The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-07-10
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

fires in Georgia are said to have been the
work of incendiaries.
Joseph Villier, of New Orleans, cut hiI
wife's throat and then his own.
The tobacco sales at Danville, Va, DUR
ing the past year amounted to A1,OOO,OOO.
Alex Board was shot to death few
days ago in a street battle with three men
at Will's Point, Tex.
Lee Brown, colored, shot and killed
Henry and Albert Morgan, white, few
days since on the Peters plantation, above
Vicksburg, Miss.
Charles Miller, living near Sherman,
Tex, lost his residence few days ago by
fire, and two children persisted in the
flames.
The Roane Iron Company, of Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, will remodel its extensive
works into a Bessemer steel-rail mill and
employ one thousand men. The plant has
been idle for five years.
An official test of the new water works
at Pensacola, Fla, resulted satisfactorily
amid general rejoicing, The system at-
fords fire protection to every part of the
city.
Major Penn, the evangelist, arrived at
his home in Palestine, Tex, few days,
after his eight months visit to England.
The people were highly pleased to meet
and greet him back to his home.
Terry Patty, a wealthy farmer OF
Cleburne County, Ala, committed suicide
few nights ago. He had been Respondent
for several days over some cause not made
public. About midnight he arose and
taking his Martini rifle out into the
kitchen, an explosion was heard, which
awoke the family. He had placed the
muzzle of the gun in his mouth, pulled the
| trigger with a string and thus accom-
! plished his self-destruction.
Distress from storms is reported in sew
eral parishes in Louisiana.
The Misses Austin, of Louisiana, who
have a $i50,000 claim against the United
States, both hold departmental positions
at the capital.
The watermelon agents Of the Northern
roads are busy at work in the Southern
melon patches, soliciting shipments for
their respective lines.
General Buckner has farm of fifteen
hundred acres, six hundred cultivated, in
quiet part of Kentucky. He lives there
most of the time, on the spot that was his
birthplace.
Jac, Hale killed his sister-in-law
Louisa Cobb, near Morristown, Tenn, a
few days ago. There were no witnesses
to the affair, and he claims to have acted
in self-defense.
The recent storm in Texas was very
severe at Lorena. The dwelling house OF
Mrs. B. Sherman was blown down and
badly wrecked. Other damage was done
This makes the third cyclone to visit that
Inflated village within a fortnight.
Mr.. Joseph Bezer, a Louisville (Ky.)
express driver, seventy-six years of age
died few days since from the effects Of
injuries received in a runaway accident
He was taking his horses harness off in
the stable when the animal took fright and
ran, dragging Mr.. Belzier after it, Tbs
wagon passed over him, breaking his leg
in two places. Owing to his age the SHOCK
proved fatal
In the famous Kate Townsend will case
at New Orleans, Judge Houston recently
rendered decision decreeing the will OF
Kate Townsend in favor of TrOisgille
Sykes null and void because Sykes was
guilty of ingrattude Che having killed
Kate Townsend) and thereby forfeited all
benefits under the will, and giving judg'
ment in favor of the State of Louisiana
desiring the State to be the heir at-law
under the will of the deceased.
Thos. Watson, while hunting near Jack
sonville, Fla, recently, was surprised by
large bear, which rushed upon him. a
load of buckshot failed to stay the brute'i
charge, but faithful hound seized the
bear by the throat and, though fatally
crushed by bruins hug, caused sufiicien
delay to enable its master to get in Sec
ond effective shot. The bear weighed ovel
four hundred pounds.
James N. Basmere, who lives near Wind
sor, N. c., and his son, Stone Basmere
quarreled a few days ago. The son free
both barrels of a shotgun loaded with
buckshot into his fathers body. He theI
broke open a safe, took therefrom $500 anC
fed. The sheriff and a large posse wert
securing the country in search of him
The father was alive at last accounts, bu
will die. There is great excitement owe
the awful crime.
A duel, fought with shot-guns, between
two brothers, Adam and Alphonse Reed
who live five miles west ct Opelousas, La.
took place few days ago. Adam re
ceived two wounds-one in the face anC
one in the bowels-which it was though
would prove fatal. Alphonse was un
touched, although Adam fired two shots a
him.
A party of masked men took a Rocl
Castle County farmer named Joe Ramsey
and his wife from their bed a few light
ago and brutally logged them, giving
them notice to leave within ten days
Ramsey tried to sell what property he had
but could not He disappeared soon after
and the other night his decaying body wa
found hanging to a tree in the woods. l
is supposed that he suicided on account o
threats of the midnight mob.
Clay Tompkins, a wealthy young MAJ
residing in Walker County, Ca, com
mtted suicide a few days ago by cutting
his throat from ear to ear and then blow