Huntsville gazette., 1888-10-13
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS,

WIN. ID. Bolton, hotel-keeper, w as shot
and dangerously wounded by VIM. H.
Bate at Horn Lake, Miss, a few days
ago. The men quarreled over business
matter.
A boy while passing through the Hol-
lies, two miles from Virginia Beach, Va,
few nights ago, discovered the SIX eleton
OF man. From the scattered clothing,
papers and other articles found around,
it was identified as the remains of Alonzo
Lewis, the missing salesman of W. & B.
Douglas, pump manufacturers of New
York City. The buzzards had eaten every
particle of flesh off, leaving only the
bleached bones. The presumption is that
Lewis committed suicide
A very strange suicide, if suicide it may
be termed, occurred in Yadkin County,
N. c., recently. A white man named
Rufus Reavis forced his way into aeroom
OF Allgood's whisky distillery. Hiding
himself under shelf he put one end of
siphon into barrel of whisky and the
other into his mouth and let the liquor
run into his stomach until and his throat
were filled, and in this position he was
found dead, with whisky pouring from
the end of the siphon in his mouth. He
had literally had his fill of liquor fol
once. His appearance was horrible in
the extreme
Jefferson Baker, the young farmer from
near Russellville, KY, who fell from a
moving freight train at Hopkinsville,
while attempting to steal ride, and had
his right leg crushed by the car wheels
passing over it, died from having the in
iured limb amputated. He never rallied
from the operation.
The tobacco crop about Bradford, KY,
has been damaged one third by frost.
The Louisiana Prohibition State con-
vention nominated an electoral ticket.
They say they can poll 1000 votes.
Robert Harris, a conductor on the
Chattanooga g. Lookout Mountain rail-
road, was instantly killed a few days ago
by falling from q construction car.
Captain Jas. M. Wilson, a prominent
citizen living near Cropson, KY, fell
from wagon q few days ago, and was
run over and crushed to death by the
wheels.
Policeman Turner, Of Henderson, KY,
has been arrested charged with murder.
He shot boy named Willie Miller to
death, who was running away from him,
after ju nping from the rear Of a street.
car where he and a companion had been
stealing ride.
The North Georgia and Alabama Min
eral and Industrial Exposition at Rome
was opened by Governor Gordon. De-
spite the quarantine panic in the South,
the opening was attended by 10, 900 per-
sons.
Sheriff Lance fatally shot Flem Potts at
Sparta, Tenn, few days ago. Potts pre-
vented the sheriff from arresting his
brother, but walked away, arm in arm,
with the officer. The latter discovered a
concealed weapon in Potts possession,
and killed him as a precaution to pre-
serve his own life
There being no opposition, the election
for Governor and State officers in Geor-
gia passed of quietly. Governor Gordon
and the other officials wero reelected.
The amendment to the Constitution in :
creasing the number Of Supreme Court
Judges from three to five, was adopted.
The pension office at Louisville, KY,
has received notice to suspend payment
of the pension of Mrs. Sarah Crutcher
Of Pitts Point, near Bardstown, KY,
widow Of JAS. Crutcher, a revolutionary
soldier. She died q few days ago. She
was eighty six years old and had drawn
a pension since 1858.
The youngest convict in the United
States is now in the State prison i'll Nash
vile, Tenn His name is Daniel Jordan,
and he was sent from Memphis. He is
less than eleven years old, and was con-
victed of having stolen five dollars and
sentenced to three years in the peniten :
tiary. When the first night of his incar-
ceration came the guard did not lock him
in a solitary cell, but allowed him to lie
on blanket, where he sobbed himself to
sleep. He has widowed mother in Menu
phis.
Frank NJ. Irion, the defaulting clerk Of
the Birmingham (Ala.) City Court, will
make no effort to secure bond, and will
plead guilty to the indictments against
him. He is anxious to begin serving out
whatever sentence the court may pass.
Irion's total shortage is now estimated at
$24, 900. He lost it all in SD peculation, and
had only $3.50 when he left last January.
A new danger has recently confronted
rice planters of South Carolina. June
rice is now in the maturing stages and a
frst-class frost which is threatened
almost every night would kill it. If
frost does not come in a week. however,
the rice will have time to mature. The
neaVV rains uTSb CT1ppleu lnlS crop anu
then came the flood, which seriously hurt
it. The loss, too, has been considerable
in ripe rice, from the frequent handling
which was necessary to dry it out. Some
Of it had to be handled three or four
times, and every time it was handled
there was O loss. Rice sprouted badly,
and stacked rice, hastily harvested, now
burned and entailed loss in the de-
terioration of the rice. Until the rice
has been given into the hands of the
millers the extent of the loss can not be
approximated. The planters, however,
are positive that they will not reap one
half the crop they expected before the
rainy season set in.
An extraordinary scene was Witnessed
in the Memphis (Tenn.) police court a
few days ago, when a negro, who had
shot two white men to death was dis
charged by the police judge. The room
was crowded with whites and negroes,
and when Judge Hadden told the accused
that he might go free-and he went ou t
almost literally in the arms of his wife
and children-there was an outburst of
applause which the officers of the court
were powerless to quel. The negro is
James Conley, the sext on OF Zion col :
ored cemetery. The men he killed were
Will w. Eastman, the nephew Of a
wealthy lumber dealer of Memphis, and