Huntsville gazette., 1886-05-15
SOUTHERN GtEANINGS.

Oh the Virginia cavalry, is now keeping a
prosperous girls school at Staunton, Va.
The poetical name Of Galveston is the
.'Oleander City," but the trees which gave
it the name were nearly all destroyed by
last winters frosts.
Judge Billings, at New Orleans, in deal
ing with John H. Aufdemorte, late re-
demption clerk in the sub-treasury, and
another Federal conspirator, imposed upon
each fine of $4,000 and Imprisonment
for two years.
A difficulty which arose in the office Of
the county clerk at Willamstown, KY, a
few days ago, resulted in the death of w.
w. Wainscott and the wounding of Turner
Holbrook and Clay Wilson.
The police jury building committee of
Madison Parish, Louisiana, has awarded
the contract for the building of a brick
fire-p' oof jail at Tallulah, the parish site,
to che Pauly Building Company of st.
Louis, the lowest bidders, their bid being
$,999.45. the building to be completed by
October l. At their last meeting the po-
lice jury appropriated $4,000 for the pur-
pose of building a new courthouse, which
will be let as soon as the various plans
submitted are examined and acted upon.
Six thousand kegs Of beer are tied up in
Dali (Tex.) brewery by litigation.
A negro aged nineteen was lynched near
Camden, S. c., few nights ago, for an
assault upon an aged lady.
An Egerly Ua.) merchant ships $500
skins monthly to Newark, N. j.,
where they are used for hat adornments.
Thoro iC ~ -,
adopt constitutional amendment abol-
ishing the State Senate.
Senator Malone has written letter ad-
vocating a more judicious license system
for Virginia.
The new statue of Ben Hill, of Georgia,
represents him in a Prince Albert and
spring overcoat.
Virginia had greater number of elec-
toral votes than any other State till 1905.
Now there are eleven States ahead of her,
and two others holding an equal represen-
tation.
Ex-Governor Hubbard, of Texas, now
minister to Japan, has written a letter tt
Dallas paper in which he denies the in
jurions stories that have been circulated
concerning his conduct at the court of
Mikado.
Parsons, the Chicago Anarchist, wa
postmaster at Waco, Tex, in 1874 and left
there in company with the mulatto woman
who has since figured as his wife.
The tobacco bug has made its appear
ance in portions of North Carolina, and
in great numbers. In some places they
have almost totally destroyed the young
plants. The planters are greatly alarmed.
At Middleton, Ga. yearling bull was
struck a few days ago by a train moving
slowly and knocked into trestle, where it
fell between the ties, but caught by its
horns and one leg, remaining suspended
in mid air three hours. 1t was finally
pulled out and found to be unhurt except
for few bruises.
Atlanta, Ga, has recently been consid-
erably exercised over the attempt of
cigarette manufacturer to advertise his
wares by procession through the streets
of men carrying pictures of the "Greek
Slave" The procession was stopped by
the police, and all the judges in the city
have been called upon to express their
opinion of high art.
The famous "reservoir tragedy" at Rich
mond reached almost it last chapter when
the Supreme Court of Virginia recently
sustain ed the Judgment of the Hastings
Court, which found "Cousin Tommy" Clu-
verius guilty of Fanny Lillian Madison's
death. The shadow of the gallows under
which the defendant now stands can only
be lifted by the executive clemency of Gov
ernor Fitz Hugh Lee.
The first steel rails ever m ade in the
South from Southern made steel were cut
a few days since by the South Tredegar
Steel-works of Chattanooga, Tenn. The
company has just completed the erection
of the first Bessemer steel plant ever built
South and are now manufacturing steel
entirely from Southern ores. They have
begun manufacturing nails from this steel,
with splendid success, and will turn out
5000 kegs per week.
A fire broke out a few days ago in the
Cooper cotton press at New Orleans, one
of the largest in the city. No cause could
be assigned for it. The fire originated in
the upper portion of the press and, de-
spite the presence Of nearly the entire fire
department, it was impossible to extin-
guish the burning cotton. 1t spread to the
compress and shipping room, destroying
fine Moore press and other valuable ma
chinery, and thence to the shed in which
there were four hundred bales OF cotton,
all of which were consumed.
Frankfort, KY, has been enjoying
sensation in a prospective duel which
grows out of a controversy between Major
Louis E. Harfie, wealthy and prominent
citizen, and Edmund b. Taylor, the
we'll known whisky man and mayor OF the
city.
A negro man named Jim Latham, living
in the edge of Birmingham, Ala. was
found by his neighbors few days ago 70
have received terrible gun-shot wound
in one side of his face. He was shot oy
one Henry Hyson. and appears to nave
been the victim of jealousy.
Almost horrible murder was commlteed
few days ago near Fulton, Ky' Inc parties
concerned were Mrs. Wilkerson ana ner
step-daughter. The daughter maze
threat several months ago that II nef
father married the lady she wouio XIII
her. Her father paid no attention 10 'Is
threat, and the girl made good Cor
from