The Brookhaven leader., 1888-05-17
SOUTHERN GLEANINoS.

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police are waging a war of determination
| against canine waits.
! Andrew Logan, white boy, seventeen
| years Of age, was burned TO death by his
mothers residence at Nashville, Tenn,
catching fire while he was asleep.
Mrs. ROwena Peyton, a well-known
match peddler at Atlanta, Ga, entered
the police station few days ago, out Of
breath, and stated that she had lost
pocket-book containing S51420. An hour
later a little boy turned the pOcket-book
over to the police.
William Hoffman, a convalescent pa
tient in the Newport News & Mississippi
Valley Railway Hospital at Paducah, KY,
! swallowed q chew of tobacco a few days
ago. 1t threw him into violent fit Of hic-
coughing, and he absolutely hiccoughed
himself to death in spite Of every effort Of
the surgeons to save him.
! John Cowper was shot dead few days
ago BY McCrary Hart in Campbell Coun-
tv, Ga An old feud had existed between
| the parties growing out of disputed land
| line. Cowper rode up to Hart's Esidence
! for the purpose, it is said, Of having an
explanation. Hart claims that Cowper's
| advance was for a hostile purpose, and
that in shooting him down he only acted
| in selfdefeuse.
Miss Willie Thomas, daughter of Prof.
| W. J. Thomas, residing near Gadsden,
| Ala, was shot and probably fatally wound
ed few nights ago by her brother, Albert
! Thomas. The young lady made noise
| at the window of the room occupied by
| her brother, who armed himself, and,
stepping to the door. ordered the visitor
to halt. Miss Thomas would not an
swer, but ran away, followed by her
| brother, who did not recognize her. He
| fred and the bu llet entered the groin.
The fifth May festival of Virginia and
North Carolina was held atPetersburg
| Va, last week. The festival chorus num-
| bered 80 voices.
In the United States Court at Fort Smith,
Ark, Burreh Odenwood was acquitted of
murder, on his second trial on the same
charge.
The lumber dealers of Louisville, KY,
have organized an exchange with sub
scriptions amounting to $4,000
Georgia negroes are looking forward
with interest to liberal yield of persim-
mons, the trees Of which were covered
! with blossoms.
| Citizens of Louisville, KY, made sub
scription of $500 900 to establish a cotton
mill Machinery will be secured, build
! ing constructed and the mill set running
| Immediately.
The Mississippi State Press Association
selected Greenville as the place for its
next meeting, on the second Wednesday
| in May. 1850.
William Hopkins, who was to have been
hanged in Rabun County, Ga, last Fri
! day was respited by Governor Gordon.
| Hopkins is the man who stoned a stranger
to death at country church because he
wore billed" shirt.
United States revenue officers arrested
moonshiuer named George Hale, at
Rocky Mount Franklin County, Va, few
days ago, while he was peddling Illicit
whisky from an OK cart. While on the
way to jail the guards were Overpowered
by "a crowd of $50 men and the prisoner
| was released.
Tile establishment Of pigeon message
service in connection with the signal office
at Key West, Fla, is fOregone conclu-
sion since the order has been promulgated
By General Greedy, who has the matter in
charge, for the necessary loft fixtures and
training baskets, to be fitted up at once.
Nine convicts escaped from the Inman
mines in Tennessee, a few nights ago,
| during the absence of the keeper of the
prison at the Democratic convention at
| Nashville. One of the prisoners who
escaped was the notorious John White,
who robbed the Southern Express Com
panv of 500 in Chattanooga last fall He
was under Il sentence of three years.
General George D. Dibrell, one of the
leading public men of Tennessee, died
few DAYS since, at his residence, in Sparta.
Two years ago General Dibrell was the
most formidable competitor of Hon.
Robert L. Taylor for tn nomination for
Governor. He was native Of White
| on1 had reopbp1 the
of sixtY-three years.
A strange case of perverted taste is re-
ported from Indian creek, in the vicinity
| of Martins Mills, Tenn. boy about ten
wears of age has acquired a mania for
eating flies, and will turn away from the
| daintiest dishes for this, his favorlte diet.
The family have no idea how he contracted
such disgusting habit, and all efforts to
break hinl Of it have proved in vain.
A committee of the Ladies' Confederate
Monument Association called on Mr. Jet-
ferson Davis a few days ago and invited
| him to participate in the cerem ony OF
| LAYING the cornerstone of the Confeder-
| ate monument at Jackson, Miss, on the
Goth inst. Mr.. Davis expressed great will
ingness and desire TO be present, and will
attend if the state OF his health permits.
In the dreadful affair at Blount's Creek,
| n. c., recently, IN which man named FRA
zicr shot and killed John A. Cox, because
the latter refused sell to him liquor, Fra
zier fed, but was captured and was rescued
from the captors during the night taken
to the spot where he fired on Cox, and was
there shot literally to pieces by unknown
parties.
A young hardware merchant OF FIRE.
donia, KY, named l. c. Renfrew, was
| found dead in his bed at that place few
mornings since. An empty bottle that had
contained morphine was lying near the
bedside, indicating suicide. Before retir-
ing Renfrew remarked to his room mate
that he considered death much preferable
to the life of misery that he was living,
owing to his ill-health.
Colonel James McCarty, of Walton
County, Ga, was recently reported miss
ing from his home. He was seventy years
of age and had recently lost his wife by
death. AS he had relatives in Alabama
it was supposed he had gone to visit them,
until some boys, in passing through
Mount Zion Cemetery, found his dead
body lying across the grave of his wife.
The body was buried beside that of the
wife for whom he had grieved himself to
death.
Pat Gilmore is doing the South.
Mrs. Sallie Mccoy. of Monteagle, Tenn,
celebrated her one hundred and second
birthday April 10. Her husband, who
died three years ago, wSs twelve years her