Huntsville gazette., 1889-03-09
NUMBER II.
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGS.

mel chant, died at Louisville, KY, a few
days since, aged seventy eight, Of heart
failure. He was born at Brimfield, Mass,
and had been identified with Louisville
business interests forty-nire years.
In the suburbs Of Knoxville, Tenn,
few days ago, two freight trains met on
curve on the Knoxville &c Ohio railroad.
John Maggott fireman, was instantly
killed while in the act OF throwing
shovelful of coal in the hre-box. He was
horribly mangled and roasted almost to
crisp.
When Rev. Sam Jones, the Georgia
evangelist, last preached in Nashvilfe,
Tenn, be started nosoin eut looking TO
the erection of a union tabernacle. Gen
tlemen representing eight denominations
have secured charter and will soon be-
gin the erection of building that will
cost between $4,000 and $4,000 and seat
$500 people.
The post Office mt Rockingham. N. G.,
was blown up by an, explosion Of gun
po@der few nights ago. Taylo. & Nc
Neil had 1890 worth of goods IN one
part Of the building. All were dtstI Dyed.
The building was blown to piece, Che con-
cu~sion shakiugthe whole town. Every
thing in the post-ofice was consL med By
the fire which followed the explosion.
The attention of the country is being
turned to Memphis just now on account of
her cotton receipts, which since the first
of September have amounted to GAG. .255
bales. This is 43, ,615 bales In excess Of
last year up to this date, and Memphis,
outside of being the largest interior cot
ton market in the world, is the second
largest receiver of spot cottons In the
United States. Memphis this year will
receive fully 725,0l0 bales of cotton, which
will be by over $1,000 bales the largest in
her history. Ten railroads ard forty
steam boats contribute to her growing I'm
portauoe as business center.
X bert Mnore'5 wife, near Springfield,
Ky., recently left him. The other day he
Jent to get her, swearing he would mako
Ter live with him. He met her brothers
| II is dead.
! Ex-United States Senator John W.
Johnston died al Richmond Va, rec emily,
III the seventy eighth year OF his age. He
married daughter Of Governor John B.
Floyd, and was nephew of General 10
Seph z. Johnston.
The negro exod ,s from South and North
Carolina and Virginia is growing in re-
markable degree.
The residence and household goods OF
Mr.. Thomas Crabtree, eight miles from
OSensborp, XIV, were totally destroyed
by fire few nights ago. Loss, 81, 500, on
which there was no insurance.
| Rev. Joln F. Hu ;hes, well-known
minister of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, and pastor Of the Method
! ist city missions. died at N ishyille, Teun.,
"a fe5# DAYS ago, after severe illness OF
|
| Stokes COUNTY, N. c., in 1914.
| An agree ment of consolidation of the
three street-railroad companies in KlOx
vile, Tenn, has been filed at N Nishvill e
for registration. The capital stock Of the
| consolidated company is placed at S110,-
| 300.
! The first regular train over the Yazoo
| branch Of the Georgia Pacific road made
the trip from Greenville to the Yazoo
river a few days since. Trains will be
run three times a week.
| Four convicts attempted to escape from
| the camp, mile from Charlotte, n. G.. a
| few days ago. Three were shot down by
the guards. Que succeeded in getting
away. The three were fatally wounded.
| Howard Anderson was hanged at Colds
| Ooro, n. c., few days since. De ath Uo-
/ Cured in seven minutes. The neck was
broken. The prisoner was stubbornly un
| communicative to the last, and made no
! talk or profession whatever. He was O
white man, and his crime was the murder
Of poor old barbecue vender named VIM.
/ Porter. at Goldsboro, last July.
Rev. B. w. Mcdonald, d. D., LII. D.,
| of Lebanon. Tenn, one of the most dis
! tinguished diyines in the Cumberlan
Presbyterian Church aud very accom-
| pli5hel literary man, is dead. He was q
native of Overton County and spent the
! greater part of his life of over sixty years
in Tennessee.
The colored citizens Of Florida recent
| Iy decided to invite Fred Douglass, Nine.
Salika, the colored singer, and Miss Hal
\ lie Q. Brown, the colored elocutionist, to
visit the Subtropical Exposition. A com
mittee Of invitation wa sent to Washing
ton to bear the message.
Reports from Henderson County. Tenn,
confirm the news OF the assault and mur-
der Of Miss Virginia F. Meals. The man
under arrest, charged with tho terrible
crime, is Joe Grogau, single man. Cir
cumstantial evidence is strong against
him.
George Foster, a leading young attorney
! II Tuscaloosa, Ala, committed suicide re-
| Gently by shooting himself through the
head upon the grave Of his wife in Ever
green Cemetery. When found he was
living PROSTATE across the grave with the
pis ol firmly grasped in his right hand.
Bette Lore. the fifteen-y old daugh-
ter Of John Lore, OF Davidson County,
suffered terrible death in a grist-mill q
lev days since. She was III the mill with
her uncle, who left her there alone while
lie went away. During his brief abseno
Z The girls clothes came in contact with a
rapidly REVOLVING shaft and carried her
| lround with each revolution, striking heI
| Iead upon the floor with terrible force
! When her uncle returned he found hvI
lead and her head beaten to shapeless
mass, striking the floor manv- TINS were
minute. u local nature ino
T1s1afure reduced the tax rate from nVe
nils To four and half mills for tue Hexc
tacal wear and four mills thereafter. IL
nade an additional appropriation OF sio''-
| no COR the support OF the puDhc schooI
vstem. making about one-thlru oi w.
| ,ate,s revenue subject TO the cause oi
,ncation. 1t appropriated Sooooo 10 TO,
rid the buiidilys Of the Agricul.ufai ~
acbanIcal College, established m9-
arical depa .tment in the BIND lnsti'
ne, and appropriated 800 to AID IN tns
| NO 70 tho monument on Capitol