The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-12-23
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

butchered by her husband, John Trinler, a
few mornings ago, has since died. The YER
dict OF the Coroner's Jury was death at the
hands Of John Trinler while he was suffering
from mental alteration.
Mrs. Sarah Wood died at Buford the
other day, aged l21 years. She was born in
Caborrus County, N. c., and moved to
Spartansburg, S. c., about 1779.
A fire at Paducah, KY, the other
morning destroyed the Southern Hotel and
three business houses, valued at S23, 900;
insured for S11, 600.
Edward M. Cheney has been con-
hrmed as United States Attorney for tho
Northern District Of Florida
Arkansas has 1890 miles of complet-
ed railroads and five roads are being rap
idly constructed.
Texarkana has telephones and now
wants street railways.
The receipts of cotton at Little Rock,
Ark, to December 8, were placed at 24,545
bales, against 1854 bales at the same time
last year.
The little railway town in Tennessee
called Atoka, on the Chesapeake, Ohio &
southwestern Railway, Boosting between
eOO and 1000 inhabitants, met with serious
| disaster by fire the other morning, which
destroyed the better part of the business
district.
Near cambridge, Ca, recently, John
Mathis, a boy, was playing around his IA
theirs sugar mill when the revolving lever
struck him on the head, dashing his brains
out.
The grocery of H. L. Schmelz, and
four adjoining buildings at Hampton Roads,
va, burned few days ago. Loss, $50, 900.
Eli Mcconnell, the man who MUIR
dered his child and brutally beat his wife,
near Weatherford, Tex, a short time ago,
and who escaped the officers and fled the
country, has been captured near Brown
wood, in Brown County, by Henry Fisk,
special Deputy Sheriff, and taken 10 Wealth
erford, where he had been indicted for the
crime Of killing his child.
The other evening two men rode up
to- r. j. Grier, standing in his store, in Tai
| iahatchie County, Miss, and demanded the
key OF the safe. He replied he had no keys;
the safe had combination. The men then
shot him down and rode off.
Texas Legislature meets Jan. 9.
Jacob Collins, a boy living near Haw-
kinsville, Ca, while in field with his
younger brother the other day set fire to a
very large dead stump and then, in pushing
it over, the stump broke in ,he middle and
the upper half fell on the boy, crushing him
to death.
Near Dublin, Ca, a few days ago,
Mrs. Russell Vaughn was drawing water
when the pole broke from the wel-sweep,
which fell from the fork on her youngest
child, breaking its neck and skull.
A space in the southwest corner of
the Government reservation at Hot Springs,
Ark, has been selected as the site for the
Army and Navy Hospital, for which Con-
gress appropriated 500, 900.
Two failures occurred recently at
Augusta, Ca, A. Brooks, clothing dealer,
for $4,000, and NJ. Brown, cigar dealer, for
$4,000.
John l.. Cushion was shot dead at
Thompson, Ga, the other day. The PEG.
pie were restrained with difficulty from
lynching his murderer, Locking, colored
man.
Governor Stephens has pardoned
Captain Ed. Cox, sentenced to life impris-
onment for the murder OF Colonel Robert A.
Aston in 1879.
Scipio Horne, colored, of Skipwith,
Miss, who claimed TO be doctor, pharma-
cist and also a wel-informed astronomer
among colored people, and who predicted
the next comet on Christmas night, was
called in to see a negro with a sore leg re-
Gently. He decided that the negro had a
lizard in his leg and split the leg wide open.
After butchering the negroes limb until the
pain was beyond endurance, Scipio decided
that it was an invisible phenomenon. Two
physicians were Immediately called in, and
will probably save the Negroes life by am
putating the leg.
Mary Henderson (colored), aged
about seventeen YET tried to kindle fire
with kerosene the other day, at Atlanta,
Ga. Her dress caught fire and before help
arrived her body was burned to a crisp.
The jail and jail-house at Delta, Miss,
were burned a few days ago. Fifteen pris-
oners were released to save their lives.
Some of them remained to help fight the fire
and were again locked up.
The contract awarding the manage
ment of the Arkansas Penitentiary for the
ensuing tt n years to Fitzpatrick & Town.
send, OF Selma, Ark, was signed the other
day by the Commissioners.
Johann Hansen, cook on board the
bark Yelox, in attempting 10 board that
vessel in an intoxicated condition at CAL
weston, Tex. the other night, fell over
board and was drowned.
The architect of the new capitol at
Albany, N. Y, was called to Columbia, S.
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