The Russellville Democrat., 1889-03-28
SOUTHERN GLEANiNGs.

The Comptroller of the Currency has
 authorized the City National Bank, of l Birmingham. Ala, to begin business with
 0 capital of $100,000.
 1 The movement recently started by sew eral prominent steamboat men to estab- l fish an independent cotton-seed oil mill in New Orleans is assuming definite shape, and there is every reason to be-
 lieve that a strong company will be or 1 ganized.
 | John Davis, aged seventy two years, an inmate of the Anderson County tS. C.) | poor-house, eloped recently with Mrs. Margaret Compton, another inmate (be.h white), and were married in neighbor- ing village. The officiating minister de- clined to ac. until he had obtained the consent by telegraph of the Anderson County Commissioners.
 The negro exodus from North Carolina is about to take the form of colonization
 of negroes in Arkansas. Negroes are holding mass meetings almost nightly,
 and negro orators and preachers are urg- ing them to colonize. A circular was is- sued recently calling a meeting to organ ize the North Carolina Emigrant Asso- ciation," for the purpose of securing or ganized action toward colonizing all the negroes in the State in Arkansas, where they are offered lands for trife. The
 circulars say that white people do not
 want them here and they have determined to go.
 Governor Lowrey of Mississippi is try ing to secure for his State the new navy yard, the establishment of which was pro-
 vided for by the last Congress. In the City Court at Birmingham, Ala, Samuel Stephens has filed suit for divorce against his wife, Mary Ann Stephens, on the ground of desertion. The plaintiff is over seventy eight ears old and his wife is over seventy. B. Lacy Terry, who formerly lived at Florence, Ala. committed suicide at Rad ford, Va, few days ago. Young Terry was son of ex-Congressman Terry, of Virginia.
 Isham Cannon, who shot and killed his wife in Tuscaloosa, Ala, last spring, has just been captured and lodged in jail al Tallahassee, Fla.
 Dr. James Rodman, who has been su- perintendent of the Western Kentucky Lunatic Asylum at Hopkinsville, Ky, for twenty six years, will retire from office the expiration of his term next month. Owing to an appeal to the Supreme Court, the hanging of Harrison Blackburn and Sylvester Clarke, convicted of the murder of Captain Hamilton, did not take place at Aberdeen, Miss, March 2, &C., cording to programme.
 The City of New Orleans hos sued the members of the former Board of Assessors and their sureties for $50, 900, the amount alleged to have been paid to persons who were carried on the city rolls as clerks, but who performed no service for the city. The large estate of the late W. A. Thomas, at Richmond, Va, has been placed in the hands of a receiver. This is the latest legal move in the case in which the immense property is claimed by a colored natural daughter of Mir. Thomas.
 contract has been closed at Florence, Ala, between tho Florence Railroad & Improvement Company, the Florence Cotton & Iron Company and Philadel- phia cotton manufacturing company for the erection of $400,000 cotton manu- featuring plant at that place.
 The Governor of Alabama has appoint ed Hon. Wm. L. Martin, of Scotts boro, Jackson County, Attorney General to fill the vacancy caused by the appointment of Hon. Thos. N. Mcclellan to the Su- preme Court bench.
 
 of Rev. w. L. Rose, rector of St. Mary's Episcopal Church, at Birmingham, Ala, was burned to death few days ago. She was playing near the grate and her cloth ing caught fire. She was fatally burned before assistance reached her.
 The total coal production in West Vir- ginia, Maryland, Kentucky, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia, Georgia, Arkansas and Texas in 1888 was 1S00l, ,567 tons, valued at the mines at $l9,S16, TT, against total production of 15,261, TAB tons in 1887, valued at S16, 59s,697.
 Mir. Wethers, member of the corps of engineers engaged in surveying a new railroad line from Montgomery to Annis- ton, Ala. was drowned in the Tallapoosa river, few evenings since. The party were sounding the river for foundations for bridge, and Wethers' boat sank with him. The body had not been recovered.
 Pitts Jones, prominent young man of about twenty five. fell dead while walk ing along a road near Pikeyille, Tenn., a few evenings since. The cause is SUD- posed to have been heart disease, as he was in reasonably good health, to all ap- pearances, an hour before. He leaves a wife and child.
 Colonel Gabriel Monhegut, superin- tendent of the mint at New Orleans, has forwarded his resignation to Washington. When asked his reason for resigning, Colonel Monhegut stated that four years ago he believed that ''to the victors be- long the spoils," and that he was still of the same opinion.
 Wing Lee, who has been running an opium joint with laundry front at Louis- vile, Ky, for some time past, was arrest ed, few nights ago. and his place raided. He was caught in the act of preparing the pipe. Two women were in the house at the time. They were fined and Wing Lee was held to answer.
 General Jas. T. Holtzclaw, of Mont gomery, Ala, recently received letter from General Marcus J. Wright asking him to be one of one hundred incorpora- tors of society to preserve the battle- field of Chickamauga. All the States which had troops in the famous battle are to be represented-hfty from each of the two contending armies. It is proposed to obtain a charter from the State of Geor- gia and model society somewhat upon the plan of the Gettysburg Association.
 James Evans, white boy in the em- ploy of G. W. Harrison, living on the Wade Lyon farm. three miles west of Jackson, Tenn, plowed up an old fruit jar, a few days since, containing $4, 400 in gold and silver, supposed to have been buried by negro during the late war. The dates on the tcoins ranged from 1883 to 1856. Most of the silver pieces were dimes, half dimes and quarters.
 Captain Jack Hardy, the well-known sporting man, died at New Orleans, re- gently, after short illness, of paralysis of the brain Captain Hardy was born n Hillsboro, Scott County, Miss, fifty-fom years ago.
 Colonel Enoch Ensley, of Memphis. Tenn, has commenced the erection of an-