The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-03-21
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGS.


Mary c. Randall, who was buried at
Maysville, Ga, recently, came to her death
from starvation. For forty EIGHT days
she refused to taste food and could not
bear to hear it mentioned. Reference to
eating would make her turn deathly pale
and throw her into commissions. She
would drink water, however. She was
seventy eight years old.
Alexander Carter, proprietor of the Ar.
lington Hotel of Gainesville, Ca, recently
went to Atlanta on alleged business, and
from that point continued on to New Or
10 ms. This caused a rush of his cred
itors, who believed he had absconded. 1t
was developed that he was heavily in
volved. All his property has been attached
and the hotel has changed management.
The building is the property of Congress-
man Gambler.
Miss Lou Cotton, most estimable lady,
while going to her home at Darby Station,
Tex, on the international Line, recently,
was thrown out of an ambulance and in-
stantly killed. She had reached the gate
of her home, and when the boy came out
to open 1t, the horses became frightened
and ran off. Her back was broken.
A man in Helena, Ark, recently drank
gallon of beer in three minutes on wager.
The vanilla plant has been found grow
ing on the borders of the everglades OF
Florida.
Murfreesboro, Tenn, last year shipped
one thousand mules, valued at 81, 100000.
dried sweet potato factory is among
the prospective industries of Raleigh, N. c.
The itch is said to prevail along the rail-
way lines in West Tennessee.
During a cyclone on the Texas Central
Road five cars were thrown from the
track.
There is said to be well organized gang
of horse-thieves at Vicksburg, Miss.
Forty mine cases of smallpox have been
reported at Obion, Tenn.
A hotel to cost $50 900 is being erected a,
Cooper's Well, Miss.
Wolves are killing the sheep and pigs
around Springport, Miss.
A counterfeit gold coin Of the denomina-
ton of $3.50 has been found in circulation
at Macon, Ga. The coin is light, and
uesI lInuleuldUsly SHOWS DraSS.
At Bowling Green, KY, a few days ago,
Charles Moore choked and terrified his
aged father until he was compelled to sign
notes amounting to S., 10.
Mrs. Ada Beall, of Lumpkin, Ga, whilt
setting fire to underbrush a few days
since, suffered her clothes to catch fire, and
she was burned to death.
DnII ,F IL l.,
residents of Kinds County Miss, died q
few days ago. In ante-bellum times he
was Secretary of State, and filled the pc.
sition of Register of the Land Office many
terms, 1t is said that he was the best
posted man on land matters in the State.
Convicts at Tracy City, Tenn, made a
break for liberty few DAYS ago while be-
| ing taken from the stockade to Lone Rock
Mine. The guards fred four shots, fatally
wounding Preston Sladen, who received o
bullet in the brain. The rest were returned
to the stockade. l.
The town of Aurora, Tex, was visited
| by disastrous fire a few nights ago. -Four
business houses We're entirely consumed.
| The heaviest losers are: Killaugh Bros,
$1,000; L. j. Randall, $4,000; w. S. Kim.
ball, $1,000-all about covered by insur-
ance. .U. ... ... ..
| A laborer in Louisville, KY, named Per.
ry Garrison, beat his wife to insensibility
a few days ago, bound her to the floor OF
the cellar and left her without food or wa
ter until three days later, when a neigh
Dor heard her groans and the police burst
in the door. She begged that the brute
be not arrested, but he was locked up.
James Mccall, said to be a refugee from
justice from the State of Arkansas, who
was arrested near Poolville, Tex, some
time ago, and who was subsequently, shot
by citizen while attempting to escape
has been placed in durance vile at Wealth.
| erford.
A few evenings since j. d. White, g
passenger on an East Tennessee train
was killed a few miles east of Knoxville
The train was crossing a covered bridge
when White put his head out of the cal
window and was crushed against tn,
timbers of the bridge. White was twenty.
two years old. He lived in Upper Eas
Tennessee. tH..
Judge John w. Alberty, Associate JUS
tice of the Supreme Court of the Cherokee,
Nation, has been suspended from office OF
charges preferred for malfeasance IL
office. Jackson Christie has been ap
pointed to fill the vacancy until the Ma
tional Council meets, in November.
Shoaf, Hines and Upton, of Luling, Tex.
on preliminary examination for decoyinj
two negroes half mile from town, on tn
railway track, and then numbering them
under the pretense that they were train
wreckers, in order to obtain the reward
were refused bail and held for trial.
Bishop Alexander Gregg recently ha,
his annual Convocation at Brennan, Tex
in st. Peters Church. The Bishop re
ports that ali the Episcopal Churche
throughout the State are in as prosperou
condition as could be expected, constd
ering the financial stringency of the time.
The City Councils of both the Texas an
Arkansas sides of Texarkana have passe
ordinances that will probably result /