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

Dyersburg has a grange restaurant.
The Bedford county wheat crop has
good prospects for an unusually large
yield.
Work on the Vanderbilt and Fisk
universities at Nashville is progressing
rapidly.
The February school fund apportion-
ment of Davidson county is one dollar
and fifteen cents per scholar.
Capt. ]. Z. Rail-, of Cleveland, has
given 81 600 to the new library build
ing at Roanoke college, Virginia.
Revenue officers recently confscated
atShelbyville ninety-six barrels of whis-
Ky, which were in twenty wagons.
The residence of DIR. McCampbell,
near Springville, was destroyed by fire
few days since The building and
furniture was almost total loss.
The test suit involving the validity
of about one and half million dollars
Of the new issue of the Bank of Ten
nessee is now before the Supreme
Court.
Religious revivals continue with III
terest at Knoxville, Bristol, Kingston,
Greeneville, Rheatown, Warrenburg,
lockwood, Clinton and MaryvilIe, East
Tennessee.
Week before last little negro girl
living in Dr.. John Chester's family, in
Jackson, was SO severely burned by her
clothes taking fire from a CRATE that
death ensucd.
The directors and board of managers
Of the Nashville Exposition have de-
tcrmincd to continue the annual expo
sition, changing the time, however,
from spring to fail.
The Grceneville Union says: Weloarn
that Mrs. Ward SAYS she would not stop
the liquor traffic even if the holy father,
Pope Plus X, should come over and
insist on her so doing.
Tom Ne2psState Gazette says Andrew
johnson is tower Of strength in Ten
ncssee, and believes he VIII again enter
public life next year. 1t may be for
years and it may be never.
Mr.. William White, while sitting in
his house near Versailles, Rutherford
county, was assassinated one night last
week by unknown persons, who fired
five rifle balls through his head.
Elder J. w. McGarvey, of Ken
lucky, recently closed successful and
interesting meeting at the Christian
church in Paris, adding twenty-five TO
the army Of the Lord. Mr.. McGarvey
is spoken Of as very able and eloquent
preacher.
Columbia letter to the Banner says:
We heard Of a very remarkable case
to-day, which occurred on last Thur
day night Miss Puss Holcomb died
on that night, and soon after the death
her sewing machine in the room COM
menced running, no one touching it,
and continued running for about ten
minutes. Several were in the room at
the time, and say they arc willing to be
qualified to the statement they make in
regard to it.
The Jackson Courier has received
news of the death Of j. I. Grow, Of
Henderson county, in this State. At
the time Of his death, he was perhaps
the largest man in Tennessee, weighing
about four hundred pounds. His death
is supposed to have resulted from apo
plcxy. Near the same neighborhood,
Miles Darden died in 1858. He was
thought to have been the largest man
in the world. Some years before he
died he weighed 1910 pounds, and at
the time Of his death was much larger
than when he last weighed.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-03-12

There is a man in Dyersburg that
has laid an egg on "a table three inches
long" Rather q small table.-Dgers-
buTg Gazette.
Brother Neal, you ought to send that
man to Barnum-or start a produce
store and take him for partner.
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syre Esnn EElE!cd.

A dog belonging to Mr.. Mulligan
WAS discovered to be mad last Saturday
morning, and information was given to
the City Marshal, who promptly Dis
patched him. Ii Is not known that he
III. any other animal.
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The latest dispatch from the Asian
tee expedition states that the British
loss in the war was sixteen killed and
three hundred and sixty-eight wounded.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-03-12
Arrival and Departure OF the Mails.

Arrive from the South and West at 5:45 p. m.
From the East, 1850 ?. II. From The North
9.ij a. m.
Depart North and East. Gas ?. West, ll:5V
=. N. South, 9:45 a. m.
J. G. Boyd. Postmaster.
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0ther Points.

