Huntsville gazette., 1888-04-07
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS,

strife.
The first section Of the broad-gauge rail-
road up Lookout mountain has been COM
pleted, and trains are running. The road
bed is said by railroad engineers to he the
most marvellous piece of engineering skill
ever exhibited in the South. The entire
road will be completed May u.
Horace Parker was killed by Robert
Youngblood, of Childersburg, Ala, few
nights ago. The two men got into dis
pute. when the latter killed the former
with billet of wood. Youngblood claims
to have acted In elf-defence. Young
blood was arrested.
A queer tale comes from Perry County,
Tenn. A man named Williamson stole
hog from butcher and made off with i.
Before he reached home he had fence to
cross, and, it seems, threw the hog over
before him. He had failed to take out the
"gatnmon stick" and it caught him by the
neck. and when found next morning he
was dead and cold, with his prey on one
side of the fence and his body on the
other.
William and Joe Hopkins we're recently
convicted at Clayton, Ga, Of the unpro-
voked murder of Willie Thomas, whom
they stoned to death as he came out Of
church at Mount Carmel. The crime, ar
rest and conviction only covered a weeks
| time
| A bale Of cotton recently received at
| Bremen was found to contain 146 pounds
Of seed cotton, and 1t was traced back to
| farmer named Snipes in Banks County,
| Ga. The latter, however, declines to
settle the damage, and legal proceedings
| will involve more than the cotton Is worth.
A terrible storm Of wind and hail swept
over Boliver County, Miss, few evenings
since, doing much damage to the planting
interests. Trees were uprooted and many
| fences DESTROYED. The store-hOuse OF +.
| 8. Mailer, of Kentucky Landing, was car
ried off its foundation and upset.
Advices from all parts Of Georgia show
| that the recent enormous rainfall through
out the State has resulted in great dam
age to railroads and farming interests.
Chas. Floys, a cooper by trade, aged
twenty eight, fell under the cars on the
Louisville & Nashville road at Memphis,
Tenn, o few nights ago, and both OF his
legs were cut off. His home is in Green
| vile, Ind.
Rufus Settle, special examiner Of the
! United States Pension Bureau, who arrived
at Gainesville, Tenn, few days ago from
his field Of labor in Georgia, died at his
fathers home, few miles west OF Gaines
| vile, of consumption.
The private banking house Of Thos. p.
| Miller g. Co., at Mobile, Ala, after thirty
six years. existence amid all sorts Of
financial difficulty, has succumbed, and
leaves but a wreck behind.
1t has rained almost constantly in Mis-
sissippi, lately, interfering very ma
terially with pl anting prospects. All the
creeks are out Of their banks and flooding
the country.
Andrew Jones, the eighteen-year
son Of Mr. VIM. Jones, Of Brownville,
Ga, died a few nights ago. The young
man was stllng on the neck by spider
two weeks previous The sting was very
painful. and the neck and side Of his face
were greatly swollen. Erysipelas set in,
which produced death
Johnny Bertelkamp, twelve years old,
was reported dying in the City Hospital at
Louisville, KY, OF trichinosis. Johnny's
parents are Germans, and the chief article
Of their diet is pork. The boy preferred
this raw, and was allowed to eat the meat
| that way.
1t is not generally known, but it is,
nevefthele IS, true, that Georgia furnished
one regiment OF infantry to the Federal
| service during the civil war. 1t was not a
| full regiment, and somehow the officers
and men were never paid for their serv-
ices. They are now before Congress seek
| ing a settlement.
James Derossett, who is charged with
numbering Ras Smith at Dayton, Tenn,
was taken to Chattanooga and locked up.in
Jail to prevent him from being lynched. a
mob intended to hang him at Dayton.
A party Of Louisville (Ky.) men have
been working to develop lead mines in
Scott County. Silver prospecting was also
indulged in, and after six months OF
patient work silver has been struck on the
Brown farm, about ten miles from George
town.
John Meyer, a tramp, boarded car
filled with lumber on the Western g. At
lanta road. at Dalton, Ga, a few nights
ago. While the car was en- route to Chat
tanooga the lumber fell on the man, kill
ing him instantly His dead body was not
discovered until the train arrived at its
destination.
Jeff Sims, farmer, and his wife, living
near fernando, Miss, have been getting
along badly for some time. She was found
dead in her room q few days ago, with
several knife wounds on her person. Sims
claims that she killed herself, but he was
arrested as the murderer.
The body of q white man was found in
the Alabama river above Selma, few
days ago. 1t had probably been in th 6
water a week. 1t was discovered by a
boatman catching drift. No papers to
identify the man were found on his per-
SON. The neck was broken, through which
was bullet hole. He was properly buried
Nothing has developed to lead TO his iden-
t;ty.
In Chatham County, n. c., few days
since, Deputy Collector Spence Taylor
captured and destroyed an Illicit still
When they were near the still they saw
Eve men, who hastily fed and escaped
Two Of them were playing cards and an
other was just passing a jug to his mouth
to take drink when the officers were first
seen. The still was q very large one and
was in full blast.
at Sparta, n. c., the county seat Of Al
Ieghany County, Joseph Lee was informed
that Geo Sexton had gone before the
grand jury as witness against him. Lee
waylaid Sexton, walked up behind him
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