The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-01-20
SouTHERN GLEANINGs.

'AaAtNNh VIZ 'tAAitfA ~ wa rAfN
IrbS ia Lsureps County, S3Cq ~ beig4 /
packed in bale Of cotton. While ihe hands /
were at dinner Eimore got into The press I
and went 20 sleep, and upon respminE work /
the hands, without knowing Eimore's |
whereabouts, threw in more cottontoc come !
plete the bale. run the press down and I
crushed The sleeper to DEATH The horrible /
discovery was made when The bale was
taken out and a portion OF the slacpcr's
clothing was seen protrudiug from the bale.
At a ball in Bedford County, Va, the
other night, a young lady named Idehe
Read said to Scott Clayton, who was calling
the figures, that he was not calling corroct-
ly. He made some sharp response, which
was resented by one Of Miss READS admir-
ers, Armstcd Barksdsle. The latter called
CLAYTON out and hot words passed. Barks-
dale drew a knife, sprang on Clayton and
inflicted a horrible cash from the right eye
TO the back OF the neck, seyerug the jugular
vein and causing immediate death. The
scene in the ballroom was sckening.
Women I'm fancy ball-dresses tainted, fall
ing into pools Of blood, and a regular melee
followed among the partisans OF the two
men. Barksdale escaped unobseryed, and,
wandering to another part OF the county,
borrowed a gun from an acquaintance and
completed the tragedy by shooting himself
through the bowels. He died shortly after
/ ward.
w. L. Fernold, Collector of Internal
/ Revenue Of the Fourth (Ya.) District, head
! quarters at Danvlle, was suspended few
days ago. A special agent was examining
| his books. Fernold was on trial for unacy
A company known as the Wharf I'M
proyement Company was the other day or
ganized in Galveston, Tex, with an author
lied capital OF SO, 600, 600. The object Of the
company was to construct wharyes upon
the south side Of the island, the wharyes TO
be supported on iron piers and carried out
to deep water. The company had applied at
Austin for charter.
Cleveland capitalists it was reported
had recently organized a company to build,
at Chattanooga, Tenn, the largest stove
factory in the South
The other day three Americans, who
had been employed on the Sunset route at
the Pecos, constructed boat to float down
the Rio Grande to Eagle Pass, Tex, where
they were again to obtain work on the Mex
lean extension OF the Sunset. Opposite %
] Dtilt huON II us 4ANIlibNfl l.AN VIC 4lI -
can river guard, intrenched behind q log,
leyeled Winchesters at them and demanded
their coming TO the Mexican side and SUR
rendering. Being unarmed, they did so,
and were marched to Picdrss Nipgras ilfoot
over rough country and imprisoned. II
was said they had appealed to The American
Consul for redress.
The Secretary of the Treasury re-
ocnry directed the United States District
Attorney at Nashville, Tenn, to take step,
to recover $500 from j. NJ Hurst agent OF
the Board OF Publication Of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church, money received by
. Hurst to be placed in the United States
Treasury to the credit Of the conscience
fund, instead Of which il was placed to his
own credit as agent Of the Board Of Publ
cation, under the impression that The
, anonymous sender meant it 10 be so placed
I Eight houses were destroyed by frt
S at Lebanon, Tenn, the other day.
The committee investigating the &C
counts Of State Treasurer Polk, whose de
; falcatiou and flight from Nashville, Tenn.
: was announced few days since, give a tab
= ulated statement Of the amount which SHOULD
have been in the Treasury January 81 a
d nearly 100000, In the safe they ioun
Q about son, 900. According to their state
, ments the banks held on deposit abou
= 500, 900, leaving the amount Of the defci
about $500, 600. Polk was arrested in TeNa
n few days ago.
0 Four-iifths of the hands employed b.
the Galveston, Houston & Henderson Roa
is at Houston, Tex, quit work the other da
owing to a reduction in their wages to ST..
/, by the newly installed Road Master.
d The Memphis Mutual Aid Society, tn
last Of the matrimonial institutions in Mem
n phis, Tenn, suspended business the othC
II day.
d Two electric-light companies it wa
d said lately were soon to hay a compeuti'
exhibition at Louisville, the loser TO pm
70 81 600 for expenses and give $4,000 TO q
Polytechnic Society OF Kentucky.
n A silver spike was driven the othC
day on the Mexican Pacific Railroad eNter
sion, connecting it with the Southern Pacii
It and giving direct line from San Fraucis'
n to New Orleans.
John Morgan (white), an allege
d notorious desperate, horse-thief and mu
as derer, was shot and killed while resistir
arrest, four miles south Of Pleasant Hi
~ De Soto Parish, La, the other day. IL W
- said that a short time since he shot dow
70 and ruthlessly murdered in cold blood,
~ Muden, Webster Parish, two colored ME
=" without the slightest provocaton, and ma
his escape. He had previously burned
W barn, murdered a man in Texas and stol
es a number OF horses and mules. pos
ds headed by an officer attempted his captuI
when he fred upon them, mortally woun
III I'M Mr. Inhn EnrInW- n rpnni ahln eitlIen