The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-11-23
STATE NEWS.


The municipal election in Chatta-
nooga Oh the 10Th instant, went Re-
publican for Mayor and six Alder
men.
John Bateman Smith has sold his
interest in the Fayetteville Express to
Frank o. McCord and John W.
Lloyd.
The Huntsville Sentinel states tina
Alexander Hoover was shot and killed
at Red Springs last week by Legion
Williams.
Lake contests with Lewis the proud
position of banner Democratic county.
In neither of these counties was Il vote
cast for Iayes or Thomas.
Senator +. b. Ragland, Of Hay
wood, and George b. Peters, of Shell
by, are the only members of the last
General Assembly reelected to the
present.
The stockholders of the Cairo and
Tennessee River Railroad met in Par
/, is few days ago, and elected John
Cavitt President, and X. NJ. Dickin-
son Secretary.
\ carpenter while working on a
trestle on the Memphis d Louisville
Railroad, near the depot at Paris, fell
to the ground, Il distance.of thirty
feet, and was seriously injured.
The Avalanche says: Joe Chase,
the youthful murderer, was yesterday
sentenced to 20 years imprisonment.
This is the third trial. In the two
former trials the juries stood i to
and 10 to 2 for hanging.
The Supreme Court, now in session
in jackson, has sentenced lawson
Clark, colored, To he hung in Somerville,
on the 10Th day of next month, for the
murder of his uncle, William Gr:lines,
on the 10Th of September, 1873.
J. l.. Rogers [Rep.) is elected
Floatcr from Claiborne and Hancock
counties, hy s majority, instead of Ii.
+. Patton (Dem.) lis first reported.
This gives the Republicans 4 squad III
u members in the next General As,
scmbly.
! At the tournament of the Tenncs
see sportsmen last Thursday in Mem
phis, Captain Bogar,lus accomplished
the remarkable feat of killing twenty
six out Of thirty double birds at TWEEN
ty-one yards rise, in two minutes ant
fifteen seconds.
The Paris Intclligenccr says. On
last Tuesday night trench WAS mad,
in the wall of the county Jail, from
the outside, and FIVE prisoners escaped
The numerous escapes from this ins,i
tuition of late. has rendered the impris
onment of offenders therein almost ,
ridiculous farce. We again call thu
attention of the County Court to Thu
matter.
, The Brownsville States says: Col
II. B. Folks little sou joseph cam,
very near being killed few night
ago by the expulsion of Il powder horn
which he held in his hands. He WI
emptying some of its contents in TIT
/ fire when the unfortunate accilen
oc .urred. Ills fIce and hands wcr,
considerably burned, but he escape,
any very serious injury.
The Sparta Index says that .Abra
ham Austin, a colorerl mali, aged /:
years, living in White county. came
toward last Tuesday and votel tn,
Democratic ticket. lie says negr,
Is fool to vote the Republican tick
ct. Let the cOlOrcd voters take pat
tern from this aged veteran of thei
race who has seen the rise and fall o
several parties, and who now say
that the Republican party is Il rottei
carcasc that has been ready for buria
for many wears.
The Clinton Dispatch says that thu
Roy. Charles Clark, Of Hawkins
county, was shot and seriously wound
cd in the-arm, Tuesday, few mile:
above Snccdviile, IIanco,.k county, 10y
Floyd Collins. Mr. Clark was admit
tel into the IIol>tOn Conference of IN,
VI. r. Church, South, ut Bristol, :
few weeks ago, and appointed t.
Tazewell Circuit, and WAS either IN
ing to his work, or returning from it
and somewhere between here and Mul
berry Cap, he was attacked and shot
The particulars are not given. Collin
has been arrested.
The Dyersburg Gazette says
About one o'clock p. III. on Tucslla,
the 18th inst, Mr. Marccllus Tarking
ton, second son ct The late George J
Harrington, in this county, discharge
his gun at a bird, when the gun burst
ed and the breach pin escaping strucl
him in the forehead entering the brlir
ap1 ,,iyiuc him, a nnrtui v,iIn1 a