The Brookhaven leader., 1888-08-16
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.


when he lost mis- balance and tumbled in
himself. The horse kicked him on the
head and body, inficting very serious
wounds, from which recovery is extreme
ly doubtful.
Major b. r. Fall, associate editor OF the
Pine Bluff (Ark) DAILY Commercial, died
recently, after an illness OF several
weeks. He was a man Of very consider
able attaiaments and was very grace.
ful writer and Of genial disposition, He
was o native Of Ohio, but served in the
Confederate army on the staff OF Major
General Fagan.
passenger train on the Cincinnati,
New Orleans & Texas Pacific jumped the
track on a trestle, fourteen feet high,
near Somerset, Tenn, few mornings
since. All the cars were derailed, but
lodged on the wood OF the trestle.
No one was hurt The road was com.
pletely blocked for several hours.
William Van Patten and r. E. Brook,
two Michigan immigrants, living near
Cleveland, Tenn. about a fortnight since
snapped wives by mutual consent or the
quartet. The new relations were pleas
ant and satisfactory to all parties con-
cerned except Van Patten, who became
sick Of his bargain, and wanted to trade
back. His wife, very handsome WON.
an, positively refused to return to him,
whereat he consulted a lawyer with
view of securing legal restitution. The
people in the neighborhoOd are very in
dignant, and the law will be invoked on
the parties.
A gardner near Huntsville, Ala, has
produced a forty-two pOund cabbage,
The cotton prospect in Fayette County,
Ala, is represented as better than for
twenty years past.
The live poultry trade OF Birmingham,
Ala, is said to amount to more than So,-
300 per month.
Alfred Llewellyn, young man nine
teen years old was drowned near Ovens
boro, KY, q few days ago, while bathing.
The city authorities OF Charleston, s.
c., have quarantined against Jackson
Vile, Fla. No persons thence are allowed
to enter the city, and vessels are stopped
at Fort Johnson.
Wilfred Newman, assistant postmaster
at Gretna La, was arrested by POST
Office Inspector Fisher, few days since,
on the charge Of stealing registered mail,
and was held in 50, 900 bail for examiua-
ton before a United States Commis-
sioner
A south bound freight train on the
Illinois Central railroad ran off the track
near Medon, Tenn, a few days since,
caused by an open switch. The engineer
and fireman were slightly injured.
Two little girls, daughters of John W.
Hackett and John Mercer, were very bad
ly, and perhaps fatally, h1rt at Ovens
boro, KY, a few days since, by being
caught under some cross ties which fell
off freight car near which they were
playing.
James Frazer, a native Of Scotland.
manager Of Hemmingway's stock farm,
near Jackson, Miss, was fatally shot, a
few days ago, by VIM. James, colored,
during an alteration brought about by
the refusal Of James to obey orders.
James was wounded with birdshot.
West Cribb, who cut and killed Jack
Thomas, both colored, was recently con-
victed OF murder in the second degree in
the City Court at Montgomery, Ala, and
was sentenced to the penitentiary for
term Of nineteen years.
A big sensation was developed recently
at Montgomery, Ala, by the action Of
three companies, members of the city fire
| department, in joint meeting appoint
ing a committee to institute impeachment
proceedings against Chief VIM. K. Jones,
of the department on the ground of
drunkenness and general incompetencY.
A colored boy named Link, twelve years
of age, was drowned in a we'll at Poplar
Grove, Ark, few nights ago. He had
been sent to the we'll after water, and, re-
manning away an unusual length of time,
search was instituted which resulted in
finding the body.
w. D. Brown & Co., public printers of
Alabama, recently filed a bill in the City
Court at Montgomery and obtained an in.
junction against r. F. Kolb, State Agri-
cultural Commissioner, to restrain him
from having printing for the department
done outside the State and by others than
the public printers.
At Wilson, N. c., a few days ago, Chas.
Bynum, colored, shot and killed Henry
Privett also colored. Bynum had been
carrying on for some time an illicit cor
respondence with the sister of Privett.
The latter had freque ntly demonstrated.
They met during one of Bynum's calls on
the girl and the tragedy resulted.
John Read, book keeper for Pat Flem-
ing, wholesale and retail dealer in plumb
ers' goods at Chattanooga, Tenn, has
skipped out, taking with him a large
which has not yet been ascertained.
Near Dalton, Ca, few nights ago,
Rev. j. G. Giddins was stabbed five times
and his throat cut, and his death was only
a question Of hours. The crime was COM
mitted by q renter on Giddins' farm,
named Stamper, who called the preacher
to the door aud attacked him.
A terrible shooting affray occurred at
Rock Run, Ala, few days ago, between
James Smith aud Frank Kirk, which re-
suited in the former being shot through
the head. Smith can not possibly re-
cover. The shooting was the result of a
quarrel over woman. Kirk made his
escape.
The first bale of new colt on in the
Louisville market was sold at auction
at the Board of Trade few days ago to
the Louisville Cotton Mill Company, an
extensive warp-making concern which is
Just beginning operations. III graded
strictly middling and the price was
fourteen cents.
Alb. Sewers, marshal Of Stephensport,
KY, was killed few nights ago while
trying to arrest some drunken men. He
was stabbed and cut in more than a dozen
places. His mu rderers escaped, as there
| we're no witnesses to the tragedy except
those engaged in it.
Barbecues have. the call just now.
There was big celebration of the sons
| OF Ham at Concordia, Miss, recently. and
among those present were Horton and
| Douglass, two negroes. They went home
together pretty full of liquor, and on ar
irving at their destination began quarrel
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