The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-09-09

Nashville paid fifty cents per pound
fer new cotton the other day.
Ben Horton, Esq, of Maury, Is
feeding and fattening two fine bullocks
for the Centennial Fair. s
Dyersburg Progrest: Two hundred
ard fift4 ounces Of quinine have-been-
sold in Dyersburg alone since the first
of August. ,
Gen Marcus j. Wright was married
at Columbia, to Miss Pauline Wom>
ack, ofSthat cftg. The bride is half
sister 70 Mrs John V. Wright.
The. Washington County Assecia-
ton in aid of wheat growers is making
arrangements to offer $500 cash in
nremiums for wheat. The first pre-
MUM IL $3.50.
While a young man named Ross
was at work in saw mill at Dresden,
a few dayssince, he accidentally got his
left hand caught by the saw and had
three fingers taken off,. ~. So
Representative Luttrell, probably
elected TO Congress.-from the fourth
California district, xasa Knox county
boy, and is nephew of Col. James
C. Lutt1eH, of''Knoxville.
jackson Wing and Tribune: A true
bill Las been found against one Frank
Benson for burning the building in
which Che Wing and Tribune was 10
Gated. He vas formerly connected
with the office as presstnan. -.
Avalanche: Hon. Jefferson Davis
of this city, win address the Grangers
of CallawIy county, Mo-, at Fulton.
next Saturday. His -sprightly little
daughter, Winnie,,has,been al Warm
Springs, n. c., fer some weeks past.
Knoxville Chronicle: A few days
ago the -Grpenville Jntelligencer pro-
nomced the Southern Picture Com
pany a fraud. That paper requests
us. to say they were mistaken, and
asks us to make the correction, which
we eheerfully do.
The best informed farmers and bus
mess citizens of Fayette. county are of
the opinfUn THAT tie cotton crop for
1875 will be. &c, Q00, bales against &c.
900 for 1874, and that the. yield Of
corn will be six bushelsto one, as COM
pared with last years crop.
Alamo Sentinel: We are told that
Mr. Duke Klyce's cotton gin, near
Cairo, was burned last Saturday night.
II is thought to have been the work,
of an incendiary; as there had been no
fire near .she building for a long time,
perhaps for two or three years.
H. NJ, Doak, ESD, Of the Clarks-
vile Tobacco Leaf, has accepted sit
uation with J. B. Killebrew, in tie
Bureau of Agriculture, Statistics ard
Mines, but will not sever his ,connec-
ton with his interests in Montgomery
county nor vacate the editorial chair
of the Tobacco Leaf.
At the dedication Of Vanderbilt
( University in October Rev DrDeems,
pastor of the Church of the Strangers
IN New York will dedicate it to Chris
ton education. The Hon l.. @. G.
Lamar VIII deliver the address, dedi-
icating it to patriotism and DIR Lips
comb, Of Georgia, to popular educa-
ton.
jackson Sun: Last Saturday, Man
uel Allen, who lives n the neighbOr-
hood of PiDson, in this county, gave
his little son, about two years old, a
dose of morphine by mistake. He
intended to give quinine, but made
the fatal mistake in the medicine, and
the child died. Sunday mnrning, de-
spite the skill Of tie attending physi-
clans.
The Alamo Sentinel says the follow
ing is the amount Of fruit shipped
from Gadsden this season up, to Aug
ust 9th, consigned principally to st.
Louis, Cincinnati and Louisville:
Strawberries, 1854 quarts; plums,
q, $50 quarts; cherries, $3.50 quarts;
peaches, $40 boxes apples, 525
boxes and 300 barrels grapes, $500
pounds.
Nashville American: Mr. Thomas
Webster, an cnterprising citizen #
Chattanooga; proposts to build a com
plete narrcw-guage railway locomo-
tive for the Philadelphia Centennial,
provided the material is furnished
him. Mr. HiIlman, of Nashville, will
furnish the boiler plate, and Mr. Raht,
Of Cleveland, will furnish the copper,
and the metsls@;ll, be obtained from a
number. of fur3aces near. Chattanooga.
Thus all the material will be furnish
by our State.