The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-05-31
STATE ITEMS.

There are loJ newspapers IN len
nessee.
Postmaster General Key was in
Chattanooga last Monday.
We learn there were only five cases
of small pox in jackson last Tuesday,
all negroes.
The Tennessee Dental Association
will meet on the 9th of June at
Lookout Mountain.
Dover was crowded last Friday to
see the hanging of Jack Wilson, one
of the McClish murderers.
The Memphis Appeal and Bolivar
Bulletin are waging war on each other.
Brethren, let us have peace.
Col. w. W. Gates will discontinue
the LaGrange Monitor in two weeks,
and start a paper in jackson.
Mr. j. w. Brown, a Tennessean,
was murdered in Houston, Texas, on
the 25th inst, by desperate.
The Confederate graves were deco
rated in Nashville last Sunday. Two
or three thousand people participated.
The Roane Iron Works, at Chat
tanooga, Tenn, are preparing to put
up works for the manufacture of steel
rails.
L. S. Marshal Waldron has had
Jasper W. Adams, of Henry county,
lodged in Jail for resisting United
States officials.
East Tennessee viii go largely into
the furniture and ship timber BUSH
ness, when the CINCINNATI Southern
road is completed.
a census of Nashville, inst COM
pleted, shows the population of that
city to be 27,0S5. of which 1905
are white, and $3.50 colored.
c. c. Giers, of Nashville, formerly
a member Of the Legislature, a pho>
tographer Of great reputation, and one
of the leading citizens, died last week.
The body of Murphy, one of the
men with Heally's circus, and who
was drowned in the Hatchie river
about the middle of April, has been
found.
The Confederate graves were deco
rated at Elmwood cemetery, in Mem
phis, last Sunday. The collections
for the Confederate monumental fund
amounted to s211.S0.
Memphis Ledger: DrJ. H. Blood,
formerly known as the husband Of
Mrs Victoria Woodruff, has settled
in Memphis, with view to practice
his profession of medicine.
An Associated Press dispatch, re-
ceived from Washington, says that
Edgar Reed and George W. Elkin
were appointed Revenue Storekeeper
and Guager for the Fifth District of
Tennessee.
The graves of the Federal dead
were decorated at Nashville Yesterday.
Hon. Henry Waterson, an ex-re5el,
delivered the Grafton. This is "shak-
ing hands &C. oss the bloody chasm' in
the right way.
Memphis Appeal \ petition is in
circulation in this city, recommends
ing Hon. W. Ii. Wisener, of Shelby
vile, as a candidate to fill the vacln-
cy on the United States Circuit Court
bench for the Sixth district, made
vacant by the death of the late Judge
Emmons.
Min Wilson, who killed officer Per-
kins in jackson last summer, has
been sentenced by the Supreme Court
to be hanged on the 18th of July, we
understand, the anniversary of the
killing. Ifnot pardoned or reprieved,
we suppose he will suffer the penalty
of the law.
A Tullahoma special to the Nash>
vile American of the 9th says
A" DIR J. NJ. I.asater, a well known
physician. while on his road home
near Manchester, late this evening,
was attacked by Benjamin Merritt,
who shot and, it is supposed, mortally
wounded him. Merritt escaped"
Marshall Gazette: c. p. johnson,
ageat for Cummings, Kenny d Co., of
Boston, Mass, has been spending two
weeks in this county buying walnut
lumber. He gives $3.50 per hun
drsd feet, and proposesto leave $780,
600 in the county if the people will
furnish him lumber to that amount
by June %, 1878.