The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-09
SPARKS.
The martens have come.
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covered perpetual motion.
1. j. Harrison has just returned
with handsome stock of new goods
/ He saws he will astonish the natives
We are under obligations TO MIR.
B. g. Stilwell, the polite Postal Clerk
on the Mississippi Central road, fol
late Northern papers.
A car load of cabbages, cucumbers,
Strawberries, etc., passed through here
Sunday for Louisville. They were all
the way from Mexico.
The Post Office has been moved one
door down Main street, to DIR. Boyd's
new house. This gives much more
room and very convenient Office.
A new paper, entitled the "New
School Teacher" is soon to be started
in Trenton, by Stilwel & Biggs, I'M
der the auspices of the County Teach
ers' Institute.
An april shower" commenced
falling here about midnight Tuesday
and came down in torrents until late
Wednesday morning. The trains are
all on time, however.
Our young friend, Tommie Walker,
came near meeting with serious ac-
cident last Friday. While using a
chiseI, it slipped and cut his knee pref
ty badly. He is fast recovering.
The mud hole on Main street, in
front of the store of Williams, Smith
& Co, has been filed up, adding
much to the appearance of the street
and to the comfort Of travellers.
Several men from the country were
in town this week disorderly and
decidedly tight. They however eluded
arrest and cheated the corporation out
of the customary ten dollar bill.
A prominent lawyer of this city
looked diligently for the seth verse of
the 23d chapter of Ruth last Wednes-
day. 1t was a long time before he
could even find the book of Ruth.
Milan College, last Monday, was
the fortunate recipient of five hundred
dollars from the Peabody fund. This,
with its other receipts from different
sources, places it on a solid financial
foundation.
In future every passenger on the
NJ. & L. road will be required to have
a ticket on entering the cars. Con-
ductors and brakemen, we understand,
are instructed to admit no one until
he shows ticket.
Friday three of the sons of Erin,
each named johnny" and filled
with the essence of Johnny's saloon,
were in town. Imagine their appear
ance promenading Main street, all
three hand in hand.
Mrs. NJ. L. Baird will please accept
out thanks foS a fine bundle of early
garden vegetables - lettuce, mustard
and onions. They were decidedly the
most acceptable treat we have receiv-
ed i'll manya day. Such good friends
as she is will be long remembered.
Last Thursday morning one of our
merchants received q small package
from Greenfield, a station on the NJ.
c. road north. He fastened to has
and undid the pref
" bundle and behold a full grown rat
embracing g stick of candy. He dis
covered the design by the date, April
1st, and the cost Of express, twenty
five cents.
4 crowd of intelligent youths and
men were enjoying themselves consid-
erably last Sunday morning over the
sufferings of a rat, which said rodent
had the night before been caught in a
wire trap. The intelligent crowd had
put turpentine on the rat, and its suf-
ferinrs called forth good deal of mer-
riment. This exercise was in lieu Of
school.
The chief engineer of the n. d c.
r. f. passed over the entire line of
the T. c. r. r., from Trenton to
Huntingdon, last week, and will make
A very favorable report. He ascer-
tanned that two miles more of road is
ready for the track than reported by
Maj. Inman, engineer Of the I. c. Il.
R. 1t is now thought the n. Il c.
road will endorse the Milan and Tren-
ton bonds.
One low browed, grum looking
SQUIRE, from - deestrict," was
opposed to the school tax in the Coun-
ty Court last Monday because it would
make "monarchists and Roman Cath
1lics of our children" And he was
not the only one, for prominent law
yer of Trenton, evidently thinking
he Court was composed of a set of
gnoramuses, tried to instil the same
doctrine into the magistrates.
On one of the beautiful moonlight
nights of last week, just as we had
8 drawn the drapery of our couch
about us" sounds, "half mystical,
lalf pathetic, like signing in a dream"
ell softly upon our ear. We soon
invoke to find the mystery and pathos
IspoIIoJ b,- n brilliant Snrpnada We