Huntsville gazette., 1886-09-04
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGS.


All election tickets in Louisiana must be
printed on paper furnished by the Secre-
tary OF State at five per cent. more tha
actual cost, this little item being one
the secretary's perquisites.
large watermelon recently arrived a.
Baltimore, Nd, from Augusta, GA. II
measured thirty-two inches in length, fif-
teen inches in depth, fourteen inches in
width, and weighed eighty four pounds.
The total loss from the recent gulf storm,
as now known to Texas, is: Human lives
lost, thirty eight; loss to crops, 81, 100000;
loss to city and town property, $3,4OO,O00;
loss to shipping and harbor improve.
ments, 100000. Total, S., 800 900.
A resident of Columbia, N. c., has gone
into the cultivation of the sunfower on
large scale He has several acres planted
with different varieties of the flower, and
expects within short time to be able to
supply the Southern markets with the
product. He says they make splendid
feed for stock, and horses and cattle are
quite fond of them.
Alexander Stewart, of Stanton, Va,
aged ninety -one years, recently attended
the funeral of S. G. Wayland, aged eighty.
one years, who had been his best friend
for half century. The next day while
Mr.. Stewart was recalling to party OF
visitors scenes and incidents in which ha
and his friend Wavland had participated
he fell over on the ground and died ins
few minutes.
While Mrs. Kairns and her en-year-old
daughter were attempting to cross the
Tennessee river about ten miles below
Chattanooga a few days ago in small
skiif, while in strong current, the boa
capsized and both were drowned.
An Atlanta (Ga.) paper sums up the re-
suit of thirty eight days of prohibition as
follows: "Less money in the city ard
State treasury, less business houses occu-
pied, less people in the city, less morality,
more drunkenness, more crimes and Grim
inals, more poor people out of employ
ment, more taxes, and more dissatisfac.
tion among all classes than has ever ex-
listed before" Buying whisky by the jug
instead of by the glass appears to have
worked an astonishing change for the
worse in Georgia.
In Athens, Ga, the yellow flag is hung
There is veteran Georgian in Ameri-
Gus who has fifteen children, fifty-one
grandchildren and twenty four great
grandchildren.
John and Leander Nelson, colored, were
lynched for murder at Magnolia, Miss,
few days ago.
Judge Simrall has been nominated for
Congress by the Republicans Of the Third
Mississippi district.
A colored lad shot and killed his little
sister, at Hot Springs, Ark, recently, be-
cause she refused to give him part of her
candy.
There is moven ent among the business
men of Chattanooga, Tenn, to form
stock company of two thousand members,
each to take 500 stock, for the purpose of
erecting a large cotton factory.
The University of Mississippi pays a
larger salary to its professors than most
of the Northern institutions do, yet it has
four vacant chairs-Latin, Greek, mathe-
matics and literature.
The wife of Gilbert Babb, a prosperous
farmer living near Adarville, KY, COM
mitted suicide by hanging herself in an
clubhouse a few days ago. The suicide
taint was hereditary. Her father, VIM.
Berry, shot and killed himself, and a
short while afterward her mother hanged
herself. She has a sister in the Nashville
asylum.
John Keicher, of w ashington County,
Tenn, wealthy farmer and aged sew
entv-five, committed suicide a few days
ago bv taking "Rough on Rats" He left
no excuse for his rash act.
Constant Benoit, young Swiss who re-
Gently arrived in America, was attacked
by O. vicious boar in the Island Farm
Home, near Knoxville, Tenn, a few days
ago, and received injuries from which he
soon died.
The letter-carriers of New Orleans are
irving to get the street car companies to
grant them permission to. ride free over
their lines III the performance of their
duties. The force have territory eight
miles up, six miles down, and two miles
across, and two miles east of the river to
cover. .. t
A little tornado whirled through Colds
boro, N. c., the other day, and finding the
front door of fine residence open, dashed
into the house, gathered up lot Of furni-
ture, burst open rear door, and flung the
whole lot in heap in the back yard.
James Mclaughlin, trying to ford the
Alana river during a recent Florida
freshet, found himself unable to go for
ward or backward, and so climbed cab
bage palmetto and there roasted for forty
seven hours. He tied his wrists to the
stalks, and thus was able to sleep without
falling out of the tree.
When the passenger train from OpelIka
to Macon passed through Columbus, Ga,
few days ago, there were three negroes
in the first-class coach. The conductor
said he had no authority to put them out.
AT Geneva the train was boarded by
party of young men, who kicked the ne
groes out.
Alex. Williams, strong, viclous-iook-
ing negro, who was once member Oh the
South Carolina Legislature, was sent 10
the county jail few days ago, IN delaui'
of bond, for assault with intent TO murder'
The Prohibitionists Of Georgia recently
took the lead in holding conference az
Atlanta with their opponents, about Ior.y
prominent men Icing present. IL Is saia
that the provision for whoiesale anu
mart license will ha presented TO Inc LEE