The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-06-03
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

the building, put on HIS pants and went down
stairs. As soon as he began waiting on the
gang one Of them drew an immense bowie7
knife and struck bis victim over
the head, tearing the scalp open
from the forehead to the back
of the head Bishop fell and was then dis
patched with eleven stabs, literally pinning
him to the floor. The murder was accom-
plished so quietly that Mrs. Bishop, who
was upstairs, knew nothing OF 1t until the
assassins entered her apartment, after rob-
bling the store of $500 in coin. Mrs. Bishop
and her colored servant were most horribly
maltreated by the scoundrels. Bishop, the
murdered man, was from Tennessee. He
had been married but short time.
Prof. II. NJ. Gathright, Principal of the
Henderson (Texas) College, died at his home
on the oath. He was one of the most prOmi-
nent educators in the South, having been at
the head of the State Agricultural and Me-
| chanical College at Bryan from which he was
/ deposed recently in disagreement among
the faculty of that institution. He was a
Missssippian, and had filled prominent edu-
cational positions in that State.
AT Abingdon, Va, on the 9th, VIM.
Rife and S. A. Jackson, well known citizens
and business men, had shooting affray,
| growing out of business quarrel. Rife was
! shot four times, causing death in short
/ time jackson was arrested.
! "A man named Waggaman, who, with
| another named Bennett, was engaged driv-
| ING a large herd northward, camped three
! miles from Cleburne, Tex. They had quar-
| relied about hours of relieving each other,
| and finally Bennett stabbed his companion,
! killing him almost instantly. The murderer
escaped.
| The Southern Presbyterian General As
| sembly at its recent session at Charleston,
| S. c., in answer to the overture on the sub
! iect Of women preaching, took decided
ground against this innovation, but refused
| to take steps toward so amending the Book
of Church Order as to make its language
more distinct. The next meeting will be
held at CovingtOn, Ky.
! Mrs. Hannah Green, aged fifty five, liv-
ing with her brother in Louisville, KY, on
the oath committed suicide with arsenic.
The cause of the deed is enveloped in mys-
terry, and the only theory advanced is that
she sold cottage some time ago and went
to New York, where it is thought she lost
the money, causing alteration Of the mind.
Col. Blanton Duncan has entered suit
against the Louisville COWrier-JournGl
Company for S25, 900 for SANDER, the cause Of
the suit being an article published lately by
that paper charging Col. Duncan with being
connected with the "Bloody Monday" affair
of 1855. The Colonel claims to be damaged
to the above amount.
At Hampton, Ga, thirty miles from At
Ianta, on the 26th, Dr. D. F. Knott, in diff
ficulty with George Lee, fired at him, and
Col. B. F. McCollum, rushing in, took
Knott's pistol from him. John Mckinley,
Town Marshal, soon came up and demanded
the pistol Of McCollum, who refused to give
it up. A fight ensued. Finally they were
separated, and McKneely went away. Soon
he returned with double -barreled shotgun
! and started to where McCollum stood. Nc
Collum picked up a rock, and said: "Are
Won going to shoot?" McKneely said, " Yes,
= ou,'' and fired both barrels. McCol-
lum was literally riddled with Shot, and fell
dying to the ground. The murderer fled
and Gov. Colquitt has offered a reward for
his apprehension.
w. S. Parkes, better known as "Uncle
Buck" of Vanceburg, Ky, for many years
Justice Of the Peace, committed suicide by
drowning in the Ohio River. Deceased was
eighty-one years Of age.
A Maysville (Ky.) dispatch Of the 25th
says the regulators have cut the telephone
wires between Catlettsburg and Louisa, and
have posted notices all over the county,
warning the civil authorities not to attempt
70 hold Court. Several of the Lawrence
Grand Jury are in Louisa, guarded by the
Sheriff's posse, afraid to venture to their
homes. The excitement in Catlettsburg is
intense, and troops were momentarily eX-
pected.
Mrs. B. NJ. Davis, the wife Of prOmi-
nent citizen of Bryan, Texas, had it given
out last September that she was drowned in
the bav. Her husband and friends mOurned
her as dead, held funeral services, etc. 1t
now transpires that she elOped to New York
with a man named McGraw, who has re-
Gently become conscience -smitten and in
formed Mrs. Davis father of the whole af-
fair. The development creates a sensation
throughout the State, as the parties are all
widely known.
Ed. helms, the negro who assassinated
some time ago, near fernando, Miss, was
captured on the oath in Tunica County, Miss,
by three cOlOred men, who secure the SS5t
reward offered for his body dead or alive.
The assassin was lodged in Jail at fernando,
but it was generally believed he would be
strung up without trial.
-Stonewall Jackson's widow and hel
daughter, Miss Julia Jackson, will unvei
the Winchester, Va, monument to Stonewal
on June 8.
During a recent rain storm the family o.
P. NJ. Rountree, living near San Saba, Texas
took refuge in a cave which soon became in
undated, and two little boys were drowned
The remainder Of the family were rescued
in perishing condition.
j. W. Paramore, President Of the
Texas and st. Louis Railroad Company, ha:
closed contracts with III. NJ. Vaudeville fol
the last of the uncompleted portion Of the
road, between Tyler and COrsicana, dis
lance of seventy five miles, to be completed
October 1.
The Louisiana Republicans have nomin,
ated for Congress Taylor Beattie, Georg'
Williamson, James S. Matthews, and Charlie
B. Anderson, for the Third. Fourth, Fifth
and Sixth Districts respectively.
An institution peculiar to this
country and climate, writes Colorado
correspondent, is the burro mule-a
cross between half-civilized mule and
a iackass. 1t is long-eared concern
about the size of Newfoundland dog.
Its carry ING capacity is marvellous, eS-
, nnciallr as discovered by a Mexican.