The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-11-20
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

on the ground that the returns were oOc-
tored in the back counties.
The gamblers arrested at Dallas, Tex,
recently, had their trials before County
Judge Bower. Their fines amounted ia
nearly $1,000. j. L. Calhoun, the prin-
cipal room-keeper, wa assessed ever.
$500.
Sam Carter was cut by James McClos-
key, at King, Tex, few days ago, with
pocket knife. Carter struck McCioskey
with bar of iron, breaking his nose,
when McCloskey cut him to the hollow be-
low the left lung. Carter is badly
wounded.
When Jailer Brooks at Columbus, Ca,
went into the corridor of the Jail 10 lock
the prisoners in their cells n few evenings
since he was set upon by six of them, whO
threw him down, tied a towel over his
mouth and a rope around his limbs, took
his pistol, the key to the outer door and
six dollars in money from his pockets.
and made their escape. The alarm was
sounded Immediately, but the prisoners
all escaped. Among them were two mOr-
derers.
The Carolinas take the lead in the num-
Der of well to- do negroes. North Carolina
has twenty who are worth from $40 zoe to
$780,, 900 each. In South Carolina the ne
groes own $10,OOO0O0 worth of property.
In Charleston fourteen men represent
100000 Thomas r. Smalls is worth $lB,-
600 and Charles c. Leslie is worth S12,e00.
The family of Noisettes, truck farmers,
are worth $lj0,0O0. In the city Savings
banks the negroes have $12493635 on de-
posit. One man has over s. 900. He re-
Gently bought $4,000 plantation and
paid $1,000 in cash.
The rice planters vi Georgia have mar
keted nearly their entire crop.
There are twenty lime kilnsin Alabama
that turn out 81 900 barrels daily.
Vicksburg, Miss, is figuring ON the
construction of waterworks.
Hot Springs (Ark.) officers recently
made successful raid on the gamblers.
A citizen of Fairburn, Ca, is said to
have walked to Palmetto, distance OF
seven miles, recently in forty-eight min
utes.
The Supreme Court of Mississippi has
affirmed the constitutionality Of the local
option liquor law.
A candidate in Alachua County, Fla, is
accused of having presented the women
of his district with cheap finger rings just
| before election.
Fire broke cut in the saw and planning
mill of NJ j. Croker at Helena, Ark,
few days ago and burned it to the grouRd.
Loss, $4,000; insured for s., 600 in the Peli-
can, of New Orleans.
F. Spintig of the Eighth United States
Cavalry b and, had his face burned and
his sight probably destroyed at San
Antonio, Tex, few days ago, by the ex-
! plosion of annfernal machine.
Judge James Ferguson dropped dead at
the Union Depot at Houston, Tex, few
evenings since. He was aged ninety
yeurs, belonging to the Texas veterans.
and had lived in Houston many years.
He boosted that he had killed deer on the
site of the courthouse. ..
Miss Polly johnson was arrested al
Grayson, KY, a few days ago by Post
Office Inspector Jet on charge Of en-
Lezzling valuable letter. She was taken
before a United States commissioners and
ooun over to the District Court In the
sum of $780,
On the Monday following the last Sun
day in October this year eleven arrests
for drunkenness occurred in Atlanta, Ga.
On the same day last year five arrests
were made, and in 1884 seven. Prohibition
has been in force in that city since last
May only.
The North Carolina Senate stands %
straight Democrats, independent
Democrats and 20 Republicans. The House,
"a straight Democrats, 0 Independent
Democrats and 81 Republicans, No labor
candida ties were elected.
The fence law of Georgia, which has
had the effect of keeping hogs from roam
ing unrestrained through the woods, has
also had the effect of greatly increasing
the number of skunks in the Stata. Hogs
are particularly fond of young skunks
and devoured many Of them when the
woods were open to stock.
William Buford, a bad negro, and ames
Taylor, colored, both of Keene, KY, got
in difficulty few evenings since, which
resulted in the killing of the latter. HI
was shot four times. Buford has not beer
captured at this writing.
&c, Mccormick, aged twenty six, I
prosperous cotton broker, who was Il
have been married to Miss Carrie Lewis
a lady of high social standing and notet
beauty, at Hawklnsville, Ga, few day.
! since, committed suicide the day proceed
8 ing that appointed for the wedding. HI
! had been subject to fits Of dependency
= and it is suppos ed that the excitement at
tending the wedding preparations 81
worked on his morbid nervous sensibilit'
as to cause self-destruction.
= Excitement over the recent foul mur
. der Of an unknown woman neal
J.. Dalton, Ca, continues undated
a and has been intensified by tn,
a confession of Charles Patton and VII
a Hallman, who were arrested on the charg
of having committed the crime. Tn
name of the murdered girl has never bee
ascertalned, and she was buried in n