The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-03-24
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

on thesrecent rise which SOLD LOT fio'toVV' 4
An advance of fifty cents and 81 per
ton for pig-iron was demlnded recently by
the furnace men of Alabam and Tennessee,
who supply the Cincinnati and tributary
markets
Richard Howard of Chattanooga,
Tenn, took offense at the reports OF a sean
dalous suit In which he was involved, pub
lished in local paper recently, and as
saulted G. w. Ochs, the city editor, with q
cane. Ochs drew pistol aud shot Howard
in the groin.
The result of late election for coun-
ty officers in Falls County, Tex, was de-
cided by the votes OF seventeen naturalized
Cinnamon, aud the defeated candidates were
contesting the election upon the ground
that State law passed in 1878 limited the
issuance OF naturalization papers TO white
foreigners and it was claimed disiranchised
Cinnamon who had already taken out nat
uralization papers.
The Sanitary Council of the Missis-
sippi Valley will meet in Jackson, Miss, on
Tuesday, April 3.
At Austin, Tex. 1.-The jury in the case Of
the State vs.. Waller Morgan recently returned
a verdict Of guilty of killing Henderson in
that place on January o, and gave him
/ five years in the Peniteutiary, as it was done
| while he was drunk.
d. Il. Musselman & Co., tobacco
manufacturers, Louisville, Ky, made an
assignment few DAYS ago for the benefit OF
their creditors, with liabilities Of $4,000.
Felix Wilson, colored, has been SEN
fenced to be hanged April 20 for the murder
of Nose Rudelman at Charlotte, n. G.
Charles Ashley, Waterman of the
steamer Wyoming, fell oveboard near Vicks.
burg, Miss, the other night and was
drowned.
A student of the State College at Lex
ington, Ky, named Fugate. got drunk the
other night and while fourishing his pistol
recklessly an officer undertook to arrest
him. Four companions came to his rescue
with rifles, but after some parley they were
| persuaded to surrender and were suspend
ed by the Faculty, while Fugate was eX-
PEELED.
The colored driver of coal cart,
named French, was thrown from the cart at
Louisville, KY, the other afternoon, and
falling on his head, broke his neck.
The gin house and fifteen bales of cot
ton belonging to w. j. Anderson, at New
Orleans, La, were destroyed by fire a few
days ago.
A patient in the Lupatic Asylum at
Edgefeld, S. c., managed to free his hands
from the mauacles with which his hands
were confined the other morning and beat
another inmate so horribly that he died soon
after. He then attacked keeper and near
ly killed him.
The death of Thomas S. Flournoy,
ex-member of Congress and candidate for
Governor on the Know Nothing ticket, was
announced the other day at Danyille, Va.
At Roanoke, Va, few days ago,
jealousy caused John Baldwin to kill VII.
liam Watkins and then himself. Both were
colOred.
At San Antonio, Tex, recently bur
glars chloroformad Emil Mayer, a prOmi-
nent stock broker, and his family, robbed
the house Of jewelry, money, and other val
uables and then proceeded to Meyers BUSH
ness office, adjacent. Here they chloro.
formed two men sleeping in the rear room
robbed the safe of several hundred dollars
mostly on deposit. Several Of the parte,
were suffering greatly from the effects o.
the chlOroform.
A fire which broke out in the Topper
room OF the Pelican Cotton Mills on til,
leyee at Shreveport, La, the other morn
ing, caused by the friction OF a pully, die
$4,000 worth OF damage before it was sub
dued.
II. N. Holdsworth, Cashier of tn
Bank of Hotopp & Holdsworth, Elizabeth
| town, KY, disappeared recently, and it wa
said the amount of his defalcation was esti
mated at $4,000, The bank was not affected
= by the matter.
The Collins County CTex.) Nationa
} Bank has been organized; capital stoc
S75. 900.
Mrs. Mary Car, maternal grand
r mother Of Mrs. Potter Palmer and Mrs
Fred d. Grant, died at Louisville, Ky, tn
/ other day at the age Of eighty-nine years
a The Prince of Wales has written tn
l managers of the Louisville, KY, Souther
Cotton Exposition to say that there was n
foundation for the report that he intende
1 to visit America.
Daniel Sanders died at New Liberty
l Ky, the other night Of hydrophobla. II
a was bitten by rabid dog last July.
Mrs. Ellen Birmingham died in Louis
; vile, a few days gO,aged 107 years. She wl
t a native Of Tipperary, Ireland, and came t
e America forty years ago.
I Captain w. II. C. Williams, probabl
the oldest steamboatman on the Mississippi
: River was buried at Memphis, Tenn, fe
T days ago,
= The Attorney-General has appointe
John S. Wise, of Richmond, special couHs
IL 4 IL,
I election cases.
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