The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-08-09

Polly Martin, aged rs years, died
near Chicamauga, Aug. 1877. She
had vivid recollection Of things that
occurred during the revolutionary
war.
The Athens News has ceased to ex-
ist, the issue last week being the last
copy. Tse subscription list viii be
continued with that Of the Rhea
Spring News.
Robert Dickinson, a well known
citizen of Fulton, was fatally shot at
Henning's Station last Saturday night
by VIM Code. A game Of cards and
. bet caused the trouble.
Colonel J. L. Killebrew, state CONS
missioner of agriculture, has received
a letter from a gentleman in London,
making inquiry about Tennessee
lands, proposing TO establish an Eng
lish colony in the State.
Winchester Home journal Chol-
era has done a great damage TO the
hogs in this section. 1t is safe to say
that % per cent. of the number with,
in several miles Of Winchester have
died from this dreadful disease.
Brownsville Bee, 1: There were as
signments made by several of our
leading citizens this week, which
caused quite a stir and furry in our
community. Messrs II. l.. Taylor
and James ID. head are among the
number.
Mr. jeremiah Woodwork, Il prom
inent merchant of Memphis, has mys-
teriously disappeared within the week.
His business troubles seem to have
deeply affected him and it is thought
that brooding over them brought on
partial insanity.
At gambling den in the suburbs
of Can thage last Thursday night Sam.
Dowell and General Pride, both col
ored, fell out, quarrelled and fought.
The former cut the latter all 10 pieces,
his ntcstines being cut out and some
Of them whacked in two with the
knife.
Dresden Democrat: T. o. kilgore,
Esq, of Ralston, has a SOW which
gave birth to litter Of ten pigs.
Tie SOW died sooa afterward, and the
motherlcss pigs " took up" with
yaung speyed sow, and sucked her I'M
til she gave milk, and the pigs are
now thriving from it. Strange but
true.
~ Washington complaint has been
made, against the leniency with which
Judge Trigg, at Knoxville, Tenn,
deals with offenders against the In.
tcrnal Revenue laws. One charge
against him is, that in one instance
he allowed set Of convicted revenue
defrauders to 60 home and attend to
their harvesting before reporting for
sentence, an4 that they didp't report
at all.
Jackson Tribune and San: James
Dickey, charged on a capIas issued
from Henderson county, with the
murder Of 10 Ciner at Jacks Greek,
Tenn, during the year 1868, was ar
rested by Deputy Sheriff John Per
kins and posse, Monday, July 80, in
the 10th civil district Of this county,
and lodged in Jail in this city. Dicky
has spent part Of lis time, since the
murder, liz Arkansas but has been
t7rming about II miles North vest Of
Jackson for some time. No resi;-
tance was made and Dicky claims
that the murder was committed by an
other party who is now dead.
Nashville American: On last Fri
day night Deputy United States Mar
shals Harris and PEBBLES were sent
by Gen. Patterson, Collector Of the
Memphis district, to seize the tobacco
factory Of John a. Burton, in Henry
county, some twenty miles north Of
Paris. They had two men apd the
driver of 4 wagon with them, and
seized the fietgry and began loading
the machinery on the wagoH when
suddenly they were surrounded by
twenty-five armed men and ordered to
unload the wagon. The officers were
forced to abandon the Tweed" and
stood no, upon the order Of their 60
ing, but went Htfmter,
\ dispatch from Washington tothe
Baltimore Sun says: The vacancy
caused in the office of circuit judge in
the'sixth district by The death Of H.
II. Emmons, it is now stated, viii he
filed by the appointment Of Edward
II. East, of Nashville, Tennessee who
is strongly urged by DEMONSTRATION
eral Key and the united influence of
the Tennessee bar. Judge East was
secretary of state when Andrew johns
son was military governor of Tennes-
see. The other candidate for the
Office, an one who was at first beIiev-
ed to haze the preference, is Judge I.