Huntsville gazette., 1889-02-16
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS,


OF charges of rssurpation of power.
The mail-room of the steamer Sunbeam,
running between Vicksburg and Green
vile, Miss, was robbed, few nights ago,
Of a large number Of registered packages.
Margaret Fox, Of Green County, Tenn,
cut her little four-year- old daughters
throat with razor few days ago. She
had been demented for some time.
Captain j. T. Hearn shot and killed a
negro on the train near Fairburn, Ga,
few days since The trouble grew out of
refusal of the negro to give up his seat.
Ulysses Myers, of Talville, Tenn, was
accidentally shot and killed the other day.
He was chopping wood and pistol
dropped from his pocket. As it fell he
struck it with the axe and one chamber
exploded, the ball passing up almost
through the heart, causing instant death.
Chas. Bane, colored, an escaped con-
vict, was captured mar Jackson, Miss,
few days ago, after being shot fifteen
times by officers. He received wounds
from small shot. Bane is an old offender
as a burglar. This is his second term in
the penitentiary, and there are now large
number of indictments pending against
him for similar offenses.
John Overstreet and Jim Montgomery
engaged in dispute at Dayton, Tenn,
few days ago, during which the lie was
given by each. Montgomery seized Over
street by the throat and knocked him
down. Overstreet drew a revolver, and
after his fall shot his assailant in the
bowels, inf1icting a fatal wound. The
shooter is under arrest.
During the examination Of Joe Smith
and others, on trial at Cerulean Springs,
KY, charged with disturbing religious
worship, the prisoners became involved
in difficulty with the Ladd brothers. A
general fight ensued. Smith and his
brother were dangerously cut, and one OF
the Ladds was stabbed in the side, and at
last accounts was in critical state.
Mrs. General James A. Ekln died at
Louisville. KY, recently.
Mrs. Sallie Whitman, postmistress at
Woodsonville, KY, twenty years old and
very pretty, attempted to commit suicide,
few days ago, by taking opium.
At Covington, KY, few nights ago,
fire consumed q small dwelling and Mrs.
Mary Henderson, an inmate, perished in
the flames.
Richard Peters, one of Georgia's most
prominent and wealthy citizens, died
at Atlanta, recently, aged seventy nina.
He was OF weIl-known Pennsylvania
family, but lived most of his life in the
South.
The Rome correspondent Of the New
York Catholic New: telegraphs that Rev.
T. Heslein, pastor OF ST. Michael's Church,
New Orleans has been nominated to the
vacant See of Natchez.
slight earthquake shock was felt, q
few nights ago, in Lower South Carolina.
The vibration was such as is caused by
passing train and was of brief duration.
The recent sudden flight from Colum-
bus, Ga, Of Mr.. w. w, Bussey, acting
cashier Of the Eagle and Phoenix Savings
Bank and Eagle and Ph9nix Manufact-
uring Company, the largest in the
South, has created the greatest sensation
ever known in that section.
Captain James E. Waller, private Sec
retary to Governor Lee of Virginia, was
found dead in his Office at the State Cap
itol building with a bullet-hole in the
right side Of his head. No cause is as
signed for the deed.
Colonel James A. Woods died At Bloom
field, KY, recently, at the age of reventy-
four. He was in Texas in 1885 and took
part in the revolution. He claimed to
have beel at the massacer of the Almo
and, with two others, to have made his
escape, although the commonly accepted
story says that none escaped save wOm-
an, a servant and child.
George NJ Bradt, who was recently
tried at Chattanooga, Tenn, charged
with arson in setting fire to block of
buildings which was burned last summer,
entailing loss of $500, 900 and five lives,
was honorably acquitted, the jury being
out only twenty minutes. He is prOmi
nent business man, and widespread in
terest was attached to the trial.
Dick Eawes, the Birmingham (Ala.) ux-
oricide, is accused of yet another mur-
der. The theory has been advanced that
the decolnposed body found at the foot of
Red Mountain is that of Dick Thompson,
a railway detective who was known to be
intimate with the murdered woman in
her lifetime.
The citizens of Walker County, Ga, a
few miles from Chattanooga, Tenn, are
very much excited over the existence of a
genuine wild man, who haunts the mount
aims OF the county. He is described as
being OF gigantic stature, covered with a
thick growth Of hair, and he carries in his
hand a large knotted stick. He is said to
look as if he might be the twin brother of
Barnum's wild man.
A combination of Boston and Kansas
City capitalists have purchased $4,000
acres of land in the vicinity of Fort
Payne, Ala, and have organized the Fort
PAYNE Coal & Iron Company. The con-
templated Improvements include develop
ment of large iron ore and coal mines,
building of furnaces and coke-ovens, pot
terry and clay works, the establishment Of
National bank, etc.
Miles Irwin, who was tried recently at
Chattanooga, Tenn, on charge of mur-
dering Reuben Elliott last Noyem ber
was convicted of murder in the second
degree, and sentenced to the penitentiary
for eighteen years.
The Supreme Court of Tennessee has
affirmed the verdict Of the Wilson County
Circuit Court in the case of Mack Francis
and James Turner, both colored. who
were convicted for the murder Of Leonard
Martin last summer, and sentenced to be
hanged at Lebanon, on Wednesday, March
d next. Chief Justice TIerney delivered
the opinion of the court.
Geo. S. Oldfeld, president; H. C. Percy,
cashier: Fl. B. Nichols and H. l.. Page,
directors, were recently indicted by the
grand jury at Norfolk, Va, fa- making