Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-24
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS,

| An unknown boy, fourteen years old
/ was run over and killed on the Overland
4 Dummy road at Nashville, Tenn, a few
4 days ago. He fell from a coach and was
crushed under the wheels of the next
car.
Edwin Smed ey, Of the firm Of Smed-
ley & Wood, water works contractors, Of
Dubuque, Ia, has begun operations on .
$4,000 water works plant for Baton
Rouge, La.
Jap Davis, who willfully and brutally
murdered his wife at Anderson, g. c., by
shooting her with shotgun loaded with
old nails, in September, 1886, has been re-
sentenced by Judge Norton, to be hanged
or Friday, March %.
Mrs. Eunce Hooser, Of Elkton. KY,
has just completed a calico quilt that il
composed of 24,08) pieces.
viii Bendiey, miner, thirty two years
old, who lived at Rock Run, Cherokee
County, Ala, was run over and XII He'd by
train on the Kansas City railroad, near
Birmingham, few days ago.
Mr.. w. A. Caldwell died with cancer Of
the mouth at his home in Jackson Tenn,
few days ago, aged seventy one years.
Deceased was for number of years
cashier in the First National Bank OF
Jackson.
The steamboat Phil e. Chappell, OF the
Red River and Coast Line, was sunk in
Red River, few nights ago, at Haines'
Landing, eighteen miles above Shreve-
port, La. She was under command OF
Captain Lew Kountz-
The Kentucky Legislature passed a
joint resolution indefinitely extending its
session. A bill has been introduced to
punish wife-beaters with thirty n inc
lashes by the sheriff to which q years
imprisonment may be added.
| The old structure known as Lumpkins'
| Jail in Richmond, Va, has been demol-
ished. 1t was widely known throughout
the South in slavery days, having been
used as slave pen OF mart
| Sheriff Staler shot and seriously wound.
| ed John Pickett at Calhoun, KY, few
days ago, the latter defyi arrest for
violation of the Prohibition law and max
| ing display of weapons.
The proposition Of Rev. YoungJ. A lien,
of Nashville, Tenn, agreeing to be one of
fifty to give $500 eacA towards paying the
| debts Of the Board Of Missions of the
Southern Methodist Church, is meeting
| with much favor, and a large number
have already responded with the requisite
amount. The latest donation of $500 was
received from gentleman living is Mis-.
| souri,.
t. S. Hardy, of Hart County. KY.
loaned a man one dollar to pay for ad-
| mission to a show twenty three years
| ago. Last week a dollar was returned
with an extra dollar for interest.
Fire broke out on the naval store
wharves at Savannah, Ga, few days
ago. and destroyed 1900 barrels OF rosin
and $50 barrels of turpentine. Loss, $15,-
900; insured.
A premature blast Of dynamite, thirty
miles from Bremen, Ca, few days ago,
buried four convicts beneath a huge pile
Of dirt, and when exhumed three were
| found to be dead. The fourth Is not ex-
pected to recover.
The elevated road along the river front
which forms the shortest connecting line
| between the railroads centering at Louis
vile, XIV, was sold few days ago for
| s., 900, 900.
| Rev. VIM. H. Leigh, one of the Oldest
| ministers of the Kentucky Methodist
| Conference, died at his residence in
| Paducah few days ago, in the sixty.
| fourth year of his age.
The death of Colonel Cash, Of South
Carolina, removes the last of the old race
| of duelists.
biilas Irwin was out hunting just east
| of Chattanooga, Tenn., few days ago.
When he fred the right barrel Of his shot
gun, the breech was blown out, str king
him in the heal, killing him almost in.
stantly, blowing the top of his head off.
A switchman in the Louisville &
Nashville railroad yards at Birmingham,
Ala, few days since, h ard weak cries
for help coming from a box car loaded
with hay. He broke the seal, and open
ing the door found three white tramps,
most wild with hunger and thirst and
very weak. They boarded the car in
Chicago and had been without food and
water for five days. They were given
sc mething to eat by the switchman and
allowed to go their way.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
few nights ago to burn the barn Of Will
lam Vaughn, farmer living near Hop
kinsville, KY, by piling planks saturated
with coil oil against the door and setting
fire to these. The Ii ght from the blaze
streaming upward attracted the attention
of neighbors, who eXtinguished the fire.
Two cons truction ira MS on the Charles
ton, Cincinnati & Chicago railway coilid-
ed few days ago near Camden, s, G.
The engine and cars were badly wrecked.
Engineer Fell was scalded to death; Fire
man Duncan received fatal injuries, and
Jerry Crosby, the other engineer, was
terribly sea ded and was not expected to
live.
The iron draw bridge across the Tom.
bigbee river at Aberdeen, Miss, for the
Kansas City, Memphis e. Birmingham
railroad, has been completed, and pas
senger trains are now crossing over it.
r. Halliday Witherspoon. handsome
young man with a brown mustache and
sty lishIy dressed, who recently went
to Memphis, Tenn, from st. Louis, and
engaged as an advertising agent for an
afternoon paper, was arrested a few days
since for forging checks on the Security
Bank of Memphis Witherspoon is highly
connected in the city.
A mob of masked men boarded the
Nashville & Chattanooga train at Wood
land Mills, Tenn, a few days since, ana
took negro, Eli Davie, from an officer,
who was carrying him to Jail at Hickman,
KY, and, after going about three hundred
yards, hung him to a tree.
All the buildings and m achinery of the
N,rhuilIa Pol1ino Mills hava haar ,n.