St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-08-04
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGS.

an. Charles Ferrell was shot and killed
by W. D. Roberts. The killing was pro.
nounced justiiable by the jury of inquest
The trial of Cross and White, the
Raleigh IN. c. bank officials, on the first
indictment, ended in conviction. Cross
was sentenced to seven years hard labor,
White to FIVE. An appeal was taken,
which the attorneys for the defendants say
will be carried to the Supreme Court OF
the United States, as Federal question
is involved.
Hon. Fred N. Strudwick, the Demo-
cratic presidential elector- large foH
North Carolina, while riding in the
suburbs of his native town, Hillsboro, q
few evenings ago, met with serious ac-
cident. He fell with his horse into a well
FIVE feet deep. The well, it seems, was
covered with boards, and was, to all ap-
pearances, perfectly safe, but as MIR.
Strudwick urged his horse upon the m
both the horse and he fell to the bottom.
He was seriously injured.
Lucy Bedford, the richest colored wo-
man in Tennessee, who resides in Nash
vile, was awakened at an early hour a
few mornings since by man standing
over her with drawn knife. He threat
eaed to take her life unless she surren-
dered all the money she had in the house.
Mrs. Bedford, who is eighty years OF age
and very feeble, gave the nocturnal visit
os $500 and he departed. She was so
Frustrated by fright that her condition
has since been quite critical. Mrs. Bed
! ford owns real estate and stocks valued
at 100000.
| Congressman Bynum and Mills spoke
| to Il, 900 people at the Chautauqua at At
lauta, Ga, a few days ago.
| a plot for the escape of 400 convicts at
Pratt mines, near Birmingham, Ala, was
discovered few days ago, and promptly
suppressed.
| At Covington, Ca, few days since,
two children of G. Beauford were killed
bJ lightning.
| The situation at Harlan, KY, the seat
Of the whisky war, is very bad, and the
| waiskyites threaten bloody work for the
destruction of their property by the Of
fcers.
James e. Windham, farmer. who
killed his neighbor, Hon. P. w. Bailey,
in Dale County, Ala, was driven to sui
| eide by remorse.
| The first bale of the new crop of cotton
was received at Savannah, Ca, few
|
i99 pounds and was classed strict mid
lling. 1t was sold for fifteen cents per
| pound.
| A party Of sixteen armed men from
1ear Pineville, KY, ,forcibly rescued Gen.
eral Souder, one of their number and a
lesperado, few nights ago, from the
Knoxville, (Tenn. Jail by overpowering
The jailer. Souder has sworn eternal
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arrested him, and trouble is feared.
The examining trial Of ]. ii. Her, Of
Ohio County, KY, who was charged with
The poisoning Of the family Of William
[ler. resulted in verdict Of acauittal.
The greatest excitement prevailed during
The trial. and the court room was
;hronged to hear the verdict.
Near Bentonia, Miss, the daughter Of
Dolph Miles, colored, poisoned her father
and three brothers, few days ago. Two
brothers are already dead; the third
brother and the father are not expected
10 recover. The mother was at church
and thus missed her portion of the poison.
Family trouble was the cause.
The American Loan and Trust Com
oany of New York has filed with the
clerk of the United States District Court,
1t Atlanta, Ga, bill asking that mort
gage for 81, 75O, 900 on the East & West
| .ailroad of Alabama be foreclosed and a
receiver be appointed. The claim is set
Up that the road is more than six months
behind with its interest.
4 A fatal accident occurred, q few even
ngs since, at Trussville, station on the
/ Alabama Great Southern road, by which
locomotive and eight box-cars were de-
.ailed and Fireman r. G. Ivey, of Bir-
ningham, and brakeman named Ali
ger, Of Chattanooga, were killed. The
breaking Of the driving rod and truck of
The engine caused the accident.
Two more men are reported killed in
he French -Eversole feud at Hazard, KY.
A few days since Shad Combs was shot
lown from ambush while mounting his
lorse at his home, and day previous
John Campbell, a brother law of J. G..
Eversole was killed at his store at Haz-
.rd. It is not known who shot him.
DR.. s. L. Humphrey, of Wicklife, KY,
md his entire family. consisting OF his
wife, two grown daughters and grown
ION, were poisoned few nights ago by
rating ice cream. At last accounts they
we're lying at home in an exceedingly
critical condition, fatal results being
leared. The manner of the poison getting
INTO the ice cream is unknown, but it is
supposed to be the result Of an accident.
Mary Snyder was tried at Louisville,
KY, few days since on charge of OBJ
aiming money by false pretense. She
claimed to be medium, and for five dol
ars exercised the spirits from sick cows
belonging to Joseph Muller. She then
aid $4,000 was buried deep under Mnl-
1 er's back yard, and if he would give hel
4 $50 she woula get the spirits to helI
esurrect it. Muller mortgaged his home
md paid her, but the $40, 900 failed to ma.
erialize.
A year ago the residence Of Mr.. L. G.
sessions, a few miles from Atlanta, Ga.
vas robbed of some money and silver
,late. The thief was discovered and
.most captured, when he mysteriously
disappeared in the darkness, and the
most diligent search failed to trace him
\ few days since Mr.. Sessions ordered .
rec to be cut, as itgave evidence of rapii
'ecay and it's proximity to lis dwelling
made it dangerous. 1t was an immense
ancestral oak aud for years hollow hat
extended up through it When the tire,
ell the skeleton of man was was fount
vedged in the hollow and near him th
ilverware and money that had bee1
tolen from Mr.. Sessions. The supposi
ION is that the burglar, III escaping
imbed the tree and stepped In the nc |