St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-02-27
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGS.

Major r. G.. Bransford, secretary and
treasurer of the Nashville, Chattanooga &
st. Louis railway, died few days ago at
Nashville, Tenn.
William Taylor, living near Camden,
Tenn, while attempting to cross Burrell's
Creek, in Benton County, few days ago
was swept from his wagon and drowned.
A. F. McAllister recovered Judgment
at Jefferson, Tex, against the Texas & Pa
cific railway for $4,000 damages for per-
sonal injuries, and Mrs. Laura Kirk got
Judgment against the same road for $11 900
for the same cause.
The Denison (Tex.) City Water Company
has been Incorporated with a capital stock
of 500. 900, with the following officers:
Denton Durgea, president; Emil Wolton,
secretary; E. W. Abendroth, treasurer
all of New York.
The jury in the case of John c. Fergu-
son, who was recently on trial in Abbe-
Vile, S. c., for the killing of Arthur M.
Benedict, in December, 1884, after being
out for two hours, failed to agree. A new
trial was ordered and the jury was dis
charged.
In the Circuit Court at Louisville, KY,
charged with numbering Jacob Schaurer,
returned verdict of guilty, and fixed the
punishment at sixteen years in the peni-
Tertiary.
Careful observation among the Florida
orange groves shows that the accounts OF
the late freeze instead of being accurate
are seventy-five per cent. exaggeration.
Bearing orange trees are far from being
killed are even now in bloom and prospects
for, the new crop are quite as promising as
in any other year at this season.
The total amount received by the COM
mittee at Galveston, Tex, for the relief Of
the sufferers by the great fire was S108, 4s1,-
90, out of total subscriptions of 1924, 706.93.
There has been paid out to sufferers $107,-
529.7O, and deducting incidental expenses,
the committee report cash balance of
$157.6S.
Governor Bate of Tennessee has issued
a circular letter to the Governors of States
quarantining against Tennessee cattle by
reason of the Jackson herd being afflicted
with pleuro- Pneumonia, asking that the
quarantine be raised. It is doubtful, how
ever, if this is done unless the herd in
question shall be slaughtered.
George Davis brutally murdered Arch
Reams in Russell County, Ala, a few
days ago, shooting him twice in the back
of the head and shoulders, stabbing him
twice in the neck and crushing his skull
with the butt of his gun. Davis fed, and
at last accounts was still at large.
A horse was struck by locomotive
while crossing the track at Adairsville,
Ca, the other day and was knocked sixty
feet by actual measurement.
During the recent cold snap and snow
storm in Florida the unsophisticated chick
ems greedily snapped up the first snow
fakes fell, supposing them to be new
species of food.
A fire few days since burned John
Zent's saw mill, in the northern part of
Memphis, together with considerable
amount of lumber. Loss, 10000; insur~
ance, 5000
The cotton goods trade in Georgia is
looking up. Stocks are exhausted, and all
factories in and near Augusta are running
to their full capacity. The mills are work.
ing at small margin of profit for the first
time in three years.
Cora Trowbridge, colored belle, of
Waynesboro, Ca, eighteen years old,
committed suicide by drowning in McIn-
tosh creek few nights ago. She had a
disappointment in a love affair.
Little Billie Hutchins, of Lawrencevills,
Ca, is hero. A can of powder dropped
into basket of chips and was thrown on
the fire, before which stood Billie's three
little sisters. The boy jumped for the can,
but just as he seized it the powder ex-
ploded. The little girls were not hurt at
all, but the boy was badly burned. Some
one asked him why he grabbed the pow
der. He answered as well as he could, for
he was suffering intensely: "To save the
girls"
George Robinson, colored, was taken
from jail at Monroe, La, by mob and
lynched for having shot a white man i'm
self-defense.
A sensation was created recently in
Montgomery, Ala, by the finding of the
dead body of Charles Owen, negro, who
has been employed at the Mobile & Mont
gomery freight depot for the past two
years. The dead body was found the
other morning in ditch near the Mont
gomery & Eufaula railroad, in the north
ern part of the city. He had evidently
fallen into the ditch and pile of lumber
near by fell in apon him. His face and
body were horribly crushed and mangled.
James B. Ward, a middle-aged farmer
residing in Trousdale County, Tenn, was
arrested few days ago at Memphis on a
telegram from the authorities at Nashville,
charged with assault to murder. Ward,
with his two boys, aged about twelve and
sixteen years, were on their way to Helena,
Ark. They claim to know nothing of the
charge as preferred.
T. J. Taylor, sheriff Of Upton County,