The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-09-17
TENNESSEE MEMS.

Dyer county viii have no agricultu.
raj fair this fall.
The jackson Courier-Herald ha:
adopted the "patent inside"
During August eight whites and
eleven blacks died in jackson,
Nashville has l 500 licensed express
wagons, draws and water carts.
The Nashville Exposition Is enliven,
Cd By a "Punch and Judy" show.
Maynard is the choice Of the Sum
ner county Radicals for Governor.
The death rate Of Memphis for last
week was 25-14 whites II colored.
\ barge containing $4,000 watermel-
ons reached Nashville last Thursday.
One hundred and thirty prisoners
are confined in the Shelby county Jail.
The total number of deaths ia Nash
vile last week was II, I white and
10 colored.
There are four whites and thirteen
negroes confined in the Jail at Muir
freesboTo at present.
Richard Fitzgerald shot and mortal
ly wounded J. J. Jordan, in Henry
county a few days ago.
The dry murrian has made its APP
pearance among the cattle in Hardin
county, and quite number have
died.
4 few days ago a prisoner, while
being taken 10 the courtroom in Mem
phis, threw snuff into the officers ewes
and escaped.
The earnings of the St. Louis and
Southeastern Railroad last month
were S2J4,230; against $500, 028 in
August, 1873.
There will be very little fodder
saved in Marion county this season,
the drouth and grasshoppers having
destroyed it.
The residence Of Clay Irwin, in
Athens, was burned a few mornings
ago. 1t is supposed to have been fired
by an incendiary.
The Union and American state,
that it Is reported that grasshoppers
and locusts are devastating the crops
of Bradley county, and are moving
westward.
The jackson Wing and Tribune
states that there have been about sew
enty conversions at the cast jackson
Methodist Church during the meeting
now in progress.
The GalIatin Examiner states that a
young man named Pennington was
caught in a pump belt near Mitchells-
vile Il few days ago, and 50 mangled
that he died Immediately.
The army worm has attacked the
millet, and in some instances the
young corn in the neighborhood of
Eagleville, Rutherford county, doing
considerable injury to both.
The residence OF William Wagner,
in Hardin county, was destroyed by
fire, together with all his household
furniture, a few days ago. The Ere
is supposed to be the work of an incen-
diary.
The Lexington Reporter says Z.
J. Undertake was nominated as a
candidate for Representative from
Henderson county by the Democratic
and Conservative convention last
week.
Miss Kate Enslie, a young lady
nineteen years of age, a resident of
Louisville, Ky, while visiting her Sis
ter in Nashville, this week, was burn
ed to death by the explosion of coal
oil lamp.
4 rattlesnake was recently killed in
Bradley county, near Cleveland, which
had twenty-nine rattles. One was
killed in Wayne county a short time
ago which had forty-one rattles and
button, and was six feet in length.
Nashville Banner, 9th: United
States Marshal Spence yesterday
levied on all the furniture in the CITY
Hall and Council Chamber, to satisfy
an execution in favor Of certain Alden
against the city, for Sl0,-
600, or So, goo"
Last Friday night, about 10 o'clock,
Joseph Waggoner, Of North Carolina,
was knocked down and robbed on
North Cherry street, in Nashville.
The property taken from his person /
Of 81, 1872, and a gold watch
md silver chain.
Two children of Isaac Mccoy, Of
White county, attempted to kindle a |
ire with coal oil. The can exploded !