St. Landry democrat., 1886-08-07
SOUTHERN GLEANiNGS.

pushed out by colored boy of the same
age, who was in the boat with hims
Coroner Hudiberg heard of the drowning
and went to the house for the purpose or
holding an inquest. He was met by the
dead boys father and promptly elected
from the premises.
Old Fort Marion, at st. Augustine, Fla,
is to mount six new guns, to be placed on
granite caps on water battery in front or
the ancient Spanish fortress.
Bryan Strickland, of Gainesville, Ca,
was shot down and killed in that town .
few days ago by party headed by Town
Marshall Pickett.
w. H. Gigger, who shot and killed Cap
tain j. W. Higgins, of the Internal Rev
enue Service, at Carthage, Tenn, last
months, for an alleged insult to Mrs. Gig.
ger, attem pied suiidein the Carthage jail
a few days ago, cutting an artery in his
arm. His act was discovered in time to
| prevent his bleeding to death.
| A destructive cyclone passed over the
upper portion of Lunenberg County, Va, q
few daya since. The storm covered q
large area and wrought great destruction
| In it's path. Some farmers had their en-.
| tire crops of corn and tobacco blown down
fered heavily by having their fruit trees
blown down or stripped of their branches.
Atlanta (Ga.) capitalists propose estab-
fishing a large piano factory.
The annual sales of tobacco at Danville,
Va, the head center of the trade, averageg
forty-on million pounds.
A New Orleans citizen claims to have
won the prize offered by the Government
of India for a machine that would prepare
the fiber of the ramie plant.
A deed covering thirty-three pages Of
legal cap paper, averaging eleven words
to the line and thirty two lines to the
page, thus containing 11,616 words, was
recently recorded in Mcintosh County,
Georgia.
A blue crane, measuring six feet from
tip to tip, was recently captured in fish
pond near Gainesville, Ga. A carp eight
inches long and weighing quarter of q
pound was found in its stomach.
A young man who had grown up within
five miles of Johnson City, Tenn, without
ever seeing the town, visited it last week.
After returning home he was asked what
was the biggest thing he saw there, and
replied: II seed whole lot o. fellows
with red clubs strackin' at ball"
A report from London, KY, says the.
French and Eversole factions fought at
Hazard a few days ago, and that at least
one man was killed. The report says the
French faction holds the town.
A black cloud emptied itself in the
'spiney woods" of Laurens County,
Georgia, recen tly, on space not exceed.
ing half an acre, and miles from any pond
or creek; and with the water were deposit-
ed over fifty soft-shell turtles and striped.
head terrapins, nearly all as large as the
bottom of peck measure.
Frank Mcdonald, aged fifteen, and
Essie O'Niel, aged thirteen, both of Knox.
vile, Tenn, were married few nights
ago. The parents of both objected to the
match, and the ceremony was performed
beneath tree in the suburbs of the city
by a magistrate.
Samuel Smythe, nephew of rich plant.
er at Colon, Panama, cut a swath at Mo-.
bile, Ala, recently, a George Henry, and
at New Orleans as Rev. H. J. Nethercott,
of Honduras, having stolen the clothes
and papers of the latter. He was arrest.
ed, exposed and has returned to Colon.
The Howard and Turner factions at Har-
Dor Court house. Harlan County, KY,
have been repeating the Tolifer- Martin
act. The families occupied houses on
either side of road, under cover of which
they have been firing at each other. Alex.
Bailey, of the Howards, was killed. 9th
ers were wounded.
A citizen of Emanuel County, Georgia,
has a curiosity in the form of a worm. lt
has eight horns on the top of its head
about an inch long. The worm is about
six or seven inches long, of a greenish
color, with black horns a half inch long
all over the body. Its head is shaped
somewhat like that of rhinoceros, and
it has eight legs about an inch long. It
was found in persimmon tree.
Geo. Causey, jealous of Lydia Creepy
knocked 81 enry Brooks into the river at
Hampton, Va, few days ago, and the
latter was drowned. Brooks, though
married to Miss Creecy's cousin, paid her
improper attentions. She was to marry
Causey. The death was mystery until a
confession was elected from Miss Creecy.
One hundred and thirty five men at work
on mattresses for the protection Of the
South Memphis river front struck few
days ago for higher wages. They were
getting $1.25 and demanded $3.50. They
were employed by the citizens committee,
which raised the money by subscription
for the work. No previous demand has
been made, and the contractors were taken
utterly by surprise. Work is entirely sus.
pended.
A horrible accident occurred few days
since on the inclin, railway being con-
structed up Lookout mountain. John
Jopas con af the sunarintandent 0f thas