The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-11-17
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

ran over and killed an old man named |
Rhodes Powell, near Flat Rock Station,
Tenn.
A man named Brown, lately arrested !
by Sheriff Duson, of st. Landry Parish,
Miss, has confessed to the murder, two |
years ago, of Page, wealthy planter OF
Montgomery County.
Sir Edward Reed, of England, is re-
ported to have recently purchased 100000
acres of land from the Florida Land I'm
provement Company.
L. A. Nasty has filed suit in the
United States Circuit Court at Dallas, Tex,
against R. f. McNulty, for $4,000, alleg-
ing breach of contract in cattle transac-
ton.
The hot-air tank in the pork-packing
establishment Of Gessel, Ahren 81 Co., at
Memphis, Tenn, exploded a few days ago
with such force as to wreck the building.
The warehouse of r. b. Hutchcraft,
at Paris, KY, valued, with its contents, at
| $4,000 was wiped out by fire recently.
A negro woman, named Cornelia
| Days, has been sentenced to the Charles
| ton, S. c., Penitentiary for life, for muir
| dering a child which she was unable to care
| Tor.
Samuel Lee, mulatto, of Alabama,
who was appointed u special agent of the
| General Land-otfice, reports that in the
mountain region of his State no one who
knew his position would give him bed or
a meal, for fear of revengeful acts by land
sharks or illicit distiliers.
A large number of Catholic citizens
of Galveston, Tex, met few nights ago
and decided to form stock company with
SIS, 900 capital to publish weekly paper in
the interest of the Catholics of the State.
Frank Hiland, of Youngstown, o.,
who recently escaped from Jail, where he
was held on charge of wife murder, has
been re-arrested in Georgia and sent North.
William Rains, of Atlanta, was ar
rested in Gainesville, Ga, few days since,
charged with forgery. He is well con-
nected
Reports from various parts of Texas
say that the second crop OF cotton is max
ing and will be a large one, if frost does
not soon interfere.
The Dallas, Tex, branch of the Ma
, tional Land League, is raising funds for
the defense of O'Donnell, the slayer of Ca
: reg, the informer
The Memphis cotton district has en-
joyed an exceptionally favorable picking
J season.
t j. T.. and j. G. Terry, alleged stage
robbers, were released on $1,000 bail at
Dallas, Tex, but Immediately rearrested
for horse and cattle stealing.
= w. H. Smith, recently appointed
3 Postmaster at Atlanta, Ga, has resigned
VIM. Prilton, of Shelbyville, Ky, was
thrown from a horse against tree a few
. days ago and instantly killed.
! Deputy Sheriff Wilson, of Statewide
!. n. c., while collecting taxes recently, quar-
: relied with VIM. Pope and shot and killed
' him.
A hostler in Mayors livery stable a
Sherman, Tex, recently saddled the fines
horse in the place and left for parts un
= known.
A post of the Grand Army at Coving
II ton, Kentucky, has started on its rounds
resolution urging the promotion of p. II
Sheridan to the Generalship and of w.
Hancock to the rank of Northumberland
i, The farmers of Coahoma County
Miss, are said to be in more prosperou
condition this year than at any time sine
u 1879.
Suit has been brought at Dallas, Tex.
=, to test the right of Texas railroads t
charge four cents mile passenger fare.
t. The Grand Jury of Wise County, Tex.
IL has indicted ten persons for fence cutting
A new railroad line Is projected t
rs run from Munroe, N. c., to Chester, S. C.
b; Moses Kyle was waylaid and assa'
sinated in the suburbs of Natchez, Miss,
m few DAYS ago. He was shot through til
ct heart.
Judge Parker, an aged magistrate
o. living near Shelbyville, KY, accidental
- shot himself few days since and it WI
thought he would die.
,e A German named Fohrmann W;
". waylaid and plundered by four robbe
er near Marshall, Tex, few nights ago. A
The gang were captured.
~ The Presbyterian Synod for Il
-. Southern District of Mississippi held Il Sc
co sion in Natchez, commencing the 9th, wi
seventy-Gve delegates in attendance.
,r+ One of the incidents of the Virgin
election was that Malone had his ca
bo boxed
A switch engine blew up at Dalla
:, Tex, few days ago, fatally scalding 4
L. engineer and fireman.
ga Clint Houston, a brakeman on Il
10 Alabama Great Southern Railroad, w
killed by the cars near Tuscaloosa, Ala,
- few days ago.
c;' j. Z. McGowan editor of the Chatt
of nooga (Tenn.) daily Times, was attack
ew on the street and knocked down by Add
man ~ Snudar n faxy DAVIS ago. Pol