The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-11-11
OVER THE STATE.
Wilson got ninety votes in Hender

son county.
Mr.. James Bond died in Browns
vile on Tuesday of last week.
Robert Ransom fatally stabbed hi:
wife near Nashville last week.
The Jackson Wing nominates Hon.
Howell Z. jackson for speaker of the
House of Representatives. He will
make good one.
A republican negro defeated Smith,
cal, boiling democrat, in Upton coun-
ty for the legislature. Wonder if he
isn't sorry that he bolted.
Taylor and Haywood, two Browns
vile editors, have been enjoying" a
personal correspondence, which at
one time looked sanguinary. But all
is lovely now.
1t was reported in Nashville Satur-
day, that the friends of Judge John
V. Wright, In Maury county, had
made his wife the gift of a residence
in Columbia.
A young man named league COM
mitted suicide by taking laudanum, at
Lexington, last week. He had been
accused of taking money from q store
where he slept.
Nashville Banner: Lewis is the
banner county of the State. Out of
a vote of $50, neither Wilson or Haw-
kins got a single one, 800 solid for
Wright Hurrah for Lewis county !!
Lebanon News: When you see a
fellow with hole in the seat of his
pants that sucking mule can jump
through you may know he has spent
the summer arguing the state debt
from a nail keg set-point.
Nashville Christian Advocate: The
Methodist who could not spare four
cents q week for his church-paper, but
takes his whole family to every circus
and "show" that comes along, needs
reconstruction as q Christian and
church member.
Jackson Dispstch: In Henderson
county the Democratic candidate for
the legislature was defeated by four
votes. This defeat is the result of
apathy on the part of many democrat
ic voters in the county. In one dis
trict alone we hear Of 90 democrats
who did not so to the polls.
Tom Haynes, Wilson member elect
from Williamson county. says IN his
paper, the franklin Review and Jour-
nal: It's to be hoped that this ia the
last canvass Of this sort we shall ever
zee in Tennessee. One such is enough.
Now let our former amiabIe and pleas
ant relations be resumed, with the
vow that, no matter how widely We
may differ in the future, We will do it
in decency aud order.
Nashville Banner: The Nashville
Sun, an organ started some weeks
back in the interest Of the boiling fac
ton, has failed to rise for the past two
days, and report says it will never
shine again. 1t was conducted with
so much ability, and withal so court
ly, dignifed and temperate in tone,
that its readers will miss it muchly.
The luminary was brief, bot glorious,
and 10 the language of Macbeth, it
SHOULD have died hereafter"
Clarksville Tobacco Leaf: An IN
fortunate shooting affair occurred last
Wednesday afternoon, about 4 o'clock,
Mr. West Beaumont and Mr. Tyler Bry-
an, in which the latter received a pis-
tol wound in his face, directly under
the eye. The wound IS dangerous
one, though, his physicians think. not
necessarily fatal. Beaumont was ar
rested on the spot and carried before
Il d Read, Esq, and waving exam
ming trial was admitted to bail on a
bond of one thousand dollars.
MurfreesAoro News: We are not
surprised that, with two or three ex-
ceptions, the members Of the Tennes>
see Conference are opposed TO the re-
pudiation aud communistic doctrines
by Mr ,Wilson, late csndi-
date for Governor. These men are
not partlsans, but they are citizens,
interested like all other intelligent
citizens in the welfare of society, and
jealous of the good name of their state. |
1t is but natural that men, imbued
with the spirit of the Divine Master, |
who taught that it were better even
to suffer wrong, than to commit any !
deed Of doubtful justice, should favor |
a settlement of our state indebtedness,
which wild be alike just to debtor and