The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-01-15
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

Catcholic parochial schools be established
throughout the diocese, and ordering
parents, under pain of refusal of absolution,
to send their children or wards, under 8
years of age, to such schools. The edict
causes considerable commotion in Louis
vile, as some 1000 Catholic children there
attend the public schools.
Miss Florence E. Davis of Waco, Tex, a
| beautiful girl of II years, on the Sd shot
herself through the heart while carelessly
! handling small pistol, which she supposed
was unloaded. Death was instantaneous.
The young lady was the accomplished
daughter of Hon. j. T. Davis, prominent
| lawyer.
AT the town of Burnet, West Texas, a
I boiler in the steam-mill OF John Smarte ex-
ploded, and the building was torn to pieces.
Brice Smarte was instantly killed, being lit
orally blown to shreds. The engineer and a
Young man named Blackburn were fatally
! injured and have since died.
An electric light stock company has been
organized at Memphis with capital of $780,
600, with the privilege of increasing to $780,
900. The company comprises leading cap
| italists.
MIR. Sampler, wholesale elothier, Mem
phis, has made an assignment. Liabilities
about $75, 600, mostly to New York parties.
The first number of the Ledger, the new
Republican paper in New Orleans, was is
| sued on the 4th.
Mrs. G. Z. Lewis, a widow, committed
suicide at Memphis, on the Sd, in a fit OF
mental depression.
Two Deputy Sheriffs near Garden VAL
ley, Smith County, Texas, on the 4th arrest
ed three alleged horse-thieves and were con-
veying them to Tyler. The party was met
by stranger who through assumed pity
gave one of the thieves cloak to shield him
from the rain. The cloak contained pistol,
with which he killed one of the officers,
when all three of the prisoners escaped.
President D. T. Porter of the Memphis
| Taxing District Government on the 9TH ten
dered his resignation to the Governor in con-
sequence Of radical differences with the ma
! jOrity Of the Legislative Council on sanitary
measures. The immediate cause Of his ae-
ton was the passage of an amendment prac-
tically repeating the ordinance requiring the
establishment of earth closets by April l.
Wash. Williams, colored, notorious
desperate, who served two terms in the
Tennessee Penitentiary, was killed on the
| 9Th at Brownsville, while resisting arrest
ON charge of burglary. Williams fired
! three times at the officers before they shot
him.
| There has been largely increased de-
velOpment in the gold fields of Georgia dur
| ing the past year. From bullion yield Of
only 100000 four years ago the product this
year promises to exceed $1,O00,000, and is
rapidly increasing.
! An investigation into the accounts of n.
| c. Taliaferro, retiring General Agent and
Storekeeper of the Virginia Penitentiary,
brought to light shortage of from SIS, 900 to
| $4,000. Taliaferro acknowledges the short
age, but says it will be made good by his Sc
curities.
Charles Rowland, highly respected cit
izen of Greenup County, KY, shot and killed
his brother-in- law, Alfred NJ. Roberts, the
other night, under circumstances peculiarly
distressing. Young Roberts went to How
lands house about O'Clock, and Rowland,
being in a nervous state, caused by the re-
cent burning of his barns, demanded to
shoot unless the party spoke. For some rea-
son not known Roberts kept still or else How
! land did not hear or recognize him, and the
latter fired with his gun, killing Roberts al
most instantly.
"A horrible story is told by the Huntsville
! (Miss.) Independent. Two colored men.
| brothers, Robert and Dennis Patrick, We're
engaged in killing hogs on the premises of
Mr.. Scion Kelley near that place. The
brothers got into a dispute about he division
Of last years crop, which led to personal
encounter, during which Dennis
caught Robert around the body
and pressed him backward into large ket-
tie of boiling water which had been pre-
pared for scalding the hogs. AS Robert
went in he clasped Patrick tightly around
the body, pulling him in also, and both were
so badly scalded before being rescued that
the flesh literally dropped from their bodies
in shreds. Both died within hours.
"A hunting party composed Of five col
! ored persons were drowned in the bay at
Galveston, Tex, on the Sd, by the upsetting
Of their boat. 1t is supposed the boat was
struck by squall. Il
Charlotte, n. c., furnishes story al
most too shocking for belief. Squire Car
rington sent his 12-year- old boy out to the
ield TO mind some cows. The boy neglected
his duty, and for this trivial offense the
father took the boy to the woods, tied him
to tree, and with stick actually beat him
to death. The inhuman father left the boys
body in the woods and came home. When
asked as to his boys whereabouts, he said
he did not know, but he was soon detected
in his crime, and an Infatuated mob of col
ored men took him in custody until the ar
rival Of the officers of the law. The boys
body was absolutely flayed into shreds of
reeking flesh.
M. A. Seay, in fit Of insanity, went to
the residence of J. N. Ladd, 10 miles east of
Cambridge, Tex, and shot Laid dead with
out the least provocation. He then went to
Samuel Tubbs's house, and shot him five
times. Tubbs is not expected to live. Seay
then went to Logan's farm, informed Logan
ofswhat he had done, and, before he could be
prevented, placed the pistol to his own head
and blew out his brains.
Two young men, James Harkey and
James Barbee, had a difficulty near the head
of Pear River, Tex, and Harkey shot Bar
bee four times, killing him instantly.
Harkey was shot once in the abdomen and
| died in few hours. 20
I'm the Federal Court at Dallas, Tex,
DR.. Thos. A. Finn was sentenced to the Pen
| itentiary for 10 years and fined 500 for coun-
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