The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-11-12
MILAN EXCHANGE
SATURDAY, NOV II. 1881
OVER THE STATE.

\ rattlesn,ke six feet long and
twenty inche. in circumference has
teen killed in Rutherford county.
The Upton Record says there was
more hay aud 70 lder saved in that
county this year than there ever was
before.
b Lovison & Co., dry goods mer-
chants, faiIed in Nashville last Mon>
lay. Assets, $4,000. Liabilities,
$4,000
The Nashville cotton mill cleared
s46,000 ON its last years business.
They will build another mill, to cost
$3.50. 900
Emil Tamm, Il grocery merchant,
failed in Brownsville last week
Gambling MIXTURES is supposed to he
the cause.
The United Order Of W"rkmen
have paid "a $1,000 benefit to the heirs
Of the late DIR. q. a. Mathews, Of
Brownsville.
Henry Bond, colored, was arrested
in Lake county, last week, for the
murder Of Richard McRee, in OJion
county. in July.
An Ohio company with millions of
money have bought 1880 acres Of
coal land near Chattanooga, and will
open mines Immediately.
Smith e. Stegall, grocers at Jack.
son, made an assignment last Monday.
1t Is understood that their assets a.e
larger than their Iiabili ties.
Massey Hill, colored, who attemp>
ted to rape little girl near Manches-
ter last week, was taken from Jail 10y
a mob last Saturday night and
lynched
The report Of Carroll countys tax
aggregate for 1881 shows the ASSESS
ment for this year to be S2,802, 1863;
aggregate for 1880, 50, 1856, 321, de-
crease of s34, 1852.
Erin Review: There ia more sick.
ness in this county now than was ever
known before. Flux is raging all
over the country and the doctors are
kept going almost constantly.
John +. Beveredge, formerly a
Tennessee schoolmaster, and more re-
Gently Governor of Illinois, was re-
Gently appointed Subtreasurer of the
United States at Chicago, vice Frank
Gilbert.
Nashville American: Six,thousqnd
pounds of mail mater were placed in
the postoffice by the Southern Meth.
@dist publishing house yesterday.
The amount OF postage paid on it
must have been about $3.50.
Brownsville States and Bee, =: Pas.
sengers on the 1920 train Yesterday
morning brought u rumOr of the MUIR
der of II man named Davis, At the
Tank, Just beyond the Hatchie river,
Wednesday night. From what we
could learn, unknown parties, prohu :
ably tramps, met Davis, and learning
he had few dollars in his possession,
shot him several times, and then after
severely heating him. robbed him of
what he had and left him in the
woods near by.
Jackson Dispatch 1: Pete Cason
with -four or five other coIored men
were committed to jail at Montezuma
last Monday, on the charge Of steal
ing cotton, They confessed to having
stolen bale Of cotton which they re,
packed, putting on new tagging and
ties. Great excitement was NANTES.
tel on the part of the citizens who
had frequently missed cotton from
their pens One night last week eve
ry house III Henderson, on the NJ. &
q. road, were burgarized. The day
previous the keys Of the store door,
md some of the safes were taken,
which made it very easy for the bur,
glars to 90 through the town. Sew
eral houses We're broken into in Jack.
son during the same week. On Sun,
day night last fourteen prisoner
made their escape from the calahoose
Some one from the outside broke oper
the door with crow bar. The dwell
ling of Mr. h. N. Hill was broken in
to last Thursday night and watcl