The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-11-01
SOUTHERN GLEANINGs.

almost entirely destroyed by Ere recently;
loss, $4,000.
The Texas Live Stock Association will
send thirty-six delegates to the s.. Louis
Cattle Convention, November 7th.
Byron Won Raub, near San Antonio,
Tex, has been indicted for using the
United S ates mails to dcfraud the public.
Ex-County Trustee Knight of Rhea
County, Tennessee, who defaulted for
$4,000, has been jailed.
II. Frazer Grant, a prominent bu sinesS
man OF Savannah, Ca, 10 mysteriously
missing, and the air is burdened with
rumors of crookedness in his business
affairs.
AT Farmville, Va, a few nights ago, the
planters warehouse, three tobacco fac
tories and six tenements burned. Loss,
$1,000; all insured except the warehouse.
The Governor OF Texas has issued a
proclamation raising the yellow fever
quarantine at all ports in Texas on the
10Th of November, but establishing quar-
antine against cholera-infected ports of
Europe for an indefinite period.
Il. :. Graham, OF Young County, Texas,
recently sold $1,000 acres of Peters Col
ony lands to a colony of Bohemians, who
will at once move on the land and proceed
to grow up with the country.
The crop of Virginia chestnuts is saidto
| be ample.
A Texas man ninety six years of age
lately died from the anguish caused by
| cutting third set of teeth.
A man named Henley, supposed to be
bent on robbery, was shot dead by young
man named Scott, near Atlanta, Ca, a
few nights ago.
The First National Bank of Vicksburg,
Miss, with a paid-up capital of 500, 900,
has mm,nced business.
Harry Altman shot and killed his
father, Lafayette Altman, at st. Charles,
KY. few day ago, on account of some
family trouble.
The extended drought which prevailed
for over two months in Virginia, Georgia
and Alabama has been broken by copious
rains.
The Virginia oyster cruiser Chesapeake
has had her masts, machinery and smoke
stack put in at Norfolk, and Governor
Cameron Is contemplating a saltwater
journey.
Charles Rice and Jim Scott laborers,
were killed at Louisville, KY, a few days
ago, one by the caving in OF sand bank,
the other by falling through hatchway.
A party of one hundred excursionists
from Northern States arrived at jackson,
a few days since. They were looking for
land.
William Besringer, a drummer from
New York, died at the Southern Hotel in
Austin, Tex, q few days ago, from the
effects of an overdose of morphine, be-
lieved to have been taken with suicidal in
tent.
Joe Criticize, business man of Teri ell,
Tex, was shot and killed a few days ago
by painter named William Boren, in a
difficulty over job of work done by the
latter. The slayer was arrested and
jailed.
An old man named John Orlicks was
found murdered in bis store near Houston,
Tex, few days ago, with rope round
his neck, head and body badly disfgured.
There was no clue to the murderers OF
cause assigned for the murder.
A difficulty occurred few nights since
at Cottonwood, Tex, between four cattle
men, in which julius Hager was killed
and Washington Boren believed to be NOR
tally wounded by Jo.eph Price and VIII
liam Ross, who ma lie their escape.
G. b. Gerold, County Judge of Waco,
Tex, adjourned his court for five minutes
one day recently, for fist fight with an
attorney named Il. A. Blair. After
friends had stopped the contest the court
calmly resumed its session.
Willie Smith, aged seventeen, wa:
found in the last agonies of death, i'll {
cornfisld near his stepfath er's house, u
Cynthlana, KY, few days ago. He hac
AIKEN his shotgun oua for hunt, and it Is
supposed that he sho, himself accidental
ly, as his gun and a rabbit were found OF
one side OF a fence and his body on thu
; other
James Duncan, living twelve miles from
Dallas, Tex, went to the city few even
, ings since, and fell dead from his seat il
a saloon. He evidently committed sui
eide, as a note was found on his person
saying: 81 am fifty years old to-day, AM
this IS my last day on earth. am tired
OF the world"
In the Hastings (Va.) Court few day
ago, the Grand Jury found true bil
against Thos. Wby;e, late Cashier of til
l Planters 81 Merchants Bank, chargin
: him with being accessory to WV. Why te
. late Teller of said bank, in making Ger
tain fraudulent entries on the Teller
< book, whereby Thomas Whyte was credit
Q ed with 100 as deposited January lo5L
1888, and 10, $50 as depositsd January 2lst
D 1888.
Miss Fannie Robertson, beau iful -four
= teen.year old girl, the adopted daughte
4 of Mr.. James C. Robertson, of Broken Al
o row, Ga, disappeared from her home
CO uple of weeks ago. 1t has since been de
= veioped that her foster father has tol
d contradictory stories aboul her disappear
4 ance. These circumstances and the absC
Lutte absence of any clew as to her NOV
: ments have aroused the suspicion tina