Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-29
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS,

| NJ. Fl. Ingalls, & Co.'S wholesale boot and
shoe house, at Louisville, KY, was burned
out few nights ago. Loss, $4,000; in
surance, S33,000
John Hughes, farmer residing near
| Fredonia, KY, was struck on the head by
! falling tree, few evenings since, and
| so badly injured that he died in q short
| time.
I A passenger train on the Ohio Valley
railroad was wrecked at Marion, KY, a
] few evenings since. One passenger car
was demolished and Conductor Coleman
was fatally injured.
| John p. Baker, a German laborer, COM
mitted suicide at Louisville, KY, few
days ago, by taking morphine. He had
| been drinking and mistreating his family
He recently married a second time, drove
| his children from home and then quarreled
with his wife.
A shooting affray occurred recently
| few miles from Grand Coteau, La. Two
men are reported killed and several
seriously wounded. The participants
were all white.
Thomas Davis, a farmer from Graves
County, fell through the trap door OF an
open elevator shaft in the second story OF
Davis grocery at Paducah, KY, a few
days ago His back struck the edge of q
tub in his descent. Surgeons said he could
not recover from his injuries.
The finding on the bank Of the river Of
the personal effects of Major r. N. Big
ger, one of the four victims of the Euro
pean Hotel fire in Chattanooga, Tenn,
November u, confirms the suspicious Of
the police that the burning Of the hotel
followed Bigger's robbery and perhaps
murder. The officers believe they have
clew which will lead to the arrest of the
criminal.
The caving-in of the river bank at st.
| Joseph, La, has extended beyond the
line of the protection levee laid off by the
Government engineers to protect the par
ish from an overflow while work is in
progress at Hard Times and Wilson's
Point Prompt action is requir ed to pre-
vent disastrous results.
John G. Pybum was arrested at White
side, Tenn, recently for the murder of
John Frost, whose dead body was found
near a saloon on the Georgia and Ten
nessee Line. Pybum pleads innocence.
The relief committee at Gainesville,
Fla, will return to the donors the sur
plus funds subscribed to yellow fever
sufferers. All factories have resumed
work and tourists are pouring in.
The South Carolina Senate recently re-
jected the bill to establish the home for
the disabled Confederate soldiers and
sailors, and passed bill amending the
present pension laws by limiting the total
The four Hiolro negrooc, who were en-
! gagged in the recent bloody fight, were ar
raigned for trial in Jackson, Tenn, few
! days ago. Through their attorneys they
waived examination, and bond was fixed
at 81, 600 The trial was postponed to await
the result Of Peter Browns injuries.
| Near Elizabethtown, KY, few days
! ago, Riley Spencer and John Henderson
auarreled Spencer hit Henderson over
| the head with bludgeOn, and Wash Hen
derson, who was standing by, shot Spen-
Ger dead. Henderson gave himself up.
Spencer leaves family.
John Isham was shot and killed in the
! eastern portion of Putnam County, Tenn,
few days ago, by Joseph Hudgins. Hud-
! gins reproved Isham for d1sorderly con-
! duct, whereupon Isham shot at him. Hud-
| gins secured a gun andflled Isham's body
! with shot.
A meeting of melon growers Of South
Carolina was held at Blackville few
! days ago, to form a watermelon alliance
! or trust. The melon growing region ex-
| tends from Branchville to Augusta, Ca,
along the line Of the South Carolina rail-
road, and is embraced in Barnwell and
Aiken counties. Last year the shipments
were over 100000 melons. Colonel M.
Brown was elected president.
The farmer element in the South Caro-
lima Legislature won another substantial
victory over the lawyers, few days ago,
when the Senate passed, by vote of II to
III + thn Of
to the State BY the late Thomas G. Glenn
son, John G. Calhoun's son-in-law, of the
Calhoun homestead at Fort Hill, for the
purpose Of establishing an exclusively
agricultural college.
| CAPTAIN A. J. White a we'll known rail-
way man, died at his home near Milner,
Ga, few days ago. After the war he
became president of the Macon & West
ern railway, and later accepted the presi-
dency of the Savannah, Griffin e. North
Alabama railroad. These positions he
| held until the roads were leased to the
Central in 1871. He was also one Of the
original lessees of the Western & Atlantic
railroad from the State. He was seventy.
four years of age.
The corner stone Of the Good Samaritan
Hospital, for colored people, was laid at
| Charlotte, N. O., few days since, in the
| presence of quite a number of people,
both white and black. The building Of
this hospital has been undertaken by white
persons entirely, and is under the au-
spices Of the EpiscopaIchurch. Both white
and colored clergymen assisted at the GER
emony and made short addresses. The
colored clergymen expressed, on behalf
of their race, their gratitude at such an
evidence Of true religion and charity.
Great excitement was occasioned few
DAYS since near the South Carolina line,
on the road leading from Charlotte, N. c.,
to Rock Hill. James Anderson, farmer,
discovered the head Of man in the mid
die Of the road. The head seemed to have
been severed with a sharp instrument,
being smoothly cut from the shoulders.
II had not been identified, but appeared to
be the head of young white man, about
twenty five years old, having black hair
and mustache. The trunk had not been
discovered at last accounts.
Two white men, w. r. Walker and w.
t. Melton, got into dispute about
woman on the street in Selma, Ala, a few
days ago. John Riggs, bartender, tried
| ~ calm tha disturbance. Melton reached