The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-07-22
TENNESSEE NEMs.

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The Governor commissioned L. ~.
Stockton Judge of he Second Chan
Gerry Court Of Memphis, vice ;. L.
Walker resigned.
The Chattanooga Times says the
wheat crop is seriously damaged eve
rywhere in East Tennessee, for want
of proper care after the harvest.
Quite a number of counties Of Ten
nessee are reporting from 1000 TO
5000 dogs for tax, and about the
same number as having been killed
as worthless.
The New Citizen is the name of
paper TO be started by the colored peo-
pie of Brownsville next month. 1t is
to be edited by ] B Wilkins, and viii
be non-poEtical.
Nashville has been selected as the
place at which, the Southern Cotton
Congress will hold its next meeting.
The master Of our State Grange has
put in some good work.
Vanderbilt University will be dedi-
Gated by DIR Deems, pastor of the
Church of the Strangers, on the first
Monday IN October. Commodore
Vanderbilt and friendsare expected to
be present on that occasion.
Some of the Middle Tennessee pa
pers stigmasIze one George p. Cablcr
as ''swindulier" in the bogus direct
DRY line. George is described as a
''smocth-faced yeung man, rather de-
Gently attired, and gifted with an indu-
rated cheek"
Two printers of the jackson Sun
office had a narrow escape from drown
ing Sunday before last. While driv-
ing across a bridge, their horse be-
came frightened and jumped into the
river, dragging the buggy with him.
The men saved themselves byjumping
cut, but the horse drowned.
The road-bed of the narrow gauge
railway from Lewisburg, Marshall
county, to Columbia, Maury county,
has been completed to within mile
or so of the latter place, and the I'M
finished portion is now being graded.
Negotiations are pending for the pur-
chase of the rolling stock and iron.
The Nashville Cotton Factory has
suspended operations for thirty days
in order 10 have some heavy repairs
made on the engine. This throws out
of employment four hundred opera
tives, three fouths of whom are females.
The company has stock enough on
hand to supply the present demand,
and it may possibly be sixty days be-
fore operations will be resumed.
Henderson Advocate, IS: Last
Saturday, the election TO create the
new county of Wisdom, out of frac-
tions of the counties of Henderson,
McNairy, Hardeman and Madison,
took place, and the vote for the coun-
ty was 1880, and against it 81. The
election was conducted quietly and
legally, and the commissioners have
declared the result in favor Of the
county"
The McNinnville New Era says OF
the growing corn crop in Warren, De
Kalb, White, Van Buren,, Grundy,
Coffee and Cannon counties, that as
the dry weather in June enabled the
farmers to put their crops in the best
possible condition, and the rains of the
present month found the crop clean of
weeds and the ground in the best pos
sible condition to receive the rainfall,
promise is given Of the heaviest yield
since $3.50.
Springfield Record: Mr. Arch Bag
gett, of our county, had his entire crop
OF tobacco eaten up by grasshoppers.
He determined not 10 be outdone, re-
planted, and purchased 40 young tur-
kies which soon devoured the hOppers.
We learn that he is now hiring his
turkies out at one dollar a day and
that they have had steady employ
ment at that price ever since he had
them-gnd many Of his neighbors are
awaiting their tGrn.
Avalanche: MrJ. W. Booker, who
lives on the Bingham place, about six
miles frcm this city, planted several
acres of cotton, in the midst of which
he also dropped some okra seed, in
tending to raise double crop. The
cotton and okra grew together very
nicely, but the cotton bolls, instead of
containing the germ of the great sta
PIE, ase filled with okra seed. A spec
linen boil was sent to this Office yes
terday, which outwardly is a perfect
boil, but inside it is good okra.
Waynesboro Citizen Several days
ago gentleman, living Got far from
Wayne Furnace, broughta small piece
of metal to town and gave it to us.
1t had every appearance of silver, and
we sent it to Nashville to be submit
ted TO an assayist. We received an
answer a few days ago, and were as
sured that the specimen was undoubt-
eddy silver. We understand that
there is an abundance Of this ore lying
on the surface of the ground where
this was found. In its crude state it
is mixed with lead, which was melted
by the gentlemen who found it.
jackson Sun: For the benefit of
our readers we called special attention
to staple, preventive for the black
weevil, which we learned from Mr. j.
B. BeA Of this county. 1t is we'll
known that the black weevil annually
destroys large quantities of wheat. Mr.
Bell SAYS take sassafras roots and stick
them about in the wheat, and it will
prevent the ravages of this destructive
insect. He says that for four years
the weevil destroyed his wheat crop
after he had housed it, and that when
he first used the sassafras root they
were already i'll his wheat, and that it
efectually drove them out. He says
he has tried it for twenty years and
he never has been troubled with wee
vii since he commenced using it, and
his neighbors have been equally sue
cessful with it.