St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-01-28
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

Mrs. Anna B. Cheatham, widow of the
late General B. F. Cheatham, who preced-
| ed her as postmaster in Nashville, Tenn,
died at her residenc ice a few days ago.
Nichols having beaten McEnery in the
| preliminary campaign ia Louisiana, the
adherents of the latter are demanding
that Nichols retire and allow some third
man to be nominated for Governor
Richard Dent, an old man sixty years
! of age, who lived few miles from Chat
| tanooga, Tenn, has been missing for se~-
| eral days, was found dead half mile
from his home. He got lost in the dark
ness and was frozen to death
j. H. Whiting, of Boston, Mass, said to
be staff correspondent of a newspaper
| in that city, was run over by train at
! Sorrento, Fla, few days since, and in
stantly killed, both legs being cut off and
| his body otherwise horribly mangled.
Leroy Tucker died few days ago in
the McMinn County Aims House at
Athens, Tenn, at the advanced age Of
one hundred and three years. He was
| born in North Carolina and lived sixty
one years in McMinn County. He was
very well to do financially at one time,
and only went in the poor house three
years ago. About two years ago he mar
| ried an inmate of the poor-house, who
survives him at the age of eighty-one.
| c. Dubose, the oldest merchant in Mo.
bile, Ala, died few days ago, aged
| seventy y-eight. His drug house is the old
| est in the United States doing business
under the original name. The business
was established in 1884.
| Seven hundred thousand boxes of
| Florida oranges are expected to be this
| seasons crop.
| There is woman in Watkinsville, Ga,
who, within the last eleven months, has
| given birth to five children. Her hus band
| is about discouraged
The bodies of boy and girl about
| twelve and thirteen years of age, sup
posed to be brother and sister were found
| floating in the river near Huntington
Miss, few days ago. It is thought they
were murdered.
The most profitable piece of fruit land
for its size in the United States is said to
be the Speer & CHM grove, near Sanford,
Fla. 1t comprises four and one-half acres,
and this years yield of lines sold for
| $4,000.
| Evans Sherry, who was held to answer
without bail for the murder of Mrs. Steve
Moore. at Bandana, KY, last October, has
been released on writ of habeas corpus
by Judge Ransle, of the Circuit Court at
Paducab. His bail was fixed at s., 200.
Eugene Couch, well-known young
man of Atlanta, Ca, recently swallowed
one and half ounces of laudanum. It de-
veloped that Couch was bridegroom of
but day and half.
The Circuit Court at Mt. Vernon, KY,
has adjourned. With all the murders COM
mitted in the county within the past two
months, not case has come to trial and
no disposition has been shown to bring
important matters to focus.
The police authorities of Atlanta, Ga,
have information that Ben Burton, the
young man who had married five women,
eloped with two more, and escaped from
the court t-room where he was on trial for
bigamy, picking up fresh charmer on
the way to bear him company, Is In
Birmingham, Ala.
The famous case of Holcombe VS.. Strick-
land was on trial last week in the Su-
perior Court at Cartersville, Ga. This
case originated in the justice court for
Altoona district in 1885 over the posses
sion of heifer not worth ten dollars. It
now carries with it long transcript and
pleadings, and costs amour ting to 5000,
and no end in sight.
Simon Higdon and Frank Martin got
into quarrel over young lady at the
home of Mrs. Wardburger, in South Pitts
burg, Tenn, few nights ago, when the
former was shot in the stomach. Higdon
only Heed few hours. Martin made his
escape.
The latest results at the Government
diffusion experiment station at ex-Gov.
ernor Warmouth's Magnolia plantation In
Louisiana, show that the diffus ion proc.
,ss is great success, producing thirty
pounds more sugar per ton of cane than
is produce by the most advanced milling
process.
The telegraph line between Titusville
and Jupiter Inlet, on the east coast of
Florida. is now open for business. It is
about one hundred and fifty miles in
length, is owned and controlled by the
United States Government, and is in
charge of Lieutenant B. M. Purcell.
Walter Mendenhall, who was recently
tried for Arson at Memphis, Tenn, was
acquitted. Mendenhall was charged with
setting fire to the cotton congresses
which were destroyed on the night of
November II last, entailing loss Of
ss00, 1000.
Frank Irion, the clerk and register of
the City Court at Birmingham, Ala, is
short in his accounts $4,000 or more. He
left the city, ostensibly for Atlanta, three
weeks ago, since which time he has not
been seen or heard of. Real estate spec
ulation is supposed to have led MIN into
this trouble. He was vera prominent
citizen.
Mr.. Henry Hicks, of the Providence
Steam and Gas-Pipe Company, at Green
tgfll9 s. c., while at work in the HssTEaz; !;
Mot Cotton Mills a few dayssagu; waes
Ganding near shafbwith his back to the
Couplings tean; too far back, his
cloAA Aes wers Rught in the coupling,
whiting kVound the shaft five or six
timas--ss1fis ggkle was badly sprained and
back and Aegs painfully bruised. His
clothing Has completely torn from his
body. HIS injuries, though not danger
Gus, were very painful.
The report of the Comm issf oners Of
Agriculture of Georgia for 1887 shows a
decrease from 1886 in the amount of farm
supplies purchased by the farmers as
we'll as in the indebtedness of the farm
ing classes. The report shows that
farmers who have bought bacon and corn
on time have paid thirty per cent. ad-
vance on cash prices for bacon for four
months, equivalent to ninety per cent