The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-08-16
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

favorable, though some what late.
AT San Saba, Tex, few days ago, fire
destroyed $4,000 worth Of property, in
Guiding the Post-office and fixtures.
One-third of the counties in the State of
Texas report an aggregate increase in tax
able values in one year of S1S,0O0,0J0.
The Supreme Court of Alabama holds
that the reorganized corporation of Selma
is liable for the debts created under
the old city charter, repealed by the
Legislature
stephen Massie eloped with and was
married to Title Wallace at Maysville,
KY, few days ago. John Calvin, who
connived at the scheme, got drunk and
shot lobe Hawkins through the stomach.
John b. Carter, prominent citizen of
Augusta, Ca, was accidentally burned to
death few nights ago in that city by the
breaking of a kerosene lamp in his bed
chamber. He had been forty years
druggist.
A negro named Charles Ford was killed
near Corsicana, Tex, a few days ago,
while hunting, by the accidental discharge
of his gun, the ball entering at the right
breast, producing instant death.
DR.. Stoddard, an Austin, (Tex.) dentist,
recently returned from a trip through the
West, reports having seen quantity of
gold ore taken from a newly-discovered
mine within three miles of Ell Paso. The
proprietor of the principal hotel pur-
chased the claim recently for SIG, 900, and
had since sold half interest. DR.. Stod-
dard reported that an attempt was being
made to suppress the news of the dis
covery.
Dock Peeler, a fourteen-year.old boy,
shot at Newton Fain at GAINESVILLE, Ca, q
few days ago, but Peeler's mother knocked
the gun up and the charge went into the
head of Fan's infant, aged eighteen
months, and resulted in its instant death.
Fain married Peeler's sister, and the fuss
was family row. Peeler is under arrest.
Fain is well known as the champion walker
OF Northwest Georgia, who won the race
between Atlanta and GAINESVILLE.
A dog chasing deer through pond in
Walton County, Florida, a few days
ago, was captured by an alligator.
The dry goods house of J. A. Lewis, at
Augusta, Ca, was damaged by fire a few
days since to the amount of $4,000.
Silas Buck, of Stephenville, Tenn,
shaves with l25-year-old shaving brush,
once the property of his grandfather.
Alexander William Reichman, of Gal
weston, Tex, was drowned a Far Rocka-
way, L. l., few days ago.
New Orleans is to have a professional
base ball club during the Exposition next
winter.
The Augusta (Ga. ChrO nicle is Informed
by an emf nent physician of that city that
cholera never pene rated the pine regions
of the South.
The people of San Antonio, Tex, have
guaranteed $4,000 toward the cost of 14J
miles of railway to Arkansas Bay on the
Gulf of Mexico, with the design of Great
ing rival city to Galveston.
A cast in plaster of paris has been taken
of monster watermelon recently exhib-
tied at Corpus Christi, Tex. The weight
of the melon was sixty and one-half
pounds. The cast will be painted like the
original and sent to the Worlds Fair.
Tie mari beds of Western Alabama are
said to be practically inexhaustible and
valuable as fertilizers. The richest depos-
its are found along the Tombigbee and AL
ALBANIA Rivers and their tributaries.
The management has been authorized to
negotiate with the French Government for
the exhibition OF Bartholdi's statue of Lib.
erty at the Worlds Exposition in New Or
leans for a short time before it is finally
set up at Bedloe's Island.
In Alabama is China tree ten feet
in circumference. Its top was torn away
by a storm; but six feet up the trunk
two more trees have taken root and grown
up as high as the old tree is. Half
way up the trunk of the original tree
peach tree stands out, and now is filled
with fruit.
Near Freedonia, Tex, few evenings
since, a horrible encounter took place
between four desperate men, in which
one was shot through the heart, another
was fatally stabbed, the third received a
deadly wound in the shoulder, and the
other was shot in the breast.
The Georgians rightfully claim that
their State gave the women of America
and of the world the first college. The
Wesleyan Female College. created in
in 1888 by the State of Georgia, adopted
by the Methodist Conference in 1910, en-
dowed and remodeled in 1882 by George
l. Seney, is to-day the monument which
marks the earliest complete recognition of
woman's claim.
Savannah, Ca, is shipping fresh
oysters to the North. A dealer there
says: "The oyster is as good and as
healthy food in July and August as in
September, December or April, but you
must know where to get him. There are
extensive beds of oysters on the South
ern coast that have scarcely been touched,
and there is no danger of the supply run
ming out for many years to come, if ever"
Tom Green County, Tex, which is about
the size of Massachusetts,, though it has
no towns, has an assessed valuation of
S., 900, 900 and population of 100000 sheep
and cattle.
Over million pounds of Sea Island cot
ton was shipped from Lake City, Fla, last
year. There were also fifty cars of cotton