Reports for March 11th:
Louisyillc-Cotton easier at 81 &c.
Standardization, receipts, 100 bales.
MULTIPLICATION unchanged 15H.
Mobile-Cotton, middling. 1l12.
; ew Orlcans-Cotton, middling, l5H.
disqualification, March and April shipments
from Savannah or Charleston, nothing below
good ordinary. l5-lGd.
New York-Cotton dull; ordinary, 1915 good
ordinary. II; strict good ordinary, 1f14; low
middlng, 151{; midlling, 151i; Alabama, 1913;
Urlcans.and Texas. 1873.
Louisyiiie-Ilay, Sl9 on ears; bacon. shoulders,
81; clear rib, 81; clear, 81; sugar-cured hams,
l2@l2ll; lard. teree, "a, key, 81; whisky 92'4.
81. Lcuis-FI0ur, superfne winter, 81. SOS. y.
Whisky, 90. Lard nominal.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-03-12

The Catholic clergymen of New
York city have presented Archbishop
McClosky with six thousand dollars as
a birthday present.
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Announcements.

orr tarnS tor announcing c11dido5"'
t3- county e5;ea5 ore frc dollars, ALWAYS
IL ADNAEgE.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-03-12

Incendiaries invested Jefferson, In
diana, and attempted to set fire TO
several buildings during the last month.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-03-12

Parties wishing to rent houses or buy
property can get bargains by calling on
.. II. Hallstrom, Milan, Tenn. l-1v
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-03-12

John o. Busch has opened a new
bakery on Main street, below Bryant,
jackson & Co. Call and sec him.
lot
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-03-12

Mr.. A. S. Curry is going to rebuild
the colorado lot right away This is
encouraging.-IrentOn Ne'cs- Gazette.
We should say SO. Very.
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TAX COLLECTOR.

ruNFS. We arc authorized ~ aun1urcc !. F.
a. JoNEs ~ a candidate for LAX Collector a.
the August election.
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COUNTY TRUSTEE.

2 GNG-We are authorized o. anuouace !. g
- Lose a a candidate :Jr Trustee at the Al
= & election.
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NORTH.
Day Evpress. e;Nl 4 y 80 -
Night Express, w r n W. ~
SOUTH.
~. t,.,-,s, 9:Z7 A. " 9:35 A. ".
R;.t, r,,.,,.'s 1000 p. ". ll:pG p. n.
-'is''' =. u. HAWKS Agent.
Trims on either road. If necessary, wait hale
an hour for trains on the other.
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CUURCHES.

Baptist-Churcs street y, L. Weaver. Pastor.
Preaching every Sunday morning and evening
Prayer meeting Thursday evening. Sunday
school s.. N.
Methodist North Main street, =. +. PEBBLES
p,stor. Preachiuu every Sunday morning and
evening. PRAYER meeting Tuesday evening.
Sunday-sehool pa. N.
ola School Presbytcrian-Dr. J. I. Bright,
pa,tor. Services T., Sunday in each month.
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ray us what YOU owe at once. and
save cost STONE & Mills.
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KARkET REPORTS.
SiIEHSCCfICn Market.

MILAN. March =, 1874.
Receipts Hight, good demand. Good mddling,
Is. Strict middlng, IA. Middling. 14]4.
Strict low middlinS, I315. Low mijdIing, 1874.
Good ordinary. Il. Strict ordinary, lOl9al1.
Ordinary, 9giO. Low Ordinary, sgSla. Infc-
ricr, 5G5.
Memphis Markets.
The cotton market " Wednesday was quiet, at
the following figures
Inferior, COS; ordinary, g14@iol4; good oTdina-
~, 13l 4@l3l Z: low midding. li4@14j4; midiling,
15itGl5la; strict mildIing, &c; good middling
16'ale17.
Corn sold at &c. Oats were without move
ment. Corn meal was weaker; sales az $3.50
Eggs, nominal. Butter, firm.
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CITY OFFICERS.

A. Jordan. Mayor and Recorder
J. /. Williamson. City Attorney.
il. Mcdonald. City Marshal.
Dr.. q. Boyd, VI. j. Baird, Wilson William
son. 5. Z. Rankin, W. J. House, j. II. Dickin-
fln. Aldermen.
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MILAN EXCHANGE


VIII be published every Thursday morning. a
the Office on the West Side Of Main Street. over
the store Of Baird !. Sims. The subscription
price is invariably in advance,
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County Directory.
IouisvIlle nIld s;eH'p'liS "NII'o'''''

