Huntsville gazette., 1888-02-11
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

DO of bonds by the Lower Levee district
has passed the Mississippi Senate.
Captain John F. Douglas, a welLknown
steam boat between New Orleans and
St. Louis. but later on the United States
steamer Newton, died recently at New
Orleans.
The motion to pass the Mississippi Con-
stitutional Convention bill over Governor
Lowry's veto failed in the Senate, the
vote standing 10 to 16, not the necessary
two thirds.
John Leslie, a well-known business man
OF Birmingham, Ala, was shot through
the head few days since by man named
Ben Smith, while he was asleep on a
lounge ia the house of his mistress.
In Coffee County, Ca, few nights ago,
Wiley Bird, a wealthy planter, while in
one Of his outhouses, was held prisoner
by masked man. during which time five
confederates took from the house an old
chest containing $500 in money, besides
valuable papers.
At Mckenzie, Tenn, a few days since,
Jasper Pope and F. G. Pate, two well-to
do farmers, met and renewed an old
grudge. Both drew pistols, Pate firing
first, hitting Pope in the breast and par.
alyzing him. Pate then fired three more
shots, killing Pope, after which he mount
ed his horse and rode deliberately out Of
town.
A prominent young man named VIM.
Royster, reared in Memphis, Tenn, has
gone to the West Indies in company with
Nora Fitzgerald, a handsome yong
woman, who went to Memphis from Chi
cago year ago and claimed to be the
wife of grain dealer in that city. Roy
cka,- Lea ahsl1 ont
money, to mourn his departure He had
q, 200 as his total capital.
Three New Orleans letter carriers are
under arrest for entering into conspiracy
to systematically rob the boxes on other
routes than their own and appropriate
and divide the valuable proceeds. The
postal authorities have been at fault for
some time to account for the disappear
ance of letters, but the systematic efforts
OF the secret service officers have bsen at
last rewarded by the capture Of the
offenders.
Thomas Moore, colored. sentenced to be
hanged at Georgetown, Ga, has been res.
pited.
A young man in Louisville who smoked
forty cigaretts day has been pronounced
of unsound mind by the physicians.
| AS a result of prohibition discu sion,
Andrew Jenkins was killed a few days
ago by James Warren near Jackson,
Miss.
Blount McAlster, the ten-year-old son
of Judge W. K. McAlister, while pl aging
on raft in the river at Nashville, Tenn,
few evenings since, fell in and was
drowned.
Charles Ackerman, switchman IN the
Louisville & Nashville railroad yards, at
Birmingham, Ala, fell from a moving
train few nights ago and was crushed
to de>sh. He was twenty-eight years
old and unmarried
Mrs. JohnF F Ching, of Daviess County,
| XIV, was b Irned tc death a few days ago
She was standing near CRATE when her
dress caught fire and she was fatally
burned before assistance could reach her.
| George Heath, a bridge builder on the
Vicks burg, Shreveport & Pacific railroad,
fell from the bridge at Lake One," in
| Madison Parish, near Tallulah La, a
few days since, and broke his neck. His
remains were taken to Vicksburg for in
terment.
| The death Of Captain Tilford Critten
| den Edwards, one of the oldest citizen.
of Paducah, KY, occurred w da~ s
| since, in the seventy year of A5s
age, after an Hines of five days, Of
pneumonia.
The Birmingham (Ala.) Board of Alder.
nen have passed an ordinance prohibit
ing the buying and selling of pools, or in
any other manner betting on the game of
baseball The ordinance was passed at
the request of the officers of the baseball
| association.
Governor Gordon of Georgia commuted
the sentence of Eliza Randall, who was
to have been hanged in Clay County, to
| Imprisonment for life. Eliza had MUIR
dered her father, killing him with an
/ axe. All the details were of the bloodiest
description, and not one word of extenua-
tion was urged in her behalf
VIM. Galloway was married to Miss Sal
| lie Hubbard, at Owensboro, KY, few
| days ago. While the ceremony was being
performed an officer stepped into the
room, and when it was concluded he
pl aced Galloway under arrest for robbing
a man named Sutton of large sum Of
money, at Clovenport
| The Artesian Water Company of Mem
| phis, Tenn, which began operations six
| months ago with capital stock Of $780,,
| 900, has purchased the plant Of the old
water company, which supplied the city
from Wolf creek
| Robert Smalls, who was the last of the
| colored race to retire from membership of
the National House of Representatives, is
pushing his claim for a pension on ac-
count of his capture of the Confederate
steamboat Planter, in Charleston harbor,
and its delivery to Union officers.
The annual conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church (African) met last week
at Grenada, Miss, ex- Senator Revels pre-
siding as Bishop pro tenn. There were
about four hundred preachers and lay
delegates in attendance. This is the
mother church that was organized in
Philadelphia in 1877.
In the Kentucky General Ass emily the
Senate resolut ion protesting against the
passage by Congress of the Blair bill,
characterizing it as an iniquitous measure.
came up a few days ago, and after a
| number of efforts to make it a special
order for different days, it was, on call
Of yeas and nays, adopted by vote Of
48 to 26.
e Short, the railroad agent at Knox
vile station, on the Louisville, New Or
leans & Texas railroad. was assassinated
few nights ago. The assassin fired
through a window Short at the time