The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-09-19
SOUTHERN GLEANING.S.

DAVIS VIII raise six hun ired bales OF cote
ton this year.
A woman in Logan County, Ken
lucky, takes her rest in patches Of
three days aud nights sleep at a time,
and then keeps awake for like period.
She is eighty years old.
Ida Katzer committed suicide near Leon
Springs, Tex, few days ago because her
parents wanted her to marry man
named Prellar.
The elections in Anderson and Montague
counties, Texas, were a Waterloo for the
Prohibitionists.
During a fire at axahachie, Tex, a
few nights ago a trunk, thrown from q
window, struck and ii is thought fatally
injured Mr.. Smp Wilson.
Charles Williams, a negro, shot and
killed Polk Mitchell, street-car driver,
at Chattanooga, Tenn, a few days since
The murderer was lynched.
Cotton has been damaged fully twenty
per cent in portions of Mississ ipp by the
drou,h, and many estimate the damage
much greater.
Mrs. H. G. Hulse, wife of a prominent
contractor, was assaulted ON the street in
Chattanooga, Tenn, few nights ago by
a rufiian, who knocked her down and rob-
bed her of her portmonnaie. She was
painfully bruised. The assailant es-
capped.
John Hoffman fatally stabbed a negro
by the name of Harrison Gladdish at Hop
kinsville, KY, a few nights ago. The UNI
fortunate man was almost disemboweled.
The slayer is in jail to await the action Of
the Grand Jury.
Allen Thompson, a negro living near
Linden, Tex, beat his step-dau ghter to
death with a club a few days ago. He
had frequently beaten her, and fearing
arrest therefor he concluded to kill her.
Lynching was threatened.
The colored debating society in Geor-
gia town has been discussing the question,
(which Are the Most Useful to Society,
Lawyers or Buzzards"
North Carolina is building up an extern.
sve trade in cherry lumber. The wild
cherry grows abundantly in the noun.
tains.
Thomas Manuel went into San Antonio,
Tex, from a hunting trip with a fatal
wound in the neck. He said he had been
accidentally shot by his companion, name
unknown.
The city of Fort Worth, Tex, and Pres
cinct Number one of Tarrent County voted
on Prohibition few days ago. The pro.
position to stop the sale of liquor was de-
feated by nearly l, 100 majority.
The Swatara, which was ordered to New
Orleans to transfer silver coin from the
SUBJ Treasury to Washington, took on
board $l2 900 900 and sailed on the 18th.
A curious case of lunacy has developed
at Conyers, Ga. Newton Hammock, a
prominent citizen, joined the Baptist
Church by immersion. The ceremony
drove him crazy, and he has been COM
mitted to an asylum.
News comes from Bristol, Tenn, of the
cremation, few days ago, at Chillhowee,
a settlement in Sullivan County, of James
Sharett. He was standing over fire in
his shop, took a fit and fell suddenly into
the fire. He was burned to a crisp before
assistauce arrived.
Abraham Pope, owned house at Rock
Run, Ala, that he rented to white man
named Hart. A few days ago. while at
tempting to collect his rent, he and Hart
became involved in a quarrel, and Hart
Sc zed a rock with which he crushed
Pope's skull Hart escaped, but officers
were in pursuit.
A horrible murder was committed few
nights ago at colored church ten miles
east of Canton, Miss. Leon Cockrell, a
negro school teacher, shot Aaron MARI, a
colored deacon, while the latter was
kneeling with the congregation in prayer.
James Smith was fatally stabbed at
Louisville, KY, few nights ago by his
step-father, Harvey Clark. Smith and
his mother had sold a calf, and Clark de-
manded the money. On being refused, he
gun, and in the struggle which ensued he
was stabbed three times Ivy Clark.
Several weeks ago Mrs. E. r. Tenant,
of Marietta, Ga. was rendered and ac-
cepted the place of Superintendent of
Women's Work at the New Orleans Ex-
position, the place formerly held by Julia
Ward Howe. She pub ishes a card re-
signing the position, assigning as rea-
son: my husband is opposed to it, and
give it up in reference to his Wishes"
Fifty years ago Ellen Johnson, a colored
woman, was separated from her moth or
at Louisville, KY, the latter being sold
and sent to New Orleans. The mother arr
rived in Louisville few DAYS ago hale
and hearty. She is 1l2 years old and the
daughter sixty years cid, Living in the
house with Mrs Ellen Johnson are her
REORGANIZATION This makes them
great great grandchildren of Mrs. john
sons mother. Str nge as it may seem
the great-great- grandmother, and the
great grandmother, the grandmother
mother and children all assembled in the
same room fow days since.
A double tragedy resulting in the NOR.
tai wounding of two persons occurred a
Atlanta, Ga, few nights ago, Miss Idr
! Maxwell eloped with John Shelton anC