The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-04-26
MILAN EXCHANGE
SATURDAY. APRIL 20. 1884.
OVER THE STATE.


has been declared unsafe by the city
engineer. A new bridge will proba~
bly, be built soon.
A committee of the leading citizens
of Nashville has been appointed to Wis
1t manufacturers of that city and rep
resent to them the necessity of dis
playing their wares at the Worlds
Exposition to he held in New Or,
leans. Knoxville has raised $500
with like end in view.
There are ten political papers pub
lished in the Sixth Congressional Dis.
trict of Tennessee; three dailies, one
weekly and six weeklies. All
of these stand on the Ohio tariff plat
form except two-the Nashville
World and the GAINESVILLE Democrat.
-(Clarksvile Chronicle.
The following named counties in
this State have made appropriations
to secure a representation of their
products at the New Orleans Exposi,
ton: Davidson, Knox and Shelby,
$500 each; Madison, Fayette, Har-
deman, Dyer, Sullivan and Gibson,
$3.50 each; Hancock. $3.50.
A Nashville special of the 21st TO
the Appeal says Zeke White, colored,
was arrested to night for killing Mey-
er Friedman, whom he assassinated
in his own house on the 18th instant.
The police have evidence that John
Schebbner and Meyer Moscovitz, jr.,
the stepbrother and lover of Mrs.
Friedman, paid White twenty dollars
to murder Friedman, and that Mrs,
Friedman sent her husband down
stairs on an errand so he could be
killed.
j. E. Bryson, contractor of Chatts-
nooga, died last Monday evening from
singular cause. Last Saturday,
while standing near one of his carpen-
tsrs, hammer slipped from the hand
of the latter, striking Bryson on the
front part of the leg below the knee.
Although cut was made no blood
flowed from the wound, and the leg
turned black and was much swollen,
causing great suffering until he died.
Mr.. Bryson was confirmed morphine
eater, and it is said the condition of
his blood from the drug was the cause
of the wound not bleeding.
Tuesday night of last week, the
gin house of Mr.. Mack Robbins, living
in Chester county, was totally de-
stroyed by fire, together with six or
seven bales Of cotton. The barn Of
DIR. w. @. Robbins, near by, together
with his years supply of feed for his
stock, was also consumed at the same
time. These fires are both clear cas-
ses of arson, aud the guilty author of
them is not only an incendiary but Il
horse thief, having stolen an animal
belonging to Mr.. Charles Hamline
upon which TO make his escape. A
man named Dudley Jones was arres
ted in Chester county for carrying a
pistol, and was afterward charged
with the crimes described above
Jackson Wing.
An interviewer of the Rev, w.
NJ. Robertson, who is conducting Il
rousng revival at DyersbuTg, got the
following remarkable bit Of life histo-
ry from the reverend gentleman. He
says: II never saw dead relative in
my life, and will give you the histo-
ry. My grandfather died before |
was horn, consequently did not see
him, but my grandmother still lives
and is away up in the eighties, She
had seven children, whoare all living,
These seven children have forly,two
children, all of whom are still living,
and these forty,two children had six
~ one children, all of whom are new
living" To sun up the whole matter,
we find woman with seven children.
forty>two grandchildren and sixty one
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