The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-12-19
WEST AND SOUTHWEST.

WEST AND SOUTHWEST.
1t is reported that Jerry Little, famous IN
the Breathitt County {Ky.D vendetta, ha,
been killed. Litile, il is said, Was the worst
OF all the outlaws. He Received during hi,
life thirty-odd wounds. 1t is related that
upon being wounded three times, and while
lying apparently dead, an enemy approach.
ed ara holding shotgun over him poured
the contents into his face. Little then prop
ped his left arm up on log, and a. the man
who had shot him moved away, he fired a
pistol at him. The ball passed through hi.
BODY, causing instant death.
Six miles north Of Memphis, on the 9th,
John Harold, a desperate, WAS shot and
killed By Joe Devinney, whose life, and that
OF his brother, Harold had threatened.
Ham, the notorious Texas land-title forg-
er, has compromised with the State and
been sentenced 20 five years imprisonment.
William tombstone, formerly clerk in the
Saline County Bank, at Marshall, Mo-, ar
rested in Scotland, was examined on the
10Th on a charge Of forgery, and held for
eXtradition.
Two negroes, Henry Jackson and Henry
Martin, who had entered the house Of poor
old couple, Chales Socum and wife, at Me-
brAska City, and strangled the old man, raw
ished his wife, and robbed the house Of
- %, were taken from jail by a mob Of $40
men, on the 10Th, ami hanged to a tree.
The Kansas City Price Current says that
packing operations at that point continue
very scrive. The receipts OF hogs for the
week ending last Saturday were the heavi-
est ever hah in the market and of improved
quality as compared with the week previ
Gus, though pounds lighter than the cor
responding week in 1877. The total number
Of hogs packed to December shows an in
crease Of 46,5l9 hogs, but a falling off in
weight OF 10 81 % pounds to the hog from
November To December Z. 1S7S-Number of
hogs, 6I,ll9; gross average weight, 26,s02
pounds. lS71-Number OF hogs, q, 800; gross
average weight, 2s,422 pounds.
AT Stockton, Cal, on the 18th, Rarus trOt-
ting and Sweetzer pacing, gave an exhibit
ton for a purse Of $500, with 500 added if
Rarus beat Goldsmith Maids time, 2:14 10,
the best time ever made in the S ate. Rarus
trOtted the first mile in 2:16 1-2. A run
ming horse went with him the second heat,
which Rarus made in 2:14 IA. The track
was fast and in good order.
A Walls Walla, Washington Territory dis
patch says the trial Of Indians charged with
the murder OF Coggins, near Pendleton, Ore
gon, in the late war, has been concluded at
the latter place. One was found guilty, and
sentenced to be hanged January II. The
other two were discharged.
A dispatch from Omaha says two men
named Ketchum and Mitchell, accused of
stealing stock, and who recently killed a
herder named Stevens who was trying TO ar
rest them, were on Tuesday night, the 10th,
taken from the Sheriff OF Custer County
and his posse by mob OF armed men, who
tied them to q tree and burned them both to
death.
BY the explosion Of boiler in the Taylor
eOtton-press in Galveston, few days ago,
truckman named John Parker was killed
and the following were wounded: W. II.
Brown, assistant engineer, back, legs and
head; Ed. Brown, his son, head, back and
chest; Henry Hammer, face and head. A
man known as " Harry" the butcher, was
struck with a spike, and Andy Boyd was
hurt in the back. tits reported low water in
the boiler was the cause.
Near Brandon, Texas, on the 10th, two
warm friends, Joseph Love and Green
Wood, got into a quarrel, in which Wood
shot Love, killing him instantly.
A 9-year-old boy named John Washburn,
shot and killed another lad named Bonnie
Balon, for whom he had taken dislike,
near. Troy, Texas. The young murder
er fed, pursued by the Sheriff, and was
captured near WaXahatchie, 100 miles dis
tant.
A few days ago, some Chickasaw Indians
met in Pamela County, Texas, for a dance.
The constable Of the county, named Colbert,
was present TO preserve order, and dsarmed
all participants. This was accepted as an
insult by young man named Kemp. A
short time after, when leaving the house,
Colbert was shot in the breast, receiving a
full load OF buckshot fired by an unknown
asSassin.supposed TO be Kemp. Colbert fell,
and Immediately expired.
A Louisville Jury in the case of Geo.
Washington, negro, who horribly outraged !
Frances Otte, white girl, aged II years,
using knife TO accomplish his purpose, in |
October last, returned a verdict Of guilty on |
the 18th inst, and affixed the penalty Of |
death by hanging.
Short and Forman's extensive printing |
Office at Cleveland was badly damaged bv |
fire early on the morning Of the 14th. The !
loss on stock is probably $4,000, and as
close as it is possible to estimate the loss on
machinery, etc, is 10000, making the total
loss about $4,000. Insured.
Maria Little, colored, was found dead in
hrv ~,
Tenn, on the morning of the 18th. She had
been horribly murdered, it is supposed, by
negroes, two or three Of whom were arrest
ed. She was supposed TO have possessed
powers OF witchcraft.
Pryor Jones and Smith Jackson, colored,
were hanged at Bastrop, Texas, on the 14th,
in the presence OF 5000 persons, chiefly ne
groes. They were charged with murder,
and died firmly.
Frank LantTy, sged 20, was stabbed and
killed in attempting to quell disturbance
in 8 drinking saloon at Dallas, Texas, the
night OF the 18th.
In negro den at Louisville, on the 18th,
Archer Meyer, colored, was fatally cut with
q razor by another negro.
Charles Fouke, a young man from Green
vile, H., is missing from the steamer Gold
Dust. 1t was supposed that be had been
thrown overheard by a eolOred roustabOut.
4 negro named East was accused Of horse
stealing at MeDade, Texas, and was taken
from his cabin by masked men and riddled
with bullets.
The wifs Of Oliver Huston has been ar
rested st Delaware, o., charged with pois-
,ning her husband.
A young man named William Asburg, of
Robertson County, KY, committed suicide
" shooting himself through the head with I
, rife on the l5ih.
Daaiel Standifer, Of Comanche, Texas, !