St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-17
SOUTHERN GLEANfNGS.

Tenn. A number of deaths are reported,
and the disease is rapidly spreading.
A young man named P. r. Rambo,
brakeman on freight train on the ILL.,
nois Central railroad, was killed a few
nights ago near Malesus, Tenn. He fell
between the cars and most of the train
passed over his body.
The Mississippi Senate, by vote Of 20
to 7, agreed to subscribe $40, 900 to the
Confederate monument fund. The site
selected for the monument is the south
end of the Capitol grounds.
Frank Ratcliffe was arrested at Padu-
cab, KY, few days go as an escaped
convict from the kentucky psnitentary.
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 a promi-
ne MT citizen of Chattanooga, Tenn, took
an ounce of laudanum 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, colored, in Meadows
& McElrath's store, at Dresden, Tenn, q
few days ago. The difficulty originated
at the depot over a jug of whisky.
| 4ho CuAduies lAid- 1Ntty mUUt WIG
paper who sent the rabbit foot to Presi-
dent Cleveland recently, celebrated the
third anniversary Of its Inauguration by
a special issue, copies of 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 fremen were
present. including forty members of the
Volunteer Firemen's Association of 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 a 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 all the money needed to COM
plete the road, which is to be finished,
and trains running by May 1.
| The heirs of the late F. N. Corsett, of
New York, will donate $75, 600 for the
founding of a free library at Memphis,
| Tenn.
| j. C. /. Mason, an old and well-known
merchant of Greenville. Ala, died re-
Gently, leaving fortune of 100000 So
far as known he has no relatives living.
Pepper & Homer, jewellers, at Cleve-
land, Tenn, were robbed few nights ago
of $4,000 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 bill to exempt
from privilege tax the agents of all WOOL
en- mills in the State, when peddling
goods manufactured by any Of said mills.
w. FL. Auglin, merchant at Pratt
mines, five miles from Birmingham, Ala,
was murdered and robbed in his store
few nights ago. He was in the habit of
sleeping in his store and took his meals
with his sister, who lived near by.
Rush University, for negro students Of
both sexes, at Holly Springs, Miss, was
burned few days ago. The building
cost 25,000 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 Hopkinsville, KY, and
who was out ON bail awaiting his trial,
had q difficulty with q colored man named
Dan Horton few nights ago, during
which Horton struck Bradley several
times across the head with heavy iron
poker, inflcting wounds from which Brad
| ley can not recover.
The Board of Missions Of the Southern
Methodist Church have accepted Rev. J.
c. C. Newton, of the Baltimore Confer
ence. for work in Japan. The board also
accepted DR.. H- 7. Wainright and wife,
physician and layman, Of Missouri, for
work in the same field. Abe new mis-
sionaries will sail for their field Of labor
| soon.
The immense sugar mill of the Disstons
has been started up at st. Cloud, Fla, ON
| the beautiful Lake Of East Tohopekaliga.
Mrs. Hamilton Disston, Of Phiiad elphie,
christened the enterprise. The capacity
of the refinery is $4,000 pounds Of refined
| sugar daily. The plant is consistently
| located, and is surrounded by the thrift.
! Hinton Reeves, colored man, over
ninety years of age, who lived alone in
cabin south Of Hopkinsville, 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 thlng he had in the
cabin, saying he was going away.
DR.. A. b. Grisham, one Of the best.
known residents Of Nashville, Tenn, died
recently after illness of three weeks,
from nervous prostration. He was seven
| ty.one years old and native of Jones'
boro, Tenn. DR.. Grtsham 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 we'll known In the South
| west
Charles Willoughby, deputy United
| States marshal, was shot and killed at
Jonesville, Va, few nights ago by
| Otes Votes Montaine, an eighteen year
old boy. Willoughby was drinking and
nsulted the boys mother.
Wallace Armstrong, OF ST. Andrews,
| Fla, while at work in his garden short
| time since, unearthed rare curio in the
| shape of an image. 1t ls not relic of
he early Spaniard, but genuine speci-
1 nan of ahorioiual scufrtura The ;,,,no