The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-11-17

tne same pOnd Win uaSS anu peIch'
This, he saws, can not lie doue with
the "scale" carp; besides, the latter
are not so desirable as table fish,
nor do they grow so rapidly.
Memphis Avalanche: If each
landhoder in West Tennessee who
owns two hundred acres or more land
would give one-half in forty acre
tracts to actual settlers. his remaining
halt would he worth double the pres
ent value Of the whole 1t is easy
enough to people our waste places if
you go to work the right way to do it.
A Memphis dispatch says that on
the morning of the 9th inst.,the hot
air tank in Seesel, Ashner IL Co.'S
pork packing establishment, exploded
with terrific force. There were eight
men at work near the tank when il
exploded, but all escaped injury.
The buildings at Nos. 5. & and 7
Howard's row, were somewhat wrecks
ed by the explosion.
Lexington Advance. News: Lexing>
ton has a prodigy in one Master
Claude Barnes. late Of Americas, Ga,
who has never been to school two
months in his life, aud can speak
Latin, German, French ,anl English
distinctly, and eau recite from memo
ry many poems and literary pieces
with as much emphasis and pathos as
any well trained orator.
Southern Lumberman: Sawdust is
on a boom. Recently we give an ac-
count of its being utilized in the man.
ufacture of carriage hubs aud for cary
ings AMI moding. And now comes
writer in All agricultural journal who
tells how he placed about II quart of
sawdnst in each hill Of one plot of pos
tatoes and none in another plot, and
how the sawdust hills yielded nearly
twice as much as the others, and the
potatoes were larger and smoother.
There is controversy as to what
editor in tennessee has been, uninter'
ruptedly, in harness the longest. Mr..
n. o. Wallace, of the Fayetteville
Observer, says in his issue of Thurs
day: "The Observer was establish
ed 1850, and during the thirty three
wears of its existence every issue has
been under the personal supervision
of the present proprietor, and during
the time has never changed build
ings." 1t looks as if the cake would
have to go to Mr.. Wallace.
j. r. Beasley, of Winchester, has
lust received a letter from legal
friend in East Tennessee which con-
tains very sad news about Judge Me-
Farland, one of the ablest of our su'
preme court judges. The writer says
81 fear Mcfarland will never taxi
his place on the bench again. wa
to see him a few days ago, and HI
seems to be hopeless invalid" Th
loss of the Judge would be a sever
blow to the state, and we hope b
, may be spared for many years
come.
i, Covington Call: Last Friday he
q ing cold day, Sheriff Taylor let uh
prisoners out of the cells, so the
could warm by the stove, it being S
arranged that they were not benefte
by it while locked in the cells wher
he has kept them since Septembe
court. After eating dinner, Mr.. la.
. lor examined the Jail and seeing II
-, indications of break, walked
~ Holshouser u Slaughter's store
get bill of some blankets bougi
for the Jail, proc ured it and returne'
not being absent from the jill ov'
" thirty minutes, found that eight
y the prisoners had escaped. II
d alarm was given and Messrs. Sam an
: Don Smith soon followed the sheri
IN in pursuit and succeeded in captu