St. Landry democrat., 1886-08-28
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGS.

| nunU z low uatS ago, Gl5!IOullltu from IL ~
| horse to let down fence. In re.norrting
his gun was discharged, filling his breast
! with buckshot. His children, hearing the
report, ran to the spot, and found their
father lying at the gap, dead
Lewis Mccormick and Brown Scratching
met at the store of B. Bell, HawI,insville.
| Ca, few nights ago, when former diff
fculty was renewed. Knives were drawn,
| when fierce due took place, ending in
Mccormick receiving fatal thrusts in the
neck and chest, from which he died in
few minutes. Scra tchins is in jail.
Ground was broken few days since sn
! the Deptford plantation, near Savannah,
| Ga, for the Savannah & Tybee railroad.
| The first spadeful of dirt was thrown out
| by Master Tommie Purse, the young son
| of Captain d. G. Purse, president of the
| company. 1t will be the fifteth anniver
| sary of the breaking of ground for the
| Central railroad, when the first shoveltul
! of dirt was thrown up by the late Hon.
Thos. Purse, grandfather of this young
| ster.
The British bark Excelsior, Captain
| Whtford. which was intercepted by
|
from Colon to Mobile, when about to enter
Mobile Bay, and ordered to Ship I>land
| quarantine station. arrived there wi it'll nine
men sick, including the captain, out of
crew of sixteen. 1t has not yet been as
! certained whether the disease is yellow
fever.
At Houston, Tex, few days ago. light
ming killed ST Taylor, colored, and int1ict-
ed fatal injuries on James Lyles.
At Hot Springs, Ark, staging fell
with two house painters few days ago.
One of them. Sam Murphy, was fatally in
jured
The people of Georgia in the October
elections wi be called upon to vote upon
a constitutional amendment authorizing
the Legislature to pension Confederate
soldiers.
George Mann stabbed his mistress in
the abdomen at Louisville, KY, a few
DAYS ago, and then comp elled her to walk
a block to her home. She will recover.
Dublin. Ga, is the scene of first class
strike. Eight or ten negroes were at work
upon the streets at wares Of one dollar
day. The Town Council reduced the price
to seventy-five cents, and all hands struck.
| The strikers are energetic in their efforts
to keep others from working.
The Polk street bridge across Cypress
BAYOU, at jefferson, Tex, fell through a
few evenings since. while George Figures,
negro, was crossing with a two-mule
wagon One of the mules was killed and
Figures, it was thought, could not live.
| Henry Code, a carpenter at work on a
new building in the central part OF Louis"
Vile, XIV, few days ago lost his balance
and fell to the ground twenty five feet.
| fracturing his skull and breaking his neck.
| He leaves family.
Mr.. Reuben Ford. a surveyor at Austin.
Tex, reports finding some very rich gold
bearing quartz thirty miles south of'Bur-
nett, i'll the mountains. He thinks the find
| will prove a rich one.
A little girl named Maud Wolf, seven
wears old, daughter of w. w. Wolf, a
Louisville (Ky.) cigar manufacturer, was
badly crushed by tobacco press few
DAYS ago. The machine was propped up
| some distance from the floor. The little
girl in playing near it looSened one of the
props and the huge machine fell over her,
almost crushing her fiat as board. She
died from her injuries.
Nathan Lieber, popular young mer-
chant of Knoxville, Tenn, was drowned
in the Tennessee river few days ago
while bathing A. M. Rlddell, one of his
clerks, was almost drowned in attempting
to rescue him. Lieber formerly resided at
| Helena, Ark.
An Illicit dis tillery was recently found
in operation in the county jail in Atlanta,
| Ca, which had been worked successfully
for several months. An attempted es-
cape led to the investigation which devel-
oped the existence of the still.
The yard engine of tie Louisville &
Nashville railroad at Lexington, KY, ex.
ploded her boiler few days ago, wreck
ing the engine. The engineer, William
Suckles, of Louisville, had a leg blown of
and di ed few moments after being taken
to the hospital. Pete Dair, the fireman
was probably fatally injured.
Rev. Edwin Gardner Weed was con-
Sc Grated bishop of Florida by the coun eli
of Protestant Episcopal bishops at Jack
sonville few days ago. Bishop Qun'
tard, of Ten nessee, presided. Bishop Ell
lott, of Western Texas, preached the SER
mon. The attendance was very large
Six bishops were present.
Thomas W GODDARD, well-known sport
Of Cynthiana, KY, attempted suicide
nights ago by cutting himself in the
region of the heart with knife. This was
the second attempt. The other time he
tried to end his life by shooting himself
No cause is known for the deed.
State troops have for months been sta
toned at Morehead. KY, to preserve thu
peace between the Tolliver and Humphrey
factions These leaders have recently