a young man named Davis at
dance, killed the latter at Tom Chancel-
lor's farm, four miles from Ennis, Tex,
few days ago. Roger Haynes, deputy
sheriff, and posse were in pursuit of st.
Lawn, who is six feet one inch high and
weighs one hundred and eighty pounds.
Ell. Jones, Virginia commercial trav-
eler, rendered Virginia coupons in pay
ment for license at Richmond recently
and on their refusal proceeded with his
business. He was arrested but was dis
charged by the judge. He has sued the
officers for $4,000 damages.
A colored man named Thomaa Sims was
buried alive few days since at Austin,
Tex, by the bank of Barton's creek, about
two miles from Austin, caving upon him.
He was forty years old, and leaves large
family.
Joe Ivey, young man about twenty
years of age, residing near Jackson
Tenn, accidentally shot himself in the
left arm with double-barrel shotgun
few days ago, mangling it in fearful
manner. The arm was amputated, and 1t
was thought the young man would re-
cover.
Rev. Sam Jones opens weeks revival
in Columbus, Miss, April IS, after which
he will go to Baltimore, Md, for one
month, beginning May Q He has engage
ments extending into next fall.
The new Memphis (Tenn.) Jockey Club
has decided to increase the amount OF
their purses 81 900, which will make over
$4,000 in stakes and purses to be contest
ed for during the week of their annual
spring meeting, which commences May 3.
The Kentucky Legislature has passed a
bill prohibiting the working of convicts in
coal mines. Al present the convicts are
leased to the Mason Foard Company, OF
Nashville, Tenn, and several hundred
have been employed in the Kersee and
Greenwood mines. Trouble has arisen
with them all, and q Legislative commit
tee, which recently returned from the
Greenwood mines, reports that the prison
ers have been treated with shocking bar
barity Their food was corn bread and
frozen meat, and in many cases they did
not get enough to eat. They We're un
mercifully whipped if they stole food.
They did not go to wash in the morning,
and at evening performed their additions
in troughs, without towels.
A sample carload of Alabama coal has
been shipped to Brazil.
Green peas were in bloom in the eastern
counties of North Carolina, while the
roads in the southwest part of the State
were vet half blocked with snow.
A mob of about a hundred men took a
negro from a deputy sheriff in Wilson
County, Tenn, few DAYS ago. and hanged
him to tree until he implicated others in
the recent burning of barns. He and a
%o
country, which order they obeyed.
The Nashville Blooded Horse Associa.
ton authorizes the statement that the re.
cent food will not cause postponement
of the spring races, which will begin April
81 and continue one week, and will be the
best run here in many years.
Suit has been begun in the United States
District Court at Galveston, Tex, by
Louis Tuff1y, dry goods merchant OF
Houston, claiming $4,000 damages from
ex-United States Marshal J. G.. Tracey
and hondsmen for levying an attachment
on plaintiffs stock Of dry goods, which he
valued at that sum. The New York par.
ties for whom Tracey executed the wri
are also made parties to the suit, The
basis of Tuffiv's claim is that he had no in
| 'ent to defraud. and hence the writ anC
| levy was unlawful.
Detectives Brown and Cosgrave, of New
| York, arrested Franchise Alderman W
| H. Miller, of New York, at Palatka, Fla.
few days ago, upon warrants charging
him with bribery in the Broadway Surface
Railway legislation. Miller was mucf
surprised at his arrest, but made no re.
sistance to returning North. Ex-Alder
man Joseph Dempsey, wanted on the
same charge, had been stopping in thu
same city for several weeks, but, learning
of the presence of the detectives, he de-