The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-12-03
TENNESSEE NEWS.
Wayerly has five saloons.


full of prisoners"
There are thirty-seven prisoners in
the Jail at Columbia.
A hub and spoke factory has been
established in McMinnville.
The Changers of Cooke county in
tend building fine Touring mill.
The fly has made its appearance in
the wheat fields in Bradley county.
Three negro children were burned
to death last week in Madison county.
The crop of hogs in Summer county
is said to be. considerably below the
average.
A large bear was killed in Hawkins
county, by hunting party, a few
days ago.
Joseph Hammerly, of jackson, rails
ed hog which, when killed, weighed
552 pounds net.
The Covington Record favors
Holmes Cummins, of Upton county,
for speaker of the next House of Rep
resentatives.
The Slfelbyville Gazette reports that
from S400 to $500 have been invested
by citizens of that town in the Louis
vile lottery.
There is but small supply of hogs
i'll Lincoln county, and few sales
have been made at seven cents per
pound gross.
The murrain has proved quite fatal
IN some parts of Lincoln county among
cattle. One farmer has lost all he had
by this disease.
G. G. Giers, one of Davidson eoun-
tvs representatives in the new General
Assembly, having resigned, lively
scramble for his seat may be antici-
pated. T
A correspondent of the Greenevilie
Intelligencer states that large pOr-
ton of the mineral lands of Cooke
county have been sold to English cap
italists.
The storehouse and residence of Mr.
c. B, Scott, of Humphreys county,
were destroyed by fire few days ago.
Mr. Scott saved his furniture and
portion of his goods.
Rutherford county Changers have
set on foot movement to establish an
agricultural implement mandatory.
which promises to be success. 1t is
a movement in the right direction.
The livery stable of James Mench-
ell, on Monroe street, Memphis, was
set on fire early Saturday morning and
consumed. Twenty-three horses per-
ished in the flames. Loss $4,000; no
insurance.
The Fayetteville Observer states that
during the past eight years, on aver
age of twenty thousand dollars per
year has been invested in the erection
of new buildings and other improve
ments in Fayetteville.
The Sullivan county Changers are
purchasing kanawha salt, which they
get cheaper than they can buy salt
made at Saltville, Va, only about
forty miles distant by railroad. Freight
determinations cause this anomaly in
transportation.
The Brownsville States says prom
inent merchant of that city has sued a
wealthy planter OF Haywood county
for SANDER, laying his damages at
$4,000. 1t all originated about an
Old army overcoat which was not
worth five dollars.
The jackson Wing and Tribune re-
ports the passage through that city of
forty Federal soldiers under command
of Capt. Thenker and en- route from
jackson, Miss, to Humboldt. The
Captain stated that he had orders to
so into winter quarters at the latter
place.
A lockwood correspondent of the
Kingston Independent gives AN ac-
count of a party of United States Off
cials attempting the arrest of two bro
theirs named Bean, living on Whites
Creek, when they both ran, and being
fred upon one of them received two
serious wounds in the leg, while his
clothes were terribly cut up with
balls.
The Knoxville Press and Herald
learns that negro man named Scott,
who had been at work ON the Cincin-
natl Southern Railroad, and saved
G65, was returning to Knoxville last
week, and while en- route 10 the term
mus of the Knoxville and Ohio Rail
road, Was waylaid and robbed Of $50.
The other Sl5 he had concealed on his
person and thus retained.
A citizen Of Monroe county, living
near the foot of Unaka mountain, in
forms the Athens Post that short
time before the storm commenced
Sunday night, two distinct shocks of
an earthquake occurred. The first
lasted several seconds, and was pre-
,eded by. a low, rumbling sound like
Instant thunder. Persons living on
The mountain also felt the vibrations,
which seemed to be parallel with the
range of the Unaka. Severe shocks
have been felt in that region before.
The Jasper Herald says: Quite a
lumber of covered wagons containing
immigrants, who are returning from
Texas and other States, have passed
through Jasper within the last two or
.hree weeks. They come back wiser,
out not wealthier, people One man
to a citizen Of this county
hat he was doing well in Bradley
county two years ago, but thought ne
,ould better his condition by going to
Texas, and accordingly converted his
into money and went there,
,ut now he says two years of his time
5 gone and several hundred dollars in
money, and he has acquired nothing
Iut experience.
We learn from the Grange Outlook
hat the constitution of the State
irange, as amended by that body in
february last, has been adopted and
vent into effect the first of this month.
The most striking change is that alter