The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-21


A number Of persons died from exposure
during the recent snow-stom in Wyom- !
ing Territory, and thousands Of sheep were
lost.
AT Austin, Texas, on the 18th, Alderman
Male plunged bowie knife into the heart
of Alderman Markly, killing him instantly.
The difficulty originated during session Of
the City Council.
The Texas Greenback Convention, held
at Houston on the l3th, adopted platform
and appointed an Executive Committees n
thOrized to call nominating Committee.
A convention of delegates from Southern
cities has recently been held at Jacksonville,
Florida, in anticipation Of the yellow fever
plague the coming summer, to take concert
ed action to prevent it. Among other trans
actions Of the convention, a memorial TO
Congress was adopted asking that the Gen
eral Government take charge Of quarantine
end place it under the care Of the marine
hospital service.
Hew Ainslie, a well known citizen OF
Louisville, KY, author Of a volume Of Scot
fish poems of considerable literary merit,
died on the 18th inst.
The Mobile Board Of Trade is considering
the subject Of a steamship line from Mobile
to Aspinwall, the mouth Of Magdalena Riv-
er, Barbados, Demarara and Trinidad,
Brown COble "a negro preacher, was hang
ed at Winchester, Tenn, on the 18th, for the
murder of Gardner, colored, in 1876. He
protested his innocence to the last.
The family of a farmer named Jesse Noe,
a rft,(
ly Of sausage made from diseased pork. All
were taken sick, exhibiting unmistakable
symptoms of trichina, and two have died.
The Cincinnati Gazette publishes dis
patches from points i'm Southern Ohio, In8i-
ana and Northern Kentucky, from which it
appears that the prospect for large crop
of wheat in that area is exceedingly good
The acreage sown last fall is larger than ever
known.
The Honest Money League" an associa-
ton formed from members of all political
parties, completed its organization In Chi
eagO on the 18th, and enunciated platform
of principles. @
The election of Rev. George +. Seymour
as Bishop Of the Springfield (1ll.) Diocese,
z. E. Church, has been confirmed by all the
Bishops and a majority of the Standing
Committees. ..s III dip -.-.. has ...-
Dwight Wheaton, the suspected murder
er Of James O'Neill the railway engineer,
at Bloomington, Ill.,, has been again released
from custody, there being no proof upon
which to found an Indictment.
Trimble's Bank, at Mount Gilead, O., sus-
pended on the 18th. .sr.E a
Henry and Margaret eraser, an aged
German couple, who owned farm in Jeffer-
son Township, Lee County, Iowa, were
murdered on the night of the 14th, and the
house burned in order to destroy evidence
of the crime. Their half burned bodies,
when taken from the ruins, showed unmis-
taxable evidence of the crime committed, the
husbands skull being crushed in and the
wife's body being pierced with bullets. They
had been collecting together money in anti
cipation of taking trip TO the Fatherland
the coming summer, and it is supposed they
had at least 81 900 in the house.
The banking house of Walker, Welsh &
Co., at Kokomo, Ind, has suspended. LA
bilties not stated.
The recent snow-storm i'm the Black Hills
was the severest ever experienced since the
settlement by white men. On the 10th the
snow lay five feet deep on level and all the
roads were blockaded. I.L 3 -
st. Patrick's day was celebrated this year
with more than the usual display in all the
larger towns and cities throughout the
country. r1 .H
Theron Barnum, one of the oldest and
best known hotel prOprietOrs in the country,
died in st. Louis on the 18th, aged 70 years.
At junction City, Kimball County, Texas,
4 few days since, a case involving the own
ership of yoke of oxen was to be tried, in
which Mayor Wright sued out writ Of
replevin against the Brashear brothers, Peter
and John. On the morning of the day
of the trial, the litigants met in front Of
the Justices office, when the defendants
whipped out their revolvers and commence
ed shooting at the plaintiff, one of their
shots taking effect and killing him in his
tracks. The Sheriff of the county, backed
by posse Of law-and-order citizens, then
appeared upon the scene, and the Brashear
brothers were riddled with bullets, their
only further execution being the taking of
of the Sherifi's brother, who was one of the
posse.
The Louisiana Supreme Court, on the
18th, in the ease of the State VS.. Thomas C..
Anderson, convicted in the Superior Grim
inal Court for publishing as true forged and
counterfeit election returns from the parish
of Vernon, ordered that the verdict of the
jury be set aside and reversed and the pris-
oner discharged from custody. The Court
held that Gin order to be forgery an in
strument which it is alleged is falsified
must, If true, be legally capable of commit
ting fraud. Nowhere in law is eOnsoli-
dated return required as a declaration of the
result, and its alteration or modification can
in no way affect election. 1t is the
essence of this crime that it should be COM
mitted by public officer, and on docu
ment which would change the result OF the
election. This was not done.n This deci-
sion of the Supreme Court virtually ends the
prosecution Of members of the Returning
Board. " a. L'-- .@f s- wa .'-a 1a.- p
Henry Weese and his brother law,
Frederick Knoch, have been arrested upon
suspicion Of being the mHrderers of Henry
eraser and wife in Lee County, Iowa, on the
night of the 14th. They were neighboTs of
the murdered couple, and there is strong
eircumstantial evidence against them.
The City OF Chicago has obtained judg-
ment against the bOndsmen of ex-Treasurer
Gage, whose defalcation in 1874 created
such sensation. The amount of the judg-
ment is SjO7,703 (the original defeit), and
in addition penalty of 81, 100000. The de-
PENDANTS have moved for new trial.
Navigation through the Straits of Mack
inaw opened on March 16-earlier than in
any previous year so far. as the records
show. In 1871 the Straits were opened as
early as April 3, and that was commented
upon at the time as a remarkable cireum-
stance. The exceptional character Of the
past winter is shown by the fact that the
Straits have at no time been completely
frozen over. .-.. ..-- Dol. -..s-r ..
EAST AND SOUTHEAST.
The powder-mill at Acton, Mass, blew up
on the 18th, killing two men.