Huntsville gazette., 1889-03-30
SOUTHERN GLEANIkGS,

birmingham. Ala, to begin business with
capital of 100000.
The movement recently started by sew
eral prominent steamboat men to estab.
l1sh all independent cotton-seed oil mill
IN New Orleans is assuming definite
shape, and there is every reason to be.
leve that strong company will be or.
ganized.
John Davis, aged seventy two years, an
inmate of the Anderson County Is. C.)
poor-house, eloped recently with Mrs.
Margaret Compton, another inmate (both
white), and were married in a neighbor.
ing village. The officiating minister de.
clined to act until he had obtained the
consent by telegraph OF the Anderson
County Commissioners.
The negro exodus from North Carolin
is about to take the form of colonization
OF negroes in Arkansas. Negroes are
holding mass-meetings almost nightly
and negro orators and preachers ara -rg.
ing them to colonize. A circular was is
sued recently calling meeting to organ
ize the 'sNorth 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 a trife. The
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
Etanhanc On tha orauud of dacarfi0r,
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 at
Tallahassee, Fla.
DR.. James Rodman who has been su
perintendent of the Western Kentucky
Lunatic Asylum at Hopki1 vile, KY, for
twenty six years, will retire from Office at
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 q, ac-
cording to programme.
The City of New Orleans has 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
we're 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 receiver. This
Is the latest legal move in the case in
which the immense property is claimed
by a colored natural daughter of Mr..
Thomas.
A contract has been closed at Florence,
Ala, between the Florence Railroad &
Improvement Company, the Florence
Cotton & Iron Company and Philadel-
phia cotton manufacturing company for
the erection of 100000 cotton manu-
featuring plant at that place.
The Governor of Alabama has appoint
I'D Hon. VIM. L. Martin, of SCOTS boro,
Jackson County, Attorney General to fill
the vacancy caused by the appointment
Of Hon. Thos. N. Mcclellan to the Su-
preme Court bench.
Carrie Rose, the ten -year-old daughter
of Rev. w. L. Rose, rector of st. Mary's
Episcopal Church, at Birming ham, Ala,
was burned to death few days ago She
was playing near the CRATE 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 1S,001, 567 tons,
valued at the mines at S19, 1916, TT, against
q total production of 15,261, TAB tons in
| 1887, valued at SIC, 1886
Mr.. Wethers, member of the corps OF
engineers engaged in surveying 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 PikeVille, Tenn, a
ew evenings since. The cause is sup
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 MS reSlgndIlOu 10 w dSHlHSIOu
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 housesat
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 iucorpora-
sors Of a 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. 1t 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 EN-
ploy Of G. w. Hurrison, living on the
-, FARM thraa .raC{ ~