St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-10-30
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGS.

uarreled with her lover, Sam Goldsby,
nd as sequence stabbed him to the
,eart and in the wrist with a pocket
:nife, fatally injuring him. She is in Jail
md glories in her work, considering her
elf a heroine. Both had over INDUCED
wine. Goldsby, in his frenzy, fought
he men who were dressing his wounds,
,ut finally succumted to weakness result
ng from loss Of blood
A penniless white tramp named George
Iorton was brutality murdered by negroes
n Mobile, Ala, a few morning since. He
las been begging several days, his special
,lea being rupture, which incapacitated
him from laboring. He obtained enough
money to get drunk and be locked up by
he police. He was last seen alive with
| tome negroes. He had on truss, which
hey thought was money-belt. He was
murdered with an axe and razor, his
! throat being cut, his pocket rified and the
body thrown into the weeds on a street
side.
Marietta Jones, Lucy King and Matte
Barron, all of Henderson, Ga, were des-
oerately in love with the same man. A
lew nights ago they met and quarreled
IS to the priority of their claims. Mari
sta Jepes suddenly snatched up cary
.ng knife and second later Lucy King
ay on the floor a corpse, with stream OF
blood rushing from knife wound which
penetrated her heart Matte Barron was
saved from a similar fate by the lnterfer-
snce of constable, who lodged both
women in Jail.
A good vein of coal has been discovered
near Decatur, Tex.
Two negroes in Sumter County, Ga, re-
GENTLY picked S72 pounds of cotton IN one
lay.
One gentleman in Tuscaloosa. Ala,
sends children to six different schools, and
has two representatives at two of these
schools.
Joseph Rosenburgh, aged 102 years, who
fought under Butcher IN the war with
Napoleon, died recently at New Orleans.
A live rattlesnake six feet long is kept
IN exhibition in the showcase of a grocery
store at Abbeville, s. C.
Miss Hester Clarke, of Marion, Ala.
;aye if she lives to see Christmas she will
Be 1913 years old.
a 100000 bridge is being constructed
over the Cumberland river in Davidson
County, Tenn.
Varina Ann Davis is the name which
was given at her christening to the dau.h.
;er of jefferson Davis, better known as
winnie"
One of the three Knights of Labor cam
lidates for the Legislature was elected in
Savannah, Ca, at the recent election.
In 1864 there were eight daily papers
published in Atlanta, Ga; now there are
1ut three-one morning, 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 clipping with
Charley Lee, an ex-convict, who was
uitor of hers before he became a criminal. |
Judge McCord, of the Seventh district |
" Texas, has been requested by eight |
hundred prominent citizens to resign his !
off ce for releasing influential murd erers |
On bail Of 81 900 each.
Pinkeye prevails among the horses at |
lonoke, Ark, and young man there has !
contracted the disease. No case of the
kind had eyer befo.e been known in that |
leighborhood.
A. B. Belcher, Of cambridge, Ga, owns
\ ten-year old OK having and wearing |
;hree fully developed horns-two at their |
proper places and the third growing out |
If his shoulder, near the withers, and
probably fourteen inches long
The artesian well of C. J. Schlepegrell
y Son at Charleston, s. c.. is completed.
1t is the first we'll in that city bored
by the hydraulic method, and although
but recently completed, it flows four eet
above the surface. The well is AS feet
ieep and has capacity of $500 gallons of
water per hour.
with negress in North Nashville, Tenn,
= few days ago, and in fit of passion
struck and killed the baby of Lee Cope
and, was convicted and sentenced to two
7ears and five months in the penitentsary.
AS the train from Millington was ap-
kerrville, Tenn. few DAYS
'go, some unknown person fired at Gran
lille Brewer, a colored boy, infiicting a
wound from which he died in few MN
ties. No Gle to the assassin has been
btaned.
One of the stables at Sligo stock farm
ear Jackson, Miss, was burned feWa
rights ago. -Four horses and five mules
W ere burned, with milk and farm wagons,
ay-press aud q Aa6ge amount of feed.
fortunately the wind was light, and the
tables and barn W ere saved. The dairy
vas partly burned. Loss, $500; supposed
ncendiary.
A Charles ton Is. c. woman was strange.
Y affected by the earthquake. Her hair,
Thich is long and black, is falling out in
laces, leaving the scalp exposed. The
physicians state that it is caused by
paralysis of the scalp caused from fright.
Some watermelons raised in Wilkinson
'ou nty, Georgia, were taken to Macon re-