The Brookhaven leader., 1888-01-26
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGS.


ed her as postmaster in Nashville, Tenn,
died at her residence few days ago.
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 hi es from Chat
tanooga, Tenn, has been miss ing for sew
eral days, was found dead half a mile
from his home. He got lost in the dark
ness and was frozen TO death
J.H. whiting, Of Boston, Mass, said tc
be a staff correspondent of a newspaper
in that CITY, was run over by train at
Sorrento, Fla, few davs since, and in@
stantly killed, both legs being cut off and
his body otherwise horribly mangled.
Leroy Tucker died few davs ago in
the McMnn 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 McM!nn 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
ried 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 davs ago, aged
seventy-eight. His drug house is the old
est in the United States doing business
under tho original name. The business
was established in 1894.
Seven hundred thousand boxes of
Florida oranges are expected to be this
seasons crop.
There is a woman in Watkinsville, Ga,
who, within the last eleven months, has
given birth to five children. Her husband
is about discouraged.
The bodies of boy and girl about
twelve and thirteen years OF age, sup.
posed to 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 land
for its re in the United States is said to
be the Speer s. CHM grove, near Sanford,
Fla. 1t comprises four and ons-half acres,
and this years yield of lines sold for
$4,000.
Evans Sherry, who was held to answer
without bail for the murder OF Ms. Steve
Moore at Bandana, KY, last October. has
been released on a writ of habeas corpus
by Judge Ransle, of the Circuit Court at
Paducab. His bail was fixed at 5000.
Eugene Couch, a well-knOwn young
man of Atlanta, Ca, recently swallowed
one and half ounces of laudanum. 1t de-
veloped that Couch was a bridegroom of
but day and half.
The Circuit Court at Mt Vernon, Ky..
has adjourned. With all the murders COM
mitted in the county within the past two
months, not case has come to trial and
no disposition has been shown to bring
important matters to focus.
The police authorities of Atlanta, Ga,
have information that Ben Burton, the
young man who had married five women,
eloped with two m ore, and escaped from
the court room where he was on trial for
bigamy, picking up a fresh charmer on
the wav 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 in 1885, over the posses
sion of heifer not worth ten dollars IT
now carries with it a long transcript and
pleadings, and costs amounting to $500,
and no end in sight.
Simon Higdon and Frank Martin got
into a quarrel Over young lady at the
home of Mrs. Wardburger, in South Pits
burg, Tenn, few nights ago. when the
former was shot in the stomach. Higdon
only lived few hou's. Martin made his
escape.
The latest results at the Govern nmeut
diffusion experiment station at ex-Gov-
ernor Warmouth's MaonOl a p p'antation in
| Louisiana, show that the diffIsion proc
ess is great success, producing thirty
e t1,,,,
is produced hy the most advanced milling
process.
The telegraph line between Titusville
and Jupiter Inlet 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. NJ. Purcell.
Walter MendenhalI, who was recently
tried for Arson at Memphis, Tenn, was
acquitted. Mendenhall 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 $4,000 or more. He
left the city, ostensib'y for Atlanta, three
weeks ago. since which time he has not
| been seen or heard of. Real estate spec
| ulation is supposed to have led hIm into
| this trouble. He was a very prominent
citizen.
| Mr.. Henry Hicks, of the Providence
Steam and Gas-Pipe Company, at Green
ville 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,
winding him around the shaft fivs 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
Gus, were very painful.
The report of the Commissioners of
Agriculture of Georgia for 1887 shows a
| decrease from 1886 in the amount OF farm
| supplies purchased by the farmers as
we'll as in the indebtedness of the farm
| ing classes. The report shows that
| farmers who have bought bacon and corn
on time have paid thirty per cent. ad-
vance on cash prices for bacon for four
months, equivalent to ninety per cent.
| per annum, or seven aud one-half per
cent. per month, and thirty-six per cent.
for corn, equal to los per cent. per annum,
| or nine per cent. per month. The farm
ers are giving more attention to divcrsi-
fed crops. The credit system keeps them
| poor.
The frost reached Baton Rouge, La.
Warden Pearcy of the Tennessee State
| penitentiary at Nashville, recently dis
| covered desperate plot among the con-
! victs to murder the guards and escape.
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