The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-03-11

left $500 on condition that he sever the tes-
tator's head from the Huhk. Am amount
not to exceed $50, 600 is to go to the Treas
lurer Of the United States for the reduction
Of the war debt.
~ AN Austrian force lost two hundred
men in an attempt to force the passage OF
the Drina River.
HEssIE HELFMANN, the Nihilist, who
received Arespite from execution for the
murder Of the Cdr, died feeentlv atSt. Pc
tersburg.
| WAR has broken out in Bath County,
Virginia, between the natives and party Of
surveyors engaged in measuring OF large
tract Of land belonging to Gen. ID. +. Butler.
The surveyors wore attacked by Seventy
five Virginians, and, alter sharp engage
ment, in which 100 shots were fired and sew
eral persons wounded, surrendered At dis
erection and left the country.
WESLEY COBB, his wife, and seven
children, living at Thomaston, Epson Coun-
ty, Ga, were recently poisoned by eating
biscuit mixed with cotton-seed oil. They
were out OF lard, and having read that cot
ton. seed oil was a good substitute, worked
some OF it up In the dough. All who par
took were seized with violent commissions
and vomiting, but recovery was thought
possible IN each case.
CASTOR DE RoHAN, the bogus priest
who escaped from the Penitentiary at JEFF
ferson City, No., has been arrested in Chi
cago. i.3 lH .a 'iIH| Do" lai U- sI t
JEWISH citizens of Brooklyn, N. T.,
met on the 9th, entered a pr otest against the
persecution of Israelites in Europe, and APP.
| pointed a committee to solicit subscriptions
in aid of refugees arriving here. A liberal
! sum was contributed at the meeting.
THE latest contribution to ., Jesse
James literature is discovery by the police
OF Kansas City, Mo-, that George Shepherd,
the eX-guerrills and bank robber, who
claimed to have shot the notorious outlaw
| at Joplin, just after the Glendale train rob-
berry Of 1879, had proved a traitor through
! all that trouble. Shepherd knew the James
boys well, and offered to go among them
| and lead them into an ambush where they
were to be killed or captured His offer
was accepted, and for several weeks he
wrote letters to the detectives, and at lust
a special train over the Fort Scott Rail-
way carried posse of men to Ga
lena, where a bank was to be rob-
bed. The day previous to the talked
OF robbery, Shepherd went tearing into
Galena on horseback, claiming to have killed
Jesse James, saying the gang became sus-
picious of him. He was himself shot clear
through the left leg below the knee, and
said two members of the band followed him
mile and Cummings hit him. The report
was believed, and Shepherd was the hero OF
the day; but he has admitted that the Whole
thing was a scheme to obtain the large re-
ward offered for Jesse, dead or alive, which
was to be divided between them. In order
to square himself with the officers, Shepherd
had to be slightly wounded, and he deliber-
ately held out his leg and allowed Jesse
James to shoot hole through it. The plan
to get the reward failed, and Shepherd, who
has been hanging about Kansas City ever
since the reported shooting, says he would
no more shoot Jesse James than he would
his own brother.