The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-07-11
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

statement of the Cons tit,tti0n, of that city,
which declares that there are two Of the
fraternity worth $37, 500
Waco, Tex, is now rated as the third
wool market in the State, the receipts for
the season being over 400, 900 pounds.
All the clerks in the employ of the
Vcksburg & Meridian and Vicksburg,
Shreveport & Pacific Railroads were
asked to resign, the designations taking
effect July 1st, the date John G. Gault,
the new general manager, went into Of
fee
Two boys of Polk County, Tenn, killed
a big bear the other day with no other
weapons than clubs.
Governor Knott of kentucky respited
till September 4th Floyd Williams, who
was TO have been hanged on the Sd for the
murder Of Pate Stricklin, at Compton,
Wolfe County.
A negro boy named John Ellis, while
picking whortleberries near his home at
Hartwell, Ga, a few days ago, was Bit
ten by rattlesnake and died in great
agony.
At Mount Sterling, KY, Richard For
man, the slayer of Jerry Cravens,w was ad-
judged guilty by jury, and was SEN
tencsd to fourteen years in the State
Pententiary.
A brutal murder occurred at Gordons-
vile, Lownes County, Ala, a few days
ago. William Carnes and Charles Dunk
lin colored became involved in diff
Guilty, when Carnes struck Dunklin on the
head with a billet of wood Death result
ed in few hours.
The dead body of Mrs. Henderson, who
disappeared from her home in Lafayette
County, Ala, recently, was found in the
Tallapoosa River. Her self-destruction
was brought about by mental alteration
over the ruin of her daughter.
A twenty -year-old lad is among those
seeking divorce in Toccoa, Ga. He has
been married two years.
| Villa Rica, Ga. was visited by re-
markable display Of electricity q few days
ago. Quite a number were shocked by
! lightning, and two, Peter Luthers and
Edward Mayson, were instantly killed.
John Starke, a ten -year-old boy, was
burned to death at San Antonio, Tex,
few days ago, by the explosion of a coal
oil can. He was completely enveloped in
flames. Death ensued in less than two
hours.
James Mcdaniel, a noted desperate
stage -robber and murderer, was killed in
Texas recently while resisting arrest
negro was lynched at the Smedee
place, Sharkey County, Miss, few days
ago, for outraging little girl named
Annie Curtis. 1t is said the girl will
die.
A negro was killed and white dam
gerously wounded few days since in
row about selling whisky in Stepstone,
KY, where whisky selling is forbidden.
w. H. Stevens, of Canton, Van Zandt
County, Tex. was murdered a few days
since in ibis own house, and the place
ransacked.
Mr.. ]. Yost, a sheep ranchman, was
struck by lightning and instantly killed
at Rice, near Corsicana, Tex, a few nights
ago. Deceased was thirty six years old,
and from Ohio.
| At Andersonville Prison cemetery a
rosetush was planted years ago at the
| head OF grave, and all efforts to exter-
: inmate it prove of no avail. 1t has
l sprouted again from the old roots, and a
single red rose blooms on one of the
sprouts. Another curious thing is q cis-
3 tern at the keepers lodge that fills with
| water in some mysterious way that all in
5 YES LEGATIONS fail to account for.
A man calling himself D. NJ. Phillips, OF
| Galveston, jewelry auctioneer, is locked
$ up in Jail at Shreveport, La, for larceny.
1 He dropped into town few days ago and
L advertised a grand sale of jewelry and
diamonds, rented store, obtained goods
c and money under false pretenses, and sold
|, show case, loaned him by a local auc.
c tioneer, to secondhand furniture deal.
k er, and attempted to skip, but was caugh
g and locked up.
" Two brothers, billiard and Smith John
/ son, of Hamilton, Ga, have been paying
+ attention to the same woman for a yea
. past. The most intense jealousy wa
l, aroused between them. A few nights ag
u billiards. company was declined by tn
% fair one "because of previous engage
/ ment" The rejected sutton Swallowed tn
y door, and at late hour, when his brothe
~ emerged, set upon him with long, keel
il blade, hacking him up mercilessly, inhict
l. ing fatal wounds. billiard has fed.
3 The Tennessee Manufacturing Compan
- at Nashville have closed their plain clot
mill, thereby depriving 35Opersons of EN-
ployment for two months The compan
was unable to secure cotton of the grad
ly requhcl at a proper figure, and the mar
ket is overstocked with the class of good
ba made in the plain mill. The proprietor
of similar mills throughout the State al
reported as seriously considering a pal
lat tial suspension of operations during ii
summer months.
'u' Six negroes were seen playing care
around wood fire by the railroad, OF
ne mile out of La Grange, Ca, a few nigh
" ago. An hour later when a passeng
ITO train went along it ran over a n
Oh gro who was laying across the track. A
examination disclosed pack of cards
&c his pocket and dozen knife cuts on b
person, any one of which would ha'