The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-01-24

! the last information MIR. Evans wa
improving but Mrs. E. was no better
Mr.. james Orgain. near Gibson
has living in his family five genera
tions-child. mother, grandmother,
great-grandmother, great-great-grand
mother representing respectively the
ages Of two, twenty-five, forty, seven.
ty-seven and one hundred. This is the
most remarkable coincidence on
record
From the Humboldt Herald.
In the removal of Mr. james Mack,
Humboldt loses one of her best citi'
zens. During bis residence here, he
and his estimable wife have made
many friends. They left Wednesday
for Memphis, where they will in fu-
ture reside. We trust their stay
there will be as pleasant as it has
been here.
The following is the corps Of teach
-ers of our public school which was
elected last Thursday night; Prof. L.
B. Day, Mr. q. d. 'Ferrell; Misses
Narcissa Chappell, Cora Williams,
|. Napnie Rea and Sailie Scales, liter
ary' department; and Miss Sallie Ly-
on in the music department. The
action of the directors will give gen.
eral satisfaction.
Our town is over-run with the worst
set of gam 9lers and confidence men
that ever infested any place. They
are on every train that arrives and
departs from here, and have their
headquarters in several saloons at the
crossing, while they ply their tricks.
Owing to the inefficiency of our po-
lice force, they make bold their
schemes of gambling. They should
be DRIVEN from our town. Thursday
evening they fieeced an unsuspect;ng
emigrant out of $50 on the train be-
tween here and jackson, and he was
thrown on our community without a
dime. If our city authorities will not
do their duty, the citizens should.
Gibson.
JANUARY %, 1878. =
= The desire of the people, like the
ancient Athenians, being so strong to
tell or hear some new thing, makes
the task difficult one, in getting up
a communication from small points,
where there are but few startling oc>
curfences likely to be of interest to
the general reader.
The unpleasant weather and des-
perate roads have kept our town from
being crowded with visitors for sever.
al days. Despite all these hindrances,
our school fourishes like green bay
tree. There are considerably over
one hundred pupils enrolled, and
ninety in attendance. Allow Us to be
a little Jealous on the school question;
as only the long afflicted, restored,
know how to appreciate health, so We,
q good school. Good schools increase
general intelligence; intelligence in>
creases the power of community for
doing good.
Death has visited our neighbor.
hood. Mrs Elizabeth Owpby. after
many years of painful afliction, died
at MrJ. b. Vane's. yesterday at 6
o'clock q. m. Though far from home;'
she was with relatives and kind
friends. She leaves husband and
three children.
The usual quietude of our village
has been disturbed somewhat for the
last few days, from the effects Of too
much whisky.put into badly construct
ed vessels; mostly by those only tenn
porarily here. -
Those WHO recently went from this
section to Texas are giving glowing
accounts of the advantages Of that.
great state. You who are carried
away with the exaggerated accounts of
the good things in Texas. don't
make haste to leave comfort for un-
certainties. Texas has advantages
and. q great many disadvantages.
Some of which / may mention in the
future. 1t is the bestadvertised state
in the union. The same effort 10 in
duce immigration would double our
population in few years.
T. c. j.