The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-10-23
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

| younger boy, girl, and other children, rent
! ed, worked and occupied a cabin on a farm
/ of John Aldridge, four miles from Orange
vile, in Fannin County, Texas. George AID
ridge, a son of John, accused Charley,
Esther's son, with stealing, when Charley
and two other negroes attempted an assault
on Aldridge, but were prevented by
| two white men. AT midnight, old
! Esther's house was surrounded by party
| of armed and masked men. They called for
| Charley, but were refused admittance, when
/ the maskers fired into the house, wOunding
Esther's daughter in the forehead. Charles
Justice, another negro who lived in the fam
/ lily, returned the fire, hitting one of the
maskers, Samuel Gilley, in the stomach
and wounded him MORALLY. The mask
ers then became furious and went to
! breaking down the door, when Justice es-
capped by climbing through hole in the roof.
John Washington and two boys also escaped
in the darkness. The masked men then
forced old Esther and her children to come
out, and, as they did so, fired upon them,
killing both old Esther and her son Charley.
George Aldridge and Thomas Fullerton were
arrested, charged with being members of the
party, and were jailed, in default of $4,000
bail.
C. p. Williams, young man living in
Cleveland County, n. c., got into dispute
with his father the other night abouta mule.
His stepmother stepped up and said some
thing about the matter which offended him,
when he drew pistol and shot her dead
The father and son were both drunk. The
murderer fled to escape arrest.
The principal business portion of Bryan,
Texas, was DESTROYED by fire on the 18th.
The fire originated in a lamp explosion.
A young negro employed upon the plan
tation Of Isaac Sneel, near Concordia, n. c.,
became offended at something Sneel said to
him, and for revenge forcibly abducted
Sneel's daughter, aged about Is. \ posse of
citizens started out to recover the child, but
had not been successful when this report
was sent.
In street fight at Henderson, Texas,
on the 18th, Charles Alexander stabbed
Ward Cornelius in the bowels; the latter
then shot his assailant in the shoulder, and
the fight was ended by Alexander shooting
Cornelius in the abdomen, from the effects
of which he died.
The first session of the new Federal
District Court opened at jefferson, Texas,
on the 18th.
Bill Davis has been sentenced to be
hanged at Lockhart, Texas, Nov 6, for the
murder of Dolly HOdspath.
The Georgia General Assembly adjourned
sine die on the 18th after an adjourned ses
sion of 1O6 days, during which time two i'm
parchment trials took place. Also con-
demnatory and very damaging reports were
made by other special Investigating commit
tees against the heads of other departments,
making this the most memorable Legislature
in the history of the State.
Miss Ruth Wood, beautiful and ac
complished young lady of Granville Court
house, n. c., recently eloped with blind
man, named Weaver. The latter is a we'll
to-do farmer, young, handsome and intelli-
gent, and the only objection Ruth's parents
bad to the marriage was that he was blind.
The Jail at Bryan, Texas, was set on fire
and burned on the morning of the 14th, by a
negro horse-thief from Grimes County, in
order to escape. His cries were not heard
till too late, and he persisted in the flames.
Collector Wade, of the Third District of
Georgia, informs the CommissionerOfI Internal
Revenue that a special force in attempting to
destroy an Illicit distilery in Ebert County
were repulsed by a body Of armed men and
obliged to return to Elberton for additional
aid and arms.
The Memphis AUd7dpche proposes that
the old town be entirely depOpulated and
destroyed, and that a new Memphis be built
at a place known as Bartlett, IL miles dis
tant. 1t suggests that ''half a dozen rail-
road tracks" could do all the transporting
between the new city and the river.
In Martin County, \. c., on the 18th, Peter
Freeman was waylaid and shot and killed by
Robert Outeridge. Freeman'S wife was ar
rested as an accomplice in the murder, her
object being to get rid of her husband so as
to marry Outeridge. The guilty parties are
all under arrest.
AT COrsicana, Texas, Rev. 7. NJ. Good
night, of the New Holiness sect, who last
winter published pamphlet purporting to
be the visions of a prophecy, has been adj
judged crazy bya jury, and will be sent to
the asylum.
-GrasshOppers have appeared in large
numbers in North Texas, but no damage
from them is reported.
A flourishing whisky ring is reported to
have been unearthed in CASTOR County, y.
c., by United States detectives. The local
revenue officers and the distillers were work
ing very profitably together, so it is said.
John Mills went to Mooresville, n. c.,
with bale of cotton, sold it, drank heavily
during the day, and in attempting to get in
TO his wagon to go home he fell to the ground,
striking upon his head, and was instantly
| killed.
king Fisher, the notorious ruffian and
! frontier murderer, who escaped from the
Rangers, near Laredo, has voluntarily sur
rendered to the authorities at Uvalde, Tex
as, and will stand trial On numerous indict-
| ments.
AT Moorehead, KY, recently, Alvin Bow
ling, a saloon keeper, shot and killed Joshua
Hammond, while the latter was rushing at
him with a large butcher-knife. The killing
was considered iustifiable.
Col. John NJ. Wade, one of the members
of the Convention which framed the Declara-
ton of Independence of Texas, and vet
eran of San Jacinto, died at his home in
Austin on the 9th inst.
In a shooting encounter at Hardinville,
Shelby County, KY, on the 18th, between
Alfred Bentley and James Bright, the latter
was fatally wounded. Bright was the ag-
gressor, and fired twice at Bentley, but the
latter was the better marksman. He was
not hit.
Is NOT an habitual inebriatc en- insane