The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-03-14
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

to fifty cents per 200 feet.
Israel Brown, colored, postmaster al
Hardeeville, S. c., arrested recently
charged with classifying his returns to in
crease his commissions, was discharged.
A norther visited portion of Texas re.
Gently, and cattle were reported dying
rapidly. Numerous failures among stock
growers are looked for.
Strawberries are selling in Jacksonv lille,
Fla, at fifty cents quart.
John Smith, a pioneer citizen of Yazoc
City, Miss, and a veteran who served with
distinction through the Mexican war, was
buried in that city recently.
The new Treasurer of Habersham County,
Georgia, has given his bond for $4,000.
There is just $3.50 in the Treasury.
A gardener near Mobile, Ala, is said tc
have raised ripe watermelons out of doors
from seeds planted in December.
A queer accident happened in johnson
County, Tennessee, few days ago. Alex
Raber felled large tree on a steep hillside
near his house. After the tree fell it COM
menced rolling, and finally swept his
house away, with the whole family. All
were more or less injured, but none
fatally.
The forty-ninth anniversary of the in
dependence of Texas was celebrated on
the Sd by the laying of the corner -stone OF
the new State capitol at Austin.
A white robin was killed recently neal
Thomastown. Ga.
There is widow in Birmingham, Ala,
thirteen years old, and she attends the
public schools.
Louisville, KY, has eighteen wide-open
gambling hells, 100 policy shops and 100
poker-rooms.
Seven persons escaped from the Parish
prison at New Orleans few days ago. The
crimes of the convicts ranged from murder
to petty larceny.
A North Carolina young ladies' institute
sends specimens of stocking darning and
refooting old stockings to the New Orleans
Exposition.
fire at Fayetteville, Tenn, q few days
ago, destroyed Wilson's livery stable.
Twenty five horses persisted. Loss, $4,000;
no insurance. Several small shops were
burned.
While celebrating the Inauguration OF
Cleveland the people of Hopkinsville, Ken.
lucky, thought they saw meteor that
looked like burning cabin, which explod.
ed with the noise of a dozen cannon.
Near Hundo City, Tex, John Wohschie.
ger, German farmer, with a wife anC
nine children, hung himself to a fence {
few days ago, leaving placard lyinl
near, written in German, saying he haC
lynched himself. No cause assigned.
The Lookout rolling mill at Chattanooga
Tenn, has been sold under Court decree
to A. NJ. Johnson and Nesbit Hazehurs
for $4,000. The mill will be put in opera
tion at once, giving employment to u
hands. 1t has been closed down for
year.
In Roane County, Tennessee, near Chat
tanooga, a Miss Jenkens was recently OIL
a visit to neighbor, and, while standing
near an open CRATE, her clothing caugh
fire. She escaped from the house com
pletely enveloped in flames, and ran tn
entire distance home. Her body was lit
orally roasted, and she expired in shor
time.
August Schaefer and wife were foun,
dead in bed at their home in Boerne, Tex.
few days since, by neighbors. Schaefe
was an industrious wagon maker and hi
wife was faithful and Industrious. The,
, had one little child. The bodies were ly
) ing side by side, the mans arm over tn
Woman's breast. A pistol was lying nea
, the bed with four barrels discharged TIL
, woman was shot once in the head an
: twice through the body; the man through
the head Both had been dead some hours
, The bed was horribly bloody. 1t is though
to be murder and suicide, but no positiv
motive can be assigned.
John b. Martin, a farmer from nea
Pewee Valley, Kentucky, was found fey
days ago lying dead by the side of tn
turnpike on the Brownsboro Road, about
. mile east of Louisville. He was terribl
1 crushed about the head and body, and ha
A evidently been killed instantly. He wa
discovered at the foot of an embankmer
/ about thirty feet high, and near by wer
t his horses and wagon. He had evidentl
driven off of the embankment and tn
= wagon had fallen on top of him, mashin
7 him almost to pulp.
new epidemic has appeared in Ian
l caster County, South Carolina, to whic
e five members of Mr.. r. w. Draffin's fan
lily have succumbed in the past few week
= leaving only himself and little son II
t manning. The disease has baff1ed medici
= skill. Mr.. Drafiin had eight physicians
visit his family, but none of them were az
n quainted with the disease, and their trea
Q ment was simply experimental. Mr.. Draft
says the spread of the disease is becomir
= alarming. There are thirteen cases on b
= plantation alone. 1t first makes its al
pearance with nausea, with bloody flu
: and gripping, followed by excru ciatir
d pains. 1t is similar in many of its sym,
} toms to Asiatic. cholera, but it more near
resembles the mountain scourge whiC
# swept away so many hundreds of poop
= in Kentucky and West Virginia son
), months ago.
In the City Court at Louisville, KY,
= few days ago, jeremiah Haden, a gentl
h manly appearing person, said to belong