The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-02-04
TrSSEssrE NEWS.

Springfield has a small supply OF
chicken psx and humps.
Revirals of religion are reported at
several points in Washington county.
A man named Mongold is in Jail at
Jonesboro for cruelly whipping his
own child.
Diptheria is prevailing to some ex-
tent in the Williamsport neighbor-
hood, Maury county.
In one district in Henry county,
four miles square, there are forty
sheep and only sixty-fve dogs.
There is some talk among Greene
vile people of getting up an excur-
sion to California next summer.
John Vinson and John Williams,
both prominent citizens of Weakley
county, died of pneumonia last week.
Mr. A.. c. Thompson, Of Maury
county, has shipped -117,000 feet of
poplar and walnut lumber to Cincin-
natl. "a
Archibald Williams has been APP
pointed storekeeper, Internal Reve-
nue., for the First District of Ten.
nessee. I
A bill1has been. reported in Con-
gress to establish new judicial dis
.triet in this State. TO be composed Of
West Tennessee.
Mrs. Elizabeth Etheridge, the, ven
cradle mother of Hon. EN-. Etheridge,
died at Dresden on the 18th inst, at |
the advanced age of 90 years.
j. Z. Goodner, the Deputy, United
States Marshal who Was shot in De-
Kalb county about ten days ago,
while returning from q raid upon an
Illicit distillery, has since died of his
wounds.
The public schools Of Jonesboro
have suspended because Of failure
to realize pecuniary aid from the Pea
body Fund. la their stead a half
dozen private schools have been sub
Farmers in the southern part of
Roane county complain that. with one
or two exceptions, the wheat crop does
not look promising. Considerable
ground is already worked up for corn
planting. +:
Wing and Tribune: We understand
that our fellow townsman, Mr. Rams s
Hopper, has fallen heir to $4,000,
which comes to him through rela-- {
lives in England. He will go to
North Carolina in few days and |
visit England before he re-
turns, We congratulate him upon I
his good fortune a---.s- 30 I
Colonel 7. P. Jones, of jackson, 8
all soldiers who-served in the
Mexican war, and are now residents I
If West Tennessee, to send him their ! s
names and address, with name Of
and regiment i1r which they I
served, which he Will forward to the c
War Department, with a view to a
having their names placed on the pen {
ion list. a'.-s..S -. Il
Wing and Tribune: On last Satur- i
lay afternoon at point near Woods
Grocery, on the Jackson and Trenton
-Oad, running by Youngis mil, a man
,amed Bud Armer was shetland killed t
y John Wood, the weapon used be- I
ng double barreled shot gun. No J
Irrest was made, but we understand
hat Wood will be tried On Thursday, ,
having made no effort to escape. !
The Springfield Record says: We |
-ery much regret being called on to
chronicle the fatal poisoning of Mrs.
1win Burney, Of Gross Plains, which '
occurred one day last week. 1t was !
'ccasioned Ivy placing arsenic into a '
oan mixed with meal, the servant be- c
ng ignorant of its being in the pan, $
nto which she sifted more meal, which /
vas made into brend for breakfast. g
The ffty-two members of the Ten
esseee Legislature whose votes elect u
d Ex-President johnson to the Uni c
ed States Senate, may he classified as d
Dliows: Senators, Bine ex-Confeder- h
ties and three Union men; Represen- i
ltiyes, twenty-one ex-Confederate and $
ineteen Union. Nearly all the ex- c
;onfederates served in the army d
the war, and some los, 4
mhs. o
The jackson Courier Herald learns a
rom persons who have been in the f
lVer bottom in search of missing cat. h
e, that they have found that a great d
lany mich cows have been killed by "a
h,ldof unknown canehrake thieves. :.
It Que point, near the Conger.old mill
lace, below the Campbell bridge,
less cattle thieves have built, il
augh.er pen and erected hog traps.
rom the signs of tramping and ofal, Ct
this place, it is thought that great
lany mich COWS and hogs have heen. 81
'apped and slaughtered during the a
inter. If you value your cattle at
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