The Russellville Democrat., 1889-02-21
SOUTHERN GLEANiNGS.

Tor, an clipping couple from Caldwell County, Ky, were united in marriage at the depot in Clarksville, Tenn, few days ago, Squire Caldwell officiating.
 The Wallace Election law, which is mod eled after the Australian law and applies to the city of Louisville, Ky, has been de. cided to be constitutional by the Kentucky Supreme Court.
 Warrants have been issued against s. H. Mullen, colored justice of the peace al Donaldson, La., and one Edmund, a clerk for brutal assault on one Perry,a a colored man.
 Legislation on the Board of Health bills at Tallahassee, Fla, is rapidly crystalizing into the form of opposing or not opposing restriction of commerce with Cuba to and
 tom the Gulf ports of Florida.
 F.. H. Oldenburg, a grocer, sixty years old, was murdered at his store in Charles. ton, S. C., a few nights ago, by two un. known negroes, who had entered the store for the purpose of robbery. The murder CTS escaped with the till, containing about fifty dollars.
 The news of the terrible death of Henry Womac, respectable young farmer, who lived six miles below Monroe, Ga, from a cat bite is now followed by that of his wife dying from the same cause.
 Henry Wallingford tobacco trader, thirty five years old, hanged himself in his fathers barn, in Mason County, Ky. recently. Poor health was the probable cause.
 Captain Archie McGehee, clerk of the United States Court for the Southern Dis trict of Mississippi, died at Jackson re- gently after only a few hours illness. He was between sixty-five and seventy years of age, and was among the oldest and most respected citizens of the State.
 The local optionists were defeated in a recent election at Jackson, Miss.
 A negro pauper jumped from the steamer feathers into the Mississippi river at Vickburg, Miss, a few nights ago, and was drowned.
 Alma Bird killed Alice Johnson at vicksburg, Miss, few days ago. They luarreled over a man.
 The courthouse at Donaldsonville, La, was destroyed by fire a few days ago. Part of the public records were lost.
 The Comptroller of the Currency has authorized the American National Bank )f New Orleans, La, to begin business, with capital of S200,000
 A new fair company has been organ ized III Henderson, Ky. with capital stock of s25, 900.
 Colonel W. B. Dunn, for sixty years a resident of Mobile, Ala, and prominent citizen and lawyer, died recently, aged sighty-one.
 An application was recently made for a charter for an electric railroad from Chat :anooga, Tenn, to the famous battle field of Chickamauga. It will be ten miles long and cost 800, 900.
 MT. Conrad Weaver died of old age re- gently at his home near Bluff City, Tenn. Perfectly credible records show that he vas one hundred and one years ten months and eight days old.
 The man who assassinated Joseph Par iue at Helena, Ark, recently, while the latter was playing billiards, has been captured. His name is Coghill and he is relative of the postmaster at Wynne, Ark.
 The Alabama House of Representatives ias passed a bill reducing the tax rate in that State for 1890 from 5 to Az mills, and | Tor 1891 from 414 to mills, making the former 45c on the Sl00, and 40c for the latter year.
 | Advices from Manchester, Ky, says that five men implicated in the recent midnight assassination of Bill Szemore and Carr Smith have been arrested and .odged in jail. Sixteen men are said to nave done the bloody work.
 Judge Ridley, of the Nashville (Tenn.) Criminal Court, has declared war against the pool rooms, and issued warrants for .he arrest of persons who may be fo und conducting them.
 | Mrs. Wilhelmina Hiebelschauser, a 1. wealthy widow of Crestline, O., commit ted suicide at Louisville, Ky, few days ago. She had been in low spirits since the death of her husband several months ago, and was visiting her daughter in Louisville in hope If finding relief. Two masked men broke into the house of John Arterburn at Nabob, Ky, few nights ago, and took $740 in cash and notes to the value of several thousand | dollars. The money had just been re- ceived by MT. Arterburn, and the robbers made Mrs. Arterburn turn it over to | them, threatening her with death if she | refused.
 l The Enterprise Manufacturing Company at Birmingham, Ala, has reorganized with capital of S200, 900, and will build cotton mill at once. Great interest at- taches to the enterprise, as it is the first | attempt to add cotton manufacture to the iron industries at Birmingham. Wm. Webb, who was convicted, recent | ly, in the Davidson County tTenn.) Grim inal Court of assault with intent to kill, and sentenced to imprisonment in the | penitentary for three years, made an un- successful attempt to commit suicide by drinking a large quantity of deodorized tincture of opium, which he found in the cell of fellow prisoner. Prompt action saved his life.
 J. D. Berry was suddenly taken i'll and died, few days since, at Greenyi He, Miss, of apoplexy. Sarah Brown, a mu- tatto servant girl in the employ of T. P. Price, @ whose house Berry died, asked for permission to look at the remains, which was granted her. When she entered the room in which the body was lying she fell to the floor dead.
 A Baptist preacher at Water Valley, Miss. joined a mob, few days since, who were bent on lynching a negro murderer. He pleaded for law, religion and good order with such force as to convert the crowd, and the negro was placed in the local jail. An night another mob deter mined to do the lynching, but found that the prisoner had been spirited away by the sheriff Up to latest reports no lynoh- ing had occurred.
 Virginia contains 70, 125 square miles. A new gin house which had just been completed by Mrs. Bookout ou the She'll ridge plantation, in Sunfower County, Miss, was totally destroyed by fire few days ago. About seventy five bales of cotton and quantity of seed were burned. The gin house is said to have been ono of the finest in the county, and was equiped with the latest improved machinery; no insurance.
 The water works in Vicksburg, Miss, constructed by k. B. Bullo ek X Co.,, of New York have been completed and the supply turned on to consumers. The standppes will be completed in Q few weeks.
 The spring meeting of the Memphis Jockey Club begins April p.
 In the Fayette (Ky.) Circuit Court Err nest B. Tingle was recently sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary for killing