The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-02-14
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGS.

Inc safe III rat ByrneS' saloon In Chat-
:anooga, Tenn, was cracked few nights
ago by professionals and $1,000 stolen
1920 in greenbacks and $l,775 in notes. A
diamond drill was used in cutting the hole
nto the combination, and it was then
shattered with chisel and the door
opened.
The boiler in the Snider Brewery at
Louisville, KY, exploded few days since.
John Bush, an employee, was struck and
atally injured by piece of iron. Frank
and Henry Kippers and Rudy Lamleng,
three children playing in an adjacent yard,
were struck and seriously hurt. The cause
IF the explosion was a mystery.
There are rumors of Encouragement of
the Marine Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.
Charges are made by ex-patients of negli-
gent attention, dirt, and want of kindly
care on the part OF the nurses. Affidavits
have been prepared and forwarded to the
Surgeon General of the Army, with
view to having him examine into the
matter.
The dead body of James Evans, white,
was picked up near the mouth of Dooley's
Bayou, La, a few days ago. Evans
started from Mooringsport, in Caddo Par
ish, for Shreveport in a skif during the re-
cent cold spell and was last seen alive by
q passing colored man in the act of making
fire in his skiff, which was moored at the
mouth of the bayou.
The Jail at Abilene, Tex, was set on
fire few days since by prisoner named
Butler, charged with robbng a drummer
named Levy, from Fort Worth. Butler
was arrested but short while before and
swore that he would burn himself out, but
no attention was paid to the threat, and he
was confined with a pocket full of match
es. The door was ignited and the flames
gained considerable Roadway before dis
covered.
Ben Hawkins, negro, who murdered a
peddler, was lynched by mob in Robert
| son County, Texas, few days ago.
George Webster, colored fireman, fell
from the deck of the steamer Harry Brown
at Louisville, KY, few nights ago and
was drowned.
AS an important step toward securing
an abolition of the practice of pistol-car-
rying, Galveston (Tex.) paper suggests
that the pistol-pocket should be prohibited
by law.
| The river bank in front of Greenville,
Miss, is caving away rapidly and causing
great uneasiness.
The clubhouse of Mr.. John Robinson, on
Campbello place, below Shreveport, La,
on Red River, burned a few nights ago.
Loss about $1,000; insurance not known.
The Houston (Tex.) Light Guard have
decided to go to Mobile in May next to COM
pete at the State drill. Prizes ag-
gregatng $4,000 are offered. They hope
to meet their close competitors, the Tired
way Rifles, of st. Louis. The Light Guards
are now the champions of the United
States.
While praying during recent storm,
says the Natchez (Miss,) Democrat, "old
Katie Hightower, who had been blind for
fifteen years, had her sight suddenly re-
stored, and can now see as we'll as when a
| child"
AT the University of Virginia there is
no prescribed course of study, no entrance
examination, no vacation, except the sum-
mer one, and but six holidays.
A movement is on foot for the erection
of soldiers monument at Atlanta, Ga,
by ex-Confederate and Union veterans.
The books printed in the South during
the war are now in demand among collec-
tors. One of these was u spelling book
printed on common wallpaper. Another,
more ambitious, was illustrated with the
| nj fro do in fHoa
producing comical effect. Upon the
title-page is the legend: "Printed in the
fourth year of the war of independence. y
VIM. Robertson, young man living in
Louisburg, n. c., while in a grog shop o
few days ago made wager that he could
drink a quart of whisky inside forty
minutes. The money was put up and he
slipped the liquor from the quart measure
getting through in thirty-one minutes
He died two hours afterward.
The carelessness of negroes in regard *
their children is becoming every day mol~
apparent. Every week come reports from
various sections of a child burned to deatf
through the negligence of their parents
Within the past month three were burnet
to death in Kershaw County, two il
Sumter, two in Orangeburg, two in Rich
; land and others in other counties il
South Carolina. 1t is becoming such
common occurrence that legislation on tin
the subject has been demanded.
The commandment to love your neighbo
as yourself was recently fully exemplifed
J near Barnwell, S. c, While Mr.. w. T
Cave and his wife were absent from hom
their dwelling-houss and kitchen wer
consumed by fire, their children barely es
, Gaping with their lives. The next da,
thirty or forty of their neighbors turne
out and cut logs, hauled them to mill
had them sawed into lumber and durin
the next week built for Mr.. Cave ne,
dwelling as comfortable and commodiou
as that which burned.
Edward Grieves, one of the freight de
partment clerks of the Galveston, Harris
burg & San Antonio Railway at Houston
: Tex, wrote letter to his wife few day