The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-05-17
STATE ITEMS.

foundation of the new custom house
to be erected in Memphis.
The residence of Peter McCalium,
near Beach Bluff, Madison county.
was burned on the 9th inst.
Bishop Keener is to hold the Mem
phis Annual Conference, which meets
In Brownsville Nov. Dist, 1877.
The jackson papers say small pox
is not epidemic in that town, there
having been only three or four cases
among the negroes.
James w. Lock, a married man,
and Mrs J. w. Henderson, both of
Bells Depot, eloped few days since.
heartlessly leaving their families.
Nothing has been heard of them since.
Last Sunday night fvenegroes were
arrested near Memphis for placing OBJ
struction on the track of the LOUIS
vile road near that city. We hope
they will be punished to the full ex-
tent of the law.
Two young men, Thos. Farrell and
Thos Mclean, raised row at brew
cry in jackson few days since. In
the meelee the brewer was severely
bruised and Farrell had hisleg broken,
which resulted in his death.
Mr. j. J. Worrell has leased the
Jackson Dispatch to DR. f. L. Patton
and Mr. Z. a.. Brooks. DR. Patton is
well known, having been president of
West Tennessee College four years
and vice principal of the Southwest
ern Baptist University one year.
GAINESVILLE Tobacco Leaf: DIR I.
D. johnson, having resigned his POI
sition as surgeon in the Egyptian
army, arrived home on the 4th inst. =,
the recipient Of many hearty congrat-
ulatiOns. 1t requires extraordinary
pluck and nerve TO brave the hard
ships aud perils which our esteemed
townsman has passed through,
The Memphis Cotton Exchange re-
ceived official information that a gold
medal had been awarded their bale Of
cotton at the International Horticul-
tural Exhibition at Amsterdam, Hol-
land. Memphis has been awarded
first premiums on cotton at the
Worlds fair in New York, London,
Vienna and last year at Philadelphia.
HartsviIle Sentinel: DR. Donaho
had the very good luck to find $500
on Tuesday which he had lost about
ten years ago. 1t was found behind
the drawer that it WAS supposed to
have been stolen from. To say the
least of it, its discovery was marvel
lous, as the bureau had been very
thoroughly examined at the time the
money was lost.
Columbia Herald and Mail If you
see any one have "bOne fellon," tell
him or her to get a lemon, cut hole
in it and put it on the finger 1t will
cure it sure. We have tried and seen
Others try it ct our suggestion A
TREND recently tried 1t at our sugges>
ton, when he was raging with pain,
and he says it cured him in fifteen
hours. You must keep a fresh lem
on on it.
Alamo Sentinel; Yesterday morn
ing about IL o'clock Miss Mamie b.
Tanner, a young lady of our town,
went 10 the drug store and bought
several grains of morphine, which she
immediately attempted to swallow.
The clerk made an effort to prevent
her from taking it, bat succeeded in
knocking only small portion of it from
her hand, and it is said she took
enough to cause death. At the hour
we put our paper to press yesterday
evening. however, she was still alive.
and it was thought that the strenuous
efforts being made to keep her awake
mlght save her life. Noone knows why
she thus attempted to take her life in
her own hands.
Somerville Falcon, 10. Last
Wednesday, near Rossville, in this
county, a negro named David Reeves,
stealthily crept up within shooting
distance of another negro, while he
was engaged at work in his crop, and
fired both barrels of shot gun at
him, the shot taking effect In the
back and head. He is badly wound,
ed but may possibly recover. On the
following dag. near the same place.
Nelson Jones concealed himself be-
hind the door and as another negro
entered the house chopped him on the
neck with an ak. He Will probably
die. We were unable to learn the
aamcs of the wounded negroes. Both
of the would-be murderers are now in