The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-16
OVER THE STATE.

Brownsville, up to December 9TH,
$500 bales Of cotton.
Hon. j. A. Manson is spoken of
as candidate for Speaker of the next
House OF Representatives.
Chattanooga has Gotten factory
nearly ready for operations, and
Knoxville wants one too.
The length of bayous inside the cor-
porate limits Of Memphis is about FIVE
miles, aaording ample fall drainage.
A correspondent of the Knoxville
Chronicle suggests Horace Maynard
for state superintendent of public in
structiou. .- .a
Chattanooga has six railroads pierc-
ing large coal fields, but has been on
the ragged edge of a coal famine all
the past fall.
Large numbers of emigrants-white
and colored-pass through Chatta-
noogs daily, mostly bound for Arkan-
sas aud Texas.
Brownsville States: Gus Haskins
and Willis Tucker got into a personal
difficulty last Sunday evening, during
which the latter received several So
we're cuts.
Paris Post: Charlie Rodgers, who
was employed as clerk at the Paris
House, vamoosed last week, carrying
of about So that he had collected for
the house.
Jacksen Wing: Madison Parker,
than whom Jackson never had a bet
ter citizen, died at bis residence in
this city on Wednesday last, aged
about 65 years.
a special dispatch to the Appeal
announces that Governor Marks has
appointed Juuius Il. Greene attorney
general for the Bartlett circuit, vice
w. J. Daval resigned.
One hundred aud eighty-n;ne hous-
es have been destroyed at Memphis
within two years, having been con-
demued by the Board Of Health. No
compensation was allowed.
-Four Chicagoans, headed by Mr..
Keith, have psid out 100000 for
laIds in Tennessee and founded town
on Cumberland river, intended to col
oniae their tract with north western
people. g..
Our Board of Trade secured a re-
duciion in freight of fifty cents on the
bale of cotton from Brownsville to
Memphis, which will be worth eight
or ten thousand dollars the present
year to the farmers of this section. =
Brownsville States.
Nashville Banner: Gen. w. w. |
Woodiolk, au old citizen, died in this
city to day, after lingering illness,
in the eighty-frst year of his age. In
his early life, he was noted Tennes-
see breeder, and devoted much Of his |
attention to the turf.
Nashville Christian Advocate: If,
while the weather was fair, there had |
been less lounging around the cross
70 ds stores aud saloons by men who
call themselves farmers, there would
be less corn ungathered and less cotton
unpicked in the fields.
"The Christian at Work" is the
name Of a semi monthly magazine re-
Gently established at Alamo, Tenn.
1t is published by E. E. Benton and
edited by Rev5.7J ]. r. Farrow and W.
A. Cooke, in the in "the interests of
the church of Christ" Subscription
S1.OO.
On Tuesday Poston P. Sooy shot
and killed a man by the name of Still
lings, in Carter county. They quar-
relied as to which should help lady
on her horse. Sooy fired seven bullets
from a navy pistol into Stilling's
body, killing him instantly. Sooy
escaped. Both are married men.
Chattanooga Times: Capt. George
F. Hasselmeyer, few days ago, trans
ported several barges of zinc ore from
his mines on the CIinch river to the
zinc works at Clinton. The first zinc
ever manufactured in Tennessee was
made at Clinton, Monday. Capt
intends to engage ezten>
sively in the manufacture cf this met
al.
Knoxville Chronicle: Suit wasen-
tered in the Circuit Court yesterday
by Mr.. Julius Mayer, through his at
torneys. Messrs. L. A. Gratz and
George Washington, against the
Tribune Publishing Company and
Louis David, jointly for libel, laying