The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-04-29
rExsrSsKE NEWS.

TENNGS8EE NENB-
Buffalo gnats are numerous in the
bottoms and by no means scarce in
the uplands of Dyer county.
The Bolivar Bulletin reports that
horse thieves have been very busy IN
Hardeman county during the past SIX
months
Brownsville States: That pest, the
buffalo gnat. has been quite annoying
~ our farmers during the past ten
DAYS. We hear of a good deal OF
stock being killed by them in the
county.
Buffalo gnats are making sad havoc
among the stock of Shelby and adjoin-
ing couaties. One gentleman estimates
tkat in a radius of 81 miles, at least
10 mules and horses we're killed du-
ring Sunday and Sunday night.
The Troy News learns thata young
man named Bill Parish, in Obion
county, was seized with a iit while all
the family were awav from home and
fell in the fire, burning oneside of his
body and face in a terrible manner.
Winchester Home journal: We
understand that some persons from a
distance-even from the West-are
coming to Winchester and Franklin
county soon, With view to purchase
real estate and settle in our midst for
life. This is real good news, and We
bid the expected corners most hearty
welcome.
Mr. John Bell died in Sumner coun-
ty Sunday morning at the advanced
age of eighty-six years. de was I'M
married, was over fifty years Mason,
being a chartered member of King
Solomon Lodge. One of his last acts
was to give his residence and nearly
200 acres of land to the Masonic fra
ternity for the Masonic Orphans
Home.
The Paris Intelligencer very forcihly
and truthfully says that the Tennessee
Turner who buys corn, -four, hay and
bacon, without some Providential
misfortune is the cause, disgr ices the
high and noble calling of his employ
ment, and is making and circulating
SANDER on Tennessee soil and her
husbandry. He is black sheep
that's fact.
The Brownsville Bee says that ''of
all the idiots on the face of the earth,
the art editor of HarpeTs Weekly is
chief, when he admits full page
illustration of Southern negroes plant
ing cotton, opening with long-handl-
ed shovel and covering the seed with
hoe. But when he comes down to the
crows eating our cottun seed, his
idiocy approaches inspiration"
Mr. Geo. E. Purvis, of the Nash
vile Banner, Chairman, has issued a
call requesting the members of the
Centennial Commission of Tennessee
to meet in Nashville, May IL at IL
am, with the view of at once taking
measures TO secure a proper represen-
tation of the State at the Information
al Exhibition of arts. manufactures,
products of the soil and mines, to be
held in Philadelphia in 1876.
Woodbury. Press: The late cold snap
eliminated Saturday morning in
brisk snow storm The ground was
covered in places about Woodbury.;
and on the short mountains in this
county it reached a depth of three
inches. The fruit throughout the
county is said to be almost entirely
destroyed. At this time MONDAY
morning) the weather has moderated,
the sun is shining brightly, and the
air is mild and lsalmy.
At recent spelling-match at Co
lumbia, Tenn, for che benefit of one
of the churches there, the teacher pre-
meditatedIy brought on personal
difficulty between clerk in grocery
store and the word Rhapsody" No
sooner was the unoffending word
thrown at the young man than, with
the widest confidence in his ability to
knock both Worcester and Webster
into the middle of next week at SIN
gle blow, he hurled it back, mangled,
mutilated, and bleeding thus:
Wrap wrap, SO, wrap-so, d-a wrap
soda.
The Memphis Appeal says: We
regret to know that Col. w. II. Ste
phens has determined to leave Men,
phis, and will make California his
future home. Col. Stephens is one
Of the best and most respected citizens
of Memphis lawyer Of great ability
and high position, good man and a
true Christian gentleman-one Of
whom any State might be proud, and
one whose removal from our city can
not he too deeply regretted. In leav-
ing Tennessee, Col Stephens has the
best wishes of his numerous friends in
Memphis and elsewhere throughout
the State for his future happiness and