The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-11-02

is guilty of enormous corruptions, and
he will have nothing more to do with
it. He advises the negroes to go with
their true friends-the white men of
the South.
If this county sh)uld only give
Porter fifteen hundred votes, she
would only be entitled to fifteen votes
in any convention the next two years !;
whereas, if we will give him forty-fve
hundred votes, (Which we can and
ought to do), we will have forty>fve
votes in convention. The same argu-
ment holds good in all the counties,
and in each district of each county.
Democrats, don't throw away your
votes and your power for good on
Thomas.
From fhe Humboldt Journal.
On last Saturday night some one
made a very energetic attempt to en-
ter the dry goods house of Mr.. Geo.
Dabney. He began by boring around
the lock, with intention of entering at
the door, but finding it a bigger job
than he had anticipated, abandoned
it and made all assault on the window.
He succeeded in breaking open the
shutters and breaking one of the large
glasses in the window, when, it Is
supposed, he became frightened and
abandonded the pursuit. No sign of
his entrance can be seen.
Mr. VIM. Burdsong has the credit
of gathering from his patch, a cotton
bole containing fifteen locks. This is
the largest we have seen.
Editor Exchange:
Time glides swiftly along. Autumn
with its oscar and yellow leaf" is
here, and soon hoary-headed winter
will be upon us with his could icy
breath. Farmers are busily engaged
preparing for his approach, and the
necessities of another year. More
wheat will be sown this year than
usual for this country. Prospects for
war in the East, | think, has some
thing to do with farmers in this par
ticular. Should there be wal, grain
will command a good price.
Our cotton crops are better than
for the several years last past, and
but for the low price would bring a
vast deal of money into the country.
MrW. B. Howard, formerly Of Mid
die Tennessee, has opened up new
stock of dry goods Ii, our town. We
bespeak for him a liberal patronage
Owing to the competition in the mer-
camille business Of our place, goods
can now be bought at bottom figures
| Quite a number of our citizens heard
Dorsey B. Thomas speak in Trenton
last Thursday.
DrJ. l.. FARRELL, one Of our clever
est and most intelligent citizens, is up
on the race for the Legislature. He
ia no "sore head" and many think he
stands more than "ghost Of a chance"
to be the man. l am no nopolitirian, nor
do l wish to be; but we opine the
Day will be quite ddrk in Humboldt
On first Tuesday of next month. In
haste, more anon. MATT.
KExToS, Oct. 80, 1876.
Editor Exchange:
In the absence of Il variety of news
this week, we ask leave to present a
public criticism OH this independent
man at Dyer Station, who wants TO
go to the Legislatup. We believe
they call him Doctor.
Doctor, why didn't you come out
sooner? Why didn't you canvass the
county with the other candidates and
let the people see and form some opin-
ion of your They want to see what
sort of a fellow you look like. You
ought to have come out before the
primary election but you say that
was joke, play, kind of a thing
gotten up just for fun. That is one
reason you assign for being an indie
pendent candidate. Another is, you
are opposed to the Humboldt court.
Why did you vote for Col. Day in
that primary election, when there
were other candidates in the field who
were as much in opposition to that
court as Col. Day was in favor of it?
We are all opposed to the Humboldt
court, but We are going to support
Col. Day. - Tom.
SARRAIr UTMES