The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-12-27
SOUTHERN oLeANINes.

In North Carolina. It's present population
is about 10000.
1t is reported that not loss than twenty
eight colcrcd oystermcn were drowned in
the Rappahannock River In Virginia dur
ing the recent gale.
The Grand Jury ut New Orleans, after
examining over one hundred witnesses, in
dicted Recorder Ford, his brother, and
several police and court officers for the
murder Of A. II. Murphy.
Mr.. NJ. l.. Meachnm, one of the oldest
merchants Of Memphis, Tenn, having been
engaged In business there since 1855, died
suddenly few days ago Of heart disease.
He was sixty years OF age.
United States Judge Henry Kent Nc
Kay of Atlanta, Ga, has been taken to
Baltimore for private treatment, he having
recently shown unmistakable signs of mem
tai arrangement.
An incendiary fire at Falmouth, KY,
few days ago, destroyed one of the best
business blocks in the city. Loss, about
$4,000. Rule Brothers, clothiers, lost
everything, amounting TO $4,000, and were
insured for not more than one-half.
There's effected an entrance into the
office of the Southern Express Company
at Trezevant, Tenn, few nights ago,
and robbed the safe of 81 900. Trezevant
is small town ON the Louisville Sc
Nashville Railroad, about fifty miles
northeast of Memphis. The burglars blew
open the safe with powder.
The Mother Superior of the Dallas
(Tex.) Ursuline Convent died few days
ago of consumption, aged forty two.
The residence of Henry Loeb, at Dallas,
Tex, took fire and was burned fHy
nights ago. Loss, $4,000; partially in
sured.
desperate fight took place between
Deputy Marshals and moonshiners in Hall
County, Ga, a few days ago. Several
persons were killed.
All the laborers in the Teddy Coal
Mines, at Chattanooga, Tenn, struck a
few days ago against ten per cent. re-
duction. Three hundred are idle.
Convicts in the Bondurant and Jopling
Brick Yard at Augusta, Ga, made a
break for liberty few nights ago. Two
were wounded and recaptured. The re-
mainder were still at large.
Arch. Mcbride, of Fort Worth, Tex,
started to go up stairway to gambling
hall over a saloon few days ago,
but being some the worse for liquor,
fell and broke his neck. The first man to
arrive found him dead.
A freight train on the Texas &c Pacific
ran through bridge near Mineola, Tex, a
few days ago. No lives are reported lost.
The bridge was fired by sparks from the
engine and burned.
The steam gin of S. A. Douglass, at
Kerrville, Tenn, together with eighteen
bales of cotton, burned few nights ago.
Loss, $1,000; insurance, 50, 100.
A small freight depot of the Louisville,
New Orleans q Texas Railroad at Mem
phis, Tenn, together with a new passen-
ger coech and some freight which was in
the depot, burned q few days ago. The
fire had it's origin in The coach.
Prof. Slocum, the Kentucky school
master who defended himself against a
mob, killing one man and wounding sew
eral others, at Horse Cave, was dis
charged from custody on motion of the
commemorative attorney.
The storehouse of S. Staicti at Marshall,
Tex, was entered few nights ago and
about $50 worth of provisions and grocer
les stolen. The people are becoming
alarmed at the frequency of such occur
u
police to protect the town.
j. p. Mitchell, conductor on the Hender-
son Division of the Louisville e. Nashville
Railroad, was crushed while coupling cars
at Red River, KY, few days ago, and
died from the effects of his injuries.
A few days ago in Salisbury, N. c., a
white man named Hughes assaulted lit
tie white girl He was arrested and jailed.
Fearing mob, the jailer put a new lock to
the Jail. A mob attacked the jail, took
Hughes out and gave him a severe whip
| ping, and warned him to leave the State.
Marion Mcfarland, a farmer living near
Geneva, Ga, was bitten a few weeks age
! by dog supposed to be mad. He suffered
but little from the bite until few days
ago, when he had commissions. He died a
| horrible death, after two days of suffer
ing, with all the symptoms of hydro
| phobia.
Mrs. Trautwein, wife of a prominent
manufactures at Atlanta, Ga, died a few
days ago. Mrs. Berron, a wealthy widow
offered a grave in her cemetery lot for the
burial of her friend, and went out with
MIR. Trautwein to select the spot. During
the evening, by some accident, Mrs Der.
ron.s dress caught fire and she was burned
! to death, and the two ladies were buried
side by side.
The jury in the case of Deputy Sheriff
Hancock, which has been on trial in the
Memphis (Tenn.) Criminal Court, returned
verdict of not guilty. Hancock was in
dicted for killing a negro named DAME
Mckay, who resisted him while under ar.
| rest.
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A serious row occurred at Clarksdale
Miss, on the Louisville, New Orleans
Texas Railroad, few days ago. Abou
800 negroes, after being paid off, began
drinking, which resulted in row. Floyd
| tho na.rr1 MaIsha nj of the TOWN ard aI,a q