Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-17
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. r. Rambo,
brakeman on a frei yht train on the Ill.,
nos Central railroad, was killed few
nights ago near Malesus, Tenn. He fell
between the cars aud mos of the train
passed over his body.
The Mississippi Senate, bv vote OF 26
to Z, agreed to subscribe $40 900 to the
Confederate monument fund. The site
selected for the monument is the south
end Of the Cap to- grounds.
Frank Ratcliffa was Al rested at Padu-
cah, XIV, few days 20 as an escaped
convict from the Kentucky psntentiary.
He has been living there for the past four
years, during which time he has borne an
unblemished reputa tion.
Mrs. j. r. Wilson. the wife Of promi-
ne MT cit zen Of Chattanooga, Tenn, took
an ounce of laulanum a few nights ago
with suicidal intent. Her physicians had
given up all hope of saving her life. No
cause is assigned for the rash act.
Harry Beck Irvine, white, shot and
killed Tobe White, col )rei, in Meadows
& McElrath's store, a. Dresden, Tenn, a
few days aro. The difficulty originated
at the depot over jug of whisky.
The Eufaula (Ala.) Duly Mail, the
paper who sent the rabbit foot to Presi
dent Cleveland rectntly, celebrated the
third ann versary of its Inauguration by
a special issue, copies # which, on satin,
were sent to the President and Mrs. Cleve-
land. The satin on which the the ami
versary issue was printed was the finest
New York afforded.
The volunteer fire department Of New
Orleans recently celebrated their fifty
third anniversary by parade. The en-
gines were handsomely decorated. A
large number of visiting iremen were
present including forty members Of the
Volunteer Firemen's Association cf Phil a.
delphia, accompanied by the Metropolitan
Band.
The Supreme Court of Tennessee decided
that Joe Carr one of the murderers of
Nelson Ray, must go to the penitentiary
for twenty years. Carr was at one time
convicted of murder In the first degree,
but secured 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 al the money needed to COM
plete the road, which il to be finished,
and trains running by May l.
| The heirs of the late F. N. Corsett, of
New York, will donate $75 00O for the
| founding Of free library at Memphis,
Tenn.
j. G. ]. Mason, an old and well-known
merchant Of Greenville. Ala, died re-
Gently, leaving fortune Of $300,000. So
far as known he has no relatives living.
Pepper & Homer, jewellers, at Cleve-
land, Tenn, were ROBBED a few nights ago
of $1,000 worth of watches and jewelry.
The thieves blew the safe open and made
away with their booty. No clew to the
robbers has yet been found.
The lower house of the Mississippi
Legislature has passed a bill to exempt
from privilege tax the agents of all WOOL
en- mills in the State, when peddiing
goods manufactu ed by any of said mills.
w. H. Augln, a merchant a Pratt
mines, five miles from Birming lam, Ala,
was murdered and robbed in his store
few nights ago. He was in the habit Of
sleeping in his tore and took his meals
with Lis sister, who lived near hy.
Rush University, for negro stu1ents Of
both sexes, at Holly Springs, Miss, was
burned few days ago. Tie building
cost So, 1000 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 Hopkin willie, KY. and
who was out on bal awaiting his trial,
had difficulty with a colored man named
Dan Horton a few nights ago, du ing
which Horton struck Bradley several
times across the head W Tia heavy iron
poker, inficting wound from VIII ca Brad
lev can not recover.
The Board of MisSi ms of the Southern
Method st Church have accept ID R9v. j.
C. G. Newton, of the Baltimore Confer
ence. for work in Japan. The board also
accepted Dr.. H. I. Wainr ght and wife,
physician and layma i, Of M ssouri, for
work in the same fed. 1he new mis-
sionaries will sail for their field Of labor
soon.
The immense sugar mill Of the Disstons
mas been started up at st. Cloud, Fla, on
the beautiful Lake OF East TohOpekaliga-
Mrs. Hamilton Dsston, Of Pnilad elphia,
christene the enterprise. The capacity
Of the refinery is 70, 5,J0J pounds of refined
sugar daily. The plant is consistently
located, and is surrounded by the thrift
est cane-rasing lands in the world.
Hinton Reeves, a colored man, over
ninety years of .e, who lived alone in
cabin south of Hopkinsvlle, KY, was
burned to death few nights ago. and is
belived to have set fire to the cabin for
the purpose of destroying himself. He
had collected every thl4g he mad in the
cabin, ring he was going away.
DR.. A. H. Grisham, one of the best
known residents of Nashville, Tenn, ed
recently after a illness of three weeks,
from nervous prostration. He was seven
ty-one years old and a native Of Jones'
boro, Tenn. DR.. Gresham was for long
time connected with the press, and su b.
sequently with the internal revenue serv-
ice He lived in New Orleans for twenty
years and was well known in the South
west
Charles Willoughby. deputy United
States marshal, was shot and killed at
Jonesville, Va, a few nights ago by
Otes Votes Montaine, an eighteen-year-
old boy. Wlloughby was drinking and
insulted the boys mother.
Wallace Armstrong, of st. Andrews,