The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-01-18


the Chattanooga post Office.
Mr. f. G. Sampson has assumed
exclusive control of Meals Safe Ga
zette during the absence of its editor,
Col. Neal, at the State Capitol.
In the ROgersville Jail are confined
two boys under fourteen years of age,
awaiting trial OH the charge of hav-
ing committed murder in the first de-
gree.
Nicholson Williamson, on General
Ira Fosters farm, on the Tennessee
river, in Marshal county, made 3C6
gallons of Sorghum on less than one
acre of land.
DIR Morgan Cartwright has sold his
interest in the Ripley News to Mr. j.
l.. Sparks, the original owner and
founder of the paper, who becomes
now sole proprietor.
Adjutant General Handy has made
requisition upon the Government for
/ two II pound Napoleon guns to match
these already at Nashville, and for
two 3-inch rife guns for the Bur.s
battery.
Benton Banner: Since the big
snow fall there have been shipped
daily from Big Sandy, in this county,
to market, from 300 to 500 pounds of
small game, such as the hare, field
lnrk and partridge.
Nashville Banner Major Wilbur
F. Foster, City Engineer, furnished
us with the following report OF the
CITY, within the corporate limits
Total length Of streets 80 400 miles;
length of alleys, % 52-10O miles, and
area of city, 1924 acres or 2 5000
square miles.
The Brownsville Democrat has the
following: Bob M'Elwee says that il
his son votes the Democratic ticket he
will kill him, and that he hates the
name of Democrat, and that before
he would live under Democratic rule
he would shoulder his musket and &C
into the field for seven years.
jackson Wing and Tribune Tho
financial record of the 10th civil dis
trict of this county is strictly first
class. The school-master employed
by this community for fifteen months,
with liberal salary, received all that
was due him week before the last
session closed. The minister also,
who experimental the spiritual af'
fairs of thid same community. was
promptly paid his salary at the close
! of his term. Good for the 10th.
Brownsville States: Hon. w. p,
Caldwell writes from Washington t.
a gentleman in Brownsville that the
Radicals have abandoned their plan
to count Hayes in by the President Of
the Senate and now admit that botl
Houses will have voice in the mat
ter. He is now satisfied that the dis
pute will he settled next March by
the election of ridden for President by
the House and Wheeler for Vic'
President by the Senate. II this re
suit is reached Hayes and Hendricks
will be nominated by their respectlv,
parties for the Presidency four year
hence
The Southern Methodist publish
ing house, at Nashville, is said he il
financial distress. The Banner, O
the fifteenth, sayS of the concern
that the bishops and book committee
have decided to cut down salaries
collect old debts, urge cash sales, ex
tend no credit, and issuetwO hundred
thousand dollars worth of seven an,
eight per cent, bonds, running twent'
years, with the privilege of redemp
ton in three years, secured by mort
gage on the property; with the hrs
enc hundred thousand dollars sol
take mp the oh mortgage and reiuc
the interest, and sell so much of tn
rest as may be necessary, with tn
general collections an II other availa
bile means, to pay off the foatini
debt. The house will thus he re
lieyed and put again on the high roa
of prosperity and usesnlness.