DOuisXiile Ruo
TRAINS SOUTH.
ARRIVES. pFPsZTS.
go a. ~. 1910 A. ~.
llsN 49,. HIS p. 81. ll:.. ?. 4.
TRAINS NORTH.
pav Express. ~. !,
Nl-'' A. W. LOVING. agent.
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Stone & Mills will close out present
stock at reduced prices, to make room
for new goods.
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Milan Lodge, No. 155-J. 7. Anderson, :. q.
u. i. Iaun. Secretary. Lodge meets every
Wednesday night.
MASONIC.
Milan Lodge. No. I9l-Mcc;s Wednesday 10 a.
III. after each full moon. ". VI. Scnter. Master.
@. Lewter. Secretary.
Layipia Chapter No. 55-Heots Friday night on
ar before each fall moon. y. d. L. Jordan Ii.
Z. WI Horncr, Recorder.
Iavinia Council, 40. 35-Mects Friday night on
or before Zach full moon. II. d. /. Jordan, !.
IN. :. II. LIE, Recorder.
PATRONS OF HUS3ANDEI.
Milan Grange No. 2j-Moets Friday BEFORE the
third Srndsy. az GJd Fellows Hail. 3. ". sims,
Na-ter. Robert Nosbil. Secretary.
COUNTY
ions. Williams Sheriff
u. c. Holmes. County Court Clerk.
g. j.. Railos. Chaucery Cpurt Clerk.
wn. ,'9or,. Circuit Court Clerk.
w. NJ Haiiord. Coroner.
J. g. NcEwcn. Trustee.
e. .. ailsu. Tax Collector.
A. " Mes. County Surveyor.
A. s. Cur1c-. Superintendent Public Schools.
W. Il. Cox. Eu,ister.
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Milan Lodge, No. llJ-J 7. Anderson, =. 6.
Il. /. Iaun. Secretary Lodge meets every
r.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-07-03

queen, and is intended to check ritualstic
practices now so prevalent. The ritualists are
furious about it, and declare that if it is car
ried, the immediate consequence viii be the
recession OF large number of both clergymen
and laymen from the established church. and
the organization of church of their own,
with one or two OF the colonial bishops a
! their head.
A Havana letter of recent date says
the Cubans report that a convoy OF four hun
dred men, together with forty carts of provis
ions, bad been captured by the Cubans in the
| jurisdiction Of Santiago de Cuba, and the
total number, 400 Spaniards, had been shot in
retaliation for the shooting of Cubans. The
Diario states the Spanish forces in the field
operating against the Cubans numbers 60, 900
men. Of this number 40 900 are supposed to
be guarding the cultivated districts. 10000 on
the sick list and elsewhere. and Il, 900 engaged
in active pursuit of the enemy. These 10, 900
it says are not sufficient to pursue 5000 or
5000 men well acquainted with the country.
A letter from Rio Janerio states that
gold and foreign exchange have risen to eight
per cent. within month, chiefly from the al
most complete stOppage of shipments of cof-
fee, owing to the great falls which have occur
red in prices abroad The enormous fall in
price of coffee caused very severe losses
among shippers. The fall was So, So and 50
in many shipments. An association of farm
ers, gotten up to protect themselves from mid
die men, shipped very largely before the news,
and four-ffths of the $780, 900 capital is lost,
greatly to the delight of sacEers and exporters.
The sugar industry can hardly struggle along.
The slaves in Brazil have decreased fifty per
cent. since 1885, when the slave trade was
completely stopped The registration of slaves
last year was I, ,O16 262.
A letter from Havana, dated the Goth
inst, says the prospects are that general re-
pudiation of the bills of the Spanish bank
will take effect next week. Several cigar
manufacturers have notified their customers
that after next week they will not rec Give pa
per, but will demand gold and silver If this
should really take place and become general,
there would be many failures. An address
has been presented to Capt. Gen. Conchs,
signed by the business men of all classes, ask
ing as a reE.edy for the present financial diff
Guilty the imposition of a tax Of five per cent.
on the riches of the island which are repre-
sented by landholders. property III the city
and county by commercial and banking insti-
tutions, and others, to be paid quarterly for
two years, beginning July 1, 1874, It is
hoped that at the end of this period the war will
be concluded and there will be no necessity
for a resort to extreme measures. Capt. Gen.
COncha has sued decree increasing the tax
on slaves to rs cents per capita
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SOUTH.

