Huntsville gazette., 1888-10-06
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS,


barn tnat formerly stood back Of the
brick house now occu led by Henry
Meinert This property now baiongs to
John R. Winters. TIE old barn had been
torn away and some wooden tenement
houses erected on the site. The men are
very sanguine, but at last accounts had
un earthed nothing.
Levi Brown, who fnuxlAretf s.rs. Davis,
proprietress Of boarding house in Chat
tanooga. Tenn, last May, was convicted
Of murder in the second degree. and sem
fenced to the penitentiary for twenty
years. The murder was entirely unpro'
voked, and was a cold bloodel one.
Asanorth- bound cattle train was pulling
into the yards at Masko gee, l. T.. a few
days ago, young man attempted to jump
from a cattle car into the caboose after
the caboose hal been cut off from the rest
OF the train. Ii fell between the cars
and the caboose ran over him, mashing
his head into jelly aad otherwise man
G ing his body. Upon investigation it
was found that his name was Reuben B.
Legate, from Abilene, Tex. He was In
chargs of two cars OF cattle consigned to
a St Louis commission house.
At the Bapt st Church in Cisco, Tex, q
few nights ago, wlile R5v. K lily was ad-
moniShiag and advising his flock, a young
genu 9man who was sitting by the side OF
his best girl suddenly jumped up with yell
that caused ali the eyes in the house to
be turned on him. He knocked at the
wal like M tdmau, and for the time be-
ing the preaching was stopped, while the
man continued to jump and stamp and
knock until he finally, almost out OF
breath, held up large tarantula that was
crawling on the wall close to his head,
after w lich the preaching con inued.
By boiler explosion at Horton sta
ton, KY, few days ago, Thos. Bryant,
Berry Kuykendan and his son were
killed.
Light frosts are reported from various
localities in Alabama and Tennessee, and
the apprehensions Of the further spread
of yellow fever are dying out.
A sea-serpent was seen recently in
Winyah Bay, near Georgetown S. c., by
Captain Springs Of the tu, Henry Buck.
while towing schooner down the harbor.
/ Hiram s. md has sued Wm. E. For
rest For $50, 900 damages for libel, the suit
/ growing out of libel published in the lat
ter's paper, Truth at Decatur, Ala, last
7 MAY.
Senator Beck, Of Kentucky, has been
considered improved by his sojourn at
/ Old Point Co Mort He will probably re
turn t. Washington in short time, but
I win not take part fer ,Se present in the
! proceedings of the Senate.
The last rail on the Thomasville and
Monticello railroad, in Georgia, has been
laid and traffic be un.
Z Advices from San Antonio. Tex, an
I nOunce the killing of Mrs. Crawford q.
Long in a railroad accident. Mrs. Long
was the widow Of the late DR.. Crawford
A. Long, Of A lanta, Ca, who discovered
the use Of ether as an anasthe ic.
The dete ctives at Mobile, Ala, believe
that in arresting w. Aug. Fonde, at
Biloxi, Miss, recently, they have cap
/ tured the leader Of a gang Of counter
! feiters numbering OF least fifteen men,
/ most of whom We're recently driven out
/ of II inois.
Miss Amelia Jackson, o. Washin gton,
I D. e., dau h er Of w. II. Jackson, who
shot an Killed Col mel Ellsworth in
/ Alexandria, Va, at the outbreak OF the
4 war. has ben promoted from $720 clerk
ship in the tie 1t 0 fics to 800 position.
( Peter Cider was snoJ by VIM. Stephens
at Pc ersville, KY, a few nights ago
The ki ing greS out of a controversy
about uw III VI. After Flavi z his victim
Stephens ROBBED hil-- Of S2l9 and pistol
and Aed.
hlr. James II. Gibson, Sr, died at his
res dence, uttes7 miles from Vioks-
Bur I, Miss, few days ago, FRI N ood
poison, c4usad from a malignant carbun-
Gle. Mr.. Gibson was past his sixtieth
year, and was Dor and reared in the
vici iity wnere ne del
Charles B.ackman was sentenced oil
Americas, Ca, to be hanged October 19.
This is the fourth time sentence has been
passed upon him, but he has now reached
his last chance. He crept up behind
5t1newall Tanlee in the dark and shot
him to death.
! The suu began drawing water from the
paper-mill dam in Cobb County, Ga.
VI There were six feet of water in the dam
and in about five minutes the water was
30 low that the mill had to stop. Tne sim
gular phenomenon created great conster-
nation among the neighbors.
Judge Thomas w. Hayes, form srly pro-
bate judge, died rece tly at his res dence
st Hayes Landing, I,saquena County,
Miss, very suddenly. He was the Oldest
Mason in the county, one Of its best men,
and stood high in the estimation Of his
people. At the time Of his death Judge
Hayes was a levee commissioner, and
was seventy years Of ge.
The monument to the Confederate dead
at Staunton, Va was unvailed few days
since in the presence of about five thou
sand persons. A granddaughter of AL
bert Sidney Johnston, assisted by young
ladies from every State represented il
the cemetery, nnvailed the monument,
and addresses were made by Governor
Lee, General Early, General Rosser and
Mr.. McCulloch, of Annapolis, Nd.
A cutting affray took place upon the
street in Dixon, KY, a few nights ago
Rich Wall was returning home about
midnight, alone, when he chanced to run
against Ambrose Spillman, who stabbed
him in the chest with knife he carried,
inficting a deadly wound Spillman has
been arrested, and says Wall frightened
him, which the dying man denied. Spill
man is in jail.
Rhembold Eberhard, aged forty five,
was found by the roadside near Louis
Vile, KY, few mornings since, dying
OF morphine poisoning. He was taken to
his home, few blocks away, where he
died without recovering consciousness
Some letters he left showed that he was
af,o11f [901 short in his ae1ol1ure with T.