The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-05-02
STATE ITEMS.


Columbia had ten thousand dollar
fire Monday.
The Tennessee press association will
meet at Knoxville on the twentieth Of
June.
The Tennessee Grand Commandery
of Knights Templar meets in MASKS
vile to-day.
An amateur operate troupe from
Memphis will play in Nashville to-
night and to morrow night.
The Southern Baptist Convention
will meet in Nashville next Thursday.
Delegates from nearly all the South
ern states viii be present.
One L. B. Willard was expelled
from the Memphis bar on account of
his having paImed himself of as a
magistrate in mock marriage.
Dyersburg Gazette: We are panied
10 announce the death of our young
and promising fsllow-toynsman, Mr..
Sam'l &. Hill, which sad event occur
I'D in our town last Thursday evening.
w. +. Yardley, former candidate
for Governor, has commenced the
publication in Knoxville of a weekly
Taper called the Examiner. 1t is
devoted 10 the advancement of the
Interests Of the colored race.
Dyersburg Gazette: Mr. Frank
Vaughn died in Dyersburg last Tues
day, regretted by all who knew him.
lie was buried with the h0ners of Odd
Fellowship, of which order he was a
worthy and consistent member.
Erin Review: a tramp shoemaker,
named Wilson, from Memphis, on his
way to Louisville, had bis leg broken
by falling from the platform at the de-
pot, last Wednesday night. He is being
C red for at the Reynolds House.
Jackson Dispatch; Maj r. ,.
Hurt, who has been absent several
weeks in Memphis, under treatment
f,r cancer of the eye, returned to the
ci;y this week. We are glad to learn
tlat he is somewhat improved and
nope he may soon recover entirely.
Alamo Sentinel in the Frog Jump
ncighborhood in this county, on Mr.. j.
b. Parker's land. there is a poplar tree
thirteen feet in diameter one foot above
ihegIound, and appears 10 be about the
same size some distance up. 1t is sup
posedto be the largest tree in the State.
Brownsville Bee: Mrs. Martha
Dulin. mother Of Mr.. Arthur DuIn of
;he States. died on April 18th after a
long attack of heart disease. She was
SIS years Of age. During the latter
part of her life she WAS a consistent
Christian and member of the Episco-
pal church. Theaffiicted family have
our sincerest coincidence.
Memphis Appeal: The programme
for the Fourth of July celebration will
include a parade of all the military
Companies, a test for a prize by the
four fre-engine companies in throwing
water, etc., and a pyrOtechnic display
of immense magnitude on the bluff, by
Prof. Samuel Jackson, ofP Philadelphia
The display of fireworks will consist
Of twenty one exhibitions. continuing
some two hours, and ranging from a
fight of rockets to a grand ailegorical
device IMPLYING Memphis in the glory
of her prosperity.
Jackson Dispatch On Monday,
about 3 o'clock, a meteoric stone fell
from the hea 7ens in corn field about
6 miles north of this city. There was
no cloud visible at the time ofthis Won
ierful occurrence, but the heavens were
clear and cloudless. while this phenOm-
ensn went hizzing through the air with
n noise like the roar of distant cannon
on battle field, causing no little ex-
,itement and conjecture by those who