The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-06-04
TENNESSEE NEWS.

for Senator from Bedford and Ruther-
ford.
The caterpillar has made its appear
ance in vast numbers in Washington
county.
Preparations are being made TO work
the lead mine on the farm Of John
Wilson, in Roane county.
The JonesbOro Herald and Tribune
has never known such a demand for
breadstufs in Washington county.
James j. Hughes, of Sullivan
county, has a son seven years old
who weighs one hundred and three
pounds.
Capt. w. J. Fowler is candidate
to represent Monroe and Loudon
counties in the lower branch of the
Legislature.
The federal soldiers who went from
Humboldt to assist in preserving the
peace at Little Rock have returned to
their barracks.
The farmers Of DYER county are
suffering greatly for the want of rain.
Unless they have rain soon, their
crops will be ruined.
Hon. O. z. Temple, of Knoxville,
has been appointed by the President a
member of the Board of Visitors to
West Point for the current year.
II. w. Haywood, senior editor of
the Brownsville States, is candidate
for Congress, and is succeeded in the
editorial chair by Willo Haywood.
The jackson Courier-Herald saws
little boy living with Col. Buford, in
that city, fell into a well sixty feet
deep, but marvelOusly escaped with
out injury.
The white Republican leaders of
Hardeman county have telegraphed
Hon. Barbour Lewis, NJ. c., request
ing him to vote against the civil rights
bill in the House.
DR.. John +. Pyott, of Rhea county,
is candidate TO represent the Float
erial district composed Of the counties
Of Mcigs, Rhea, James and Cumber-
land, in the next Legislature
The catalogue Of Cumberland Uni
versitv, at Lebanon, shows the number
of students in attendance in the various
departments, during the collegiate
year, to be 352. There were l09
graduates.
Rev. DIR. Palmer has rendered his
resignation rs pastor Of the First Pres
byterian Church in New Orleans, and
accepted the Chanccllorshlp of the
new Southwestern Presbyterian Uni
vcrSity at GAINESVILLE.
/ The Shelbyyille Gazette SAYS there
is a man in .Shelbyville who says he
had rather his son would marry All
intelligent negro woman than a poor
white one. Thank heaven, he Is about
the only one so inclined.
The Union and American saws that
all the members Of the committee from
Mauy county that lately waited on
eX-President johnson, requesting him
to address the people at Columbia, with
the exception Of two, are radicals.
acquisitions for fifty of the gradu-
ates Of Fisk University, to fill positions
~ teachers in the colored schools
throughout the State, had been re-
ceivcd at the University, but the civil
rights excitement has resulted in
those acquisitions being nearly all
withdrawn.
Sulphur Spring Grange, in Lincoln
county, has adopted resolutions de- !
claring the present road law INSULT /
cicnI; that the next Legislature be |
urged to enact some law BY which /
good roads can be had, and asking the I
cooperation Of all the oranges in the /
State in this matter.
Anumber Of Indian skeletons have I.
been eXhumcd from an ancient grave |
ward near GAINESVILLE. The foreheads /
are rcccding, and tue jaws and nose
very prominent, unlike the features /
Of any tribe known TO the earliest set T.
tiers. Flint weapons and pottery /
were found, and the graves were closed |
above and below with slabs of slate
stone. Strangely enough 4 lcadcn /
bullet was found fl tened in the ahoul- .
der bone Of enc of the skeletons.
The jackson Wing and Tribune .
says; On Tuesday evening last, at five /
O'Clock, A. J. Sellers and j. y. Pat .
terson met 10y prior arrangement in |
the streets of Cotton Grove, a village .
eight miles east of this city, the former .
armed with a double-barreled shot gun
and two singlc-harreled pistols, and the .
latter with Il navy-six, and fought one
Of the most desperate duels on record.
After several shots, Sellers fell, bleed
ing from three painful wounds, one in
the right shoulder, another III the RIGHT
temple, and the third in the upper lip.
Patterson retired with & bali in his left
side.
The Huntingdon Peoples Paper
says: About three weeks ago, a negro /
woman, seemingly entirely crazy, came
to the neighborhood of Col. Terry's,
in this county, bringing with her
white child a few weeks old. She
staid about two weeks at the house Of
Altman Wright, negro residing in
that vicinity, at the end Of which time
she ran away, taking The child with
her. She was pursued by Wright's
wife, who took the child away from
her by force, The child, We learn, Is
now in the possession of Wright, who
wishes the owner to have it. The
negro did not give any clue as to how
she obtained the child; but it is sup
posed that she had stolen it.
The movement which was recently
in Paris to establish league