The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-12-13
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGS.

performance by Barnum's circus last year,
was acquitted on trial at Memphis, Tenn.
Bates was killed while holding his child in
his arms.
Mississippi expended $12s,253 for ferti-
lizers last year.
man in Tallahassee, Fla, in digging
well, the other day, struck a deep layer of
oyster shells.
Three negroes who left Chattanooga,
Tenn, for Utah recently are said to be the
first converts to Mormonism from the At
rican race.
All the sugar mills of Alexandria Par
ish, La, have finished the grinding season.
The crop will average the same as last
year.
Texas, the largest State in the Union, is
to have the largest capitol in the Union
The cornerstone of the structure will be
laid March I'd. It is estimated that it will
cost =, 0O0, 900.
Winter racing over the Louisiana Jockey
Club course will begin January Goth, con-
tinuing five days.
A few days ago Floyd Toliver, drug
gist of Farmers, KY, was killed at More
head in difficulty with John Martin.
Sheriff Day, of Mt. Sterling, KY, has
arrested seven men charged with being
members of the band of regulators who, a
few days ago, killed j. G. Hughes in
Rowan County. Two have confessed, i'm
plicating ten or twelve others.
Louis Willett, aged eighteen, convicted
at Kingston, n. c., of the murder of Ed
win Keland, has been sentenced to be
hanged January 22d next. Willett killed
Keland while asleep and then robbed the
body.
Ed Roy, convicted of manslaughter of
the brothers Burlesay, in Mitchell County,
North Carolina, has been sentenced to
twenty years in the Penitentiary. Ander-
son, concerned in the crime, was yet to be
tried.
Kratz's store, sixteen miles from San
Antonio, Tex, was entered by burglars
few nights ago, who carried off a large
amount of valuable plumber. A constable
and posse of citizens were out in pursuit,
but at last accounts had not overtaken the
| robbers.
John Dixon, notorious horse-thief, who
has given North Texas courts and officers
| much trouble for years past, was re-
Gently convicted in the Dallas District
Court and given six years in the Peniten-
tiary.
A few days since David Davis, of Cat
lettsburg, KY, aged eighteen years, and a
! younger brother, were out shooting at a
mark with musket. The gun in the hands
of David bursted, and fragment strik-
ing him in the head, killed him almost in
stantly.
Major Jas. R. Kelley, Captain of Com.
pany H, Third United States Artillery, died
few days ago at Jackson Barracks, below
| New (lrlaans In of airrhoG Of tho liuar.
He was buried at Chalmette Cemetery.
Major Kelley was born in Ireland, and was
fiftyfive years old.
Governor Thompson of South Carolina
was inaugurated on the 4th inst. with i'm
pressive ceremonies. The Chief-Justice of
the Supreme Court administered the oath
of office and the dueling oath also. The
same oaths were administered to Lieuten-
ant-Governor Shepherd.
The Key West (Fla.) Ne,cs says of the
tobacco clause in the Spanish treaty. "If
the treaty is ratified with this clause, Key
West is doomed city. 1t would close up
every cigar factory, force about 1900 of
our citizens out of employment, and en-
tail loss of about 100000 in property"
A horrible tragedy was committed few
nights ago at Camilla, Ga. Unknown par
ties entered the house of Stephen Goodwin
and killed him while in bed; also killed
Mrs. Malinda Gregory and son in their
beds. Their money was not taken. God
wins horse and buggy and shotgun are
missing.
The largest sale of timber ever made in
the State of Tennessee was consummated
a few days ago. S. NJ. Winchester, of
Chattanooga, sold to Dewey g. Son, of
| Kalamazoo, Mich, the timber growth of
| 3,100 acres of land in Johnson County,
Tenn, amounting to 20,0O0,000 feet of
white pine The purchasers will erect o
very extensive woodworking establish
ment in Chattanooga to work the timber
into merchantable shape.
A tragedy occurred at Nechesville, Tex,
few nights ago, resulting in the death of
l.. V. Simpson and DIR. Calhoun Lawrence,
both well-known citizens. The difficulty
grew out of the settlement of a small
debt. Simpson fred first, mortally wound
ing Lawrence in the abdomen. Lawrence
fired three shots, each taking effect, the
last one penetrating Simpsons heart.
Lawrence expired some hours after the
shooting.
Joaquin Gadines, who on November %.
1888, brutally assassinated Florencio
Lopez, a policeman, at Houston, Tex, was
recently arrested through curious cir
cumstance. 1t seems he stole leg of veal
from a meat ambulance and tried to run
away with it, but was overtaken and ar
rested. While in a cell awaiting trial for
petty larceny, his wife came in and mad
vertently inquired, not for the name given
when arrested, but for Joaquin Gadines,
his proper name. The police caught at tie
latter name instantly, and Francisco alias
Joaquin will not soon be turned loose.
Dock Samuels, who lives about two