The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-06-07
OVER THE STATE.
There ARE no saloons in Picket coun

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tor fourth of July celebration.
A heavy rain fell in Memphis last
Monday, doing considerable damage.
A great religious revival has been
enjoyed in Tullahoma the last two or
three weeks.
An infant was Kidnapped by its
nurse in Nashville last Monday, but
was recovered.
Frank Moulton q Co.. Nashville,
failed last Monday. Debts about
$4,000 over assets.
The Hon j. II. Mcdowell, of
O6ion, says his county will vote nine
to one for prohibition.
Col. D. M. Wisdom, formerly of
jackson, has become editor of new
paper at Fort Smith, Ark. M
Col. Tomlinson Fort, of Chatta-
nooga, is announced as candidate
for Congress from the third district.
Seventeen citizens of Knoxville
have subscribed an aggregate amount
CT 5000 for a new opera house in
that city.
, A creamery is soon to be establish
ed at Murfrsesboro. The capital
stock will be $4,000. Franklin is also
moving for creamery.
Gen. George Gordon, of the Tens
nessee railroad commission, is an an
nounced candidate for the democratic
nomination for re election.
The catalogues for the Monteagle
summer schools have been issued.
The schools will open July the first
and close August the eighth.
There is, this minute, more money
y value in minerals in some counties in
Tennessee than in all the slaves that
we're freed by Lincoln's proclamation.
i Nasty.
We learn that slice of the bluff at
Fort Pillow csved in a short time
since, forcing the water to How over
the banks and flooding the country
for some distance. After the water
had subsidized, quantities of fish were
found in the woods, some of them
very large, one catfish weighing one
hundred pounds. Ripley News.
Aunt Aggie, an old negro whe had
for 40 years been slave and for 20
wears remained a servant in the How.
ell family of Nashville, died the other
day, and all the members of the FAM
ily with other friends united in pay
ing tribute to her memory. Funer>
al addresses were made by Rev. DR..
Strickland, Mr.. Arson Nelson, and
Mr.. Morton B. Howell.
Montgomery county has a sensation
in the arrest of Rams Morrow and his
sons William and Charles, and Dave
Horn and William Outlaw, charged
with numerous murders, burnings,
etc. 1t seems that they had con-
venient cave in which to throw their
victims, so that no traces of their
crimes could be discovered. A whole
sale hanging is evidently needed.
Miss Myra Thompson, daughter
of Rev. F. A. Thompson, of Spring
Hill, student of art, was recently
awarded the highest honor of her
class, the Elliott Bronze Medal, for
excellency of work, in the Academy
of Design, New York. The design
in which Miss Thompson won the
medal was from the Head of Hermes,
a specimen of Greek sculpture very
beautiful as we'll as difficult.
A special from Mckenzie, says,
"Bud Waddell, a highly respected
farmer living four miles northeast of
town, committed suicide last week.
He went into an clubhouse, locked the
door, climbed upon a ioist, adjusted
the moose and jumped off. He lived
with Mr.. John Dickens, lately de-
ceased, having charge of his affairs.
1t is thought the rash act was COM
mitted because he feared that he was,
or might be suspected of, doing some
thing wrong. He leaves a wife and
e.. childrAn