St. Landry democrat., 1888-10-13
SOUTHERN ,6LEANlNGS,

J. tieHrS named Jim Copley. Conley ha
surrendered
VIM, q. Bolton. d hotel keeper, was sho
. Ahd dangerously wounded by VIM Il
|, Bats at Horn Lake, MISS; a few day
ago. The men diiarreled over business
] matter.
:; A boy while passing through the Rol
! lies, two miles from Virginia Beach, Va.
a few nights ag6, discovered the SIX eIetol
OF man. From the scattered 5lothing
! papers and other articles found around
it was identified rs the remains Of Alone
Lewis, the missing salesman of W. & B
Douglas, pump manufacturers of New
} York City. The buzzards. had eaten ever!
particle Of flesh off, leaving only th'
blesched bones. The presumption is tina
Lewis committed suicide
A very STRANGE suicide, If suicide 1t ma!
be termed; OCCURRED in Yadkin County
Il; c.. recently: A white man ramet
Kufus Reavis forced hts way Tito aEfo6h
Of Allgood,s whisky distillery: Hiding
himself Under a. shelf, he put one end o.
s.siphon into barrel Of whisky and the
hthst into His tuotIth and let the Liquor
run into his stomach until and his throat
were filled, and in this position he was
found dead, with whisky pouring from
the end of the siphon in his mouth. HI
had literally had his fill of liquor fol
once. His appearance was horrible il
the extreme.
jefferson Baker, the young farmer from
near RussellfiiiH, KY, who fell from {
moving freight train at Hopkins 7i1le
Willie attempting to steal d ride; and had
his right lsg crushed by the car wheels
passin g over it, died froht having the IN
iired limb amputated: He never fall.ed
f+pm the operation: j..
The tobacco crop about Bradford, KY,
has been damaged one third by frost:
The louisiana Prohibition State con
Yention nominated an electoral ticket
THEY say they can poll 1000 votes. =,
Robert Harris, Z conductor on the
Chattanooga & Lookout Mountain rail :
road, was instantly killed few days ago
by falling from a construction car.
Captain Jas. NJ. Wilson, prominent
| citizen living near Cropson, KY, fell
from wagon few days ago, and was
| run over and crushed to death by the
wheels:
Policeman Turner; Of Henderson, Ky.,
He shot boy named Willie Miller to
after jumping from the rear Of a street.
car where he and a companion had been
stealing a ride.
The North Georgia and Alabama Min
eral and Industrial Exposition at Rome
was opened by Governor Gordon. De-
spite the quarantine panic in the South,
the opening was attended by 10000 per-
sons:
Sheriff Lance fatally shot FIem Potts at
Sparta, Tenn, few days ago. Potts pre-
vented the sheriff from arresting his
brother, but walked away, arm in arm,
with the officer. The latter discovered
concealed weapon in Potts possession,
and killed him as a precaution to pre-.
serve his own 1ifd
There being no opposition, the election
for Governor and State officers in Geor-
gia passed Of quietly. Governor Gordon
and the other officials were reelected.
The amendment to the Constitution in.
creasing the number of Supreme Court
judges from three to five, was adopted.
The pension Office at Louisville, KY,
has received notice to suspend payment
of the pension of Mrs. Sarah Crutcher
of Pitts Point near Bardstown, KY,
widow Of JAS: Crutcher, revolutionary
sB1dter: She died few days ago: She
was eighty six years old and had drawn
pension since 1858.
The youngest convict in the United
States is now in the State prison in Nash
vile, Tenn. His name is Daniel Jordan,
and he was sent from Memphis. He is
less than eleven years old, and was con-
victed Of having stolen FIVE dollars and
sentenced to three years in the peniten-
tiary. When the first night of his incar.
ceration came the guard did not lock him
in solitary cell, but allowed him to lie
on blanket, whore he sobbed himself to
sleep. He has widowed mother in Mem
phis.
Frank M. Irion, the defaulting clerk of |
the Birmingham (Ala.) City Court, will |
make no effort to secure bond, and will |
plead gtt1lty to the indictments against |
him. He is anxious to begin serving out
whatever sentence the court may pass. |
Irion's total shortage is now estimated at |
$24, 900. He lost it all in speculation, and |
had only $3.50 when he left last January.
A new danger has recently confronted
rice planters of South Carolina. June
rice is now in the maturing stages and a
first-class FROST which is threatened |
almost every night, would kill it. II
frost does not come in week however,
the rice will have time to mature The
heavy rains first crippled this crop and
then came the food, which seriously hift
It. The loss, too, has been considerable
IN ripe rice, from the frequent handling
which was necessary to dry it out. Sonic
If it had to be handled three or four
lines, and every time it was handled
here was a lose. Rice sprouted badly,
and stacked rice, hastily harvested, now
burned and entailed loss in the de-
erioration of the rice. Until the rice
las been given into the hands of the
nillers the extent of the loss can not be
lpproximated. The planters, however,
re positive that they will not reap one
lalf the crop they expected before the
Amy season set in.
An extraordinary scene was witnessed
n the Memphis (Tenn.) police court
ew days ago, when negro, who had
hot two white men to death was dis
harged by the police judge. The room
vas crowded with whites and negroes,
nd when Judge Hadden told the accused
hat he might go free---nd he went out
lmost literally in - arIIs Of his wife
nd children-thers1was an outburst of
pplause which the hficers of the ccirt
rere powerless to qu.u. The LygrU isdP
ames Conley, the sextSp of Zion .ccAz
red cemetery. The men he killa.oW-fe
Will w. Eastman, the ,o,anasW nj a
'ealthy lumber dealer of MempTag and
. D. Smith, boss carpenter. they at
acked Conley in his own hou! } and he
hot them in self defense. Fl
Shotgun quarantines are ended.
At Frankfort, Ky.9 few days since, DIR
ohm Murry died Of lockjaw caused by a
lstol- shot wound received week previ-
US. William Armstrong, young friend,
eized Murray's pistol and they began |
'rfiing for possession of it. The weap-
q was accidently discharged. lodging a