The army worm has made its appear
ance on plantations near Monroe, La.
1t is reported that the genuine rubber
Florida
The courthouse at LAGRANGE, Old
ham county, Kentucky, was burned to the
ground Wednesday night. Accidental.
A dispatch from Salisbury, n. O.,
states that John Allen Ketchey was hanged
there on the 21st, for the crime of outrage
Texas leads in making crop of
cotton this year, having made hers, and got it
to market. It is much heavier than that Of
1873
A little boy named Christopher, aged
hve years, was run over and killed by a train
on the Alabama and Chattanooga railroad
last week.
One of the residents on the st. Johns
river has received an offer from Barnum of
one thousand dollars for a live alligator twenty
feet long.
Gen. p. NJ. B. Young, member of
congress from the seventh Georgia district.
has declined to accept a prominent military
position rendered him by European power.
The sheriff of Clay county, No. has
sued the st. Louis Republican and the Globe
for libel in their accounts of the killing OF
Detective Wichey. His damages are $50. COO
in each case
The Duchess of Oneida, n two year
old beifer. purchased by W. J. Alexander al
New York mills sale) last fall for s19,O
died on Alexander farm, Woodford county, KY.
of pneumonia
Farmers in Louisiana, after all theil
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Another Prince of Wales.


It is rather startling. is it not, to hear
that "the Prince of Wales was married
on the 18th of last month to Lady Alice
Hay, daughter of the late Earl of
Enrol, at the Roman Catholic church
in Spanish Place, London ?" Such, how.
ever, is the fact. And yet the husband
of Alexandra, sea kings daughter
from over the sea, has not committed
bigamy. The Z" Prince of Wales, who
has Just married youEg Scottish lady
of old cavalier and JacObite blood, is
the wrong ''Prince of Wales. He is
commonly known as Colonel Count
Charles Edward d'Albany, the only son
OF Count Charles Edward Stuart and of
Anna, daughter of the Right Hon. John
de la POer Beresford, and niece Of the
first Marquis of Waterford" When
the right Prince of Wales last yeal went
to the Vienna Exhibition, he had the
pleasure of seeing this great-grand.
nephew, or whatever he may be, of the
pretenders of the last century figuring
IN Highland dress among the officers
Of the Austrian army. 1t is rather
doubtful after all whether the Count
Charles Edward is so nearly the di'
rect representative of the royal Stuarts
as to deserve even IN that way the com
plimentary title of the wrong Primes
OF Wales" AS q matter Of fact, we be
lieve the direct heir of the English
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-07-03
The Gloomy western Outlook.

A very gloomy account of the condi-
tion of the western business of the Chi
cago railroads is given by the Tribune
of that city. It says that Chicago now
presents the rare spectacle Of the city
sending. out more produce than is re-
ceiYed IN or passes through it. The
railroads suffer severely from lack Of
business. This falling of IS attributed
10 the depletion Of the western grana-
ries. scarcely anything being left for
farmers to ship east. The lines Of road
intersecting the mineral regions are
particularly depressed. Many of the
rolling mills consume ten or twelve cars
of coal daily, and vast quantities of iren
ore. Now th re is no demand whatever
for iron. Scarcely any interest is 50
complenety prostrated. One year ago
sufficient vessels could not be secured
10 carry away the enormous yields OF
the Lake Superior district. Tins season
not one-hah the furnaces IN the b1ahon-
ing and Shenango valleys are in blast,
and the remainder report their inten-
tion TO blow out as soon as their stock
on hand of ore is exhausted,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-07-03

