St. Landry democrat., 1886-10-23
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGS,

! AlIBEiCuS, Hu, Vi liio ilut tici VI 'ottHc'
wall Tondell, and was sentenced to be
hanged on the Goth of next November.
! President Cleveland has sent twenty
dollars TO tho Confederate Home at
Charleston, S. c., accompanied by Z SYM
I pathetic letter.
The Nlormons and Baptists at Hamilton,
! Ala, arc engaged in a heated religious
! discussion, and hold joint debates two
I and three times q week.
Some Of the planters in Southsile, Va,
! have fin shed curing their tobacco crops,
! but many more have green tobacco yet on
! the hill.
There new prevails in Vichsburg, Miss,
an epidemic Of dengue fever which is un-
| precedented. 1t is estimated that there
arc over one thousand cases under treat
ment. The disease, while Of painful and
| Frustrating character, is by no means
malignant or dangerous, there having
been over one thousand five hundred cases
, without one of them terminating fat ally.
! In lioody duel with one weapon in
Mobile, Ala, q few days ago, negro
woman named Maggie Bell killed. her
antagonist, Lilly Harris, also colored.
| The fight occurred in front of a low bar
| room, and was caused by Bells disobey-
ing Harris in JUNCTION not to speak to her.
Harris had knife and she struck at Bel's
heart, cutting her hand. thrown to ward
eff the low. The knife fell to the ground.
Maggie Bell snatched it up, cutting Lilly
Harris throat from ear to ear.
Chief Post Office Inspector Harris was
notified a few days ago Of the arrest at
Lyon Miss, Of George Hartley on
charge of appropriating post-otfce
moneys. Hartly was assistant postmas-
ter at Lyon. Inspector N. A. Fisher who
made the arrest, says the assistant post
master took eight registered letters con-
tanning STD from the mails, and added
twenty four dollars in stamps to that
amount. He was committed to jail in de-
fault of 81 go bail to await trial.
\ large female school is being estab-
lished at Ab1evlle, \. C., BY the Roman
Cotholcs.
\ large moccaSin snake was killed in one
ii the principal streets of Atlanta, Ga,
few days ago.
The Georgia State elections resulted in
clean sweep for the Democrats.
Charles White, Of Chester County,
South Carolina, shot his wife few days
ago and then hung himself.
A colored girl in Laurens County, South
Carolina, bears this lovely name: Fair
Rosa Beauty Spot Temptation Touch Me
Not"
From three bushels Of potatoes planted
On threa-eghts of an acre of land near
Cherokee, Ga, this season, 105 bushels Of
potatoes were raised.
Not less than eight large cigar factories
are now being constructed at Key West. !
Fla. This will require not less than two
thousand operatives.
IL is claimed that the county Jail at Gal
7eston, Tex, is an infrin cement of a pat
ant, and damages are demanded by the
oatentees. The county will contest the
dams.
The amount of the losses in Charleston,
:. c., by the earthquake is now estimated
1t S5,000,0G0. The NeacS and Courier calls
or an extra session of the Legislature to
levise means for the relief of the sufferers.
In pulling down the undertaking shop
If the late Godare Casanave in New Or
cans recently, workm discovered mis-
aid coffin containing the corpse of Gu
pan planter who died in Italy thirty years
ago.
Jesse Brown, colored, killed Boston Tay-
Tor, colored, with dcu le-barreled shot |
gun few days ago on the Willow Glenn
place, five miles from Alexandria, La. The |
difficulty arose from a dispute concerning |
1 mule. Brown, it is claimed, acted. in |
;elf-defense.
The State Of Louisiana has accepted the |
bid of prison contractor for closing the
Morganza crevasse in the Mississippi. The |
River Commission is likely to raise serious
objections to the employment of convict |
.abor.
Preparations for the grand Exposition
and State Fair, which opens at Dallas,
Eek, on the I29th instant and continues
twelve days, are being rapidly pushed |
forward, and the indications point to
every thing being in readiness by the
opening date.
disastrous fire occurred at White
wright, Tex, few nights ago. destroying
f6o, 900 worth of property. 1t broke out in
she store of Batsell & Reeves, thence it
swept west and consumed every building
on the south side of the square except two,
one owned by the Masons and the other
by Patterson & Meadows. Eight build
ings were destroyed; only partly insured.
The Tennessee Conference of the NJ. E.
Church South, convened in GAINESVILLE,
Tenn, last week. Bishop Hend'ick pre-
sid ed. Reports showed six thousand ad.
ditions to the church in the past ear.
The spiritual condition of the districts is
in good shape, and the financial
report better than ever.
There appeared before a local court at
Sparta, Ga, a few days ago. negro
named Cooper Lamar, who was ap:ured
off the coast of Africa and brought to
America on the Wanderer twenty-six
years ago, and consequently was one OF