The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-11-06
OVER THE STATE.


was accidental, the quarrel being he
tween Galligan and another man.
Owen leaves wife and three children.
Mormon elders, whose headquarters
are said to be in the hills of Cannon
county, are preaching the doctrines
of their church on Cornell creek,
about seven miles from Liberty, De-
Kalb county. The Liberty Herald is
in favor of exterminating them.
A Nashville special says: John
Tant was arrested Monday night on
charge of trying to rape his own
daughter, Georgia, a beautiful girl of
16, who IS a pupil at the Normal
school. The. assault occurred in
buggy, in which Tant was bringing
her to town. Tant is a prosperous
farmer 81 years Old, and his wife is
living,
Memphis Avalanche: A farmer
named A. r Williams, living near
Elmo, in this county, was robbed Of
$3.50 in money by four white men,
who waylaid him on Friday evening
as he was returning home after hav>
ng sold his cotton in this city to a
commission house. Mr.. Williams was
n half a mile of his home when
Obbed.
Hickman Pioneer: Mr. John Has.
sell, (known as "Black john" of
HasselI's Greek, y has read the bible
through twice this year. Mr.. Hassell
SO years old, but wears no specta-
Giles and reads a great deal. He is the
ather of FIVE sons, four of whom are
preachers-one Primitive.Baptist one
Missionary Baptist and two Metho-
dists. He is a strict member of the
Primitive Baptist church,
Jackson Tribune and Sun: A young
man named Sid McClerkin was ar,
rested here Wednesday evening on the
charge Of burning his father-in-law's,
Len Douglass, stables, crib, corn, fod,
der, and horse and mule last Tues
day night seven or eight miles north,
east of Lexington, Henderson county.
Our information is that the hest of
feeling mas not prevailed between
young MsClerkin and his father-in-
Jaw, and that this perhaps accounts
for the burning, Mr. Douglass re-
fuses to appear against his son-in-law,
and very probably the case will not
he prosecuted.
Memphis Avalanche: Between Z
and 8 O'clock Saturday evening John
Graham, (colored,) magistrate of the
eleventh civil district, was shot from
ambush by some unknown parties,
supposed to be negroes whom he had
~
Graham was laying hearth in his
house, and having finished the work
asked his wife to hold a light while he
went to the woodpile. He had nard-
ly left his door when he was shot, the
assassin using shotgun loaded with
buckshot. Graham lived until Sum
day night, when he died in great ago.
ny. Graham was elected in 1882 as
"a republican and had two years to
serve.
Miss Mary Allen was one of the
prettest young ladies in the village of
Dixon Springs. She was educated
in Kentucky, and, having an aunt,
Mrs. Harry P. Field, in Louisville,
she has spent much of her time in
that city. 1t has been understood, for
some time, that Miss Alien would be
married to Lieut., John Sehon, of the
United States army, stationed in the
west. The Smith county papers an
uounced such marriage, and both
parties were receiving the congratu.
lations of friends. But Louisville pa.
pers chronicle Miss Aliens marriage
to Mr.. Samuel S. Bush, an employees
of The Louisville, Evansville u St.
Louis railway. Lieut.. SehOn had
Just arrived in the citv and was per>
fectl, astounded at the news of the
marriage of his betrothed. Miss
Allen said she wired Lieut.. Sehon of
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