The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-12-02
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

capt. L. L. Leathers, OF the steamer
Natchez, and an associate of Capt. Cowden
In the outlet scheme, testified before the
River Commission in New Orleans that he
had been on the river forty.six years, most
OF the time running between New Orleans
and Vicksburg; made usually 129 landings
going up and eighty coming down; the river
was constantly changing its channel; banks
cave at low stages; often two or three acres,
with trees growing on them, fall into the
water at one time; the greatest deposits were
during the flood stage; the longer the dura-
tion Of high water the greater the deposit OF
sediment. After last season the average
depth between New Orleans and Vicksburg
was twelve feet at low water. The river
rose fifty feet in the flood OF 1882, and il
deeper now than when he first saw it years
ago, and navigation has been improved.
This effect he ascribes to the levee and the
combining OF the water. The construction Of
the jetties and the works In the Southwest
Pass have backed up the water in the river,
and the disastrous effects of the flood in 1882
were due to these causes.
Thomas B. Morton, the check raiser,
who escaped from the Jail ut Memphis,
Tenn, some weeks ago, has Just been
making his escape, proceeded to Atlanta,
where he met young man named Billings.
The two formed a partnership, under the
firm name Of Longshaw & Co. Morton repre-
sented Longshaw and Billings the company.
They proposed to do general commission
brokerage business. Morton was familiar
with this branch of trade, as he had been in
the employ OF Mr.. George Mackey, In Men,
..k,s, m
| 5000. His first move was to write letters to
all the Eastern houses with whom he had
become acquainted during his service with
Mr.. Mackey, soliciting business. 1t was the
handwriting Of one OF these letters which
led to his detection and arrest.
E. o. Glenn, q store-keeper at Bowl
| ing Green, KY, has been held in $500 bail
| for shooting John Valentine. Valentine and
two companions, while drunk, went to
| Glenn's store, beat and otherwise abused
| him, helped themselves to his goods, threw
| some in the street and carried others away.
| They made three visits to the store, In each
Of which Glenn was mistreated. The last
| time Valentine started toward the store,
pistol in hand, of which fact Glenn was
warned. When inside Valentine took a
stone from his pocket and threw it at Glenn,
striking him on the shoulder. The latter
fired two shots in rapid succession, one
striking Valentine in the abdomen. Ply
sicians pronounce the wound probably fatal.
l.. j. Graham, Superintendent of the
Texas Lunatic Asylum, says there are fully
1000 insane persons in the State, and that
the addition 10 the asylum now in course
Of erection, and for which the Seventeenth
Legislature made an appropriation OF $780,
| 600, will be completed in Il few months, but
that then the accommodations will bo made
quate. He recommends further additions
to the building and the purchase OF at least
200 acres more ground in addition to what
they now have.
Brick Caywood, who escaped from
Jail at Mount Sterling. KY, few days ago,
returned and gave himself up, saying he
preferred imprisonment to starvation in the
bush.
Dock Erd, a young man employed in
the freight department of the Chesapeake Il
Ohio Railroad at Lexington, Ky, shot him.
self in the temple, the other evening, caus.
ing fatal wound. Mental depression, the
result of overwork, is the cause assigned.
Assistant City Engineer Murray was
called to examine a big hole in front OF the
Hanover Oil Works, on the river front, at
Memphis, the other day. He found a kind
OF tunnel, nearly twelve feet wide, evident
ly an old land shaft excavation of many
years ago, extending eighty feet east
and twenty feet west Of the hole. The
railroad tracks 10 the eastward are therefore
undermined and upheld by a thin crust of
clay. The oil mills are in more dangerous
situation, as the land-shaft probably runs
entirely under the building to the old river
bank and jeopardizes the south wall.
Large tracts of land are being bought
by Eastern capitalists in Breathitt and Row.
an Counties, Kentucky, in the timber and
camel coal belt. The white oak timber OF
that section has been found adapted to ship
building. Mills will be erected to cut the
same for that purpose. The prices paid per
acre are 50, IS and $40.
Judge j. l.. Caldwell leading men,
Der of the bar OF Kentucky, fell dead OF
appopleSy, at Shelbyvile, the other day.
The two Adventures who are making
their way from Lake George to the Gulf OF
Mexico in canoes, were escorted over the
falls at Louisville, KY, the other day, by
members of the life-saving service.
The body of an aged colored man
was found by the side of straw stack on
the farm of George Yount, near Eminence,
Ky, recently. 1t is supposed death was
caused by cold.
!, There is violent disagreement in the
faculty of the Mississippi State Agricultural
College, at Starkville. Two professors have