The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-08-28

first is SO near.
A goodly gathering of pleasure seek
ers con-ened at Mrs. Wares on las
Tuesday night. There was rather
backwardness as TO the display of mu
steal talent but the deficiency wa
made up il. solid conversation and al
enjoyable promenade.
Young folks will enjoy themselves
We understand they had the fulles
measure of enjoyment on Friday nigh
last, at the residence of Mrs. Wylie.
The sociable was well attended, anC
all were highly delighted with The
evenings entertainment.
The City Drug Store, under the
managementof W. H. Cooley, has beer
beautifully adorned with lovely pic
lures and now has the appearance o.
4 splendid art gallery as well as G
drug repository. The City Drug Store
is now in fact "a thing of beauty"
The many friends of Col. Lee We'll,
fOrmerly,'of this place, will learn with
surprise and regret that he has married
recently at Paducah, KY. Since the
above was written we learn that the
colonel is still "alone in the world
and his friends who spread the news
was "yust jokin apoud i'd"
When will people learn to keep
clear of watermelon patches? Auoth-
er serious accident has happened to a
man, near Shelbyville, from walking
through a field, when his foot struck a
wire attached to hair trigger, and he
was seriously wounded. We are suffi-
GENTLY afraid of this fruit here even
though it be in wagon.
There is a young man in this town
with a malignant case of moustache.
His upper lip takes up one half of his
face and there is plenty of room for a
town lot between each particular hair
and its nearest relative. the poverty
of hair is due to the shade of his nose,
which belongs to the pug variety and
lOOas like its turning somersaults up
the young mans classical forehead.
On Friday night and Saturday and
Sunday last we had rain, which at
times fell quite heavily. The wealth
err was about as disagreeable as it well
could De, and more especially was this
the case on Sunday afternoon, with
quite cool atmosphere, a heavy mist
falling and the wind essaying to assert
its supremacy over the prevailing ele-
ment. Fires were not only pleasant,
but healthful.
We ara happy to present our readers
with the paper this week in its Usual
shape and size. The excellent crop
prospects should bring us in a number
of clubs of Subscribers, and we fatter
ourselves that the old and new readers
will be pleased with our efforts. There
is not II town in the State that has
a larger or better printed paper than
the EXCHANGE. Let our friends help
us extend our circulation.
The people of West Tennessee have
very much to be thankful for, not
withstauding their fever fears. During
a recent trip of more than one thous-
and miles in this state and Georgia, the
writer of this did not see crops any
where looking near so well as they 40
here. Cotton and corn have both
been cut short by drouth all south of
Tennessee, while here we have the
finest crops grown in six years, if not
the largest since the war. Let us all
be thankful for what we have. and
not trouble ourselves about ills that
may never reach US.
The panther hunt, which came off
a few days since, only resulted in stri-
king trail; signs were plentiful, and
the hunters hope to be successful yet.
These beasts have done a good deal of
damage in the way of killing stock
Calves and other quadrupeds of larger
growth disappearing very suddenly.
By the way, we understand that when
the party were out hunting for the
panther, and while momentarily ex-
pecting him, a certain Milan man, on
an innocent sheep being jumped, made
a double quick movement for tree
and he stuck to the tree, too.
Death of DIR. Scott.
DR.. Robert w. Scott died in this