The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-23
OVER TIE STATE.

January 5rd.
Bishop Quintard viii build q resi-
deace at Rugby, and reside there.
The Ashland City New Era is a
new paper which has reached cur Ia,
bic. We wish it viii.
Memphis collected for 1880 on
property snd polls, merchants capital
and privileges, s25,925.22.
A braEen eagle, twelve feet from
tip to tip, surmounts the crpola of The
Court House at Clarksyille.
The residence Of George Philips,
near Wsrtrsce, was burned last week.
Loss about 5000; insurance $1,000.
Manchester has hub and spoke
factory, and q paper mill in successful
| operation, and soon is to have large
wagon factory.
John P. Smith, Esq, Of Taylors-
vile, Johnson county, succeeds Maj.
A. r. Pettibone IS Assistant United
States District Attorney.
Eighteen Mormous left Huntington
last Thursday night for Salt Lake
City. Twenty-eight others recently
departed from the same point for
Utah.
The saddle>horse of the late 4. \.
Hatcher died at the residence OF Mrs.
II. A. Hatcher, nesr St. Bethlehem,
on Decenber 6, 1889, aged between
81 and So years.
Gel. Moses White, of Hac1viIle,
has been appointed State Commission
er fer Tennessee to superin;end The
| arrangements in the State fr the
joint celebration Of the YORKTOWN cen
, tennial.
Alamo Sentinel: The residence OF
Mr.. David II. Conley, in lhe seventh
district, w&s totally destroyed by FIRE
last Wednesday night, together vith
, nearly I'll Of his household and kitch-
en- fIrnituye.
Alamo Sentinel: Last snad1y :sht,
while thefamily we're away from home
the residence OF Mr.. Dennis Tstam,
in the ninth district Of this county,
was totally destroyed By FIRE, together
with It's entire contents.
Lexington News: On Tuesday might
of the 7th lnstMrs. Nancy 3. Walker,
living nesr Exchange ii tiiis county.
had her neat and valuable dwelling
| burned; losing nearly AL he house c3n-
tanned, which We learn was Ge.i ilr-
nished.
The docket for the Saprem4 Count
of Tennessee has become 50 large,
that it will take the present bench
| three or four years 10 reach the suiis
now pending before ii. 4 bill vii. he
presented 10 the coming Legislature t.
apply remedy.
One dsy last week 8 he;fer weigh
ing about 1900 pounds Was sold i'll
Nashville for the enormous sum Of
forty three ce2ts per pound, for Christ
mas beef. Our newspaper friends, we
fear, are getting extravagant. We
don't know Of anyone elae able to pay
ssch prices.
Lexington News: We are Informed
| that the enterprising farmers have re-
| sorted TO a new method TO gather their
cotton crop. During he recent cold
snap they would pull The bolls from
the stalk and carry them 10 the
house, and there they would pick the
Gotten from the bolis.
The Hon. S. T. Wilson vigorously
and fully denies the rnnaor Published
| in the Nashville Banner recently,
to the eEect that he and MIR Beasley
and Col. Savage had entered into a
| bargain to elect Hawkins L. ). Sena:
| tor and low tax Democra. speaker
| Of the State Senate, etc.
| Lass Thursday afternoon, the boil
er used in furnishing steam fof heat,
ing Greenlsw Opern-hoase, Memphis
exploded, severely scalling g;uoneg'os.
wko were engaged as agemea to keep
the boiler supplied with water. Oue
of the negroes will die. The damage
to the building was but slight.
Pulaski Citizen: We are informed
that gentleman living near Franklin
has T. COW whose milk suppli's hi;
family with butter and produces, on
an average, 65 pounds per month, be,
sides. He sells the hbtter in fSssh gilit
and it brings from 20 to % cents PEI
pound; or, say, st the lowest caicuia'
ten, s13 per msnth, or sl5G year.
| Huntingdon Republican: a distin'
| ruished visiter srsised here yesterday