The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-10-30

it population in the next three years!
If so, vote the railroad tax.
Big white frosts fell here last Fri
day and Saturday mornings, and the
weather has been cool since.
Estes, Doan IL Cos store and cot
ton warehouse are again open and in
full blast in Memphis. Give them a
shipment.
Do you want manufactures of va
rious kinds in Milanf Vote the rail-
road tax, and they will spring up like
mushrooms.
The residence of Mr.. S. F. Rankin
accidentally caught fire on Thursday
last. 1t was promptly extinguished by
that gentleman.
A train of eleven cars left here
Tuesday with homeward-5ound Mems
phis refugees. We hope they are rot
rash in returning so soon.
The cupola of the Baptist church,
which was damaged by lightning last
spring, has been removed, and the
bell now hangs near the church.
billiard, Ccfin IL Co., one of the
best cotton firms in Memphis, have
re-opened in that city, and cotton sent
to them will receive prompt attention.
Coal retails in Huntingdon at twen-
ty cents per bushel. Here it sells at
twenty-five cents. When we get the
Tennessee Central we will get coal
cheaper.
Rev. ]. II. Garrett, of the Tennes-
see Conference, preached at the Meth
odist church last Sunday night. He
was stationed here some ten or eleven
years ago:
Brooks, Nicely q Co. have moved
their force back to Memphis, and are
prepared to fill all orders. This reli-
able old house does a good business
here, we believe.
Gen. Atkins passed up the road
yesterday. He has had a long and
serious attack of illness, and this is
his first absence from home since.
His health is now improving very fast.
The jackson Dispatch of last week
says "The Milan Band, which was en-
gagged to play at the fair this week, is
meeting the expectations of their
friends, and playing to the satisfaction
of all"
The first cotton shipped to Mem
phis from this point was sent Tuesday
last by Mr. A. G. Propst. He shipp-
ed twelve bales to the sterling house of
H. B. Howell g. Co., represented here
by Mr. B. F. Smith.
The Nursery for November is
gem of Typography, and the pictures
carry the little folks away with costa
cy. 1t is the best magazine of its
class that we know of. Write to Bos-
ton for sample copy.
Mr. Anderson still has few of those
fine buggies advertised in this paper
last week, which he will sell cheap.
They are not shoddy work, but guar
anteed to be of the best material and
workmanship. Call on him.
A club of twenty cash subscribers
can get the mammoth EXCHANGE one
year for twenty dollars in cash. This
makes ours the cheapest paper in the
state, quality and size considered.
Make up your clubs and send them in.
Two gentlemen met in town yester-
day who were not acquainted with
each other, and tried to "talk dummy"
with their fingers, each thinking the
other deaf and dumb. Both looked
sheepish enough when they discovered
their mistake.
Three contractors on the Cincinnati
Southern Railroad'have been over the
line of the Tennessee Central this
week, examining it with the view of
putting in bids for the completion of
the work. There is no mistake about
it; if our people vote the tax, we will
get the road very soon.
Mr.. E. Lasiter, on the farm of J.
NJ. Ing, five miles west of Milan,
raised seven barrels of cogu on one
half an acre of ground this year. This
is equal to seventy bushels to the acre,
and the ground was not specially pre-
pared for it. Gibson county against
the world for big crops this year.
IvanhOe lodge, K. P, of Browns
vile, will on next Monday night give
a complimentary banquet to Lagnce-
lot lodge, of jackson, and Prospero
lodge of this city. We learn that
preparations are being made on a mag
nidcent scale. Some fifty or sixty