The Brookhaven leader., 1886-07-22
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

captain = Dennis, aEeO OHe nuuuTou
and three years, quite noted character
of the South, died recently at Dsdeville,
Ala.
Albert Guerry's portrait of Wade Hamp-
ton is to be bought by some of the United
States Senators and sent as a gift to the
State of S uth Carolina.
Paul Fl. Hayne, the Southern poet, was
buried recently st Augusta, Georgia. An
impressive funeral Grafton was delivered
by Bishop Beckwith.
At a camp meeting recently in Butler
County, Kentucky, viii Hazeless killed
Miss Mary Lacefield and then cut his own
throat.
Through the bunder of a physician in
writing prescription, at Robetine, Louis
lana, sulpha te of tnorphia was for two
days administer ed to L. II. Burdick, the
result being his death.
Bolivar J. Hayes and Amos o. Banks,
farmers of Lexington County, S. c., got
into an alteration near Lewisdale few
days since, while driving home together.
Vt ended by Hayes stabbing Banks in the
shoulder, in fcting painful though not
dangerous wound, whereupon Banks shot
Hayes through the liver. Hayes was NOR
tally wounded.
Mrs. Ham, wife Of 3. p. Ham, Of Harri-
son County, Ky, recently LETT her hus-
band, Samuel, taking one child, to live
with another man. In the court, few
days age, Mr.. Ham was granted writ Of
habeas corpus for the child. Detective
Nance Williams was appointed to serve
the order, and returned from Lexington
accompanied by Mrs. Ham and child. Mr..
and Mrs Ham kissed and made up.
Ramouth Church, ten miles from Eaton
ton, Ga, was celebrating its semi-centen-
NAL recently, but one Of the orr iginal mem
bers of fifty years ago be ng present
Uncle Ben Clarke. During all that time
his devotion to the church was so strOng z
that it passed into a comm on saying
among them that Ben Clarke would die in
Ramouth Church vet. While services were
in progress, Clarke stepped out to see
about his horse, which was bitched to a
tree which he had used for half a century.
As he reached the animal he fell dead at
its feet, and the old saying was verified.
Miss Emma Connolly, who shot John A.
Steedley at Charleston, S. c., for SANDER
ing her, was acquitted.
In South Carolina the Farmers Alliance
has developed such strength that the
only candidates talked of for the COVER
norship are agriculturists.
Andrews, the Georgian, who last year
walked from Atlanta to Boston, is now N
his second trip, accompanied by the same
little dog. The peculiar thing about il is
that the pedestrian is ninety-six years
old.
The capture of the dangerous and
notorious counterfeter and criminal Jas.
H. Wade at Sherman, Tex, is announced.
Wade has killed two officers who attempt
ed to arrest him in Tennessee.
During severe storm few days ago
Mrs. Buff Chisholm, residing near YazoO
City, Miss, was struck by lightning and
instantly killed. She was near wire line
on which clothing had been hung to dsy.
She was a most excellent lady, and leaves
husband and five children.
The Kentucky and Indiana bridge, re-
Gently completed over the Ohio from
Louisville to New Albany, has been Sc
verely tested and found to be all right, and
will soon be formally turned over to and
!
| greatest DETECTION was only five inches.
United States Marshal Gross at Louis
vile, Ky, r, ceived a letter a few days
| ago reciting the particulars of a fight be-
| tween mOonshiners and revenue officers ir
| Wolf County, XIV. Deputies w. T. Day
and John Cox, with three men, were raid
ing a still, when they were fired upon by
dozen moonshiners, who put them tC
/ flight and chased them out of the country
after five minutes fight. Two of the
deputies-Cox and Spaulding-and severa
! horses were badly wounded.
! Walter F. Lamar shot and, it is feared
mortally wounded Arthur C. Crane a
! Yazoo City, Miss, a few days ago. Lamar
! fired five shots, Mr.. Crane was hit twice
| once in the head and once in the breast
The wounds are pronounced dangerous
i No cause is assigned for the shooting
| Lamar, after he had surrendered to tn
! city marshal, said: 81 was justified il
/ what have done"
/ Mr.. J. A Crawford, a quiet and gentle
manly harness maker, of jackson, Tenn
! vas found in an unconscious condition o
| the street a few mornings since, she
! through the head. 1t is believed by hi
wife and others that he committed tn
rash act with his own hand, as he is
man without enemies, and was known
be a poor man, who never carried money
Heavy continuous rains throughou
North Carolina have caused the creates
food since 1867. Farmers on the Cap
Fear river have lost all their crops, an
many have been forced to leave the
homes on account of the food. Many tuI
pentine distilleres are under water, an
stores and dwellings are deserted. All tn
low land crops in the State are injured
and only in a few sections on stiff W
lands is there much prospect of any sort {
crops. The damage in many sections
well nigh total, and in others from one
quarter to one-half.
The news from the Dade County COZ
mine in Georgia is that the last of the re
belious prisoners finally surrendered whe
it became evident that the shotgun woul
be used on him. The leaders of the insu
rection were two negroes, named Echo
and Jones. The first is in for the murd
of white student in Athens Universit
The second is a negro school teacher, wi
is in for forgery. On Sunday Jones to
of dream he had the night before,
which Christ appeared before him an
commissioned him to lead the convicts o
of bondage. When the surrender begt