The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-10-19
SMALL. CHANGE.
Mondays frost is fast stripping the


trees Of their leaves.
That frost Monday morning was q
regular chestnut shaker.
Col. &. w. Day has a patriotic
letter in this issue. Read it.
Sharp frost Monday morning, &C.
companied with considerable ice.
"Apples-fvc for a nickel" is the
cry of dozen mackerels at every
train now.
One of our young lawyers don't eat
chestnuts now. The old man don't
Ike them.
Bring us two dollars and pay tor
the EXCHANGE fourteen months. We
mean business.
10 tells us that tramp was robbed
of five dollars and suit of clothes
last Monday night.
Demorest's Monthly Magazine Of
Fashion for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS us
Ii is Il good number.
We hear.a vague rumor of mar,
riage to take place this morning, the
parties togo TO the Centennial.
That buster Of Gen. Hoods that
Jno. Mcdonald saw. was a strange
one to the eyes of married man.
The last quarterly meeting for this
station will he held at the Methodist
church on the first Sunday in Novcm-
Der.
Rumor says that one Of our young
lawyers is going to form a partnership
very scon, but not for the practice of
law.
Business is looking mp here, there
are about thirty bales of cotton
brought to this market on an average
each day.
For the benefit of the young We
will state that you Cannot marry i'll
this county on license issued by the
Carroll county Court Clerk.
Cam. took Il dose Of paint instead
Of soda the other night for collie. Ev-
cry one present Of course prescribed
for him, and Cam. took it all.
The Milan Debating Society will
debate the following question tO-mor-
row night: Resolved, That the ex>
ecution Of Mary, Queen of Scots was
Just.
The melancholy days have come,
the saddest of the year" to some of
the "boys,' in consequence of a COM
ing event which has cast its shadow
before.
Capt. Tom. Hutcherson, we learn,
is at home sick with the chills. The
travelling public will regret to miss
his genial face. and all his friends SYM
pathize with him.
We notice that our young and en-
terprising friend, David Bryant, has
opened new family grocery on Main
street, in the old stand formerly occu-
pied by Bryant, Jackson & Co.
Gen. Hood was Oh the platform at
our depot last Sunday for some time.
He is writing book of his campaigns.
He says Sherman did him great in
Justice in his book, and he will reply
to him.
Rev. &. Y. Rankin, after a severe
illness, with malarial fever at C0ving-
ton. is home Oh a visit, where he will
stay awhile recruiting his health. We
hope he may soon may be strong and
able for duty.
We are in receipt Of a pamphlet
copy of the proceedings of the Ten>
nessee Press Association, held last
June in Columbia. As usual, it is
handsomely gotten up document, and
reflects credit on the Lebanon Herald
"Printery."
We understand that DIR FARRELL, of
Dyer station, is a candidate for the
Legislature. We have not learned
under which flag he fights-the bloody
shirt or hickory club. 1t is immater-
ial, though, as he stands not the ghost
Of o chance.
Mr. j. II. McCollum, of Atwood,
Carroll county, sent us last week two
of the largest sweet potatoes we ever
saw. The largest weighed ten pounds,
and the other about eight. They
were very fine indeed, We thank him
for remembering us.