The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-12-04
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGS.

FRANCIS Darnell ana MS seventeen year
old son visited Griffin, Ca, the other day,
and crowds followed them. The father is
four feet four inches tall, and the son
three feet and one inch.
The French and Eversole factions in
Perry County Ky, had battle at Hazard
few days ago, where one man was
killed, when it was agreed that all differ
ences be left to arbitration.
Miss Jennie Lamar, daughter of Secre'
tary Lamar, is to appear in Washington
society this winter. She is described as
typical Southern beauty, tall, graceful
and of pleasant address
By authority from the Attorney Gen
eral Of the United States, Marshal Jchr
Carroll offers $500 reward for the arrest
and delivery at Fort Smith, Ark, of Joe
Stulzer, charged with completely in the
murder Of TIL omas and John Mahoney or
February 16, 1886, in the Cherokee Nation.
His 0ccomplice, Patrick McCarty, is now
in Jail at Fort Smith under sentence OF
death for this murder, the execution to
/ take place January IT, 1887.
/ T, j. Boasso, formerlv chief OF aids in
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years Imprisonment for forgery, and John
/ Soniat, of ST. Landres Parish, under life
| sentence, escaped from the pententiary at
Baton Rouge a few nights ago by break
/ ing Tn ough the wall of the hospital into
/ he cotton factory and thence making
/ their way through g large gate. They
were undoubtedly assisted by some one
outside, as the hinges on the gate had
been wrenchol from the bricks Of the wall
from the outside.
A syndicate has been formed to build o
railroad from Memphis to Nashville,
Tenn.
John Davis, negro, was lynched by 3
mob at Randolph, Ala, few days ago
MS ofrense having been a criminal assault
On a white lady.
Jacob Mas, of Cochran, Ga, has as
dgned, with liabilities between $4,000
and $4,000 and assets about the same
AMOUNT.
Colonel f lward S. Jones, prominent at
gettysburg, and Department Commander
If the G. A. r. for Tennessee and Georgia
lied at Nashville few nights ago.
NJ. Niece, who was elected to the
5eorgin Legislature by the farmers of
Murray County, has introduced bill linn
ting mercantile profits on the necessities
Of life to fifteen per cent under severe
penalties. The measure has some chance
If passing the House.
A switch engine in the yard of the In.
Sensational 81 Great Northern at Houston.
Tex, cut Off the foot of John Ryan, a well.
known railrOader. Amputatlon Of the
over portion of the leg was necessary.
lie was sent to the Missouri Pacific Hos
oital at Palestine.
The lawyers Of Nashville, Tenn, have
offered the Lawyers stake, of 81 coo, to be
.un for at the spring meeting of tho Nash
vile Blood Horse Association. The race
$ for three-year- olds, and the distance il
Dne and one-sixteenth miles.
c. f. Ilfrev, O well-known German citi
zen of Harris County, Tex, was found
lead in his room a few days ago. He wa
country merchant for long time, anC
inally became proprietor Of the Arlington
Hotel, railway house. The cause of hi
heath is not known.
Tho final survey for tn e extension of tn
Memphis g. Charleston railroad from
Stevenson, Ala, to Chattanooga, Tenn.
is in progress. As soon as the survey i
completed it is believed the work will b
commenced.
The colored people Of Greensboro, Ky,
tome time since made a proposition TO the
, State Educational Board Offering fiftee1
, acres of land, worth $500, or 500 cash, i
; return for the establishment in that cit,
of the State Colored Normal School. Col
onel j. o. Hodges, of Lexington, visite
, Owensboro recently to select a locatio
Cor the school, and work will be begun a
+ once
petition, signed by eighty-eigbt citi
+ lens, has leen pres ented to Attorney Gen
eral nningham, of Louisiana, prayin
him to take proceedings before the Su
preme Court for the removal from ofIic
/ Of Judge Henry L. Lazarus, of Divisio
I E, Civil District Court, in New Orleans
The petition charges him with nonfeas
y lnce, mis- ieasance, gross misconduct, in
> competency. abuse of judicial power, ct
E r. G. Thomas & Co, dealers in dr.
' goods, cloth ing, boots and shoes,
5 Brownsville, Tenn, made an assignmel
G a few days ago. Their liabilities al
t placed at 10000, due mostly TO Memph
arms; assets $4,000 in stock and $4,000
,. accounts. The firm is composed of r. {
: Thomas and T. E. Gless, the latter
whom is the principal ste ckh older of IL
, Brownsville Furniture Company.
n A north bound freight on the Mobile
c Ohio railroad, while passing an unlockt
= sw itch in leaving Mobile a few days az
: woi ked the switch open and two cars ar
n a caboose were ditched. OF the four pc
{ sons in the caboose. one, a brakema
q jumped and escaped. Conductor Fraz
( was thrown out the door and fell on Il
}. sidewalk, breaking his hip BONE w.
: Cole, president of the Cole Pole Road E
v CINE Company, of Richmond and Mas
q vile, had his foot crushed and leg injur
q by box falling on it.
), The North Georgia Methogist COME
: ence has just completed an importa
: special session. Rev. Joseph Jones,
V brother of the celebrated evangelist, Sa
), Jones, went to Ringgold some time sin
o and began a revival, He used the vile