The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-12-20
SOUTHERN oLEANiNGS.


ty, Virginia, are making arrangements to
erect a monument to the memory of DIR.
George E. Rives. who was a candidate for
Congress at the late election, and died
during the canvass.
Lodge No. 30, Order of the Elks, consist
ing of some fifty members, was installed
at New Orleans few days ago by Exalted
Ruler Thomas w. Keene. A grand BAN
quet followed in honor Of Mr.. Keene.
William Lawson, a railroad clerk the
Galveston, Houston &c San Antonio Rail-
road general freight office at Houston, Tex,
shot and mortally wounded John Living
ston, transfer agent, few days ago, the
result of an old feud. Livingston fingered
few hours and died. Lawson had not
been captured.
A man from Mobile, Ala, has gone to
Maine TO pass the winter.
A company of Scotch capitalists have
recently invested 1000 in mining lands
in White County, Georgia.
Interesting dog races took place at Cam
ton, Miss, few days ago, for the Ma
tional American Kennel Club stakes.
saloon at Laredo, Tex, recently re-
ceived turtle, measuring two and a half
by six and a half feet and weighing $50
pounds.
Florida paper estimates that in the
past sixteen years the Republican party
in the South has stolen 1,7S5, 100000
chickens.
A Louisiana negro man attempted to
shoulder five bundles of cotton ties at once
the other day. He succeeded in getting
them nearly up, staggered and fell dead
from over-exertion.
Nexv Orlaans ,,a,ars nv 8hat dn,ars -
small, low priced restaurants are being
opened all over that city, and that at many
of them ''very decent and filling meal
can be had for twenty-five cents"
All of the cotton factories of Columbus,
Ca, are running full time except one. The
plaid mills are full of orders and the bust
ness outlook is bright.
John p. Martin was shot and killed by
regulators at farmers Station, KY, few
days ago. The victim was a desperate fell
low and had killed one or two people.
LATE Gammons and James Davine were
quarreling at Bedford, KY, few days
ago, when son of the latter shot Gam
mons through the head, killing him in
stantly. W. p. Gammons, father of the
murdered man, then stabbed Davine twice
with a pocket-knife, inficting serious
wounds.
At Thompson's Station, Tenn, a few
days ago, two young clerks, w. j. Russell
and j. H. Morris, had trifing quarrel,
when without warning the latter fired
two shots into Russell, who died in ten
minutes.
| Mr.. j. M. Hill, one of the most prominent
men of Memphis, Tenn, was stopped on
the street a few evenings since and robbed
- a. on ~
| young men.
| A man named Watson, confined in the
new stone jail at Denison, Tex, charged
| with horse stealing, and who was chained
| in his cell, escaped a few nights ago by
| first breaking through a lock, then dig
| ging through brick partition and thence
! removing some bricks from the chimney
and climbing on to the roof, from whence
he let himself to the ground by rope
made of blankets.
Rod Preston, up till within a short time
Deputy Sheriff for Dallas County, Tex,
sold horse in Dallas a few days ago.
| Subsequently MIR. Mort Cole swore out a
warrant charging Preston with horse
stealing, and recovered the animal from
the purchaser. Preston fled the country.
A shoemaker at Wytheville, Va, few
| days ago wrote President-elect Cleveland,
asking for his measure for pair of boots
for the Inauguration. Governor Cleveland
replied in a polite note, enclosing a twen-
ty dollar bill for the boots. The shoemaker
returned the money, but the Governor in
sisted on paying and sent the money back,
adding he would wear the boots on inau-
| guration day.
| The Texas State Eclectic Medical Asso-
| citation met in Dallas few days ago with
| AS members present, and adopted resolu-
tions protesting against legislation dis
| eliminating in favor of any one school of
medicine, and demanding representation
| in the Medical Department of the State
University.
A woman named Shelley went racing
into Franklin, Tenn, few days ago on
horseback, pursued by her husband on a
mule. She declared to the crowd that she
wanted divorce because of cruel and in
human treatment, upon which Shelley,
who had come up by that time, began to
beat her, In an attempt to arrest him
police officer was fatally cnt. Shelley is
believed to be insane.
John Sullivan, recently from Kansas,
was killed at Corsicana, Tex, a few days
ago by the cars of the Houston & Texas
Central Railroad crushing him to death, at
the Union depot, in the presence of his
wife, his son and his daughter.
The recent discovery of gold and silver
near Spring Place, Ga, few miles south
| of Chattanooga, has created considera BILE
excitement in that region, and miners are
fiocking in from all directions. Gold and
silver has been found in paying quantities
at several points in that vicinity, and
shafts are being sunk and placer miners
are digging day and night One of the