The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-05-10
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

Chicago and St. Louis hold bonds of
Madison County, Ca, issued ten years
ago, to aid a railroad from Canton to
Nicksburg. The road was never built,
and the bonds never legally issued. The
present Board of Supervisors has en-.
gagged counsel to resist payment.
Two colored politicians were arrested at
Garysburg, N. c., few days ago when
about to fight duel.
Colonel win LAM bert, Secretary Of the
Texas Live Stock Association, says there
will be one hundred Texas COW men at the
Convention in st. Louis next November.
kilograms state that Mullican and Clark.
convicted in Ouachita Parish, La, of the
murder of old man Rogers and wife last
month, were taken from Jail at Monroe a
few nights ago and hanged.
At the last sitting of the Medina County
CTex) Grand Jury, fifty-three men We're
indicted for 100 misdemeanors and forty
one cases of fence burning, fence cutting,
conspiracy to murder State witnesses, etc.
A negro in Houston County Texas, re-
Gently passed $50 Confederate bill on a
grange store, got SO worth of goods and
$40 in change, and skipped out before the
fraud was detected.
Colorado City, Tex, has hen which few
into its owners room a few days ago in
time to give the alarm and enable him &c
drive away two thieves who were making
off with a load of booty
Bidle University, at Charlotte, N. c., for
colored people, is to have a new hall cost.
ing 81 900.
Fort Worth, Tex, generously offers to
contribute - for every 81 allowed by the
State to establish and conduct a summer
Normal School at that place.
Anthony O'Brien, an employee of the
Texas & Pacific Railroad, drank to excess
a few nights ago at Marshal, Tex, and wan.
dered off, and the next morning was found
| drowned in branch near the city.
Jim Smithson, a farmer living near
| Birmingham, Ala, shot his father n-law,
named Blankenship, dead few days ago,
| on account of something the latter said
and refused t0 retract. Smithson escaped.
The Owensboro SS Nashville Accommo.
| dation train was wrecked near Russell.
| vile, KY, few days ago by cow on the
track. Sam Page, engineer of Louisville,
was killed. Mike Costello, fireman, wa.
badly injured
The general store belonging to VIM. H.
! Max, at Clayton, Ala, was destroyed by
| fire few mornings since. Loss, 5000;
insurance, 5000. The origin of the fire
| is unknown.
Sheriff Brawley, of Ellis county, Tex,
| recently lodged in Dallas Jail notorious
| horse-thief named Thomas Wolf, who has
| operated in Texas and the Indian Territory
for years, and whom the authorities have
been after since 1881. Wolf was captured
| in East Texas. He was 20 be transferred
to Waxahachie Jail
A convention of plaid manufacturers
South met at Greensboro, n. c.. a few days
| ago. All reported no stock on hand ami
| many largely ahead The mills organized
| as the Southern Plaid Manufacturer s. Assoc
citation and elected I. NJ. Holt, President.
VIM. Neal has been sentenced to be
hanged at Grayson, KY, July 1S He
made a long speech, denying his guilt, and
relating in detail his movements before and
after the time of the murder saying he was
| at home asleep when the crime was com
mitted.
News reached Dallas, Tex, few nights
ago that the fences of Alex Cockrell's big
| pastures, seven miles west of Dallas, had
been cut. Cockrell has two pastures, one
| of 400 acres, the other of 900, and the
fences were cut in almost every panel.
The damage is estimated at $4,000. There
is no clew to the fence cutters.
At Long Branch school.house, Guada.
| loupe County, Tex, eight miles from San
! Marcos at the close of Sabbath school last
Sunday difficulty occurred resulting in
the killing of Houston Geary by Gus
Scrutchins. Wiley Watson, in endeavor.
ing to prevent the parties from fighting,
was shot through the shoulder. Five shots
were fired, two by Geary and three by
Scrutchns. The difficulty was the result
of an old feud.
C. j. McDowall, trial Justice, was shot
and killed near Camden, S. c., few days
ago by A. II. Perry. The latter had com
planned of the rulings of the Justice in a
cause before him. for which McDowall
called Perry to account, and fight ensued
with the above result Perry has fed.
McDowall's brother was murdered by a
negro two years ago, for which the latter
was hanged.
Miss Maria Hedden, daughter of Mr.,
John Hedden, was drowned in the Ococe
River, near Ducktown, Tenn, Il few days
ago.
Some time ago Mr.. G.. l.. Record, of
Wick burg, Miss, bored holes in rows
around a hogshead at regular intervals,
filling the hogshead with earth, and set a
strawberry plant in each of the holes, be-
sides putting n number of plants on top.
There are now 100 plants growing from the
sides of this novel garden in full beauty
and bloom, with aprolific growth of thirty,
ing, healthy fruit.
The Florida Republicans elected Arthur
men as delegates -at-large to the Chicago
Convention.
William Brooks was hanged at Alexau-
dria, La, on the "a inst. for wife-murder.
Enoch Brown suffered the same penalty
for a similar crime on the same day al
| Halifax Courthouse N. G..