The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-28
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGS.

Post-office Inspectors in Chattanooga,
Tenn, have effected the capture of win r.
Jackson, the defaulting assistant Postmas-
ter of Ameriques, Ga, He was captured at
Los Angeles, CAL
The United States Government got judg-
ment at Jackson, Miss, against Dennis
Scarborough for $4,000 for cutting timber
on Government land
Major jefferson Peak, deceased, of Dali
las, Tex, devised half block of ground to
the First Christian Church of Dallas, on
condition that no church built on it or out
of its proceeds should ever have instru-
mental music in it.
The eighteen year old daughter of War.
rem livery, an industrious colored farmer,
who lives four miles north of Vicksburg,
Miss, left home alone few nights ago for
the purpose of attending festival. In at
tempting to cross Chickasaw Bayou, by.
some misstep she fell in the bog and quick
sand, where she was found at midnight
dead, having suffocated in the mud.
A recent public baptizing at Dorrstown,
Tenn, was the immediate cause of 700
John Gillim and family were en- route to
the baptism, and were in barouche, when
Dr. A. G. Bryant drove up from behind.
Bryant's horse ran into Gillim's barouche.
Both vehicles were upset, throwing the
women, men and children out upon the
road, and all of them, seven in number,
were more or less seriously injured.
Edward Presley, a farmer, over eighty
years of age, and his two sons, Charles,
aged twenty five, and Edward, aged thir-
ty-fve, were deliberately murdered while
at work on their farm near Edgefield, N.
c., few days since by h. T. Jones, a dou-
ble-barreled shotgun and knife being the
weapons used. The tragedy was the re-
suit of dispute over some rents. Jones
surrendered.
The Federal Grand Jury at Waco, Tex,
recently returned three indictments against
| j. A. Hamilton, ex-Postmaster at Nc
Gregor, charging him with embezzlement
and forgery Of a money -order.
Mr.. Laney, residing near Pulaski, Tenn,
shot and seriously wounded negro few
days since whom he found trespassing on
his farm, and who refused to leave after
being twice warned.
Stephen E. Jones, assignee of the Louis.
vile (Ky.) Savings Bank, has handled his
trust SO judiciously that he has paid divi-
dends amounting to eighty-six and a half
per cent of the liabilities and still holds
cash and notes amounting to $16,19S.
The Trustees of the University of Ala
bama, at recent meeting at Tuscaloosa,
decided not to elect President until next
June. Meanwhile Prof. W. A. Wiman will
act as temporary President.
Mrs Liz Mcdonald, widow of Engineer
Mcdonald, who was killed in the big rail-
way accident near Marietta, Ga, has been
awarded $4,000 by jury in a suit against
the Western & Atlantic Railroad Com.
pany.
Two assemblies of Knights of Labor,
white and colored, have been organized at
Shreveport, La, by M. j. Nolan, Of Fort
Worth, Tex. The membership is large.
Several cases Of fraud on the Relief Com
mittee at Galveston have been detected,
and the perpetrators will be punished.
Lille Clark, courtesan nineteen years
of age, took the morphine route at Mem
| phis, Tenn, few days ago and ended her
| life of shame.
One hundred Mormon converts left Chat.
tanooga, Tenn, a few days ago for Utah:
They were from Virginia, North and South
| Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Ala
bama. Ninety elders are now operating in
the South
Henry A. Wiley, naval cadet from Nc
| u Josl
for hazing, has been reinstated, he having
proved that the hazing complained Of con-
sisted of knocking down the chief of a
party who had heaped insults upon him
until forbearance ceased to be Virtue.
A panic was created in the City Hospital
at Louisville, KY, few days ago, by a
stove exploding and setting fire to the
building. The patients were all safely re-
moved and the fire extinguished without
having done much damage.
| , Captain Eads has under consideration a
plan for building a ship railway across the
Florida peninsula, beginning at the mouth
of McGirt's Creek, twelve miles southeast
of Jacksonville and hitting the Gulf Of
Mexico at Deadman's Bay, a total distance
of 120 miles.
The personal property valuation of Nash
vile, Tenn, has increased during the past
ten years 81, $4,000.
Prof. R. H. Kinney, late principal of the
Texas State Deaf and Dumb Institute, died
suddenly few days since of heart disease.
For years he was connected with the Deaf
and Dumb Institute of Ohio, then that Of
Iowa, from which State he went to Texas,
He leaves a wife and three children.
John Harrison was recently convicted at
Sherman, Tex, of the murder of Jack
Goodwin and sentenced to the Peniten-
tiary for life. His defense was that he
killed Goodwin to shield and protect the
honor of his wife, on whom he claimed
Goodwin was making a fiendlsh assault,
but the prosecution proved this feature to
be conspiracy to secure pretext to kill
Goodwin and then furnish plea for ac-
quittal.
The cotton receipts at Corsicana, Tex
this season, up to the 10th inst were 1000
bales, against 1000 bales up to same time