The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-02-22
STATE NEWS.

Nashville thieves steal thermemes
tiers.
The Chattanooga ladies are giving
pound parties.
The city council Of Knoxville has
enacted a hog-law.
There are two negrq girls on the
Columbia chain gang.
Judge William P. Martin and John
Davidson, of Columbia, wepe recently
seized with paralysis.
The educational institutions of Ten.
nessee own s769, 900 of State bonds,
upon which the payment Of interest is
not postponed.
An old crazy woman living near
Mt. Pleasant, Maury county, says she
is the widow of the late lamented
President Lincoln.
The Morristown Gazette learns that
the growing wheat crop in upper East
Tennessee is looking very fine, and a
good yield is anticipated.
Oqt IF q total Of twenty deaths in
Memphis last week, six were from
pneumonia. Did Mardi Gras expos
ures have anything to do with it?
The American still insists that the
dog law cannot be repealed this ses>
sion, and the Legislature insists that
it can. Who is to decide this mat
ter?
A tramp named James Black was
shot and severely wounded at Grand
Junction, Tenn, last week, by Dep
'uty Sheriff Stephenson, Of Lagrange,
while resisting arrest.
Fayetteville Observer: A report is
current in business circles that the
Winchester & Alabama railroad will
soon be transferred 70 the Nashville
d Chattanooga Company.
Gov. Porter signed the resolution
adopted b. the Legislature postpan>
ing for the present the payment of in
terest on State bonds, those held by
educational institutions excepted.
The Baptist Reflector is to be re-
moved from Morristown to Nashville,
where it will be edited by Rev. @. c.
Pope and Rev. w. ID. Mayfcld, the
latter being a citizen OF Memphis.
Jonesboro Journal: Farmers say
tho peach crop is ruined, and that in
many instances the peach trees are
killed. Winter oats are badly frozen
out, and many fields will have to be
re-sown.
y teacher il Nashville Sunday
school urged the familiar lesson that
The early bird catches the wolm. y
bright boyreminded him that the owl,
wisest of the birds, l.; put all night
and sleeps all day. $40
The Tennessee Stock Breeders As
ISOLATION met in Nashville Tuesday.
NJ. S. Cockrill was elected President,
John Thompson, Secretary, and V.
l.. Kirkman, Treasurer. An essay
On Swine" was read by Thomas
Claiborne.
The Covington Record says: A
negro residing on the farm of Mr..
Goodwin, in district No. :, was called
from his house on Wednesday night
Of Last week by some uRkpawn parties
and shot. Human life is too cheap
in this country. The halter, freely
used, would be beneficial.
( \ bill has been introduced into the
Legislature by Mr. Maddox, of Shelby,
/ to protect the people of Tennessee
against the emliricism and imposition
at the hands of charlatans in the prac-
! tice Of medicine, and prohibiting the
| practice Of medicine by persons with>
out proper certificates Of qualification,
etc.
! -Four parties, named Holt, were ar
rested in Nashville a few days since,
b. L. S. Marshal Wheat, on dis
patches from Chattanooga and Atlan>
Ia, charging them with having par.
ticipated in the murder n Lieut.. Ne
Intyre, in Northern Georgia. recently,
while the latter was at the head Of a
force of revenue officers who went to
break up wildcat distilleries.
Brownsville Democrat: The mon
cy spent by our citizens at Mardi Gras
would pay every church. in town Out
of debt; would put our streets III first
class order; would iron three miles of
the narrQw-guagc; would furnish the
city in gas 4 year or so, and do many
other things beneficial and praise
worthy, but the people who spent it
would sec you in the middle of next
week before they would spend it in
that way.
Franklin Review and Journal:
Cd. p. H." gives the following ",ure
recipe faf cxterminating hawks:
"Make incisions in & sIblit or bird,
insert >trychnine, and fasten the same
securely Oil a tree the balance of the
programme viii be completed by the
hawks liz succession as they appear