The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-04-12
SOUTHERN GLEANINGs.

bue newspapers Wnere one man read them
ten years ago.
A commercial traveller who arrived
In Knoxville, Tenn, a few days ago and
registered in the Atkins House as "Tunis
Way, Philadelphia" was found dead on
the floor of his room. Although man of
apparently strong physique, he had been
complaining of sickness since his arrival,
but was walking about the promises a. a
late hour the previous evening. Mr.. Will
son, of the Atkins House, at eleven O'Clock
called to give him medicine, and found
Way laying dead on the floor. Coroner
Hardinburg stated that Way had died of
congestion of the lungs, and that there was
no indication of poisoning
A man half dead was pick ID up under
the bridge over rrini.y Itivet az Dallas,
Tex, a few days ago. He was taken to the
Jail and medical attendance given him.
He returned to consciousness sufficiently
to state that his name was James Wilson,
of Collin County; that he had been at work
in Dallas several days, and that while
walking across the bridge the night before
some one struck him with sand bag,
knocking him off. He believed the party
who struck him to be Lewis Bransford,
who, eleven years ago, killed his (Wilson's)
father in Lamar County, Tex. The wound.
ed man was in a precarious condition.
No State or County Official in Missis.
sippi can now ride on tree pas.
Buffalo gnats are killing mules in
Western Mississippi Deer are fleeing to
the high lands of Arkansas to escape the
pests.
Hortensia Mason, colored school
teacher of Shelbyville, KY, has sued the
Louisville q Nashville Road for $4,000 for
refusing her the privilege of the ladies'
coach after she had purchased "a first class
| ticket
A fatal boiler explosion occurred
few days ago at the Marine dry docks III
New Orleans.
Dallas and Fort Worth are engaged
in desperate contest for the IA .lroad cnam.
! pionship.
1t was reported in Dallas, Tex, few
nights ago that Morgan Commack, imph
Gated in the cotton swlndles in that city,
had been rearrested at some point on the
Lower Rio Grande.
Five prisoners broke jail, few days
since. at Lexington, TIA.
Southern cotton mill owners met re
NSiAOiJ az augusta, Od', ana ulOpIeu feSO-
lutions looking to a curtailment of manu-
features.
Frank Elliot, negro who assaulted
a white girl in York County, Moran Caro-.
lima, was taken to Rock Hill for examina-
ton. The citizens overpowered the Sher.
if's posse and lynched the offender.
j. F. Ransdall, Postmaster at New
castle, KY, is defaulter TO the amount
of $3.50. Ransdall has disappeared. A
Government agent is in possession of the
office.
At Newport, Tenn, shortly after dark
a few nights ago w. G. Fowler shot and in.
stantly killed John Rutherford. Ru her.
ford and associates were engaged in rccli-
ing Fowler, when the latter fired ut the
crowd, killing Rutherford. Fowler had
not been arrested.
AT Faryicv, Ky, few DAYS ago,
John ". Gibson walked INTO the grocery
of John Mccoy and shot him dead. A
large party of citizens went in pursuit of
the mu d-rer.
The Attorney General of Texas has
brought suit against A. A. Tamage and D.
NJ. O'Donnell, OF st. Louis, Mo-, to recover
G3,000 acres of valuable sugar land in
Brazoria County, claiming that the trac5
was obtained by the use of fictitious
names
Alfred and James Mccullough. con-
victed of the murder of Ephrain Soxon,
at Greenville, S. c., have been sentenced to
hang May 49, Riley Anderson, who muir.
dered Leon Griffith and an infant, was sem
fenced to hang the same day. Anderson's
crime was cold-blooded, and several at
tempts were made to lynch him.
The lody of woman was found
floating in the river at Memphis, Tenn, a
few days ago, by some men engaged in
getting out drift wood. The remains were
entirely nude with the exception of red
handkerchief bound around the head and
were in a very advanced state of decom.
position. A small rope was tied around
the waist, indicating foul play, as a weight
may have possibly been attached to the
rope.
Captain William H. Robinson, Demo.
cratic candidate for Congress III the EiShtu
Alabama District against General Joe
Wheeler, committed suicide at ScottsborO
Ala, few days ago, by sticking pen
knife in his heart. He had just returned
= from an electioneering tour, and it is sup
posed the excitement affected his mind.
A few nights ago the freight anC
passenger depots at Rock Hill, $. e., wer,
burned, with the cotton platform, 100 bales
of cotton, the Western Union Telegraph
office, n carload of lumber and a carload
of guano. The cotton belonged to j. NJ
Ivey. The property was insured.
A singular and fatal epidemic O
n measles has broken out in the County Jai
{ at Atlanta, Ga, where, besides State pris
oners, about seventy.ive United States
8 prisoners are confined. Two of the latter
| had died and another was reDorted diving