The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-08-09
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

company for the purpose of exploring
the upper regions Of the State OF Georgia.
Forty-six members of the Georgia State
Editorial Association recently visited the
attle.field of Gettysburg, Pa.
Silas Hudson, James Pa1gett ana sr.
thur Page, all young men, are under arrest
at Lynchburg, Va, for placing logs on the
track of the Richmond g. Allegheny Road.
Villa Finch was killed at Fayette Court.
house, Ala, few days ago by Simpson
Lindsey, in a drunken quarrel. Finch's
throat was cut from ear to ear.
A young man named Crawford Black
shot and instantly killed Captain L. Latto-
way at Caledonia, Tex, few days since,
IN dispute as to how some land should be
worked which B Tack had rented OF Latto-
way. Black escaped.
Mrs. Deville, an aged widow, who resid-
ed alone in Henderson County, Tenn, was
found dead near her cabin few days ago,
part Of her face and breast having been
eaten by hogs. Her daughter and her
daughters husband are in custody, on the
charge of having killed her for her
money.
Four forged checks on the Raymond
Bank, of Austin, Tex, signed with the
name of S,ern, proprietor of flour mill,
have been cashed by different merchants
in that city, but were refused by the bank
in the last few days. They were for small
amounts The bank claims that one for 81
is in existence. The suspected party had
left the city.
There are about fifteen hundred Chero
kee Indians in Swain County, North Car
! DINA.
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| sons who are derelict in clearing up filth
| deposits.
There were one million cigars and two
hundred bales of sponge shipped to New
York from Key West last week.
Bader County, Ga, raised a sixty.six
pound watermelon this season.
Four able. bodied Arabs, who were ar.
rested at Corpus Christi, Tex, recently for
importunate begging, were found to have
| 800 III gold concealed on their persons.
| A negro child, born with five teeth, is
novely in Leake County, Mississippi.
| A man i'll Adair County, Kentucky, lost
| 1,400 chickens recently from cholera.
| Mississippi has 444, 14l children of school
| age, for whose education she appropri-
ates 100000, or sixiy-seven cents per
capita.
A twenty.pound shell from a PARROT
gun was lately found imbedded in the
roof of the Vlcksburg Opera-house.
Five thousand acres of tobacco will be
raised in Bourbon County, Ken ucky, this
year. Ten years ago not ten acres were
| raised.
! A farmer of Clay County, Mississippi,
has 100 acres planted in peppermint.
Jackson Brown, an aged coiored man
| Of Har Na ratu inn
from woodcutting the other night at
tempted to crawl through board fence;
his head became fastened, and he strangled
to death.
j. F. Ray shot and killed an escaping
convict, Wash Mcintosh, colored, at Yazoo
City, Miss, a few days ago. Ray surren-
! dered.
The steamer City,of Yazoo sunk at St.
| Delphine near Baton Rouge, La, a few
days ago. She was loaded with cotton
seed and oil.
Theodore Dempster, a painter, fell from
The roof of a three.story building at Louis
vile, KY, few days ago, and was in.
stantly killed.
Governor Ireland, of Texas, respited for
sixty days Bill Bass, the rapist, who was
| to have been executed August l.
Attorney General Templeton of Texas
rules that county funds cannot be used to
! defray the expenses of county exhibits to
! the New Orleans Exposition.
Governor McEnery, of Louisiana, has
| fixed the Z9lh of August for the hanging
of Berry Johnson (colored), who murdered
! his wife a few months ago by choking her
to death.
A few nights ago, on Captain John
| Willis plantation in Sharkey County,
! Miss, a negro named Tom Sanders de.
! liberately shot and killed another negro
because he dunned him for a debt of 81.
! The murderer escaped.
| Andrew X. Jackson, respectable white
citizen of Marlboro County, S. c., was
! killed at his supper table a few evenings
! since by negro named Eli Gale, who cut
his throat. Gale was in Jackson's employ,
! and they had had slight difficulty. A
party went in pursuit of the murderer.
! A fire a Lampasas, Tex, few days ago
| destroyed the Post-olce building and two
adjoining stores with contents. Total loss
! estimated, $4,000; insurance, $4,000 The
| mail matter was saved.
| Thomas Calhoun, of Beech Island, s. c.,
was found dead in his bed a few mornings
since, lying in a pool of blood, face down,
with pistol in his hand. Financial troubles
| was the cause of the suicide
! Sing Wing, a wealthy Chinaman, died
recently, the first Celestial who has given
up the ghost at Fort Worth, Tex. His
brethren gave all the attention possible to
the remains, embalming and placing them
in a metallic casket. Lee Tai and Sam
Ling went to San Francisco with the body,
from which point they go TO China.
A few days ago brute named Antonio
Rivera, of Brownsville, Tex, whipped his