misfortunes, are generally hopeful of a moder-
ately good crop, both Of cotton and corn.
Along the rivers they follow the Teceding wa
ters with their planting.
Mart Simmons, a conductor on the
/ Baltimore and Ohio got his foot fastened in a
rail at Renwood W. Va, last week and before
he could extricate himself, an approaching
train ran over him, completely cutting him to
pieces.
A shooting affray occurred at Helena,
Arkansas, last week, between W. R. Burke,
editor of the World and G. A. Otley, editor of
the Independent. in which some half dozen
shots were fred, but nobody hurt. The diff
Guilty grew out Of personal articles in the
respective papers.
A Courier Journal special reports a
heavy incendiary fire in Richmond Sunday
night, starting in livery stable and burning
down carriage factory, hotel and sixteen
business houses. Three horses were burned.
No fire department, and high wind. Loss,
ninety Thousand dollars.
At st. Louis, last week, VIM. Myers,
a deck hand, had an alteration with Pat DON
nelly and Joe Hawkins, cooks on his boat,
during which Hawkins knocked him down and
er knife, inficting wounds from which he died
Hawkins was arrested, Donnelly is at large.
In conversation Gov. Smith is repor-
ted to have said that the two roads of which
the state of Georgia has taken charge for
failure to meet the interest on bonds-the
Macon and Brunswick and North and South
railroads-are making expenses. He has
hopes he viii be able to sell them both next
winter.
Gov. Moses, of South Carolina,
has pardoned three county commissioners
of Barnwell, lately conviced Of curruption
in Office, and sentenced respectively to
three, nine and ten years in the peniten-
tiary. The convicted officials, on their way to
prison, boasted that Gov. Moses would not
dare allow them to remain in the penitentiary
one month.
Several of the most prominent citi-
zens have formed themselves into a bridge
monument association for the purpose of
erecting colossal bronze statue of Jas. B.
Eads, chief engineer of the bridge at st.
Lotus, with an appropriate inscription thereon
of all his associates in the work of planning
and erecting the great structure. The project
is to be carried out by voluntary subscriptions.
A dispatch from New Orleans says,
about hundred longshorerlen attacked fifty
laborers in Bayles' coal yard in AIgiers with
clubs and bricks, in a most violent manner,
driving them from their work. severely wound
ing two. The assailants took possession of
the yard, but we're finally driven out by the
police. The men working in the yard were
receiving less than the union rates, and did
not belong to the Algiers union. Threats of
further violence are made.
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EAST.

The gale of last week resulted in a
loss OF thirty-two lives along the eastern
coast Of New Brunswick, nineteen being fish
ermen Four barks and nine schooners were
stranded, and about thirty fishing boats
wrecked.l
The Maine Universalist convention, by
decisive maj jority, has recognized the eligbili-
ty of woman to the Christian ministry, in an
amendment to the bylaws which forbids the
committee on ordination to make any discrim-
ination against candidates on account OF
sex.
In the Women's Temperance conven.
ton at Pittsburg Mrs. Dr. Hill said the wo-
men engaged in this movement are not gen
orally those who desire the ballot, but those
who thought the day would soon come when
men would solicit women to accept the ballot.
II was determined to issue an evening temper
ance paper.
While the International circus was
parading the streets at Van Vert, Ohio, last
week, the tiger, which was riding on top of a
wagon, became enraged at something and
made terrible attack on it's keeper Mile DE
Graner Lee, badly laoerating her hand and
limbs and tearing her clothes in shreds. She
retained her presence of mind and succeeded
in keeping the beast partly cowed until it was
secured when she tainted. Her injuries are
not dangerous.
The italian cooperative laborers OF
New York city, in published card say We
claim the right to put such price upon our
labor may seem to us best We number
twenty-seven hundred artisans and laborers,
under seventy-two foremen. Having heard
that a large nuplber. Of contracts bava beav
taken at panic prices by builders who cannot
proceed with their work because Of the exist
ing and threatened strike, we hold ourselves
ready to undertake any contract, or furnish
the necessary force at reasonable rates. All
we ask is to be allowed to work in peace. The
record win show that of ninety thousand lod-
gers in station-houses in the first quarter OF
1874 only twenty-seven were Italians.
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The Great Flood.

The monthly weather report for May,
issued by the signal bureau, says :
ssThe river flood of the most Importance,
during this month has been that which
devastated the valleys OF the lower Mis-
sissippi, Arkansas, White, Red, aud
other rivers. The creVasses on the
Mississippi river may be classified as
follows Between Memphis and the
Louisiana state line were four large
crevasses and several smaller ones,
opening into the state of Mississippi,
Arkansas and Tennessee. South of the
Louisiana state line, and almost exclu-
siyely opening into that state, were
fourteen large and nine small crevasses.
The total length of breaks in levees ex-
ceed twelve miles. The total extent Of
bottom lands overhowed exceed %, ,00O
square miles. The Overfowed land in
Louisiana was confined to a region of 20
to 80 miles broad, Immediately ado h.
ing the western bank Of the river, and
spreading out over at least one-half Oi
the Delta property so-called; the entire
length of the inundated region, IN &
north and south direction, being nearly
400 miles