The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-06-03
OVER THE STATE.

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lished at, jackson, has been discontin'
ued.
John Z. Helms, of the Morristown
Gazette, and Mr.. Micheal Burns, Of
Nashville, are favOrably mentioned a,
candidates for governor.
Round trip tickets to the state con.
vention, which meets on the Sth inst,
will be sold on all railroads leading
into Nashville at six cents per mile.
The Nashville Banner has discov.
cred that the late ex-Gov. Henry
Stuart Foote was a lineal descendant
of the English royal house of Stuarts.
Judge L. G. Houk was re-nomina.
ted for Congress and Capt. H. r.
Gibson chosen as Elector by the Re-
publicans of the Second Congressional
district, at Knoxville, Thursday.
Judge Baxter has decided that the
Louisville and Nashville railroad has
no right to.exclude express companies
from the use of its trains, thereby con-
trolling the express business itself.
The Knoxville Chronicle predicts
that Judge Hawkins will receive one
hundred thousand votes in the next
election, of which number eighty
seven thousand five hundred will be
Republicans.
Among the curiosities of the Nash
vile Exposition is a spool of Clark $
20. n. T." spool cotton. No. 20; is ten
inches in diameter by eighteen inches
in length, containing one million
yards, and valued at $3.50.
Knoxville Tribune: Reports from
various parts of the county represent
thearmy worm as sweeping everything
green that it touches. Some of our
farmers are ditching in order to arrest
its progress, and others are turning
their hogs in on them.
A Sneedville correspondent of the
Rogersville Spectator writes to that
paper that Thos. GollihOrn, handling
pistol carelessly, was requested by
some one standing near. to be more
careful, but said there was no danger,
and put the barrel in his mouth, and
in an instant the pistol fired, killing
him ut once.
Greenfield Sentinel: On last Thurs
day evening, during preaching, some
fast young man came up to the win
dow of the church and vented some of
his profanity ut the preacher. And
Sunday evening four fast Young men
came by the church and danced in
front of the door and then walked II
few steps and fired off n pistol.
Paris lntelligenoer: The reports of
the wheat crop from all parts of the
county are decidedly mere encorrag-
ing than they were ten days ago. We
have seen gentlemen from all parts OF
the county, attending court, and
they report the general outlook for
crops better. The stand of cotton is
said to be inferior, but other crops are
good. The recent rain made good
tobacco season, and the plants made "a
pretty good setting of healthy plants.
Paris Intelligencer: A change has
been made in the management of the
L. & n. railroad, by which the dis
patching Fof all trains from Bowling
Green to Memphis is done at Paris.
Mr. j. j. Curtin. assisted by MessrS.
Frank Williams and Ed. Marsh, is
performing those difficult jobs at the
consolidated Office now located at Par
is. These are all said to I've very eff
cient and reliable gentleman, who
thoroughly understand their duties,
and faithfully perform them.
The Americans Knoxville special
says that Col. E. W. Cole was unani-
mously elected president of the East
Tennessee, Virginia ami Georgia rail-
road to-day, vice r. I. Wilson resign
ed, with the control OF the Memphis
and Charleston road. The position
was cheerfully offered to him by VIII
son and MGhee, and acquiesced in
by the other directors and large stock
holders, as it is known that Wilson
and M'Ghee are more largely interes>
ted in the property than any other
two persons.