Huntsville gazette., 1888-07-28
SOUTHERN GLEANtNGS,


| s. c., few days ago.
| The chemical works Of O. A. Smith at
| Atlanta, Ga, were burned a few days
since. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $1,000.
The Brush Westing ghouse electric liant,
on Dryades street. New Orleans, was
burned a few days ago. The loss is esti-
prison, police station and levee were fur
nished with light from this plant.
| Mr.. Spengler one of the leading and
wealthiest citizens of Vicksburg, Miss.
was thrown from his buggy by ruaa-
way horse a few days ago, and died from
| his injuries.
The corner stone OF the Colored Baptist
! seminary was laid il Lynchburg. Va.
| recently, by the coiored Masons. Five
| thousand persons witnessed the cere-
monies. The institution will be devoted
to the higher education of both sexes.
| Captain Thomas Clagett Of the steamer
James Lee, living at Memphis, Tenn, re-
| Gently received a letter announcing that
he had fallen heir to property worth $780,
| 600 in Virginia. The whereabouts OF Cap
| tain Clagett has been a mystery to his
family in Virginia for some years.
| Four convicts escaped from the guards
| at Graysyille, Ga, few days ago, only
one of whom was captured, although
bloodhounds were used to track the fugi-
tives The man who was captured was
| given fifty lashes on the bare back.
| A singular suit for damages has been
| instituted at Atlanta Ga, by Mrs. Sarah
F. Haslett, the mother of Mr.. George
Rose, against the Dade Coal Company
for $4,000 damages. Geo. r Rose is the
brother Of Charlie Rose, the well-known
criminal. He sues for injuries received
while working us a convict IL lhs Dade
coal mines, and OH account OF which he
was pardoned recently by Governor Cor
! don.
Kentuck y has the youngest life convict
! known in the person OF LlnyllI COMBS,
who killed his little three-year-old sis
ter Combs is only eleven years of age.
At Kyle's Ford, Tenn. few days ago,
John Donet killed James Farrell, who
had threatened his life.
Judge J. w. H. Underwood, of Rome.
Ga, ex-Congressman and member of
President Arthur's tariff commission,
died of heart disease few days since.
Carl Brenner, the famous painter, was
reported dying at his home in Louisville,
XIV. He has been i'll many months.
Fire at Fayetteville, Tenn, recently,
burned the Elk Bank and several other
blocks. Loss, $50, 900.
AT Bakersville, N. c., few days since,
Jesse Peterson stabbed and killed Frank
| Blonnett. There was talk of lynching.
Mrs. Ailsee Brasher, widow of the late
Lawrence Brasher, died at her home, in
the northern portion of Christian County,
KY, a few days ago, after a lingering
and painful illness of dropsy, aged sew
enty-fve years.
DR.. Jas. NJ. Hunt, an old and prominent
physician of Vicksburg, Miss, died al
his residence few nights ago, after an
illness of several years. He was in his
fifty sixth year.
At the Democratic convention Of the
Second Congressional district OF Missis-
sippi, Hon. W. B. Morgan was renomi-
mated by acclamation.
Peter Townsend, a farmer living neal
Newbern, Dyer County, Tenn, while har-
vesting, few days ago. has his foot am
putated by mower. He died soon after
ward.
Mrs. Lucy D. Brown, widow of the late
Hon. VIM. Brown, ex- member Of the Leg
islature from Christian County, KY, died
at her residence near Crofton, KY, d few
nights ago, after lingering illness, aged
about fifty years.
A fire at Rocking CHAM, N. G., few days
since, DESTROYED the courthouse, sever
stores and one dwelling The loss is esti'
mated at $4,000; insurance $4,000.
Will Houston, who shot and killed 9
negro woman in disreputable house a.
Raleigh N. c., last spring, was hanged al
Winston a few days since. The execu.
ton, which was public, was witnessed bJ
several thousand people.
Moses Davis, q colOred man, was fount
standing dead in a pond five miles nortf
Of Miccosukie Lake, near Lloyd, Fla.
few days ago. Investigation proved thai
he had been shot by a rifle ball, and tiet
head and foot to an iron wagon axle, anC
sunk near the middle Of the pond.
Amos Morris and Frank Brown, resid
ing at Morris Mill, Giles County, Tenn.
uuarreled about the trespassing o.
Browns hogs upon the fields OF Morris
Morris struck Brown upon the head witt
a hammer, inhicting wound that is ex
pected to prove fatal
A terrible explosion occurred in th'
court-h at Athens, Tenn, few day'
ago. The county register was at worl
with a dental vulcanizer when 1t ex
ploded. A Mr. Harrington had his arm
broken. The building was badly dam
aged, and the report, which was as lou'
as a cannon, caused great excitement il
the city.
A. Rincher Jones was pardoned BY
Governor Scales of North Carolina upor
the recommendation Of the judge wh
presided at the trial and the prosecutin,
solicitor. Jones is a white man and wa
sentenced to one year in the penitentiar,
for horse-stealing at the spring term
1887, of the Chatham County Superio
Court
Will Hunt, well known Mississippi
river pilot, is in Gus tody at Jackson
Tenn, for stealing horse from the rae
at Johnson Grove Church, Crockett Coun
ty, belonging to Mrs. Budford. He ha;
lived in that community some time. HI
has wife, but they separated some tim
ago. The horse was recovered.
A young farmer named Mack Donnell
living near Paducah, KY, went into May
| field creek, a few evenings since, t
bathe. Just as he got into deep water b
was seized with cramps and drowned be
fore any of his companions, who hastene
, to his assistance, could reach him. H
, was twenty years old, and was to hav
; heen married the following Sunday Th