The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-09-10
TENNESSEE NEWS.


tinues with undated interest. About
thirty conversions have been reported.
The Springfield Record reports that
bugs, worms and grasshoppers are still
busily devouring corn, grass, etc, in
Robertson county.
Simon Cummins, while on a pro-
tracted spree, laid his body down on
the railway track, near Gallatin, Ten
nessee, few days ago, and was hor-
ribly mangled by a passing train.
The Courer-Herald claims that
there were at least FIVE hundred stran-
gers in jackson in attendance on the
conventions for State Senator, Float
er and Representative Tuesday of last
week.
Several merchants of Mckenzie are
preparing to move their stock of goods
to other points, the crops in that Vi
cinity being so completely used up
that they see no prospect of being
able to sell them there.
Jackson Courier-Herald: Thesum-
mer residence of Bishop Quintard,
near Beersheba Springs, was struck by
lightning Saturday before last, during
a severe thunder storm, but luckily
the occupants escaped injury.
The total death rate for the city of
Memphis for last week was 10; OF
which number 9 were whites, colored
II; males 8, females II; adults 9, mi
nors 10; under one year of age, 6, I'M
der 5 years, 8; from hospital, l.
Jackson Courier-Herald: We I'M
dcrstand that the vest-y of St. Luke's
church have completed the purchase
of a Parsonage for the Rector, and
that they have bought the eligible
property adjacent to the church and
now occupied by Rev. DR. Harrison.
The price paid, we believe, is $4,000.
Nashville Banner of Friday says:
"Mr Hugh Garlic, bridge contractor
on the Cincinnati and Chattanooga
railroad, it is reported, was killed
Tuesday night last on that road by a
set of ruffians, because he had forbid
them from selling whisky to the hands
working under him. 1t seems that
Garlic had gone to report the parties
to the civil authorities i'll the town
nearest where his hands were at work,
and that on his return he was waylaid
by them. They were in,ambush in some
bushes, and fired upon him as he pass
ed on his way to his camps, killing
him instantly.
Nashville Banner of Friday says;
ga man calling himself Pat Lyon has
been arrested in Wilson county and
lodged in Jail at Lebanon, on the
charge of having murdered Julia Hay
den, the colored school-teacher at the
house Of Embry Lowe, near Huntsville,
Trousdale county, on the night of Au-
gust q. Bowen Saunders, who was
recently brought here from Lebanon
and placed in our Jail for safe keeping,
is also implicated in the murder. The
whole case Is in the hands of the proper
authorities, and further developments
may be expected. We congratulate
the citizens Of TrousdaIe upon the ar
rest of those criminals, and upon
their probable escape from a visitation
of the military, which would have
certainly enSued, from the dispatches
printed tc-day from Washington.
Courier-Herald: We yesterday
held in our hands 4 petrifed corn from
the toe of our loved Washington.
This valuable relic of the Father of
his country" is in the possession of old
aunt judy" who is well known to
the citizens of jackson as the only
"oldest niggah in de worl."
She authorizes Us to say that she new
er was "a body servant Of Gen. Wash
ington, but has got Mars George
many meal Of "vittlcs." In sweep
ING out his room one day she found
This corn and preserved it with great
care. 1t has since become petritied
and an impression cannot be made
upon it with the teeth. Any one
the above can call on the
editors of this paper who have actual
proof in their possession that this corn
once fcurishcd on the toe Of the great /
Washington.
The jasper Herald Of the 9th ult,
las the FLOWING: We have just /,
acrned the particulars of al outrage |
which was perpetrated & week or more
100, which for fcndishnesS and brutal
ty, almost equals the doings Of the
Pomeroy boy in Boston. 4 little /
hree-year-Oid boy Of Mr. Jones Beene |
off from home and went to
he school house where his uncle, Mr.
Ioulie Bccnc, was teaching, near Bat
lc-creek mines. Mr. Beene started
he child back home, short distance,
done, when he was intercepted by It
negro girl about twelve years old, who
ived near by, and who caught him
nd beat him in q terrible manner
With sharp rock. Mr. Beene heard
he cries of the child. and went and
ound him lying, on the ground in al
most an insensiblc condition, and car
led him home. Some other negro
hildren, who witnessed the assault,
AIr Beeue what the negro
irl had done, and the girl confessed
hat she tried to kill the child, and
ave as 4 reason that she wanted to
i'll a white child. The child's face
cad and back were cut and bruised
4 a terrible manner, and were cover
d with gore. The negro girl was
severely several times, but
he remained perfectly obstinate, and
that she would take hun
red lashes any time to kill white
hid. The little child is improving.
Arkansas Dried Up.
The drought continues throughout
he State. From the information de-
wed from all sources, we are now