The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-10-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
THE epizooty has reached Cincinna,

THE epizooty has reached Cincinnati.
JACQUES OFFENBACH, the favorite
opera-bouffe composer, has just died in
Paris.
PROF. BENJAMIN PIERCE, mathema-
tieian and Professor at Harvard College, is
dead.
THREE conductors and baggagemen
on the Kansas Pacific Railroad have been ar
rested, charged with a systematic scheme for
swindling the company by selling forged
tickets to passengers, who were instructed TO
leave Denver on certain trains whereby the
bogus tickets were taken up by one Of the
conductors engaged in the conspiracy. 1t Is
not stated to what extent the scheme had
been worked.
Mrs. FANNY EAsTERLING was burned
to death i'm her own house at Georgetown,
S. c., on the morning of the eth.
JACOB BARR was thrown upon a cir
cular saw in a mill near Mount Gilead, o.,
and completely bisected, death resulting in
stantly.
A GAMBLER named "Doc." jenkins
died at the card table in Charlotte, n. C, on
high stakes, and was Just in the acto throw
ing down the winning card when he dropped
dead. Heart disease, aggravated by the eX-
element Of the game, was the cause Of his
death.
CHARLES RoEDELL and Charles
Freeman were thrown from a scaffolding to
the pavement, distance Of Twenty-Five feet,
at Bradford, Pa. both being killed. The ae-
cident was caused by the breaking of rope.
A DIFFICULTY occurred a few days
since at Concordia, Bolivar County, Miss,
between b. +. Owen, Justice Of the Peace,
and J. W. Glover, a farmer. Owen was
holding his court. Glover made disturb
ance. and was ordered under arrest by
Owen. Pistols were at once drawn by both,
and firing commenced. Owen fell dead.
/ Glover ran about three hundred yards and
fell, fatally wounded. He died after linger-
ing eight hours. Both young men were of
/ good standing in the community.
IT was reported on the Sth at Del
Norte, Colo, that young Jackson, who was
captured by the Indians, had met his death
| at the stake.
Two cases of yellow fever were re-
ported from Key West, Fla, ON the Sth.
/ JOSEPH MUHRER, farmer residing
/ in the vicinity Of La Crosse, Wis, was re-
turning home from town in an intoxicated
| condition, in company with his wife. Having
| lighted his pipe, he threw the burning match
/ into the loose hay with which the wagon
was filed. 1t blazed up so suddenly that
| the clothing Of both was set on fire, and
/ Muhrer was fatally and his wife seriously
| burned.
JAMES NJ. STRIKER, Postmaster of
the United States House Of Representatives
since 1876, died at his home in Alexandria,
| Va, on the 9TH, aged "a.
Col. r. T. VAN HORN, was unani-
mously nominated for Congressman on the
| firstyballot by the Republican Convention OF
| the Eighth Missouri District.
A TERRIBLE tragedy occurred on the
/ Sth, in Pike County, Ill. About one mile
above Cincinnati Landing and six miles west
of New Canton lived a family named Baker,
consisting Of father, mother and two daugh-
tiers, the elder aged fifteen. With and work
ing for them lived young man named Sell
lers, who was from near NebO, in the same
county. Sellers, it seems, had been paying
attention to the elder daughter, had be-
come deeply attached and desired she
should marry him. To this the mother,
probably on account of the youth OF
the daughter, would not consent. On the
evening of the day named Sellers again in
sisted that the girl should marry him, and
consent being again refused, he drew re-
volver. Taking deliberate aim he first shot
the dog belonging to the family, then quickly
shot Mrs. Baker, the mother, and then the
| girl whom he loved. This done, he placed
the muzzle TO his own temple and fired.
Each shot was instantaneOusly fatal. The
tragedy was witnessed by the younger
daughter, from whose testimony before the
Coroner's Jury the above facts were ELECTED.
Mr.. Baker, the father, was not at home at
/ the time.
GEORGE LowERY and David Thomas,
both white men, were hanged by mob in
Nelson County, Va. Their offense was an
indecent assault upon lone widow, followed
by the robbery of her house.
Two brothers named Wilson, who in
vaded the Ute Reservation and run off a
dozen Of horses, were pursued by the In
dians, overtaken and shot, between Jacks
| Cabinn and Crested Buttes.