The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-04-22
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.


for food crops in the South. There is a gen.
eral increase OF acreage in winter and spring
wheat and oats, and slight decrease in
cotton. The increase in food crops Is as
follows: Tennessee-30 per cent. in wheat
and 40 per cent. in oats. North Carolina
Wheat, % per cent; oats, 30. Georgia
Wheat, 20; oats, 33. South Carolina
Wheat, %; oats, 30. Arkansas-Wheat, 10;
oats, 10. In all these States there is reported
to be decrease in the purchase OF CONNER
eial fertilizers amounting in estimated ag-
gregate to $4,000, 900. Alabama reports
that, owing to very short crop of corn last
year, on account OF drought, the planting OF
winter wheat and oats was fully 80 per cent.
greater than ever before, while preparations
for corn are increased In as great a ratio.
With good season the food crops will be
enough for two years. supply. The decrease
in cotton, owing to the floods, is estimated
at 100000 to 1000 bales.
Jesse Glass, of Shelbyville, KY, di-
rector of the Bank of Shebyville and one of
the most reputable of that towns citizens,
was we'll acquainted with Zerelda Cole, now
the famous Mrs. Samuels, when she was a
country girl, living near Stamping Ground,
in Scott County, the seat of cold Dick"
Johnson's Indian school, He has often
spoken about the buoyant and beautiful
"tomboy'' girl whose remembrance OF him
was perpetuated in the Christian name OF
her robber boy, Jesse James, who now lies
dead in Missouri, He represented her as
buxom country lass, with no over-nice
sense of delicacy, brimmlng full Of fun,
daring horsewoman, good dancer, and not
afraid of anything. Ir
James A. Sylvester, who died in New
Orleans few days ago, aged 70, was the
man who captured Gen. Santa Anna in the
battle Of San Jacinto, April 81, 1886, in the
war for the Texas independence. He fought
the Comanche Indians at Plum Creek in
1910, and was a survivor Of the Inflated ex
petition of the Texans to Mier-M ier in
Mexico, being one Of the prisoners who was
forced to draw lots for his life, when each
man who drew a black bean was marched
out and shot In the presence Of his compan-
Ions, and II out of ITO were so executed.
After a desperate fight with the Sher-
If and turnkey at Arkadelphia, Ark. few
days ago, four prisoners broke jail, three of
them securing their liberty.
In the Jail at Greenville, S. c., Rich
ard Bates, colored, was married to woman
Of his own race. The next morning the
bride was transported to the Penitentiary,
while the groom will be hanged for arson on
April 49,
The principal and interest of the debt
Of Tennessee amounts to $2S, 100000.
Orange leaves, six by ten inches, will
be used for fans in Florida this season, it is
said, displacing the palmetto leaves.
Atlanta (Ga.) men are working UP
Southern Chautauqua, or central camp meet
ing ground, for all the benevolent institu-
tons of the South.
Wheat in Bosque County, Texas, is
already greatly damaged by rust, especially
the red May variety.
At a recent meeting of the cattle
kings Of Gainesville, Texas, $25, 100000 OF
capital were represented.
Twenty five hundred head of merino
sheep recently arrived at Tyler, Texas, from
Ohio.
The Yazoo City (Miss.) Oil Works
have lost between 70, 900 and $1,000 by the
flood.
The Kentucky State Bar Association
has been organized, with the following Of
ficers: President, B. f. Buckner, of Lex
ington; Vice Presidents, William Preston,
OF Lexington; John w. Stevenson, of Cow
ingtOn; c. f. Durham, Of Richmond; James
Speed, OF Louisville; Isaac Caldwell, OF
Louisville; John G.. Carlisle, of Covington,
and John f. Eand, of Hopkinsville; Secre-
tary, George Baber, of Louisville.
A suit will be brought in Texas bring.
ing into question who are the lesses of the
numerous eoal-beds twenty five miles above
Laredo. Millions of dollars will be involved
in the result unless compromise can be eff
fected.
During a storm, some time ago, at
Hampstead, Tex, the lightning struck a
negro cabin in which several darkies were
sitting up with corpse. The attendants
ran out, and when they returned the coffin
lid was off and there was a hole In the face
of the dead, made by the lighting.
Forty thousand acres of land in Arkan-
sas have been secured for an Italian colony,
About thousand Italians have already set
tied in that region.
Texas used to feed her pecans TO the
hogs. Now she sells the crop for 1000, 900.
A calf born near Paulding, Miss, has
ears marked exactly like those of the parent
cow--a swallow fork in each ear. ...
A pompano fish was exhibited at Sell
ma, Ala, few days aga, which weighed
six pounds and a half.
A company has been organized, and
all the stock taken. to build water works at
Palatka, Fla.
Tomato culture has proved failure
in the vicinity of Tampa, Fla, this season.
There are over 1000 insane people in