The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-10-02
OVER THE STATE.

Memphis felt slight shock of ar
earthquake last Thursday night.
Mayor KerchevaI was reelected ii
Nashville last Saturday, over two op
ponents.
All the returns of the last August
election have not yet been received al
Nashville.
The death of Mark NJ. O'Ryan, AS
sistant Attorney General at Mem
phis, is announced.
There have been several cases Of
diphtheria in Pulaski during the past
few weeks, but no deaths.
Never in the history of Nashville
has there been such demand for ten.
ement houses as at present.
Anthony Blair, colored, was hung
in Morristown last Friday for the
murder of his step-daughter.
Father Reveille, a Catholic priest,
and Lyttleton Penn, a prominent
Knight Of Honor, died in Memphis
Friday.
Miss Emma Etheridge, daughter of
Hon. Emerson Etheridge, of Dresden,
will be married soon to prominent
gentleman of Baltimore.
An old colored woman, Anna Dun
can, died i'll Jefferson county a few
weeks since at the age of 12O years,
says the Newport Reporter.
Duck river, below Centerville,
Hickman county, is Icing surveyed
with a view of making it navigable
stream from Centerville to its mouth.
At no time in its history, since its
active life began, has there been more
lively interest expressed and felt in
the welfare of the University of the
South than at present.
The Knoxville Dispatch has heard
Of Il movement, said to have Originat-
ed at Nashville, to bring forward
Gen. Hancock for President and ex>
Gov. John C.. Brown for Vice Presi>
dent.
Lexington News: On Monday last
Perry Middleton, son of NJ. d. Mid
dle.on, of the 18th district, while play
ing with number % derringer, ac-
cidentally shot himself in the bowels.
His wound will not prove fatal.
A correspondent of the Paris Intelli~
gencer gives details of the riotous con-
duct of some white savages at a school
exhibition in Henry county which are
disgraceful in the extreme. The row.
dies ought to go to the penitentiary.
Brownsville States: On last Friday,
the 18th inst, Mr.. A. j. Lancaster,
compositor in the States office, set
with ease, twelve thousand and three
hundred ems of long primer type,
within nine hours, which is equal to
four long columns and nearly Il quar-
ter, for this paper, in the proof of
which there only appeared four trivial
typographical errors. Who can beat
it?
A convention of the low-tax Demo-
Gratis of the State at Nashville on the
23d of October, next, is now a fixed
fact. Should any high-tax, 50-4ma
be found there, who has not heartily
repented of his sins, he will be treated
as the man in olden times who had not
a wedding garment. He was cast in
to "Outer darkness" where there was
weeping, wailing and gnashing of
teeth" Remember his fate.-SheLby-
riUe Commercial.
Fayetteville Observer, %: Mr.. NJ,
r. Buna, of Norris creek, was in
close place last Monday. He was in
his field cutting sugar cane, and on
rising from STOPPING position, found
a rattlesnake hanging by its fangs to
his left sleeve near the wrist. He
disengaged the reptile, which fell on
a pile of cane, coiled and struck again,
but missed, and Mr.. B. returned the
blow with the knife, fortunately cut
ting his snakeship nearly i'll twain.
1t had two rattles and button.
Ashland Plaindealer: A gentleman
who lives at present in the 9th district
of this county gave us an account the
other day of small crop of wheat
which he raised from two grains. He
says that from two grains OF ordinary
white wheat, which he planted about
eleven inches apart, he gathered 1SO
full heads of wheat, one grain produc
ing III heads, the other 63. He failed
to replant any of the grain, but thinks
that any wheat will produce the same
result if planted in hills, say ten to
twelve inches apart, and well ma
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