The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-06-13
SOUTHERN eLEANINes.

while on duty in La Villa, Fla, few
days ago.
A spoonfish, weighing nearly twenty
pounds and measuring four fest in length,
was captured one day lately in Dooly
County, Georgia. The fish is rarely found
in the streams of that vicinity and was
sold for So.
At Gadsden, Ala, few days ago, Sarah
Murphy, coll red, who was regarded as .
witch, was dragged from her house by
people Of her own race aud terribly heat.
en-. Eleven negroes have been arrested
and some of them identified by the woman.
The Tennessee Legislature rejected a
resolution to have a monument erected on
the Capitol grounds to the memory OF
John Sewer. He was first Governor OF
Tennessee, and died in 1915, while acting
as United States Commissioner to treat
with the Greek Nation.
s. 7. Cox has been arrested at Nash.
vile, Tenn, on the charge of numbering
Micajah Bennett, a merchant in Lebanon,
two years ago. Bennett was found dead
on the street with his pockets empty, hav'
ing been struck on the head and robbed
after leaving his store. Barnes Richard
son, colored, who was convicted at
Lebanon to-day of arson, it is said, gave
information that led to Cox's arrest.
Mrs. James W. w inn, a widow, and
three of her children and Mrs. Tony
| Stefano the wife of an Italian musician
| of this city, were drowned off Zeke's Is
land, about twenty-five miles below
| n fovv, Ioxr
children were wading in the water, and
getting beyond their depth, Mrs. VIM
and Mrs. Stefano went to their rescue
when all were drowned.
| A pair of half chickens, half sguineas-s
strange natural wonder, were exhibited in
Jackson, Tenn, a few days ago. They
are about year old, and were raised in
Mississippi, but have been purchased by a
gentleman Of this county. They are about
as large as turkey hen and make noise
similar to guinea. They are nearly the
color of a partridge.
War is again imminent between cattle.
men in the Texas Panhandle.
Geo. Forester committed suicide few
days ago at Louisville, KY.
David J. Fairly, charged with the muir
der of NJ. L. Mckay, was taken from jai
in Green County, Louisiana, and lynched
John bearing, an inmate Of the lunatit
asylum at Anchorage, KY, met with 6
horrible death few days since. HI
jumped into a scalding bath and died al
most instantly.
lobe Evans, living near Sparta, Ga,
went bee hunting few nights aga. Re-
turning he found his two children, whom
Re had locked in the house, burned t,
death.
Governor McEnery has commuted thu
sentence of John Baptiste { olored) to i'm.
prisonment for life. He was to have beer
hanged for rape on the 9th inst
j. w. Coles, late proprietor of the John
son House, at Nashville, Tenn, commit
ted suicide few days ago, blowing ou
his brains with Smith & Wesson re
volver.
While the ladies were preparing for al
ice cream festival at Brownwood, Tex, 1
few evenings since, Mrs. Grady fell from
the second story of the Opera house anC
sustained fatal internal injury.
William Taylor, while running trout
line on Etoway River, near Rome, Ca, 1
few days ago. fell out of the boat and wai
drowned. When drawn out, though life
was extinct he still held the line with q
convulsive clutch.
The boiler in Linstedt's Phosphate Work.
at Johns Island Ferry, Charleston, s. G..
exploded few days ago, killing two ne.
groes, dangerously wounding third and
wreckiug the works. The supposed cause
was unequal exhaustion of steam in the
boiler
Near Russellville, Ga, few days ago
Emma Murphy was found stabbed tc
death. Investigation showed that Bel
Watkins, two weeks out of the Peniten
airy, was the murderer, and that he com
mitted the deed with a small pocket
knife.
Quite n sensation has been created a
Greenvile, Tex, by City Marshal M. Par
ker filing papers against Mayor D. B. Mar
tin, charging him with buying city scrip
the same being a malfeasance in office.
, guilty, the Council will doubtless impeacl
him.
James NJ. Taylor, of Alfaretta County
| ia, COIlmlDU6u sulCluo u low udJ dSO u.
hanging himself with plow-line He ha
| been in bad health and his mind had bee
[ giving way gradually for the last si
months.
. Judge Gillian, Ordinary of Oglethorpe
, Ca, recently issued a marriage licens
which authorized his mother, Mrs. VIM
, Gillian, to become the wife of Mr. Lindsa
4 Jacks. This is believed to be the first in
r stance on record where a son was Gale
upon to do such service for his mother.
While crowd were standing at a stree
n corner at Atlanta, Ga, a few evening
!. since, w. A. Moore, wellknown painter
' stepped up, and putting a bottle of laud
3 anum to his mouth, drank il, throwing th
y bottle away and saying, "That will do tn
work. guess" He died later. There
q no known cause for the act.
Y A party of iron men from Birmingham
Ala, who have been prospecting for iro
q ore between Arcadia and Minden, La, o
n the v, L. & p. Road, report tindin
ora of suparior nualitv Int th