The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-23
SPARKS.

Ball at the Dickinson Hall to-mor.
row night.
Moles and rabbits infest the gardens
of our burghers.
Six candidates in town yesterday,
and not a dozen farmers.
Read the communication of Bark
is; he IS certainly willing.
Owing to the continuous rain, very
few people were in attendance at the
churches Sunday morning.
Main street, in front of the post
Office, is almost impossible, owing to
the heavy rains and improper grading.
One of our beaux dined upon ling
uns" Tuesday, and had to forego the
pleasure Of his accustomed visit to his
lady love that evening.
The children Of Mrs. Sallie Rich
ardson, living on Railroad avenue, in
our city, are heirs to large share of
the Hopkins estate III Baltimore.
Last Saturday, one Of the Oldest in
habitants af Lavinia drank seventeen
glasses Of whisky in seventeen min
utes, and rather s warm day for
drinking, too.
A horse fell down with its rider last
Monday evening on the Jackson road,
near the residence of Mr.. George
Sims, and broke its neck. The par
ticulars We did not learn.
In addition to the suggestion Of
Canon" in last weeks issue, it has
been suggested by some that the City
Fathers havea large public cistern dug
on some part of Main street, SO as to
be convenient in case of fire.
Owing to high water and bad con-
dition OF the roads, Gov. Brown did
not reach Humboldt Monday, but tel
e.raphed that he would be there in a
few days to examine the location Of
the Insane Asylum grounds.
Why is it that young man, living
so PAGES from the pest Office and the
same distance from the church, goes
around through - streets on a
charger, one-fourth Of a mile, Sun
days, to visit these places? Next!
The recent severe rains have inter
fered with farmers, and we learn they
have done little in the way of plant
ing. Some are not even through
breaking up their Ind preparatory TO
planting, while others have planted
their cotton and quite a number their
corn.
The Council of United Friends Of
Temperance that was organized here
few weeks ago Is fourishinr beyond
the expectations Of any Of the char
ter members. On last Friday night
seventeen persons were initiated, and
quite number Of petitions for MEM
bership presented.
The overflow on the lower Missis-
sippi and the inclination Of Southern
planters to cultivate less cotton and
more corn, indicate a smaller cotton
crop the present year than for some
years past. Would not our farm
ing friends profit by putting in a
row or two more than usual Of cotton?
A team stalled III a mud-hole on
Main street last Tuesday. They were
taken from the wagon, when DR..
Sharpe, followed by crowd Of burgh-
ers, laid hold of the wagon and out it
came, amid the cheers Of the bystand-
ers. The DR.. deserves great plaisc for
his heroic efforts in rescuing that wag-
on from an untimely grave.
There was a rumor en- our streets
Tuesday that the bridge over the Ten
nessee river at Johnsonville was wash
ed away. After careful inquiry We
can trace the runner to no reliable
source. The entertainments on both
sides Of the river are washed away
and apprehensions are entertained
that the bridge viii be carried off.
Prof. Stillwell, publisher Of the
"New School Teacher" Trenton,
Tenn, informs us that he received
more encouragement in the way Of
subscriptions from Milan College than
from any other school he has visited
in behalf of his monthly. His list
Of subscribers at the College alone
numbered seventy. Success to Milan.
Mr.. j. II. Fuqua, Of Trezevant, in
forms US that a negro baby was bern
last Monday night week at Abe
Whites, near that town, with a mon
keys head. 1t has a tumor on the back
Of its head rs large as a goose egg.
Otherwise it is well developed. Thi.
confirmation Of Darwin's theory is alive
and kicking and eats its allowance a Ia
monkey.
We learn from parties recently
from Dyer county that large numbers
of deer and turkeys are now on the
uplands above Dyersburg, having been
run out of the bottoms by high waters.
The entire section of country known
as the erich woods" is submerged.
The Mississippi is about thirty miles
wide. For big things go to Dyer