The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-01-13
TENTEsSEE NEWS.


Wilson raises and exports more
game cocks than any county in the
South.
The Hamilton County Court has
refused to make a Centennial appro>
priation.
Happy Humphreys; she has a clean
balance of s1,776.30 in her county
treasury.
Very extensive preparations fors the
celebration of Mardi Gras are being
M de m Memphis.
The Rock City paper mills, of
Nashville, has made an assignment
for the benefit of its creditors.
Most OF the farmers in Wilson will
give cotton the gO-by this year, and
turn their attention to the cereals.
Bob Hatton," the'premium hog of
Wilson, weighs eleven hundred and
forty pounds, and .is..by..no means fat.
Walter H. Robertson, late of Bris-
tol has, been appointed postal mes
sengerof the lower House of Congress.
e. B.Simonton has been succeeded
in the editorship of the Upton Record
by l.. A. Palmer, a journalist Of expe-
rience and capacity.
Mr. Thomas MalOney has ceased his
connection with the Greenevitlc In
telligencer, and Mr. Andrew johnson
is now the sole editor.
During last month there were but
three fires in Memphis. The loss sus-
tanned amounted to Sc, 1S5, and the
insurance was SI3, 800.
A day or two ago, j. G. Philpot,
of Wilson, shipped to West Tennessee
cighty-tour Berkshire pigs, valued at
fifteen hundred dollars.
7. W. George is putting up a to:
bacco factory at Athens. TIE Post
says a good deal of first-class tobacco
was raised in that vicinity last year.
Upton Record: "The amount of
wheat, sown in this county this year is
very small-much less than last year.
We are sorry to hear this, for cotton
is p6werfulIunsartm."
American: "Loyal Blount's County
Court has voted against levying a
school tax''this year. We are fearful
that the Presidents message has not
been appreciated in that gooi old
county.
Kingston East Tennesseean: "There
| is some talk of establishing steel works
at Southwest Point upon the site of
the. old mill: Responsible parties of
Knoxville have the project in contem-
plation.
Mrs Lud Haley, who lives in the
northeastern part of Henry county,
has lost five children in the last ten
years from typhoid fever, and two
others are lying very low with the
same disease.
Chattanooga Times: We saw wa
termelon Yesterday at the express of
fee. 1t had not grown here during
the present warm spell; it came from
further south. Neither was it for us
it was going further north.
The Pulaski Citizen says that Ex
Gov. John c. Browns salary as Vie
President of The Texas and Pacift
Railroad has been eXtravagantly stat
ed. 1t is not more than the half o
$4,000, though he will probably no
decline the position on that account.
Every county exchange we have re
ceived this week mentions the los
sustained by farmers in the spelling
Of their pork. 1t is probable that, o.
this score alone, the warm weathe
will cost Tennessee many thousatids G
, dollars.
Luther w. McCUrtl, senior editor q
the Pulaski Citizen, lost his baby boy
Booker, Oh Wednesday last. No edi
tor in the State is more generally e:
teemed by his professional brethre
that the bereaved parent, and he Wi
receive their hearty sympathy in hi
affliction.
American: We are told by a Nortl
ern man who has settled in our mid'
since the war, that the great induce
ment for Northern emigrants to locat
in Davidson county, is the vast supe
t rioIity of its frte schools over those {
/ any other county in the State. Othe
; counties would do well to make not
e Of this.
f Paris Intelligencer: Needhal
. Charles, his wife and seven health
q children, moved from this county
+ Missouri last fall. All seven
f the children have died, three
: in one night and few days sine
/ Mr. Charles and wifi rame back
5 this county, both in very bad healtl
y disconsolate, and broken in spirit,
Pulaski Citizen: Mr. j. l., Hays 81
perintendent of hands on the farm
u Mr. w. w. Reed, near Poplar Hi
found quite a curiosity the other da
In clearing up piece of land, !
n found a chestnut that he wanted fel
ed and or, chonpinr well into it it W