St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-07-21
SOUTHERN GLEANlNoS,

r. B. Parrish, of Louisville, KY, onoe
worth 100000, committed suicide a few
days ago, alleging inability to pay f1ve-
dol1er debt.
The marble and stone works Of Peter 81
Burghard at Louisville, KY, were burned
out a few days since. Loss, chiefly by
damage to marble, $4,000; insurance,
$4,000.
gentleman by the name of Isaac
Beard was drowned in the Ohio river at
Hurricane. KY, few evenings since.
The Memphis Para Rubber Company
has made an assignment for the benefit
Of its creditors. Liabilities, $1,000, due
in Memphis and New York. Dull busi-
ness is the cause reported.
Geo. Guttermuth, son Of Councilman
Guttermuth, of Louisville, KY, shot him.
self through the heart, a few days ago,
on account of disappointment in love.
He was twenty one, and Ida Becker, hts
sweethe art, sixteen.
United States Deputy Marshal Spurrier
recently returned to Nashville, Tenn,
from the upper Cumberland river coun-
ties, where he arrested seventeen men for
violating the internal revenue laws.
William Tucker, aged ffty-nine years.
a farmer, living near Riverside, Ala, on
the Georgia Pacific railway, was struck
and instantly killed by lightning a few
days ago.
A colored woman named Louisa Carroll
has been holding revival meetings among
the negroes in Colbert County Ala, re-
Gently. While she was preaching to q
large crowd of colored people at Blake's
Springs, few nights ago, Tom Ross and
Nose Stratton become involved in quar-
rel, which ended in Ross cutting Strait
toms bowels open with knife, killing him
almost instantly. Ross escaped.
7. Moorehead was nominated for Con-
gress by the Democrats of the Fifth
North Carolina district. 1t took 16O bal
lots.
Prof. o. II. Tuttle, of the Ohio State
University, has been elected to the chair
of biology and agriculture at the Univer-
sity of Virginia at Charlottesville.
]. B. Charpentire, notary public Of
New Orleans, has disappeared, and with
him, as creditors say, between $4,000 and
$4,000 of money not his own.
s. M. Shaner, whose father resides in
Atlanta, Ca, and whose wife lives at
Conyers, in the same State, died suddenly
from apoplexy in Links Hotel, Nashville,
leuu., d lew uayS ago.
Harry Smart and his wife are under ar
rest at Louisville, KY. on suspicion of
having murdered Meisner Green and
Mary Rannels, who were found in the
river. Mrs. Smart had on the murdered
woman's skirt when arrested.
Kelley, Roper & Reilly, Wholesale
grocers, doing business in Memphis,
Tenn, have made an assignment. Their
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$175, 900. Slow collections are given az
the canse.
Colonel B. w. Frobell, one of the most
distinguished of Southern railway en-
gineers, died in Montevillo, Ga, few
days since. Colonel Frobell was born
fifty-six years ago in Alexandria, Va He
graduated from the Military Academy at
West Point.
The large training stable of William
Rue at Danville, KY, was burned a few
nights ago. Thirty three head of fine
trotters were consumed. The total loss
entered in Ohio and New York races.
The gallery Of the old Quaker Church
in Alexandria, Va, now used as an in
frmary for old colored people, fell few
nights ago, during an entertainment for
crowd to the lower floor, probably fatally
and otherwise injuring six or seven
women. all colored.
Deputy United States Marshal Spurrier
reports the capture Of "Humpy" PEN
nington, the Oldest moonshiner in Ten
nessee. Pennington, who lives in the
Upper Cumberland country, is over sixty
years of age, and although he has been
running an illicit distillery ever since
the war, he had never before been ar
rested.
The Bridgeford mansion, in Louisville,
KY, was entered by thieves few nights
ago and silverware and valuables to the
amount of nearly $4,000 taken. The doors
had been forced open by the use of
hatchet and steel, an instrument used for
sharpening butcher knives.
VIM. Willis, a young white man em-
ployed as fagman on the Mobile &
Montgomery railroad, was killed instant
ly few days ago by being knocked off
the train by a low bridge at Fort Deposit,
Ala. Willis had been married only few
months.
Benz. Woods had a miraculous escape
from instant death at South Pittsburgh,
Tenn, a few days ago. He was riding ON
the pilot of an engine for the purpose of
making a coupling, when he slipped and
was drawn under the engine. The dri-
vers pushed him along on the rail for
twenty feet. His left foot was so horri-
bly, smashed that 1t had to be amputated.
Twenty four physicians have been busy
at Nashville, Tenn, vaccinating under
the provisions of law on the subject. Ono
new case and two suspicious cases at the
Small-Pcx Hospital are reported. There
is great d emand for virus, although the
feeling of alarm is abating. Up to the
present writing only half dozen cases
have been found in the city.
Jane Alfred has brought suit in the
Circuit Court at Chattanooga, Tenn,
against the Nashville, Chattanooga q st.
Louis Railroad Company, claiming dam
age in the sum of $4,000 for injuries re-
ceived on the night of June 10. The
plaintiff alleges that in getting off the
train at Whiteside, Tenn, she was thrown
into ditch and landed on stone, which
caused injuries SO serious that shs couLl
not be moved for fourteen days.
At Cullman, Ala, few days since,
John 7. Woods was charged with the en-
bezzlement Of $50 from w. Muller of Bir-
mingham. Soon after he was arrested
Woods attempted to cut his throat, but
was disarmed. He then struck himself
on the head with a nonkeywrench, and
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