The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-05-10

The GAINESVILLE Tobacco Leaf says
that "the indications for the present
season in that section for small fruits
except berries are very favorable"
1t further says "there will he few if
any peaches, while the apple crop
will be short and of inferior quality"
A young man named Phillips,
aged 10, undertook to Withstand
Slugger Sullivan's hammering at
Nashville, last Friday night, for the
81 900 offered to any man who would
stand before the champion four
rounds without being knocked out.
Sullivan punished the 10y severely,
and the police interfered before the
fourth round was fought.
We learn of painful accidents, but
singularly coincidental, that befel Mr..
and Mrs. Joslin Saturday night.
Mrs. j. scalded her foot badly by
stepping into vessel Of boiling water
that she had placed on the stairway
and forgotten it was there. Her
screams brought Mr.. Joslin to her
rescue, and ere he was aware of their
cause, felt his foot in contact with
something overwhelmingly hot, having
also stepped into the boiling water.
MIR. Joslin's groans of pain were min
gled with his wifes. We learn that
they were both quite severely scalded.
-[Clarksville Tobacco Leaf.
The Standard Oil company very
recently put down five experimental
oil wells in Tennessee and Southern
Kentucky, and oil was found in pay
ing quantities. Two of these experts
mental wells. at moderate depth,
we're found good for twenty-five bar
rels a day of the finest lubricating oil.
Two others were good for twenty five
to fifty barrels. In order to make
more certain that it was paying terri
tory, well was put down to the
depth of 1000 feet. 1t was all that
could be expected. A depth Of lit
tie over 1000 feet had been reached
when the oil gushed out at the rate of
1000 barrels day. As the Standard
Company gets all the land that is
wanted, a pipe line will be built to
New Orleans.
The Weakley County Convention
met in Dresden Monday, and was
lrrgely attended. The Hon. j. A.
WEIGH was elected permanent Chairs
man. The platform declares for IA
tariff for revenue, and endorses the
State debt settlement, and favors the
adoption of the surplus in the pur-
chase of unfunded bonds, and is fer
mandatory State and National Rail-
road Commissions. 1t is for SUBJ
mission of the question Of prohibition
to the people in Il separate election.
Delegates were appointed from both
wings of the party, and harmony pre-
vailed. Hons. j. A. Welch and :.
A. Champion made speeches to the
convention. Resolutions endorsing
the Bate administration and instruc-
ting for his denomination were unani,
mously adopted.
"The fastest time for 100 miles OF
over made in this country up to 1884,
was made by the Grand Trunk rail-
way Of Canada, where they made the
run of 100 miles in 113 minutes.
This time has never been equ lied OF
beat until the 14th Of April, when
the East Tennessee, Virginia auc
Georgia railroad made the run with a
special train carrying the members o
the Historical Society from Knoxville
to Chattanooga, distance of III mile,
in 10 minutes. This stands to day
the fastest time on record, land likely tt
remain So for some time to come.
The impression prevails in the Nortl
that the Southern railroads are mucl
inferior in physical condition to North
ern lines. The majority of the South
: ern railroads are all laid with steel