The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-10-27
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

The Governor and Secretary of Stale
of Texas are preparing list of delegates
to attend the Cotton Planters and Agricul-
tural Convention at Vicksburg.
Surgeon Stone, of the Marine Nos
pital service, and physician selected by
the Louisiana State Board of Health. have
been investigating the epidemic at Brew
ton, Ala.
Levi Mccormick, who has served for
thirty-two years as a conductor on the
Cumberland Valley Railroad, hae been re-
tired by the Company on full pay for the
rest of his life.
1t is said that $1,000, 600 have been
invested in mines and machinery in the
gold regions of Georgia, while the total re-
turned value of the present assets of all
kinds of mines in the State is $4,000.
A forest mathematician has figured
out that there are enough pine trees grow
ing in the South to furnish the whole coun-
try with lumber for two hundred and fifty
years to come.
An eccentric individual of Doolv
County, Georgia, is seventy-six years old
but has never in the whole course of his
life spent one night from under the roof of
the house in which he was born.
A negro girl about five years old lost
her life in singular manner at Bellview,
La, recently. She climbed fig tree, and
in descending slipped, the collar of her
dress caught on a broken limb, and she was
cholled to death before assistance arrived
Henry Pale was instantly killed by
the cars at Pinta Station, Texas, a few
nights ago.
City Marshal Ambrose Wilson of Sa-
dieville, KY, was shot dead recently by
James Creighton, who was drunk.
Rev. L. Fisher, Moderator of the
Presbyterian Synod lately in session at
Denison, Tex, fell into a deep cistern at
the house where he was being entertained,
and was fished out badly bruised.
In Russell County, Alabama, a few
| days ago, Thomas Prince instantly killed
his father-in-law, B. S. Jeffries. The kill
| ing was done in self-defence and in defence
| of Prices wife and Jeffries' daughter
A freight train on the Vicksburg q
| Meridian Railroad caught fire at Jackson,
| Miss, a few days ago and thirty bales of
cotton were burned.
The mill of the Indiana Lumber Com
| pany at Nashville, Tenn, valued at $4,000,
was recently destroyed by fire.
A man named Frank Johnson was
arrested at Vicksburg, Miss, few days
ago, for killing negro and wounding
white man at McCool's Station, in the State
| named.
Sparks from the locomotive Of q
mail-train fred cotton-tran and destroyed
about 200 bales of the staple, near Marshall,
| Tex, a few days since.
Edward Miller was run over and
killed near Dallas, Tex, few nights ago
by a Central Railroad train.
! Several thieves in Greenville, Tex,
who were "hard up" for something to wet
their dry threats, stole the Bible and lamps
from church in that city, recently, and
| pawned them to a barleeper for a half-pint
Of liquor.
Paul Villars, veteran journalist of
New Orleans, nearly killed a colored lad
few days ago who was stealing nuts from
pecan tree in his yard.
Cork, olive and almond trees were
planted some time ago near Brownsville,
Tex. A report comes now that the cork
and olives are fourishing and the almond
| irees are dead
The City Council of Nashville, Tenn,
aas fixed the salary of the Board of Public
| Works and Affairs at s. 900 each, and elect
| ed Mike hester, DR.. T. A. Atchison and
Robert Ewing Strictly business princi-
pies, not politics, will govern the city. The
gentlemen elected are the best talent to be
| obtained.
A fatal alteration occurred seven
miles from Owenton, KY, recently. John
| M. Palmer, an old man, found Ben Crutch-
low, aged twenty-five on his farm and or
| dered him off. Crutchlow reluctantly
obeyed. AS soon as he got out of the field
| hot words ensued. Palmer shot and
Crutchlow threw a stone at the same mo-
ment. The latter fell dead, shot through
the heart. Palmer's skull was fractured by
| the stone. II was thought he would die.
Lewis Rabb, a Texas negro, twice
convicted of a murder committed five years
ago, and whose case was reversed each
time by appealing to the court for various
| reasons, the sentence each time being i'm
prisonment for fifty years, pleaded guilty
| to manslaughter at Brennan, recently, the
jury assessing the penalty at two years in
the Penitentiary. Most of the witnesses for
the State had disappeared.
| Inc Douy OF Louis roster, cOloreu,
was found few days ago hanging to tree
near South Union Church in Laraca Coun-
ty, Tex. with a charge of buckshot in his
neck "1.. . nistol ball in his head. Foster
is said to have been screening an escaped
murderer and had borne Il bad reputation
for years.
jeff Hays. young brakeman on the
Missouri Pacific Railroad, while passing
over the train to deliver an order of the
| conductor to the engineer, a few nights ago.