The Brookhaven leader., 1886-09-23
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

gun, few days since and went out shoot
ing. While returning home, in getting
over a fence, he lowered the breech Of the
gun first by holding to the muzzle. The
locks of the gun struck a rail- which ex-
ploded both barrels, the charges complete
ly tearing away the right side of his head.
The Associated Press distributed five
hundred dollars at Charleston among those
reporters who furnished the details of the
earthquake.
Hall, Bill and Lester Matthews, three
brothers, were arrested in Caddo Parish,
La, few days ago, charged with the
murder of Alexander Carrick, all being
colored. Bill Matthews had fight with
Alex Carrick at a dance. Hall Matthews
struck Carrick over the head with bottle
of brandy cherries, from the effects of
which he died.
Wash Freeman, a negro Of Frankfort,
Ky. went ahout a mile in the country, a
few nights ago, to steal some roasting ears
of corn. While in the act he was fred up
on by a white man named Wallace, the
ball entering just below the chin and
causing his death. Wallace says he
thought il was a hog, else he would not
have fired.
A negro named Wilkerson was lyncned
| near Millcn, Ga, a few days ago. He de-
served it.
Atlanta (Ga.D citizens consume fifteen
| hundred quarts Of wine every day.
Libby prison, Richmond, Va, is now
| fcrtli2inG factory, and Castle Thunder
! has been burned TO the ground.
Andrew Harrtt. n brakeman ON the Sun
! set Route in Texas, was killed by the cars
at Converse station a few days ago.
y company has been formed in ChaJta-
nooga, Tenn, with a capital stock of S15o,-
| 900 to erect a new l00-ton blast furnace in
that city at once.
One Of the finest Baptist churches in the
! Southern States, costing $4,000 was dedi-
Gated recently at Lynchburg, Va.
Charleston Is. c. real-estate dealers
say that ther has been no falling off in the
sale Of lots in that city since the recent
earthquakes.
William OIney, of San Antonio, Tex,
was out riding twelve miles west of the
city, a few days ago, when lightning
killed him.
A gander was killed near Lexington,
| Tenn, recently, that was supposed TO lie
at least fifty years old. Its owner had
got tired waiting for it to die natural
death.
High tides are making serious inroads
upon the beach at Galveston, Tex. Con-
siderable fear is expressed that the usual
fall gales will do great dam age to the
! city.
"Old Ball" the faithful saddle horse of
| W. Z. Pearson. of Scooba, Ala, died re.
Gently, aged twenty five years. 1t was
4 l. 81,
and was we'll known for miles around.
The white house" of the Confederacy at
| Richmond, Va, is now used as a public
school, and the halls in which the Davis
| Cabinet held their war councils now echo
| with the voices of children reciting lessons
| in geography.
General Devens' dress sword is being
! handed down al an heirloom, it appears,
in the families of officers of the North
| Carolina brinade which surprised the
| judges headquarters at Chancellorsville.
There are two families of the name of
Dodd in Barlow Coun+r Georgia. They
are not related, and interest in them arises
from the fact that one of the families is
composed of nine girls, while the other is
made up of eight boys.
One of the results of the recent earth
quake was to cure the rheumatism of
citizen of Columbia, $. C. He had used
crutches for years, but when the quake
quaked he ran out of the house like a four
year old steer, and he hasn't used his
crutchos since.
The Taylor brothers, rival candidates for
Governor of Tennessee, occupied the same
room in a hotel at Chattanooga, recently,
bai, fria in,
the evening, with familiar melodies on the
violin.
The sheriff of Covington, Tenn, has in
custody man who confesses having mur-
dered ex-Mayor Bowman, of East st.
Louis, Ill. The prisoner states that he
was paid $1,000 for the work by the vice.
president of a railway company. The
confession lacks some elements of con-
sistency.
The Board of f lucation of Savannah,
Ca, has passed resolutions forbidding
the infiction of corporal punishment.
There has been some trouble growing out
of the infiicti)n of such punishment, and
the board thought its abolition would be
the shortest way to enI 1t.
The Diurnal, packet steamer running
between Louisville, KY, and Cannelton,
struck snag near Alta, Ind, fe w day
ago, ripped several planks off her keel and
sunk. The passengers and freight were all
removed without accident or incident TO
the City OF Owensboro that happened to
be passing. The freight was considerably
damaged by water. The loss is estimated
at s., 900; insurance, $1,000.
VIM. p. Ferris, manager of Bradstreet's
Mercantile Agency at Birmingham, Ala,
died at Nashville, Tenn, a few nights
ago from an overdose of chloral admin
istered while he was i'll. Mr.. Ferris was
returning to Bennington from Northern
trip. His body was cared for by friends.
He was for several years the manager OF
Bradstreet's agency in Nashville. He
afterward went to Little Rock, and from
there to Birmingham.
A terrible accident occurred on the East
Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia railway,
near Chattanooga, Tenn, few evenings
since. A north bound express train struck
a COW on a sharp curve while entering the
city. The engine turned over a slight en-
bankment, crushing Engineer Tom Buck
lev and Fireman Faris to death. Buckley's
body was not recovered for several hours.
j.. The tracks of the East Tennessee, Cincin-
natl Southern and Western s. Atlantic
were badly blockaded until midnight.
Charleston is becoming tranquil.
The strike of four thousand cotton oper-
atives at Atlanta SO touched the SYM
pathies of the people that an appropria-
tion of $1,000 for the relief of the needy
was made by the City Council.
Several negroes got into fight at Dix
lie, Ca, a few nights ago, during which