The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-03-15
COUNTY NEWS.

EXCHANGE.
Law Court meets in Humboldt
next Monday.
Horse and Jack Bills printed here
cheap for cash, and in good style.
Who will get US up a rousing club
at Bradford? We also want cor
respondent at that place.
Humboldt has organized a lecture
association, with Rev. ]. S. White for
President and wills Williams for Sec
retary.
The Humboldt Journal has started
ON its sixth volume, and Claims good
prospects. We certainly wish them
a fortune.
Farmers hunting good country to
live in had better come to the neigh
borhood of Milan. Live, enterpris-
ing men can make more money here
than anywhere else. Raise vegeta-
bles and fruit and ship them to the
four points of the compass.
The clerks or treasurers of the sew,
eral districts are notified by A. S.
Currey that they will be required to
execute bono. with the County Trus-
tee before drawing any portion of the
school fund apportioned TO their DIS
tricts, and that no school orders will
be paid by the County Trustee.
Our excellent County Trustee, Mr.
Long, informs us that he has collected
S43, 300 tax up to this time, and would
have collected nearly all that was
assessed in a short time if the Legis-
lature had not postponed it. There
remains uncollected about S24, 900.
The impression in this county is that
the law should not have been changed.
Mr. Long reports that he has had no
trouble with bis collections.
The citizens in and around Pickett
vile are taking sensible steps toward
eradicating hog cholera from their
neighborhood. A few days since a
number of them met and had two or
three carcases dissected by Drs. James,
Parker and Scott, in order to reach
the seat of the disease. They pro.
pose to continue the investigation un-
til they can find means of curing
this fatal scourge, and invite the CO.
operation of hog growers and scien-
tifc men generally. The examina-
ton. as far as it has gone, was satis-
factory. Another meeting will be
held at Pickettville next Saturday,
when they propose to organize so>
cicty. We hope they will do much
good, and believe they will if they
perseyere.
From the humboldt Journal.
The mules shipped from this place
to Memphis hast week were sold at
very fair prices.
A little child of Mr. Thos. Butler
died Sunday night, the 4th, of men,
branous Group.
Col. G. w. Day, our able Repre>
sentative in the Legislature, spent last
Saturday and Sunday with his family
in this city.
From tho Humboldt Herald
A brakeman on Tom Harelson's
train, l.. & N. X. r., got two of his
fingers badly mashed, while coupling
cars here Monday.
Monday night, a thief attempted to
break into Tyler & Co.'S store, by
cutting through one of their large
show>windows. The noise aroused
Mr. Bennett, who sleeps in the rear of
the store, and when he struck light
the thief fled.
Of late, the owls and hawks have
been killing large numbers of chick
ems for Mr. James Grafton. In order
to destroy the pests, Messrs Grafton
and Peal have set stea traps in differ
ent parts of the farm, and up to the
present time have caught seventeen
owls and twelve hawks. The plan
works admirably.
From the Trenton Mirror.
Rnmor says two Of our deputy sher-
iffs have resigned, Hefy and McLin.
We understand that a fsticuff was
INDUCED in out on the Eaton road be-
tween young London and Turner, re-
sulting in bad case of bulldozing for
the latter. There were many bull
dozers in town last Monday; one man
engaged in eight separate fights.
Several parties are engaged in buy
ing and shipping cattle from this
place. We saw a steer weighing over