St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-12-29
SOUTHERN GLEANiN1s,

NJ. Il. Ingalls, & Co.'S wholesale boot ant
shoe house, at Louisville, KY, was burnet
out few nights ago. Loss, $4,000: in
surance, $33, ,G0O
John Hughes, a farmer residing neal
| Fredonia, KY, was struck on the head by
falling tree, few evenings since, anG
SO badly injured that he died in short
| time.
A passenger train on the Ohio Valley
railroad vas wrecked at Marion, KY, a
few evenings since. One passenger cal
was demolished and Conductor Gplertiar
was fatally injured:
John P. Baker, German 1aborer, com.
mitted suicide at Louisville, Ky, few
days ago, by taking morphine. He hat
been drinking and mistreating his family
He recently married d second TIME, drove
bis children from home and then qtlaIreied
with his wife.
shooting affray occurred recently q
few miles from Grand Coteau; La: Two
men are reported Killed and several
seriously wounded: the participants
were ali white.
Thomas Davis, farmer from Graves
County, fell through the trap door Of ali
open elevator shaft hi the setoDd starE 1T
Davis grocery at Paducah, KY, a few
days ago. His back struck the edge Of q
tub in his descent: Surgeons said he could
not recover from his injuries,
The finding on the bank of the river Of
the personal effects of Major r. N: Big
ger, one OF the four victims Of the Euro
pean Hotel fire IN Chattanooga, Tenn,
November y, confirms the suspicious of
the police that the burning Of the hotel
followed Bigger's robbery and perhaps
murder. The officers believe they have a
clew which will lead to the arrest of the
criminal.
The cavingin of the river bank at St..
Joseph, La, has extended beyond the
line of the protection levee laid off by the
government engineers to protect The r,sfs
ish FROM an overflow while work is in
progress at Hard Times and Wilson's
Point. Prompt action is reduir ed to pre-
vent disastrous results:
John G. Pybuni was arrested at White :
side, Tenn, recently for the murder of
John Frost, whose dead body was found
near saloon on the Georgia and Ten
nessee Iaines Pybnm pleads innocence:
The relief committee at Gainesville,
Fla, will return to the donors the sur
plus funds subscribed to yellow fever
sufferers: All factories have resumed
work and tourists ave pouring Ill.
The South Carolina Senate recently re-
jected the bill to establish the home for
the disabled Confederate soldiers and
sailors, and passed bill amending the
present pension laws by lin1iting tie tetsl
amount to be paid annually to $4,000.
n Iio1--
gagged in the recent bloody fight, were ar
ralgned for trial in Jackson. Tenn; few
days age Through their attorneys they
Waived examination, and bond was fixed
at $1,000. The trial was postponed to await
the result of Peter Browns injuries.
Near Elizabethtown; KY, few days
ago, Riley Spencer and John Henderson
1uarreled, Spencer hit Henderson ovef
the head with a bludgeon, and Wash Hen
derson, who was standing by, shot Spen-
Ger dead. Henderson gave himself up.
Spencer leaves family.
John Isham was shot and killed III tic
eastern portion of Putnam County, Tenn,
q few days ago, by Joseph Hudgins. Hudr
gins reproved Isham for dlsorderly con-
luct, whereupon Isham shot at him. Hud-
gins secured gun and filled Isham's body
with shot.
A meeting Of melon growers Of South |
Carolina was held at Blackville d few
lays ago. to form a watermelon alliance |
,r trust. The melon-growing region ex- |
ends from Branchville to Augusta; Ca, |
lleng the line Of the South Carolina rail- |
Dad, and is embraced in Barnwell and |
Aiken counties. Last year the shipments
we're over 1900, 900 melons. Colonel III.
Brown was elected president.
The farmer element in the South Caro-
ina Legislature won another substantial
ictory over the lawyers, few days ago,
Then the Senate passed, by vote Of II to
D, the House bill accepting the bequest
0 the State by the late Thomas G.. Glenn
on, John C. Calhoun's son -in-law, of the
'alhoun homestead at Fort Hill, for the
urpose of establishing an exclusively
gricultural college.
Captain A. J. White, well-known rail-
'ay man, died at his home near Miner,
IA, few days ago. After the war he
ecame president Of the Macon & West
m railway, and later accepted the presi-
ency of the Savannah, Griffin & North
labama railroad. These positions be
eld until the roads were leased to the
entral in 1871. He was also one Of the
riginal lessees of the Western 6 Atlantic
ailroad from the State. He was seventy
'ur years of age.
The corner -stone of the Good Samaritan
ospital, for colored people, was laid at {
harlotte, N. c., few days since, in the
'esence OF quite q number of people,
9TH white and black. The building of
is hospital has been undertaken by white {
srsons entirely, and is under the au-
ices of the Episcopal.church. Both white t
ID colored clergymen assisted at the cer- t
nony and made short addresses. The {
lored clergymen expressed, ON behalf |
their race, their gratitude at such an S
idence of true religion and charity. t
Great excitement was occasioned few Y
Us since near the South Carolina line, c
the road leading from Charlotte, N. c., 1
Rock Hill. James Anderson, farmer, f
the head of a man in the mid S
3 Of the road. The head seemed to have v
en- severed with q sharp instrument, a
ing smoothly cut from the shoulders. O
had not been identified, but appeared to r
the head of a young white man, about Q
enty-five years old, having black hair f
d mustache. The trunk had not been =
covered at last accounts. F
'wo white men, w. r. Walker and W. b
Melton, got into a dispute about Il
man on the street in Selma, Ala, few a
rs ago. John Riggs, bartender, tried p
calm the disturbance. Melton reached | Il
r Riggs shoulder and slapped Walker t,
the latter drew his pistol and fred. | A
,gs jumped in front of the pistol to try I'll
| prevent the shooting, but too late, and q
hall antarad his ehdnman LiII;crs b;r, r
lost instantly. The ball also wounded te
lton in the leg. q
repare to welcome the New Year. p
JUPITER Newburn, colored farmer of
N County, Fla, eighty-fve years of
with one OK and no help, has raised
year and gathered three heavy bales et