The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-22
rESNEssrENEHs

A. }. isstill swinging around the
circle" He spoke to large crowds In
Memphis Saturday night and jackson
Tuesday.
The Springfield Record states that
considerable complaint is being made
by those living east of that town of
the ravages of meat and chicken
thieves.
The Kingston East Tennesseean has
been shown new kind of sweet potato
blossom-a bright cherry boxing flow
er, which somewhat resembles morn
ing glory.
The residence ofJOhn Hays, of Weak
ley county, was destroyed by fire a few
nights ago, and he lost everything.
The fire originated from the explosion
of kerosene lamp.
The Lebanon Herald states that
Capt Ellis Harper, on a wager, cut
and split eighteen and one-quarter
cords of cedar wood from Monday
morning until Saturday night.
One Of the editors of the Springfield
Record raised a sweet potato in his
garden that weighed six pounds six
ounces, and measured twenty-five and
a half inches in circumference.
The Athens Post states that for the
last two or three years a number of
farmers of McMinn county have been
experimenting in growing cotton, and
so far the experiment has proved high
ly satisfactory.
The Athens Post says: We learn
that hogs are in demand at 5a5Ae
gross. There are fewer Eattening hogs
in the country than usual at this sea-
son of the year, and pork will proba-
bly, rule high at killing time.
Mrs Geraldine Fowler, the wife of
Capt. d. u. Fowler, who died few
days ago at Paducah, was inferred at
Paris, Tenn, the scene of her youthful
days, within the past week. Mrs
Fowler was originally Miss Porter, and
was a sister of the present Democratic
candidate for Governor.
The Columbia Herald says with
reference to the Maury County Fair /;
The millers were judges of -four at the
Fair, samples having been handed
them, taken from the barrels of those
competing) and some Of them voted
against their own -four, not knowing
of course, out of whose barrel it was
taken.
The Dresden Democrat learns that
little boy, step-son of Mr. w. r.
Turner, living near Ralston Station,
Weakley county, while driving wag-
on loaded with colnstalks, was thrown
out and killed. The mules attached
to the wagon became unmanageable
and ran away, throwing him to the
ground, when the wheels passed over
his head, crushing it,
At the carpetbag convention at
Chattanooga the other day, one of the
Arkansas delegates said it was the in
tention of the Brooks Republicans to
disregard the new constitution and
the election under it, inaugurate
Brooks az governor, and call on the
President TO support him with the
army. We shall see now, since the
late election, if they are mai enough
for such an enterprise.
Horace Foster writes to the Knox
vile Chronicle that last fall the Com
missioner of Agriculture at Washing
ton sent him one gallon of white rye,
which he sowed on one-third Of an
acre of ground about the 18th Of Octo-
Der, common upland, without any
manure. He harvested and threshed
it and had nine bushels of excellent
rye, and sold the straw, G25 ID. at 81
per hundred. He is sowing the entire
Weld this fall on about twelve acres of
land.
The Columbia Herald of the 18th
inst. says: a gracious revival has
been in progress in the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church in this place, for
over a week, under, the supervision of
of Revs. JONES' Dixon Chapman and
Blake. There have been thirty-two
conversions up to this writing, and
Tuesday might there were twenty
mourners. Sunday ten persons joined
the church. The meeting will contin-
ue the balance of this week, and prob
ably next. t---
The Fayetteville Observer states
that a negro man named Charles Bag
ley was found dead a few mornings
ago hanging to fence in that town.
He was seen in the neighborhood the
night before very drunk, and, passing
down the alley, it is supposed, and
catching at the fence, he leaned
against it for support. and his head
hanging over as his legs failed him, his
neck was caught between two pointed
pickets, and strangulation followed.
Another theory is that the negro was
about to divulge secret, to prevent
which some ofhis race event for him. l"
The Lebanon Herald states that a
few days since, Mrs Wilmouth and
her sister were standing in the front
yard, when a large red fox jumped
over the fence and came towards them.
Mrs Wilmouth threw a stick at it
when it Immediately attacked her and
bit her arm to the bone. She succeed
ed in catching it by the neck, and her
sister struck it several severe blows on
the head with stick, Thinking they
had stunned the savage brute, they
released it, whereupon it ran into
and up the chimney. Remaining
here a moment, the fox descended,
falling into the hot embers in the fire.
place, and, jumping thence through a
hole in the side of the chimney, it
made for the woods.