Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-22
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS,

TockS. ThlS brought Helms to the door
with an order for Moses to leave the
premises. Moses cursed and threatened
Helms, and fight ensued. Helms drew a
pocket-knife and stabbed Moses in the
throat, killing him instantly. There was
an old grudge between these men, and
Moses went to Helms house for the pur-
pose of settling it.
w. r. Wilson, of Dinwoody, Ca, disap-
peared recently with the widow of his
brother law, j. c. Adams. Wilson was
administrator of Adams estate, and is
short $4,000 to 5000. Mrs. Adams left
three children absolutely destitute,
Thomas jefferson was sentenced at
Memphis, Tenn, recently, to be hanged
January IS for the murder of William
Ragland on October 10 last. Ragland
was a hack driver. Jefferson surprised
him in the room with woman who was
intimate with both of them and cut his
throat.
A fire broke out in Pickens, Miss, few
days ago, and the following business
places were destroyed: D. w. Brit's res
taurant, N. divers drug store, Hugh
fuckers saloon, Blair & Furgeson's gen.
eral store and Gus Roussell's barber shop.
Detectives Wickliff and Bloomfield, of
Paducah, KY, recently arrested Green
Foster and Green Cobb at Mercer for
train robbery. During the past few weeks
much freight has been stolen from the
Newport News & Mississippi Valley cars
between Paducah and Louisville. The
crime was traced to Foster, who is an en-
ploye of the road. After the arrest be
confessed and implicated Cobb as an &C :
complice. Part of the plunder has been
found in an old deserted coal mine.
A boiler at Wilcox's steam mill near
Evergreen, Ala, exploded few days
since, killing four men and wounding
several.
| A creditors bill against J. Fl. Mckenzie
& Co., of Waynesboro, Ca, charges that
the firm is insolvent with liabilities from
$4,000 to 100000.
The Georgia House of Representatives
has appropriated $500,000 for the common
schools of the State. The bill will prob
ably be passed by the Senate.
| A fire broke out in a cottage in La Villa,
Fla, few days ago, and eight houses
were destroyed, including several stores
and shops; loss $4,000.
| Mr.. and Mrs. G. H Manship, worthy and
! highly respected citizens of Jackson,
MISS, celebrated their golden kgedding at
| their family residence recently
The boiler of the cotton-gin on G.. w.
Turner's place, near Montgomery, Ala, q
few days since, exploded, killing Geo.Tur-
ner and two negros outright and wound
/ ing seven others.
Charles Burns, painter, was shot and
killed on the street in Paducah, KY, a
| few nights ago. Policeman William
Mount was arrested on suspicion of hav-
| ing fired the shot, but protested his inno-
cence. The murder remains mystery.
| Rabbi A. r. Levy, of Chicago, who was
arrested in that city some time ago and
taken back to New Orleans charged with
having obtained certain mortgage notes
by fraud was tried in the latter city and
acquitted.
Since the result of the late presiden-
! tial election became known there has
| been great activity among the moonshin-
ers in the noun tains of East Tennessee.
| The mountaineers rarely read papers, and
many of them think the revenue law has
been repealed by the Republicans, hence
| they are very bold in the making of illicit
whisky. A big raid on these Wild
cutters is organizing and will soon be
made.
A violent explosion Of blasting powder
| took place in the Reincke coal mines, near
| Darlington, KY, few evenings since,
which resulted in the de ath of Alex. Ash
| lev. Ed Rear and Titus Merritt three
miners, and in the destruction of $1,000
worth of property.
The body Of William Spry, Of Davie
County, N. c., was found lying on the
! floor Of his room, in pool of blood, a few
! days ago. There was bullet hole in mis-
leg from which he had bled to death.
| Spry, who was an ex-convict, had been
| charged with incendiarism in Davie Coun-
| ty, and evidence was accumulating against
him.
Harry Smart, charged with the murder
Of Meisner Green and Bell Ward, who
were found floating in the river at Louis
vile, KY, last summer, was found guilty,
and the sentence fixed was death. Smart,
on another count of the same charge, was
convicted several weeks ago, and sem
| fenced to the penitentiary for life.
| Notwithstanding all efforts made to
capture him, and the large reward offered,
| Eugene Bunch, the train-robber, it is now
definitely known, Is In the vicinity of New
Orleans, and is liable to be heard from at
any unexpected moment.
Mrs John Lee, working in O laundry at
| Chattanooga, Tenn, with her hair hang
ing down her back, got too close to a re-
volving pulley, few days since, which
caught the hair and jerked her head
against the shaft, fracturing her skull and
iniuring her fatally.
As VIM. Carneal, farmer, residing
south of Guthrie, KY, was attempting to
cross the railroad, driving a team, few
nights ago, a train Of freight cars sudden
ly came upon him, and, striking his wagon,
| demolished it, killed his horses and in
iured him so seriously that little hope was
entertained Of his recovery.
Robert W. Page was boiled to death al
Atlanta, Ca, few days since. He was
an employe of Welier's slaughter house
While under the influence Of liquor he fell
into the large kettle kept full of hot water
in which hogs were scalded. He had beer
in the kettle over an hour when found
and his body was boiled almost into jelly
Nine hundred and fifty telephones, here
tofore the property of the National I'm.
proved, Crescent City and New Orleans
Telephone companies, were burned a,
New Orleans, few days ago, under the
direction of Frank B. knight, of the
American Bell Telephone Company, Of
Boston. These instruments were adjudget
by the United States Court to infringe tbs