The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-10-14
SMAIL CHANGE.

New chegtnuts are in the market.
Only two weeks from next Tuesday
to the election.
Our streets were jammed with cot
tsn wagons yesterday.
Last Tuesday, it seems, was not a
good day for the democracy
Plaut Il FrenI advertise their man.
moth stock in our locals this week.
Read the local notices of Chambers
cheap cash store in another column.
Some of our farmers are sowing
wheat. Many of them ought to do 80.
An interesting series of meetings
are being held at the Methodist
church this week.
House Il Blanks have some local
notices in another column. They are
Offering numerous bargains.
C. A. Mckenzie, L. d \. express
agent here. is off on a short furlough,
visiting friends in Mckenzie and
Nashville.
If church members would take as
much interest in their church duties
as they do in politics, would this not
be a glorious christian ccuntryf
Our Street Committee are still do
ing good work on the streets and
plank walks, and the town is now in
better condition than for years past.
Attention is called to the card of
Prof. McQuilkin, of Atwood. His
Seminary will open for students on
Nov. 1st, and the session will continue
six months.
Fourteen tickets we're sold here
Yesterday to parties going to Clarks>
vile, Texas. They were emigrants
from this county, and large number
of their friends were in town to bid
them goodbye.
Savage, theleading bolter, spoke to a
small squad on Main Street last
Thursday. His speech was re-hash
of previous utterances, and created
no enthusiasm. The few who heard
him were respectful, but nearly all
were opposed to him politically.
The nomination of s. F. Rankin
for State Senator last Friday was
alike honorable to the convention and
to him. A safer, sounder man, mo-
rally and politically, cannot be found
in the State: He is popular with all
parties here and viii get almost the
unanimous vote Ct the peepele. u
Prof. Hooker has the sincere sym
pathy of our citizens in his beresve-
ment. His father, Jordan Hooker,
died at his home in Murfreesboro last
Wednesday, after long and painful
illness. He was in the 69th year Of
his Iage, a good citizen, q Christian
gentleman, and generally esteemed.
An awkward error has been print
ed in the advertisement of the Triumph
Cotton Tie Co., of New Orleans. In
stood of the bundles weighing tScc
pounds more than others, it should be
ten pounds, as now appears in the sd
vertisemeut. This is one Of the best
ties made, as well as the heaviest, and
we hope to see it in general use here.
There ought to be one more clerk
on each postal car on our two roads.
isa physical impossibility for the
force to do the work required of them
and deliver the wsy-mails promptly.
1t is almost an everyday business for
mail to be carried by here which be-
longs to this Office. Uncle Sam vii
confer . favor by attending to this.
Travellers between here and Nash
vile complain at the difference in far
charged going and coming. Going tt
Nashville, if you buy a ticket here
the price is $3.50. Returning, tickle
can be bought in Nashville for sS,7'
"A difference of sl.2O. Why is thi
thus' The ticket agent is not tt
blame, as some think, for he sells as h
is ordered.