The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-01-13
STATE NEWS.

Weakly county warrants are ai par
Chattanooga has floating debt OF
$SO.4S5.
! Mr.. z. R. Scruggs has been elected
Mayor of Somerville'
There have been FIVE failures among
the business men OF Mason recently.
Prof Tullis,: ,::of vande5iIt University,
died in Texarkana, Texas est Thurs.
dag night.
Newman Clean. proprietor Of the
Tennessee stores" Nashville has failed
for 81, 2,420,2S. His assets are reported
at $4,000.
Capt. SimoniOn spent the holidays
with his family in Coviugton and re-
turned 10 Washington on wednesday,
following.
Prof G. II. Harrison has been elect
eel Superintendent of Public fnStruc-
rion in AcNairY Co. The choice is a
good one.
Inclement weather, ice blockade and
low water in the rivers have impeded
trshic to very important degree. Re-
ceipts of cotton are falling OF rapidly
Memphis Ledger
Pneumonia is afflictins the peop'e OF
/ Pulaski. Senator elect Il. f. Matthews
has severe attack, snd seVersl other
prominent citizens are down with tho
diseise.-McAinviilc New Era.
Cabt james franklin, of Summer
county, has been elected President of
the Nashville Blood Horse Association.
and George W. White, of Nashville.
Secretary .-McMinville New Era.
Representative in the Tennessee Leg
islsture r. A. Wilkes of Culleoka.
says he is farmer and he intends to
devote his time in the Legislature to-
ward improving the present very i'm
erfect road law.
A large amount of corn and cotton
still remain is the fields in this county
Mr.. Sorrell, in Oregon. has 20 acres or
cotton untouched and IL acres picked
over once. Too bad.-Lake County
Star.
The Vulcan iron and nail-works nj
Chattanooga have been sold by tele.
graph TO Gen. William II. Powell, Of
Belleville. III. j, NJ. Duncan, late Su-
perintendcnt of the Roane iron orks,
is interested in the purchase.
A great deal of the cotton crop of
this county remains ungaihsred in the
| fields and is likely TO do 40 antil plant
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suitable for picking cotton for many
weeks and the indications are there
will be none soon -Someryille Rcpor-
ter:
Twenty-one hundred and twelve
bales of cotton were shipped from Pu
lsski during the month of December
Compared with the corresponding pc
/ riod last year, this shows a falling of.
which is due to the extraordinary bad
" Gather of the past three weeks.-Pu-
Flaski Citizen.
Gadsden, Ala. will soon have a new
banking firm composed OF Aessrs A L.
Glenn and w. e.. Brock way, lately of
Brownsville, Tennessee. where the
former has been for some years a suc-
ccssful grocery AMI cotton merchant.
aud the latter assistant cashier of the
Brownsville savings bank.
Re preventative BOYD of Lsuderdele.
is at his post at the Capitol voting with
the faithful on the Republican side
! This is the first time in the history of
the county that a republican has rep
resented this constituency i'm the Leg
islature, and Mr.. Boyd will make the
most OF his oppotunity.-Ripley
News.
J. A. Floyd, living near Collerville,
Tenn, says that the American Union
Telegraph Company is erecting poles
and wires along the State-line road !;
that lie owns lands on both sides of the
road, and that the road is subject to
easement for road purposes only. On
Floyd's bill Chancellor Mcdowell has
issued an Injunction against the tele-
graph company.