The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-01-30

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grand lodge has fully 400 members in
attendance, and fine body of men it
is.
Lynnville correspondent Pulaski
Citizen says that two negro children
froze stark and stiff on Mr.. Gram
mars place on Blue creek at ne
groe's named Eli Mckinney. They
we're infants and we learn were frozen
in their beds. Much suffering is re-
ported among the poorer class of
negroes.
Nashville Union: Build wall
around Tennessee and there would be
no need to go outside of it foe any of
| the nesessaries and but few of the lux
uries of life. Aside from the fruits
Of Florida and louisiana, there is not
natural production contained in the
census of 1880 that cannot be prOduc-
ed within the limits of Tennessee.
The jury brought in verdict of
guilty in the case of Tom Jones, Bill
TAYLOR and Henrietta Williams, the
three negroes who have been on trial
in theCriminal Court at Memphis for
abducting Agnes Lester. Henrietta
Williams and Tom Jones received a
sentenced of twenty one years each i'll
the peDitentiary. Bill Taylor escap-
ed with sentence of only ten years.
The south.bound passenger train
No. 3, on the Illinois Central railroad,
was wrecked Monday night about s
o'clock fifteen miles north of Oxford,
Miss, by going through trestle near
the Tallahassee river. Engineer
Rufin was killed and Postal Clerks
V. B. Sewer and x. T. Benford of
Jackson dangerously hurt and W. B.
Farmer of jackson slightly hurt.
Lexington Progress: H. COLDER
ger, a Hungarian peddler, informs us
that on Sunday morning of last week,
near Popular Springs, in this county,
a poor outcast woman and her two
little children werer found frozen to
death in very dilapidated old out
house in which they had taken refuge,
having been turned out into the
weather some weeks previous by a
man whose name the peddler had for
gotten.
Chattanooga COMMERCIAL For a
period of four years, the wife of John
Green, a respectable farmer near
Sparta has been suffering from kind
of mental alteration, and at times he.
coming very wild and badly excited,
but has never been violent or unman-
ageable. She now sees spirits in the
room in all sorts of threatening forms.
} They drag her furniture and he'd
clothes up the chimney and try to en-
tice her children from her.
We hear a horrible story of kid.
mapping Of a little 13-year-old white
girl in Overton county hy a negro
1t seems that the negro had been lay
. ing plans for such thing for gooC
S while and when he caught the girl out
at a nelghbor's house he staid by III,
3 roadside for her return, when he np'
preached her with the story that an
other neighbor girl about one mil,
away had sent him after her. The,
e started, and on the way the negr
t finally took her by force away off to
# negro cabin in the forest, where tn,
t two staid all night. Then they start
s ed over the mountains, a distance @
r nearly 100 miles to Sunbright.
Morristown Gazette: Morristown
r possessed ola child; the genealogy {
u which is little wonderfully, in tn
n fact that it has eleven grand parent
y living. On its fathers side. it ha
l. two grand parents and four grea
is grand parents; and on its mother
'f side, two grand parents, two gres
grand parents. The child is boy
d three weeks old, and its nameis job
i King Wooten-Mr. j. NJ. Wooter
N clerk id the depot, being the happ
IN father. If the boy isn't spoiled Q
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