Huntsville gazette., 1888-05-26
SOUTHERN EANlNGS,


while talking to q physician. Heart dis
ease is described as the cause.
The Republicans of the Second Con-
gressional district of Tennessee renomi-
mated Hon. L. c. Houck for Congress.
Something Of a sensation in high COL
ored life at Montgomery, Ala, has been
catsed by the arrest and incarceration OF
S. j. Odam, prominent colored minis.
| ter, on a charge of criminal assault.
Governor s. D. McEnery, outgoing Ex-
ecutive of Louisiana, was the recipient of
an informal reception at the State Capt.
tol few evenings since, the chief feat
| t1fes of the occasion being the presenta-
ton to him of a magnificent gold watch
by his friends of the capital city, and a
gold headed cane by the Cadet Corps of
the Louisiana State University.
Alfred Bell, Who was bitten by rabid
dog near Savannah, Ca, some weeks ago,
and who had begun to feel secure from
any evil effects, developed pronounced
symptoms of hydrophobia few days
since and died in terrible commissions.
| The disappearance of Walter S. With
| ers; one of the best-known iron men in
she South has created great sensation in
Atlanta, Ga. Mrs. Withers tells pitiful
| story-that her husband was led away
from home by the Salvation Army. When
| Withers left he said he was going to New
| y ork to see about a patent pattern, since
which nothing has been heard from him.
/ Mrs. Sarah Green, a white woman forty
| years Of age. was arrested at Paducah,
KY, a few days ago by United States Off
| GERS. She had been living there FOR sew
eral weeks, hailing from Dover, Tenn.
! Some months ago she obtained pension
certificate, with 81 150 afrearage, from the
| Government as a soldiers widow. 1t IS
! alleged that the whole thing was fraud,
and that while her husband served In the
| Federal army in Tennessee regiment, he
neither died in service nor anywhere else,
| but is alive and well to-day.
| A survey Of the Mobile river, made at
| the request of Senator John I. Morgan,
| has just been completed. 1t shows that
sixteen feet can be carried from the mouth
| Of The river to above Mount Vernon at the
| lowest stages Of the river, and that nine
| teen feet can be carried at ordinary low
water with very slight improvements. In
| the vicinity of the Louisville g. Nashville
railroad bridge twenty-six feet Of water
can be Garfield the whole length Of the
Mobile river at its lowest stages.
Simon Pitts, blind colored pauper at
the county poor-house, three and half
miles from Clayton, Ala, killed London
Walker, another pauper, q few nights ago,
with an axe. The Ceitse of the trouble
was exceedingly trifing The fatal blows
were dealt while Walker was asleep,
crushing the skull and breaking one arm.
The murderer stood in the door when wit
nesses arrived, and said: 'I've killed
him: come in and see him." An inquest
was deemed unnecessary. and Simon was
committed to jail without bail.
General George Paul Harrison died at
Savannah, Ca, few days ago, aged sew
enty -four. He was a Major-General in
the Confederate army.
In the tobacco growing counties OF
| Western North Carolina two-thirds OF
more of the young plants have been killed
by late frosts. Vegetables and wheat
were greatly damaged at numerous points
| in the mountains.
A supplementary report has been made
in the investigation of the accounts of ex-
Treasurer Tate of Kentucky. 1t shows
that $4,000 taxes paid by the Kentucky
Central railroad has never been account
ed for. This swells the defalcation to
$247,000.
The Austoll building at Atlanta, Ca,
/ .
ago. The loss on the building is $4,000;
covered by insurance. The loss of lBain
& Kirkpatrick, hardware merchants, is
S25,000; insured for $1,000. Mcdonald
Brothers, wholesale grocers, loss, $1,000;
insurance, s., 500.
The Florida immigration Association
was organized at Jacksonville few days
since by delegates from ali parts Of the
State. 1t comprises the leading citizens
of the different counties and the trans
portation companies are all represented.
After adopting r constitution and elect
ing a board Of directors Of twelve leading
citizens throughout the State the conven-
ton adjourned. This is one of the direct
results of the immigration convention
held in North Carolina last month. Act
i've work will be at once begun.
Cora, the little daughter of Henry Con-
way, residing in Caldwell County, KY,
happened to get hold Of dish a few days
ago, containing disinfectant that was
very poisonous, and through curiosity
drank some of it, which burnt her mouth
and throat in a fearful manner and took
the skin off in places. All that saved the
child from drinking enough to kill her
was the fact that she accidentally let the
dish containing the poison fall and split
it. She was, at last accounts, in a critical
state, her sufferings being intense.
A colored boy named Moses Wade was
so severely burned at Hopkinsville, Ky,
few days ago by his clothing catching
fire from an open CRATE that he died Of his
| injuries.
An electric bolt in the shape Of fiery
ball, apparently foot in diameter, made
a complete wreck Of the Presbyterian
Church at Blowing Rock, Watauga Coun-
| ty, n. c., few days ago. 1t IS the high
est church in the State and stand on the
crest of the Blue Ridge at an altitude OF
| four thousand feet.
Major w. 7. Wynn, aged seventy three
years, was buried in Marietta, Ga, few
days ago without any religious ceremony
whatever. Major Wynn was born in 1915;
became a lawyer of some prominence
was mayor of his town several terms and
also served in the State Senate. He haG
been all his life a confirmed atheist
John Z. FlatfOrd adyertises in the Knox
vile (Tenn.) papers for three girls who
are missing from JOnesboro, Tenn They
are Martha Flatford, aged fifteen; Sallit
Anderson, aged twelve, and Ella Smith