The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-09-14
SMALL CHANGE.
Guoin has a new sign.

SMALL CHANGE.
Guoin has a new sign.
WatermelOns and peaches have quit
coming in.
Bring in that wood. We begin to
want fires.
Several bales of new cotton have
been brought in.
Messrs Collins, Colcy, Harrison
and Haun have returned.
There has been no rain here for sew
eral weeks. 1t is needed badly.
r j Robertson and bride returned
from their northern tour yesterday.
Governor Kellogg, of Louisiana,
was in Milan few hours Tuesday.
A large crop of sorghum was raised
in this section, and molassesis cheap.
Remember the primary election
next Saturday, and be sure to vote.
Capt. Jackson will soon build an ell
egant brick residence in the West end.
Mr. Josh Jones has our thanks for
some of the biggest apples we have
seen.
Jimmie Hutcherson took a run
down to jackson, Miss, as messenger,
last Sunday.
Robertson is receiving lots of hand
some new goods. Dicks taste seems
to be improving.
Look out, boys! Mcdonald will
catch you if YOU don't stop throwing
balls>on the streets.
Conductor Mcdonald has returned
from his Centennial furlough. He
will probably go on dutyimmediately.
The south-bound day passenger
train on the L. q n. road is behind
an hour or two nearly every day
lately.
Our merchants are receiving new
goods. OF course they will let pur-
chasers hear from them through the
EXCHANGE.
Anglo Saxon's" poem is too long
for publication in the EXCHANGE.
Besides, no name accompanies the
nom de plume.
We understand that DR.. Denton
and his daughter, Miss Blanche, are
down with typhoid fever. We hope
they may soon recover.
DIR. Harris has a female dog that
has adopted a motherlcss pig and
nurses it like her own, and has done
so since the pig was two days old.
Mr. b. c. Long left on our table,
last Tuesday, two large, fine turnips,
the first of the season. They were
raised on w. B. Williams's farm.
Next week We expect to publish in
our market reports the price list of
various leading articles in Memphis,
and continue to do so in the future.
Mr.. J. H. Read, formerly ticket
agent here, now has charge of the
Central Office as agent at Grand
Junction. An excellent appointment.
Brown d Dickson have moved in
to the house formerly occupied by
Stone & Mills, and E. P. Donnell has
moved into the Brown q Dickson's
house.
The excursionists are dropping in
one by one, weary and worn, but
with wonderful tales of what they
saw. They say that a party of Mi
lanese drank a keg of beer at one sit
ting in Cincinnati the other day.
There will be a meeting at the
Court room in Milan at s o'clock p.
m, next Saturday, for the purpose of
Tilden and Hendricks
club. Our Democratic friends in the
are requested to attend,
Last Monday we noticed fifteen or
twenty negro men and half,grown
boys playing base ball on the COM
mons, and it is an every day business.
The cotton fields are literally "white
unto the harvest" and it is next to
to get laborers for cotton
picking and other kinds of work.
This should not be. Let all hands
white and black-go to work.
The legislative candidates spoke
here last Saturday. Mr. McDearmon
led off and made fine impression on
the crowd. Esq. Bowers followed
and made a good speech, keeping the
crowd in a fine humor at his sallies.
Capt. Gays speech was sound and
able except upon the subject of elect
ing a U. s. Senator. His declara-
tons that he would go out of the party
to find a man fit for the place, if he
could not find him in it, met with no
favor and was universally condemned.
Mr. Curtis would have made friends
here but for his avowed reputation
doctrines. He is unfortunate in his
positions and misunderstands the temp
er of our people.