St. Landry democrat., 1888-06-23
SOUTHERN aLEANlNGS,

Samuel Fl eming, the blind bigamist In
Jail at Atlanta, Ca, has confded to fel.
ow-prisoner the fact that he is a member
Of gang Of counterfeiters. The police
have been informed of the fact and are
looking into the matter.
quarrel between John Dunn and John
Culverson in Lee County, Ala, a few ev-
enings since, culmina ated in a duel with
pocket knives, in which Culverson's
throat was cut, resulting IN his death in g
short time. Dunn was badly cut about the
face, and may not recover.
The cotton product of the levee district
in Mississippi last year was 140,930 bales.
A family quarrel resulted in the mur
der of Jesse j. Marlow at Ocala Fla, a
few days ago, by a neighbor named Green
| Hodge.
W. T. Wilson, well-known business
| man of Atlanta, Ga, committed suicide q
few days ago by taking strychnine.
| Charles Murphy, a fisherman, while
drawing in his net near Louisville, KY, a
few days ago, was dragged under the wa
ter and drowned.
The strawberry season in Tennessee is
over.
The city of Columbus, Miss, by an al
most unanimous vote favored subscrip-
ton of $4,000 to the Memphis, Oxford &
Columbus abroad. Work is in progress
at Columbus on the western extension OF
the Georgia Pacific railway.
w. A. Elliott, aged twenty -one, and
Miss Maggie Stewart, aged eighteen, were
out driving at Childersburg, Ala, few
days ago, when the horse took fright anG
ran into the river, drowning both the
young man and young lady.
Convicts to the number of eighteen, EN-.
ployed on the Versailles, Midway &,
Georgetown railroad, escapedlfrom their
camp, near Georgetown, KY, few nights
ago, and at last ACCOUNTS were still at
large. A reward of $50 each is offered
for their capture.
Captain John j. Brown, well-known
steamboat man, died at New Orleans a
few days since.
j. B. Friedman, a merchant of Boutte,
La, and railroad express agent at that
| place, which is on the Morgan railroad,
was shot in the back, few nights ago, by
an unknown person and died few hours
later. The assassin escaped. .5
The National organization of the col
ored Y. NJ. c. A. was completed at Louis
vile, KY, by the election OF Chas. s..
| MOEIlS pTeSlucuG, w. n. 0OOuall, AlDeTt
Mack, L.W. Cross and w. C. Duson, vice.
presidents; Albert White, secretary, and
G.. W. Talbot, treasurer. Morris is only
thirty-eigh years old. He has been a
teacher in the Louisville public schools,
has just finished course at Howard COL
lege, Washington, D. c., and intends to go
to Harvard. His mother is public school
teacher in Louisville.
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clerk of the New Orleans & Marshall rail
road post Office, was arrested few days
ago charged with embezzling registered
mail letters. The arrest is considered
one Of the most important made in some
| time, as the theft involves something over
| $1,000. There were five packages taken,
one alone containing $515. This package
| was remittance from the postmaster at
Donaldsonville, La, to the New Orleans
post-ofice.
| refused to commute the sentence of
| VIM. Patterson, who is to be hanged in
| Louisville on the 22d for participation In
| the murder of Jennie Bowman.
| As Turnkey James Turner of the Hen
| derson (Ky.) Jail was entering the build
| ing with the dinner of the prisoners few
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| jumped upon him and tried to knock him
down. Turner drew his revolver and shot
Baxter fatally, but in the meantime three
Of the prisoners had made good their
escape.
The negro miners at Warrior, Ala, for
some supposed offense of the white
| bosses, recently armed themselves with
the intention of killing the first white
ms tuhn ar,
decided on the same course, and blood
shed seemed imminent.
VIM. ]. Palmer died at the Morgantown
IN. CO. Insane Asylum few days since
from injuries inflicted by an inmate OF the
institution. Mr.. Palmer was graduate
Of Columbia Col; ge and had been SUPER
intendent of number of insane asylums
| until he went insane himself.
A special train on the East Tennessee,
Virginia & Georgia railway, carrying
Jay Gould and party. made the fastest
time on record in the South few days
since. The distance from Chattanooga to
Knoxville, 112 miles, was Amade in two
hours and seventeen minutes, which in
cluded two stops of five minutes each.
The trustees of the University of Ten
nessee have elected Charles E. Wait, of
Rolla, Mo-, to the chair Of chemistry and
metallurgy; Thomas L. Norwood, of Bing-
ham School, n c., professor Of modern
languages; VIM. w. Carson, professor of
mathematics, and Thomas C. Karns, as
sociate professor of the English language.
Alfred Blackwell, of Barclaysville, N.
c., was found dead at his saw mill, a few
nights ago, being most fearfully mutilatedy
He had been trying to run his saw-mill
alone, and it is supposed accidentally fell
on the saw, when he suffered most shock
ing death. His left arm was severed in
two places randohis body was completely
cut in tw fin except at the spinal column.
The louisiana Senate confEs91d the
nomination. Of ex-G zeerI5 ScEnery to
be AssociateA Justice 11he Supreme
Court for til term - 2elve years, in
place of Robest B ><odS Whose term has
just expired. 81
Oscar searcy was Killed at Greenville,
Ala, few nights 4go, by shot acci-
dentally fred by Webb Perdue, who was
dourishing weapon in a reckless man
ner while under the influence of liquor.
w. Fl. Remert, a wealthy planter, re-
siding in Sumter County, s. c., was re-
Gently sentenced to two years. hard Ia
Dor for persisting in consorting with
negress to the utter neglect of his young
and beautiful wife. His colored COM
panion received like sentence.
Dennis Williams, colored, was lynched
OF EI1o Flo four oa fo, +b..