The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-02-05
SOUTHERN GLEANINGs.

can not live longer than n few months.
There are at least 80 others, some of whom
are confined to their beds, who in all proba-
bility can not live longer than the latter part
Of this spring, and about 200 others who are in
state of debility and weakness. practically
uniting them for duty or work. Bad drain
age, accumulated filth. oyercrowded cells,
yards and workshops, and lack of proper
food, are given as the principal evils to be
remedied.
Two tramps undertook to rob and muir
der man in Tuscumbia, Ala. but they were
weak from long privations, while he was
robust, and the consequence was that he
killed one and fatally wounded the other.
Mrs. Hennen, the grandmother of the
Hood orphans, has concluded to pur-
chase home for the children
at Austin, Texas. The house and
lot have already been selected at a cost
of about $1,000, and she will remove there
with her ten sacred charges on the first of
May.
r. The Sugar-planters' Association of
Louisiana have appointed a committee to
thoroughly investigate the subject of mark
citing sugar, with view of correcting exist
ing abuses.
The difference between the horse and
the mule market in this city is just this,
says the Atlanta Constitution: A droyer
can get any price that he may ask for good
mule, whereas horse has to be sold at any
price that he will bring.
Two emigrant agents, Windley and
Hughes, were arrested at Madison, Ga, on
the oath, charged with encouraging emigra-
ton from Georgia to Mississippi. The law
provides that emigrant agents shall pay tax
of $500 for carrying on such business. The
two were subjected to trial and fined in the
aggregate S1S3. Evidence showed that these
agents had inadequate an inroad into the
working class of the community, causing
scores of violations of contracts between
farmers and their laborers.
"A few days since, r. F. Avery & Son,
pillow manufacturers, Atlanta, Ga, received
two barrels, which, being opened, were
found to contain three corpses, packed in
charcoal. As they dealt in no goods of that
kind the police were notified, and search re-
vealed the fact that they were shipped to
Avery, druggist, for the Atlanta Eclectic
Medical College. The circumstance, with
the recent graveyard transactions, created
unusual excitement.
The South Carolina Supreme Court has
decided the Tax Levy Act passed by the last
Legislature invalid, and refuse the Attorney
Generals petition for mandamus against the
Comptroller General to compel him to pro-
ceed with collection. There will be an ex-
ira session in February.
Andrew Irwin q (yaOrUia wife
was arrested in Kaufman County, Tex, on
the 18th, and will be turned over for trial.
AT sherman, Tex, on the night of the
9th, City Marshal Sam Ball undertook to
eject from place known as the cred
Light" a young man named ALI. johnson
who was on ''hurrah." johnson pulled
a revolver and shot the Marshal through the
right breast, when the latter fired and shot
Johnson three times, causing instant death.
Another man, supposed to be JohnsOn's
brother, then shot Bail in the face. The
latter's injuries are very serious. but the
physicians say he may recover. johnson
was 26 years old and the son of a respectable
farmer of Bonham, Fannin County.
Serious rioting occurred recently at Col
umbia and Liberty Furnaces, Shenandoah
County, Va, on account of the substitution
of colored for white laborers. The white
workmen attacked the negroes, two of the
latter being shot and seriously wounded.
The Sheriff called on the Governor for mill
tary assistance, and company was ordered
from Winchester to the locality of the at
tack.
S. o. Edmonson Of Enterprise, Miss,
has received a letter from A. S. johnson,
Land Commissioner at Topeka, Kansas, re-
questing him, if possible, and for humanity's
sake, 10 prevent any more negroes from
leaving for Kansas, the condition Of the large
number of those now there being described
as truly pitiable.
Extensive car-works Fare to be estab-
Iished at Marshall, Tex, backed, it is said,
by capital stock of 81 ,000, 200. The COM
pany is styled the " Marshall Car and Foun-
dry Company ;" with Charles Cobb of New
York President and John F. Dickson of
Marshall Vice-President and General Man.
ager. Jay Gould is said to be fostering the
enterprise, with special reference to the eX-
tension OF the Texas Pacific Railroad.
in Grantham Township, Wayne County,
n. c., Haywood and Wright Rainer, broth
ers, quarreled regarding a horse and buggy
owned by them in partnership. Haywood
picked up bar and struck his elder brother
a blow on the head, crushing his skull and
killing him. The murderer escaped.
Rev. P. Cyrus Lundy, colored, has en-
tered suit against the Texas Central Rail-
road Company for $4,000 damages under the
Civil-rights act, for election from a first
class coach ut Dallas, Tex.
The Virginia Republican State Conven-
ton has been called to meet at Staunton on
the Dist of April. b.
E. W. Cole, President of the Nashville
Chattanooga and st. Louis Railway, has been
rendered the Presidency of the Cincinnati
Southern, and will probably accept it. BY
this means he will secure control of =
through line from the Ohio River to Savan
nah via the West Atlantic and Georgia Cen
trail.
The principals and seconds in the Burke
Hearsey duel at New Orleans have been ar
rested and held to bail. The penalty under
the law for fighting a duel in Louisiana is
500 fine and imprisonment for two years;
seconds, 500 fine and Imprisonment for one
year.
John Koerber, music teacher of At
lanta, Ga, committed suicide on the 9th by
shooting himself through the head at his
residence. Poverty and intemperance the
cause.
Goodness and prompt acUion in time
of danger is a great thing. A volunteer
fireman in New Hampshire entered a
dwelling threatened with destruction,
dashed Up stairs, threw a mirror and
lamp from iu upper window on to the
heads of the people below, took an AK
and chopped six holes in Brussels car
nated floor iarrinG off the mastering