The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-03-15
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

ley and on Cherry Creek, White county,
Tenn. A number of deaths are reported,
and the disease is rapid V spreading.
A young man named p. X. Rambo,
brakeman on freight train on the lhi'
hoi, Central railroad, was killed a few
nights ago near Maiesus, Tenn. He fell
between the cars aud most ot the rain
passed over his body.
The Mississippi Senate, bv q vote Of y
to I agreed to subscribe $40 900 to the
Confederate monument fund. The site
selected for the mon rment is the south
end Of the Capitol grounds.
Frank Ratclffe was arrested At Padu.
cab, XIV, a few DAYS a go as an escaped
convict from the Kentucky penitentiary.
He has been living there for the past four
years, during which time he has borne an
unblemished reputa tion.
Mrs. j. X. Wilson. the wife of . promi.
ne rs cit zen OF Chattanooga, Tenn, took
an ounce of lau lanum a fow nights ago
with suicidal intent. Her physicians had
given Up all hops Of saving her life. No
cause is q ssigned fnr the rash act.
Harry Beck Irvine, white, shot and
killed Tobe White col red, in Meadows
| & McElrath's store, a. Dresden, Tenn,
few davs ayo The difficulty originated
at the depot over ju, of whisky.
The Eufaula (AIa) Duly MaI, The
| paper who sent the rabbit foot to Presi-
| dent Cleveland recently, celebrated the
third ann versary of its Inauguration by
a special issue, copies Il which, on satin,
| were sent to the President and Mrs. Cleve-
| land. The satin Oh which the the ami
versary issue was pr nted was the finest
New York afforded.
The volunteer fire department Of New
| Orleans recently celebrated their fifty
third anniversary by a parade. The On
! gines were handsomely decorated. A
large number of visiting fremen were
present. including forty members of tht
Volunteer Firemen's Association Of Phila
delphia, accompanied by the Metropolitan
Band.
The Supreme Court of Tennessee decided
that Joe Carr, one of the murderers OF
Nelson Ray, must 20 to the penitentiary
for twenty wears. Carr was at one time
convicted of murder in the first degree,
but secured a change of venue, and npon
a second trial was sentenced to twenty
years. Imprisonment.
Work on the standard gauge road to
the top of Lookout Mountain, which has
been suspended for three months, has
been resumed with six hundred hands.
Financial arrangements have been COM
pleted for all the money needed to COM
plete the road, which is to be finished,
and trains running by May l.
The heirs of the late F. N. Corsett, of
New York, will donate SIS, 600 for the
founding of free library at Memphis,
Tenn.
]. C. !. Mason, an old and well-known
merchant of Greenville, Ala, died re-
Gently, leaving a fortune of 100000. So
far as known he has no relatives living.
Pepper & Homer, jewelers., at Cleve.
land, Tenn, were robbed few nights ago
of So, 900 worth of watches and jewelry.
The thieves blew the safe open and mad Q
away with their boot. No clew to the
robbers has yet been found.
The lower house of the Mississippi
Legislature has passed bill to exempt
from privilege tax the agents Of all WOOL
en- mills in the State, when peddling
goods manufactu ed by any of said mills.
W. H. Auglin, a merchant at Pratt
mines, five miles from Birming am, Ala,
was murdered and robbed in his store a
few nights ago. He was in the habit OF
sleeping in his store and took his meals
with his sister, who lived near by.
Rush University, for negro students Of
both sexes, at Holly Springs, Miss, was
burned a few days ago. The building
cost SIS, ,000 1t was insured. The fine
library and other school property, al so
the effects of the students, were de-
stroyed.
Kirk Bradley, who killed Robert Nelson
the brakeman, at Hopkinsville, KY. and
who was out on bail awaiting his trial
had q difficulty with a colored man named
Dan Horton a few nights ago, during G
which Horton struck Bradley several
80 hoe n q
, poker, infiicting wounds from which Brad
r lev can not recover.
. The Board Of Missions of the Southern
Methodist Church have accepted Rev. j.
. C. c. Newton, of the Baltimore Confer
; ence. for work in Japan. The board also
: accepted DR.. II. 7. Wainright and wife
physician and laymal, of Mi ssouri, fol
work in the same field. lhe new mis-
sionaries will sail for their field OF labor
soon.
The immense sugar mill of the Disston,
, has been started up at st. Cloud, Fla, OF
. the beautiful Lake of East Tohopekaliga-
Mrs. Hamilton Disston, of Philad delphia
. | chris tened the enterprise. The capacity
: of the refinery is 1900 pounds of refined
sugar daily. The plant is consistently
: | located, and is surrounded by the thrift
est cane-raising lands in the world.
hinton Reeves, q COIOIeu man. OfoI
l ninety years of ye, who lived alone in q
, cabin south of HopkinsviIle, KY. was
burned to death few nights ago, and Ii
, belived to have set fire to the cabin for
the purpose of destroying himself Ht
+ had collected every thing he had in thu
cabin, saying he was going away.
Dr. A. H. Grisham, one of the bes t
> known residents of Nashville, Tenn, di e<
recently after a illness OF three weeks
from nervous prOstration. He was seven
. ty-one years old and a native Of Jones
boro, Tenn. DIR. Grlsham was for a loni
= time connected with the press, and su b
: seQuenty with the internal revenue serv
8 ice. He lived in New Orleans for twenty
wears and was we'll known in the South
= west
Charles Willoughby, a deputy Unite'
States marshal, was shot and killed q
Jonesville, Va, few nights ago by
Otss Votes Montaine, an eighteen year
r old boy. Willoughby was drinking sn'
insulted the boys mother.
7 Wallace Armstrong, of St Andrew
a Fla, while at work in his garden a shor
time since unearthed rare curio in tn
shape of an image. 1t Is not relic Q
q the early Spaniard. but Il genuine speci
:, men of aboriginal sculpture. The image
which Is only bust, is OF the materia
that was used by the mound builders
n the man nufacture of pottery.
u The base ball season is on.
o Gilmore's famous band of fifty piece
0 recently left New York for forty week
trip, which will extend down into th
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