Huntsville gazette., 1892-02-20
SOUTHERN GLEAN,NGS,
Southern Fruit.

He has come to st. Louis in connection with
the consummation of the arrangements he has
been making in Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee.
Mississippi and south Missouri for the market
ing OF the vegetable and berry crops in those
points during the coming season. 1.-The fruit
and vegetables he said will be distributed
this year through ST. Louis to all northern
points and to Canada d. L. McLoud CT John
sonia, Ark, manager of the Mississippi Fruit
Growers and Shippers union. will have charge
of the distribution, and all the business will
be done through an Office to be opened here
about the 1st of next month. The effect
OF making St Louis a center for this trade will
be to bring buyers from all parts of the SCUM
try and to give it place in this respect as in
many others, superior to that held by Chicago
By the way, there will be peaches this sea-
son north of the south Missouri line. Their
growth has been destroyed by the frost of
the 18th of January. When the thermometer
sinks to l5 deg. below zero, no peaches in the
districts mentioned live, except those on
the Delaware coast. The salt water mist, Gu
riously enough, counteracts the effect of the
excessive cold. In southeast Texas and south :
ern Arkansas new commercial orchards win
bear fruit for the first time, and will ship from
seventy five to 100 cars of fruit day. So that
the trade will be unusually large"
Death of Capt. John Hughes.
Capt. John Hughes, the pioneer ship
builder of New Orleans, died the other
day, aged 81 years.
HE was born in New York in 1905, and settled
In New Orleans in 1927, when he went into the
ship building business. He established himself
In Algiers, opposite New Orleans, and was
largely instrumental In building up that town.
He built the first dock there, and did large
business both in docking and building vessels
He was elected to the legislature in 1853, and
held several other important offices. He built
the confederate ram Manassas, which was
burned when Farragut's fleet passed the
fort and a number of other vessels for
the defense Of New Orleans, and retained
to the time Of his death large amount of con-
federate bonds in payment for these vessels, the
bonds being the first ever issued by the confed-
crate states. His docks were sunk in the cap
ture of the city by Farragut, for which claim
OF 100000 against the United States govern
ment is still being pressed. After the capture
Of New Orleans Capt. Hughes went to Georgia,
where he had charge of the iron works of the
confederate government He returned to new
Orleans after the war, and went to work again
and amassed large fortune.
Swallowed a Wheel
A 3-year-old son of DR.. w. P. Law
renee, of Clarksville, Tenn, swallowed
brass toy wheel with no serious eff
feet after passing ont Of The +h--eot,
which in the opinion of medical au-
thority is considered miracle. The
wheel was three-quarters of an inch in
diameter, sharply notched around like
a clock wheel. and fastened to it was
piece of steel half an inch long and
as large as a lead pencil. The child
was almost strangled to death in the
effort to have the wheel disloged from
the throat, but after passing into the
stomach no bad result was experienced.
Mississippi Pension Legislation.
The lower house Of the Mississippi
Legislature has passed bill appropri-
ating Se4, 600 a year for pensions.
This will give those now ON the rolls $50
apiece. The present appropriation is only S30,
000 The bill provides that all INDECENT con-
federate soldiers, sailors and servants, and the
INDECENT widows of such, shall be entitled to
$50 per year unless the number at this rate ex-
feeds the appropriation, in which event the
amount shall be pro rated between them. 1t is
estimated that the INDECENT clause will put at
least $500 on the rolls in few years, com
pared with the ,2S0 now on it, If this turns
out true the amount that each will receive will
be only about $l2 apiece. This bill makes the
auditor the pension commissioner.
Commander Evans Mother.
Mrs Sallie Pepper, mother Of Com
nander Evans, of the United States
war vessel Yorktown, now in Chilian
waters, and sister of Mrs. Judge
Thomas, of Washington, ID. c., and of
the late Capt. James Jackson, of Alex
andria, Va. (who killed Col Ellsworth,
who had entered his residence and
seized the confederate flag that floated
over it,, was buried at Townsville,
Fairfax county, Va, the other day.
Her death occurred at Providence hos
pital, Washington, where she had gone
few days before for treatment.
Ex-Gov. Magrath Seriously Ill.
Ex-Gov. A. G. Magrath. says a
Charleston (S C) dispatch of the 11th.
had an attack of apoplexy to-day and
his recovery is doubtful.
fGov Magrath was born in Charleston in 1873
graduated at Harvard, and studied law under
the late Judge Story. At the breaking out OF
the war OF secession he was United States dis
trict judge, and, upon passage Of the ordinance
of secession, made a dramatic scene in court by
QlSrODlng Q1mSou Oh JuQ1Clal erm1ne. lie was
the last war governor of South Carolina, and
after the surrender was imprisoned by the
federal government in Fort Pulaski for some
time-l
Child Fatally Scalded.
The 6-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Nathan Wilczinski, prominent
Jewish residents of Greenville, Miss,
was very seriously, if not fatally. in
iured by falling into tub containing
boiling water. The tub was in the
yard, and the little one backed into it.
She was scalded 80 severely when her
clothing was removed that much of the
skin cam with it. Only one arm was
not scalded.
Death of Ex-Congressman Scales.
Alfred Moore Scales died at his home
in Greensboro. n. g.
HE was born November 26. 1927, In Rocking
ham county, n. c. He served in congress one
term before the war and for five consecutive
terms after the war. He entered the confederate
army as a private, was in manv of the most i'm
portant battles of that conflict, was twice
wounded, and before the close of the contest
was created brigadier general1
Good for Chattanooga.