The Brookhaven leader., 1886-10-21
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.


heart and in the wrist with a pocket
knife, fatally inju ing him. She is in Jail
and glories in her work, considering her.
self heroine. Both had over-indulCed
in wine. Goldsby, in his frenzy, fought
the men who were dressing his wounds,
but finally succum ed to weakness result
ing from loss of llood.
A penniless white tramp named George
Nor on was brutally mur Tered hy negroes
in Mo- lie, Ala, a few morning since. He
has b, en- begging several lays, his special
ri being a rupture. which inca pacitated
him from laboring. He obtained enough
monev to ge' drunk AMI be locked up by
the police. He was last seen alive wi
some negroes. He had on a truss. which
th ev thought was a M ney -helt. He was
murdered with an axe aud razor, his
throat being cut, his pocket riied and the
body thrown into the weeds on street
side.
Marietta mes, Lucy King and Matte
Barron, all of Henderson, Ga, were des-
perately in love with the same man. A
| few nights 40 they met AMI quarreled
as to the priority of their claims. Mari.
| eta Jones sud ienly snatched up a c"rv-
|
| lay on the fl 1or a CORPSE, with tream
blood rushing from knife W 'und which
penetra ed her heart. Matte Barron was
saved from a similar fate by the Interfer-
| ence of a constable, who lodged both
women in Jail.
A good vein of coal has been discovered
| near Decatur, Tex.
Two negroes in Sumter County, Ca, re-
Gently picked s72 pounds of cotton IN one
day.
| One gentleman in Tuscaloosa, Ala,
sends children to six differen schools, and
has two representatives. at two of these
| schools.
Joseph Rosent urgh, a. ed 102 years, who
fought under Blucher IN the war with
Napoleon, died recently at New Orleans.
| A live attlesnake six feet long is kept
on exhibition in he showcase of grocery
store at Ahbeville, s. c.
Miss Hester Clarke, of Marion, Ala,
save if she lives to see Christmas she will
be 123 wears old.
A 800, 90 bridge is being constructed
over the Cumberland river in Davidson
County, Tenn.
Varina Ann Davis is the name which
ter of jefferson Davis, better known as
"Winnie."
One of the three Knights of Labor cam
didates for the Legislature was elected in
Savannah, Ga, at the recent election.
In 1864 there were eight daily papers
published in Atlanta, Ga; now there are
but three-Cn ne orning, the Constitution
and two evening papers.
Pretty Mrs. W. l.. Bell, daughter of Rev.
Dean, of Dubois, Ca, has caused great
sensation in that locality by eloping with
Charley Lee, an ex-convict, who was a
suitor of hers before he became a criminal.
Judge McCord, of the Seventh district
of Texas, has been requested hy eight
hundred prominent citizens to resign bis
| office for rel asng influential murd ererF
on all of S4 900 each.
! Pinkeye prevails among the horses at
Lon ke, Ark, and a young man there has
| contracted the disease. No case Of the
kind had ever before been known in IL at
neightorhood.
A. B. B 'lcher, of Bainbridge, Ga, owns
ten-year old OK having and wear ing
three fully develc ped horns-two at their
proper places and the third growing cut
Z
| prol ably fourteen inches long
| The art sian we'll of c. J. Schlepegrell
& Son at Charleston, S. c., is complet ted.
| 1t is the first we'll in that city 10 ed
by the hydraulic method, and although
but recently completed, it fnws four feet
| Above the surface. The we'll is 4l5 feet
deep and has a capacity of $500 gallons of
| water rer hour.
| Matt Roac b, colored, who got into a row
with a negrt SIS in North Nashville, T nn..
few days ago, and in fiji Of pa sicn
struck AM killed the baby OF Lee Cope
land, was convicted and sent ntenced to two
| years and five months in the peni'en iarv.
AS the train from Nillington WIS ap.
preaching Kerrville, TIE H., a few days
| ago, some unknown per ,on fred at Gran
Vile Brewer, a colored boy, inf ing
wound from which he d ed in a few MN
utes. No Gle W to the assassin has been
| obtane
One the stables at Sli"o stock farm
near Jackson, Miss, was burn d a lew
nj hts ago. Fur horses and five mules
| ere burned, with milk and arm wa 9Ous,
hay-press aud a large amo unit of esd.
Fortunately the wind wa Ii sht, and the
stables and harm W ere saved. The dairy
WAS partly burned. Loss, S4,00; supposed
| incendiary.
A Charleston Is. CO. woman was strange
" affected by the cart quake. H r hair,
which is ong and black, is falling out in
places, leaving the scalp exposed. The
| ply sicians state that il is caused by
| paralysis of the scalp caused FRI m fright.
| Some watermelons raised in Wilkinson
County, Georgia, were taken to Macon re-
Gently for sale. They we exceedinP ly
! fine, and when cnt proved to Le Is good
as the melons cut in july. Not a drop of
rain ever fell upon them and they grow
/ upon sandy soil.
Editor How ard and Mayor Spearman of
; Kingston, Tex, met few evenings since
and fired several shots at O. ch other with
heavy revolvers. Howard was wounded,
while Spearman was untouched. The
! cause was an oil feud.
John Allen returned to his home in
, Dallas, Ga, from Atlanta, a few nights
ago, drunk, and quarreled with a man
named Whitlock, whom he wounded seri-
ously. While Mr.. J. N. Dill was on his
way for doctor to atte nd on Whitlock he
met Allen and vent for him with his knife,
infiictng thirteen wounds altogether, OF
which five were mortal.
Southern travel is becoming heavier.
| E. E. Barnard, of the Vanderbilt obs
servatory, Nashville, Tenn, reports the
discovery of new comet in ten hours
thirty-six minutes of right ascension and
north declination no degrees and Atty.