The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-05-16
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

MISS Sebe DEN and her parents were ar |
rested recently in Palo Pinto County, |
Texas, charged with the murder of a new
born babe.
Conley Johnson, colored man, was
shot few nights ago by mob who called
at his house, near Waverly, Tenn.
A RECENT terrific hail-storm did great
damage to cotton, corn and vegetables in
sections of Virginia and North Carolina.
In some sections in Surrey County, Vir'
ginia, hail fell to the depth of eighteen
inches.
Ed Whalen, section boss on the Sunset
Road, fifteen miles west of Somerset, Tex,
was run over by an engine few day age
and instantly killed. The mangled re-
mains were scattered along the road 70,
many yards. Whalen had been in the
city and started home drunk, from which
fact it is supposed he was lying on the
track when he met his death. Whaler
was about fifty-fv years old and UNI
married.
Jack Ballard went to a field in Bath
County, few days ago, where Peter
Spencer was playing and shot and killed
him in cold blood. The two had had
difficulty previously. Billiard escaped
but indignant citizens were securing the
country for him.
The jury in the case of r. L. Jones, late
Postmaster at Lake Providence, L.
charged with conspiracy to rob and rob-
bling the United States mail at Lake Provi'
dence on the.night of January 10, 1885, re.
turned a verdict of guilty. The penalty ii
Imprisonment for life.
A white man by the name of G. NJ
Millican, of Steel's Station, Ala, who was
in Vickburg, Miss, Tuesday, April DIST,
the day of the disastrous fire, and shipped
lot of goods on the Vicksburg & Mem.
phis Railroad for his home that day, has
been missing ever since. His friends fear
that he was among the unrecognized vic.
tins of the fire, and have written to per.
sons in Vicksburg making inq uiries about
him.
Snapper-fishing off the Florida Coast is
fullytunder way.
The strawberry crop in eastern Florida
is larger than ever known.
Eliza Wilson, a colored servant in the
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was brutally murdered few days ago in
her own room.
Miss Emily Davis of North Carolina
was refused admittance to the bar of that
State and tried to drown her disappo.nt-
ment in suicide.
The negroes AROUND Washington, n. c..
are paying twenty five cents each for
| Of hot han al
a man there. The rope is to be used as q
cure for fits.
The Governor of Georgia recently sold tc
New York syndicate So 600 in State
bonds, running thirty years at 1-2 pei
cent, getting premium of 5-lG
The catch of herring on the lower Rap.
pahannock River in Virginia, has been SC
large this spring that the owners OF weirF
have been throwing them back into the
river, it not paying to ship them to mar
ket.
Joseph Whiteman, one of the most prom
inent citizens of Tatnall County, Ga was
recently found dead on the hanks of Beard
Creek, having been sh OF dead by unknown
parties.
Twenty years has not been sufficient to
destroy the explosive qualities of shells
which were used in the late war. Fores
fires have recently laid bare the old battle
fields of the Wilderness, Virginia, anC
many old shells have exploded.
w. H. Carter, a well-to-do farmer from
Blue Ridge, Tex, committed suicide a
Austin few days ago. A young wife anC
bad br other are said to have furnished
the provocation.
Fred Adams, colored, was shot near hi
home in Temple, Tex, few nights ago by
some unknown p 'rson, the shots, of which
there were two taking effect one in hi
face, breaking his jaw bone, and one in hi'
right breast which is regarded fatal.
Twenty masked men went to the house
of Mr. William Thompson, a young mar
who lives in Lee County, Ala, a few
niq hts ago and warned him that if he die
not leave the county by the 9th inst. ht
would be k He'd. Great excitement existed
in the neighborho1d.
Several United States Marshals wer,
fred into by moonshiners few days ag,
in Jackson County, N. c., near the Geor
gia line. Two OF the Marshals were seri
ously wounded. The moonshiners ar
supposed to be the same parties who par
ticipated the recent highland difficulties.
The Southern Baptists met in conven
ton at Augusta, Ga, last week. Th
Treasurer's report showed q balanc, OF
hand for the foreign missions of $l,144
and for the home missions of 81 ,6l3. Rev
J. L McCurry, of Virginia, delivered tn
annual address
A drunken row occurred in Vance
County, N. c., few days ago, in whicl
Gilbert Hensley was fatally stabbed b.
John B. Rockins. Hensley was literall
cut to pices, there being no less than ST
wounds, each of which would prove fatal
Both were drinking.
The cattlemen of Western Texas hav
/ commenced to make heavy shipments b.
rail. One lot of twenty seven thousau
{ head was purchased at Abilene recent.
, for transfer to grass in Wyoming. Som