The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-09-06
SOUTHERN GLE4NINGS.

~ STABBED Hannah Stewar5 at Houston,
Tex.
Geo. Howard and Hawkins Galloway
got into fight a few days ago at Lexing-
ton, Ca, in which George inflicted wound
with his knife in the head of Hawkins.
The blade was driven into the top of the
head about two and half inches and
broken off even with the skull. All efforts
to extract the piece of blade from the
skull proved futile, and the victim died.
A few days ago at w. II. Ludovich's
farm on Black Greek, near Devine, Tex,
u. w. Horton started to ms pect a 110-foot
well When ten feet from the top the rope
broke and he was dashed to the bottom.
When brought up he was horribly
mutilated, and was heard to groan once as
he neared the top. He died Immediately
after reaching the surface.
The main building for the Worlds Elk.
position at New Orleans is completed ex-
cept part of the sheathing of the roof and
some flooring. Exhibits will be received
beginning September 1. horticultural
Hall is finished. Music Hall, main build.
ing, is finished. 1t will be provided with
ten thousand chairs for auditors. An air.
brake company of Chicago will supply
twenty elevators for the main building.
The Jacksonville (Fla.) Courthouse is te
be built of granite from Maine.
New Orleans has an artesian well $50
feet deed from which issues steady flow
of clear cold water.
A Norfolk (Va.) negro named Ralph
M cody absented himself from home for
ten years and returned recently to find that
his wife had embraced the occasion to get
married twice.
Claude Pugh, ten-year-old newsboy, OF
Memphis, Tenn, YVES drowned in the basin
OF the Courthouse Square fountain a few
days ago in the presence of dozen men,
none of whom offered him assistance.
y. L. Cunningham, aged seventy-five,
fell on a circular saw on Pigeon River, in
Western North Carolina, a few days ago,
and was cut in two.
Mrs. Jennings, very old lady living
near Athens. Ca, lately had a couple of
bushels of wheat of different kinds that
she wanted to save for seed. The two
bushels got mixed together, and she sepa-
rated it by picking out grain at time.
negro was hanged at Jeanerette, La,
few days since by citizens for grossly
assaulting married lady.
A tramp was arrested in Nashville,
Tenn, recently lying in IN alleyway.
Concealed in his ragged clothes was over
81 900 in large notes and gold pieces.
A masked highwayman, displaying a
rifle and three six shooters, robbed the
driver and four passengers of the stage be-
tween Weatherford and Graham, Texas,
few days since and was holly pursued
by a bloodthirsty posse.
Several firemen were injured by falling
walls in a recent confagration al New
Iberia,, La.
Fifty feet of shelving in Guiteau q Wal.
dron's drug store, at Denison, Tex, loaded
with jars and packages of drugs, fell with
crash few days ago, striking NJ. Wal
dron on the head, filling his eyes with ir
ritating liquids and infiitting a financial
| damage to the amount of 81 800.
The first new bale of cotton raised with.
| in the Memphis district was received a
| few days since. 1t was raised in Jefferson
Co inty, Ark. 1t classed as middling, and
was sold at auction, realizing twenty cents
per pound.
On the Alabama line, near Fort Gaines
! Ga, negro, while cleaning out a well, re
Gently had all the skin of his forehead
! knocked down over his face by a planh
which broke loose from the curbing and
struck hm glancing lick. 1t was a mi
raculous thing the negro was not killed in
stantly.
Sam Small, of Atlanta, Ca, has eighty
odd scrap-books, running back forty
years, and which he adds to daily. He hal
the record of every public man who ha'
ever figured in Georgia politics, correctly
| indexed. One of his books shows tina
Senator Colquitt's father voted for anC
: approved two bills that his son voteC
against in the United States Senate.
A fire at Buckridge colliery near Noun
Carmel, Tenn, was located few days ag
and three pumps set to work forcing waite
into it. The management say it will tax
at least eight months to fully extinguis
the fire. Over 300 men and boys are idle
The damage will be over $S0,0l0.
The health officer of Nashville, Tenn.
says that diphtheria is confined to one o
two localities in the eastern portion of tn
city. 1t is rapidly dying out, and he doe
not expect any trouble in entirely SUI
pressing it. No alarm whatever is felt.
A fearful fight took place AT Marysvillt
Tenn, a few nights ago, among member
of the Quaker Church about the possessio
of the college buildings. Three men wer
badly beaten and bruised up, and NOR
trouble was expected.
A few nights ago posse of men caugl
the man who short time ago robbed JIG
Davis at Glen Mary, Tenn, of $1,000, she
him and placed his body on the railroad
where it was horribly mangled. 1t VIC
discovered by accident how the man mi
his fate.
The Farmer Mill, at Sherman, Tex, wa
destroyed by fire few days ago. I'll
building is total loss.
A fire at Midlothian, Tex, few day
ago destroyed the store and stock of me
chandise of A. w. Moore. Loss, 81. 20,
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