Huntsville gazette., 1888-06-02
.cOcTHERN GLEANINGS,

near IhCmastOn, Ga, has been married
SIX times and has forty children living.
The little daughter of I. M. Lannon, of
Memphis, Tenn, fell from fourth STORY
window few days ago and was killed.
Just before water was reached in the
new artesian well at Montezuma, Ga,
some strange articles came rrom 1t, con-
bone, clear amber colored rosin and bits
of soft wood.
The Jury In the Sallie Boyd murder case
Of mot guilty" The verdict was some
thing of surprise to the public.
Deputy Sheriff Shipe was shot and killed
by Hicks Martin, o negro whom he was
attempting to arrest, twenty miles north
of Knoxville, Tenn, few days ago. The
negro was wanted in Alabama for mur-
der. He made his escape and citizens
were securing the country for him.
A workman named Henry Desoches was
crushed to death at Standing Rock, KY,
while helping to unload from the cars an
immense iron girder to be used in build
ing the new railroad bridge at that point
Johnnie Appleby. at Pendergrass, Ga,
few days ago, saw cat-bird dart down
on something, futter violently, and fall
apparently lifeless. The boy found the
bird nearly dead. 1t was poisoned by q
black spider. The bird died in five min
utes from the spider bite.
Hicks Carmichael, the negro who mur-
dered Deputy Sheriff Shipe, at Knoxville,
Tenn, was arrested near Rankin's Depot,
Cook County.
Joseph Schuh, cigar dealer, ffty-seven
years old, blew his brains out at his home
in Louisville, KY, few days ago. The
cause was business embarrassment.
Mrs. Fannie Friend, an aged lady, re-
siding in Hopklnsville, KY, died at her
home few nights ago from the effects OF
being severely burned by her clothes
catching on fire some days previous. Her
sufferings were very great.
William Patterson, who was to have
been hanged May. %, at Louisville, KY,
under expiration Of the Governors ninety
prieve till June %.
The two houses of the Louisiana Legis-
lature met in joint session q few days
since and declared Randall L. Gibson
elected senior United States Senator.
James w. Schooler, colored, Of Mich
olasville, KY, has been admitted to prac-
tice before the Court Of Appeals He is
the first colored man to attain this dis
tinction.
An interesting Indian relic was re-
Gently turned up by tie plow, about q
mile from Mikesville Fla. 1t was o
double barreled pistol of ancient make
and forgotten pattern. The woodwork
of the handle was gone, but all the rest
was intact and in a good state of preser-
vation.
The Governor of Tennessee has par
doned Dan Hennessey Of 'gold brick"
fame, who was sentenced to a fve-year
term for swindling o. F. Noel, Of Nash
Vile, out of $4,000 under pretence OF
giving him value received in the shape Of
bogus gold brick. Hennessey has served
something over a year of his term. He
has been pardoned upon the statement of
the prison physician that he can not live
more than few days.
| B. S. Roberts, a merchant Of Black
Ford, KY, committed suicide few nights
ago by taking laudanum. He had lately
met with business reverses and was COM
peeled to make an assignment. He then
went to Evansville to seek employment,
but failing in this he returned to his home
so discouraged that he killed himself. He
left letter to a cousin explaining all.
The furnaces of the Eureka Iron Com
pany, ut Oxmoor, Ala, employing 500
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to secure supply of coke. These fur
naces were supplied with coke by the
Pratt coal mines and the recent strike Of
the miners is the cause of the shut down.
There is no prospect of an early settle
ment of the trouble with the coal miners
ana it is feared the strike will become
general.
The immigration convention which re-
Gently assembled at Jackson, Miss, was
the largest ever held in the State, 365
delegates being present, representing
sixty y-six counties. Speeches were made
by Governor Lowry, Captain w. H. Hardy,
General Miles and other prominent men,
showing the resources of the State. APP
propriate resolutions were adopted to in
duce immigration.
The seventeen-year son of John
Page, of Washington, n c., was told re-
Gently not to visit among the neighbors
until he was entirely recovered from u
cutaneous disease. The boy disobeyed,
and, when Mr. Page scolded him, gave him
an impudent answer. At this the father
struck the boy, who instantly sprang upon
his father, cut severe cash in his throat,
threw him down, and was in fair way to
kill him, when his mother and sister saved
the fathers life. st
AS corporal Davis, of Company A, Of the
colored regiment at the Jefferson Bar
racks, st. Louis, was making his rounds o
few days ago, recruit, lately received
from Georgia, called his attention to a
member of Company d, named Means,
saying that Means very much a
man who was wanted for the murder of
VIM. Walters, colored, over a game Of
craps, in Macon, Ga. Corporal Davis
taxed Means with being a murderer at
large, and Means owned up, and was duly
placed under arrest and held for the
Georgia authorities.
Clark Moore, Fred Latham and George
Woolsey, charged with selling whisky in
violation Of the internal revenue laws,
were arrested in Muhlenberg County, KY,
by Deputy United States Marshal w. A.
Wickliffe, and taken before Commissioner
Roark at Greenville, who bound them'over
for trial at the October term of the Federal
Court at Louisville.
George CLARK, a noted character of Muh-
lenberg County, KY, was arrested re-
Gently, charged with kukluxing, and at his