The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-08-14
SOUTHERN eLEANINGS.


Judge Shuferd, of Asheville, N. c., finSd
the editors of the Citizen, Of that place,
$500 for contempt of court.
Georgia law allows the owner of a cow
which has been shot on land not inclosed
by lawful fence to recover three times
its value. IN Robertsville a cows value is
determined by the number of quarts of
milk she gives at milking, at the rate Of
five dollars for each quart Mrs. Aaron's
cow, which gave twelve quarts at milk
ing, was recently shot, and the jury in the
suit that followed gave her $3.50.
The change of gauge of the st. Louis.
Arkansas & Texas road, the most import
ant marrow gauge in the United States, is
being rapidly accomplished, and in few
months the entire line, seven hundred
miles in length, will be turned into
standard gauge The road runs through
the best corn and cotton producing coun-
! try in the South.
A number of persons were descending
Lookout noun tain from Mentone Springs
a few days ago, when the team attached
to the hack ran away down the steep in
cline. The vehicle was overturned and all
were thrown out. Samuel Schwartz, shoe
merchant, was caught under the wagon
and severely bruised. His wife chung to
her infant babe, and neither was injured.
Miss Annie Bachman had a cash cut in
her neck and head. A colored nurse was
dangerously injured, one of her legs being
broken.
John r. Pugh, of the Montgomery (Ala.)
police, was shot and seriously wounded
by an unknown negro few nights ago.
A warrant had been issued for Ames
Howard, and Officers Pugh and Laprade
went to execute it. They found a negro
who answered the description and UNDER
took to arrest him. He ran, Pugh fol-
lowed, when the negro suddenly turned
and fired on Pugh with a revolver. The
shot took effect in Pugh's abdomen.
A Southern breeder of game chickens
always sets his hens on nests made of to-
bacco stems. They are never troubled by
insects.
An Alabama man recently cut down
bee tree and not only got one hundred
pounds of honey, but also saved the bees.
Junus Heilborn, veteran of Napoleon's
campaign against Russia, has just cele-
brated his ninety second birthday at Cuth'
bert. Ga.
Texas towns are notified of a matri-
monial agency in London that will send
them good wives on satisfactory refer
ences.
) The Democrats of South Carolina have
nominated for Governor John P. Richard
} son, the present State Treasurer, in oppo-
, sition to the farmers combination.
Simon Goldner, merchant at Rome,
Tenn, suicided few evenings since by
J drowning in the Cumberland river. He
7 was financially embarrassed.
William Whaen, tender, formerly
Q Of Louisville, KY, died of sunstroke at
{ Austin, Tex, few days ago, making
] three deaths from that cause within a
week. The weather has been intensely
/ hot and very dry.
] The sixth annual session of the Louis
D lana Press Association convened last week
. at Monroe. Twenty-three papers were
represented. The members of the associa-
: ton left on Saturday on an excursion to
Chicago.
In remote corner of Montgomery
County Ca, masked and armed men car
ried away the safe of a miser named
: Wisely few nights ago, from which they
took $4,000 in currency and a like amount
of negotiable notes. Four of the robbers
are in custody.
The United States Grand Jury at Fort
' Smith, Ark, ignored the following MUIR
der cases: John Maberrv, Richard
: Cowan, Watt Saunders, D. L. r. Ross, J.
= H. Marshall, George Malur, e. B. Kerr
and John Kerr, his son. The two latter
have been in Jail several weeks. The
, others were out on bond.
y The citiz ms OF Georgia will, in October
y. vote upon a constitutional amendment K
y supply artfl 'ial limbs to Confederate sol
- diers and make suitable provision for sucE
- men as were permanently injured in the
field.
: A report is current in railroad circles Il
Il the effect that Springs, a Tennessee sum
l. mer resort, has been purchased by tn
Virginia, Tennessee & Georgia Railroad
Ii Company. This resort is extensively pa
e tronized by the Southern people.
u Mrs. VIM. Massey, wife of well-knowl
citizen of Somerset, Kv., gave birth
u three children a few nights ago. Two O
/ the babies we're connected by a strong Zig
Ie ament exactly similar to the bonds unitin
the Siamese twins. The ligament was tw
&c and half inches long. All were dea
~ when Torn.
J" B ne Moore, wanted in Van Zand
e County, Tex, for horse stealing, was al
IL rested at Fort Smith, Ark, few day
ago, at the instance OF Deputy Marshs
~ H. Hackney, of Denson. After prelim
u mary examination, be was committed
Jail, and will be taken 10 Texas as soon q
10 papers can he secured for his remova
IL He was attending the United tates coul
as a witness. Hackney thinks he is ais
~ wanted tor mm der, and that there is 81
y reward for him.
~ While gang of negroes on u construC
ton train on the Mississippi Valley raj
road was repairing the track abe out tv
10 miles south of Shelby Station, Miss, fe
days ago,aa panther emerged from Il
III woods and attacked a negro lahore