The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-02-03
Miscellaneous Items.

Miscellaneous Items.
Capitalists the other day offered to
supply Hot Springs, Ark, with electric
lights within four months, il, by ordinance,
the necessary right and privilege was &C.
corded them.
Four revenue officers of Louisville,
penetrated the moonshine region of Gallo.
way, Ky, and in a daylight raid destroyed
two Illicit stills.
Two cases of smallpox were discov.
cred at San Antonio, Tex, lately, and the
afflicted persons were conveyed to the Pest
house. There was no fear of the disease
spreading. The cases were supposed to
have been taken there from FL Paso.
At Washington the other day com
municatiOn was sent from the Interior De-
| partment to the War Department suggest
| ing that no land be taken at Hot Springs,
Ark, for hospital which would necessi
tate the destruction of buildings now stand
! ing. This WILL in measure, satisfy citi-
gems Of that place, who feared that their
| City Hall and two bath houses would be de-
stroyed.
At q mass-meeting in Louisville, Ky,
the other evening, $4,000 was subscribed
toward the cotton exposition, making the
amount pledged $250,O0O. Work on the
building it was said would begin at once.
The Coroner's verdict after an in
quest over the body of Mary Lewis, poor
woman found dead the other morning in a
room where she had been living alone at
Louisville, KY, was death from cold and
exposure.
Mrs. johnson, living near Owingsville,
KY, left her little daughter alone in the
house the other day to go to the spring for
water, a distance of about a quarter of a
mile. On her return she found the child
lying on the hearth in front of the fire, her
clothing entirely consumed, and the little
one fairly roasting in the flames.
1t was reported recently that citizens
OF Hot Springs, Ark, were greatly agitated
over an act of Congress authorizing the
building of hospital at that place, and that
they we're sending to the Secretary of the
Interior numerous protests.
Judge linn Hunt, a prominent citi-
zen, who went to Dallas, Tex, when it was
a village, died there few days ago, in the
sixty-third year OF his age. He represented
Austin County in the Legislature in 1852 and
in lS6O-62, as he did in the Constitutional
Convention OF 1866. He also held several
other offices Of trust.
A fire at Cochran, Ca, the other
morning destroyed property worth $40, 600.
James AIcCabe, wealthy merchant
of Town Creek, Ala, was killed by Tom
Mathis, at Chattanooga, Tenn, a few days
ago. McCabe had elected Mathis from hi:
store several DAYS before
The trial of Grant White, colored
for murder, was progressing at Orange, Va
before jury composed entirely of negroes
the other day, the first jury of the kind evel
! impaneled in that county. On panel o
sixteen there were four white men, WHIT
were stricken off by the Defense
William Graham killed himself re
Gently at Larkinsylle, Ala, in the presence
or his entire family. Cause, a ruined for
tune by paying security for a debt.
At Corsicana, Tex, Judge Bradle,
the other day sentenced Joseph Millgrove
white man, to four years imprisonment il
Ge Penitentiary for marrying negr
woman.
David Steinschneider, recent Score
. tary to the Austrian Legation at Washing
ton, ID. c., was found dead in his bed a
the residence OF his brother, at Owingsville
KY, the other morning. He had lately re
> signed his position at Washington on &C
count OF ilI-health and went to Owingsvlll
to recuperate.
At Beaver Dam, Ky, the other day
in quarrel about horse, G. C. Hoskir
shot and killed Thomas Stevens.
{ The Secretary of the Treasury ha
4 designated C. C. Bentley, of sherman,
q E. billiard, of kaufman, and j. p. Smith
of Fort Worth, commission to select sill
: for the new public building at Dallas, Tex
e 1t was reported from Lynchburg, Va
d the other day that the unprecedented col
b had produced widespread destitute
o among the poorer classes there, especial
among negroes, hundreds OF whom wei
}, out of employment IN consequence of Il
d suspension OF work in tobacco factories
I, account of the tax question agitation.
:, At Pine Hill, KY, the other day son
. workmen attempted to dry Hercules pow
der cartridges, the result being the loss
= three lives.
A. G. Kemp, of Atlanta, Ca, kille
= himself in the presence OF his wife the 9th
night and 1t was said she had since threa
: ened to suicide.