The Brookhaven leader., 1886-04-15
STANDING ADVERTISEMENT.
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

raked the county over but could not find
ground on which to planta single indict-
ment--the first time such thing has oc-
CURED in thirty-six years.
The Brookhaven (Miss.) Leader says IL
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 t.Carrollton.---4=----
Mrs. Maria p. Evans, who figured con.
spicuously before the courts as legatee of
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 a forged
will, and was lodged in jail In default of
$4,000 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 a difficulty
with 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, a deputy
sheriff, and posse were in pursuit OF st.
Lawn, who Is six feet one inch high and
weighs one hundred and eighty pounds.
f. J. 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. ".zG-.
A colored man named Thomas 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 q large
family.
Joe Ivey, a young man about twenty
years of age, residing near jackson,
Tenn, accidentally shot himself in. the
left arm with a double barrel shotgun a
few DAYS ago, mangling it in fearful
manner. The arm was amputated, and it
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 9. He has engage
ments extending into next fall.
The new Memphis (Tenn.l Jockey Club
has decided to increase the amount of
their purses 1900, 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 J.
The Kentucky Legislature has passed
bin prohibiting the working Of convicts in
coal mines. At 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 a 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 were un'
mercifully whipped if they stole food.
They did not go to wash in the morning,
and at evening performed their ablutions
in troughs, without towels. i .f ,...H'r
A sample car load 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 yet half blocked with snow.
A mob of about hundred men took
negro from a deputy sheriff in Wilson
County, Tenn, few davs ago, and hanged
him to tree until he implicated others In
the recent burning of barns. He and
confederate were notified to leave the
country, which order the y obeyed.
The Nashville Blooded Horse Associa.
ton authorizes the statement that the re-
cent flood will not cause a postponement
of the spring races. which will begin April
27 and continue one week, and will be the
best run here in many years. .vs...
Suit has been begun in the United States
District Court at Galveston, Tex, by
Louis Tufiy, "a dry goods merchant of
Houston, claiming $4,000 damages from
ex-United States Marshal j. G. Tracey
and bondsmen 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 writ
are also made parties to the suit. The
basis of Tuffiy's claim is that hehad no in :
tent to defraud, and hence the writ and
levy was unlawful.
Detectives Brown and Cosgrave, of New
York, arrested Franchise Alderman W.
|. H. Miller, of New York, at Palatka, Fla,
a few days ago, upon warrants charging
him with bribery in the Broadway Surface
Railway legislation. Miller was much
surprised at his arrest, but made no re-
l. sistance to retnrnin G North. Ex-Alder-
man Joseph Dempsey, wanted on the
same charge, had been stopping in the
| same city for several weeks, but, learning
of the presence of the detectives, he de-
parted, leaving no clew to the direction he
took.
iAfter'a two weeks absence from his
home, during which timeshe had travelled
many miles, c. p. Leak, a wealthy Iowan,
was found In Atlanta, Ca, a few days
ago. Mr.. Leak, nj addition to being we'll
advanced in years and quite wealthy, is d
| little absent minded. About the middle
Of March he left his home near Keokuk.
His family became uneasy about him and
telegraphed all over the country, offering
| 1 reward for his detention, but instructing
that IL be done quietly! He was found at
Atlanta, and close wateh was kept upon
him and telegram sent to, his family.
His son went to Atlanta and met hts faith
er, who had no idea that the meeting was
other than accidental, and the pair left for
| home.
The Hoods have been very destructive.
d, The Supreme Court Of Georgia recently
had under review the celebrated Beck
murder case. Ou the 2Sth OF October, 1884,
Eegene W. .Beekmtndered his wife, Ella
Beck, and her sister, Addiel Bailey, while
/ they were sleeping in bed. The double