The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-02-21
STATE ITEMS.

not guilty.
Col. Thomas Boyers has terminated
his editorial connection with the Gal.
latin Examiner, retaining, hnwever,
Robert Boyers, succeeds him.
The Rhea News says Hon. George
G. Dibbrell will be candidate for
reelection to Congress, and that the
people of Rhea county are for him
solid"
The Winchester Home Journal has
hoisted the name of Judge j. S.
Marks, of Franklin county, as its
choice for the next Goyernorship Of
Tennessee.
1t is said that the amount of delin>
quent taxes in Memphis amounts to
over 100000. Here's strong ar
gument in favor of having a Mardi
Gras procession with $4,000.
Chattanooga is exceedingly jubilant
oger her prospects for a population of
$4,000 out of the census now being
taken. Keep quiet, little boy; you are
bound to grow big some of these days.
Tie members of the Democratic
Executive Committee, for the State
Of Tennessee, are requested to meet
in the city of Nashville, on Wednes>
day the 9th day of February, 1873,
70 take into consideration matters of
importance that viii then be presented
to them.
Chattanooga Dispatch: This aftcr>
noon a telephone communication will
he established between the w. IL 4.
his interest in its business. His son,
L. Il. office in this city and their Of
lice in Atlanta. Sunday is the only
day they can get the use of the wires.
4 few friends have been invited to
witness the performance.
jackson Tribune apd sun: Mr.
Horace Bledsoe, of this city, age 81
wears, had all his teeth drawn some
days ago and ordered 4 set eff false
ones. While waiting for the new set,
five natural teeth began to grow ont
of his upper front gums, and at this
writing it would seem as if they would
come to full maturity.
Ebert p. Miller and Ada J.
Roberts, and Andrew L. jackson and
Ella NJ. Hildright,a all colored students
If Fisk University, Nashville. were
married in that city last Monday, and
Immediately left for Shebro Island,
on the west coast of Africa sent MS
missionaries by that institution. The
event was the occasion of much inter
ct 10y their white as well as colored
iriepds in that city
The Grand Lodge of Tennessee,
knights Of Pythias, which convened
at Nashville, on Friday last, elected
The following officers for the en-. uing
year: Grand Chancellor, Il. S. Rcy-
nold, of Memphis; grand vice char
cellor, II. L. c. White, of Lebanon
grand prelate, Z. 5. Mallory, of Jack
son; grand master of exchequer, w.
q. Davis, of Nashville; grand keeper
# records and seal, W. b Thompson,
# Nashville.
Gallatin Examiner: The Oriental
Order of Humility will give a grand
bali at the Sindle House on Friday
evening, the 22nd inst. Hills band
from Nashville will furnish music,
and every arrangement is being made f;
TO render it the grandest and most !
pleasant affair of the season. The (
order ut this place now numbers over !
two hundred, and is steadily increas> Z
ing. Everybody is invited and ex- /
pected, and no one who is fond of t
the dance should fail to attend. We /;
understand that the members will an /
pear in full regalia.
1t is estimated by James &. Cantral, I
assistant Secretary to Commissioner /
in a letter to the New
York South, that between 40, 200, 600 /
and 6O,OOO,00l pounds of tobacco
were produced in 1877. This crop
IS just now beginning to come into /
he market He further states that
the last census reported Tennessee as
the third State in the Union in the |
product of tobacco, and that, if the
farmers will continue to pay the
same attention to the raising of tobac>
% in the future as in the past year or
Two, there is no reason why Tennes
zee may not yet rank as the first to-
Daceo State.
1t may not be generally known that
IN important change in the mode
# electing Judges of the Supreme of
Court of this State takes effect on the
irst Thursday in August next. The
Act of 1870, Cd session. oh, u, pro-
tides for the election Of two Judges
or the Stats at large, and one from
lch grand division, provides that not
oore than two of the five shall reside
. any one granddiyisiQn Of the State.