The Brookhaven leader., 1886-08-12
SOUTHERN oLEANINGS.

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Judge Shuferd, of Asheville, N. C., fined
he editors of the Citizen, of that place,
800 for contempt of court.
Georgia law allows the OWNER of a COW
which has been shot on land not inclosed
by lawful fence TO recover three times
its value. In Robertsville a cows value is
determined by the number of quarts of
milk she gives at a milking, at the rate OF
five dollars for each quart. Mrs. Aaron's
cow, which gave twelve quarts at milk
ing, was recently shot, and the jury in the
suit that followed gave her $50.
The change of gauge of the st. Louis.
| Arkansas & Texas road, the most import
ant narrow gauge in the United States, is
being rapidly accomplished, and in few
months the entire line, seven hundred
miles in length, will be turned into
standard gauge. The road runs through
the best corn and cotton producing coun-
try in the South.
A number of persons were descending
Lookout noun tain from Mentone Springs
a few days ago, when the team attached
to the hack ran away down the steep in
cline. The vehicle was overturned and all
were thrown out. Samuel Schwartz, shoe
merchant, was caught under the wagon
and severely bruised. His wife clung tC
her infant babe, and neither was injured.
Miss Annie Bachman had a cash cut in
er neck and head. A colored nurse was
dangerously injured, one of her legs being
broken.
John r. Pugh, of the Montgomery (Ala.)
police, was shot ard seriously wounded
by an unknown negro a few nights ago.
h, Avf1nc
Howard and Officers Pugh and Laprade
went to execute it. They found a negro
who answered the description and under
took to arrest him. He ran, Pugh fol-
lowed, when the negro suddenly turned
and fred on Pugh with a revolver. The
shot took effect in Pugh's abdomen.
A Southern breeder of game chickens
always sets his hens on nests made OF to-
bacco stems. They are never troubled by
insects.
An Alabama man recently cut down
bee tree and not only got one hundred
pounds of honey, but also saved the bees.
Junus Heilborn, veteran of NapOleon's
campaign against Russia, has just cele-
hrated his ninety second birthday at Cuth-
bert, Ga.
Texas towns are notified of a matri-
monial agency in London that will send
them good wives on satisfactory refer
ences.
The Democrats of South Carolina have
nominated for Governor John p. Richard
son. the present State Treasurer, in oppo-
sition to the farmers combination.
Simon Goldner, a merchant at Rome,
Tenn, sucided a few evenings since by
drowning in the Cumberland river. He
was financially embarrassed.
William Whalen, a bartender, formerly
of Louisville, KY, died of sunstroke at
Austin, Tex, a few days ago, making
three deaths from that cause within a
week The weather has been intensely
hot and very dry.
The sixth annual session of the Louis
lana Press Association convened last week
at Monroe. Twenty three papers were
represented. The members of the associa-
tion left on Saturday on an excursion to
Chicago.
In a remote corner of Montgomery
County, Ca, masked and armed men car
lied away the safe of a miser named
Wisely few nights ago, from which thew
took $1,000 in currency and like amount
of negotiable notes. Four of the robbers
are in custody.
The United States Grand Jury at Fort
Smith, Ark, ignored the following muir
der cases: John Maberry, Richard
Cowan, Watt Saunders, d. l.. r. Ross, j..
H. Marshall George Malur, f. B. Kerr
and John Kerr, his son. The two latter
have been in Jail several weeks. The
others were out on bond.
The citizens of Georgia will, in October
vote upon a constitutional amendment to
supply artificial limbs to Confederate SOL
diers and make suitable provision for such
men as were permanently injured i'll the
field.
A report is current in railroad circles tc
the effect that Springs, Tennessee sum-
mer resort, has been purchased by the
Virginia, Tennessee & Georgia Railroad
Company. This resort is extensively pa
tronized by the Southern people.
Mrs. VIM. Massey, wife of a well-knowI
citizen of Somerset, KY, gave birth to
three children a few nights ago. Two OF
the babies ere connected by strong lig-
ament exactly similar to the bonds uniting
the Siamese twins. The ligament was two
and a half inches long. All were dead
when born.
Bene Moore, wanted in Van Zandt
County, Tex, for horse stealing, was ar
rested at Fort Smith, Ark, few days
ago, at the instance of Deputy Marshal
H. Hackney, of Denison. After prelim
mary examination, he was committed tC
Jail, and will be taken TO Texas as soon as
papers can be secured for his removal
He was attending the United States court
as witness. Hackney thinks he is also
wanted for murder, and that there is $25(
reward tor him.
While a gang of negroes on a construc'
tion train on the Mississippi Valley rail
road was repairing the track alb out two
miles south of Shelby Station, Miss, a few
days ago, panther emerged from the
woods and attacked a negro laborer
springing upon his shoulder. The negro
Immediately grabbed the panther in hi
arms and gave him an old-fashioned beal
hug, not forgetting at the same time t.
yell for his life. The panther evidently
became more frightened than the negro
changed his tactics and tried to escape
but the negro was too much for him, as h
held him until Conductor Caldwell coult
get his gun and come to lis assistance
when Caldwell shot the panther in thu
ncgro's AIMS 1t measured six feet from
tip to tip, and is ferocous specimen.
The air is warm in Texas just now.
Wallace w. Milan, a farmer living fif
teen miI,s north of Nashville, Tenn, wa
attacked few days since and probabl
fatally wounded by Henry Milan, col