The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-11-24
SOUTHERN eLEANIScs.

Cisco. Tex, was nearly destroyed by
fire few days ago.
The new telegraph line between
vicksburg and Yazoo City, Miss, is COM
pleted and open for business.
Business was practically suspended in
Louisville, KY, ON the 10th, in honor of the
closing day of the Southern Exposition.
A party of 100 excursionists from
Chicago are visiting various point in Texas.
Joseph Debolsky and his sister were
drowned in swollen creek &C Bryan, Tex,
few days ago.
r. G. Hurley was fatally injured
few evenings since by fall from the bal.
cony of the National Hotel at Dallas, Tex.
E. L. Cunningham has been remand
ed to prison without bail at Fort Worth,
Tex, for the killing of V. w. Fleming.
Cunningham has father living at st.
Charles. Mo. rttHa
Lee Thomson, a newsdealer at San
Antonio, Tex, was recently fined $3.50 for
selling the Police Gazette.
A human skull, measuring forty inch
es around the forehead, has been unearthed
near Kingwood, Virginia.
Colonel Hugo Rose, German school
teacher at San Antonio, Texas, who suf-
fered from wounds received in the rebel
lion, killed himself a few days ago with
choral.
A grand banquet will be given during
the session of the National Cotton Plant
ers' Convention at Vicksburg. Miss.
Andrew Rusdin, of Costroville, Tex,
was arrested recently, suspected of poison
ing his wife.
The Oglethorpe Barracks, at Savan-
nah, Ca, were sold by the Government at
auction few days ago, and were bought
by hotel company at S67,3sl.
At Loyola College, Baltimore, Broth
er Richard O'Connell, nearly ninety years
of age, attempted to replace broken pane
of glass few days since, and fell fifty feet
to the courtyard, crushing his skull
Some excitement prevailed near Con-
zales, Tex, over a rumor that the negroes
were drilling nights, and the whites have
organized a minute company.
All the buildings on the west side of
the public square at Rusk, Tex, were de-
stroyed by fire few days ago
A boiler in saw mill at Moscow,
Tex, exploded recently, killing d. Cooper,
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ously wounding two other men.
Aztec, a famous running horse, VAL
ued at $4,000, died recently of lung fever
at Lexington, KY. He was owned by Pow
ers g. Son, of Decatur, Ill.
Hunger and cold caused the death of
a colored woman and child at Lexington,
KY, few days ago.
Charles Warren and Murdoch NAL
ley OF Charlotte, N. c., quarreled recently
over game of cards, and Malley killed
Warren with knife.
BY the giving away of the wall of n
gravel-pit at Dallas, Tex, five men were
Instantly buried. One of the number was
killed, and all the others sustained severe
injuries. iHH
Samuel Wheeler was sentenced few
days ago at Gilman, Tex, to be hung for
the murder of r. Q. Short, last fall.
Governor Ireland, of Texas, has is
sued proclamation raising the quarantine
| throughout the State.
During the demolition of an old resi-
dence at Richmond, Va, few days ago, a
wall fell, crushing three laborers. VIM.
Tallaferro, aged ninety, was fatally in
| jured.
The ladies of Macon, Ga, declined to
appear at a musical festival with the COR
netist, Levy, because of his marital rela-
| tions.
In Alexandria, La, a few days ago
Frank Jackson was killed and Henry I'm
derwood wounded while endeavoring t.
evade arrest. They were the only two Of
the notorious Sam Bass gang who sur, yed
the campaign by the Texas rangers in 1879,
and regarded as the worst men who ever
went on the road in the Southwest. Two
thousand dollars reward was standing on
the head of each for several years, and is
believed to be still good.
Lehman & Rothschilds mammoth
store at Black Hawk Landing, Coneordia
Parish, La, burned with contents few
nights ago.
At Comanche, Tex, a few nights ago
while the Sheriff was absent, fifty armed
masked men battered in the Jail door with
a heavy pole, overpowered the guards af
ter hard struggle, and taking out the two
Bailey brothers hanged both to a tree in a
| graveyard a mile from the town. 1t is
not stated what the Baileys were charged
with. r4i ta4 rl.
The magnificent residence of Major
Henry Crumbliss at Kingston, Tenn, was
burned few nights ago. The blaze was
discovered in the roof by passers-by about
midnight, and the alarm was given in time
for all of the family to make good their es-
cape, but the entire contents, and the house
was elegantly furnished, were consumed.
The loss to Major Crumbliss can not be less
than $40, 900, but he had some insurance.