The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-11-15
Oy rag STATE.
Giphtheria is disturbing element
at GalIatin ut the present moment.

NJ Oallatin at the present moment.
The prohibition question comes
next, according to the Manchester
Times.
The corn crop ofObion county has
been cut short this season by the long
,routh.
Five and FIVE enths of native
Tennesseeans were, in 1880, living at
the North.
The general railroad shops of the
Queen and Crescent Route will be es>
tablished at Chattanooga.
Having the young men with talent,
Lexington wants seven horns and
drum to make n brass baud.
Madison County claims that she
will surpass any other Tennessee coun>
ty in her exhibit at New Orleans.
A prominent citizen of Pulaski be-
ing too i'll to 60 to the polls, the Judge
carried the ballot box to him that he
might cast his vote.
Warren County gave Butler and
St. John 6 votes. Savage ran behind
his Observation-Disclosures 100 votes,
or 1886 as against 1915.
A Scotch company has purchased
several thousand acres of timber and
grazing land in Cooke county, and will
establish stock farms and saw mills
AT Shelbyville, in the course of the
jolli6cation over the election of Cleve>
land, an old cannon used in 1915 ex-
ploded and killed John McClain, a
colored preacher.
In Memphis last week men who
had never tasted Intoxicating liquor
in their lives devoted themselves sys-
tematically to getting drunk and a
dude went about changing two COW
bells.
There were nine candidates for the
office of Postmaster in Lebanon long
before one-half of the returns from
the Northern States had been sent in.
-Four of them have already written to
Grover Cleveland on the subject.
The Pulaski Citizen says there were
voters in the back districts of Giles
County who did not know an election
was to take place last Tuesday. This
may be said of nearly every county in
Tennessee without fear Of contra.
diction.
Henry Adams and Andrew Davis,
both coored, were brought from Au-
burn and lodged in Jail here last Sun
day. They are charged with the
murder of Van Hughes, who was shot
and killed one night last week near
Auburn.-Lebanon Register.
The Sparta Expositor mentions a
novel occurrence in that locality
Three deaths and two weddings oco ur
red in one family in one month. A
father married his sons mother>in-
law and the son and son-in>law per.
formed the marriage ceremony.
Two sons of Esq. Peyton Thomas
have discovered coal mine on some
lands owned by them in Stewart coun'
ty, Tennessee. We were shown 6
specimen of the coal and it appears tC
be good. IL may prove to be valua'
BILE property .-Cadiz Telephone.
A farm laborer named Henry Tay,
lor poisoned several men in Weakly
county. Tenn, by giving them whis
ky with Spanish flies in it. Severa
of the parties to whom the whisky
was given died. Taylor was carried
to Jail at Dresden from where he wa,
taken by mob and lynched.
About six miles west of jackson
October 31st, John Steadman having
numbe of hands on his place to,
lazy to gather their crops, hired anC
put into the fields other hands to picl
their cotton for them. This so in
censed the INDECENT troopers that sew
eral ct the., attacked him. His frs
assailant was negro woman, WHOM
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