The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-08-27
TESSESSEE NEWS.

eS q. very IalT qudlitl are Selling III
Huntingdon at forty cents per bushel.
The Lawrence Journal says there
are four schools in operation in Law
renceburg at present, including one
cO!ored.
The Nashville Union and American
says a negro woman in that city gave
birth to triplets, weighing respectively
9. II and - pounds, aggregating 81
pounds. At last accounts they were
doing well.
The Lawrenceburg Journal says:
Quite number Of our townsmcn have
been very sick for several days. Sick
ness is quite prevalent now, among
all ages and classes. The doctors are
constantly riding.
The Wing and Tribune says that on
Friday last Mr. 2. j. McGettrick, for
merlv merchant of jackson, and a
well-known young man, dropped dead
in the section-house Of the Miss. Cen
tral road, uear the depot.
Pulaski Citizen: \ hunter emptied
the fire from his pipe down on Brad
shaw the other day and burnt up two
hundred panels of fence and fifteen
acres of clover. The clover was knee
high and so dry that it burnt like chat.
The Hebrew citizens of Nashville
are erecting a temple Of worship
which will be completed about the 1st
of December at a cost of $50, geo or
1000. Its dimensions are % by
100 feet, and will contain 800 family
pews.
Mai. James Currie, one of the old
est citizens of Haywood county, died
at lis residence, near Brownsville, last
week. His fence caught fire and in
trying to extinguish the flames he be-
c3me overheated and died from the
effects.
There are $50 drinking saloons in
Memphis, and Is, 742 voters for sheriff
in the LIST election, or one saloon to
every seventeen one third voters. The
capital Invested and annual expenses
Of these saloons amount TO at least 81,
375, 900, or SIP to each voter per
year. -. 1900 20 =.
The Brownsville States SAYS: Last
week Mr. Tiff Smith drove seventeen
sheep down to Hatchie river so as to
be convenient to wafer On his re-
turn next morning, he found eight
killed and the rest bIdly bitten. 1t
is supposed to have been done by
wolves.
The Lawrence Journal saws that
when a man Of that town gets mad
at one of his neighbors and wants to
be revenged on him, he has him
elected a member of the board of AL
dermen. The revenge is complete,
for the finger of scorn is pointed at
him all his life.
The Brownsville States says: There
are various opinions as to the amount
of cotton that will be raised this year.
Our city shipped the past season over
$4,000 bales Of the staple, and it is
thought by many that the shipments
this year will not amount to half that
much. We hope, however, that the
crops, both cotton and corn, will turn
out better than our people think.
A convention of the farmers and
land owners of Haywood county is
called to meet in Brownsville on the
9th inst, "to promote the interest
Of the landowners of this county, to
make the land more fertile and pro-
ductive, TO rid ourselves of the most
inefficient portion Of present lahorers,
to make labor honorable, to restore
our once fertile lands, our prosperous
people and county to former prosper
ity, and to encourage immigration"
Last week desperate shooting af-
fray occurred on the Tennessee side
of the Mississippi river, near Point
Pleasant, in which Captain Albert
Hall and Il young man named Teen
ham were killed, George Darnell
mortally, and Captain Cole and two
brothers named Cox seriously wound
ed. The atfray grew out Of rivalry
between Captain Hall and Captain
Cole, who own competing ferryboats
at Point Pleasant, which eliminated
in a lawsuit.
The residence of james S. Perry,
on Blue creek, Giles county, was
burned, with all its contents, one
night last week. Three children were
sleeping up stairs, two of whom were
saved, but on going for the third one
Mr. Perry was met on the stairs by
sheet of flame that it was impossible
t. penetrate and the child persisted.
The fire was the work of an incendia-
nv, and circumstantial evidence is
very strong against two negroes, who
have since been arrested.