Huntsville gazette., 1888-01-14
SOUTHERN Gl EANING8.

Sheriff Winters, of Hickman County,
KY, was killed few days ago by Sam
Price, whom he attempted to arrest.
movement has been organized in
North Carolina for securing repeal of
the tax on tobacco and delegation will
be sent to Washington for that purpose.
A colored boy, seven years Of age. has
been discharged by order of the court at
Culpeper Courthouse, Va, as being in
the eyes of the law incapable of crime
He set fire to a valuable barn, which,
with its contents, was totally destroyed.
There died In Macon, Ga., recently,
Green Johnson, negro whose age was
ninety years. He lived on the premises
Of Mr.. George s. Obear, which had been
his home or many years.
David Weisbein, retail dry goods mer.
chant at Savan nah, Ga, was closed up on
New Years day. Attachments were levied
on his property on the ground that Weis.
bein had absconded. His liabilities are
supposed to be $75 900, and assets 81 1000.
The death is announced in Nashville,
Tenn, of DR.. John Rolfe Hudson, in the
eighty eighth year Of his age. Deceased
was a native Of Mecklenburg County,
Va, his father being a large planter.
His mother was Anne Goode, of the dis.
tinguished family of that name in Vir.
ginia. He began the practice of his pro-
fession in Russelville, Ala.
The contract for building 100 miles of
the Carolina, Knoxville & Western rail-
road, between Knoxville and Greenville,
S. c.. has been let to the Georgia Con-
struction Company, of Augusta, Ga.
Work will begin in few days.
News has been received of the wreck
ing Of the Office Of the Pioneer newspaper
at Brevard, Pennsylvania County, N. c..
by a mob. The paper is weekly, edited
by E. S. Warrick. 1t has been very plain.
spoken in its attacks upon disorderly
element in that county.
E3The question of Secretary Lamar's age
has recently been the subject of contro.
versy, which may be set at rest by the
statement, from undoubted authority
that he was born September, II, 1926 and
consequently was sixty-two years old
last September.
Two Presby yterians in good and regul ar
standing are said to carry on an illegal
liquor business in Somerset, KY.
Over eighty thousand boxes Of oranges
were shipped from Florida ito New York
last mon tn.
w. C. Neeley, who has been citizen of
Madison County, Tenn, for more than
fifty wears, died at his home recently,
aged sixty-three years.
The Democratic legislative caucus at
Frankfort, KY, nominated Senator Beck
for reelection. He had no opposition.
The State of Alabama has let out all its
convicts on ten-year contracts to work in
the coal mines near Birmingham. They
number 600.
It'll hrrrx n
a log house that was built by its present
occupant forty-fve years ago.
Henry Shackelford, an old engineer,
well known among the railroad men OF
Atlanta. Ca, and other Southern cities,
died recently from an overdose of opiates,
accidentally taken. He was fifty eight
years old.
Mrs. H. P Luckey, one of the Oldest and
wealthiest citizens of Jackson, Tenn,
died at her home in that city few days
ago, aged about seventy years.
Mart Watts, aged sixty five years, COM
mitted suicide at Adams station, Robert
son County, Tenn, a few days since, by
taking strychnine. He was a widowe
with no family, and had been ill for sone
time.
Governor Lowry, in his message to the
Legislature of Mississippi recommends
the submission Of constitutional amend
ment making receipt for the poll-tax a
prerequisite to casting the ballot.
Benjamin Burton, an Atlanta (Ga.) fire
man, was arrested, a few days ago, upon
a charge of bigamy. Burton is charged
with having married Miss Lizzie KirkleY,
Of Rome, Ca; Miss Lulu Robert
son, of South Carolina; Miss Lula, of An
derson County, S. c., and Miss Della
Wilson, of Atlanta. Burton denies the
charges, and says they have the wrong
man.
Governor Taylor, of Tennessee, has
commuted the life sentence OF Spence
Donaldson, a convict now in the Nash
vile penitentiary, to fifteen years. impris-
onment. Donaldson's case was that Of
murder, and his coviction was brought
about by circumstantial evidence. The
victim was a colored girl named Granor
who lived in Blount County.
Tom Connolly, young man, was found
dead on the levee at Greenville, Miss, a
few days ago with his face badly dis
figured. From all indications he was
murdered with some heavy weight. Con-
nelly was working on the levee above the
town, and no doubt was assaulted for the
purpose Oh rODDeTys peVeTdl pdTtl6S W0Io
arrested, but were released again, as
there was no evidence against them.
Ten wears ago the Southern Methodist
Publishing House of Nashville, Tenn, was
burdened with debt of over $500, 900. In
the emergency the bond scheme was
adopted, and all went to work to lift the
debt. 1t has been lifted. A bonded in.
debtedness of only $35, 900 remains out
standing, and the book keeper announces
that he has the money on hand to take
this debt up.
While one of the trains of the Vicks-
burg & Meridian railroad was passing
the Cherry street crossing in Vicksbprg a
few days ago, it knocked down aud ran
over a young man named VIM. Aiken, in
juring him to such an extent that he died
in short time. A little over a year ago
his younger brother was run over and
badly injured at the same place.
John E. Clark, Jr., of John Clark, Son
q Co., prom inent merchant and society
man Of Jacksonville, Fla, was subjected
to a severe castigation with a rawhide a
few nights ago at the hands Of Mrs. An
ME Taliafero, of New York City. The
lady is of petite form and very hand
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