St. Landry democrat., 1888-03-24
SOUTHERN GLEANiNGS.


was run over and killed on the Overland
Dummy road at Nashville, Tenn., few
days ago. He fell from coach and was
crushed under the wheels of the next
car.
Edwin Smedley, Of the firm Of Smed.
ley & Wood, water works contractors, Of
Dubuque, Ia, has begun operations on o
$4,000 water works plant for Baton
Rouge, La.
Jap Davis, who willfully and brutally
murdered his wife at Anderson, s. c., by
shooting her with a shotgun loaded with
old nails, in September, 1886, has been re-
sentenced by Judge Norton, to be hanged
on Friday, March %.
Mrs. Eunice Hooser, Of Elkton, KY,
has just completed calico quilt that is
composed of 24,08o pieces.
Will Bendley, miner, thirty.two years
old, who lived at Rock Run, Cherokee
County, Ala, was run over and killed by
a train on the Kansas City railroad, near
Birmingham, few days ago.
Mr.. W. A. Caldwell died with cancer OF
the mouth at his homo in Jackson, Tenn.,
few days ago, aged seventy one years.
Deceased was for q number OF years
cashier in the First National Bank OF
Jackson.
The steamboat Phil e. Chappell, Of the
Red River and Coast Line, was sunk in
Red River, a few nights ago, at Haines'
Landing, eighteen miles above Shreys.
port, La. She was under command OF
Captain Lew Kountz
The Kentucky Legislature passed q
joint resolution indefinitely extending its
session. A bill has been introduced to
punish wife.beaters with thirty inc
lashes by the sheriff, to which years
impris sonment may be added.
The old structure known as Lumpkins'
Jail in Richmond, Va, has been demol-
ished. It was widely known throughout
the South in slavery days, having been
used as slave pen or mart
Sheriff Staler shot and seriously wound
ed John Pickett at Calhoun, KY, a few
days ago. the latter defying arrest for
violation Of the Prohibition law and max
ing display Of weapons.
The proposition of Rev. YoungJ. lien,
Of Nashville, Tenn, agreeing to be one OF
fifty to give $500 each towards paying the
debts of the Board OF Missions Of the
Southern Methodist Church, is meeting
with much favor, and large number
have already responded with the requisite
amount The latest donation OF $500 was
received from gentleman living Is Mis-
souri,.
T. s. Hardy, of Hart County. KY.
loaned man one dollar to pay for ad.
| mission to show twenty three years
ago. Last week dollar was returned
with an extra dollar for interest.
| Fire broke out on the naval store
wharves at Savannah, Ga, few days
ago, and destroyed 8, 600 barrels of rosin
| and $50 barrels Of turpentine. Loss, $15,-
600; insured.
A premature blast of dynamite, thirty
miles from Bremen, Ga, few days ago,
buried four convicts beneath huge pile
| of dirt, and when exhumed three were
found to be dead. The fourth is not ex-
pected to recover.
The elevated road along the river front
| which forms the shortest connecting line
| between the railroads centering at Louis.
| vile, KY, was sold few days ago for
| S., ,000,0 900.
| Rev. VIM. H. Leigh, one Of the oldest
ministers of the Kentucky Methodist
| Conference, died at his residence in
| Paducah few days ago, in the sixty.
| fourth year of his age.
The death of Colonel Cash, of South
| Carolina, removes the last of the old race
| of duelists.
Milas Irwin was out hunting just east
| Of Chattanooga, Tenn, few days ago.
| When he fred the right barrel of his shot
| gun, the breech was blown out, striking
| him In the head, killing him almost in
| stantly, blowing the top of his head of.
| A switchman in the Louisville g
Nashville railroad yards at Birmingham,
| Ala, few days since, heard weak cries
| for help coming from o box car loaded
with hay. He broke the seal, and open.
| ing the door found three white tramps,
almost wild with hunger and thirst and
very weak. They boarded the car in
| Chicago and had been without food and
water for five days. They were given
something to eat by the switchman and
| allowed to go their way.
An unsuccessful attempt was made q
few nights ago to burn the barn of Will
lam Vaughn, farmer living near Hop
| kinsville, KY, by piling planks saturated
with coil oil against the door and setting
| fire to these. The Ii ght from the blaze
streaming upward attracted the attention
of neighbors, who extinguished the fire.
Two construction trains on the Charles
ton, Cincinnati e. Chicago railway collid-
ed q few days ago near Camden. 8, C.
| The engine and cars were badly wrecked.
| Engineer Fell was scaided to death; Fire
man Duncan received fatal injuries, and
Jerry Crosby, the other engineer, was
terribly scalded and was not expected to
| live.
The iron draw bridge across the Tom
bigbee river at Aberdeen, Miss, for the
Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham
railroad, has been completed, and pas
senger trains are now crossing over it.
r. Halliday Witherspoon, handsome
young man with a brown mustache and
| sty lishly dressed, who recently went
| to Memphis, Tenn, from st. Louis, and
| engaged as an advertising agent for an
afternoon paper, was arrested few days
| since for forging checks ON the Security
Bank of Memphis. Witherspoon is highly
connected in the city.
A mob of masked men boarded the
Nashville & Chattanooga train at Wood
land Mills, Tenn, q few days since, and
took negro, Eli Davie, from an officer,
who was carrying him to jail at Hickman,
| KY, and, after going about three hundred
| yards, hung him to tree.
| All the buildings and m achinery of the
Nashville Rolling Mills have been pur-
chased by the Elyton Land Company OF
Birmingham, Ala, and the entire plant
| will be moved there at once. The capacity
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