The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-04-25
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

Dltlon on trial, and the feeling in favor OF
the local option system is said to be grow.
ing.
Malvin Tucker, a white boy about sew.
enteen years of age, surrendered himself
to tho United States Marshal at Fort
Smith for killing Nord Jones, Choctaw
Indian, few days ago. The deed wa'
done in defending his father.
Judge Pardee, in the United States Cour
at Atlanta, Ca, recently sentenced the
r chest man in Polk County to three
months Imprisonment for contempt Of
court.
There is 1 100000 acres Of swamps in
North Carolina.
The number of arms bearing men in
Alabama is estimated at 10000
There are said to be large beds of chrom,
ore in Troup County, Georgia.
Citron raising is receiving attention in
Florida. The fruit, picked in brine, i,
worth $3.50 per ton in the London market
A pig with two mouths and two noses
well formed, no eyes, and feet like
hawks claws, has been found in Con-
yers, Ga.
Fifty-three citizens Of GAINESVILLE, Ca.
have brought suits against the Central
Railroad for the destruction of property
caused by sparks from passing locomo-
tive.
The people of Union City, Tenn, took
from the Sheriff few days ago and
hanged a negro named Pierson and
white man named Wacd members of
wall knOwn hind Of rohharc
At Gainesboro, Tenn, few days ago,
Benjamin Young, the thirteen-y ear old
son of Sheriff of A. H. Young, accident
ally shot and killed himself with double
barrel shotgun.
In recent shooting match at Nashville,
Tenn, Captain Andy Meaders, of Nash
vile, defeated Captain j. H. Bogardus by
score of "a to l75. The match was 200
single clay pigeons each at eighteen yards
for 5000 a side. Meaders beat all previous
records.
The Knoxville, Sevierville & Pigeon
River Railroad Company has been organ
lied for the construction and operation OF
q road from Knoxville to Sevierville and
thence to the State line between Tennessee
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Big Pigeon River. ...
An old lady, Miss Muller, committed
suicide by strychnTne at San Antonio, Tex,
few days since. Before death she call ed
the neighbors in and babe them farewell.
| Deceased was an inmate for years of the
! house of Gustav Freshben, exCity En-
gineer who died suddenly of heart disease
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mitted suicide on account of his death.
| Governor Bate of Tennessee recently
received petition, signed by many citi-
zens of Montgomery County, asking for
the Communication OF Morrow's sentence
from death to imprisonment for life. Nor
row was to have been hanged on the It'll
at GAINESVILLE for killing Dick Overton,
but was granted respite of sixty days.
A gang of railroad section hands while
passing around the pass of Lookout Noun.
| tain, near Chattanooga, Tenn, few eve-
nings since, discovered the mutilated body
| of white infant floating in the creek. Or
| examination it was found that the body
had been wei 2hted down with horse shoes
and then sewed in flour sack and thrown
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decomposed, and had been in the water
fully ten days. 1t was expected that in
vestigaton would develop big scandal.
Mr. ]. L. Smith, of Pike County, Ga.
while visiting Macon four years ago. wen
through the Orphans Home. There ht
saw two bright little children, whose way.
so impressed him that he begged the au
| g oth box bo
childless 1t has just developed that tn,
orphans, who have grown thoroughly at
tached to their foster father, have faller
heirs to SO 900 apiece through the deatl
of distant relative.
At large social gathering at house il
East Macon, Ga, few nights ago
Charles Dees, seized a young lady anC
kissed her She became angered anC
some of her male friends told Dees that h,
had been guilty of an ungentlemanly act
Dess resented their interference, when
fight arose, and Dses was struck with
brick The police arrested the parties, anC
theIRecorder charged Dees five dollars TO
the kiss.
Edmund McCurtin, principal chief o
the Choctaws, has issued proclamation
calling upon all freedmen residing in tn
Choctaw Nation and entitled to citizen
ship according to the treaty of 1885, to as
semble at the different precincts June Isl
to be identified and registered as ChoctaV
citizens, otherwise they will be expelle
from the Nation as intruders.
In the ''keys" south of Dayton, Fla
there are trees called machineels, whc
are said to be poisonous to any one stand
ing beneath them when the dew is falling
The following notice appears in tn
HARRISON County (Ga.) Banner: "Bit B,
a Snake wish to inform the people tina
| will close out my bar by the last Of Apri
and now is the time to have your jug
filed for snake-bites. Come at once.
good lot of whisky on hand"
A heavy frost prevailed throughou
Georgia few nights ago. The sprn
opened two months later than usual. Thi
was favorable, however, for grain an
fruit crops, but the frost has proved disas
trous, especially on budding peach trees
Reports from the truck farms in the v