The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-11-22
SOUTHERN oLEANlNGS.


The jury at Petersburg, Va, disagreed
and were discharged in the case of W. w.
White, late Teller of the Planters and
Mechanics Bank, indicted for making
fraudulent entries. White was released
on $500 bail
For the week ending Saturday, Novem-
Der 10th, seventeen clubhouse fires took
! place in Georgia, in which 300 bales of cot
ton, valued at $4,000, were destroyed.
This is an average weeks casualties, and
shows the steady drain made upon the cot
| ton farmers by fire.
The delivery freight depot of the Louis
| vile q Nashville Road at Louisville, Ky,
burned few days ago. Seventy car
loads of general freight were destroyed.
Loss fully 100000 The origin of the fire
is unknown
From Jefferson County, Florida, comes
the news of n shocking parrcide, the true
story of which is wrapped in mystery.
The first version was that George Dawkins
was engaged in a fight with negro. The
senior Mr. Dawkins endeavored to part
them, when he was shot dead by his son.
The negro has fed. The old man is dead,
and there remains at present no one to tell
the story but the parricide himself.
The final report of the National Cotton
! Exchange, at New Orleans estimates that
the cotton crop of the United States for the
current year is 5,726,000 bales, or a trhe
larger than last year. Should the pros
poets of top crop in certain sections be
realized, some $1,000 bales may be added.
In Texas there was large decrease, and
In the Mississippi Valley the crop is not
quite up to last season, but the Atlantic
States and Alabama show gains to Offset
these deficiencies.
A proposition is under consideration to
light the city of Memphis, Tenn, by cleo
tricity.
The eighteenth annual session of the Ma
tional Grange was held last week at Nash
vile, Tenn.
Governor Ireland designated Congress-
man elect Sayres to represent Texas at
the Cattlemen's Convention in st. Louis.
Pete McNlurray, colored, resisted arrest
in Louisville, KY, few days ago, and
was shot and killed by an officer.
The Kentucky tobacco crop is good and
well matured. 1t has been housed
A disastrous fire occurred at Newport,
Clay County, Texas, a few days ago. Eight
business houses were burned. Loss and
insurance unknown.
Allen Burnett, about forty years old,
was run over by the cars and killed at
Oconee, Ga, few nights ago.
The cotton-seed oil mill at Monroe, La,
burned few night ago. Seven cattle,
box and fiat cars on the Vicksburg, Shreve-
port & Pacific Railroad were also de-
stroyed.
j. Jack Cook shot and killed a man
named Philips at Montgomery, Ala, few
nights since. Both are railroad engineers.
Domestic matters was the cause.
The Governor of Georgia has respited
Warren Price, the johnson murderer, until
December 18th, and committed the sentence
of Heny Cato, the DeKalb County murder.
er, to life Imprisonment. Both were to
have been hanged ON the 14th.
Fire in Eufala, Ala, few nights ago de-
stroyed eight or ten stores, with stock OF
goods, and also 200 bales of cotton. Loss
in the neighborhood of $4,000.
Rev. f. A. Mood, d. D., Regent of the
Southwestern University, died at Waco
Tex, a few days ago, while attending the
, session of the Northwest Texas Metho list
Conference
News of an incendiary fire at Big Sandy
Tex, a few days ago, has been received
Total loss, $4,000; insurance. $1,000. The
heaviest losers are: S. Ahrenson, dry
goods, 5000; j. NJ. Darrah, dry goods
$1,000.
Eugene Pickett, aged fourteen, fell from
the fifth floor of the Grubbs- KemkeI
Bakery Company's building through the
elevator to the engine-room, at Nashville
Tenn, Il few days ago, and was instantly
l killed.
, Major George T. jackson, the defaultine
President of the Enterprise (Ga.) Cotton
l Mills, has been arrested on four indict
ments, charging him with the wrongful
| appropriation of $4,000.
Police Officer Furnell, of Dallas, Tex.
while attempting to arrest Jim Salmons {
? few days ago, was so seriously injured
1 that his life is despaired of. He was in
sensible for several hours. Salmons wal
subsequently arrested and jailed.
? Deputy United States Marshal A. N
+ Woody, of Fort Worth, Tex, had a lady
$ relative insulted by Cohen, the man wht
I was recently horsewhipped in that city
and finding him at Temple, attacked him
beating him severely over the head with
= revolver.
(. A boiler exploded at Kings foundry a
Mobile, Ala, few days ago, and almos
1 completely demolished the two-story bricl
/, machine shop in which forty men wer
? workings and only five were hurt and thes
slightly Heavy pieces of iron flew through
o Gibney's foundry also and tore the roof OF
. the same. Although Gibney's was full o
men at work no one was hurt.
/ Mr.. w. N. Davis, wealthy merchant 0
Townsville, Ga, shot himself in his room
v a few evenings since. Two shots wer
a fred, both in his breast. In q note foun'
in his room he requested E. NJ. Smith
Cashier of the bank, and his father, VIII
: lives in Florida, to wind up his affairs.
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