The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-09-18
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

The steamship ALBANIA, for Havre, has
passed through the jetties drawing 2S feet 6
inches of water. Her cargo, the largest ever
carried from New Orleans, consisted of ST.
$50 bushels wheat in bulk, 1885, bushels OF
corn in bulk, and 100 sacks corn; total 1O4,-
GA bushels The steamship Hallamshire.
now loading with grain, will it is said draw
% feet, the largest draught ever carried out
the Mississippi If she gets out all right it
will effectually determine the success of the
jetties.
Thomas Riley, an old and respected citi-
zen of Mountain Township, Garland County,
Ark, was feeding his stock on the evening of
the 9TH, when, without warning, and appar-
emily without provOcation, Graves, his STEP
son and SON in-law, slipped up behind him
and discharged both barrels of double bar
relied shotgun, no less than sixteen buck
shot taking effect. The old man fell to the
ground, and almost Immediately breathed
his last The murderer is under arrest.
Elite, the siX-year-old daughter of
Chas. W. Tudor of Cynthiana, Nv, few
days since was taken very i'll. Her body
began to swell until it was about twice the
natural size, then turned TO a deep red
color. and in course of a day or two became
almost black, and covered with several hive
like sores. Dr. Henry Mcdowell, attending
physician, gives it As his opinion that she
was stung by large spider, and that
the poison has penetrated her whole sys-
| TEN.
Mrs. Minnie Farley, wife of Harry Far
ley, and daughter of t. j. Lewis of Hot
| Springs, Ark, committed suicide on the 9Th
! by shooting herself with pistol. She had
been married only three years, and it is be-
lieved domestic troubles were the cause Of
| the rash act.
! Miss Emma Lollard, beautiful young
! girl of Waco, Texas, died recently from the
| effects of dose of strychnine taken by mis-
take for quinine. Here last words referring
to her deceased father were: "Oh brother,
/ can see father! l am going"
! There are 800 Confederate soldiers buri-
ed in Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston. \
monument will be erected to their memory.
The Hotard plantation, on Bayou Crosse
Tete, Iberville Parish, Louisiana, was re-
Gently sold at Sheriff's sale for 800. The
plantation contained 700 acres of the finest
land in the State.
Lee Hing, Chinese laundry man, was
married in Houston recently to 4 negro wo-
man named Annie Savellita.
-Dixon's large stables at Calvert, Texas
were burned on the 4th, and u horses per-
ished in the flames.
-Hillsborough County has the largest
orange tree in South Florida. 1t measures
five feet and one inch in circumference, forks
three feet eleven inches from the ground.
each fork branches into four large limbs, and
it is 81 feet high and 40 feet from limb to
limb. This tree bears 10000 oranges. Will
liam II. Holden of Orange County also has a
very large orange tree that measures fOurfeet
nine inches i'll circumference.
Alexander Bryce, well known citizen
of OcOnee County, S. c., was shot and killed
recently by some party unknown. Bryce was
at one time quite an active Republican poll
tician. The cause of the assassination is
yariousy attributed to personal and politi-
cal malevOlence.
A strange and fatal disease of the mala-
rial fever type is creating CONSERVATION
among the people in three or four counties
in the western part of Georgia. Out of IS
persons attacked within the past three weeks
only three have recovered. The disease has
some of the characteristics of typhoid fever,
but is more rapid and fatal. The tongue
swells until the mouth can not be closed; the /
victim chokes and the blood breaks from the
ears, eyes, and nostrils. The body is covered
with large back spots as death approaches.
The disease is spreading without appearing
n q to h.a,
way to check it. No local cause can be as
signed for it. The people are panic-stricken.
Physicians from Atlanta have gone to in
vestigate the matter.
John Cline, a farmer, living seven miles
from Kentucky Town, Graysdn County,
Texas, was aroused by his wife in the night
and told that thieves were depredatng ON
his vineyard. Cline and two hired men
rushed out with guns and in the darkness be-
came separated. They met under an arbor
and the hired men, installing Cline for the
thief, fired and instantly killed him. His
breast was pierced with load Of buckShot.
After three weeks investigation of the |
official conduct of j. w. Renfroe, Treasurer
of the State of Georgia, the Special Commit
tee of the House of Representatives has re-
ported resolution that he be impeached of |
high crimes and misdemeanors. 1t is claimed |
RenfrOe has been drawing and pOcketing in |
terest on the States money. The resolutions !
were postponed one week.
DR.. Griffith, physician of Fort Worth, /
Texas, has been sentenced to three years
imprisonment for procuring an abortion on
his sister-in-law, Mrs. Cooper.
james johnson, well known negro of
Lexington, Va, made bet at the breakfast
table that he could eat more fruit than any
one present. Silas Jones and Peter Lindsay
took up the bet, and all three set to work
eating peaches, apples, watermelOns and
grapes. Johnson won his bet, having eaten
a whole watermelon and 4 half, one dozen
peaches, II punches of grapes and four large
apples. He was taken sick an hour later, and
died the same evening.
In Il quarrel in Herndon County, Ga, on
the 10th, between james Coyle and his father,
the former killed the latter. The difficulty
arose from dispute over chew Of tobacco,
in which old COyle applied some epithets to
young Coyle's wife, who had interfered. As
the old man advanced upon the young one
with stick, the son fired upon him with
shotgun and killed him instantly. Coyle
and his wife were arrested and refused bail.
Two children of a farmer named Home,
residing few miles from Dallas, Texas, set
ire to a barn while playing therein, on the
10Th. The barn with its contents was burn
ID to the ground, and the children, for some
'eason not being able to get out, were burn
ID to death.
There is no real economy in buying
eady made underclothing of poor
quality. The cotton soon wears out
md il more easily diScOlOred in the