The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-07-03
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGS.

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Judge, has become raving maniac, and
has been taken to the asylum.
DR.. A. K. Taylor, one of the most PRONE
inent physicians of Hot Springs, Ark, and
q very influential citizen, died a few days
since. He leaves many friends and rela"
tives to mourn his death.
A Kentucky farmer says he gathered
about twenty of the cut-worms which
have been devastating the crops in his
section and put them in cigar-box hat
uIi,d with dirt, covered the same with a
pane of glass, and set it in the sun. The
result in less than two weeks was a brood
of grasshoppers.
A carload of Alabama manufactured
cotton goods was recently shipped to
Portland, Ore.
Wash Barnes, convict from Harris
County, Tex, escaped from the plantation
of Messrs. Rogers g. Hill a few nights ago
and was found asleep the next day near
the Navasota bridge, by some of the
guards. Upon being asked to surrender
he made another break for liberty and was
shot and killed.
The Governor of Louisiana has signed
the Sunday law. 1t goes into effect jan
uary l next.
A tramp recently arrested at Dallas
Tex, turned out to be a murderer fol-
whose capture there was a standing re.
ward of 1000 offered.
The grand jury, recently in session at
Vicksburg, Miss, returned seventy in
lictments, covering all classes of offenses,
largely against poker-players.
The life sentence passed on Cliff Cook
for murder has been affirmed by the Court
Of Appeals at Austin, Tex.
From five thousand to eight thousand
green turtles are shipped yearly from
Florida and adjacent islands to New York,
where they sell at an average of fifteen
cents per pound.
On telegram from the Navy Depart-
ment, the revenue cutter Forward recently
left Mobile for Mississippi Sound, to inter-
cept schooner loaded with men and arms
for filbustering in Cuba.
Miss Maude Jetton was bitten a few
months ago in Galloway County, Ken
lucky, by neighbours dog. A few days
since she developed all the symptoms of
hydrophobia and died in great agony.
There are now in Swain and other ex.
IRENE western counties of North Carolina
! 1881 Cherokee Indians. They hold $4,000
acres of land by deed of trust. They are
urged to go to Indian Territory, and are
considering the matter.
The truckmen of Norfolk County, Vir-
ginia, are enjoying very successful cab
bage season. One man alone set out 1,5OO,-
900 plants on his four farms, and he ex.
poets to gather over 1,25O,000 head.
The boilers Of the International cotton
press at New Orleans exploded few days
ago, blowing out the Peters street side OF
the building and killing two employees.
Hon. Thos. Seay, Democratic nominee
for governor of Alabama, is less than forty
years old, served as a private during the
war, finished his education after peace
was restored, and is one Of the most sue.
cessful planters in the State.
A New Orleans citizen few weeks ago
put uble-yelked egg under a setting
hen. The other day little head came
through each end of the egg, and when the
shell was removed two chicks were found.
They were slightly united, but were easily
separated.
A public meeting of citizens residing on
swamp lands in the Ouachita and Red
river valleys, Louisiana, is to be held at
Troyville on the I'd Of July to devise
means for closing the Atchafalaya river
and protecting the plantations from over.
flow.
Mr.. J. ]. Grissom of Sparta, Tenn, rec
ports that lightning struck the house Of
neighbor few days ago, completely tear.
ing off one corner Of the structure and
uncovering bed where the children were
sleeping. The children were unframed
and some members of the family did not
even awaken.
A Richmond paper notes that the skin Of
"Old Sorrel," Stonewall Jackson's war.
horse, has not yet be en- returned from the
North, where 1t was sent to be stuffed.
The taxidermist has sent word, however,
that he will make the old charger look as
though he was alive.
Reports received from every section Of
Tennessee say that very great damage has
been done the wheat crop by the unusual.
ly heavy rains, streams overlooking their
banks and causing considerable loss. The
Cumberland river rose seventeen feet at
at Burksville, KY, few days ago, and
was advancing one foot per hour.
A great waterspout burst on the line Of
the Chattanooga railroad few days ago,
and swept away all but five shocks Of
wheat in a twenty-acre lot.
Robert Brown, a miner employed al
Bevier mines, went to Central City, KY,
few days ago, and before leaving be-
came intoxicated. On his way home he sat
down on the Chesapeake, Ohio & South
western railroad track, a short distance
from the town limits and went to sleep
A coal train which passed along about ten
O'Clock ran over him, crushing him into a
shapeless mass. His dog, which accom-
panied him, was also killed. Brown
leaves a wife and two children in destitute
circumstances.
From planters of Madison, East Carroll