The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-11-08
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGS.

As Captain T. II. Picket, well known
attorney of Dawson, Ga, was walking
down the street a few evenings since he
was assaulted by @. w. Cheeves, editor of
the Dawson Journal. In the melee the lat
ter shot Pickett dead. Cheeves was lodged
in jail.
At Mckinney, Tex, the Houston g.
Texas Central Railroad won 81 900 dam
age suit against the Baltimore & Ohio
Telegraph Company for trespass.
The Georgia papers report that sharpers
are going over the track of Sherman's
march to the sea, quilting farmers into the
belief that the Government is going to pay
for the damage done at that time, and coll
lecting fees in advance for services to be
rendered in putting through claims.
A rumor was current recently at Clinton,
| La, of the murder of three persons, father,
son and nephew, in st. Tammany Parish,
and that posse of men pursued, captured,
and hanged four negro murderers, and
were on the track of others.
Tallapoosa, on the Georgia Pacific Road,
was burned by supposed incendiary fire
few nights ago, with loss of $4,000.
The fire started in the store of Pope & Dar-
nell, and destroyed the business houses of
Tumlin s. Matthews, Stebbins & Dough-
erty, T. l.. Dougherty and S. II. New.
On October fist, at Charco, a country
Post office twenty miles from Goliad, Tex,
| two Mexicans robbed the store of r. j. Hor-
ton. They tied hat over the clerks face
and compelled him to stand with his face
to the wall while they rifled the store, Sc
curing all the money there was in it and
some dry goods. A posse was organized,
but the robbers escaped.
Cotton seed is the source of a vast reve-
nue. to Texas.
Charleston, S. c., has established Con-
servatory of Music, and is pointing to it
with considerable pride
Florida expects to raise three million
boxes of oranges this season.
Shepherdsville (Ky.) colored woman
recently gave birth to twins-the one white
and the other black.
Hon. David Clopton, of Montgomery,
Ala, has been appointed Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court of that State.
A block of buildings at Taylor, Tex.
burned few days ago; loss, $4,000.
The South has been rolling up wealth
during the past four years at the rate OF
$l60,000,000 year.
A Southern newspaper recently spoke Of
the need of ''pluvial dispensation," and
was obliged to tell its readers in its next
issue that it meant rain.
A new and dangerous counterfeit silver
dollar is in circulation in Georgia.
The. potato crop of the two Eastern
shore counties of Virginia is estimated a
100000 less than last year on account o.
the drought.
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ried on a months probation, and at the enc
of that time dissolved by consent of al
concerned.
A fair is to be held in Norfolk, Va, IL
December, for the relief of the soldiers anc
sailors of the late Confederate States army
and navy who are in destitute crcum
stances.
A young lady in south Georgia insert
the following advertisement in local pa
, per- "Wanted, by "A young lady not thir
! ty, husband, be he bachelor, widower o
dude. l am good-looking, weigh III
pounds, can cook, wash and IRON"
, Colonel j. G.. O'Neill, who commanded ,
Tennessee regiment in the rebellion ant
q was a leader in the Fenian raid into Cana
, da, died in Galveston a few days ago o
hemorrhage of the lungs.
Geo. T. jackson, President of the Enter
prise cotton factory, Augusta, Ga, is re
ported defaulter to the amount of 5000
or more.
Bob Williams, the negro murderer, ar
rested in st. Louis in June, was convictet
at his trial in New Orleans.
James Marshall and Max Price were ar
rested at Houston, Tex, a few days age
charged with embezzling money from til
Wells Fargo Express Company.
The house of Mr.. James Cochran, at FL
: liay, Ca, was destroyed by fire a fey
nights ago. His mother, eighty three year
of age, who was an invalid, was burned t
. death. Nothing was found but charre
bones and the spinal column.
DIR. Munhall, of Indiana, has been con
: Quoting one of the most powerful revival
ever enjoyed by the people of jackson
Tenn. Nearly hundred persons hay
been converted, and the me citing still goC
, on with increasing inter est.
L A brakeman on the Illinois Central Raj
!, road and a highly respected citizen c
:, Jackson, Tenn, by the name of WilliaI
McAlexander, aged about TWENTY-FIVE
years, was crushed to death while couI
: ling cars few nights ago at Fulton, KY
James Mattison was sentenced few day
y ago to five years in the Penitentiary for Il
murder of Sheriff Blythewood last sprin
in Wharton County, in street alteration
a Mattison claims to have shot in self-d'
u Tense.
Henry Roberts, colored, was found dea
% In an empty room in house in Louisvin
N KY, where his divorced wife lived vii
IS her children, a few days ago. He had be-
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