The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-11-09

was elected president, an honor well
rqerited and woythily bestowed.
The Bristol News says: A compe>
tent live stock dealer informs Us to-
day that pork is likely to be at least
two cents lower than last year. 1t is
now SIC. in Petersburg, and re. in
Baltimore. The opening rates were
a cent and a half higher.
The Murfreesborough News says ::
The cabbage crop Of Rutherford coun-
ty was a failure this year on account
of the ravages Of worms and bugs
We notice some large patches in which
every cabbage was eaten almost en-
tirely up by these insects.
The Nashville American says: A
convict at thepenitentiary has inserib-
ed over his door PeccGri q have sinn-
ed, and directly underneath Wreck
ed but not uruined." Another has
Homin,m est errare-it is human to
err. Classical and correct.
The Bristol News says: Engine No.
II, which left Bristol with the front
freight train this morning, blew up
at Abingdon about y a. M, while
shifting cars from the side track. En-
gineer Robert Wilson, of this town,
and fireman Jesse Jeter were Instant
ly killed.
Hon. ssAbram Hewctt, Chairman Of
the National Democratic Executive
Committee, is one Of the hrysst stock
holders in the Roane Iron Company
of this city. His father>in>law, Hon.
Peter Cooper, the Presidential candi-
date against whom.there are 10 vile
ISLANDERS, is also assstockholder.- at.
Times.
The Alamo Sentinel says: The cot
ton house of Mr. Henry Rains, who
lives about two miles north of Alamo,
was burned last Tuesday night. Only
about one bale of cotton WAS in the
house. He believes it was the work
of an incendiary, as there had been
no fire near the house from which it
could have caught by accident.
/ The Nashville Banner says: Tho's
5. Rogers, aged eighteen years, young
est son of A. G. Rogers, Esq, Of
Stringtown, Wilson county, while sit
ting on his mothers bed, in the pres
ence of members of the family, yes
terday evening, accidently discharged
Il revolver, the contents passing
through his brain, causing immediate
/ death.
The Fayetteville Express says ::
Vice Todd, a negro woman who
WIS living on Mr. Charley Fulton's
farm, near tenn, died last Thursday
at the advanced age of 109,,"years.
She never had but one child, yet her
grandchildren, to the fifth generation
in this community are numbered by
/ the score. She had been a professor
of religion So years.
The Fulton Times says: Last Mon
day night at s o'clock the residence of
J J 3 Pate, four miles from Fulton, in
Obion county, was entirely destroyed
/ by fire. Mr. Pate lost all his house
hold and kitchen fu niture except two
beds and a sewing machine Mr. p.
is a hard working man and will feel
his loss greatly. 1t is thought to
have been the work of IN incendiary.
An unprecedented drouth has pre-
vailed in Hawkins county for many
weeks. The streams are getting dry.
The ground is hard and dusty. 1t
has been almost impossible to pillow,
and the farmers ue backward with
their sowing. \ small crop viii be
/ put in if II does not rain soon. The
weather has been favorable for gath
ering corn, aud the farmers are busy
hauling it in.
. The Paris Intelligoncersays: There
are two peacocls in this county on the
old Porter farm, one Of which is twen>
ty-two years and the other thirty,two
years, The latter one 1872 is the
same age as Ped Porter; they were
Matched the same day, and Ped i
thirty-two. These two peacocks are
as proud and gallant as when they
were young, and they expect to live
fifty years longer.
The Jackson Wing ard Tribune
says: Monday night last in our clay
was distinguished by fierce pugilis
tic and knife-istic set~to by Michael
O'Failon of the one part and Charles
kunz of the other. which resulted in
giving Kunz a cut neck and O'Falion
a bruised shoulder. They gouged
and they bit, they fout and they fit;
and they roared with an angry sound,
that ratified the windows for squares
around.
The jackson Wing and Tribune
says; Another Of our Police has been
attacked and injured while in the per-
formance of his duty. Last zummer
a negro took his little pistol and sent