Huntsville gazette., 1888-01-28
SOUTHERN GL.EANtNGS.

Nichols having beaten McEnery in the
preliminary campaign in Louisiana, the
adherents of the latter are demanding
that Nichols retire and allow some third
man to be nominated for Governor
Richard Dent, an old man sixty years
of age, who lived few mics from Chat
tanooga, Tenn, has been missing for se--
eral days, was found dead half mile
from his home. He got lost in the dark
ness and was frozen TO death.
J. III. Whiting, o. Boston, Mass, said to
be a'staf correspoi lent of newspap per
in that city, was run over by train at
Sorrento, Fla, few days since, and in
stantly killed, both legs being cut off and
his body otherwise horribly mangled.
Leroy Tucker died a few davs ago in
the McMinn County Aims House at
Athens, Tenn, at the advanced age Of
one hundred and three years. He was
born in North Carolina and lived sixty
one years in McMinn County. He was
very we'll to do financially at one time,
and only went in the poor house three
years ago. About two years ago he mar
red an inmate of the poor-house, who
survives him at the age of eighty-one.
c. Dubose, the oldest merchant in Mo-
bile, Ala, died a few DAYS ago, aged
seventy-eight. His drug house is the old
est in the United States doing business
under the original name. The business
was established in 1884.
Seven hundred thousand boxes Of
Florida oranges are expected to be this
seasons crop.
There is woman in Watkinsville, Ca,
who, within the last eleven months, has
given birth to five children. Her hus band
is about discouraged.
The bodies of boy and girl about
twelve and thirteen years of age, sup
posed 10 be brother and sister, were found
floating in the river near Huntington,
Miss, few days ago. 1t is thought they
were murdered.
The most profitable piece of fruit Ian d
for its ze in the United States is said 90
be the Spec" s. CHM grove, near Sanford,
Fla. 1t com Erses four and one-half acres,
and this years yield of lines sold for
$1,000.
Evans Sherry, who was held to answer
without bail for the murder of Mrs. Steve
Moore, al Bandana, Ky, last October, has
been re eaSed on a wat of habeas corpus
by Judge Ransle, of Il. q Circuit Court at
Paducah. His bail wa, fixed at S., 900.
Eugene Couch, a we'll known young
man of Atlanta, Ca, recently swallowed
one and half ounces OF la1danum. 1t de-
veloped that Couch was bridegroom of
but day and half.
The Circuit Court at Mt. Vernon. KY,
has adjourned With all the murders COM
mitted in he county within the past two
months, not case has come to trial and
no disposition has baen shown to brin g
imDOrtant matters to q focus,
The police authorities of Atlanta, Ga,
have information that Ben Burton, the
young man who had married five women,
eloDed with two more, and escaped from
the court room where he was on trial for
bigamy, picking up a fresh charmer on
the way to bear him company, is in
Birmingham, Ala.
The famous case Of Holcombe VS.. Strick-
land was on trial last week in the Su-
perior Court at CarterSville, Ga. This
case originated in the justice court for
Altoona district Ill 1885 over the possess
sion Of heifer not worth ten dollars. 1t
now carries wi b it a long transcript ard
pleadings, and costs amounting to 5000,
and no end in sight.
Simon Iigdon and Frank Martin got
into qua rel over a young lady at the
homo of Ms. Wardburger, in South Pitts
burg, Tenn, a few nights ago. when the
former y a. shot in the stomach. Higdon
only lived a f,w hours. Martin made his
escape
The latest results at the Govern ment
diffusion experiment station at ex-Gov-
ernor Warmouth's Magnolia plantation in
Louisiana, show that the diffusion proc
,ss is a great success, producing thirty
pounds more sugar per ton of cane than
is prod uced by the most advanced milling
process.
The telegraph line between Titusville
and Jupiter IaIet, on the east coast of
Florida, is now open for business. 1t is
about one hundred and fifty miles in
length, is owned and controlled by the
United States Government, and is in
charge of Lieutenant B. III. Purcell.
Walter Mend enhall. who was recently
tried for Arson at Memphis, Tenn, was
acquitted. Mendenha1 was charged with
setting fire to the cotton congresses
which were destroyed on the night of
November II last, entailing a loss of
$4,000
Frank Irion, the clerk and register of
the City Court at Birmingham, Ala, is
short in his accounts $40, 900 or more. He
left the city, ostensb for Atlanta, three
weeks ago, since which time he has not
been seen or heard Of. Real estate spec
ulation is supl osed to have led hlm into
this trouble. He was very prominent
cit zen.
Mr.. Henry Hicks, Of the Providence
Steam and GasPire Company, at Green
vile, s. c., while at work in the Hugue-
not Cotton Mills a few days ago, was
standing near a shaft with his back to the
coupling. Leaning too far back, his
clothes were caught in the coupling,
wind ng him around the shaft five or six
times. His ankle was badly sprained and
back and legs painfully bruised. His
clothing was completely torn from his
body. His injuries, though not danger
ous, were very painful.
The report of the Commission ers Of
Agriculture Of Georgia fo- 1887 shows a
decrease from 1886 in the amount Of farm
supplies purchased by the farmers as
well as in the Indebtedness of the farm
ing classes. The renort shows that
farmers who have bought bacon aud corn
on time Lave paid thirty per cent. adj
vance on cash prices for bacon for four
mon' hs, equivalent TO ninety per cent
pe- aunum, or seven and oGe-half per
cent. per month, and thirty-six per cent.
for corn, equal to 105 per cent. per annum
or nine per cent. per month. The farm