The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-11-08
AROUND TOWN.
Local news is scarce.


Local news is scarce.
Read the nonresident notice.
The Oliver land is advertised this
week.
The Board Of Aldermen meets next
Tuesday.
The City Tax Collector wants you
TO pay up. See his notice.
a street merchant has donea thriv-
ing business here this week.
Younger has a fine lot Of elegant
new clocks and other goods. See his
- locals.
Dick Davis has a splen lii lot of
new cooking stoves, which he will sell
very low.
The New York Sun, one of the liv-
est papers in America, is advertised
this week.
Senator Harris has cur thanks for
a copy of the report of the Monetary
Commission.
Harrison, Donnell & Co have new
locals again this week-also new goods
in great variety.
Mayor Rankin has an important
notice to hucksters and butchers in
another column.
Mrs Duiy's stock is the handsom-
est and prettiest she haas had in long
time. See lolals.
SeIberry & Z ~ aae selling oceans
of oysters. Go and get some before
they are all gone.
w. H. Harvey, Esq, has our
thanks for a fine lot of Irish potatoes,
part of his second crop.
Oar correspondents are backward
about coming forward with their
communications tbs week.
lee formed and the ground froze
here Tuesday morning. Blue noses
were fashionable that morning.
y new grocery store has been open
cd next to Jordan's by W. G. Jacobs.
He has a good stock of fresh goods.
Z. II. James is collecting the delin-
quent state and county tax for 1876
in this district. Pay him and save
further cost.
Williams, Smith & Co. have a fine
lot of locals this week They offer
rare inducements, and it will pay to
90 and see them.
Z. S. Marshal Waldron, in anoth-
er column, advertises for sale the
stills, worms, etc, belonging to VIM.
Station. Read it.
November came in last Thursday
in the most orthodox manner-drizsly,
soggy, nasty-and it is keeping up its
reputation faithfully.
Hon w. p. Caldwell has placed
us under obligation for full files of the
Congressional Record, for which he
will please accept our thanks.
Our streets are crowded with cot,
ton wagons every day now. The sta
pie commands as high figures here as
at any inland town in the state.
The members of the Colored NJ. /.
Church held festival last Saturday
night, for the purpose Of raising mon
ey to pay their preacher. They
raised S12.15.
Tramps are exceedingly scarce
here, while they are troubling the
citizens of our neighboring towns very
much. Not one has been arrested
here this week.
The Evening Record is the name
of new daily started in Nashville
last week. 1t is a newsy, live paper,
and looks as if it might be well pa>
tronized Wewish it well.
Pete Adams, colored, for disturb
ing publ, worship, was assessed by
the Mayor last Monday to the amount
of $3.50. He submitted his case, oi
il would have been about sl5 or $40
Eight companies of the 18th L. S.
Infantry, under command of Major
Lamotte. passed here last Saturday
night, bound for New Orleans. Joe
Ramser furnished them with fifty gal
Ions of coffee.
If you want TO see the busiest, liv-
est town in the state, come to Milan.
Our merchants-especially the adver-
tisers-are literally run half to death
with customers. About sixty thou-
sand dollars worth of cotton has been
received here, and the planters are
spending their money freely.