The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-05-06
oyrw ruE COUNTY.


The editor Of the News-Gazette gets
his inspiration from lager beer, judging
from his las5 issue.
Trenton has a law requiring all
male citizens within the corporate lin
its, between the ages of 16 and 45, to
work upon the streets of the city or
pay dollar for each day missed. The
people don't like it, and are grumb-
ling. Levy a tax and hire the work
done.
We hear of some cotton suffering
from the Geld wet weather. One crop
which had sprouted is rotting and fall
ing down. If We do not have some
warm sunshine in the next few days,
we fear a great deal of it will have to
be replanted. The wheat continues to
look well.
Acknowledgement SkiffingtOn re-
Gently applied to the .. S. authorities
at Memphis for the witnesses IN the
kuklux cases, which were to have been
tried last Monday in Trenton; but
they refused to give them up. This
looks very much like the Government
wants the State laws administered, we
don't think We don't see what is
left but for the young men to be set
at liberty.
Sheriff Arnold and his deputies,
Baird and Ing, met in Trenton last
Friday for the purpose of adjusting
the difficulty between the Latter two
gentlemen. Itwrs agreed, we under
stand, to leave the matter to Judge
Black for settlement, but the Sheriff
afterward backed down from this and
decided the matter against Baird and
in favor of Ing. There is no doubt
but the matter had been settled in
Arnold's mind all the time. Baird
Immediately notified the Sheriff that
ne would resign at the June term Of
the County Court, as he could not
afford to do the work and allow Ing
to reap the profits. This decision Of
the Sheriff meets with almost universal
disapprobation here, and many of his
strongest friends say they will never
support him for Office again. 1t is
said-and we believe it to be true
that two-thirds of the voters in the
district comprising the Humboldt
jurisdiction are in favor of Baird, and
would vote for him in preference TO
Ing if left to their decision. We re-
gret very much to see this evidence
of partiality shown by our sheriff.
We, in common with the greet mass
Of the people, believed he would rise
above mere personal and sectional
preferences and see that justice was
done to all parties.
We are indebted to Gen. Handy
for copy Of "Tennessee-its Agrl-
cultural Resources and Mineral wealth;
being an abridgement of the first
and second reports of the Bureau of
Agriculture" by Col. j. B. Kille-
brew. We clip the following descrip-
ton of the topography, soil and pro-
ducts of Gibson county from it:
GIBSON COUNTY: Organized 1928.
County-seat, Trenton-Ihe county
comprises about 900 square mics.
Acres assessed, 800, l05, valued at
S5.61S,695; total value of taxable
property, 81, Al, $3.50. Population i'll
1875. $50, of which $3.50 were
colored. Since that time ABOUT one
seventh of the county has been taken
off and added TO Crockett county. Be
tween the different streams, there are
generally low ridges that divide the
valleys, but they are neither very dis.
, tinctive nor very prominent. All 81
Gibson county is on the Plateau OF
Slope of West Tennessee, in which
there are very few or no regular strata
of hard rock; occasionally, however
| local or limited beds or blocks OF coars,
reddish or brown sandstone are met
with. The soil upon the surface l.
loan, which is dark, ranging from 6
muatto color to black, and varies IL
} depth from six to twenty-four inches
= Immediately below this loan is ii vel
2 lowish clay, which varies iii depth
from eighteen inches TO four feet. BE
low the clay is sand, and then "harC
pan," difficult to be dug with picks
} The dan ker lands Of the county, whicl
are principally embraced III It's wes
= tern halt, are more favorable to the
growth of cotton than the Others
though all the good lands in Gibson
county grow corn and cotton well
| The soil Of Gibson county generally i
very mellow and has in it Il considera
bic quantity of siliceous matter. Ii l.
easily titled, but where there are any
very preceptible elevations, it is sub
I ject to he washed away, and require
e good handling to make it durable
0 The county is watered by the triGuta
> ries of Forked Deer and Obion riv
ers. The timber is not equal TO tina
of Dyer and Obion counties, but exist
in sufficient abundance for the want
0 of the county. There is much lane
$ for sale. the prices asked are : 10
best uplands, per acre, fifteen to TWEEN
ty dollars; best lowlands, twenty Il
twenty five dollars; medium uplands
: ten to fifteen dollars; medium lowiand>
s fifteen to twenty dollars; inferior up
q, lands, five to ten dollars; inferior low
lands, ten to fifteen dollars. The over
= Al l,,I, ,p,I,,din,r about 2 M