The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-07-23
TENNESSEE NEWS.


Haywood county Is about to estab-
ish county workhouse.
The Cleveland Banner reports the
health Of that town remarkablygoo
\ number Of prisoners confined in
the jail at Paris made their escape Il
few days ago.
The salary ofthe Superintendent Of
public schools in Fayette county has
been reduced from $500 to $500.
The County Court Of Haywood has
ordered the payment Of eighteen dol
lars for the scalps of four wolves kill
ed in that county.
T. l.. Kendrick and L. s. Rogers
had a difficulty in Jackson on the 4th
inst, in which the latter shot the for
mer, slightly wounding him.
The Knoxville Grange Outlook ex-
presses the hope that Dorsey B.
Thomas will be put upon the track
for Governor by the farmers.
Ex. Gov. Foote made very bitter
speech again at Elizabeth on the 18th
inst, in reply to the speech made at
that place the previous week by the
ex-President.
a son of VIM. J. Greer, of White
county, was recently bitten by a rat
tlesnake. A free application of gun
powder to the part affected and liber-
al draughts of whiskey saved his life.
The Somerviile Falcon reports that
DR. Washington amputated the finger
of a negro last week, in Fayette coun-
ty, on account Of incurable injuries
inflicted on it by the bite Of an over
loving wife.
As there seems to be no opposition
to Hon. Lee Heads reelection to the
Lower House from Wilson county,
the Lebanon Herald suggests that the
Democracy concentrate upon him and
dispense with convention or primary
election.
The young ladies' of Alamo recent
" met 'in convention" for the pur-
pose Of discussing and deciding what
young man in that town would make
the kindest and best husband, and by
a unanimous vote the editor Of the
Sentinel was declared the man.
The Gallatin Examiner says:
Eight murders have been commit
ted in Sumner county this year aud
no arrests have been made. We do
not understand this. This wholesale
murder business must be stopped and
the guilty parties brought to justice.
Let the people take this matter in
hand.
The Mckenzie Times says: Mr.
Harvc Mitchcm informs Us that when
the rain began falling at his place last
Tuesday night, that his chickens cs-
peciaily the young ones that had ncy-
er seen or heard il rim, became 50
badly frightened at the sound Of fall
ing drops that they rushed in a body
from lis poultry house out into the
night and storm.
The negroes Of Henry county held
a conventions at Paris on the 14th inst,
and nominated BIZ Haynes, colorcd.
TO represent that county in the Leg
stature. The Paris Intelligenccr
says Haynes made Il speech, and goes
in for civil rights up to the hub, adj
vocates Reputation, and relies on the
help Of such white men us are in po-
litical accord with him to elect him
10 the next Legislature.
Franklin county SETS the ball in
motion. She has assessed that por-
ton Of the Nashville, Chattanooga
and 1t Louis Railroad operated with
in her limits at from S25, eco to 49,
eco per mile, and the Tennessee Coal
and Railroad Company's branch to
Tracy City at $1,000 per mile. The
County Court saws it will back up the
assessors and see that its right to col
Ioct the tax is enforced by the courts.
Away up in Roane county, East
Tennessee, the white Republicans are
severely catechising aspirants for Office
on the civil rights iEfamy. In the
last number Of the Kingston Valley
News, eight of them come to the
scratch, and declare their opposition
10 Summers legacy. Among them
We note two candidates for County
'lcrk, two for Circuit Clerk, two for
Register, one for Trustee and one for
legislature.
The Paris lnte,iigcucer has Leen |
shown communication addressed to |
Zen Atkins, Capt. Taylor and Col. |
candidates tor Congress in |
lie Eighth district, which comes |
rom number of best men in the /
southeastern part Of Madison county, !
these candidates TO submit |
heir claims to the people directly in /
/ primary election on August 9Th, rs |
lac f;ire>t and most desirable mode |
# determining the matter. The In
states that Gen. Atkins &C
,cpt> the proposition.
The Memphis Register, denying Il
cport circulated i'll Helena, Ark,
hat yellow fever prevails in Mem
,hiS, says: "Thc fact Is, that Mem
ibis to-day Is the hcalthiest city in the
nitcd States, and is death rate since
he yellow fever subsidized last fall,
ms been less than any city Of is pop
ilatiJa en- this continent. So far
rom there being any truth in the ru-
nor about yellow fever being here,
he fact i, that all the physicians Of
he city concur in the opinion that
here Is less bilious, mallrious, and
thcr fcycrs here this summer, than
.as been known any summer since
he war, or perhaps long before that
inc"