The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-02-26
OVER THE STATE.
Nashville had eighteen deaths la

Humphries and adjoining countie
are growing rich on peanuts.
A firm in Fayetteville bought 6f
teen hundred skunk skins last month
The Paris Intelligencer wants sep
arate criminal court for Henry coun
ty.
The.Tirnes is the name of new
paper just started at Linden, Perry
county.
A number of road overseers in Dyer
county were recently indicted by the
grand jury.
There are old, gray headed men in
Hawkins county that have never seen
steamboat.
The Medical Society of the State of
Tennessee will meet in Knoxville on
the 9th of next April.
Worms and grasshoppers have done
great damage to the wheat throughout
East and Middle Tennessee.
Prof A. NJ. Burney has bought a
controlling interest in the Southern
Standard, of Mchlinnville, and has as
sumed editorial control.
The government has expressed,
through its officers at Nashville, that
the lenient policy heretofore pursued
toward violators of revenue laws will
be abandoned.
Mr.. Joseph Fl. Dew, of fMaury coun-
ty, lately sold to a gentleman of Phil
adelphia two TenDessee-bred English
setter dogs, receiving one thousand
dollars for the pair.
Nit Garter shot and instantly killed
Hal Holcomb. in Columbia, Tennes-
see, OH last Thursday. The difficulty
originated in Carriers wish TO marry
Holcomb's daughter.
The last, Springfield Record says:
"the tobacco barn of J. II. Dunn, of
our county, was leveled to the ground
during the late storm. 1t had 5000
sticks of fine tobacco in it."
A stranger from Texas, named
Clark, was rounced out of lightweight
dollars in Brownsville the other night.
a fellow known as Joe Costello was
arrested on suspicion. but none of the
money recovered.
Paris Intelligencer: Mr.. j. l.. S.
Travis. of Paris, has gone to Dresden,
and will enter the field of journalism
on his own account. He expects to
get out the first number of the Dres>
den Sentinel in few weeks.
Alamo Sentinel: Last Monday
evening, about 6 o'clock, three of the
colored prisoners broke olt of the Jail
at this place and made good their es>
cape. Two of them were sentenced TO
FIVE years each in the penitentiary at
the recent term of court, and the 9TH
er was in Jail for carrying pistol.
Nashville Banner: There are sew
eral young lady students attending
our medical colleges, some of whom
will graduate during the present term.
Every day the fact is more and clear
ly demonstrated that women phvsi-
clans are destined to occupy very
prominent position in profession of
medicine.
Henderson Comfy News: We are
reliably informed that on Sunday
night unknown parties went boldly in
TO the town of Saltillo and tore down
window blinds, doors and gates and
piled them in the streets and burned
them. All persons who attempted to
come near the fire were fired upon
and driven back. On Monday night
the NJ. E. Church building was set on
fire and totally destroyed. 1t is gen.
orally believed that the same parties
started both the fires.
Nashville Banner: A tooth was ex-
tracted from the mouth of Maggie Lee
Shute, aged y years, daughter of
John w. Shute, of Hendersonville,
Sumner county, some time ago, by o.
g. Wilson, dentist, in the hollow of
which was found a brass pin and
splinter. The pin.protruded through
the foramen { of an inch. The tooth
had contained these foreign substances
over year. The patient only ac-
counts for it in this way; She had u
pin in her mouth for some purposes,
which disappeared mysteriously, and
she concluded she had swallowed it.
The splinter she cannot give any ac>
count of. The tooth was donated to
the Vanderbilt Dental School through
DR.. Wilson.
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