The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-12-11
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

were rival candidates for Mayor and each
was making an earnest canvass, particularly
among the cnlored voters. Mansfield gave
the negroes a supper; Walker intruded with
some Of his supporters;s Mansfield. undsr-
took to eject him, and in the personal strug-
gle that ensped Mansfield struck Walker over
.tIiehead with club. The latter then drew
a revolver and fired at Mansfield, killing him
Instantly. The town was fearfuily excited
over the event and further trouble was ap-
pretended. LAX sts tAfiht -kJ8
At New Orleans, on the 4th, W. W
Beasley, while under the influence OF liquor,
seized Mrs. NJ. J. Hebert, a clearinghouse
keeper, and. threw her from third-story
gallery, killing her almost instantly.
AT Nelsonville, Ky, the other day, two
year-old son Of DR.. S. B. Smock was fatally
burned by up-setting cauldron of boiling
grease while playing in the yard.
AT Waxahatchie, Tex, two negroes, Ben.
Haynes and Dan. Lewis, who plotted to
murder a white man, Jas. S. Davis, have
been arrested. Davis had his suspicious
aroused by their conduct. One OF the ne
groes hired the other to assist him in dig
cling the grave. The plot was to kill Davis
when he stepped out into the horse lot after
dark, then carry the body out and bury it.
The object of the crime is not stated.
AT dance near Waco, Texas, not long
since, Bud Wood got mad because young
lady refused to dance with him, provoked q
quarrel with VIII Currie, in which several
shots were exchanged and two or three per-
sons were wounded, and finally wound up by
shooting dead a man named Albert Chech.
-LJudge Cowan and Hiram Cole, two well
known citizens of Hunt County, Tex, had a
lawsuit which ended in blood. Cole and his
son, the latter armed with hammer, went
to Cowan's house. When Cole entered the
yard, Cowan came up with a gun and or
dered him to halt. Not obeying, Cowan shot
him dead, also shooting and dangerously
wounding his son.
The law passed at the late session OF the
Alabama Legislature prohibiting the pur-
chase OF cotton in seed has been decided I'M
constitutional.
AT Marietta, Cobb County, Ga, on the
night of the 1st, an old and respectable white
lady, living alone, was most horribly out
ragged by negro named Thompson, who Sc
cured admission to the house by saying he
had letter for her. Thompson was arrest
ed, and as Court was IN session he was prom
ised an immediate trial. 90 .....
"A number of negroes, 30 or more, passed
through Dallas, Texas, on the 9TH, on their
way back from Kansas, where they went
with the exodus blacks few weeks ago.
Several families who had started for Kansas
returned home after meeting the returning
negroes. Fearful accounts of suffering by
cold and hunger were related by those re-
turning. They were all broke" hav-
ing been robbed, as they allege, by land
sharks in Kansas. L., -.t..i.-
r. II. Savers, late mail agent, running
on the Kentucky Central Railroad, has been
found guilty of stealing money from letters,
and sentenced by Judge Baxter to three
years in Auburn On. " Penitentiary.
Judge Elliott, only brother of the late
Judge Elliott, of the Kentucky Court of APP
peals, killed by Buford, has been found
guilty of illicit distilling, mOonshining,"
and sentenced by Judge Baxter to- four
months in Covington Jail.
$. & 4. Rosenbaum and S. and A. Resen-
baum & Schwab, doing business in Louis
vile, Winchester and Paducah, KY, have
gone into bankruptcy. Liabilities about
SG5, 0G0: assets not stated. .I tl.. a..
The steamer Henry W. Frank, from
Memphis for New Orleans, sustained $1,000
damage by a storm encountered on the 9th
at Helena, Ark, blowing down chimneys,
derricks, ETC., and badly damaging the cab
in. Sheproceeded to New Orleans where
she Will undergo repairs. @
Edward Day, a boy of IS, quarreled with
his uncle, Charles T. Day, living near Knox
vile, Tenn, about Edwards dissipated hab-
its. The quarrel resulted in fight, when
the boy drew knife from his sleeve and
plunged it into his uncle's heat, killing him
instantly. The boy has been arrested, and is
now in the Knoxville Jail. i'.. ..
DIR. d. NJ. Wilson, Postmaster at Walnut
Hill, in Parala County, Texas, and his
deputy, young Ramey, have been arrested on
a charge of mail robbery. Ramey is reported
to have escaped from his captors. Sundry
violations are charged against them, all Of
which Ramey has confessed. r
The principal in the bOdy-stealing bust
ness at Chattanooga, Tenn, is a man named
Jackson, who was a candidate for Alderman
at the recent election. The express office
books show that he had shipped several sus-
picfous boxes recently TO parties in Cincin.
natl and Atlanta, and in his possession wher
arrested was found letter from j. W. Will
liams Of Atlanta, acknowledging the receipt
of body, and for which SO was inclOsed
Boxes were shipped as containing fish OF
furs. r..- ...
A recent dispatch from Atlanta, Ga.
saws that number of q. S. Deputy Mar
lshals, who had been raiding about tn
county, were surrounded by a large force u
armed moonshiners and forced to surrender
their prisoners, among them man alleged
to be the leader of the mOonshiners. The
Deputies surrendered without a fight, but
one of their number was wounded and LEFT
in fence corner for dead by the mountain
GERS. The Deputies have left the county.
Sheriff Wood and three Deputies, Green
Blackstone and Davis, went to arrest a ne
gro desperate named Sparks, at his house
three miles from Navisto, Tex. Sparks rar
out, and finding himself face to face with al
officer shot al him. The officers returned
4 the fire, killing Sparks. '----
! IA feed store at Austin, Tex, was burned
! on the morning of the 3Oth. After the fir,
was extinguished, the charfed remains OF 9
Young man named Billy Watson, who slept
I in the store, were found in the ruins. 1t i
suspected that Watson was Killed and The
place set on fire to destroy evidence of the
crime. '' ~, q. "
How Bar-roOm Liquors are Made
There NAV be seen daily on Chestnu
Street, says the Philadelphia Bulletin, {
man dressed in faultless apparel, with c