The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-08-18
SOUTHERN GLEANINGs.
Two men and one woman, all colort

poison the family of Andrew Daniel.
Ben Hume, at one time prominent
and successful merchant in Vicksburg,
Miss, was arrested and placed in the
County Jail the other day TO prevent his
committing suicide.
A Charleston, S. c., church steeple
finds itself suddenly in commercial demand.
The owners of few tug boats in the har.
Dor learned that an incoming bark could
be sighted from its summit while yet afar
off. Business prospered with them, while
their rivals, despite Industrious cruising
off the bar, could get no vessels. At last
the secret of the lookout was discovered,
and now the steeple is to rent to the highest
bidder.
Among the patents issued from the
patent office at Washington recently were
the following to Arkansas inventors: Will
liam o. Coleman, Little Rock, seed cotton
separator and cleaner; Margaret Smith,
Little Rock, muff; WILDER F.. Southland,
Berlin, churn.
The little town of Sumpter, S. c.,
was thrown INTO state of great excitement
recently, by the discovery that John d.
Lynch, q married man forty years old, and
the father of two grown children, had
eloped the night before with Miss Sallio
Slack, sixteen years old. They were traced
to Brunswick, N. c., where they were ar.
rested.
Recent advices from eighty points in
the Texas cotton belt report the cotton suf-
fering from continued drought; from thirty
points it is estimated that only half the
usual crop will be made; from fifty points
the crop is placed at two-thirds the usual
amount. Cotton worms have appeared in
some sections and are doing much damage.
Early corn is made and is full crop.
Late corn is a total failure in some Sec
tions.
Putnam county, Florida, is excited
over large panther which has made its
appearance near Rice Creek.
A Columbus ga company, with
100000 capital, will electrically light that
city.
The Board of Managers of the Worlds
Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposi-
ton held a regular meeting at New Or
leans the other night, with Vice-President
Albert Baldwin in the chair. After trans
acting other business, f. A. Burke was
elected Director General of the Exposition,
with salary of $4,000. The subscriptions
to the enterprise aggregate 100000 and its
success is considered assured.
A freight train on the Chesapeake,
Ohio & Southwestern Railroad was
wrecked the other morning, near Kerrville,
about twelve, miles north of Memphis,
Tenn. Fifteen cars were badly damaged,
and negro brakeman was injured. About
dc Of tl,a t,.oc tN,- c;
Eating transfer of passengers.
. Two negro girls, twelve and eight
years old respectively, were left alone by
their mother in a cabin on Mrs. james
Beams Farm near Lexington, KY, the
other day.. When the mother returned She
found the cabin in ashes and the body of
the youngest girl in it. The elder girl could
not be found and it was suspected she
burned the house Intentionally. 4gufJ.
3, 1t was estimated that fully forty thou
sand people We're present at the opening of
the Confederate reunion, which occurred at
Mckinney, Tex. few days ago, fifteen
thousand of whom were served by the or
ganization with dinner on the grounds.
The speakers were General Cabell, ex-Gov-
ernor Tlrockmorton,. Governor Ireland,
Colonel Bowers and Congressman w elborn.
The tenor of Gogernor Ireland's speech was
that the Confederates had no excuse to
make for the part taken in the late contest.
1--WE are to forget the political strife which
led to the war, but must teach our children
the deeds of those who wore the blue and
the gray. We are all Ameiicansj and ever
ready to battle with the courtry's, assail-
ants from whatever quarter" cav
q There was great excitement at Sis
lterville, w. Va, on the Ohio River Rail-
road, recently. Il Negroes and Italians
were working together blasting. The me-
groes put in blast, notified the men Of
| their danger and ran to a safe distance.
The Italians ran only short distance and
two OF them were killed. The Italians pur-
sued the negroes with retolversl picks and
dirks, when tbe-negrees drew razors. Fur
Their trouble was feared, ,,.v
Clarence Rutherford, who was recent
ly pardoned from the Kentucky Peniten-
tiary by Governor Blaekburp, had served
two years of life sentence for murder. He
had been insubordihate UP to the revival
iheIdip the prison, last year, by Evangelist
Barnes, when he was converted. Mrs.
Blackburn was Instrumental in his refor-
nation. ,dil O G2uL = r'bn3 S9SW
Ina DARKROOM fight at Baltimore,
Nd, the other night, Bernard ,McNally
stabbed James Carr through the heart with
an ice-pick. |McNally was proprietor of tho
saloon. I'd, .5af4..t., .fItfalr .
Mrs. G. w. Woodland, of Omega, La. =.
who gained renown for her ministrations
to yellow-fevera sufferers at Vicksburg,
Miss, the other day ended her life by