Huntsville gazette., 1886-08-28
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

4 uAohDh oiu, yet IL mas population or 2,0OU.
/ A Macon (Ga.) correspondent notes that
d church in that city has secured the
service of ian elegantsoprano," ga beau
tiful Alto" "a fine TENOR" and "a fine
basso." Naturally some fine music is ex-
pected from this strong combination.
The first bale of cotton was received at
Louisville. KY, few days since from
Americus, Ga, and was sold at public
auction for thirty mine cents per pound.
j Ben Moseby committed suicide at Hous-
ton, Tex, few nights ago by taking
Tsncrphine.
! A young man named Lasche Philport,
while fishing in Persimmon pond few
days ago, at Owensboro, KY, was
taken with a fit and fell into the pond.
| There being no one with him at the time,
he was drowned in one foot of water.
| Absolute destitution is said to prevail in
| ten counties of Texas on account of the
drought. he commissioners of Shackle-
4 ford County are employing farmers on the
| public roads, and a fund of $1,000 is being
raised to lend without interest for the pur-
! chase of seed.
| Well authenticated information from
nearly all quarters Of Texas indicates
rapid falling in the cotton crop during the
/ last few weeks, from dry weather. Sub
stantial farmers from B owie, Cass, Harri-
son, Morris and Marion counties state that
the hitherto promising crop has already
been injured nearly fifty per cent. Leaves
and bolIs are falling fast and rust has at
tackled many sections. Rain or no rain,
prospects are very gloomy and half crop
is all that will be ma lie this year.
Mollie Mitchell and Edwin Perkins com
mitted suicide at Dallas, Tex, few days
ago.
William Thornton, aged fourteen years,
and Matte Smith, aged fifteen years, were
married recently at Jackson, GA.
| There are more Republican members of
the present Alabama Legislature than of
any similar body since 1874.
Two thousand hawks were trapped and
killed for their scalps in Louisa County,
Virginia, last year. A big bounty was
paid for the scalps. FD
The Roanoke river, North Carolina, has
had six freshets of nine to seventeen feet
rise this season.
Already an organization is bein G effect
ed in Montgomery, Ala, to arrange for an
| inter- State drill and encampment in that
city in May, 1887.
Two boys, named Durry and Hughes,
were drowned while bathing in the river
! near Beech Grove, Tenn, a few days since.
They were cousins.
The CITY Council of Mobile has granted
right of way to the West Alabama road,
which is to be completed to Jackson within
six months.
al Ia lnrfs orn Enin
from the experimental tobacco crops in
| South Carolina. Tobacco of good quality
| is being produced in some parts of the
State, and the opinion is entertained that
it will pay handsomely.
Hugh Harrington, an engineer in charge
of a special on the Sunset route, going
| west, was thrown from his engine near
| Del Rio, Tex, few days ago, and was
so badly hurt internally and externally
| that he can not live. He was taken to
Del Rio for medical atten ton.
AT an early hour few days ago some
unknown person shot at Miss Agnes
! Phelps while she was asleep at her home
| in Nashville, Tenn. The bullet entered the
thigh and caused severe wound. No
reason is known for the attempted assas-
sination.
Mr.. A. Wheeler, prominent dealer in
beef cattle and dressed beef, was crushed
beneath the wheels of float at Waco,
Tex, a few days since. The float team
took fright at steam engine drawing
prairie plow along the streets. Two Of
| Mr.. Wheeler's ribs were broken, his skull
fractured and he was perhaps fatally in
| jured.
DR.. Emanuel Dreifus, on trial for
subornation of perjury and misprision of
testimony, at New Orleans, was found
guilty. Dreifus was friend of Judge
Ford, and induced the two sisters, Mrs
| Smith and Mrs Mahon, to testify for the
defense in the notorious Ford Murphy
murder trial.
A fire broke out in McMullen Bros.'s
paint store at Cynthiana, KY, few
nights ago. A volunteer fire company
worked hard, but the flames could not be
| subdued before the building was totally
destroyed, together with all the stock.
The loss on the building is estimated at
81 800: on the stock, $4,000. Insurance on
the building, So 600; the stock, $500.
J.B. Fielder, mayor of A mericus, Ca,
and DR.. w. P. Burt, C Incilman of same
Town, recently eHSdSou III pun eiNesA VIC
cussion. From hot words they passed to
blows Burt struck Fielder, who then
stabbed Burt in the back and arm, lnfilct-
| ing probably fatal wounds
T. III. Coussens, one of the leading drug
| gists in Nashville, fenn., was fatally
stabbed by Robert Morton. clerk whom
he had discharged few evenings since.
Morton attacked Coussens with knife,
| inficting six wounds, the blade Oh the
weapon twice penetrating the lung. Mor-
ton fed, but was chased two miles and
| arrested.
Rev. G. Rankin, one of the leading pas
| tors of Chattanooga, Tenn, created SEN
sation few nights ago by m aklng Visi'
| to all the saloons in the city. he is en-
gagged in delivering series OF sermons on
bar-rooms, and maze personal Vishs 70
secure some practical points.
! A boy named Patrick Sullivan apou
sixteen years Of age, was shot and fatally
wounded while in Mont Higgins water
melon patch, near Elizabethtown, hy.'
| few nights ago. higgins was Keeping
watch over the melons, and when III saw
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