The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-04-08
OVER THE STATE.

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Association protests against the sale o
beer at the Nashville centennial.
Ga the 26th inst, the Odd Fellow
will celebrate the sixty first anniversa
ry of the inauguration of their Order
Lebanon had a Kalisteropticopopti
Gun last Saturday night
They must have been fosling with tn,
13, Is, IA puzzle.
Military week" at the Nashvill.
centennial will Legin on the 18th O.
May. The jackson monument vii
he unveiled on the Doth.
A. B. Jackson, the Chattsnoogs
hody-snatcher, has been found guilt,
aud sentenced to pay fines to the
amount of S5l2 and costs.
A Middle Tennessee paper has in
i formation that both a Greenback and
a Republican will he candidates for
congress in the eighth district.
Mr.. X. Lewis has purchased an in
terest in the Uuion City Chronicle and
in the future will be associated with
ID. l.. Rivers as editors and publish
ers Of thstsheet.
The University Of Nashville guar :
antees SO, 900, to build a new college
building for the State Normal school,
which retains this important iustitu-
ton in our state. Georgia came very
near securing the prize.
Comptroller Guines's last report
shows that Gibson county has IL, 1871
children within the school age. AMI
that the county is entitled to S163S 46
under The apportionment, due the LIST
of July. Carroll county has 1855
children, and il entitled to S1062 81.
Memphis Appeal: A new lodge Of
the knights of Honor was.instituted at
Lucy Station, ~ miles up the Padu-
cab railway, Tuesday night, by Grand
Reporter Pullen, who went up for the
purpose. The lodge is called the Ell.
dorado, and it starts with forty work.
ing members. Mr. G.. II. Wynne was
made dictator, and Mr. r. j. Carlisle,
reporter.
Pulaski Citizen: Some English
hounds imported into Maury county
for the purpose Of chasing foxes, ha ye
caused so much destruction among
the fine sheep of that section shat the
farmers have determined to petition
the next legislature to prohibit the
importation of these hounds into the
state. This will he the leading issue
in the next contest for legislative hon.
ors in Maury county.
Memphis Appeal: The work per-
formed by the board of health during
the past month cuts a considerable
figure in sanitary way: 1860 loads Of
garbage were carted away, 6794 earth
closet boxes were emptied and the con
tents removed, 740 privy vaults were
emptied and filled up, aud II were
emptled but not filled. There were
% cases of scarlet fever reported. The
deaths were 5l-whites. II; colored,
"a.
1t is claimed flr Knoxville that it
is the centre of East Tennessee; that
it is the centre of a county that pos
sesses more salubrious climate, and
more mineral springs with healing and
health giving waters than any section
of the United States; that it is the
cenler of the largest quantity and the
finest quality of marble in the world;
that it is in the centre Of the largest
quantity and finest quality of iron
ores; that it il the centre of an abun-
dance of zinc of the finest quality;
that it is the centre Of an immense re-
giou of the very finest quality of coal.
Pulaski Citizen: The members of
the Carter family, or 1T least the larg
est branch oft, in this county, are just
now agltated no little over a reputed
fortune in England, amounting to
e3, 400, 900 (s17, ,O00, ,0OD to which it
is sail they have valid claims as heirs.
This immense sum of money, it is al
legged. was deposited in the Bank of
England over u century ago, by one
Beverly Carter. of James River, Viz
ginia, who died intestste ON British
soil; and i; remained unclaimed in the
vaults of that institution until recently
when steps were taken to ascertain
whether any Of the dead mans decend-
ants we're living.
The following examination took